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diff --git a/17089.txt b/17089.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..991bf8b --- /dev/null +++ b/17089.txt @@ -0,0 +1,699 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 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. Tittlemouse + +Author: Beatrix Potter + +Release Date: November 18, 2005 [EBook #17089] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF MRS. TITTLEMOUSE *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Emmy and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + +[Illustration: Mrs. Tittlemouse & Bees] + + + + +THE TALE OF MRS. TITTLEMOUSE + +By BEATRIX POTTER + +Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" etc. + +[Illustration: Mrs. Tittlemouse & Butterfly] + +FREDERICK WARNE + +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 1910 +This impression 1985 +Universal Copyright Notice: +Copyright (C) 1910 by Frederick Warne & Co. +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 + + + +NELLIE'S +LITTLE BOOK + +[Illustration: Mrs. Tittlemouse at the Door] + +Once upon a time there was a wood-mouse, and her name was Mrs. +Tittlemouse. + +She lived in a bank under a hedge. + +Such a funny house! There were yards and yards of sandy passages, +leading to storerooms and nut-cellars and seed-cellars, all amongst the +roots of the hedge. + +[Illustration: In the pantry] + +[Illustration: In bed] + +There was a kitchen, a parlour, a pantry, and a larder. + +Also, there was Mrs. Tittlemouse's bedroom, where she slept in a little +box bed! + +Mrs. Tittlemouse was a most terribly tidy particular little mouse, +always sweeping and dusting the soft sandy floors. + +Sometimes a beetle lost its way in the passages. + +"Shuh! shuh! little dirty feet!" said Mrs. Tittlemouse, clattering her +dust-pan. + +[Illustration: Shooing a beetle] + +[Illustration: A ladybird] + +And one day a little old woman ran up and down in a red spotty cloak. + +"Your house is on fire, Mother Ladybird! Fly away home to your +children!" + +Another day, a big fat spider came in to shelter from the rain. + +"Beg pardon, is this not Miss Muffet's?" + +"Go away, you bold bad spider! Leaving ends of cobweb all over my nice +clean house!" + +[Illustration: Spider] + +[Illustration: Out the window] + +She bundled the spider out at a window. + +He let himself down the hedge with a long thin bit of string. + +Mrs. Tittlemouse went on her way to a distant storeroom, to fetch +cherry-stones and thistle-down seed for dinner. + +All along the passage she sniffed, and looked at the floor. + +"I smell a smell of honey; is it the cowslips outside, in the hedge? I +am sure I can see the marks of little dirty feet." + +[Illustration: Marks of little feet] + +[Illustration: Babbitty Bumble] + +Suddenly round a corner, she met Babbitty Bumble--"Zizz, Bizz, Bizzz!" +said the bumble bee. + +Mrs. Tittlemouse looked at her severely. She wished that she had a +broom. + +"Good-day, Babbitty Bumble; I should be glad to buy some beeswax. But +what are you doing down here? Why do you always come in at a window, and +say Zizz, Bizz, Bizzz?" Mrs. Tittlemouse began to get cross. + +"Zizz, Wizz, Wizzz!" replied Babbitty Bumble in a peevish squeak. She +sidled down a passage, and disappeared into a storeroom which had been +used for acorns. + +Mrs. Tittlemouse had eaten the acorns before Christmas; the storeroom +ought to have been empty. + +But it was full of untidy dry moss. + +[Illustration: Full of moss] + +[Illustration: Bees nest] + +Mrs. Tittlemouse began to pull out the moss. Three or four other bees +put their heads out, and buzzed fiercely. + +"I am not in the habit of letting lodgings; this is an intrusion!" said +Mrs. Tittlemouse. "I will have them turned out--" "Buzz! Buzz! +Buzzz!"