Once upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman
lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village.
Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her
teeny-tiny bonnet, and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny
walk. And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way she came to
a teeny-tiny gate. So the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate, and
went into a teeny-tiny churchyard. And when this teeny-tiny woman had got
into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny
grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self, "This teeny-tiny
bone will make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper."
So the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone
into her teeny-tiny pocket, and went home to her teeny-tiny house.
Now when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her
teeny-tiny house she was a teeny-tiny bit tired. So she went up her teeny-tiny
stairs to her teeny-tiny bed, and put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny
cupboard. And when this teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep a teeny-tiny time,
she was awakened by a teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard, which
said,
"Give me my bone!"
And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny frightened,
so she hid her teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes and went to sleep
again. And when she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny
voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder,
"Give me my bone!"
This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-tiny more
frightened, so he hid her teeny-tiny head a teeny-tiny further under the teeny-tiny
clothes. And when the teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny
time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny
louder,
"Give me my bone!"
And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit
more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes,
and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, "TAKE IT!"
Source: Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales ( London: David Nutt, 1898), no. 12, pp. 57-58. Jacobs' source: J. O. Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales (London, 1843), p. 148.