It is Sunday today. Our mummy is coming today. We love our mum. She is kind and she loves us. Our mum is very clean and she likes when we are clean, too.

Now we can hear a noise at the door. It is our mum. She is coming in.

"Hello, my little kittens," she says. "How are you?"

"We are fine," we mew.

Our mum goes to the bathroom. There is a big tub in the bathroom. Our mum washes in the tub.

Then she says: "I am clean. Now it is time to wash your bodies, paws and heads."

We like our tub because it is magic. Pinky jumps into the tub first. Then Blackie and I jump in.

Our mum washes our heads, bodies and paws. We are very funny now. We are wet and very thin. I look at Blackie and see a white spot on his nose.

"Blackie," I say. "Here is your white spot."

"Oh great!" cries Blackie. "I have got my beautiful white spot again."

"Oh Reddy!" cries Pinky. "Your ears are yellow again. You are handsome with these ears."

I run to the mirror and look in it. I can see my yellow ears again. They are very nice.

"But Pinky," we say, "you are always white."

"Yes," says Pinky. "I am always white. And my ears and nose are always pink. It is because I clean my ears, nose and body every day."

"But it is not interesting," we say. "You are white every day, your nose is pink every day."

"Why? What is interesting?" asks Pinky.

"It is interesting to lose the white spot on your nose," says Blackie, "or your yellow ears," I say, "and then suddenly find them in the magic tub."

"And then you meet your friends and they say…" starts Pinky.

Suddenly we hear a noise at the door. It is Ted. He often visits us now. He comes in, looks at us and says: "Hello, Pinky! Hello, everyone! And where are your brothers?"

We look at Ted and cry: "But we are here! You are looking at us!"

"No, you are not Pinky's brothers. Blackie hasn't got a white spot on his nose, and Reddy hasn't got yellow ears," says Ted. "OK, I can come in the evening. Are your brothers at home in the evening?"

Pinky looks at us. "I don't know," she says.

Ted is sad. He goes away.

We look at Pinky and say: "What can we do?"

"Go to the garden and jump into a magic puddle," she says.

 

Exercises

1 Answer the questions.

1. Who is coming today?

2. Where does mummy go?

3. Why do the kittens like their tub?

4. What colour is Pinky?

5. Who visits the kittens?

2 Put the sentences in the correct order.

1. Pinky jumps into the tub.

2. Reddy can see his yellow ears again.

3. Blackie has got a white spot on his nose.

4. Mum comes.

5. Ted comes.

6. Ted is sad.

3 Match the opposites.

4 What is it?

1. You can sit and wash in it.

2. When you put on your new clothes, you look in it.

3. There are a lot of them when it is raining.

4. They are an animal's hands.