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English Fairy Talesbarrels full. It rose to his armpits, and he scrambled to theTITTY Y MOUSE AND TATTY Y MOUSEtable-top. And now the water in the room stood up to thewindow and washed against the glass, and swirled around his Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse both lived in a house,feet on the table. It still rose; it reached his breast. In vain he Titty Mouse went a leasing and Tatty Mouse went a leasing,cried; the evil spirit would not be dismissed, and to this day he So they both went a leasing.would have been pouring water, and would have drowned all Titty Mouse leased an ear of corn, and Tatty Mouse leasedYorkshire. But the master remembered on his journey that he an ear of corn,had not locked his book, and therefore returned, and at the So they both leased an ear of corn.moment when the water was bubbling about the pupil’s chin, Titty Mouse made a pudding, and Tatty Mouse made arushed into the room and spoke the words which cast pudding,Beelzebub back into his fiery home.So they both made a pudding.And Tatty Mouse put her pudding into the pot to boil,But when Titty went to put hers in, the pot tumbled over,and scalded her to death.Then Tatty sat down and wept; then a three-legged stoolsaid: “Tatty, why do you weep?” “Titty’s dead,” said Tatty,“and so I weep;” “then,” said the stool, “I’ll hop,” so thestool hopped.Then a broom in the corner of the room said, “Stool, whydo you hop?” “Oh!” said the stool, “Titty’s dead, and Tatty50