The Tale of Mrs. Block

The Tale of Mrs. Block
-Joy S. Barefoot


This is the tale of Mrs. Block
and how she used her head;
how she scrimped and saved the old
and how she ate her bread.

She went down to the grocery store;
bought a loaf of bread;
brought it home; put it up
and ate the old instead.

Each day she ate the old stale bread,
she buttered it quite well,
she wouldn’t waste a crumb of it
not one crumb ever fell.

Day after day, she ate her bread.
She dunked it in her cup.
She ate the bread and ate the bread
until she ate it up!

She then took out her loaf of fresh,
and this is the end of the tale;
she opened up the loaf of fresh
and found
that it was stale . . . .