Who they are and where they live.
The Teenie Weenies are a very tiny little people. The Teenie Weenie
children are about half an inch in height and the older Teenie Weenies
are from two and a half to three inches tall. Paddy Pinn is the tallest
one and he really is a Teenie Weenie giant, for he stands four inches in
his stocking feet.
The little folks are so small that a lead pencil is to them a great log
and a clothes pin will keep the tiny fire place burning for some time. A
large tea cup would almost hold the entire family and they could go
swimming all at once in a wash basin.
A potato will keep the Teenie Weenies supplied for several months, while
one grain of rice will make one of the little people a square meal. Two
baked lima beans will make a meal for the whole family and a thimbleful
of butter will last a week.
The Teenie Weenies are so small that big people would hardly notice them
and the little folks have to be careful to keep out of their way.
The Teenie Weenies live in an old shoe. They have built on a kitchen and
a roof covers the top of the shoe. An old hat is used by the little
people for a school house and quarters for the army. On top of the hat
is a tiny bell which is used for a school bell and also as a fire alarm.
On the second floor of the hat the army keeps its uniforms and guns and
here the little soldiers drill one night every week.
The Teenie Weenies have many tiny tools and they store all these useful
things in an old tin can. There is a work bench in the can and here the
men make things and mend the furniture. The shoe house in which most of
the Teenie Weenies live is quite crowded, so one corner of the tool
house has been made into a comfortable home for Paddy Pinn and Gogo.
An old tea pot has been made into a laundry and here the Chinaman and
Zip, the Teenie Weenie wild man, live and do the family washing each
week. The little folks have made a cigar box into a wonderful hospital
and there the Doctor lives.
Mr. and Mrs. Lover have their own home and live, with their two
children, who are twins, in a baby shoe which has been made into a
beautiful bungalow.
All of these tiny buildings are close to each other under a certain rose
bush and there the little folks live happily together.
The Teenie Weenies ask that the place where they live shall not be told,
as they are afraid curious folks might come around to see them. “Not
that we wouldn’t like to have big people visit us,” they say, “but, you
see, being so little we might get tramped on and that would be quite the
end of us.”
[‡Illustration: Every Type of Teenie Weenie]
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