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  1. THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
  2. By Lewis Carroll
  3. CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house
  4. One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with
  5. it:--it was the black kitten's fault entirely. For the white kitten had
  6. been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of
  7. an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it
  8. COULDN'T have had any hand in the mischief.
  9. The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the
  10. poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she
  11. rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and
  12. just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was
  13. lying quite still and trying to purr--no doubt feeling that it was all
  14. meant for its good.
  15. But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon,
  16. and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great
  17. arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been
  18. having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been
  19. trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all
  20. come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all
  21. knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the
  22. midd