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The tale of
Mrs. Tiggy-winkle

By
Beatrix Potter

Author of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”, &c.

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FREDERICK WARNE

FREDERICK WARNE

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First published 1905
This impression 1986
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Printed and bound in Great Britain by
William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London

for

The Real little Lucie
                of NEWLANDS

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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—­

“Sally Henny-penny, have you found three pocket-handkins?”

But the speckled hen ran into a barn, clucking—­

“I go barefoot, barefoot, barefoot!”

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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.

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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!