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00:00:30Diggory Diggory Delvet, a little old man in black velvet, he digs and he delves, you can see for
00:00:59yourselves, the mounds dug by Diggory Delvet.
00:01:11The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes Once upon a time there was a little fat
00:01:17comfortable grey squirrel called Timmy Tiptoes.
00:01:21He had a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree, and he had a little squirrel
00:01:26wife called Goody.
00:01:29Timmy Tiptoes sat out enjoying the breeze.
00:01:32He whisked his tail and chuckled, Little wife Goody, the nuts are ripe, we must lay up
00:01:37a store for winter and spring.
00:01:39Goody Tiptoes was busy pushing moss under the thatch.
00:01:43The nest is so snug, we shall be sound asleep all winter.
00:01:47Then we shall wake up all the thinner when there is nothing to eat in springtime, replied
00:01:51prudent Timothy.
00:01:53When Timmy and Goody Tiptoes came to the nut thicket, they found other squirrels were
00:01:57there already.
00:01:59Timmy took off his jacket and hung it on a twig.
00:02:02They worked away quietly by themselves.
00:02:06Every day they made several journeys and picked quantities of nuts.
00:02:11They carried them away in bags and stored them in several hollow stumps near the tree
00:02:16where they had built their nest.
00:02:19When these stumps were full, they began to empty the bags into a hole high up in a tree
00:02:24that had belonged to a woodpecker.
00:02:28The nuts rattled down, down, down inside.
00:02:31How, how shall we ever get them out again?
00:02:35It is like a money box, said Goody.
00:02:37I shall be much thinner before springtime, my love, said Timmy Tiptoes, peeping into
00:02:42the hole.
00:02:43They did collect quantities because they did not lose them.
00:02:48Squirrels who bury their nuts in the ground lose more than half because they cannot remember
00:02:51the place.
00:02:52The most forgetful squirrel in the wood was called Silvertail.
00:02:57He began to dig and he could not remember.
00:03:00And then he dug again and found some nuts that did not belong to him.
00:03:05And there was a fight, and other squirrels began to dig.
00:03:08The whole wood was in commotion.
00:03:10Unfortunately, just at this time, a flock of little birds flew by from bush to bush
00:03:17searching for green caterpillars and spiders.
00:03:19There were several sorts of little birds twittering different songs.
00:03:23The first one sang, Who's been digging up my nuts?
00:03:26Who's been digging up my nuts?
00:03:28And another sang, Little bit of bread and no cheese, little bit of bread and no cheese.
00:03:33The squirrels followed and listened.
00:03:35The first little bird flew into the bush where Timmy and Goody Tiptoes were quietly tying
00:03:40up their bags.
00:03:41And it sang, Who's been digging up my nuts?
00:03:44Who's been digging up my nuts?
00:03:47Timmy Tiptoes went on with his work without replying.
00:03:49Indeed, the little bird did not expect an answer.
00:03:52It was only singing its natural song and it meant nothing at all.
00:03:56But when the other squirrels heard that song, they rushed upon Timmy Tiptoes and cuffed
00:04:02and scratched him and upset his bag of nuts.
00:04:05The innocent little bird, which had caused all the mischief, flew away in a fright.
00:04:10Timmy rode over and over and then turned tail and fled toward his nest, followed by a crowd
00:04:17of squirrels shouting, Who's been digging up my nuts?
00:04:20They caught him and dragged him up the very same tree where there was the little round
00:04:24hole and they pushed him in.
00:04:26The hole was much too small for Timmy Tiptoes' figure.
00:04:30They squeezed him dreadfully.
00:04:32It was a wonder they did not break his ribs.
00:04:34We will leave him here till he confesses, said Silver-Tailed Squirrel, and he shouted
00:04:39into the hole, Who's been digging up my nuts?
00:04:43Timmy Tiptoes made no reply.
00:04:46He had tumbled down inside the tree upon half a peck of nuts belonging to himself.
00:04:51He lay quite stunned and still.
00:04:54Goody Tiptoes picked up the nut bags and went home.
00:04:58She made a cup of tea for Timmy, but he didn't come and didn't come.
00:05:03Goody Tiptoes passed a lonely and unhappy night.
00:05:07Next morning, she ventured back to the nut bushes to look for him, but the other unkind
00:05:11squirrels drove her away.
00:05:13She wandered all over the wood calling, Timmy Tiptoes!
00:05:17Timmy Tiptoes!
00:05:19Oh, where is Timmy Tiptoes?
00:05:23In the meantime, Timmy Tiptoes came to his senses.
00:05:27He found himself tucked up in a little moss bed, very much in the dark, feeling sore.
00:05:33It seemed to be underground.
00:05:36Timmy coughed and groaned because his ribs hurt him.
00:05:41There was a chirpy noise and a small striped chipmunk appeared with a nightlight and hoped
00:05:47he felt better.
00:05:48It was most kind to Timmy Tiptoes.
00:05:50It lent him its nightcap and the house was full of provisions.
00:05:55The chipmunk explained that it had rained nuts through the top of the tree.
00:05:59Besides, I found a few buried.
00:06:02It laughed and chuckled when it heard Timmy's story.
00:06:06While Timmy was confined to bed, it enticed him to eat more.
00:06:10But how shall I ever get out through that hole unless I thin myself?
00:06:14My wife will be anxious.
00:06:16Just another nut or two nuts, let me crack them for you, said the chipmunk.
00:06:21Timmy Tiptoes grew fatter and fatter.
00:06:25Now, Goody Tiptoes had set to work again by herself.
00:06:29She did not put any more nuts into the woodpecker's hole because she had always doubted how they could be got out again.
00:06:35She hid them under a tree root.
00:06:37They rattled down, down, down.
00:06:39Once, when Goody emptied an extra big bagful, there was a decided squeak.
00:06:45And next time Goody brought another bagful, a little striped chipmunk scrambled out in a hurry.
00:06:51It is getting perfectly full up downstairs.
00:06:54The sitting room is full and they are rolling along the passage.
00:06:57And my husband, Chippy Hacky, has run away and left me.
00:07:00What is the explanation of these showers of nuts?
00:07:03I am sure I beg your pardon.
00:07:06I did not know that anybody lived here, said Mrs. Goody Tiptoes.
00:07:10But where is Chippy Hacky?
00:07:13My husband, Timmy Tiptoes, has run away too.
00:07:16I know where Chippy is.
00:07:18A little bird told me, said Mrs. Chippy Hacky.
00:07:22She led the way to the woodpecker's tree and they listened at the hole.
00:07:26Down below, there was a noise of nutcrackers and a fat squirrel voice.
00:07:30And a thin squirrel voice was singing...
00:07:33My little old man and I fell out.
00:07:36How shall we bring this matter about?
00:07:38Bring it about as well as you can.
00:07:40And get you gone, you little old man.
00:07:43You could squeeze in through that little round hole, said Goody Tiptoes.
00:07:47Yes, I could, said the chipmunk.
00:07:49But my husband, Chippy Hacky, bites.
00:07:52Down below, there was a noise of cracking nuts and nibbling.
00:07:55And then the fat squirrel voice and the thin squirrel voice sang...
00:07:58For diddle dum day, day diddle dum da, day diddle diddle dum dum day.
