He moved the broken basket to one side and said to her, "Look at this. That old cat, sneaky as anything, went and had four kittens in the drawer of our console table. I was just wondering where she'd gone. She was pregnant and I hadn't seen her for days, so I figured she must have gone off somewhere to have her litter. Who would have thought? I opened the drawer to find something today and discovered she'd already given birth. She sure knows how to pick a spot. I had several packets of vegetable seeds in that drawer. She dragged in a scrap of cloth to make a nest and had her kittens right there."
Looking at her still-crying grandson, she added, "This child is so mischievous. He wants everything he sees. When he saw me take the kittens out, he immediately wanted to grab them and play. Tell me, could I let him? So he started crying, and once he starts, he never stops."
