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  Three Little Kittens

  Paul Galdone

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  Three Little Kittens

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  For Jamie, Jacob, Nathaniel, and Mariska

  Clarion Books

  a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint

  215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003

  Copyright © 1986 by Paul Galdone

  All rights reserved.

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  Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003.

  Manufactured in China

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Galdone, Paul. Three little kittens.

  Summary: Three little kittens lose, find, soil, and wash their mittens. 1. Nursery rhymes.

  2. Children's poetry.

  [1. Cats—Poetry. 2. Nursery rhymes] I. Title. PZ8.3.G1218Th 1986

  398'.8 86-2655

  SCP 35 34

  CL ISBN-13: 978-0-89919-426-4 CL ISBN-10: 0-89919-426-5

  PA ISBN-13: 978-0-89919-796-8 PA ISBN-10: 0-89919-796-5

  Three Little Kittens

  Illustrated by

  PAUL GALDONE

  CLARION BOOKS

  NEW YORK

  Three Little Kittens

  they lost their mittens, and they began to cry,

  "Oh, Mother Dear, we sadly fear Our mittens we have lost!"

  "What! lost your mittens, you naughty kittens!

  Then you shall have no pie."

  "Meow, meow, meow,

  Meow, meow, meow, meow!"

  The three little kittens found their mittens and they began to cry,

  "Oh! Mother Dear, see here, see here.

  Our mittens we have found."

  "What! Found your mittens, you good little kittens,

  Then you shall have some pie."

  "Purr, purr, purr."

  The three little kittens put on their mittens and soon ate up the pie.

  "Oh! Mother Dear, we greatly fear Our mittens we have soiled."

  "What! soiled your mittens, you naughty kittens!"

  Then they began to sigh,

  "Meow, meow, meow!"

  The three little kittens washed their mittens,

  and hung them up to dry.

  "Oh! Mother Dear, look here, look here,

  Our mittens we have washed."

  "What! washed your mittens, you darling kittens!

  But hush! I smell a rat close by."

  "Yes, we smell a rat close by. Meow, meow, meow!"

 

 

  Paul Galdone, Three Little Kittens

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