oud call.

"Pray Mrs. Mouse, are you within?"
"Oh yes, Mr. Rat, I am learning to spin."

"Pray Mrs. Mouse, will you give us some beer?
For Froggy and I are fond of good cheer."

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But as they were all a merry-making,
The cat and her kittens came tumbling in.

The Cat she seized the rat by the crown,
The kittens they pulled the little mouse down.

This put poor frog in a terrible fright,
So he took up his hat and he wished them good night.

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As Froggy was crossing him over a brook,
A lilly-white duck came and gobbled him up.

So there was an end of one, two, and three,
The Rat, the Mouse, and the little Froggee?

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THE THREE LITTLE PIGS.

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THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS.

Once upon a time there was an old pig with three little pigs, and as she
had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their fortune.
The first that went off met a man with a bundle of straw, and said to
him, "Please, man, give me that straw to build me a house;" which the
man did, and the little pig built a house with it. Presently came along
a wolf, and knocked at the door, and said,--

"Little pig, little pig, let me come in."

To which the pig answered,--

"No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin."

The wolf then answered to that,--

"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in."

So he huffed and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and eat up the
little pig.

The second little pig met a man with a bundle of furze, and said,
"Please man give me that furze to build a house;" which the man did, and
the pig built his house. Then along came the wolf, and said,--

"Little pig, little pig, let me come in."

"No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin."

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"Then I'll puff and I'll huff, and I'll blow your house in."

So he huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he huffed, and at last
he blew the house down, and he eat up the little Pig.

The third little pig met a man with a load of bricks, and said, "Please,
man, give me those bricks to build a house with;" so the man gave him
the bricks, and he built his house with them. So the wolf came, as he
did to the other little pigs, and said,--

"Little pig, little pig, let me come in."

"No, no, by th