The Duchess Bakes a Cake

<p><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>A long time ago there lived over the waters</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>A Duchess a Duke and their family of daughters.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Everything went smoothly and happily in this large family until one day the Duchess decided to make:</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>A lovely light luscious delectable cake.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Would she take the cook's advice? No she would not. The Duchess put many things into the cake adding the yeast </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>six times for good measure</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>. So the cake rose and the Duchess with it-and how were they to get her down again?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>It is Gunhilde the youngest of the daughters who suggests a happy solution in this humorous read-aloud told all in rhyme. </span></p>