  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 of Miss Moppet. He is not afraid of a kitten. This is Miss Moppet jumping just too late ; She thinks it is a very hard cupboard! The Mouse watches Miss Moppet from the top of the cupboard.
The Mouse thinks she is looking very ill. He comes sliding down the bell-pull. Miss Moppet looks worse and worse. The Mouse comes a little nearer.
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And then all of a sudden --Miss Moppet jumps upon the mouse!
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She ties him up in the duster, and tosses it about like a ball.
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He has wriggled out and run away; and he is dancing a jig on the top of the cupboard! |
she misses the Mouse and hits her own head.
Miss Moppet ties up her head in a duster, and sits before the fire.
Miss Moppet holds her poor head in her paws, and looks at him through a hole in the duster. The Mouse comes very close.
And because the Mouse had teased Miss Moppet -- Miss Moppet thinks she will tease the Mouse; which is not at all nice of Miss Moppet.
But she forgot about that hole in the duster; and when she untied it -- there was no mouse!