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One for the Wimsey fans: in which novel is a line of this piece of deathless verse quoted?

Three turkeys fair their last have breathed,
And now this world for ever leaved;
Their father and their mother, too,
They sigh and weep as well as you;
Indeed, the rats their bones have crunched,
Into eternity they're laanched
A direful death indeed they had,
As wad put any parent mad;
But she was more than usual calm,
She did not care a single dam.

Marjorie Fleming (aged, it must be said in fairness, 6)