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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, by Beatrix Potter
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+Title: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers
+ The Roly-Poly Pudding
+
+
+Author: Beatrix Potter
+
+Release Date: April 6, 2005 [eBook #15575]
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+Language: English
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+THE TALE OF SAMUEL WHISKERS
+
+Or, The Roly-Poly Pudding
+
+by
+
+BEATRIX POTTER
+
+Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" etc.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+IN REMEMBRANCE OF
+"SAMMY,"
+THE INTELLIGENT PINK-EYED REPRESENTATIVE
+OF
+A PERSECUTED (BUT IRREPRESSIBLE) RACE
+AN AFFECTIONATE LITTLE FRIEND,
+AND MOST ACCOMPLISHED
+THIEF
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+FREDERICK WARNE
+
+First published 1908
+(Originally published in U.S.A. as _The Roly-Poly Pudding_)
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Once upon a time there was an old cat, called Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, who
+was an anxious parent. She used to lose her kittens continually, and
+whenever they were lost they were always in mischief!
+
+On baking day she determined to shut them up in a cupboard.
+
+She caught Moppet and Mittens, but she could not find Tom.
+
+Mrs. Tabitha went up and down all over the house, mewing for Tom
+Kitten. She looked in the pantry under the staircase, and she searched
+the best spare bedroom that was all covered up with dust sheets. She
+went right upstairs and looked into the attics, but she could not find
+him anywhere.
+
+It was an old, old house, full of cupboards and passages. Some of the
+walls were four feet thick, and there used to be queer noises inside
+them, as if there might be a little secret staircase. Certainly there
+were odd little jagged doorways in the wainscot, and things disappeared
+at night--especially cheese and bacon.
+
+Mrs. Tabitha became more and more distracted, and mewed dreadfully.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+While their mother was searching the house, Moppet and Mittens had got
+into mischief.
+
+The cupboard door was not locked, so they pushed it open and came out.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They went straight to the dough which was set to rise in a pan before
+the fire.
+
+They patted it with their little soft paws--"Shall we make dear little
+muffins?" said Mittens to Moppet.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But just at that moment somebody knocked at the front door, and Moppet
+jumped into the flour barrel in a fright.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Mittens ran away to the dairy, and hid in an empty jar on the stone
+shelf where the milk pans stand.
+
+The visitor was a neighbour, Mrs. Ribby; she had called to borrow some
+yeast.
+
+Mrs. Tabitha came downstairs mewing dreadfully--"Come in, Cousin Ribby,
+come in, and sit ye down! I'm in sad trouble, Cousin Ribby," said
+Tabitha, shedding tears. "I've lost my dear son Thomas; I'm afraid the
+rats have got him." She wiped her eyes with her apron.
+
+"He's a bad kitten, Cousin Tabitha; he made a cat's cradle of my best
+bonnet last time I came to tea. Where have you looked for him?"
+
+"All over the house! The rats are too many for me. What a thing it is to
+have an unruly family!" said Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"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?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"The chimney wants sweeping--Oh, dear me, Cousin Ribby--now Moppet and
+Mittens are gone!"
+
+"They have both got out of the cupboard!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Ribby and Tabitha set to work to search the house thoroughly again.
+They poked under the beds with Ribby's umbrella, and they rummaged in
+cupboards. They even fetched a candle, and looked inside a clothes chest
+in one of the attics. They could not find anything, but once they heard
+a door bang and somebody scuttered downstairs.
+
+"Yes, it is infested with rats," said Tabitha tearfully. "I caught seven
+young ones out of one hole in the back kitchen, and we had them for
+dinner last Saturday. And once I saw the old father rat--an enormous old
+rat, Cousin Ribby. I was just going to jump upon him, when he showed his
+yellow teeth at me and whisked down the hole."
+
+"The rats get upon my nerves, Cousin Ribby," said Tabitha.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Ribby and Tabitha searched and searched. They both heard a curious
+roly-poly noise under the attic floor. But there was nothing to be seen.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They returned to the kitchen. "Here's one of your kittens at least,"
+said Ribby, dragging Moppet out of the flour barrel.
+
+They shook the flour off her and set her down on the kitchen floor. She
+seemed to be in a terrible fright.