00:08:03Then Goody peeped in at the hole and called out...
00:08:06Timmy Tiptoes! Oh, fie, Timmy Tiptoes!
00:08:10And Timmy replied, Is that you, Goody Tiptoes?
00:08:13Why, certainly!
00:08:15He came up and kissed Goody through the hole.
00:08:18But he was so fat that he could not get out.
00:08:21Chippy Hacky was not too fat, but he did not want to come.
00:08:25He stayed down below and chuckled.
00:08:28And so it went on for a fortnight,
00:08:31till a big wind blew off the top of the tree
00:08:34and opened up the hole and let in the rain.
00:08:37Then Timmy Tiptoes came out and went home with an umbrella.
00:08:41But Chippy Hacky continued to camp out for another week,
00:08:44although it was uncomfortable.
00:08:46At last, a large bear came walking through the wood.
00:08:50Perhaps he also was looking for nuts.
00:08:53He seemed to be sniffing around.
00:08:55Chippy Hacky went home in a hurry.
00:08:58And when Chippy Hacky got home,
00:09:00he found he had caught a cold in his head
00:09:02and he was more uncomfortable still.
00:09:07And now, Timmy and Goody Tiptoes keep their nut store
00:09:11fastened up with a little padlock.
00:09:14And whenever that little bird sees the chipmunks, he sings,
00:09:17Who's been digging up my nuts? Who's been digging up my nuts?
00:09:21But nobody ever answers.
00:09:26The End
00:09:31Now who is this knocking at Cottontail's door?
00:09:35Tap-tap-it, tap-tap-it, she's heard it before.
00:09:39And when she peeps out, there is nobody there.
00:09:43But a present of carrots put down on the stair.
00:09:48Hark! I hear it again.
00:09:50Tap-tap-tap-it, tap-tap-it.
00:09:53Why, I really believe it's a little black rabbit.
00:10:01The Story of Miss Moppet
00:10:08This is a pussy called Miss Moppet.
00:10:11She thinks she has heard a mouse.
00:10:14This is the mouse peeping out behind the cupboard
00:10:17and making fun of Miss Moppet.
00:10:20He is not afraid of a kitten.
00:10:23This is Miss Moppet jumping just too late.
00:10:26She misses the mouse and hits her own head.
00:10:30She thinks it is a very hard cupboard.
00:10:34The mouse watches Miss Moppet from the top of the cupboard.
00:10:39Miss Moppet ties up her head in a duster
00:10:42and sits before the fire.
00:10:45The mouse thinks she is looking very ill.
00:10:48He comes sliding down the bell pole.
00:10:53Miss Moppet looks worse and worse.
00:10:57The mouse comes a little nearer.
00:11:00Miss Moppet holds her poor head in her paws
00:11:03and looks at him through a hole in the duster.
00:11:08The mouse comes very close.
00:11:12And then, all of a sudden, Miss Moppet jumps upon the mouse.
00:11:16And because the mouse has teased Miss Moppet,
00:11:18Miss Moppet thinks she will tease the mouse,
00:11:21which is not at all nice of Miss Moppet.
00:11:24She ties him up in the duster and tosses it about like a ball.
00:11:29But she forgot about that hole in the duster.
00:11:32And when she untied it, there was no mouse.
00:11:36He has wriggled out and run away.
00:11:39And he's dancing a jig on top of the cupboard.
00:11:46The end.
00:11:51We have a little garden, a garden of our own.
00:11:54And every day we water there the seeds that we have sown.
00:11:58We love our little garden and tend it with such care
00:12:02you will not find a faded leaf or blighted blossom there.
00:12:10The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding
00:12:17Once upon a time, there was an old cat called Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit
00:12:23who was an anxious parent.
00:12:25She used to lose her kittens continually
00:12:28and whenever they were lost, they were always in mischief.
00:12:32On baking day, she determined to shut them up in a cupboard.
00:12:36She caught Moppet in mittens but she could not find Tom.
00:12:40Mrs. Tabitha went up and down all over the house
00:12:44mewing for Tom Kitten.
00:12:46She looked in the pantry under the staircase
00:12:49and she searched the best spare bedroom
00:12:51that was all covered up with dust sheets.
00:12:53She went right upstairs and looked into the attics
00:12:56but she could not find him anywhere.
00:12:59It was an old, old house full of cupboards and passages
00:13:03Some of the walls were four feet thick
00:13:05and there used to be queer noises inside them
00:13:08as if there might be a little secret staircase.
00:13:12Certainly there were odd little jagged doorways in the wainscot
00:13:16and things disappeared at night, especially cheese and bacon.
00:13:25Mrs. Tabitha became more and more distracted and mewed dreadfully.
00:13:29While their mother was searching the house
00:13:31Moppet and Mittens had got into mischief.
00:13:34The cupboard door was not locked
00:13:36so they pushed it open and came out.
00:13:39They went straight to the dough which was set to rise
00:13:41in a pan before the fire.
00:13:43They patted it with their little soft paws.
00:13:45Shall we make dear little muffins, said Mittens to Moppet.
00:13:49But just at that moment, somebody knocked at the front door
00:13:53and Moppet jumped into the flowerbed.
00:13:56Mittens ran away to the dairy and hid in an empty jar
00:13:59on the stone shelf where the milk pans stand.
00:14:03The visitor was a neighbour, Mrs. Ribby.
00:14:06She had called to borrow some yeast.
00:14:09Mrs. Tabitha came downstairs, mewing dreadfully.
00:14:12Come in, Cousin Ribby, come in and sit you down.
00:14:15I'm in sad trouble, Cousin Ribby, said Tabitha, shedding tears.
00:14:20I've lost my dear little Moppet.
00:14:23Said Tabitha, shedding tears.
00:14:25I've lost my dear son Thomas.
00:14:27I'm afraid the rats have got him.
00:14:29She wiped her eyes with her apron.
00:14:31He's a bad kitten, Cousin Tabitha.
00:14:34He's made a cat's cradle of my best bonnet
00:14:36last time I came to tea.
00:14:38Where have you looked for him?
00:14:40All over the house. The rats are too many for me.
00:14:43What a thing it is to have an unruly family,
00:14:47said Mrs. Tabitha, twitched.
00:14:49I'm not afraid of rats.
00:14:51I will help you to find him and whip him too.
00:14:56What is all that soot in the fender?
00:14:58The chimney was sweeping.
00:15:00Oh, dear me, Cousin Ribby.
00:15:02Now Moppet and Mittens are gone.
00:15:05They have both got out of the cupboard.
00:15:08Ribby and Tabitha set to work
00:15:10to search the house thoroughly again.
00:15:12They poked under the beds with Ribby's umbrella
00:15:15and they rummaged in cupboards.
00:15:17They even fetched a candle
00:15:19inside a clothes chest in one of the attics.
00:15:21They could not find anything.
00:15:24But once they heard a door bang
00:15:26and somebody scuttled downstairs.
00:15:29Yes, it is infested with rats,
00:15:32said Tabitha tearfully.
00:15:34I caught seven young ones out of one hole
00:15:36in the back kitchen
00:15:38and we had them for dinner last Saturday.
