TIM'S BEATRIX POTTER THREAD

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"After a time they heard a noise in the shop, as if something had been pushed in at the door. They came out of the back parlour. There was an envelope lying on the counter, and a policeman writing in a notebook!

Pickles nearly had a fit, he barked and barked and made little rushes.

'Bite him, Pickles! bite him!" spluttered Ginger behind a sugar-barrel, "he's only a German doll!'

The policeman went on writing in his notebook; twice he put his pencil in his mouth, and once he dipped it in the treacle.

Pickles barked till he was hoarse. But still the policeman took no notice. He had bead eyes, and his helmet was sewed on with stitches."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 25 June 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Tim has been slapped by an administrator.

― sys0p (mcutt), Saturday, 25 June 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.twycraft.co.uk/acatalog/bp_Mr_Jeremy_Fisher_200w.jpg

― Jeremy Fisher (x Jeremy), Saturday, 25 June 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

We have the only 3-year-old with the words "soporific" and "indigestible" in her vocabulary!

― Jeanne (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 26 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

little rushes

― sunny successor (when the lunch bell rings why dont you eat me) (katharine), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

"I went into the garden; there I found Cross-patch and Suck-suck rooting up carrots. I whipped them myself and led them out by the ears. Cross-patch tried to bite me.

'Aunt Pettitoes, Aunt Pettitoes! You are a worthy person, but your family is not well brought up. Every one of them has been in mischief except Spot and Pigling Bland.'

'Yus, yus!' sighed Aunt Pettitoes. 'And they drink bucketfuls of milk; I shall have to get another cow! Good little Spot shall stay home to do the house-work; but the others must go. Four little boy pigs and four little girl pigs are too many altogether.

'Yus,yus,yus,' said Aunt Pettitoes, 'there will be more to eat without them.'

So Chin-chin and Suck-suck went away in a wheelbarrow, and Stumpy, Yock-yock, and Cross-patch rode away in a cart. And the other two little boy pigs, Pigling Bland and Alexander, went to market. We brushed their coats, we curled their tails and washed their little faces, and wished them good-bye in the yard."

― Jeanne (Tim Ellison), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

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Timmie Willie!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

The first little bird flew into the bush where Timmy and Goody Tiptoes were quietly tying up their bags, and it sang - "Who's-bin digging-up MY nuts? Who's-bin digging-up MY nuts?"

Timmy Tiptoes went on with his work without replying; indeed, the little bird did not expect an answer. It was only singing its natural song, and it meant nothing at all.

But when the other squirrels heard that song, they rushed upon Timmy Tiptoes and cuffed and scratched him, and upset his bag of nuts. The innocent little bird which had caused all the mischief, flew away in a fright!

Timmy rolled over and over, and then turned tail and fled towards his nest, followed by a crowd of squirrels shouting - "Who's-been digging-up MY nuts?"

They caught him and dragged him up the very same tree, where there was the little round hole, and they pushed him in. The hole was much too small for Timmy Tiptoes' figure. They squeezed him dreadfully, it was a wonder they did not break his ribs. "We will leave him here till he confesses," said Silvertail Squirrel, and he shouted into the hole - "Who's-been-digging-up MY nuts?"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

In the long version of "The Pie and the Patty Pan," Ribby (a cat who invites a little dog - Duchess - to tea) is concerned about her spoons. She locks up her spoons when she goes out and seems to be concerned that Dr. Maggoty (a magpie) is going to come into her house while she's out and, I guess, steal the spoons?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Yes, isn't that a long-running aspersion to cast on house guests? I guess because even if you only served them tea (ie they weren't invited for a full meal), you'd still have to give them a spoon to stir with. Silverware being made all of silver, obv.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

If magpies are anything like crows or ravens, they're attracted to the glint of shiny things like spoons and will steal them as a matter of course. Ain't Maggoty's fault.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I think that's it. There are also jackdaws in the story, whom I believe are particularly known for taking all kinds of things.

When Ribby has to fetch Dr. Maggoty later (after Duchess thinks she has swallowed a patty pan), she finds him "occupied in putting rusty nails into a bottle of ink."

Dr. Maggoty later startles Duchess by yelling "GAMMON AND SPINACH! HA! HA!"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Ribby figurine, "Butter and milk from the farm":

http://www.curiocabinet.com/shop/products/images/ribby(1).JPG

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

So ... Duchess thinks that she has swallowed a patty pan that was used to support the pie while it was being baked. When Ribby suggests that she could go find Dr. Maggotty to attend to Duchess, Duchess says, "Oh yes! Yes! fetch Dr. Maggotty, my dear Ribby; he is a pie himself, he will certainly understand."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 03:49 (twenty years ago)

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