happy mother's day

"Then Tabitha Twitchit came down the garden and found her kittens on the wall with no clothes on."

In honor of long-suffering moms everywhere, I present to you in full (thanks, Internet Archive!)

Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Tom Kitten.

(Should be a bookreader widget below; scroll through for every one of Potter's antic illustrations in excellent color reproduction)

(I especially like the passage where the Puddle-Ducks are introduced: "They had very small eyes, and looked surprised." )