Week 13 Story: Miss Muffet and the Spider

A young girl named Muffet made lunch one day,

she made her special meal; curds and whey.

 as she prepared to feast by herself at home.

She was a fantastic cook,

never needed a recipe book

but always ate her meals alone.

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a small tuffet,

Eating of curds and whey;

There came a large spider,

And sat down beside her,

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

This caused her to spill the food

further dampening her mood,

as she was deathly afraid of small creatures

They made her sweat 

and intensely fret 

turn bright red, would all of her features.

She could not overcome this fear,

when small bugs drew near,

she would always feel sick and afraid.

She was now getting older

and sought to overcome this

without someone coming to her  aid.

Miss Muffet turned to face the spider

trying to overcome the fear inside her,

as she looked into its small black eyes.

Her legs began to shake

and her stomach began to quake

as she felt her anxiety rise.

She ran away scared

for she had not prepared

for such a shock during her meal.

She told her brother Ken

who chuckled with a grin

and teased her for her girlish squeal. 

Miss Muffet was now upset 

as her eyes became wet 

she now had been teased and frightened.

Ken stopped teasing when he saw her tears.

he had forgotten about her phobia all these years,

his brotherly instincts now were heightened.

Ken marched into the room where she had been eating

he proceeded to give that spider an absolute beating,

but his work was not done when it died.

Ken had little to say

as he cleaned up the spilled curds and whey

and joined Muffet for a great lunch inside.

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Author's Note: I decided to write about a Nursery Rhyme that I remember hearing as a child. I provided some brief background info about her and then expanded on what happened after the spider frightened her away.

Bibliography: This story is part of the Nursery Rhymes unit. Story source: The Nursery Rhyme Book edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).