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012 - The Story of Miss Moppet · The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others

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  Speaker 1: Story twelve of Peter Rabbit and Other Tales by Beatrix Potter.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Peter Rabbit and Other Tales by
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  Speaker 1: Beatrix Potter. The Story of Miss Moppett. This is a
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  Speaker 1: pussy called Miss Moppet. She thinks she has heard a mouse.
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  Speaker 1: This is the mouse peeping out behind the cupboard and
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  Speaker 1: making fun of Miss Moppett. He is not afraid of
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  Speaker 1: a kitten. This is Miss Moppett jumping just too late.
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  Speaker 1: She misses the mouse and hits her own head. She
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  Speaker 1: thinks it is a very hard cupboard. The mouse watches
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  Speaker 1: Miss Moppet from the top of the cupboard. Miss Moppett
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  Speaker 1: ties up her head in a duster and sits before
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  Speaker 1: the fire. The mouse thinks she is looking very ill.
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  Speaker 1: He comes sliding down the bell pole. Miss Moppett looks
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  Speaker 1: worse and worse. The mouse comes a little nearer. Miss
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  Speaker 1: Moppett holds her poor head in her paws and looks
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  Speaker 1: at him through a hole in the duster. The mouse
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  Speaker 1: comes very close, and then all of a sudden, miss
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  Speaker 1: Moppett jumps upon the mouse, and because the mouse has
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  Speaker 1: teased miss Moppet, miss Moppett thinks she will tease the mouse,
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  Speaker 1: which is not at all nice of miss Moppet. She
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  Speaker 1: ties them up in the duster and tosses it about
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  Speaker 1: like a ball. But she forgot about that hole in
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  Speaker 1: the duster, and when she untied it there was no mouse.
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  Speaker 1: He has wriggled out and run away, and he is
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  Speaker 1: dancing a jig on top of the cupboard. End of
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  Speaker 1: the Story of Miss Moppet. Recording by Valentina Viccelli.