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I should mention that it is in chapter three that the tea party on the ceiling with Uncle Wig takes place. Here Poppins is in control but becomes irritated when Jane and Michael try to talk to her about U cow Wig and the affects of laughing gas.

Chapter five presents an explanatory narrative of the cow sho jumped over the moon. (I’m reminded that Tolkien presented a redoing of the rhyme in “The Fellowship of the Ring.” Mary gives the story in an almost trance and seems annoyed when she comes out of it. The cow searching for a magic star at the end is also interesting.

In chapter four we meet Andrew, the over pampered and miserable dog of Miss Lark. Travers has a great time making fun of the English social classes with Andrew not being happy unless he is in the company of common dogs especially his mongrel pal,Willoughby. Mary Poppins is able to talk to Andrew of course undermining Michael’s social opinions, inherited from his dad.

“Don’t you know,” she said pityingly, “everyone has their own fairyland?”