"Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside.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. One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.The jaws that bite and claws that scratch. 2 Chapter 2: The Garden of Live FlowersĬhapter 1: Looking-Glass house 'Twas brillig and the slithy toves,Īnd the mome raths outgrabe.“It’s jam every other day to-day isn’t any other day, you know.” “It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’ “ Alice objected. “The rule is jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day.” “You couldn’t have it if you did want it,” the Queen said. “Well, I don’t want any to-day, at any rate!’ “Twopence a week, and jam every other day.”Īlice couldn’t help laughing as she said “I don’t want you to have me, and I don’t care for jam.” “I’m sure I’ll take you with pleasure,” the Queen said. She gets as much confused as ever, and sadly set down and contradicted: Alice meets also the lion and the unicorn fighting for the crown, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee. They have nevertheless got on considerably in life, and are both messengers to the White King: for, in fact, Alice’s adventures in Looking-glass House are a kind of game of chess, in which she starts as a white pawn and finally comes out a queen “in the eighth square,” where she gives a very mad dinner party in honour of the event.Īmong other strange creatures in this part of the world are the rocking-horse fly, the bread-and-butter fly, and the snapdragon fly, whose “body is made of plum pudding, its wings of holly leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.” Moreover it lives on frumety and mince pie, and makes its nest in a Christmas box.
He still has the March Hare for his companion, and the pair are as delightfully feeble and addle-brained as ever. 6d.” and seems to have lost none of his knack of getting into disgrace with royalty. He still preserves his hat, “in this style, 10s. Readers of the Wonderland will be sorry to hear that it is their old friend the Hatter who is in this predicament. Alice meeting Tweedledum and Tweedledee, in Lewis Carroll’s children’s novel ‘Alice Through The Looking-Glass’.
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