Now do try, there's a dear!' And Alice got the Red Queen off
the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to
imitate: however, the thing didn't succeed, principally, Alice said,
because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly. So, to punish it,
she held it up to the Looking-glass, that it might see how sulky it
was -- `and if you're not good directly,' she added, `I'll put you
through into Looking-glass House. How would you like THAT?'
`Now, if you'll only attend, Kitty, and not talk so much, I'll tell
you all my ideas about Looking-glass House. First, there's the room
you can see through the glass -- that's just the same as our drawing
room, only the things go the other way. I can see all of it when I
get upon a chair -- all but the bit behind the fireplace. Oh! I do
so wish I could see THAT bit! I want so much to know whether they've
a fire in the winter: you never CAN tell, you know, unless our fire
smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too -- but that may be
only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire. Well
then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the
wrong way; I know that, because I've held up one of our books to the
glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.
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