The Tale of Peter Rabbit: the old mouse
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Beatrix Potter first told this story in 1893, in an illustrated letter to Noel Moore, the young son of a friend. Every publisher turned the first version down. Potter printed two hundred fifty copies at her own cost in 1901. Frederick Warne brought the book out the next year, and it has stayed in print ever since. Potter spent the money from her books on farms in the Lake District, which she later left to the National Trust.
Where this text comes fromThe sentences here are short because the book was made for a child who could not yet read much. Potter tested the story on a real audience before it was ever a book: it began as a letter written to a particular boy, and the phrasing keeps that directness, naming what the mouse is doing and what it is carrying without any decoration at all. Publishers turned the manuscript down and she printed it herself before anyone would take it.
What you might not noticeTwo hundred and fifty copies were printed at the author’s own expense after every publisher she approached said no. The commercial edition followed a year later and has never been out of print since. Source
What it trainsFour sentences averaging fourteen words, two commas and four full stops: that is the entire punctuation of this passage. No semicolons, no quotation marks, no hyphens, no apostrophes, no digits. Four capitals and not one inside a sentence. Nothing here exceeds eight letters. It is among the simplest texts available on this site, which makes it the right one to start on if you have never taken a typing test before, and a good baseline to return to later.
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Public domain status: the author died in 1943, so copyright has expired. public domain, Project Gutenberg
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