The Surprise + 

The things the armoured towers + 

tell + 

are not quite real + 

The things they do + 

never вАЬhappenвАЭ + 

only their actions + 

convince + 

on those occasions + 

when they blow up + 

and scatter her reason + 

Sometimes + 

a level shaft of sweetness + 

cleaves + 

the irate thunder + 

Miss Bunn + 

whose face of a china doll + 

has taken on a + 

significance + 

of foolish intelligence + 

that children love so well + 

who performs + 

the duties of a clown + 

and whose doorвБ†вАФbell + 

is so low down + 

often invited to come + 

cajoles + 

chaos to laughter + 

seldom heard in this home + 

and only + 

in company + 

as a disguise for thunder + 

вАЬIf you be good girl or boy + 

as I suppose you be + 

you will neither laugh nor smile + 

at the tickling of your kneeвАЭ + 

She brings + 

a surprise basket + 

full + 

of Japanese fishes + 

of cotton wool + 

вАЬWe will not tell + 

Miss BunnвАЭ + 

says father + 

вАЬwhat we have done + 

peeping in the basketвАЭ + 

In the evening + 

the armoured towers are sitting + 

round the surprise + 

вАФThey look as if they will not be sitting there longвБ†вАФ + 

They ask itвБ†вАФ + 

вАЬHave you peeped in the basket?вАЭ + 

Ova looking + 

partakingly at the father + 

anxious not to do wrong + 

вАЬNoвАЭ + 

вАЬHoвАЭ + 

Snaps the father + 

вАЬyou opened that surprise + 

under my eyesвАЭ + 

Jumping out of chairs + 

вАЬLiarвАЭ + 

makes a lot of noise + 

She is turned into a liar + 

by father + 

They push her + 

out of the front door with their hands + 

Her head expands + 

There is nothing + 

she knows how to expect from these big bodies + 

who hustle her through demeaning duties + 

in humiliation + 

and without animation + 

A coolness rising + 

from the rainy gravel + 

dampвБ†вАФsmelling friendliness of the dark + 

allays her + 

sudden fever + 

She has left behind her + 

forever + 

Liar + 

whatever + 

it is + 

and Japanese fishes + 

She decides to travel + 

A hand upon her shoulder + 

jolts her + 

with mocking laughter + 

bolts her + 

to smoulder + 

once more + 

behind the door + 