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Title: The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan

Author: Beatrix Potter

Release Date: March 2, 2005 [EBook #15234]

Language: English

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THE TALE OF

THE PIE AND

THE PATTY-PAN

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

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England

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First published 1905

This impression 1985

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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?"

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.

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