Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . . - P. L. Travers

The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What.

the Match-Man had two professions. He not only sold matches like any ordinary match-man, but he drew pavement pictures as well. He did these things turn-about according to the weather. If it was wet, he sold matches because the rain would have washed away his pictures if he had painted them. If it was fine, he was on his knees all day, making pictures in coloured chalks on the side-walks, and doing them so quickly that often you would find he had painted up one side of a street and down the other almost before you’d had time to come round the corner. On this particular day, which was fine but cold, he was painting.

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?