Who is the funny little man, as quiet as a mouse, who does the mischief that is done in everybody's house?

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Problem

Who is the funny little man, as quiet as a mouse, who does the mischief
that is done in everybody's house?

[ Editor: problem statement reconstructed from the opening of the poem
"Mr. Nobody", which is the whole of the collected file. ]

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Mr. Nobody

I know a funny little man
As quiet as a mouse,
Who does the mischief that is done
In everybody's house!
There is no one who sees his face
And yet we all agree,
That every plate we break was cracked
By Mr. Nobody.

It's he who always tears our books,
Who leaves the door ajar.
He always leaves the lights turned on,
It's really quite bizarre.
The finger marks upon this wall
Aren't made by you or me,
But when scrubbed off, may reappear,
From Mr. Nobody.

And Mom was sure she'd bought enough
Of milk to last that day,
But going to the fridge that night,
The milk had gone astray.
A pack of biscuits disappeared,
As you can plainly see.
Who gets the blame for things astray?
It's Mr. Nobody!

The paint we never spill;
We would not play with oil.
His are the feet that bring in mud
And all the carpets soil.
The papers always are mislaid,
Who had them last but he?
There's no one tosses them about
But Mr. Nobody.

[ Editor: the collected file gives no author or source. ]