Brownie

Alan Alexander Milne

In a corner of the bedroom is a great big curtain,

Someone lives behind it, but I don’t know who;

I think it is a Brownie, but I’m not quite certain.

(Nanny isn’t certain, too.)

I looked behind the curtain, but he went so quickly –

Brownies never wait to say, How do you do?

They wriggle off at once because they’re all so tickly

(Nanny says they’re tickly too.)”