“Quiet!” said her father.
“Hush!” said her mum.
“Nora!” said her sister,
“Why are you so dumb?”
– NOISY NORA by Rosemary Wells
Also: I remember this stanza (it’s the book’s chorus, as it were) verbatim from my childhood, but until searching for it just now to get the author’s name, I had no recollection that the characters are mice.
Also also: My dad has a friend who I, as a small child who loved NOISY NORA, continually asked “Why are you so dumb?” He was amazingly good-natured about the whole thing.
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