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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 the Pie and the Patty Pan + +Author: Beatrix Potter + +Release Date: March 2, 2005 [EBook #15234] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIE AND THE PATTY PAN *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Ronald Holder and the PG Online +Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + + + +[Illustration: BUTTER AND MILK FROM THE FARM] + + +THE TALE OF + +THE PIE AND +THE PATTY-PAN + +BY +BEATRIX POTTER + +_Author of_ +_"The Tale of Peter Rabbit," &c._ + +_Pussy-cat sits by the fire--how should she be fair?_ +_In walks the little dog--says "Pussy are you there?_ +_How do you do Mistress Pussy? Mistress Pussy, how do you do?"_ +_"I thank you kindly, little dog. I fare as well as you!"_ + + _Old Rhyme._ + +FREDERICK WARNE + + + + +[Illustration] + +FREDERICK WARNE + +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 1985 + +Printed and bound in Great Britain by +William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London + + + + +[Illustration] + +Once upon a time there was a Pussy-cat called Ribby, who invited a +little dog called Duchess, to tea. + +"Come in good time, my dear Duchess," said Ribby's letter, "and we +will have something so very nice. I am baking it in a pie-dish--a +pie-dish with a pink rim. You never tasted anything so good! And _you_ +shall eat it all! _I_ will eat muffins, my dear Duchess!" wrote +Ribby. + +Duchess read the letter and wrote an answer:--"I will come with much +pleasure at a quarter past four. But it is very strange. _I_ was just +going to invite you to come here, to supper, my dear Ribby, to eat +something _most delicious_. + +"I will come very punctually, my dear Ribby," wrote Duchess; and then +at the end she added--"I hope it isn't mouse?" + +[Illustration: THE INVITATION] + +And then she thought that did not look quite polite; so she scratched +out "isn't mouse" and changed it to "I hope it will be fine," and +she gave her letter to the postman. + +But she thought a great deal about Ribby's pie, and she read Ribby's +letter over and over again. + +"I am dreadfully afraid it _will_ be mouse!" said Duchess to +herself--"I really couldn't, _couldn't_ eat mouse pie. And I shall have +to eat it, because it is a party. And _my_ pie was going to be veal +and ham. A pink and white pie-dish! and so is mine; just like Ribby's +dishes; they were both bought at Tabitha Twitchit's." + +Duchess went into her larder and took the pie off a shelf and looked +at it. + +[Illustration] + +"It is all ready to put into the oven. Such lovely pie-crust; and I +put in a little tin patty-pan to hold up the crust; and I made a hole +in the middle with a fork to let out the steam--Oh I do wish I could +eat my own pie, instead of a pie made of mouse!" + +Duchess considered and considered and read Ribby's letter again-- + +"A pink and white pie-dish--and _you_ shall eat it _all_. 'You' means +me--then Ribby is not going to even taste the pie herself? A pink and +white pie-dish! Ribby is sure to go out to buy the muffins.... Oh what +a good idea! Why shouldn't I rush along and put my pie into Ribby's +oven when Ribby isn't there?" + +[Illustration] + +Duchess was quite delighted with her own cleverness! + +Ribby in the meantime had received Duchess's answer, and as soon as +she was sure that the little dog could come--she popped _her_ pie into +the oven. There were two ovens, one above the other; some other knobs +and handles were only ornamental and not intended to open. Ribby put +the pie into the lower oven; the door was very stiff. + +"The top oven bakes too quickly," said Ribby to herself. "It is a pie +of the most delicate and tender mouse minced up with bacon. And I have +taken out all the bones; because Duchess did nearly choke herself with +a fish-bone last time I gave a party. She eats a little fast--rather +big mouthfuls. But a most genteel and elegant little dog; infinitely +superior company to Cousin Tabitha Twitchit." + +[Illustration: THE PIE MADE OF MOUSE] + +Ribby put on some coal and swept up the hearth. Then she went out +with a can to the well, for water to fill up the kettle. + +Then she began to set the room in order, for it was the sitting-room +as well as the kitchen. She shook the mats out at the front-door and +put them straight; the hearthrug was a rabbit-skin. She dusted the +clock and the ornaments