What’s the tuffet that Little Miss Muffet sat on when the first copies of the rhyme appeared in England in 1553? A chair, a stool, a plant, a stone or maybe a small animal? And what are the curds and ...

Nursery rhymes may not make sense to the 21st-century child. What’s the tuffet that Little Miss Muffet sat on when the first copies of the rhyme appeared in England in 1553? A chair, a stool, a plant, ...

“Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey.” For a long time, I pondered what curds and whey actually were–and a tuffet, for that matter. Granted, I was probably a bit more ...

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