The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding: The original and authorized edition: 16 (Beatrix Potter Originals)

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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding: The original and authorized edition: 16 (Beatrix Potter Originals)

The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding: The original and authorized edition: 16 (Beatrix Potter Originals)

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They returned to the kitchen. "Here's one of your kittens at least," said Ribby, dragging Moppet out of the flour barrel. Oh never mind,’ replied Anna Maria. ‘And keep still, kitty!’ she hissed as Tom squeaked and wriggled. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.

Now this is what had been happening to Tom Kitten, and it shows how very unwise it is to go up a chimney in a very old house, where a person does not know his way, and where there are enormous rats.His coat was pulled off, and he was rolled up in a bundle, and tied with string in very hard knots.

He could hear Ribby and Tabitha talking, but they were busy lighting the candle to look into the chest. Tom Kitten did not want to be shut up in a cupboard. When he saw that his mother was going to bake, he determined to hide. Anna Marie and Samuel Whiskers did not get time to make Tom Kitten into a pudding because they were too busy fighting. Do you think it is ever useful to argue? Why or why not? We are discovered and interrupted, Anna Maria; let us collect our property—and other people’s,—and depart at once.” 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.

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Quote(s): “let us collect our property - and other people's - and depart at once”. “What a thing it is to have an unruly family!”. Mrs Tabitha displays the angst and panic of any mother upon losing a child, getting the help of her cousin Ribby to look for him around the family’s grand old house, “full of cupboards and passages” and possibly a “little secret staircase”. I'm not afraid of rats; I will help you to find him; and whip him too! What is all that soot in the fender?" There it is again! We must send for the carpenter so he can saw through the floorboards and we can take a look,’ said Ribby.

By the time the carpenter got the floorboards up, there was nothing underneath except the rolling pin and Tom Kitten in a very dirty dumpling. Tabitha and Ribby peeled it off him, then they gave Tom a nice hot bath to wash him clean.

Short story for children written by Beatrix Potter

One of my favourite books as a child, the Tale of Samuel Whiskers remains a timeless classic that I will always enjoy. The animals in the story are comically humanised into very prim and proper genteel folk , the long lasting enmity between rats and felines is given a unique twist, and the ever so important moral of obeying elders and parents is memorably enforced by the dramatic portrayal of the consequences of not doing so. Anna Maria! Anna Maria!” squeaked the rat. There was a pattering noise and an old woman rat poked her head round a rafter. Come away at once and help me to tie up some mutton bones in a counterpane," said Anna Maria. "I have got half a smoked ham hidden in the chimney." Ribby was one of the main characters of The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (published in 1905), which also featured Tabitha Twitchit as a shop keeper, with the kittens appearing in the illustrations. The family had also appeared in The Tale of Tom Kitten in 1907. Anna Maria did the tying. The old rat watched her and took snuff. When she had finished, they both sat staring at him with their mouths open.



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