` Her paw went into your eye ? Well , that 's YOUR fault , for keeping your eyes open -- if you 'd shut them tight up , it would n't have happened . Now do n't make any more excuses , but listen ! Number two : you pulled Snowdrop away by the tail just as I had put down the saucer of milk before her ! What , you were thirsty , were you ? How do you know she was n't thirsty too ? Now for number three : you unwound every bit of the worsted while I was n't looking ! ` That 's three faults , Kitty , and you 've not been punished for any of them yet . You know I 'm saving up all your punishments for Wednesday week -- Suppose they had saved up all MY punishments ! ' she went on , talking more to herself than the kitten . ` What WOULD they do at the end of a year ? I should be sent to prison , I suppose , when the day came . Or -- let me see -- suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner : then , when the miserable day came , I should have to go without fifty dinners at once ! Well , I should n't mind THAT much ! I 'd far rather go without them than eat them ! ` Do you hear the snow against the window-panes , Kitty ? How nice and soft it sounds ! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside . I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields , that it kisses them so gently ? And then it covers them up snug , you know , with a white quilt ; and perhaps it says , `` Go to sleep , darlings , till the summer comes again . ''
And when they wake up in the summer , XXXXX , they dress themselves all in green , and dance about -- whenever the wind blows -- oh , that 's very pretty ! '
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