Millicent Margaret Amanda Quotes

“I’ve done everything with my penny that everybody said, but you. And though I can’t buy a little baby duckling yet, I’ve got a penny saved towards it, in the bank.”

“And she remembered one thing: ‘It’s for Aunty,’ she thought. ‘and I love Aunty.‘”

“Trowel for Farver, eggs for Muvver, string for Grandpa, red wool for Grandma, chicken-feed for Uncle, needles for Aunty, and I do hope there won’t be anything more!”

“Now everybody in the nice white cottage with the thatched roof had some particular job to do- even Milly-Molly-Mandy.”

“And Mother gave Milly-Molly-Mandy a penny and a kiss, and Milly-Molly-Mandy felt well paid.”

“Well, Milly-Molly-Mandy’s legs were short, as I’ve told you, but they were very lively, just right for running errands. So Milly-Molly-Mandy was quite busy, fetching and carrying things, and taking messages.”

“And next baking-day Mother let her make a little cake in the patty-pan and put it in the oven. And it was such a beautiful little cake, and so nicely browned, that it seemed almost too good to eat.”

“Then she went over to her own little corner of the garden for a ‘think’, for she still could not make up her mind which of all those nice things to do.”

“So Milly-Molly-Mandy had done yet another of the nice things and spent her penny, but still she had her penny.”

“She thought of all the things she could buy with it, and there were so many that she did not know which to choose. (That is the worst of a penny).”

“This little girl had short hair, and short legs, and short frocks. But her name wasn’t short at all. It was Millicent Margaret Amanda.”