The Story of Miss Moppet

The Story of Miss Moppet is one of my shorter stories and was first published in 1906. While children of any age can read my stories, this one was written for my youngest friends. This story is very closely tied with the illustrations, and most of the pages are explaining the picture, and not the other way around as is often the case. Many of the pages start with “This is…” to show the action. But nonetheless there is a story to be told.

Miss Moppet hears a mouse, and decides to get him. The mouse, who lives behind the cupboard is not scared of Miss Moppet though and taunts her. She chases him behind a cupboard and hits her head. Miss Moppet then wraps her head in a duster and attempts to ail to aching head. The mouse comes down to see Miss Moppet and he gets closer and closer until…Miss Moppet seizes the mouse!

In hopes of getting revenge for the mouse teasing Miss Moppet, which is not very nice, she wraps him in the duster and tosses him around. She throws him in the air many times but when she unties the duster she remembers the small hole that was there, and the mouse had escaped through the hole and was now celebrating on top of the cupboard.

So children, revenge is not a good thing, and will rarely get you what you truly want. It was not right of the mouse to tease Miss Moppet, but this story focuses on Miss Moppet’s wrongdoings and not those of the mouse. And I think Miss Moppet learned her lesson not to seek revenge.