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