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Updated: May 26, 2025

Beside her bed was an alarm-clock set for half-past three. Connected with the clock was an ingenious arrangement of a falling brick with a string attached to the child's toe. At the entrance of the visitor she started up in bed. "Whoop," she yelled, "I am to be Queen of the May, mother, ye-e!" Then perceiving Tennyson in the doorway, "If that's a caller," she said, "tell him to call me early."

Stephen Leacock - Literary Lapses