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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
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By Lewis Carroll
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CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house
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One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with
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it:--it was the black kitten's fault entirely. For the white kitten had
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been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of
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an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it
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COULDN'T have had any hand in the mischief.
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The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the
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poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she
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rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and
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just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was
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lying quite still and trying to purr--no doubt feeling that it was all
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meant for its good.
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But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon,
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and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great
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arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been
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having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been
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trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all
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come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all
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knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the
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middle.
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'Oh, you wicked little thing!' cried Alice, catching up the kitten, and
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giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace.
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'Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You OUGHT,
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Dinah, you know you ought!' she added, looking reproachfully at the old
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cat, and speaking in as cross a voice as she could manage--and then she
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scrambled back into the arm-chair, taking the kitten and the worsted
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with her, and began winding up the ball again. But she didn't get on
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very fast, as she was talking all the time, sometimes to the kitten, and
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sometimes to herself. Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to
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watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one
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paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it
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might.
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'Do you know what to-morrow is, Kitty?' Alice began. 'You'd have guessed
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if you'd been up in the window with me--only Dinah was making you tidy,
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so you couldn't. I was watching the boys getting in sticks for the
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bonfire--and it wants plenty of sticks, Kitty! Only it got so cold, and
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it snowed so, they had to leave off. Never mind, Kitty, we'll go and
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see the bonfire to-morrow.' Here Alice wound two or three turns of the
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worsted round the kitten's neck, just to see how it would look: this led
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to a scramble, in which the ball rolled down upon the floor, and yards
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and yards of it got unwound again.
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'Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,' Alice went on as soon as they were
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comfortably settled again, 'when I saw all the mischief you had been
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doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into
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the snow! And you'd have deserved it, you little mischievous darling!
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