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.

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!

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.

The Mouse thinks she is looking very ill.
He comes sliding down the bell-pull.

Miss Moppet looks worse and worse.
The Mouse comes a little nearer.

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!

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.

But she forgot about that hole in the duster;
and when she untied it—there was no Mouse!

He has wriggled out and run away;
and he is dancing a jig on the top of the cupboard!