Mittens laughed so that she fell off the wall. Then the two duck-birds, Rebeccah and Jemima Puddle-Duck, picked up the hat and tucker and put them on. They had very small eyes and looked surprised. They stopped and stood in a row, and stared up at the kittens.
While they were in difficulties, there was a pit pat paddle pat! and the three Puddle-Ducks came along the hard high road, marching one behind the other and doing the goose step-pit pat paddle pat! pit pat waddle pat! Moppet and Mittens tried to pull him together his hat fell off, and the rest of his buttons burst. He was all in pieces when he reached the top of the wall. He came up the rockery by degrees, breaking the ferns, and shedding buttons right and left. Tom Kitten was quite unable to jump when walking upon his hind legs in trousers. They turned their pinafores back to front, and went up with a skip and a jump Moppet’s white tucker fell down into the road. “Let us climb up the rockery, and sit on the garden wall,” said Moppet. When they stood up there were several green smears! Presently they trod upon their pinafores and fell on their noses. Moppet and Mittens walked down the garden path unsteadily. Keep away from the dirty ash-pit, and from Sally Henny Penny, and from the pig-stye and the Puddle-Ducks.” “Now keep your frocks clean, children! You must walk on your hind legs. Tabitha unwisely turned them out into the garden, to be out of the way while she made hot buttered toast. Tom Kitten was very fat, and he had grown several buttons burst off.
Tabitha dressed Moppet and Mittens in clean pinafores and tuckers and then she took all sorts of elegant uncomfortable clothes out of a chest of drawers, in order to dress up her son Thomas. Then she combed their tails and whiskers (this is Tom Kitten). Then she brushed their fur, (this one is Mittens). Tabitha Twitchit-expected friends to tea so she fetched the kittens indoors, to wash and dress them, before the fine company arrived.įirst she scrubbed their faces (this one is Moppet). They had dear little fur coats of their own and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.īut one day their mother-Mrs. Once upon a time there were three little kittens, and their names were Mittens, Tom Kitten, and Moppet.
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