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and A Mouse

and
A Little
Red
Hen

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On another hill close by
there was another little
house. It was very ugly.

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It had a door
that wouldn't shut,

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and two broken windows,
and all the paint
was off the shutters

And in this house
there lived

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A BOLD BAD FOX
and FOUR BAD
LITTLE FOXES

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One morning these
four bad little foxes

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came to the
big bad Fox
and said:

"Oh, Father, we're so
hungry!"

"We had nothing to eat
yesterday," said one.

"And scarcely anything
the day before," said another.

"And only half a chicken
the day before that," said
the third.

"And only two little
ducks the day before that,"
said the fourth.

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The big bad Fox shook
his head for a long time,
for he was thinking.

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At last he said in a
big gruff voice:

"On that hill over there
I see a house. And in that
house there lives a Cock."

"And a Mouse," screamed
two of the little foxes.

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"And a little Red Hen,"
screamed the other two.

"And they are nice and fat,"
went on the big bad Fox.
"This very day, I'll take my
great sack, and I will go up
that hill, and in at that door,
and into my sack I will put
the Cock, and the Mouse,
and the little Red Hen."

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"I'll make a fire
to roast the Cock,"
said one little fox.

"I'll put on the saucepan
to boil the Hen,"
said the second.

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"And I'll get the frying
pan to fry the Mouse,"
said the third.

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"And I'll have the biggest
helping when
they are all cooked,"
said the fourth, who
was the greediest of all.

So the four little foxes
jumped for joy, and the
big bad Fox went to get
his sack ready to start
upon his journey.

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But what was happening
to the Cock and the Mouse,
and the little Red Hen, all
this time?

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Well, sad to say, the Cock and
the Mouse had both got out of
bed on the wrong side that
morning.

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