+
+"Oh! Mother, Mother," said Moppet, "there's been an old woman rat in the
+kitchen, and she's stolen some of the dough!"
+
+The two cats ran to look at the dough pan. Sure enough there were marks
+of little scratching fingers, and a lump of dough was gone!
+
+"Which way did she go, Moppet?"
+
+But Moppet had been too much frightened to peep out of the barrel again.
+
+Ribby and Tabitha took her with them to keep her safely in sight, while
+they went on with their search.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They went into the dairy. The first thing they found was Mittens, hiding
+in an empty jar.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They tipped up the jar, and she scrambled out.
+
+"Oh, Mother, Mother!" said Mittens--
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Oh! Mother, Mother, there has been an old man rat in the dairy--a
+dreadful 'normous big rat, mother; and he's stolen a pat of butter and
+the rolling-pin."
+
+Ribby and Tabitha looked at one another.
+
+"A rolling-pin and butter! Oh, my poor son Thomas!" exclaimed Tabitha,
+wringing her paws.
+
+"A rolling-pin?" said Ribby. "Did we not hear a roly-poly noise in the
+attic when we were looking into that chest?"
+
+Ribby and Tabitha rushed upstairs again. Sure enough the roly-poly noise
+was still going on quite distinctly under the attic floor.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"This is serious, Cousin Tabitha," said Ribby. "We must send for John
+Joiner at once, with a saw."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+He looked about for a nice convenient place, and he fixed upon the
+chimney.
+
+The fire had only just been lighted, and it was not hot; but there was a
+white choky smoke from the green sticks. Tom Kitten got upon the fender
+and looked up. It was a big old-fashioned fire-place.
+
+The chimney itself was wide enough inside for a man to stand up and walk
+about. So there was plenty of room for a little Tom Cat.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He jumped right up into the fire-place, balancing himself upon the iron
+bar where the kettle hangs.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Tom Kitten took another big jump off the bar, and landed on a ledge high
+up inside the chimney, knocking down some soot into the fender.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Tom Kitten coughed and choked with the smoke; and he could hear the
+sticks beginning to crackle and burn in the fire-place down below. He
+made up his mind to climb right to the top, and get out on the slates,
+and try to catch sparrows.
+
+"I cannot go back. If I slipped I might fall in the fire and singe my
+beautiful tail and my little blue jacket."
+
+The chimney was a very big old-fashioned one. It was built in the days
+when people burnt logs of wood upon the hearth.
+
+The chimney stack stood up above the roof like a little stone tower, and
+the daylight shone down from the top, under the slanting slates that
+kept out the rain.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Tom Kitten was getting very frightened! He climbed up, and up, and up.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He squeezed through the hole in the wall, and dragged himself along a
+most uncomfortably tight passage where there was scarcely any light.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He groped his way carefully for several yards; he was at the back of the
+skirting-board in the attic, where there is a little mark * in the
+picture.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+All at once he fell head over heels in the dark, down a hole, and
+landed on a heap of very dirty rags.
+
+When Tom Kitten picked himself up and looked about him--he found himself
+in a place that he had never seen before, although he had lived all his
+life in the house.
+
+It was a very small stuffy fusty room, with boards, and rafters, and
+cobwebs, and lath and plaster.
+
+Opposite to him--as far away as he could sit--was an enormous rat.
+
+"What do you mean by tumbling into my bed all covered with smuts?" said
+the rat, chattering his teeth.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Please sir, the chimney wants sweeping," said poor Tom Kitten.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Anna Maria! Anna Maria!" squeaked the rat. There was a pattering noise
+and an old woman rat poked her head round a rafter.
+
+All in a minute she rushed upon Tom Kitten, and before he knew what was
+happening--
+
+His coat was pulled off, and he was rolled up in a bundle, and tied with
+string in very hard knots.
+
+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.
+
+"Anna Maria," said the old man rat (whose name was Samuel
+Whiskers),--"Anna Maria, make me a kitten dumpling roly-poly pudding for
+my dinner."
+
+"It requires dough and a pat of butter, and a rolling-pin," said Anna
+Maria, considering Tom Kitten with her head on one side.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"No," said Samuel Whiskers, "make it properly, Anna Maria, with
+breadcrumbs."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Nonsense! Butter and dough," replied Anna Maria.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The two rats consulted together for a few minutes and then went away.
