Only the ceiling was so low that Lucie’s head nearly touched it and the pots and pans were small, and so was everything there. Lucie opened the door: and what do you think there was inside the hill?-a nice clean kitchen with a flagged floor and wooden beams- just like any other farm kitchen. A little frightened voice called out “Who’s that?” Lucie knocked-once-twice, and interrupted the song. The grass was short and green, and there were clothes-props cut from bracken stems, with lines of plaited rushes, and a heap of tiny clothes pins-but no pocket-handkerchiefs!īut there was something else-a door! straight into the hill and inside it some one was singing. Some one had stood a tin can upon a stone to catch the water-but the water was already running over, for the can was no bigger than an egg-cup! And where the sand upon the path was wet-there were footmarks of a VERY small person. Presently she came to a spring, bubbling out from the hillside. Lucie scrambled up the hill as fast as her short legs would carry her she ran along a steep path-way-up and up-until Little-town was right away down below-she could have dropped a pebble down the chimney! Lucie climbed upon the stile and looked up at the hill behind Little-town-a hill that goes up-up-into the clouds as though it had no top!Īnd a great way up the hillside she thought she saw some white things spread upon the grass. Cock Robin looked sideways at Lucie with his bright black eye, and he flew over a stile and away. “Sally Henny-penny, have YOU found three pocket-handkins?”īut the speckled hen ran into a barn, clucking-Īnd then Lucie asked Cock Robin sitting on a twig. The Kitten went on washing her white paws so Lucie asked a speckled hen. One day little Lucie came into the farm-yard crying-oh, she did cry so! “I’ve lost my pocket-handkin! Three handkins and a pinny! Have YOU seen them, Tabby Kitten?” She was a good little girl-only she was always losing her pocket-handkerchiefs! Once upon a time there was a little girl called Lucie, who lived at a farm called Little-town. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.

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