Tom Kitten was getting very frightened!
He climbed up, and up, and up.


Then he waded sideways through inches
of soot. He was like a little sweep himself.


It was most confusing in the dark. One
flue seemed to lead into another.

There was less smoke, but Tom Kitten
felt quite lost.

He scrambled up and up; but before he
reached the chimney top he came to a place
where somebody had loosened a stone in
the wall. There were some mutton bones
lying about--

"This seems funny," said Tom Kitten.
"Who has been gnawing bones up here in
the chimney? I wish I had never come!
And what a funny smell! It is something
like mouse; only dreadfully strong. It
makes me sneeze," said Tom Kitten.


He squeezed through the hole in the wall,
and dragged himself along a most uncomfortably