Lucie opened the door: and what do you think there was inside the hill? a nice clean kitchen with a flagged floor and wooden beams just like any other farm kitchen. A little frightened voice called out 'Who's that?'

LUCIE, knocked once twice, and interrupted the song. 'Lily white and clean, oh! With little frills between, oh! Smooth and hot red rusty spot Never here be seen, oh!' The grass was short and green, and there were clothes props cut from bracken stems, with lines of plaited rushes, and a heap of tiny clothes pins but no pocket handkerchiefs!īut there was something else a door! straight into the hill and inside it some one was singing Some one had stood a tin can upon a stone to catch the water but the water was already running over, for the can was no bigger than an egg cup! And where the sand upon the path was wet there were foot marks of a very small person. PRESENTLY she came to a spring, bubbling out from the hill side. 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! 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!Īnd a great way up the hillside she thought she saw some white things spread upon the grass. 'Sally Henny penny, have you found three pocket handkins?'īut the speckled hen ran into a barn, cluckingĪND then Lucie asked Cock Robin sitting on a twig.Ĭock Robin looked sideways at Lucie with his bright black eye, and he flew over a stile and away. THE Kitten went on washing her white paws so Lucie asked a speckled hen 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?' She was a good little girl only she was always losing her pocket handkerchiefs! ONCE upon a time there was a little girl called Lucie, who lived at a farm called Little town. Author of 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit', &c.

Beatrix potter mrs tiggy winkle