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`Sit up a little more stiffly, dear!' Alice cried with a merry
laugh. `And curtsey while you're thinking what to -- what to purr.
It saves time, remember!' And she caught it up and gave it one
little kiss, `just in honour of having been a Red Queen.'
`Snowdrop, my pet!' she went on, looking over her shoulder at the
White Kitten, which was still patiently undergoing its toilet, `when
WILL Dinah have finished with your White Majesty, I wonder? That
must be the reason you were so untidy in my dream - - Dinah! do you
know that you're scrubbing a White Queen? Really, it's most
disrespectful of you!
`And what did DINAH turn to, I wonder?' she prattled on, as she
settled comfortably down, with one elbow in the rug, and her chin in
her hand, to watch the kittens. `Tell me, Dinah, did you turn to
Humpty Dumpty? I THINK you did -- however, you'd better not mention
it to your friends just yet, for I'm not sure.
`By the way, Kitty, of only you'd been really with me in my dream,
there was one thing you WOULD have enjoyed -- I had such a quantity
of poetry said to me, all about fishes! To-morrow morning you shall
have a real treat. All the time you're eating your breakfast, I'll
repeat "The Walrus and the Carpenter" to you; and then you can make
believe it's oysters, dear!
`Now, Kitty, let's consider who it was that dreamed it all.
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