“Oh ho, Little Kittens,

I saw your lost mittens.”

“Where? Where? Where?” cried the Three Little Kittens in one breath uncovering their heads.

THREE LITTLE FOXES WEARING THREE PAIRS OF MITTENS

The Sandman answered in a sing-song-lazy kind of way,

“Come jump in the sack,

I have on my back.”

The Three Little Kittens were thinking so hard about their mittens that they forgot to be afraid and they went whisk! bound! into the Sandman’s sack and rode merrily far away over hill and dale, away, away, away.

Suddenly the Sandman’s sack broke and out fell the Three Little Kittens.