The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-20
STORIES
FOR LITTLE
FOLKS
PITTY.PAT AND TlPPY-ToEs.


little kittens. Pitty-pat was an all
black kitten. and Tippytoes was all
black except the tips of his feet and
his toes-his toes were all white.
Their mother tried to bring them
up to be good kittens, but they would
wait until she was doing in the sun
and then they would scamper away
looking for some mischief 10 DO. One
| day the mother was sleeping on the
| sill of the doorway, where the sun
was warm. She had made their furs
slick and told them to take nap be-
| side her.
Tippy-toes and Pitty-pat waited I'M
til they were sure their mother was
| fast asleep and then they very softly
crept past her and scampered to the
| barn,
What shall we do?" asked Pity
pat.
Let us climb into the loft and
tumble among the hay" answered
Tippy-toes.
i They played about for while with
out doing any mischief and then Pity
pat saw the place where the hay was
| thrown down to the horse, and he
went to the ends and looked over.
| Tippy-toes saw chance to have
some fun, so he ran at his brother and
gave him a shove which sent him
tumbling down into the manger. Now
| it happened that hen had made her
nest there, and there were three eggs
in the nest, and that was where Pity
pat landed, right in the nest
Tippy-toes ran down as fast as he
could when he saw what had hap
pened to his brother, who stood with
the broken eggs dripping from his
black coat.
Now see what you have DONE" said
Pitty-pat. "How will | ever get this
off my coat?'
Run down to the pond and wash it
off," said Tippy-toes, I'll help you
They ran out of the barn. but the
hens and the ducks saw them and
thought they had been stealing their
eggs, so they chased them, clucking
and quacking down to the pond. Pity
pat and Tippy-toes were pretty well
frightened and would have liked to
! run to their mother, but they knew
she would punish them when she saw
the condition of Pitty-pat's fur, which
she had taken SO much trouble to
make nice and slick, SO they ran on to
the pond.
They tried to explain to the hens
and ducks that it was an accident and
that they were not fond of eggs, but
they only made more noise, and soon
all the barnyard animals were stand
ing around and Pitty-pat and Tippy
toes were beginning to wonder what
would happen to them.
They did not want to get into the
water, but the hens crowded around
them so and the ducks poked at them
with their bills until the kittens found
themselves on the very edge of the
pond and they had not cleaned Pity
pats coat either.
"Take him in and give him a bath,
Madam Duck" said one old hen.
Hold him under the water long
enough, so ne will remember not to
touch our eggs next time" said an
other hen.
''Tll help you," said another duck,
taking hold of poor Pitty-pat with her
BILL
They swan with Pitty-pat out into
the pond and ducked him. When they
brought him back he was almost dead
with fright
"Now, take the other one" said a
hen, ."he is as bad as that one, I have
no doubt"
So poor Tippy-toes was taken out
and treated in the same manner
BY that time their mother saw the
gathering and hurried down to the
pond. When she saw her children on
4 the bank all wet she began to meow
and asked who had saved her darlings
from drowning.
1--WE have been teaching them les
son. explained Madam Duck, "thev
have been stealing our eggs"
( Fitty-pat and Tippy-toes told their
mother just what had happened and
said that mad duck had tried to .yoHa
them.
Their mother did not say a word
prepared for eating uncooked and