, or 12 for 9_d . , or 100 for 5_s . 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 -LRB- and bearing it pretty well , considering -RRB- ; so you see that it COULD N'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 did n'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 could n'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 XXXXX you had been doing , I was very nearly opening the window , and putting you out into the snow !
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