I have indeed - it and others of hers - were favourites to read to the assembled little ... darlings in my library days. The kids would join in which was great because all I had to do was turn pages and start the first line!

Aziz - melodeon legs are long legs that move as if they had more than one knee. Imagine a newborn foal, the way its legs appear to bend all ways and go on for ever.... those are melodeon legs. A melodeon is an instrument with bellows and reeds. The bellows blow air through the reeds on both push and pull (suck and blow, like a mouth organ), creating different notes. If you watch a melodeon/accordion/squeezebox player, the bellows (the flexible bit in the middle) go in and out with the squeezing motion of the player. For an extra long note, or a particularly difficult sequence, the bellows can be extended to what appears to be a phenominal length - hence melodeon legs. Red Setters and teenage boys over 6ft in height suffer from melodeon legs.

Hope this is useful.

LTS