The word today is 'TANTIVY' : dictionary.com
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"Whoa" said Mama Schmidt, as Toddler Schmidt beat Baby Schmidt to the bottom of the stairs. (Baby Schmidt let out such a howl!).
ReplyDelete"What's all the tantivy about?"
"Tanty what, Mummy?" said Toddler Schmidt, looking all innocent, like butter wouldn't melt..
"It's a hunting cry" said Mama Schmidt sternly, waving her wooden baking spoon in Toddler Schmidt's face. "It's used by huntsmen when they're at full gallop after a fox. And if you don't behave, Toddler, I'll be hunting YOU."
"Oo-er" said Toddler Schmidt, suddenly on her best behaviour, picking up Baby Schmidt, dusting him down and hissing in his ear "..and YOU can stop howling. If Mama chases me, I will gallop away, and you will be my horse."
They call the wind Tantivy
ReplyDeleteUpon it Despoina rides
Fleeing her uncle, Zeus
Finally she becomes a lioness
Send Zeus fleeing ashivy
Once upon an eternity there was a little donkey that dreamed of flying like the rain on a stormy day. He purchased a pair of wings at a party store, jumped from a cliff...and landed tantivy in donkey heaven. The moral of the story? If you're going to pretend you're like the rain, it's better to be either a cat or a dog. :)
ReplyDeletemy first encounter with tantivy
ReplyDeletewas on a holiday
when i was three
i was put on a saddle
i thought i couldn't hurdle
but off we went on a hurtle
my pony and me
ear to ear in glee
we left the caretaker puny