A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Beatrix Potter's tale of little Lucie, who climbs the hill behind her farm to look for her lost handkerchiefs and finds a tiny laundry inside the hill, run by a busy, prickly washerwoman named Mrs. Tiggy-winkle.
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Down at Little-town farm, Lucie’s hankies never stayed put. Today three were gone, and so was her pinny, her little apron. Tears rolled down Lucie’s cheeks. “Three handkins and a pinny!” she wailed. Handkins was her word for hankies.
“Tabby Kitten, have you seen them?” Lick, lick! The kitten was too busy with her white paws to answer. “I go barefoot, barefoot, barefoot!” clucked Sally Henny-penny, the speckled hen, and off she flapped to the barn. And Cock Robin? Whoosh! Over the wall he went.
To see where he went, Lucie climbed the stile, the stone steps over the wall. There stood Cat Bells, a hill so big that clouds sat on it like a fluffy hat! Little white specks dotted the grass, way up high. Her hankies?
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