Mabel's Fable

Mabel was so busy knitting baby things she sold them at the fair Used spiders webs as knitting wool or sometimes babies hair Sent her friend Beryl searching for more to finish the bonnet she was making Silly Beryl got stuck up a tree though I gave it a good shaking Loads of apples hit her head not a spiders web in sight Gathered up the fruit instead will make an apple drink delight Beryl still stuck up that tree was crying out louder Call 999 for the fire brigade,who will come with a big ladder Rescued poor Beryl from the tree clutched tightly in her hand Was a spiders web she had reached for when she found the spider land Was a little town of spiders busy making webs you see Sold them for any knitters please sell some web to me Mabel made a bargain they would spin a web for her each day She wouldn't tell where they lived a secret it would stay Mabel sells her baby clothes at the fair just in the field Sought for cos of the fine web plenty of money it does yield. It all goes to a special charity for the homeless dormouse to survive They have turned their field Into a housing estate for humans to live A spider is so useful eats the flies from where it sits Might be just the spider that spins for Mabel's knits Penned 07/07/2014