Title:  The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine  Or the Hithering Thithering Djinn Printing:  First Year of publication:  1971 Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux City:  New York Number of Pages:  30 Cover:  hard cover Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:  70-162793
	beginning: One morning in a recent year, a year not too long ago--the year 1887, to be precise--a young girl named Mathilda awoke, stretched, yawned, scratched and got out of bed. "What shall I do this morning?" she asked herself. "I think I shall go hooping. This looks like good hooping weather."