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diff --git a/15137-8.txt b/15137-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cab359c --- /dev/null +++ b/15137-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,692 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, by Beatrix Potter + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle + +Author: Beatrix Potter + +Release Date: February 22, 2005 [EBook #15137] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Emmy and the PG Online Distributed +Proofreading Team.(https://www.pgdp.net) + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + +THE TALE OF +MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE + +BY +BEATRIX POTTER + +_Author of +"The Tale of Peter Rabbit", &c._ + +[Illustration] + +FREDERICK WARNE + +FREDERICK WARNE + +[Illustration] + + Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England +Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. + Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia +Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 + Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand + + First published 1905 + This impression 1986 + Universal Copyright Notice: + Copyright © Frederick Warne & Co., 1905 + Copyright in all countries signatory to the Berne Convention + + +All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved +above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or +introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any +means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), +without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the +above publisher of this book. + +Printed and bound in Great Britain by +William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London + +_for_ + +THE REAL LITTLE LUCIE + OF NEWLANDS + +[Illustration] + +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?" + +[Illustration] + +The Kitten went on washing her white paws; so Lucie asked a speckled hen-- + +"Sally Henny-penny, have _you_ found three pocket-handkins?" + +But the speckled hen ran into a barn, clucking-- + +"I go barefoot, barefoot, barefoot!" + + + +[Illustration] + +And then Lucie asked Cock Robin sitting on a twig. + +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. + +[Illustration] + +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! + +[Illustration] + +Presently she came to a spring, bubbling out from the hill-side. + +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. + +Lucie ran on, and on. + +[Illustration] + +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-- + + "Lily-white and clean, oh! + With little frills between, oh! + Smooth and hot--red rusty spot + Never here be seen, oh!" + +[Illustration] + +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. + +[Illustration] + +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! + +[Illustration] + +"Who are you?" said Lucie. "Have you seen my pocket-handkins?" + +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. + +[Illustration] + +"What's that thing?" said Lucie--"that's not my pocket-handkin?" + +"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. + +[Illustration] + +Then she took something else off a clothes-horse-- + +"That isn't my pinny?" said Lucie. + +"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. + +[Illustration] + +Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's nose went sniffle, sniffle, snuffle, and her eyes went +twinkle, twinkle; and she fetched another hot iron from the fire. + +[Illustration] + +"There's one of my pocket-handkins!" cried Lucie--"and there's my pinny!" + +Mrs. Tiggy-winkle ironed it, and goffered it, and shook out the frills. + +"Oh that _is_ lovely!" said Lucie. + +[Illustration] + +"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. + +[Illustration] + +"Why, there's another handkersniff--but it isn't mine; it's red?" + +"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." + +"There's another one of mine," said Lucie. + +[Illustration] + +"What are those funny little white things?" + +"That's a pair of mittens belonging to Tabby Kitten; I only have to iron +them; she washes them herself." + +"There's my last pocket-handkin!" said Lucie. + +[Illustration] + +"And what are you dipping into the basin of starch?" + +"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." + +[Illustration] + +"What are these dear soft fluffy things?" said Lucie. + +"Oh those are woolly coats belonging to the little lambs at Skelghyl." + +"Will their jackets take off?" asked Lucie. + +"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. + +[Illustration] + +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! + +[Illustration] + +"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. + +[Illustration] + +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. + +[Illustration] + +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! + +[Illustration] + +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. + +[Illustration] + +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. + +[Illustration] + +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? + +[Illustration] + +And _how_ small she had grown--and _how_ brown--and covered with PRICKLES! + +Why! Mrs. Tiggy-winkle was nothing but a HEDGEHOG. + + * * * * * + + (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!) + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, by Beatrix Potter + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF MRS. 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