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Title: The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

Author: Beatrix Potter

Release Date: November 18, 2005 [EBook #17089]

Language: English

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THE TALE OF
M . TITTLEMOUSE
 By BEATRIX POTTER
Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" etc.

FREDERICK WARNE
 FREDERICK WARNE
Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York
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First published 1910

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William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London
 NELLIE'S
LITTLE BOOK

O upon a time there was

a wood-mouse, and her name
was Mrs. Tittlemouse.
She lived in a bank under a
hedge.

S 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.
 T 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!
 M . 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.

A 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!"
 A 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!"

S bundled the spider out at a

window.
He let himself down the hedge
with a long thin bit of string.
 M . 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."

S 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.
 "Z , 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.

M .
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."
 M .
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.

"H 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.
 H 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.
 T 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 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.

W 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!"

F 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.
 T 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.

T 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.
 S 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!"

S 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!"
 S 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.

N 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.
 W 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.

S 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! Your very good
health, Mrs. Tittlemouse!"
 THE END

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