Excerpt from The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket
Walter Crane
The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket
Walter Crane
There was an old woman tossed up in a blanket,
Seventeen times as high as the moon,
Where she was going I could not but ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.
"Old woman, old woman, old woman," quoth l;
"O whither, O whither, O whither so high?"
"To sweep the cobwebs from the sky,
And I'll be with you by-and-by!"
When the poem says that the old woman was tossed up seventeen times as high as the moon, he is