Between November 26, 1903 and December 2, 1903, Potter took a week's holiday in Hastings, and, though there is no evidence that she did so, she may have taken one or both mice with her. She composed three tales in a stiff-covered exercise book during a week of relentless rain: "Something very very NICE" (which, after much revision, eventually became "The Pie and the Patty-Pan" in 1905), "The Tale of Tuppenny" (which eventually became Chapter 1 in "The Fairy Caravan" in 1929), and "The Tale of Hunca Munca" or "The Tale of Two Bad Mice". Potter hoped that one of the three tales would be chosen for publication in 1904 as a companion piece to "Benjamin Bunny", which was then a work in progress. "I have tried to make a cat story that would use some of the sketches of a cottage I drew the summer before last," she wrote to her editor Norman Warne on December 2, "There are two others in the copy book ... the dolls would make a funny one, but it is rather soon to have another mouse book?", referring to her recently published "The Tailor of Gloucester".