CAT PLANS DINNER PARTY FOR DOG

Illustrated with generous color pictures by Beatrix Potter. Ribby the cat invites a little dog called Duchess to tea.  Everything goes smoothly until the pie becomes an issue.

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ONCE upon a time there was a Pussycat
called Ribby, who invited a little
dog called Duchess to tea.
``Come in good time, my dear Duchess''
(said Ribby's letter), ``and we will have
something so very nice. I am baking
it in a pie-dish -- a pie-dish with a pink rim.
You never tasted anything so good! And
you shall eat it all! I will eat muffins, my
dear Duchess!'' wrote Ribby.
Duchess read the letter and wrote an
answer: -- ``I will come with much pleasure
at a quarter past four. But it is very strange.
I was just going to invite you to come here,
to supper, my dear Ribby, to eat something
most delicious.''