The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, Or, The Roly-poly PuddingThe story of Tom the kitten who escapes his mother's discipline and gets captured by the old mouse Samuel Whiskers whose wife begins the work of turning Tom into a kitten dumpling roly-poly pudding. |
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