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THE TALE OF 1
MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE
BY
BEATRIX POTTER
Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", &c.
FREDERICK WARNE
FREDERICK WARNE
MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE 2
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THE REAL LITTLE LUCIE
OF NEWLANDS
Once upon a time there was a little girl called Lucie, who lived at a farm called Little-town. She was a good
little girl—only she was always losing her pocket-handkerchiefs!
One day little Lucie came into the farm-yard crying—oh, she did cry so! "I've lost my pocket-handkin! Three
handkins and a pinny! Have you seen them, Tabby Kitten?"
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The Kitten went on washing her white paws; so Lucie asked a speckled hen—
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Cock Robin looked sideways at Lucie with his bright black eye, and he flew over a stile and away.
Lucie climbed upon the stile and looked up at the hill behind Little-town—a hill that goes up—up—into the
clouds as though it had no top!
And a great way up the hill-side she thought she saw some white things spread upon the grass.
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Lucie scrambled up the hill as fast as her stout legs would carry her; she ran along a steep path-way—up and
up—until Little-town was right away down below—she could have dropped a pebble down the chimney!
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Some one had stood a tin can upon a stone to catch the water—but the water was already running over, for the
can was no bigger than an egg-cup! And where the sand upon the path was wet—there were foot-marks of a
very small person.
The path ended under a big rock. The grass was short and green, and there were clothes—props cut from
bracken stems, with lines of plaited rushes, and a heap of tiny clothes pins—but no pocket-handkerchiefs!
But there was something else—a door! straight into the hill; and inside it some one was singing—
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Lucie, knocked—once—twice, and interrupted the song. A little frightened voice called out "Who's that?"
Lucie opened the door: and what do you think there was inside the hill?—a nice clean kitchen with a flagged
floor and wooden beams—just like any other farm kitchen. Only the ceiling was so low that Lucie's head
nearly touched it; and the pots and pans were small, and so was everything there.
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There was a nice hot singey smell; and at the table, with an iron in her hand stood a very stout short person
staring anxiously at Lucie.
Her print gown was tucked up, and she was wearing a large apron over her striped petticoat. Her little black
nose went sniffle, sniffle, snuffle, and her eyes went twinkle, twinkle; and underneath her cap—where Lucie
had yellow curls—that little person had PRICKLES!
The little person made a bob-curtsey—"Oh, yes, if you please'm; my name is Mrs. Tiggy-winkle; oh, yes if
you please'm, I'm an excellent clear-starcher!" And she took something out of a clothes-basket, and spread it
on the ironing-blanket.
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"Oh no, if you please'm; that's a little scarlet waist-coat belonging to Cock Robin!"
And she ironed it and folded it, and put it on one side.
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"Oh no, if you please'm; that's a damask table-cloth belonging to Jenny Wren; look how it's stained with
currant wine! It's very bad to wash!" said Mrs. Tiggy-winkle.
Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's nose went sniffle, sniffle, snuffle, and her eyes went twinkle, twinkle; and she fetched
another hot iron from the fire.
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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle ironed it, and goffered it, and shook out the frills.
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"And what are those long yellow things with fingers like gloves?"
"Oh, that's a pair of stockings belonging to Sally Henny-penny—look how she's worn the heels out with
scratching in the yard! She'll very soon go barefoot!" said Mrs. Tiggy-winkle.
"Oh no, if you please'm; that one belongs to old Mrs. Rabbit; and it did so smell of onions! I've had to wash it
separately, I can't get out the smell."
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"That's a pair of mittens belonging to Tabby Kitten; I only have to iron them; she washes them herself."
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"They're little dicky shirt-fronts belonging to Tom Titmouse—most terrible particular!" said Mrs.
Tiggy-winkle. "Now I've finished my ironing; I'm going to air some clothes."
"Oh those are woolly coats belonging to the little lambs at Skelghyl."
"Oh yes, if you please'm; look at the sheep-mark on the shoulder. And here's one marked for Gatesgarth, and
three that come from Little-town. They're always marked at washing!" said Mrs. Tiggy-winkle.
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And she hung up all sorts and sizes of clothes—small brown coats of mice; and one velvety black moleskin
waist-coat; and a red tailcoat with no tail belonging to Squirrel Nutkin; and a very much shrunk blue jacket
belonging to Peter Rabbit; and a petticoat, not marked, that had gone lost in the washing—and at last the
basket was empty!
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"Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea—a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a
bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very
brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were hair-pins
sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.
When they had finished tea, they tied up the clothes in bundles; and Lucie's pocket-handkerchiefs were folded
up inside her clean pinny, and fastened with a silver safety-pin.
And then they made up the fire with turf, and came out and locked the door, and hid the key under the
door-sill.
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Then away down the hill trotted Lucie and Mrs. Tiggy-winkle with the bundles of clothes!
All the way down the path little animals came out of the fern to meet them; the very first that they met were
Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny!
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And she gave them their nice clean clothes; and all the little animals and birds were so very much obliged to
dear Mrs. Tiggy-winkle.
So that at the bottom of the hill when they came to the stile, there was nothing left to carry except Lucie's one
little bundle.
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Lucie scrambled up the stile with the bundle in her hand; and then she turned to say "Good-night," and to
thank the washer-woman—But what a very odd thing! Mrs. Tiggy-winkle had not waited either for
thanks or for the washing bill!
She was running running running up the hill—and where was her white frilled cap? and her shawl? and
her gown—and her petticoat?
And how small she had grown—and how brown—and covered with PRICKLES!
(Now some people say that little Lucie had been asleep upon the stile—but then how could she have
found three clean pocket-handkins and a pinny, pinned with a silver safety-pin?
And besides—I have seen that door into the back of the hill called Cat Bells—and besides I am
very well acquainted with dear Mrs. Tiggy-winkle!)
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