Tom Kitten

Once upon a time there were three little kittens, and their names were Mittens, Tom, and Moppet.

They had dear little fur coats of their own, and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

But one day their mother, expected friends to tea.so she fetched the kitten indoors, to wash and dress them, before the fine company arrived.

First she scrubbled their faces, this one is Moppet.

Then she brushed their fur, this one is Mittens.

Then she combed their tails and whiskers, this is Tom Kitten.

Tom was very naughty, and he scratched.

Mrs 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.

Tom was very fat, and he had grown, several buttons burst off.

His mothe sewed them on again.

When the three kittens were ready, Mrs unwisely turned them out into the garden, to be out of the way while she made hot buttered toast.

Now keep your frocks clean, children, you must walk on your hind leg.

Keep away from the dirty ash pit, and from sally henny, and from the pigsty.

Moppet and Mitten 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. let us climb up the rockery and sit on the garden wall, 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, Tom 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. 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.