+
+Samuel Whiskers got through a hole in the wainscot, and went boldly down
+the front staircase to the dairy to get the butter. He did not meet
+anybody.
+
+He made a second journey for the rolling-pin. He pushed it in front of
+him with his paws, like a brewer's man trundling a barrel.
+
+He could hear Ribby and Tabitha talking, but they were busy lighting the
+candle to look into the chest.
+
+They did not see him.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Anna Maria went down by way of the skirting-board and a window shutter
+to the kitchen to steal the dough.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 cobwebs, 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 he was quite exhausted.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Presently the rats came back and set to work to make him into a
+dumpling. First they smeared him with butter, and then they rolled him
+in the dough.
+
+"Will not the string be very indigestible, Anna Maria?" inquired Samuel
+Whiskers.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Anna Maria said she thought that it was of no consequence; but she
+wished that Tom Kitten would hold his head still, as it disarranged the
+pastry. She laid hold of his ears.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Tom Kitten bit and spat, and mewed and wriggled; and the rolling-pin
+went roly-poly, roly; roly, poly, roly. The rats each held an end.
+
+"His tail is sticking out! You did not fetch enough dough, Anna Maria."
+
+"I fetched as much as I could carry," replied Anna Maria.
+
+"I do not think"--said Samuel Whiskers, pausing to take a look at Tom
+Kitten--"I do _not_ think it will be a good pudding. It smells sooty."
+
+Anna Maria was about to argue the point, when all at once there began to
+be other sounds up above--the rasping noise of a saw; and the noise of a
+little dog, scratching and yelping!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The rats dropped the rolling-pin, and listened attentively.
+
+"We are discovered and interrupted, Anna Maria; let us collect our
+property--and other people's,--and depart at once."
+
+"I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"But I am persuaded that the knots would have proved indigestible,
+whatever you may urge to the contrary."
+
+"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."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So it happened that by the time John Joiner had got the plank up--there
+was nobody under the floor except the rolling-pin and Tom Kitten in a
+very dirty dumpling!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But there was a strong smell of rats; and John Joiner spent the rest of
+the morning sniffing and whining, and wagging his tail, and going round
+and round with his head in the hole like a gimlet.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Then he nailed the plank down again and put his tools in his bag, and
+came downstairs.
+
+The cat family had quite recovered. They invited him to stay to dinner.
+
+The dumpling had been peeled off Tom Kitten, and made separately into a
+bag pudding, with currants in it to hide the smuts.
+
+They had been obliged to put Tom Kitten into a hot bath to get the
+butter off.
+
+John Joiner smelt the pudding; but he regretted that he had not time to
+stay to dinner, because he had just finished making a wheel-barrow for
+Miss Potter, and she had ordered two hen-coops.
+
+And when I was going to the post late in the afternoon--I looked up the
+lane from the corner, and I saw Mr. Samuel Whiskers and his wife on the
+run, with big bundles on a little wheel-barrow, which looked very like
+mine.
+
+They were just turning in at the gate to the barn of Farmer Potatoes.
+
+Samuel Whiskers was puffing and out of breath. Anna Maria was still
+arguing in shrill tones.
+
+She seemed to know her way, and she seemed to have a quantity of
+luggage.
+
+I am sure _I_ never gave her leave to borrow my wheel-barrow!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They went into the barn, and hauled their parcels with a bit of string
+to the top of the hay mow.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+After that, there were no more rats for a long time at Tabitha
+Twitchit's.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As for Farmer Potatoes, he has been driven nearly distracted. There are
+rats, and rats, and rats in his barn! They eat up the chicken food, and
+steal the oats and bran, and make holes in the meal bags.
+
+And they are all descended from Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Whiskers--children
+and grand-children and great great grand-children.
+
+There is no end to them!
+
+Moppet and Mittens have grown up into very good rat-catchers.
+
+They go out rat-catching in the village, and they find plenty of
+employment. They charge so much a dozen, and earn their living very
+comfortably.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They hang up the rats' tails in a row on the barn door, to show how many
+they have caught--dozens and dozens of them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But Tom Kitten has always been afraid of a rat; he never durst face
+anything that is bigger than--
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mouse.
+
+
+
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