--"I wonder who would help me?" "Bizz, Wizz, Wizzz!" + +--"I will not have Mr. Jackson; he never wipes his feet." + +Mrs. Tittlemouse decided to leave the bees till after dinner. + +When she got back to the parlour, she heard some one coughing in a fat +voice; and there sat Mr. Jackson himself! + +He was sitting all over a small rocking-chair, twiddling his thumbs and +smiling, with his feet on the fender. + +He lived in a drain below the hedge, in a very dirty wet ditch. + +[Illustration: Mr. Jackson] + +[Illustration: Sitting and dripping] + +"How do you do, Mr. Jackson? Deary me, you have got very wet!" + +"Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mrs. Tittlemouse! I'll sit awhile and +dry myself," said Mr. Jackson. + +He sat and smiled, and the water dripped off his coat tails. Mrs. +Tittlemouse went round with a mop. + +He sat such a while that he had to be asked if he would take some +dinner? + +First she offered him cherry-stones. "Thank you, thank you, Mrs. +Tittlemouse! No teeth, no teeth, no teeth!" said Mr. Jackson. + +He opened his mouth most unnecessarily wide; he certainly had not a +tooth in his head. + +[Illustration: Feeding Mr. Jackson] + +[Illustration: Thistledown] + +Then she offered him thistle-down seed--"Tiddly, widdly, widdly! Pouff, +pouff, puff!" said Mr. Jackson. He blew the thistle-down all over the +room. + +"Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mrs. Tittlemouse! Now what I +really--_really_ should like--would be a little dish of honey!" + +"I am afraid I have not got any, Mr. Jackson," said Mrs. Tittlemouse. + +"Tiddly, widdly, widdly, Mrs. Tittlemouse!" said the smiling Mr. +Jackson, "I can _smell_ it; that is why I came to call." + +Mr. Jackson rose ponderously from the table, and began to look into the +cupboards. + +Mrs. Tittlemouse followed him with a dish-cloth, to wipe his large wet +footmarks off the parlour floor. + +[Illustration: Wiping up footmarks] + +[Illustration: Walking down the passage] + +When he had convinced himself that there was no honey in the cupboards, +he began to walk down the passage. + +"Indeed, indeed, you will stick fast, Mr. Jackson!" + +"Tiddly, widdly, widdly, Mrs. Tittlemouse!" + +First he squeezed into the pantry. + +"Tiddly, widdly, widdly? no honey? no honey, Mrs. Tittlemouse?" + +There were three creepy-crawly people hiding in the plate-rack. Two of +them got away; but the littlest one he caught. + +[Illustration: Creepy-crawly people] + +[Illustration: Butterfly tasting the sugar] + +Then he squeezed into the larder. Miss Butterfly was tasting the sugar; +but she flew away out of the window. + +"Tiddly, widdly, widdly, Mrs. Tittlemouse; you seem to have plenty of +visitors!" + +"And without any invitation!" said Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse. + +They went along the sandy passage--"Tiddly widdly--" "Buzz! Wizz! Wizz!" + +He met Babbitty round a corner, and snapped her up, and put her down +again. + +"I do not like bumble bees. They are all over bristles," said Mr. +Jackson, wiping his mouth with his coat-sleeve. + +"Get out, you nasty old toad!" shrieked Babbitty Bumble. + +"I shall go distracted!" scolded Mrs. Tittlemouse. + +[Illustration: Confronting the Bee] + +[Illustration: Shut into the nut-cellar] + +She shut herself up in the nut-cellar while Mr. Jackson pulled out the +bees-nest. He seemed to have no objection to stings. + +When Mrs. Tittlemouse ventured to come out--everybody had gone away. + +But the untidiness was something dreadful--"Never did I see such a +mess--smears of honey; and moss, and thistledown--and marks of big and +little dirty feet--all over my nice clean house!" + +She gathered up the moss and the remains of the beeswax. + +Then she went out and fetched some twigs, to partly close up the front +door. + +"I will make it too small for Mr. Jackson!" + +[Illustration: Closing up the front door] + +[Illustration: Too tired] + +She fetched soft soap, and flannel, and a new scrubbing brush from the +storeroom. But she was too tired to do any more. First she fell asleep +in her chair, and then she went to bed. + +"Will it ever be tidy again?" said poor Mrs. Tittlemouse. + +Next morning she got up very early and began a spring cleaning which +lasted a fortnight. + +She swept, and scrubbed, and dusted; and she rubbed up the furniture +with beeswax, and polished her little tin spoons. + +[Illustration: Polishing] + +When it was all beautifully neat and clean, she gave a party to five +other little mice, without Mr. Jackson. + +He smelt the party and came up the bank, but he could not squeeze in at +the door. + +[Illustration: The party] + +[Illustration: Honey-dew through the window] + +So they handed him out acorn-cupfuls of honey-dew through the window, +and he was not at all offended. + +He sat outside in the sun, and said--"Tiddly, widdly, widdly! 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