Achieving maximum comfort

... whatever is going on here

Presently the rats came back and set to work to make him into a dumpling. First they smeared him with butter, and then they rolled him in the dough.

"Will not the string be very indigestible, Anna Maria?" inquired Samuel Whiskers.

Anna Maria said she thought that it was of no consequence; but she wished that Tom Kitten would hold his head still, as it disarranged the pastry. She laid hold of his ears.

Tom Kitten bit and spat, and mewed and wriggled; and the rolling-pin went roly-poly, roly; roly, poly, roly. The rats each held an end.

Sauce

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They're planning to murder the kitten then cook and eat him. Seriously. That's the entire plot of this book.

Yea this isn't what you thought it was OP.

They're rolling a purrito

Making cat wellington?

I too need to be swaddled and baked.

You don't want what's going on there. Trust me.