AND THE VISIT OF INSPECTION Cats did not immediately flow in, though the Twins, riding round the countryside on their bicycles, spread the information that they were willing to afford a home to such of those necessary animals as their owners no longer needed.

They had, indeed, one offer of a cat suffering from the mange; but the Terror rejected it, saying coldly to its owner that theirs was a home, not a hospital.
The impatient Erebus was somewhat vexed with him for rejecting it: she pointed out that even a mangy cat was a beginning.
Slowly they grew annoyed that the home on which they had lavished such strenuous labor remained empty; and at last the Terror said: "Look here: I'm going to begin with kittens." "How will you get kittens, if you can't get cats?
Everybody likes kittens.

It's only when they grow up and stop playing that they don't want them," said Erebus with her coldest scorn.
"I'm going to buy them," said the Terror firmly.

"I'm going to give threepence each for kittens that can just lap.

We don't want kittens that can't lap.