But I am persuaded that the knots would have proved indigestible, whatever you may urge to the contrary." Once upon a time, a cat called Mrs Tabitha Twitchit lived in an old house with her three kittens, Moppet, Mittens and Tom. He squeezed through the hole in the wall, and dragged himself along a most uncomfortably tight passage where there was scarcely any light. Mrs. Tabitha went up and down all over the house, mewing for Tom Kitten. She looked in the pantry under the staircase, and she searched the best spare bedroom that was all covered up with dust sheets. She went right upstairs and looked into the attics, but she could not find him anywhere. Tom Kitten did not want to be shut up in a cupboard. When he saw that his mother was going to bake, he determined to hide.

All at once he fell head over heels in the dark, down a hole, and landed on a heap of very dirty rags.

Oh! Mother, Mother," said Moppet, "there's been an old woman rat in the kitchen, and she's stolen some of the dough!" It requires dough and a pat of butter, and a rolling-pin,” said Anna Maria, considering Tom Kitten with her head on one side. Fortunately, and perhaps surprisingly, it did not put me off books in general, or even Potter specifically.

Come away at once and help me to tie up some mutton bones in a counterpane,” said Anna Maria. “I have got half a smoked ham hidden in the chimney.” Mrs Tabitha displays the angst and panic of any mother upon losing a child, getting the help of her cousin Ribby to look for him around the family’s grand old house, “full of cupboards and passages” and possibly a “little secret staircase”. But I am persuaded that the knots would have proved indigestible, whatever you may urge to the contrary.” But his mouth was full of soot and cobwebs, and he was tied up in such very tight knots, he could not make anybody hear him.

She caught Moppet and Mittens...but Tom was no-where to be found. The house was full of mysterious passages, with strange noises coming from behind the walls, and even things disappearing at night...Tom could be anywhere!

So it happened that by the time John Joiner had got the plank up—there was nobody under the floor except the rolling-pin and Tom Kitten in a very dirty dumpling!

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