Is for In. Inside. Indoors. In a muddle. In a temper. That's where the children are today, because It Is raining outside. They are all Impatient and Irritable and can't Imagine what to do.

"Imitate me," says Mary Poppins, as she Irons her apron of Irish linen. "Get some Ink and draw an Island, with Ivy and Indians on It. Or Invent a story about an Italian who lives In an Igloo with an Ibex called Isabel. I," she adds Importantly, "am always Industrious, never Idle."

Then suddenly the weather Improves, and the Ice-Cream Man comes along the lane.

"If you behave like Intelligent children, you may put on India-rubber boots and go and Inquire the price."

Immediately their Ill-nature vanishes. How Inspired of Mary Poppins! Nothing Is Impossible now.

Ice cream! What a good Idea!