The cock, the mouse, and the little red hen

To My Nieces CECILIA GARRY and NELLY MELVILLE and to my little friend HARFORD LURY this book is dedicated with my love
Once upon a time there was a hill, and on the hill there was a pretty little house.
It had one little green door, and four little windows with green shutters, and in it there lived
A Cock
and A Mouse
On another hill close by there was another little house. It was very ugly.
It had a door that wouldn’t shut,
and two broken windows, and all the paint was off the shutters
And in this house there lived
A BOLD BAD FOX and FOUR BAD LITTLE FOXES
One morning these four bad little foxes