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Chapter 1. Losing Their Mittens · Three Little Kittens Who Lost Their Mittens

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  Section one of Three Little Kittens Who Lost their mittens. This is a LibriVox
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  recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
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  to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Read by Rachel Tevis. Three
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  Little Kittens Who Lost their Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith. Losing their mittens.
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  Once upon a time, three little kittens went out to slide upon the ice.
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  Old mother KitKat called after them, Dot, Tot, Trot, you
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  have forgotten your mittens. They came back, pitter patter, pitter patter,
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  as fast as their fairy little feet would carry them. Old mother KitKat said,
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  oh, three little kittens, come, put on your mittens. And
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  she handed Dot a pair of red mittens, and Tot a pair of blue
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  mittens, and Trot a pair of brown mittens. And the three little kittens
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  went merrily off to skate. I don't like to wear mittens, said Dot.
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  I don't like to either, said Tom. Trot said, oh meow,
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  they squeezed my paws. Now what do you suppose those naughty little kittens
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  did. They took off their mittens and left them on the bank by the
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  ice pond. They put on their cunning little skates and began to skate to
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  and fro, to and fro, and the wind whistled and called, I
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  may freeze your paws and toes. Nobody knows, nobody knows my long whiskers,
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  cried Dot, how cold it is skating on the ice by my long
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  tail, said Tot, how cold my paws are. Trot said, we
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  will go back at once to the bank and get our mittens. The three
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  little kittens did not know that three little foxes had crept up on the bank.
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  They did not know that the three little foxes said, see the nice
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  little mittens left here by the kittens. They did not know that the three
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  little foxes had put on their mittens and had run away, waving their beautiful
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  tails behind them. When the three little kittens got to the bank and saw
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  that their mittens were gone, Dot and Tot cried together, we are sad,
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  little kittens lost our new mittens. Brave little Trot said, we are
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  smart little kittens. We'll go find our mittens. Then Dot and Tot dried
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  their eyes on their little weave pocket handkerchiefs and said, you are so cheerful,
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  brother Trot. We will follow where you lead. The three little kittens
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  looked one hour and thirty six minutes for their mittens, but they could not
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  find them, and so they went sadly homeward. Old Mother KitKat stood in
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  the doorway looking for them. She cried, go back, go back,
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  you naughty kittens, go back and pick up your nice new mittens. The
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  three little kittens hung their heads and said, we've put them on the bank
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  to dry. We hoped to find them by and by, you naughty kittens,
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  Old KitKat said. She sent them without supper to bed. The three
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  little kittens cried, mew, mew, mew. Can't we have a dish
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  of milk? Can't we have a chicken bone? Old Mother KitKat shook her
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  head. So the three little kittens went pit a pat, pit a pat,
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  up stairs to bed. They were so hungry they kept talking about good
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  things to eat, and that made them want their supper more and more.
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  Fish and bones said dot, milk, and creams said tot. Meat,
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  and gravy said trot. Old Mother kit Kat called hush, be still,
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  for over the hill the sandman comes his bag to fill. At this,
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  the three little kittens pulled the covers high up over their heads, for they
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  did not want the sandman to tuck them in his bag. All this time,
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  three little foxes wearing three pairs of mittens were dancing merrily in the moonlight.
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  The sandman came up over the hill and peeped in at the window.
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  He saw the beds where the three little kittens lay, with the covers pulled
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  up over their heads. He sang softly, Oh, ho, little kittens,
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  I saw your lost mittens? Where where? Where? Cried the three
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  little kittens in one breath, uncovering their heads. The sandman answered in a
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  sing song, lazy kind of way. Come jump in the sack I have
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  on my back. The three little kittens were thinking so hard about their mittens
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  that they forgot to be afraid, and they went whisk bound into the Sandman's
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  sack and rowed merrily far away over hill and dale away away away. Suddenly
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  the Sandman's sack broke and out fell the three little kittens. The sandman did
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  not notice what had happened, and he ran on, leaving the three little
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  kittens behind him. They saw a little wee house in the woods, and
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  ran and knocked on the door. Old Mother Catastrophe, the oldest cat in
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  the world stuck her head out of the window and called, did you happen
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  to have a mishap? You sadly disturbed me from my nap. The three
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  little kittens answered, Old Mother Catastrophe, kind and good. We are three
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  little kittens lost in the wood. Old Mother Catastrophe always knew what to do.
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  She opened her door and hugged and kissed the three little kittens, and
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  said, to the delight of all, now for the cookie jar. She
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  put a cookie jar on the floor, and the three little kittens put in
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  their three little paws without saying buy or leave, or thank you or if
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  you please? Then what do you suppose happened? The cookie jar rose in
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  the air and settled down out of reach on the highest shelf in the pantry.
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  The three little kittens cried, oh and ah, and what happened to
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  the cookie jar? Old Mother Catastrophe said, I do not really mean to
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  tease, but learn some little words like these, thank you say and if
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  you please. The three little kittens said, thank you, thank you,
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  please give us a cookie. Please do at that. The cookie jar floated
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  down again, and they ate cookies to their hearts content. They told Old
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  Mother catastrophe about their lost mittens. But she only shook her wise old head
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  and said, enough said enough, said. Night time is the time for
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  bed. She tucked the three little kittens up in her own bed, Dot
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  and tot and trot fell asleep, wondering about their lost mittens. All this
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  time, three little foxes wearing three pairs of mittens were dancing merrily in the
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  moonlight. End of Section one