The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle (10)

The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle (10)

 Then Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle made a tea－a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie.

They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.




Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very blown, and very very winkly with the soap-suds;
and all through her gown and her cup, there were hair-pins sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

When they had finished tea, they tied up the clothes in bundles; and Lucie's pocket-handkerchiefs were folded up inside her clean pinny, and fastened with a silver safety-pin.

And then they made up the fire with turf, and came out and locked the door, and hid the key under the door-sill.

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