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the Allan children's home. So John and Mary showed them everything.

They saw the house, and the porch, with the lovely roses and the honeysuckle vine growing over it. They saw the vegetables growing in the kitchen garden.

They found the swing, and tried it, too. They found Shep's kennel under the oak tree, with Shep inside, fast asleep.

They visited the chickens and the pigeons. And last of all they went into the barn.

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This will be our playhouse when it rains," said John.

"Oh, oh, oh!" screamed little Bess.

"Look, look!" shouted Ned.

"A mouse! a mouse! Run, run!" cried Alice. They all ran pellmell over to the big maple

tree.

How Mary and John and Jack did laugh at the others!

"Poor little mouse!" laughed Jack. “He was as frightened as you! He was running away from you as fast as he could.”

"Would you like me to tell you a story?" said Mary. “Let us sit here under the maple tree and I will tell it to you."

They all sat down on the grass and Mary told her story. Nellie said it was the best one she had ever heard. It was called

A TEENY-TINY STORY

Once upon a time there was a teeny-tiny lady who lived in a teeny-tiny house.

One night the teeny-tiny lady had been asleep

a teeny-tiny while when she heard a teeny-tiny noise.

"Tap, tap, tap! Tap, tap, tap!"

"What is that?" said the teeny-tiny lady in her teeny-tiny voice.

At first she hid her teeny-tiny head, but she heard the teeny-tiny noise again.

So she jumped out of her teeny-tiny bed and took her teeny-tiny candle in her teenytiny hand. Then she stole down her teeny-tiny

stair.

She went into her teeny-tiny dining room and looked under her teeny-tiny table. But there was nothing under the table.

She looked in her teeny-tiny cupboard, but there was nothing in her cupboard.

All at once she heard the teeny-tiny noise again, "Tap, tap, tap! Tap, tap, tap!"

It came from her teeny-tiny kitchen. So she opened her teeny-tiny door and looked under a teeny-tiny chair.

Out jumped a teeny-tiny-! "Mouse! Mouse! Mouse!" screamed the teeny

tiny lady.

And up her teeny-tiny stair she ran.

When Mary's story about the teeny-tiny lady was ended, John said, "I know a story. My story has a mouse in it, too, but you have to wait quite a long time for the mouse part." Alice said, "So much the better."

"Tell it," cried the other children. John began:

THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG

Once upon a time an old woman was sweeping her house. To her great joy she found a silver sixpence.

"What shall I do with this silver sixpence?"

said she. "Oh, I know! I will go to market. There I shall buy a little pig with a pink nose.'

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So the next day she went to market. She bought a little white pig with a pink nose. She tied a string to one of the pig's legs and began to drive him home.

On the way home, the old woman and her pig came to a stile, and she said,

"Please, pig, get over the stile."
But the pig would not.

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