on the mantelpiece, and she polished and +rubbed the tables and chairs. + +Then she spread a very clean white table-cloth, and set out her best +china tea-set, which she took out of a wall-cupboard near the +fireplace. The tea-cups were white with a pattern of pink roses; and +the dinner-plates were white and blue. + +[Illustration] + +When Ribby had laid the table she took a jug and a blue and white +dish, and went out down the field to the farm, to fetch milk and +butter. + +When she came back, she peeped into the bottom oven; the pie looked +very comfortable. + +Ribby put on her shawl and bonnet and went out again with a basket, to +the village shop to buy a packet of tea, a pound of lump sugar, and a +pot of marmalade. + +And just at the same time, Duchess came out of _her_ house, at the +other end of the village. + +[Illustration: THE VEAL AND HAM PIE] + +Ribby met Duchess half-way down the street, also carrying a basket, +covered with a cloth. They only bowed to one another; they +did not speak, because they were going to have a party. + +As soon as Duchess had got round the corner out of sight--she simply +ran! Straight away to Ribby's house! + +[Illustration] + +Ribby went into the shop and bought what she required, and came out, +after a pleasant gossip with Cousin Tabitha Twitchit. + +[Illustration] + +Cousin Tabitha was disdainful afterwards in conversation-- + +"A little _dog_ indeed! Just as if there were no CATS in Sawrey! +And a _pie_ for afternoon tea! The very idea!" said Cousin Tabitha +Twitchit. + +Ribby went on to Timothy Baker's and bought the muffins. Then she went +home. + +There seemed to be a sort of scuffling noise in the back passage, as +she was coming in at the front door. + +"I trust that is not that Pie: the spoons are locked up, however," +said Ribby. + +But there was nobody there. Ribby opened the bottom oven door with +some difficulty, and turned the pie. There began to be a pleasing +smell of baked mouse! + +[Illustration: WHERE IS THE PIE MADE OF MOUSE?] + +Duchess in the meantime, had slipped out at the back door. + +"It is a very odd thing that Ribby's pie was _not_ in the oven when I +put mine in! And I can't find it anywhere; I have looked all over the +house. I put _my_ pie into a nice hot oven at the top. I could not +turn any of the other handles; I think that they are all shams," said +Duchess, "but I wish I could have removed the pie made of mouse! I +cannot think what she has done with it? I heard Ribby coming and I had +to run out by the back door!" + +[Illustration] + +Duchess went home and brushed her beautiful black coat; and then she +picked a bunch of flowers in her garden as a present for Ribby; and +passed the time until the clock struck four. + +Ribby--having assured herself by careful search that there was really +no one hiding in the cupboard or in the larder--went upstairs to +change her dress. + +She put on a lilac silk gown, for the party, and an embroidered muslin +apron and tippet. + +"It is very strange," said Ribby, "I did not _think_ I left that +drawer pulled out; has somebody been trying on my mittens?" + +She came downstairs again, and made the tea, and put the teapot on the +hob. She peeped again into the _bottom_ oven, the pie had become a +lovely brown, and it was steaming hot. + +[Illustration: READY FOR THE PARTY] + +She sat down before the fire to wait for the little dog. "I am glad I +used the _bottom_ oven," said Ribby, "the top one would certainly have +been very much too hot. I wonder why that cupboard door was open? Can +there really have been someone in the house?" + +Very punctually at four o'clock, Duchess started to go to the party. +She ran so fast through the village that she was too early, and she +had to wait a little while in the lane that leads down to Ribby's +house. + +"I wonder if Ribby has taken _my_ pie out of the oven yet?" said +Duchess, "and whatever can have become of the other pie made of +mouse?" + +[Illustration] + +At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little +tap-tappity. "Is Mrs. Ribston at home?" inquired Duchess in the porch. + +"Come in! and how do you do, my dear Duchess?" cried Ribby. "I hope I +see you well?" + +"Quite well, I thank you, and how do _you_ do, my dear Ribby?" said +Duchess. "I've brought you some flowers; what a delicious smell of +pie!" + +[Illustration: DUCHESS IN THE PORCH] + +"Oh, what lovely flowers! Yes, it is mouse and