Brownie

Portrait of A.A. Milne
A.A. Milne 1882–1956

In a corner of the bedroom is a great big curtain, Someone lives behind it, but I don't know who; I think it is a Brownie, but I'm not quite certain. (Nanny isn't certain, too.)

I looked behind the curtain, but he went so quickly - Brownies never wait to say, "How do you do?" They wriggle off at once because they're all so tickly (Nanny says they're tickly too.)

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