Once upon a time there was an old cat, called Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, who was an anxious parent. She used to lose her gattini continually, and whenever they were Lost they were always in mischief!
On baking giorno 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...

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were—

⁠Flopsy,
⁠Mopsy,
⁠Cotton-tail,
and Peter.

They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir-tree.


"Now, my dears,' detto old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields o down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden.


"Your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie da Mrs. McGregor.


"Now run along, and don't get into mischief. I am going out."


Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, and went through the wood to the baker's....