Anna Maria went down by way of the
skirting-board and a window shutter to the
kitchen to steal the dough.


She borrowed a small saucer, and scooped
up the dough with her paws.

She did not observe Moppet.


While Tom Kitten was left alone under
the floor of the attic, he wriggled about and
tried to mew for help.

But his mouth was full of soot and cob-
webs, and he was tied up in such very tight
knots, he could not make anybody hear him.

Except a spider, which came out of a
crack in the ceiling and examined the knots
critically, from a safe distance.

It was a judge of knots because it had a
habit of tying up unfortunate blue-bottles.
It did not offer to assist him.

Tom Kitten wriggled and squirmed until