Teeny Tiny

: LITTLE STORIES that GROW BIG
: Boys And Girls Bookshelf

There was once upon a time a teeny-tiny woman who 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 meadow. And when this

t eny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny meadow, she saw a

teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny stone, 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.



Now, when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her teeny-tiny house, she was

a teeny-tiny bit tired; so she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to her

teeny-tiny bed, and put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard.

And when this teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep a teeny-tiny time, she

was awakened by a teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard, which

said:



"GIVE ME MY BONE!"



And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit frightened, so she hid

her teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes, and went to sleep

again. And when she had been asleep again a teeny-tiny time, the

teeny-tiny voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a

teeny-tiny louder:



"GIVE ME MY BONE!"



This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-tiny more frightened, so she hid

her teeny-tiny head a teeny-tiny further under the teeny-tiny clothes.

And when the teeny-tiny woman had been asleep again a teeny-tiny time,

the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a

teeny-tiny louder:



"GIVE ME MY BONE!"



At this the teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened; but

she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in

her loudest teeny-tiny voice:



"TAKE IT!"



[L] From "English Fairy Tales," collected by Joseph Jacobs; used by

permission of the publishers, G. P. Putnam's Sons.