Ah, sancta simplicitas: my favourite Milly Molly Mandy story really was called, so help me, "Milly Molly Mandy spends a penny".

The ambiguity involved in this title will be lost on anyone not old enough to recall Joyce Lankester Brisley's 1920s onwards tales of the little girl called Millicent Margaret Amanda whose name was abbreviated for convenience as shown in the titles. Tho they appear, I find wiki-ing them, to be still in print. Do today's children actually still read them? And there must presumably be a new author, as the original one died getting on for 40 years ago?

~M~