An unnamed narrator tries to tell the traditional story of Little Miss Muffet, but instead this Little Miss Muffet is a brave, brown-skinned girl with pigtails that sits on her tuffet eating her curds and whey. She isn't scared of spiders or other frightening things that the narrator tries to scare her with including tigers, sharks, snakes, bears, crocodiles, and dragons. Now the narrator will have to devise a new story.