the broom, and the broom upset the stool, and poor little Tatty Mouse
was buried beneath the ruins.

* * * * *

TEENY TINY

There was once upon a time a teeny-tiny woman who lived in a
teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny
woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, and went out of her teeny-tiny
house to take a teeny-tiny walk. And when this teeny-tiny woman
had gone a teeny-tiny way, she came to a teeny-tiny gate; so
the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate, and went into a
teeny-tiny churchyard. And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into
the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny
grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self: "This
teeny-tiny bone will make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny
supper." So the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone into her
teeny-tiny pocket, and went home to her teeny-tiny house.

Now, when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her teeny-tiny house, she
was a teeny-tiny tired; so she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to
her teeny-tiny bed, and put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny
cupboard. And when this teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep a
teeny-tiny time, she was awakened by a teeny-tiny voice from the
teeny-tiny cupboard, which said--

"GIVE ME MY BONE!"

And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny frightened, so she hid her
teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes, and went to sleep again.
And when she had been asleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny
voice cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder--

"GIVE ME MY BONE!"

This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-tiny more frightened, so she
hid her teeny-tiny head a teeny-tiny farther under the teeny-tiny
clothes. And when the teeny-tiny woman had been asleep again a
teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard
said again a teeny-tiny louder--

"GIVE ME MY BONE!"

At this the teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened; but
she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in
her loudest teeny-tiny voice--

"TAKE IT!!"

* * * * *

THE SPIDER AND THE FLEA

A Spider and a Flea dwelt together in one house, and brewed their beer
in an egg-shell. One day, when the Spider was stirring it up, she fell
in and scalded herself. Thereupon the Flea began to scream. And then
the door asked: "Why are