00:15:40Then once I saw the old father rat,
00:15:43an enormous old rat, Cousin Ribby.
00:15:46I was just going to jump upon him
00:15:48when he showed his yellow teeth at me
00:15:50and whisked down the hole.
00:15:53The rats get on my nerves, Cousin Ribby,
00:15:56said Tabitha.
00:15:58Ribby and Tabitha searched and searched.
00:16:01They both heard a curious roly-poly noise
00:16:05under the attic floor.
00:16:07But there was nothing to be seen.
00:16:10They returned to the kitchen.
00:16:12Here's one of your kittens at least,
00:16:14said Ribby, dragging Moppet out of the flower barrel.
00:16:17They shook the flower off her
00:16:19and set her down on the kitchen floor.
00:16:21She seemed to be in a terrible fright.
00:16:23Oh, Mother, Mother, said Moppet.
00:16:26There's been an old woman rat in the kitchen
00:16:28and she's stolen some of the dough.
00:16:31The two cats ran to look at the dough pan.
00:16:33Sure enough, there were marks of little scratching fingers
00:16:37and a lump of dough was gone.
00:16:40Which way did she go, Moppet?
00:16:42But Moppet had been too much frightened
00:16:45to peep out of the barrel again.
00:16:47Ribby and Tabitha took her with them
00:16:49to keep her safely in sight
00:16:51while they went on with their search.
00:16:53They went into the dairy.
00:16:55The first thing they found was Mittens
00:16:57hiding in an empty jar.
00:16:59They tipped over the jar and she scrambled out.
00:17:01Oh, Mother, Mother, said Mittens.
00:17:04There has been an old man rat in the dairy,
00:17:07a dreadful, enormous, big rat, Mother,
00:17:10and he's stolen a pat of butter and the rolling pin.
00:17:14Ribby and Tabitha looked at one another.
00:17:16A rolling pin and butter.
00:17:19Oh, my poor son Thomas, exclaimed Tabitha,
00:17:22wringing her paws.
00:17:24A rolling pin, said Ribby.
00:17:26Did we not hear a roly-poly noise in the attic
00:17:30when we were looking into that chest?
00:17:32Ribby and Tabitha rushed upstairs again.
00:17:35Sure enough, the roly-poly noise was still going on,
00:17:41quite distinctly under the attic floor.
00:17:45This is serious, cousin Tabitha, said Ribby.
00:17:49We must send for John Joyner at once with a saw.
00:17:53Now, this is what had been happening to Tom Kitten,
00:17:57and it shows how very unwise it is
00:17:59to go up a chimney in a very old house
00:18:02where a person does not know his way
00:18:04and where there are enormous rats.
00:18:08Tom Kitten did not want to be shut up in a cupboard.
00:18:11When he saw that his mother was going to bake,
00:18:13he determined to hide.
00:18:15He looked about for a nice, convenient place,
00:18:18and he fixed upon the chimney.
00:18:21The fire had only just been lighted, and it was not hot,
00:18:25but there was a white, chokey smoke from the green sticks.
00:18:29Tom Kitten got upon the fender and looked up.
00:18:33It was a big, old-fashioned fireplace.
00:18:36The chimney itself was wide enough inside
00:18:38for a man to stand up and walk about,
00:18:41so there was plenty of room for a little Tom Cat.
00:18:44He jumped right up into the fireplace,
00:18:47balancing himself upon the iron bar where the kettle hangs.
00:18:52Tom Kitten took another big jump off the bar
00:18:55and landed on a ledge high up inside the chimney,
00:18:59knocking down some salt into the fender.
00:19:04Tom Kitten coughed and choked with the smoke.
00:19:09He could hear the sticks beginning to crackle and burn
00:19:12in the fireplace down below.
00:19:14He made up his mind to climb right to the top
00:19:17and get out on the slates and try to catch sparrows.
00:19:20I cannot go back.
00:19:22If I slipped, I might fall in the fire
00:19:24and singe my beautiful tail in my little blue jacket.
00:19:28The chimney was a very big, old-fashioned one.
00:19:32It was built in the days when people burnt logs of wood
00:19:35upon the hearth.
00:19:37The chimney stack stood up above the roof
00:19:39like a little stone tower,
00:19:41and the daylight shone down from the top
00:19:44under the slanting slates that kept out the rain.
00:19:48Tom Kitten was getting very frightened.
00:19:51He climbed up and up and up.
00:19:55Then he waded sideways through inches of soot.
00:20:00He couldn't even make a little sweep himself.
00:20:03It was most confusing in the dark.
00:20:06One flue seemed to lead into another.
00:20:09There was less smoke, but Tom Kitten felt quite lost.
00:20:13He scrambled up and up.
00:20:16But before he reached the chimney top,
00:20:18he came to a place where somebody had loosened a stone in the wall.
00:20:22There were some mutton bones lying about.
00:20:26This seems funny, said Tom Kitten.
00:20:29There are mutton bones up here in the chimney.
00:20:32I wish I'd never come.
00:20:34And what a funny smell.
00:20:36It is something like a mouse, only dreadfully strong.
00:20:41It makes me sneeze, said Tom Kitten.
00:20:48He squeezed through the hole in the wall
00:20:50and dragged himself along a most uncomfortably tight passage
00:20:55where there was scarcely any light.
00:20:58He groped his way carefully for several yards.
00:21:01He was at the back of the skirting board in the attic.
00:21:04All at once, he fell head over heels in the dark,
00:21:07down a hole and landed on a heap of very dirty rags.
00:21:14When Tom Kitten picked himself up and looked around him,
00:21:17he found himself in a place that he had never seen before,
00:21:21although he had lived all his life in the house.
00:21:25It was a very small, stuffy, fusty room
00:21:29with boards and rafters and cobwebs and lath and plaster.
00:21:35Opposite to him, as far away as he could sit,
00:21:39was an enormous rat.
00:21:42What do you mean by tumbling into my bed all covered with smuts?
00:21:46said the rat, chattering his teeth.
00:21:48Please, sir, the chimney wants sweeping, said poor Tom Kitten.
00:21:53Anna Maria! Anna Maria! squeaked the rat.
00:21:56There was a pattering noise and an old woman rat
00:22:00poked her head round a rafter.
00:22:03All in a minute, she rushed upon Tom Kitten
00:22:06and before he knew what was happening,
00:22:08his coat was pulled off and he was rolled up in a bundle
00:22:11and tied with string in very hard knots.
00:22:15Anna Maria did the tying.
00:22:17The old rat watched her.
00:22:21When she had finished, they both sat staring at him
00:22:24with their mouths open.
00:22:27Anna Maria, said the old man rat,
00:22:30whose name was Samuel Whiskers.
00:22:32Anna Maria, make me a kitten dumpling,
00:22:36roly-poly pudding for my dinner.
00:22:39It requires dough and a pat of butter and a rolling pin,
00:22:43said Anna Maria, considering Tom Kitten with a head on one side.
00:22:47No, said Samuel Whiskers.
00:22:49Make it properly, Anna Maria, with breadcrumbs.
00:22:53Nonsense! Butter and dough, replied Anna Maria.
00:22:57The two rats consulted together for a few minutes
00:23:00and then went away.
