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    Miss Muffet's Christmas Party
    Miss Muffet's Christmas Party
    Miss Muffet's Christmas Party
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    Miss Muffet's Christmas Party

    By Samuel McChord Crothers and Olive M. Long

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Miss Muffet's Christmas Party - Samuel McChord Crothers

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      Title: Miss Muffet's Christmas Party

      Author: Samuel McChord Crothers

      Illustrator: Olive M. Long

      Release Date: April 15, 2010 [EBook #31997]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      By Samuel M. Crothers

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      Boston and New York

      MISS MUFFET'S CHRISTMAS PARTY

      A visitor came (page 4)

      COPYRIGHT 1902 BY SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Published November, 1902

      TO MARGERY

      BECAUSE, AMONG OTHER THINGS,

      WE LIKE THE SAME PEOPLE

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Mrs. Muffet had read this in a book

      'Twas the night before Christmas, and it was very quiet in Mrs. Muffet's house,—altogether too quiet, thought little Miss Muffet, as she sat trying to eat her curds and whey. For Mrs. Muffet was a very severe mother and had her own ideas about bringing up children,—and so had Mr. Muffet, or rather he had the same ideas, only warmed over. One of these was on the necessity of care in the diet of growing children. First, said Mrs. Muffet, we must find out what the children don't like, and then we must make them eat plenty of it; next to breaking their wills, there is nothing so necessary as breaking their appetites. Mrs. Muffet had read this in a book, and so she knew it must be true; and Mr. Muffet had heard Mrs. Muffet say it so many times that he knew it was true.

      So every morning little Miss Muffet had three courses: first, curds and whey; second, whey and curds; third, curdled whey. She had the same things for the other meals, but the order was changed about. An experienced housekeeper tells me that the third course is impossible to prepare, as whey cannot be curdled. All I have to say is that this housekeeper had not known Mrs. Muffet. Mrs. Muffet could curdle anything. But the worst days of the year for little Miss Muffet were the holidays, for

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