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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Ribby, Ribby\'s, Duchess entitled The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan.
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conversations.value: The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan: Potter declared the tale her next favorite to The Tailor of Gloucester.\nThe pictures are some of the most beautiful Potter ever created, especially the profusions of flowers in the doorways and garden plots.\nThe colors in the illustrations are not the muted browns and greens the reader expects in a Potter illustration, nor are they the contrasting colors such as the muted reds and blues Potter uses occasionally to give her illustrations a splash of color.\nInstead, the colors are bright oranges, violets, and yellows seldom seen in her other books.\nEven Ribby\'s lilac dress and Duchess\'s black mane illustrate Potter\'s concern for color in this book.\nPotter\'s own three-door oven, her hearthrug, her indoor plants, her coronation teapot, and her water pump are minutely detailed with more color than in other productions.\nThe large format of the original edition, the captions accompanying the full page color illustrations, and the occasional lack of coordination between picture and text all display Potter\'s delight in the pictures, sometimes at the expense of the text.\n"Once upon a time", Ribby, a "Pussy-cat" invites a little dog called Duchess to tea with plans to serve her "something so very very nice" baked in a pie dish with a pink rim.\nRibby promises Duchess she shall have the entree entirely to herself.\nDuchess accepts the invitation but hopes she will not be served mouse.\n"I really couldn\'t, couldn\'t eat mouse pie.\nAnd I shall have to eat it, because it is a party".\nDuchess has prepared a ham and veal pie in a pink-rimmed dish (just like Ribby\'s dish), and would much rather eat her own pie.\n"It is all ready to put into the oven," she says, "Such a lovely pie-crust; and I put in a little tin patty-pan to hold up the crust".\nShe reads the invitation again and realizes she will have the opportunity to switch the pies when Ribby leaves on an errand.\nRibby has two ovens, one above the other, and she puts her mouse pie in the lower oven.\nShe tidies the house, sets the table, and leaves to buy tea, marmalade, and sugar.\nDuchess meantime has left home with her ham and veal pie in a basket, passes Ribby on the street, and hurries on to Ribby\'s house.\nShe puts her pie into the upper oven, and searches quickly for the mouse pie (which she does not find because she neglects to look in the lower oven).\nShe slips out the back door as Ribby returns.\nAt the appointed hour, Duchess appears at Ribby\'s door and the party begins.\nDistracted for a moment, Duchess does not see which oven Ribby opens to remove the pie.\nDuchess eats greedily, believing she is eating her ham and veal pie.\nShe wonders what has happened to the patty-pan she put in her pie, and, not finding it under the crust, is convinced she has swallowed it.\nShe sets up a howl; Ribby is perplexed and annoyed but leaves to find dr Maggoty, a magpie.\nDuchess is left alone before Ribby\'s fire, and discovers her ham and veal pie in the oven.\n"Then I must have been eating MOUSE.\nNo wonder I feel ill," she muses.\nKnowing she cannot adequately explain her ham and veal pie to Ribby, she puts it outside the back door intending to sneak back and carry it home after she leaves for home.\nRibby and dr Maggoty arrive and, after much fuss, Duchess takes her leave, only to find that the magpie (who has left by the back door) and a couple of jackdaws have eaten her ham and veal pie.\nRibby later finds the remains of the pie dish and the patty-pan outside the back door and declares, "Well I never did.\nNext time I want to give a party – I will invite Cousin Tabitha Twitchit.\n".