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you, then? I had been tothe fair and bought a butter-churn, and
when I saw you, I got into it, and rolled down the hill.” Then
the wolf was very angry indeed, and declared he would eat up
the little pig, and that he would get down the chimney after him.
When the little pig saw what he was about, he hung on the pot
full of water, and made up a blazing fire, and, just as the wolf
was coming down, took off the cover, and in fell the wolf; so the
little pig put on the cover again in an instant, boiled him up, and
ate him for supper, and lived happy ever after.

DCCLX XXIV.
TEENY-TINY.*

ONCE upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman lived in a
teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this
teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, and went out of
her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny walk. And when this
teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way, she came to a
teeny-tiny gate ;"so the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny
gate, and went into a teeny-tiny churchyard. And when this
teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she
saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the teeny-tiny
woman said to her teeny-tiny self, “This teeny-tiny bone will
make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper.” So
the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone into her teeny-
tiny pocket, and went home to her teeny-tiny house.

* This simple tale seldom fails to rivet the attention of children, especially if well

told. The last two words should be said loudly with a start. It was obtained from
oral tradition.