At that, the cookie-jar floated down again and they ate cookies to their hearts’ content.

They told Old Mother Catastrophe about their lost mittens but she only shook her wise old head and said,

“Enough said, enough said,

Night time is the time for bed.”

She tucked the Three Little Kittens up in her own bed.

Dot and Tot and Trot fell asleep wondering about their lost mittens.

ALL THIS TIME THREE LITTLE FOXES WEARING THREE PAIRS OF MITTENS WERE DANCING MERRILY IN THE MOONLIGHT.

CHAPTER II.
OLD MOTHER CATASTROPHE

Next morning Dot and Tot and Trot woke up crying, “I am hungry, I am hungry, I am hungry.”

They ran downstairs but Old Mother Catastrophe was nowhere to be seen.