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is for East Wind. It is blowing Exactly as it blew when Mary Poppins arrived.

Ellen is sneezing Endlessly, but Everyone Else is Enjoying the Experience. The wind Echoes in the children’s Ears and tosses the Elm leaves into their Eyes.

Even Miss Lark. Enveloped in an Embroidered curtain, has Enticed her friend, the Elderly Professor, to Enter into the fun.

“What an Exciting Escapade! I feel Equal to anything this Evening! Oh, Excuse me!” he Exclaims, as the wind blows him against Mary Poppins. “I did not mean to Embrace you, madam; I am merely Enchanted to Encounter such an Example of female Excellence.”

She answers with an Elegant bow and no Embarrassment. If East winds and Elderly Professors wish to Express Enthusiasm, they are Entitled to do so. But Equally they cannot Expect to have any Effect on her.

Nor on the starlings who live under the Eaves of Number Seventeen. Quite at Ease, on the Edge of their nest, they fold their wings over their Eggs and keep the wind away.