You know I'm saving up all your punishments for
Wednesday week -- Suppose they had saved up all MY punishments!' she
went on, talking more to herself than the kitten. `What WOULD they
do at the end of a year? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when
the day came. Or -- let me see -- suppose each punishment was to be
going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should
have to go without fifty dinners at once! Well, I shouldn't mind
THAT much! I'd far rather go without them than eat them!
`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. I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields, that
it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know,
with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till
the summer comes again." And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty,
they dress themselves all in green, and dance about -- whenever the
wind blows -- oh, that's very pretty!' cried Alice, dropping the ball
of worsted to clap her hands. `And I do so WISH it was true! I'm
sure the woods look sleepy in the autumn, when the leaves are getting
brown.
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