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. Moppet and Tom descended after her; the pinafores and all the rest of Tom's clothes came off on the way down. "Come! Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck," said Moppet--"Come and help us to dress him! Come and button up Tom!" [Illustration] [Illustration] Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck advanced in a slow sideways manner, and picked up the various articles. But he put them on _himself!_ They fitted him even worse than Tom Kitten. "It's a very fine morning!" said Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck. [Illustration] [Illustration] 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. [Illustration] [Illustration] 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. [Illustration] [Illustration] 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 tell you more about Tom Kitten! [Illustration] As for the Puddle-Ducks--they went into a pond. The clothes all came off directly, because there were no buttons. [Illustration] [Illustration] And Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck, and Jemima and Rebeccah, have been looking for them ever since. End of Project Gutenberg's The Tale of Tom Kitten, by Beatrix Potter