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Оглавление| Once upon a time there was a Pussy-cat called Ribby, who invited a little dog called Duchess, to tea. “Come in good time, my dear Duchess,” said Ribby’s letter, “and we will have something so very very nice. I am baking it in a pie-dish – a pie-dish with a pink rim. You never tasted anything so good! And you shall eat it all! I will eat muffins, my dear Duchess!” wrote Ribby. |
| THE INVITATION Duchess read the letter and wrote an answer: “I will come with much pleasure at a quarter past four. But it is very strange. I was just going to invite you to come here, to supper, my dear Ribby, to eat something most delicious. “I will come very punctually, my dear Ribby,” wrote Duchess; and then at the end she added – “I hope it isn’t mouse?” And then she thought that did not look quite polite; so she scratched out “isn’t mouse” and changed it to “I hope it will be fine,” and she gave her letter to the postman. But she thought a great deal about Ribby’s pie, and she read Ribby’s letter over and over again. “I am dreadfully afraid it will be mouse!” said Duchess to herself – “I really couldn’t, couldn’t eat mouse pie. And I shall have to eat it, because it is a party. And my pie was going to be veal and ham. A pink and white pie-dish! and so is mine; just like Ribby’s dishes; they were both bought at Tabitha Twitchit’s.” |