00:23:02Samuel Whiskers got through a hole in the wainscot
00:23:05and went boldly down the front staircase to the dairy
00:23:08to get the butter.
00:23:10He did not meet anybody.
00:23:12He made a second journey for the rolling pin.
00:23:15He pushed it in front of him with his paws
00:23:17like a brewer's man trundling a barrel.
00:23:20He could hear Ribby and Tabitha talking,
00:23:22but they were too busy lighting the candle
00:23:24to look into the chest.
00:23:26They did not see him.
00:23:28Anna Maria went down by way of skirting board
00:23:30and a window shutter to the kitchen to steal the dough.
00:23:34She borrowed a small saucer
00:23:36and scooped up the dough with her paws.
00:23:38She did not notice Moppet.
00:23:42While Tom Kitten was left alone under the floor of the attic,
00:23:46he wriggled about and tried to mew for help,
00:23:49but his mouth was full of soot and cobwebs
00:23:52and he was tied up in such very tight knots
00:23:55he could not make anybody hear him
00:23:57except a spider who came out of a crack in the ceiling
00:24:01and examined the knots critically from a safe distance.
00:24:05It was a judge of knots
00:24:07because it had a habit of tying up unfortunate blue bottles.
00:24:11It did not offer to assist him.
00:24:14Tom Kitten wriggled and squirmed until he was quite exhausted.
00:24:19Presently, the rats came back and set to work
00:24:22to make him into a dumpling.
00:24:24First they smeared him with butter
00:24:26and then they rolled him in the dough.
00:24:28Will not the string be very indigestible, Anna Maria?
00:24:32inquired Samuel Whiskers.
00:24:34Anna Maria said she thought that it was of no consequence,
00:24:37but she wished that Tom Kitten would hold his head still
00:24:40as it disarranged the pastry.
00:24:43She laid hold of his ears.
00:24:46Tom Kitten bit and spit and mewed and wriggled
00:24:50and the rolling pin went roly-poly, roly, roly-poly, roly.
00:24:56The rats each held an end.
00:24:58His tail is sticking out.
00:25:00You did not fetch enough dough, Anna Maria.
00:25:03I fetched as much as I could carry, replied Anna Maria.
00:25:07I do not think, said Samuel Whiskers,
00:25:10pausing to take a look at Tom Kitten.
00:25:12I do not think it will be a good pudding.
00:25:15It smells sooty.
00:25:17Anna Maria was about to argue the point
00:25:19when all at once there began to be other sounds up above.
00:25:23The rasping noise of a saw
00:25:25and the noise of a little dog scratching and yelping.
00:25:29The rats dropped the rolling pin and listened attentively.
00:25:32We are discovered and interrupted, Anna Maria.
00:25:35Let us collect our property and other people's and depart at once.
00:25:39I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding,
00:25:42but I am persuaded that the knots would have proved indigestible,
00:25:46whatever you may urge to the contrary.
00:25:49Come away at once and help me to tie up some mutton bones in a bedspread,
00:25:53said Anna Maria.
00:25:55I've got half a smoked ham hidden in the chimney.
00:25:58So it happened that by the time John Joyner had got the plank up,
00:26:03there was nobody here under the floor except the rolling pin
00:26:07and Tom Kitten in a very dirty dumpling.
00:26:12But there was a strong smell of rats
00:26:15and John Joyner spent the rest of the morning sniffing and whining
00:26:18and wagging his tail and going round and round
00:26:21with his head in the hole like a gimlet.
00:26:23He nailed the plank down again and put his tools in his bag
00:26:27and came downstairs.
00:26:30The Cat family had quite recovered.
00:26:33They invited him to stay to dinner.
00:26:35The dumpling had been peeled off Tom Kitten
00:26:38and made separately into a bag pudding with currants in it to hide the smuts.
00:26:43They had been obliged to put Tom Kitten into a hot bath to get the butter off.
00:26:48John Joyner smelt the pudding,
00:26:51but he regretted that he had not time to stay for dinner
00:26:54because he had just finished making a wheelbarrow for Miss Potter
00:26:58and she had ordered two handcoops.
00:27:01Later in the afternoon, Mr. Samuel Whiskers and his wife
00:27:05were seen running down the lane with big bundles on a little wheelbarrow.
00:27:10Samuel Whiskers was puffing and out of breath.
00:27:13Anna Maria was still arguing in shrill tones.
00:27:16She seemed to know her way and she seemed to have a lot of luggage.
00:27:22They went into the barn and hauled their parcels with a bit of string
00:27:26to the top of the haystack.
00:27:29After that, there were no more rats for a long time at Tabitha Twitchett's.
00:27:39The End
00:27:43Appley Dapley, a little brown mouse,
00:27:46goes to the cupboard in somebody's house.
00:27:49In somebody's cupboard, there's everything nice.
00:27:52Cake, cheese, jam, biscuits, all charming for mice.
00:27:57Appley Dapley has little sharp eyes,
00:28:00and Appley Dapley is so fond of pies.
00:28:06Diggory Diggory Delvet, a little old man in black velvet.
00:28:11He digs and he delves, you can see for yourselves.
00:28:15The mound's dug by Diggory Delvet.
00:28:22Now who is this knocking at Cottontail's door?
00:28:26Tap-tap it.
00:28:30Now who is this knocking at Cottontail's door?
00:28:34Tap-tap it.
00:28:36She's heard it before.
00:28:38And when she peeps out, there is nobody there.
00:28:42But a present of carrots put down on the stair.
00:28:46Hark! I hear it again.
00:28:49Tap-tap-tap it.
00:28:52Why, I really believe it's a little black rabbit.
00:29:00We have a little garden, a garden of our own.
00:29:04And every day we water there the seeds that we have sown.
00:29:08We love our little garden and tend it with such care
00:29:12you will not find a faded leaf or blighted blossom there.
00:29:21Appley Dapley, a little brown mouse,
00:29:24goes to the cupboard in somebody's house.
00:29:27In somebody's cupboard there's everything nice.
00:29:30Cake, cheese, jam, biscuits, all charming for mice.
00:29:36Appley Dapley has little sharp eyes.
00:29:39And Appley Dapley is so fond of pies.
00:29:47The Tale of Johnny Townmouse
00:29:50Johnny Townmouse was born in a cupboard.
00:29:54Timmy Willie was born in a garden.
00:29:57Timmy Willie was a little country mouse
00:30:00who went to town by mistake in a hamper.
00:30:03The gardener sent vegetables to town once a week by carrier.
00:30:07He packed them in a big hamper.
00:30:10The gardener left the hamper by the garden gate
00:30:13so that the carrier could pick it up when he passed.
00:30:16Timmy Willie crept in through a hole in the wickerwork
00:30:19and after eating some peas,
00:30:21Timmy Willie fell fast asleep.
00:30:24He awoke in a fright
00:30:26while the hamper was being lifted into the carrier's cart.
00:30:29And then there was a jolting and a clattering of horse's feet.
00:30:33Other packages were thrown in.
00:30:36For miles and miles, jolt, jolt, jolt,
00:30:40and Timmy Willie trembled amongst the jumbled up vegetables.
00:30:44At last, the cart stopped at a house
00:30:47where the hamper was taken out, carried in, and set down.
