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  THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET

  THIS is a Pussy called Miss Moppet, she thinks she has heard a mouse!

  THIS is the Mouse peeping out behind the cupboard, and making fun ofMiss Moppet. He is not afraid of a kitten.

  THIS is Miss Moppet jumping just too late; she misses the Mouse and hitsher own head.

  SHE thinks it is a very hard cupboard!

  THE Mouse watches Miss Moppet from the top of the cupboard.

  MISS MOPPET ties up her head in a duster, and sits before the fire.

  THE Mouse thinks she is looking very ill. He comes sliding down thebell-pull.

  MISS MOPPET looks worse and worse. The Mouse comes a little nearer.

  MISS MOPPET holds her poor head in her paws, and looks at him through ahole in the duster. The Mouse comes VERY close.

  AND then all of a sudden--Miss Moppet jumps upon the Mouse!

  AND because the Mouse has teased Miss Moppet--Miss Moppet thinks shewill tease the Mouse; which is not at all nice of Miss Moppet.

  SHE ties him up in the duster, and tosses it about like a ball.

  BUT she forgot about that hole in the duster; and when she untiedit--there was no Mouse!

  HE has wriggled out and run away; and he is dancing a jig on the top ofthe cupboard!

  THE END