![]() ![]() There at the table, with an iron in her hand, stood a very short person in a large apron and cap. A little frightened voice called out: ‘Who’s that?’ Lucie opened the door and what do you think she saw? The tiniest kitchen! All neat and clean! ‘Lily-white and clean oh! With little drills between, oh! Smooth and hot - red rusty spot Never here been seen, oh!’ Then Lucie noticed something else - a door straight into the hill and behind it she could hear someone singing! ![]() Lucie climbed the gate and looked up at the hill.in the distance she thought that she noticed some tiny footprints which led to a little washing line.made from bracken stems and plaited rushes. Cock Robin looked sideways at Lucie with his bright black eye and he flew away, over a gate. Lucie saw Cock Robin, sitting on a twig, she asked him the same question. Have you seen them, Tabby Kitten?’ But the kitten ignored her and went on washing her white paws. ‘I’ve lost three of my handkerchiefs.and a pinny. One day little Lucie came into the farm-yard crying. She was a good girl but she was always losing her handkerchiefs. Lucie lived on a farm called Little-Town. Once upon a time, in the days when everyone carried a nice cotton handkerchief in their pockets and little girls wore starched pinnies to keep their clothes clean, there was a girl called Lucie. ![]()
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