![]() ![]() Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca went upstairs and peeped into the dining-room. They pushed the front door-it was not fast. Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca went cautiously across the hearthrug. ![]() The doll's-house stood at the other side of the fire-place. Tom Thumb was a mouse.Ī minute afterwards, Hunca Munca, his wife, put her head out, too and when she saw that there was no one in the nursery, she ventured out on the oilcloth under the coal-box. ![]() Tom Thumb put out his head for a moment, and then popped it in again. Presently there was a little scuffling, scratching noise in a corner near the fireplace, where there was a hole under the skirting-board. There was no one in the nursery, and it was very quiet. One morning Lucinda and Jane had gone out for a drive in the doll's perambulator. They would not come off the plates, but they were extremely beautiful. There were two red lobsters and a ham, a fish, a pudding, and some pears and oranges. Jane was the Cook but she never did any cooking, because the dinner had been bought ready-made, in a box full of shavings. It belonged to two Dolls called Lucinda and Jane at least it belonged to Lucinda, but she never ordered meals. ![]() Once upon a time there was a very beautiful doll's-house it was red brick with white windows, and it had real muslin curtains and a front door and a chimney. ![]()
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