One afternoon the Cook put a dried raisin on to boil. He brought out his tiny rolling pin, a cherry seed of shortening and his pastry board. He put them on the kitchen table and called up the stairs to the Lady of Fashion.

"All ready for you to make those raisin pies," the Cook shouted.

The little lady had just stepped into the kitchen when a great commotion took place outside the kitchen door. The Cook opened the door and there was an orange surrounded by excited Teenie Weenies.

"Look!" puffed the Dunce, his breath rolling out in clouds on the frosty air. "We found an orange back of the grocery and we've got to get it into the house before it freezes."

"You'll never get that orange through the doorway," said the Cook.

"Get an ax," shouted the excited Dunce, "and I'll cut the doorway bigger."

"Wouldn't it be less trouble to cut the orange in two?" asked the Cook. "Anyhow, half the orange will about fill the kitchen and it will make enough marmalade to fill every thimble and hazelnut container we have on the place."

The weather was very cold outside and in order to keep the orange from freezing, the little men worked like beavers cutting the orange in two with a Teenie Weenie crosscut saw. When it was cut the men had a hard time forcing it through the kitchen doorway. The Cook and the Lady of Fashion pushed the kitchen table against the wall to make a place for the orange.

"Boy!" exclaimed the Cowboy. "That sure will make a lot of marmalade.

"Well, we'd better forget the raisin pies and get busy cutting up this orange," the Cook told the Lady of Fashion. "We'll have to get this orange disposed of before we can have supper."

"The Cook, the Lady of Fashion and several other Teenie Weenies set to work with Teenie Weenie hatchets, axes and knives, and when they had finished cutting up the orange, every single kettle and thimble - even the last acorn shell basket - had been filled to the top.

Of course there was juice and melted snow all over the place, and the kitchen had to be mopped before supper could be cooked. The Teenie Weenies had a very late supper that night and there was no raisin pie. But during the next few days everything that could be filled was brimming with marmalade which will make the little people happy for many days to come.