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diff --git a/15575.txt b/15575.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f30edb --- /dev/null +++ b/15575.txt @@ -0,0 +1,935 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, by Beatrix Potter + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers + The Roly-Poly Pudding + + +Author: Beatrix Potter + +Release Date: April 6, 2005 [eBook #15575] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF SAMUEL WHISKERS*** + + +E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Ronald Holder, and the Project +Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original lovely illustrations. + See 15575-h.htm or 15575-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/5/7/15575/15575-h/15575-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/5/7/15575/15575-h.zip) + + + + + +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. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF SAMUEL WHISKERS*** + + +******* This file should be named 15575.txt or 15575.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/5/7/15575 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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