A/N: One of my favourite nursery rhymes on the planet!
Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and way.
Along came a spider that sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away.
~ Dr. Thomas Muffet?
Little Miss Matilda sat on her favourite stool at the top of a small hill, under a large tree. Along with her, she brought her favourite stuffed toy and her favourite pancakes.
She ate her pancakes happily, humming to herself in the warm summer breeze. Kumajirou, her stuffed bear, sat on its haunches next to her, smiling up at her.
Little Miss Matilda swung her feet on the edge of the stool as she finished her pancakes. She set the plate down and picked up Kumajirou.
"It's a really pretty day, isn't it, Kumajirou?" The bear kept smiling. But then, just in the top line of her view, there was a shadow.
Slowly, there was a large spider sliding down towards her, Matilda fell back off the chair, clutching to Kumajirou. She let out a shriek and ran off down the hill, crying for Francis to get rid of the spider.
Suddenly, the spider popped back up into the tree. Alfred, Matilda's brother, was sitting on one of the branches, holding a stick with a rubber spider attached to it. Alfred was laughing and giggling as he watched his sister run away and cry for their Papa.
That is, until their father, Arthur, came out to investigate while Francis consoled Matilda.
"Alfred! What are you doing up there, you twit?"
Alfred nearly fell out of the tree. "N-Nothing."
"Are you tormenting your sister again? Come down here." Arthur pointed to the ground next to him.
"I-I don't wanna."
"When you don't listen, that means you're hiding something. Your sister's inside crying. Now come down and apologize to her."