Tom is "very naughty" and scratches his mother while she grooms him. Tabitha dresses Moppet and Mittens in clean pinafores and tuckers, and Tom in "all sorts of elegant uncomfortable clothes" taken from a chest of drawers. Tom is fat and bursts several buttons, but his mother sews them back on again.
Kids Stories, The Tale of Tom Kitten
Tabitha turns her kittens into the garden to keep them out of the way while she makes hot buttered toast for the party. She tells them to keep their frocks clean and keep away from the pigsty, the dirty ash pit, Sally Henny Penny, and the Puddle-Ducks, and then returns to her work. Moppet and Mittens soon have their pinafores smeared with grass stains.
They climb upon the garden wall and lose some of their clothing in the ascent.
The Tale of Tom Kitten
Tom has a more difficult time gaining the top of the wall "breaking the ferns, and shedding buttons right and left". 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. Moppet and Mittens tried to pull him together; his hat fell off, and the rest of his buttons burst. While they were in difficulties, there was a pit pat, paddle pat! They stopped and stood in a row and stared up at the kittens. They had very small eyes and looked surprised.
Then the two duck-birds, Rebeccah and Jemima Puddle-duck, picked up the hat and tucker and put them on. Mittens laughed so that she fell off the wall.
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Moppet and Tom descended after her; the pinafores and all the rest of Tom's clothes came off on the way down. Drake Puddle-duck," said Moppet. Come and button up Tom! And he and Jemima and Rebeccah Puddle-duck set off up the road, keeping step—pit pat, paddle pat! 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.
Somehow there were very extra— ordinary noises overhead, which disturbed the dignity and repose of the tea party. And I think that some day I shall have to make another, larger book, to tell you more about Tom Kitten!
To hear audio for this text, and to learn the vocabulary sign up for a free LingQ account. Keep away from the dirty ash-pit, and from Sally Henny Penny, and from the pigsty and the Puddle-ducks. Moppet and Mittens walked down the garden path unsteadily. Presently they trod upon their pinafores and fell on their noses.
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.
Moppet and Mittens tried to pull him together; his hat fell off, and the rest of his buttons burst. While they were in difficulties, there was a pit pat, paddle pat! They stopped and stood in a row and stared up at the kittens. They had very small eyes and looked surprised. Then the two duck-birds, Rebeccah and Jemima Puddle-duck, picked up the hat and tucker and put them on.
Mittens laughed so that she fell off the wall. Come and button up Tom!
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And he and Jemima and Rebeccah Puddle-duck set off up the road, keeping step—pit pat, paddle pat! Then Tabitha Twitchit came down the garden and found her kittens on the wall with no clothes on. 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.