"I shall never, no never, forget it.

She was up here one night with you when you were about three, and you and Walter were playing out in the kitchen yard with a kitten.

I had a big puncheon of rainwater by the spout which I was reserving for making soap.

And you and Walter began quarrelling over the kitten.

Walter was at one side of the puncheon standing on a chair, holding the kitten, and you were standing on a chair at the other side.
You leaned across that puncheon and grabbed the kitten and pulled.