| 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 |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
| midd |
