[Illustration] [Illustration] THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET BY BEATRIX POTTER _Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc_ [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE First published 1906 1906 by Frederick Warne & Co. Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London [Illustration] 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. [Illustration] [Illustration] This is Miss Moppet jumping just too late; she misses the Mouse and hits her own head. She thinks it is a very hard cupboard! [Illustration] [Illustration] 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. [Illustration] The Mouse thinks she is looking very ill. He comes sliding down the bell-pull. [Illustration] [Illustration] Miss Moppet looks worse and worse. The Mouse comes a little nearer. [Illustration] 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 then all of a sudden--Miss Moppet jumps upon the Mouse! [Illustration] [Illustration] And because the Mouse has teased Miss Moppet--Miss Moppet thinks she will 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. [Illustration] But she forgot about that hole in the duster; and when she untied it--there was no Mouse! [Illustration] [Illustration] He has wriggled out and run away; and he is dancing a jig on the top of the cupboard!