The Tale of Ginger and Pickles

DEDICATED WITH VERY KIND REGARDS TO OLD MR. JOHN TAYLOR, WHO THINKS HE MIGHT PASS AS A DORMOUSE! (THREE YEARS IN BED AND NEVER A GRUMBLE!)
Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, &c.
FREDERICK WARNE
1909 by Frederick Warne & Co.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London
Once upon a time there was a village shop. The name over the window was Ginger and Pickles.
It was a little small shop just the right size for Dolls—Lucinda and Jane Doll-cook always bought their groceries at Ginger and Pickles.
The counter inside was a convenient height for rabbits. Ginger and Pickles sold red spotty pocket-handkerchiefs at a penny three farthings.
They also sold sugar, and snuff and galoshes.
In fact, although it was such a small shop it sold nearly everything—except a few things that you want in a hurry—like bootlaces, hair-pins and mutton chops.
Ginger and Pickles were the people who kept the shop. Ginger was a yellow tom-cat, and Pickles was a terrier.
The rabbits were always a little bit afraid of Pickles.