00:30:51The cook gave the carrier sixpence,
00:30:54the back door banged, and the cart rumbled away.
00:30:58But there was no quiet.
00:31:00There seemed to be hundreds of carts passing.
00:31:03Dogs barked, boys whistled in the street,
00:31:06the cook laughed, the parlour maid ran up and down stairs,
00:31:09and the canary sang like a steam engine.
00:31:13Timmy Willie, who had lived all his life in a garden,
00:31:16was almost frightened to death.
00:31:19Presently, the cook opened the hamper
00:31:21and began to unpack the vegetables.
00:31:23Out sprang the terrified Timmy Willie.
00:31:26Up jumped the cook on a chair, exclaiming,
00:31:28A mouse! A mouse! Call the cat!
00:31:31Fetch me the poker, Sarah!
00:31:33Timmy Willie did not wait for Sarah with the poker.
00:31:36He rushed along the skirting board
00:31:38till he came to a little hole, and in he popped.
00:31:41He dropped half a foot
00:31:43and crashed into the middle of a mouse dinner party,
00:31:46breaking three glasses.
00:31:48Who in the world is this?
00:31:51inquired Johnny Townmouse.
00:31:54But after the first exclamation of surprise,
00:31:56he instantly recovered his manners.
00:31:59With the utmost politeness,
00:32:01he introduced Timmy Willie to nine other mice,
00:32:04all with long tails and white neckties.
00:32:07Timmy Willie's own tail was insignificant.
00:32:11Johnny Townmouse and his friends noticed it,
00:32:14but they were too well-bred to make personal remarks.
00:32:18Only one of them asked Timmy Willie
00:32:20if he'd ever been in a trap.
00:32:23The dinner was of eight courses,
00:32:25not much of anything, but truly elegant.
00:32:28All the dishes were unknown to Timmy Willie,
00:32:31who would have been a little afraid of tasting them,
00:32:34only he was very hungry
00:32:36and very anxious to behave with company manners.
00:32:39The continual noise upstairs made him so nervous
00:32:42that he dropped a plate.
00:32:44Never mind, they don't belong to us, said Johnny.
00:32:48Why don't those youngsters come back with a dessert?
00:32:52It should be explained that two young mice
00:32:54who were waiting on the others
00:32:56went skirmishing upstairs to the kitchen between courses.
00:32:59Several times they had come tumbling in,
00:33:02squeaking and laughing.
00:33:04Timmy Willie learnt with horror
00:33:06that they were being chased by the cat.
00:33:08His appetite failed, he felt faint.
00:33:11Try some jelly, said Johnny Townmouse.
00:33:14No, would you rather go to bed?
00:33:17I will show you a most comfortable sofa pillow.
00:33:20The sofa pillow had a hole in it.
00:33:23Johnny Townmouse quite honestly recommended it as the best bed,
00:33:26kept exclusively for visitors.
00:33:29But the sofa smelts of cat.
00:33:31Timmy Willie preferred to spend
00:33:33a miserable night under the fender.
00:33:36It was just the same the next day.
00:33:38An excellent breakfast was provided
00:33:40for mice accustomed to eat bacon.
00:33:43But Timmy Willie had been reared on roots and salad.
00:33:47Johnny Townmouse and his friends
00:33:49racketed about under the floors
00:33:51and came boldly out all over the house in the evening.
00:33:55One particularly loud crash
00:33:57had been caused by Sarah
00:33:59tumbling downstairs with the tea tray.
00:34:01There were crumbs and sugar
00:34:03and smears of jam to be collected
00:34:05in spite of the cat.
00:34:08Timmy Willie longed to be at home
00:34:10in his peaceful nest in a sunny bank.
00:34:13The food disagreed with him.
00:34:15The noise prevented him from sleeping.
00:34:18In a few days he grew so thin
00:34:21that Johnny Townmouse noticed it and questioned him.
00:34:24He listened to Timmy Willie's story
00:34:27and inquired about the garden.
00:34:29It sounds rather a dull place.
00:34:32What do you do when it rains?
00:34:36When it rains, I sit in my little sandy burrow
00:34:39and shell corn and seeds from my autumn storm.
00:34:43I peep out at the throstles and blackbirds on the lawn
00:34:47and my friend Cock Robin.
00:34:49And when the sun comes out again,
00:34:51you should see my garden
00:34:54and the flowers, roses and pinks and pansies.
00:34:59No noise except the birds and bees
00:35:03and the lambs in the meadows.
00:35:05There goes that cat again, exclaimed Johnny Townmouse.
00:35:10When they had taken refuge in the coal cellar,
00:35:13he resumed the conversation.
00:35:15I confess I am a little disappointed.
00:35:18We have endeavoured to entertain you, Timothy William.
00:35:21Oh yes, yes, you have been most kind,
00:35:25but I do feel so ill, said Timmy Willie.
00:35:29It may be that your teeth and digestion
00:35:32are unaccustomed to our food.
00:35:34Perhaps it might be wiser for you to return in the hamper.
00:35:39Oh, oh, cried Timmy Willie.
00:35:42Why of course, for the matter of that,
00:35:45we could have sent you back last week,
00:35:47said Johnny rather huffily.
00:35:49Did you not know that the hamper goes back empty on Saturdays?
00:35:55So Timmy Willie said goodbye to his new friends
00:35:58and hid in the hamper with a crumb of cake
00:36:01and a withered cabbage leaf.
00:36:03And after much jolting,
00:36:06he was set down safely in his own garden.
00:36:14Sometimes on Saturdays,
00:36:16he went to look at the hamper lying by the gate,
00:36:18but he knew better than to get in again.
00:36:21And nobody got out,
00:36:23though Johnny Townmouse had half promised to visit.
00:36:26The winter passed.
00:36:28The sun came out again.
00:36:30Timmy Willie sat by his burrow,
00:36:32warming his little fur coat
00:36:34and sniffing the smell of violets and spring grass.
00:36:41He had nearly forgotten his visit to town
00:36:44when up the sandy path,
00:36:46all spic and span with a brown leather bag
00:36:50came Johnny Townmouse.
00:36:52Timmy Willie received him with open arms.
00:36:55You have come at the best of all the year.
00:36:58We will have herb pudding and sit in the sun.
00:37:02Hmm, it is a little damp,
00:37:05said Johnny Townmouse,
00:37:07who was carrying his tail under his arm out of the mud.
00:37:13What is that fearful noise?
00:37:15He started violently.
00:37:17That, said Timmy Willie, that is only a cow.
00:37:21I will beg a little milk.
00:37:23They are quite armless,
00:37:25unless they happen to lie down upon you.
00:37:27How are all our friends?
00:37:29Johnny's account was rather meddling.
00:37:31He explained why he was paying his visit so early in the season.
00:37:35The family had gone to the seaside for Easter.
00:37:38The cook was doing spring cleaning on board wages
00:37:41with particular instructions to clear out the mice.
00:37:45There were four kittens,
00:37:47and the cat had killed the canary.
00:37:51They say we did it,
00:37:53but I know better,
00:37:55said Johnny Townmouse.
00:37:57Whatever is that fearful racket?
00:38:00That is only the lawnmower.
00:38:02I will fetch some grass clippings presently to make your bed.
