THE SPINNING LESSON.

You will not mind, if I sit me down And watch you spin, in your velvet gown? You need not fear, You can trust me here. I think I can learn to spin, if I Could watch you work. Will you let me try? You spin and weave, but I cannot see Just how ’tis done, and it puzzles me. For you have no loom In your little room. No silken skein, no spinning-wheel, No bobbin and no winding reel. Please tell me what you use instead? And where do you hide your shining thread, As soft as silk And as white as milk? I think, Mrs. Spider, it must be A secret, or you would answer me.