And he and Jemima and Rebeccah Puddle-Duck set off up the road, keeping
step--pit pat, paddle pat! pit pat, waddle pat!

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.

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.

And I think that some day I shall have to make another, larger, book, to