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 First of all his hind legs became a pair of shapely legs, clad in a pair of most elegant grey breeches: then his tail shrivelled up and turned into the tail of a fine, grey livery-coat. The last part of him to change was his head, so that the rat could watch the strange things that were happening to his person.

You never saw a more surprised-looking rat in your life! However, there he stood at last, the most dignified and solemn-looking coachman that ever sat on a box-seat, and his whiskers were a real wonder to behold.

“With such a fine coach and six you must have some footmen,” the godmother said. “Go into the garden