00:38:06I am sure you had better settle in the country, Johnny.
00:38:09Hmm, we shall see by Tuesday week.
00:38:12The hamper is stopped while they are at the seaside.
00:38:16I am sure you will never want to live in town again,
00:38:20said Timmy Willie.
00:38:22But he did.
00:38:24He went back in the very next hamper of vegetables.
00:38:27He said it was too quiet.
00:38:30One place suits one person,
00:38:32another place suits another person.
00:38:35For my part, I prefer to live in the country,
00:38:38like Timmy Willie.
00:38:40The end.
00:38:47Nanny Nanny Netticoat
00:38:49in a white petticoat
00:38:51with a red nose.
00:38:53The longer she stands,
00:38:55the shorter she grows.
00:39:04The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
00:39:07Once upon a time,
00:39:09there was a wooden mouse
00:39:11and her name was Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:39:14She lived in a bank under a hedge.
00:39:17Such a funny house!
00:39:19There were yards and yards of sandy passages
00:39:22leading to storerooms
00:39:24and nut cellars and seed cellars
00:39:26all amongst the roots of the hedge.
00:39:29There was a kitchen, a parlour,
00:39:31a pantry and a larder.
00:39:33Also, there was Mrs. Tittlemouse's bedroom
00:39:36where she slept in a little box bed.
00:39:39Mrs. Tittlemouse was the most terribly tidy
00:39:43particular little mouse,
00:39:45always sweeping and dusting the soft sandy floors.
00:39:49Sometimes a beetle lost its way in the passages.
00:39:52Little dirty feet!
00:39:54said Mrs. Tittlemouse,
00:39:56clattering her dustpan.
00:39:58And one day, a little old woman
00:40:00ran up and down in a red spotty cloak.
00:40:03Your house is on fire, Mother Ladybird!
00:40:05Fly away home to your children!
00:40:07Another day, a big fat spider
00:40:09came into shelter from the rain.
00:40:11Beg pardon, is this not Miss Muffet's?
00:40:14Go away, you bold, bad spider,
00:40:16leaving ends of cobweb all over my nice, clean house!
00:40:20She bundled the spider out at a window.
00:40:23He let himself down the hedge
00:40:25with a long, thin bit of string.
00:40:28Mrs. Tittlemouse went on her way
00:40:30to a distant storeroom
00:40:32to fetch cherry stones and thistledown seed for dinner.
00:40:35All along the passage, she sniffed
00:40:38and looked at the floor.
00:40:41I smell a smell of honey.
00:40:44Is it the cowslips outside in the hedge?
00:40:47I'm sure I can see the marks of little dirty feet.
00:40:50Suddenly, round a corner, she met Babbity Bumble.
00:40:56said the bumblebee.
00:40:58Mrs. Tittlemouse looked at her severely.
00:41:00She wished that she had a broom.
00:41:02Good day, Babbity Bumble.
00:41:04I should be glad to buy some beeswax,
00:41:06but what are you doing down here?
00:41:08Why do you always come in at a window and say zzzz?
00:41:12Mrs. Tittlemouse began to get cross.
00:41:18replied Babbity Bumble in a peevish squeak.
00:41:21She sidled down a passage
00:41:23and disappeared into a storeroom
00:41:25which had been used for acorns.
00:41:27Mrs. Tittlemouse had eaten the acorns before Christmas.
00:41:31The storeroom ought to have been empty,
00:41:33but it was full of untidy, dry moss.
00:41:37Mrs. Tittlemouse began to pull out the moss.
00:41:41Three or four other bees put their heads out
00:41:43and buzzed fiercely.
00:41:46I am not in the habit of renting rooms.
00:41:49This is an intrusion, said Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:41:52I will have them turned out.
00:41:55I wonder who would help me.
00:41:57I will not have Mr. Jackson.
00:41:59He never wipes his feet.
00:42:02Mrs. Tittlemouse decided to leave the bees
00:42:04till after dinner.
00:42:07When she got back to the parlor,
00:42:09she heard someone coughing in a fat voice.
00:42:12And there sat Mr. Jackson himself.
00:42:16He was sitting all over a small rocking chair,
00:42:20twiddling his thumbs and smiling
00:42:22with his feet on the fender.
00:42:24He lived in a drain below the hedge,
00:42:26in a very dirty, wet ditch.
00:42:31How do you do, Mr. Jackson?
00:42:33Dearie me, you have got very wet.
00:42:38Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:42:42I'll sit a while and dry myself, said Mr. Jackson.
00:42:46He sat and smiled,
00:42:48and the water dripped off his coattails.
00:42:51Mrs. Tittlemouse went round with a mop.
00:42:54He sat such a while that he had to be asked
00:42:57if he would take some dinner.
00:42:59First she offered him cherry stones.
00:43:02Thank you, thank you, Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:43:05No teeth, no teeth, no teeth, said Mr. Jackson.
00:43:09He opened his mouth most unnecessarily wide.
00:43:14He certainly had not a tooth in his head.
00:43:17Then she offered him thistledown seed.
00:43:20Tiddly, widdly, widdly, poof, poof, poof,
00:43:24said Mr. Jackson, blowing thistledown all over the room.
00:43:29Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:43:33Now what I really, really should like
00:43:38would be a little dish of honey.
00:43:42I'm afraid I have not got any, Mr. Jackson,
00:43:46said Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:43:48Tiddly, widdly, widdly, Mrs. Tittlemouse,
00:43:52said the smiling Mr. Jackson.
00:43:54I can smell it.
00:43:56That is why I came to call.
00:43:59Mr. Jackson rose ponderously from the table
00:44:02and began to look into the cupboards.
00:44:04Mrs. Tittlemouse followed him with a dishcloth
00:44:07to wipe his large, wet footmarks off the parlor floor.
00:44:11When he had convinced himself
00:44:13that there was no honey in the cupboards,
00:44:15he began to walk down the passage.
00:44:18Indeed, indeed, you will get stuck fast, Mr. Jackson.
00:44:23Tiddly, widdly, widdly, Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:44:27First, he squeezed into the pantry.
00:44:30Tiddly, widdly, widdly. No honey?
00:44:34No honey, Mrs. Tittlemouse?
00:44:36There were three creepy-crawly people
00:44:38hiding in the plate rack.
00:44:40Two of them got away, but the littlest one he caught.
00:44:44Then he squeezed into the larder.
00:44:47Miss Butterfly was tasting the sugar,
00:44:50but she flew away out of the window.
00:44:52Tiddly, widdly, widdly, Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:44:55You seem to have plenty of visitors.
00:44:58And without any invitation,
00:45:00said Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse.
00:45:02They went along the sandy passage.
00:45:05Tiddly, widdly, widdly.
00:45:08He met Babbety round a corner
00:45:11and snapped her up and put her down again.
00:45:14I do not like bumblebees.
00:45:16They are all over our bristles,
00:45:18said Mr. Jackson, wiping his mouth with his coat sleeve.
00:45:22Get out, you lusty old toad,
00:45:25shrieked Babbety Bumble.
00:45:27This is all too much, scolded Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:45:31She shot herself up in the nut cellar
00:45:33while Mr. Jackson pulled out the bee's nest.
00:45:36He seemed to have no objection to stings.
