# Short Fiction — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Short Fiction by Beatrix Potter.

- [The Tale of Peter Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-peter-rabbit.md): Peter Rabbit disobeys his mother's warning and enters Mr. McGregor's garden, where he is chased, loses his shoes and jacket, and narrowly escapes after a series of close calls. He returns home exhausted and ill, while hi
- [The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-squirrel-nutkin.md): Nutkin and his squirrel cousins travel to Owl Island to gather nuts, offering gifts to Old Brown. Nutkin's impertinent riddles and disrespect anger the owl, leading to a chase where Nutkin loses his tail but escapes.
- [The Tailor of Gloucester](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tailor-of-gloucester.md): A poor tailor in Gloucester, tasked with making a cherry-colored coat and embroidered waistcoat for the Mayor's Christmas wedding, falls ill after sending his cat Simpkin to buy supplies. While he lies sick, a community 
- [The Tale of Benjamin Bunny](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-benjamin-bunny.md): Benjamin Bunny visits his cousin Peter Rabbit, who has lost his clothes in Mr. McGregor's garden. They retrieve the clothes from the scarecrow and gather onions as a gift, but are trapped under a basket by a cat. Old Mr.
- [The Tale of Two Bad Mice](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-two-bad-mice.md): Two mice, Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca, discover a beautiful doll's house and, after finding the food is inedible plaster, wreak havoc in frustration. They steal what they can, but later make amends by leaving a crooked six
- [The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-mrs-tiggy-winkle.md): Lucie, a little girl who keeps losing her pocket-handkerchiefs, searches the hillside and discovers a hidden door leading to the home of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a hedgehog who works as a washerwoman. Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle shows L
- [The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-the-pie-and-the-patty-pan.md): Ribby the cat invites Duchess the dog to tea, promising a mouse-and-bacon pie. Duchess, suspicious of mouse pie, decides to swap her own veal-and-ham pie into Ribby's oven. During tea, Duchess frantically searches for th
- [The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-mr-jeremy-fisher.md): Mr. Jeremy Fisher, a frog, sets out to catch minnows for his dinner, but after a series of mishaps including catching a stickleback and being swallowed and spat out by a trout, he abandons fishing and hosts a dinner for 
- [The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-story-of-a-fierce-bad-rabbit.md): A fierce bad rabbit steals a carrot from a gentle rabbit and scratches him. The gentle rabbit hides sadly. A man with a gun mistakes the bad rabbit for a bird and shoots, but only finds the carrot on the bench. The bad r
- [The Story of Miss Moppet](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-story-of-miss-moppet.md): Miss Moppet, a kitten, tries to catch a mouse that is teasing her. She misses, hits her head, and pretends to be ill to lure the mouse closer. She catches him and ties him in a duster, but the mouse escapes through a hol
- [The Tale of Tom Kitten](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-tom-kitten.md): Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit dresses her three kittens—Mittens, Tom Kitten, and Moppet—in fine clothes for a tea party, but they disobey her instructions, climb the garden wall, and lose their clothing to the Puddle-ducks. The 
- [The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-jemima-puddle-duck.md): Jemima Puddle-Duck, frustrated that the farmer's wife won't let her hatch her own eggs, leaves the farm to find a nesting place. She meets a seemingly polite gentleman with sandy whiskers (a fox) who offers her a shed fu
- [The Tale of Samuel Whiskers](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-samuel-whiskers.md): Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit loses her son Tom Kitten on baking day and searches the house with her neighbor Mrs. Ribby. Meanwhile, Tom hides in the chimney and falls into a hidden room where he is captured by two rats, Samuel 
- [The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-the-flopsy-bunnies.md): Benjamin Bunny marries his cousin Flopsy, and they have a large family of Flopsy Bunnies. The family often struggles to find enough food, so they forage on Mr. McGregor's rubbish heap. One day, they find overgrown lettuc
- [The Tale of Ginger and Pickles](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-ginger-and-pickles.md): Ginger the tomcat and Pickles the terrier run a village shop that offers unlimited credit, leading to a lack of actual money. They are forced to eat their own goods, cannot pay taxes, and eventually close the shop. The s
- [The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-mrs-tittlemouse.md): Mrs. Tittlemouse, a fastidiously tidy wood mouse, finds her meticulously clean home invaded by a series of uninvited guests, including a bumble bee named Babbitty Bumble and the slovenly Mr. Jackson. After Mr. Jackson ra
- [The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-timmy-tiptoes.md): Timmy Tiptoes and his wife Goody gather nuts for winter, storing them in hollow stumps and a woodpecker's hole. A misunderstanding caused by a bird's song leads other squirrels to attack Timmy and imprison him in the tre
- [The Tale of Mr. Tod](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-mr-tod.md): This chapter introduces two disagreeable characters, Tommy Brock the badger and Mr. Tod the fox, who frequently invade each other's homes. Tommy Brock kidnaps the baby rabbits of Flopsy and Benjamin Bunny while old Mr. B
- [The Tale of Pigling Bland](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-pigling-bland.md): Aunt Pettitoes sends her eight piglets away to market, keeping only Spot. Pigling Bland and his mischievous brother Alexander set off but lose their way after Alexander loses his license. Pigling ends up alone, takes she
- [The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-johnny-town-mouse.md): Timmy Willie, a country mouse, accidentally travels to town in a vegetable hamper and is introduced to the elegant but noisy and dangerous life of Johnny Town-mouse and his friends. After a miserable stay, he returns hom
- [List of Illustrations](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/list-of-illustrations.md): This chapter presents a comprehensive list of illustrations from the book, depicting key scenes and characters such as Peter Rabbit's adventures in Mr. McGregor's garden, the squirrels' encounters with Old Brown, Benjami

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