English Confluence By CL Gautam

Poem -5 The Legend of The Northland by Phoebe Cary            Detailed Summary of the Poem  In Northland there lived a little woman in a cottage. She was baking delicious cakes in the evening. Saint Peter during his sojourn (a temporary stay, visit) around the world reached her door. He was very tired and hungry as he had been preaching and had not eaten any food. He asked her for a piece of cake. She was an  unkind and close-fisted woman. She therefore tried to bake a small cake to give away. But each time she baked, she felt the cake was too big to give away. Ultimately, she tried to bake a paper thin cake, which also turned big in her estimation. She began to wonder how the cakes that were meant for others seemed big to her. and those that were meant for her to eat seemed very small. The final cake was also put on the shelf. She refused to part with the cakes. This angered the saint, who was hungry and faint. He told nor she des...