bacon!" + +"Do not talk about food, my dear Ribby," said Duchess; "what a lovely +white tea-cloth!... Is it done to a turn? Is it still in the oven?" + +"I think it wants another five minutes," said Ribby. "Just a shade +longer; I will pour out the tea, while we wait. Do you take sugar, my +dear Duchess?" + +"Oh yes, please! my dear Ribby; and may I have a lump upon my nose?" + +"With pleasure, my dear Duchess; how beautifully you beg! Oh, how +sweetly pretty!" + +[Illustration] + +Duchess sat up with the sugar on her nose and sniffed-- + +"How good that pie smells! I do love veal and ham--I mean to say mouse +and bacon--" + +[Illustration] + +She dropped the sugar in confusion, and had to go hunting under the +tea-table, so did not see which oven Ribby opened in order to get out +the pie. + +Ribby set the pie upon the table; there was a very savoury smell. + +Duchess came out from under the table-cloth munching sugar, and sat +up on a chair. + +"I will first cut the pie for you; I am going to have muffin and +marmalade," said Ribby. + +"Do you really prefer muffin? Mind the patty-pan!" + +[Illustration] + +"I beg your pardon?" said Ribby. + +"May I pass you the marmalade?" said Duchess hurriedly. + +The pie proved extremely toothsome, and the muffins light and hot. +They disappeared rapidly, especially the pie! + +"I think"--(thought the Duchess to herself)--"I _think_ it would be +wiser if I helped myself to pie; though Ribby did not seem to notice +anything when she was cutting it. What very small fine pieces it has +cooked into! I did not remember that I had minced it up so fine; I +suppose this is a quicker oven than my own." + +[Illustration] + +"How fast Duchess is eating!" thought Ribby to herself, as she +buttered her fifth muffin. + +[Illustration] + +The pie-dish was emptying rapidly! Duchess had had four helps already, +and was fumbling with the spoon. "A little more bacon, my dear +Duchess?" said Ribby. + +"Thank you, my dear Ribby; I was only feeling for the patty-pan." + +[Illustration: WHERE IS THE PATTY-PAN?] + +"The patty-pan? my dear Duchess?" + +"The patty-pan that held up the pie-crust," said Duchess, blushing +under her black coat. + +"Oh, I didn't put one in, my dear Duchess," said Ribby; "I don't think +that it is necessary in pies made of mouse." + +Duchess fumbled with the spoon--"I can't find it!" she said anxiously. + +"There isn't a patty-pan," said Ribby, looking perplexed. + +"Yes, indeed, my dear Ribby; where can it have gone to?" said +Duchess. + +[Illustration] + +"There most certainly is not one, my dear Duchess. I disapprove of tin +articles in puddings and pies. It is most undesirable--(especially +when people swallow in lumps!)" she added in a lower voice. + +Duchess looked very much alarmed, and continued to scoop the inside +of the pie-dish. + +"My Great-aunt Squintina (grandmother of Cousin Tabitha +Twitchit)--died of a thimble in a Christmas plum-pudding. _I_ never +put any article of metal in _my_ puddings or pies." + +Duchess looked aghast, and tilted up the pie-dish. + +"I have only four patty-pans, and they are all in the cupboard." + +Duchess set up a howl. + +"I shall die! I shall die! I have swallowed a patty-pan! Oh, my dear +Ribby, I do feel so ill!" + +"It is impossible, my dear Duchess; there was not a patty-pan." + +Duchess moaned and whined and rocked herself about. + +"Oh I feel so dreadful, I have swallowed a patty-pan!" + +"There was _nothing_ in the pie," said Ribby severely. + +"Yes there _was_, my dear Ribby, I am sure I have swallowed it!" + +"Let me prop you up with a pillow, my dear Duchess; where do you think +you feel it?" + +"Oh I do feel so ill _all over_ me, my dear Ribby; I have swallowed a +large tin patty-pan with a sharp scalloped edge!" + +[Illustration] + +"Shall I run for the doctor? I will just lock up the spoons!" + +"Oh yes, yes! fetch Dr. Maggotty, my dear Ribby: he is a Pie himself, +he will certainly understand." + +Ribby settled Duchess in an armchair before the fire, and went out and +hurried to the village to look for the doctor. + +She found him at the smithy. + +He was occupied in putting rusty nails into a bottle of ink, which he +had obtained at the post office. + +"Gammon? ha! HA!" said he, with his head on one side. + +Ribby explained that her guest had swallowed a patty-pan. + +"Spinach? ha! HA!" said he, and accompanied her with alacrity. + +[Illustration: DR. MAGGOTTY'S MIXTURE] + +He