She tells them to keep their frocks clean and keep away from the pigsty, the dirty ash pit, Sally Henny Penny, and the Puddle-Ducks, and then returns to her work. Tabitha turns her kittens into the garden to keep them out of the way while she makes hot buttered toast for the party. Tom is so fat that he bursts several buttons, but his mother sews them back on again. Tabitha dresses Moppet and Mittens in clean pinafores and tuckers, and Tom in "all sorts of elegant uncomfortable clothes" taken from a chest of drawers. Tom is "very naughty" and scratches his mother while she grooms him. Tabitha Twitchit, expects "fine company" for tea so she fetches the children indoors to wash and dress them before her friends arrive.
The tale begins with three feline siblings – Mittens, Tom Kitten, and Moppet – tumbling about the doorstep and playing in the dust. The tale is about manners and how children react to them. The Tale of Tom Kitten is a children's book, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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