Lucie is a little girl living on a farm and realizes she has lost three handkerchiefs and the pinafore. Wandering in search of her belongings, she finds a small door in the hillside that leads to a small kitchen in which Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, the animals' laundress, is busy working. Some thought Lucie wakes up on the stile. Was it only a dream, or...? Book illustrated with beautiful Potter's watercolors.