It is thought that Miss Muffet ran away because of a spider, but that is wrong. She is not interested in arranging flowers, or identifying insects or being demure. She wants to play her fiddle, but her mother finds this appalling and hides the fiddle. So while sitting on her tuffet, she sees a spider who knows where the fiddle is hidden. They decide to go off together. Along there adventure they come upon Bo-Peep and other characters and eventually end up Old King Cole’s castle.

This fractured fairy tale is told in verse with dialog and stage/setting notes. The story lends itself to a reader’s theater or some type of performance.