CHRISTMAS CAKE AND THE MOUSE
by Patricia Wilton-King

    

Roly the mouse,
found a Christmas cake.
Heavy with fruit it had taken ages to bake.
It was full of spices and laced with rum
And far too heavy for just one mouse�s little tum.
With a gleam in his eye, he ran all around
He couldn�t believe what he had just found.

�There�s enough here for breakfast, dinner and tea
If I don�t tell my brothers it will all be for me.�
So he hid the cake in a secret place
And his brothers went hungry, nibbling on paper and lace.

  Roly ate and ate and he just would not stop.
Stuffing in cake, not a crumb did he drop.
Eating so much he made himself ill
His cries of distress became longer and shrill.

  His brothers raced to him, to help if they could, but what could they do,
For his tummy was stuck in a hole and they could not get through.

  They pushed and they pulled but all was in vain
And to this day he will remain
The greedy mouse who had his fill
Who didn�t share with brothers, Ben and Bill.

 

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