Living
Riddle 47
From At the Sign of the Sphinx (Second Series)
Living
Dorothy Dauber sat serene,
Painting my total on a screen,
When a little mouse went scampering o’er
Dorothy Dauber’s yellow floor.
Dorothy, with a piercing cry,
Clambered up on a table high;
My first went madly rushing past
Waving vigorously my last.
Such a commotion in the house,
And all on account of a little mouse.
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Codex Note
Answer: CATTAIL
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MLA
Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 47.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/164/.
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Wells, Carolyn. “Riddle 47.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/164/.
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