hopped so fast that Ribby had to run. It was most conspicuous. All +the village could see that Ribby was fetching the doctor. + +"I _knew_ they would over-eat themselves!" said Cousin Tabitha +Twitchit. + +[Illustration] + +But while Ribby had been hunting for the doctor--a curious thing had +happened to Duchess, who had been left by herself, sitting before the +fire, sighing and groaning and feeling very unhappy. + +"How _could_ I have swallowed it! such a large thing as a patty-pan!" + +She got up and went to the table, and felt inside the pie-dish again +with a spoon. + +"No; there is no patty-pan, and I put one in; and nobody has eaten pie +except me, so I must have swallowed it!" + +[Illustration] + +She sat down again, and stared mournfully at the grate. The fire +crackled and danced, and something sizz-z-zled! + +Duchess started! She opened the door of the _top_ oven; out came a +rich steamy flavour of veal and ham, and there stood a fine brown +pie,--and through a hole in the top of the pie-crust there was a +glimpse of a little tin patty-pan! + +Duchess drew a long breath-- + +"Then I must have been eating MOUSE!... No wonder I feel ill.... But +perhaps I should feel worse if I had really swallowed a patty-pan!" +Duchess reflected--"What a very awkward thing to have to explain to +Ribby! I think I will put _my_ pie in the back-yard and say nothing +about it. When I go home, I will run round and take it away." She put +it outside the back-door, and sat down again by the fire, and shut her +eyes; when Ribby arrived with the doctor, she seemed fast asleep. + +[Illustration] + +"Gammon, ha, HA?" said the doctor. + +"I am feeling very much better," said Duchess, waking up with a jump. + +"I am truly glad to hear it! He has brought you a pill, my dear +Duchess!" + +"I think I should feel _quite_ well if he only felt my pulse," said +Duchess, backing away from the magpie, who sidled up with something in +his beak. + +"It is only a bread pill, you had much better take it; drink a little +milk, my dear Duchess!" + +"Gammon? Gammon?" said the doctor, while Duchess coughed and choked. + +"Don't say that again!" said Ribby, losing her temper--"Here, take +this bread and jam, and get out into the yard!" + +[Illustration] + +"Gammon and Spinach! ha ha HA!" shouted Dr. Maggotty triumphantly +outside the back door. + +"I am feeling very much better my dear Ribby," said Duchess. "Do you +not think that I had better go home before it gets dark?" + +"Perhaps it might be wise, my dear Duchess. I will lend you a nice +warm shawl, and you shall take my arm." + +"I would not trouble you for worlds; I feel wonderfully better. One +pill of Dr. Maggotty--" + +"Indeed it is most admirable, if it has cured you of a patty-pan! I +will call directly after breakfast to ask how you have slept." + +Ribby and Duchess said goodbye affectionately, and Duchess started +home. Half-way up the lane she stopped and looked back; Ribby had gone +in and shut her door. Duchess slipped through the fence, and ran round +to the back of Ribby's house, and peeped into the yard. + +Upon the roof of the pig-stye sat Dr. Maggotty and three jackdaws. The +jackdaws were eating pie-crust, and the magpie was drinking gravy out +of a patty-pan. + +"Gammon, ha, HA!" he shouted when he saw Duchess's little black nose +peeping round the corner. + +Duchess ran home feeling uncommonly silly! + +When Ribby came out for a pailful of water to wash up the tea-things, +she found a pink and white pie-dish lying smashed in the +middle of the yard. The patty-pan was under the pump, where Dr. +Maggotty had considerately left it. + +[Illustration: SO THERE REALLY _WAS_ A PATTY-PAN] + +Ribby stared with amazement--"Did you ever see the like! so there +really _was_ a patty-pan?... But _my_ patty-pans are all in the +kitchen cupboard. Well I never did!... Next time I want to give a +party--I will invite Cousin Tabitha Twitchit!" + +[Illustration] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan +by Beatrix Potter + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIE AND THE PATTY PAN *** + +***** This file should be named 15234.txt or 15234.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/2/3/15234/ + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Ronald Holder and the PG Online +Distributed Proofreading Team + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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