00:45:39When Mrs. Tittlemouse ventured to come out,
00:45:42everybody had gone away.
00:45:45But the untidiness was something dreadful.
00:45:48Never did I see such a mess.
00:45:50Smears of honey and moss and thistledown
00:45:53and marks of big and little dirty feet
00:45:56all over my nice clean house.
00:45:59She gathered up the moss and the remains of the beeswax.
00:46:03Then she went out and fetched some twigs
00:46:06to partly close up the front door.
00:46:08I will make it too small for Mr. Jackson.
00:46:14She fetched soft soap and flannel
00:46:17and a new scrubbing brush from the storeroom.
00:46:20But she was too tired to do any more.
00:46:23First she fell asleep in her chair
00:46:25and then she went to bed.
00:46:27Will it ever be all tidy again,
00:46:31said poor Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:46:34Next morning she got up very early
00:46:36and began a spring cleaning which lasted a fortnight.
00:46:39She swept and scrubbed and dusted
00:46:42and she rubbed up the furniture with beeswax
00:46:44and polished her little tin spoons.
00:46:47When it was all beautifully neat and clean
00:46:50she gave a party to five other little mice
00:46:53without Mr. Jackson.
00:46:56He smelt the party and came up the bank
00:47:00but he could not squeeze in at the door.
00:47:04So they handed him out acorn cupfuls of honeydew
00:47:08through the window and he was not at all offended.
00:47:12He sat outside in the sun and said
00:47:16Tiddly, widdly, widdly,
00:47:18you're very good health, Mrs. Tittlemouse.
00:47:22Ha, ha, ha, the end.
00:47:28There once was an amiable guinea pig
00:47:31who brushed back his hair like a periwig.
00:47:34He wore a sweet tie as blue as the sky
00:47:37and his whiskers and buttons were very big.
00:47:46The Pie and the Patty Pan
00:47:49Once upon a time there was a pussycat called Ribby
00:47:53who invited a little dog called Duchess to tea.
00:47:57Come in good time, my dear Duchess, said Ribby's letter
00:48:01and we will have something so very nice.
00:48:04I am baking it in a pie dish,
00:48:07a pie dish with a pink rim.
00:48:09You never tasted anything so good
00:48:12and you shall eat it all.
00:48:14I will eat muffins, my dear Duchess, wrote Ribby.
00:48:18I will come very punctually, my dear Ribby, wrote Duchess.
00:48:22And then at the end she added, I hope it isn't mouse.
00:48:26And then she thought, that did not look quite polite.
00:48:29So she scratched out isn't mouse
00:48:32and changed it to I hope it will be fine
00:48:35and she gave her letter to the postman.
00:48:38But she thought a great deal about Ribby's pie
00:48:42and she read Ribby's letter over and over again.
00:48:46I am dreadfully afraid it will be mouse,
00:48:49said Duchess to herself.
00:48:51I really couldn't, couldn't eat mouse pie
00:48:54and I shall have to eat it because it is a party
00:48:58and my pie was going to be veal and ham.
00:49:01A pink and white pie dish
00:49:04and so is mine, just like Ribby's dishes.
00:49:09They were both bought at Tabitha Twitchit's.
00:49:12Duchess went into her larder
00:49:14and took the pie off her shelf and looked at it.
00:49:17Oh, what a good idea.
00:49:19Why shouldn't I rush along and put my pie into Ribby's oven
00:49:23when Ribby isn't there?
00:49:25Ribby, in the meantime, had received Duchess's answer
00:49:29and as soon as she was sure that the little dog would come
00:49:32she popped her pie into the oven.
00:49:35There were two ovens, one above the other.
00:49:38Some of the other knobs and handles were only ornamental
00:49:41and not intended to open.
00:49:43Ribby put the pie into the lower oven.
00:49:46The door was very stiff.
00:49:48The top oven bakes too quickly, said Ribby to herself.
00:49:52Ribby put on some coal and swept up the hearth.
00:49:55Then she went out with a can to the well
00:49:57for water to fill up the kettle.
00:49:59Then she began to set the room in order
00:50:01for it was the sitting room as well as the kitchen.
00:50:04When Ribby had laid the table
00:50:06she went out down the field to the farm
00:50:08to fetch milk and butter.
00:50:10When she came back she peeped into the bottom oven.
00:50:14The pie looked very comfortable.
00:50:17Ribby put on her shawl and bonnet
00:50:19and went out again with a basket to the village shop
00:50:22to buy a packet of tea, a pound of lump sugar
00:50:25and a pot of marmalade.
00:50:27And just at the same time
00:50:29Duchess came out of her house at the other end of the village.
00:50:33Ribby met Duchess halfway down the street
00:50:36also carrying a basket covered with a cloth.
00:50:39They only bowed to one another.
00:50:41They did not speak because they were going to have a party.
00:50:45And as soon as Duchess had got round the corner out of sight
00:50:49she simply ran straight away to Ribby's house.
00:50:53Ribby went into the shop and bought what she required
00:50:57and came out after a pleasant gossip
00:50:59with cousin Tabitha Twitchit.
00:51:01Ribby went on to Timothy Baker's
00:51:03and bought the muffins.
00:51:05Then she went home.
00:51:07There seemed to be a sort of scuffling noise
00:51:10in the back passage as she was coming in at the front door
00:51:13but there was nobody there.
00:51:15Duchess, in the meantime, had slipped out at the back door.
00:51:21It is a very odd thing that Ribby's pie
00:51:24was not in the oven when I put mine in
00:51:27and I can't find it anywhere.
00:51:29I have looked all over the house.
00:51:31I put my pie into a nice hot oven at the top.
00:51:34I could not turn any of the other handles.
00:51:37I think that they are all ornamental, said Duchess.
00:51:41But I wish I could have removed the pie made of mouse.
00:51:44I cannot think what she has done with it.
00:51:47I heard Ribby coming and I had to run out by the back door.
00:51:51Duchess went home and brushed her beautiful black coat
00:51:54and then she picked a bunch of flowers in her garden
00:51:57as a present for Ribby and passed the time
00:51:59until the clock struck four.
00:52:02Ribby, having assured herself by careful search
00:52:05that there was really no one hiding in the cupboard
00:52:08or in the larder, went upstairs to change her dress.
00:52:11She came downstairs again and made the tea
00:52:14and put the teapot on the hob.
00:52:16She peeped again into the bottom oven.
00:52:20The pie had become a lovely brown and it was steaming hot.
00:52:25She sat down before the fire to wait for the little dog.
00:52:29I am glad I used the bottom oven, said Ribby.
00:52:33The top one would certainly have been very much too hot.
00:52:37Very punctually, at four o'clock,
00:52:40Duchess started to go to the party.
00:52:43At a quarter past four to the minute,
00:52:45there came a most genteel little...
00:52:48Tepity?
00:52:50Is Mrs. Ribston at home?
00:52:52inquired Duchess in the porch.
00:52:54Come in, and how do you do, my dear Duchess, cried Ribby.
00:52:58I hope I see you well.
00:53:00Quite well, I thank you.
00:53:02And how do you do, my dear Ribby, said Duchess.
00:53:05I've brought you some flowers.
00:53:07What a delicious smell of pie.
