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Once upon a time there were three little
kittens, and their names were Mittens, Tom Kitten, and
Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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But one day their mother—Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit—expected friends
to tea; so she fetched the kittens indoors, to
wash and dress them, before the fine company arrived.
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First she scrubbed their faces (this one is
Moppet).
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Then she brushed their fur, (this one is
Mittens).
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Then she combed their tails and whiskers (this
is Tom Kitten).
Tom was very naughty, and he scratched.
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Mrs. 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.
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Tom Kitten was very fat, and he had
grown; several buttons burst off. His mother sewed them
on again. When the three kittens were ready, Mrs. Tabitha unwisely turned them out into the garden, to be out of the way while she made hot buttered toast.
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"Now keep your frocks clean, children! You must
walk on your hind legs. Keep away from the
dirty ash-pit, and from Sally Henny Penny, and from the pig-stye and the Puddle-Ducks."
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Moppet and Mittens walked down the garden path
unsteadily. Presently they trod upon their pinafores and fell
on their noses.
When they stood up there were several green smears!
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"Let us climb up the rockery, and sit
on the garden wall," said Moppet.
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.
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Tom Kitten was quite unable to jump when
walking upon his hind legs in trousers. He came
up the rockery by degrees, breaking the ferns, and shedding buttons right and left.
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He was all in pieces when he reached
the top of the wall.
Moppet and Mittens tried to
pull him together; his hat fell off, and the rest of his buttons burst.
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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!
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They stopped and stood in a row, and
stared up at the kittens. They had very small
eyes and looked surprised.
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Then the two duck-birds, Rebeccah and Jemima Puddle-Duck,
picked up the hat and tucker and put them
on.
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Mittens laughed so that she fell off the
wall. Moppet and Tom descended after her; the pinafores
and all the rest of Tom's clothes came off on the way down. "Come! Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck," said Moppet—"Come and help us to dress him! Come and button up Tom!"
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Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck advanced in a slow sideways
manner, and picked up the various articles.
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But he put them on himself! They fitted
him even worse than Tom Kitten."It's a very fine
morning!" said Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck.
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And he and Jemima and Rebeccah Puddle-Duck set
off up the road, keeping step—pit pat, paddle pat!
pit pat, waddle pat!
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Then Tabitha Twitchit came down the garden and
found her kittens on the wall with no clothes
on.
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She pulled them off the wall, smacked them,
and took them back to the house. "My friends
will arrive in a minute, and you are not fit to be seen; I am affronted," said Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit.
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She sent them upstairs; and I am sorry
to say she told her friends that they were
in bed with the measles; which was not true.
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Quite the contrary; they were not in bed:
not in the least.
Somehow there were very extraordinary noises
over-head, which disturbed the dignity and repose of the tea party.
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And I think that some day I shall
have to make another, larger, book, to tell you
more about Tom Kitten!
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As for the Puddle-Ducks—they went into a pond.
The clothes all came off directly, because there were
no buttons.