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. )
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, if 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. This is a
serious question, my dear, and you should _not_ go on licking your paw
like that as if Dinah hadn t washed you this morning! You see, Kitty,
it _must_ have been either me or the Red King. He was part of my dream,
of course but then I was part of his dream, too! _Was_ it the Red King,
Kitty? You were his wife, my dear, so you ought to know Oh, Kitty, _do_
help to settle it! I m sure your paw can wait! But the provoking
kitten only began on the other paw, and pretended it hadn t heard the
question.
Which do _you_ think it was?
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