00:53:09Oh, what lovely flowers.
00:53:11Yes, it is. Mouse and bacon.
00:53:14I think it wants another five minutes, said Ribby.
00:53:18Just a shade longer.
00:53:20I will pour out the tea while we wait.
00:53:23Do you take sugar, my dear Duchess?
00:53:26Oh, yes, please, my dear Ribby.
00:53:29And may I have a lump upon my nose?
00:53:32With pleasure, my dear Duchess.
00:53:34Duchess sat up with the sugar on her nose and sniffed.
00:53:38How good that pie smells.
00:53:40I do love veal and ham.
00:53:42I mean to say, mouse and bacon.
00:53:45She dropped the sugar in confusion
00:53:47and had to go hunting under the tea table,
00:53:49so she did not see which oven Ribby opened
00:53:52in order to get out the pie.
00:53:55Ribby set the pie upon the table.
00:53:58There was a very savoury smell.
00:54:01Duchess came out from under the tablecloth munching sugar
00:54:04and sat up on a chair.
00:54:06I will cut the pie for you.
00:54:08I am going to have muffin and marmalade, said Ribby.
00:54:11I think, thought Duchess to herself,
00:54:14I think it would be wiser if I helped myself to pie.
00:54:18Though Ribby did not seem to notice anything
00:54:20when she was cutting it.
00:54:22What very small, fine pieces it is cooked into.
00:54:25I did not remember that I had minced it up so fine.
00:54:28I suppose this is a quicker oven than my own.
00:54:31The pie dish was emptying rapidly.
00:54:34Duchess had had four helps already
00:54:36and was fumbling with the spoon.
00:54:38A little more bacon, my dear Duchess, said Ribby.
00:54:42Thank you, my dear Ribby.
00:54:44I was only feeling for the patty pan.
00:54:47The patty pan, my dear Duchess?
00:54:50The patty pan that holds up the pie crust, said Duchess,
00:54:54blushing under her black coat.
00:54:56Oh, I didn't put one in, my dear Duchess, said Ribby.
00:55:01I don't think it is necessary in pies made of mouse.
00:55:04Duchess fumbled with the spoon.
00:55:06I can't find it, she said anxiously.
00:55:09There isn't a patty pan, said Ribby, looking perplexed.
00:55:13Yes, indeed, my dear Ribby, where can it have gone to, said Duchess.
00:55:18Duchess looked very much alarmed
00:55:20and continued to scoop the inside of the pie dish.
00:55:23I have only four patty pans and they are all in the cupboard.
00:55:28Duchess sat up a howl.
00:55:31I shall die, I shall die.
00:55:34I have swallowed a patty pan.
00:55:36Oh, my dear Ribby, I do feel so ill.
00:55:38It is impossible, my dear Duchess.
00:55:41My dear Duchess, there was not a patty pan.
00:55:45Yes, there was, my dear Ribby. I am sure I have swallowed it.
00:55:49Well, let me prop you up with a pillow, my dear Duchess.
00:55:52Where do you think you feel it?
00:55:54Oh, I do feel so ill all over me, my dear Ribby.
00:55:58Shall I run for the doctor?
00:56:00Oh, yes, yes. Fetch Dr Maggety, my dear Ribby.
00:56:03He is a pie himself. He will certainly understand.
00:56:08Ribby settled Duchess in a chair before the fire
00:56:11and went out and hurried to the village to look for the doctor.
00:56:15She found him at the smithy.
00:56:17Ribby explained that her guest had swallowed a patty pan.
00:56:21Dr Maggety hopped so fast that Ribby had to run.
00:56:25It was most conspicuous.
00:56:27All the village could see that Ribby was fetching the doctor.
00:56:31But while Ribby had been hunting for the doctor,
00:56:35a curious thing had happened to Duchess,
00:56:38who had been left by herself sitting before the fire,
00:56:41sighing and groaning and feeling very unhappy.
00:56:45How could I have swallowed it? Such a large thing as a patty pan!
00:56:49She sat down again and stared mournfully at the grate.
00:56:53The fire crackled and danced.
00:56:56Something sizzled.
00:56:58Duchess started.
00:57:00She opened the door of the top oven.
00:57:03Out came a rich, steamy flavor of veal and ham.
00:57:07And there stood a fine brown pie.
00:57:11And through a hole in the top of the pie crust,
00:57:14there was a glimpse of a little tin patty pan.
00:57:18Duchess drew a long breath.
00:57:21Then I must have been eating mouse!
00:57:24No wonder I feel ill!
00:57:27But perhaps I should feel worse if I had really swallowed a patty pan.
00:57:32What a very awkward thing to have to explain to Ribby.
00:57:36I think I will put my pie in the backyard and say nothing about it.
00:57:42When I go home, I will run round and take it away.
00:57:46She put it outside the back door and sat down again by the fire and shut her eyes.
00:57:52When Ribby arrived with the doctor, she seemed fast asleep.
00:57:56Oh, I am feeling very much better, said Duchess, waking up with a jump.
00:58:01I am truly glad to hear it. He has brought you a pill, my dear Duchess.
00:58:06I think I should feel quite well if he only felt my pulse, said Duchess,
00:58:11backing away from the magpie who sidled up with something in his beak.
00:58:15It is only a bread pill. You had much better take it.
00:58:19Drink a little milk, my dear Duchess.
00:58:21I'm feeling very much better, my dear Ribby, said Duchess.
00:58:25Do not think I had better go home before it gets dark.
00:58:28Perhaps it might be wise, my dear Duchess.
00:58:33Ribby and Duchess said goodbye affectionately and Duchess started home.
00:58:38Halfway up the lane, she stopped and looked back.
00:58:42Ribby had gone in and shut her door.
00:58:45Duchess slipped through the fence and ran round to the back of Ribby's house and peeped into the yard.
00:58:51Upon the roof of the pigsty sat Doctor Maggotty and three jackdaws.
00:58:57The jackdaws were eating pie crust and the magpie was drinking gravy out of a patty pan.
00:59:05Duchess ran home feeling uncommonly silly.
00:59:09When Ribby came out for a pailful of water to wash up the tea things,
00:59:13she found a pink and white pie dish lying smashed in the middle of the yard.
00:59:18Ribby stared with amazement.
00:59:21Did you ever see the like? So there really was a patty pan.
00:59:26But my patty pans are all in the kitchen cupboard.
00:59:30Well, I never did.
00:59:33Next time I want to give a party, I will invite Cousin Tabitha to a jit.
00:59:39The end.
00:59:49Goosey goosey gander, whither will you wander?
00:59:52Upstairs and downstairs and in my lady's chamber.
01:00:01Ninny nanny netty coat in a white petticoat with a red nose.
01:00:07The longer she stands, the shorter she grows.
01:00:12Gravy and potatoes in a good brown pot.
01:00:16Put them in the oven and serve them very hot.
01:00:23There once was an amiable guinea pig who brushed back his hair like a periwig.
01:00:28He wore a sweet tie as blue as the sky and his whiskers and buttocks were as white as the moon.
01:00:35There once was an amiable guinea pig who brushed back his hair like a periwig.
01:00:40He wore a sweet tie as blue as the sky and his whiskers and buttocks were very big.
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