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Title: The Story of Miss Moppet

Author: Beatrix Potter

Release Date: January 31, 2005 [EBook #14848]

Language: English

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THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET

BY BEATRIX POTTER

_Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc_

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FREDERICK WARNE

First published 1906

1906 by Frederick Warne & Co.

Printed and bound in Great Britain by
William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London

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This is a Pussy called Miss Moppet, she thinks she has heard a mouse!

This is the Mouse peeping out behind the cupboard, and making fun of Miss
Moppet. He is not afraid of a kitten.

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This is Miss Moppet jumping just too late; she misses the Mouse and hits
her own head.

She thinks it is a very hard cupboard!

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The Mouse watches Miss Moppet from the top of the cupboard.

Miss Moppet ties up her head in a duster, and sits before the fire.

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The Mouse thinks she is looking very ill. He comes sliding down the
bell-pull.

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Miss Moppet looks worse and worse. The Mouse comes a little nearer.

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Miss Moppet holds her poor head in her paws, and looks at him through a
hole in the duster. The Mouse comes _very_ close.

And then all of a sudden--Miss Moppet jumps upon the Mouse!

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And because the Mouse has teased Miss Moppet--Miss Moppet thinks she will
tease the Mouse; which is not at all nice of Miss Moppet.

She ties him up in the duster, and tosses it about like a ball.

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But she forgot about that hole in the duster; and when she untied
it--there was no Mouse!

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He has wriggled out and run away; and he is dancing a jig on the top of
the cupboard!

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