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Author: Beatrix Potter
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BY BEATRIX POTTER
Author of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” etc
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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!