Mary Poppins

by P.L. Travers

She thought it was such a lovely sight that she wished there had been a dozen of her or even thirty. The more Mary Poppins the better.

Then they had their supper, and the Red Cow showed the Red Calf how to select a good blade of grass from a bad one; and when her child had gone to sleep at night she would go into a corner of the field and chew the cud and think her own quiet thoughts.

All the afternoon the house was very quiet and still, as though it were thinking its own thoughts, or dreaming perhaps.