A little girl called Lucie loses her handkerchiefs and a pinny and goes on a search for them. She sees some white cloths on the grass high up a hill and climbs up to discover a strange little washerwoman, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, with her handkerchiefs freshly laundered, along with many other interesting articles such as stockings for a hen. Among the other oddities of the washwoman, she is wearing a excessive number of hair pin, as sticking wrong end out. Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Lucie deliver laundry to the locals and eventually Lucie is left with her missing handkerchiefs and pinny. As she tries to thank Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, all she sees is a hedgehog running down the path, leading Lucie to wonder if Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle was just a hedgehog.