CHAPTER XII
Which Dreamed it?
`Your majesty shouldn't purr so loud,' Alice said, rubbing her
eyes, and addressing the kitten, respectfully, yet with some
severity. `You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream! And you've
been along with me, Kitty -- all through the Looking-Glass world. Did
you know it, dear?'
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the
remark) that, whatever you say to them, they Always purr. `If them
would only purr for "yes" and mew for "no," or any rule of that
sort,' she had said, `so that one could keep up a conversation! But
how CAN you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?'
On this occasion the kitten only purred: and it was impossible to
guess whether it meant `yes' or `no.'
So Alice hunted among the chessmen on the table till she had found
the Red Queen: then she went down on her knees on the hearth-rug, and
put the kitten and the Queen to look at each other. "Now, Kitty!'
she cried, clapping her hands triumphantly. `Confess that was what
you turned into!'
(`But it wouldn't look at it,' she said, when she was explaining
the thing afterwards to her sister: `it turned away its head, and
pretended not to see it: but it looked a LITTLE ashamed of itself, so
I think it MUST have been the Red Queen.
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