Oh, you wicked, wicked little thing! Really Dinah ought to have taught you better Manners! Now Don't interrupt me! I'm going to tell you all your faults. Number one: You Squeaked twice while Dinah was washing your face this morning. Now you can't deny it Kitty; I heard you. Number two: you pulled Snowdrop away by the tail just as I had put down the saucer of milk before her. Now for number three: you unwound every bit or worsted While I wasn't looking! That's three faults, Kitty, And you've not been punished for any of them yet. You know I'm saving up all your punishments for Wednesday week. Suppose they had saved up all my punishments! what would they do a the end of a year? I should be sent to prison I suppose, when the day came. Kitty can you play Chess? Now don't smile, my dear, I'm asking it seriously. Because, when we were playing just now, you watched just as if you understood it; and when I said "Check!" you purred! Well, it was a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn't been for that nasty Knight that came wriggling down among my pieces. Kitty dear, let's pretend that you're the Red Queen! Do you know I think if you sat up and folded your arms, you'd look exactly like her. Now do try, there's a dear! You're not folding your arms properly. I'll just hold you up to the looking glass and you can see how sulky you are!
(She does so)
And if you're not good directly, I'll put you through into Looking-glass House. How would you like that? Now, If you'll only attend, Kitty, I'll tell you all my ideas about Looking-glass House. First, there's room you can see through the glass... that's just the same as our drawing-room, only the things go the other way. Oh Kitty, how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass House! I'm sure it's got, oh, such beautiful things in it! Let's pretend there's such a way of getting through into it somehow, Kitty.
(She raises and climbs from the arm of the chair to the mantel.)
Let's pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it's turning into a sort of mist now, I declare. It'll be easy enough to get through...
(Alice finds that the glass is indeed like a bright silvery mist, and she goes through in at once, as LIGHTS dim... emerging presently on the other side into the Looking-glass Room, LIGHTS UP.)
Oh, what fun it;ll be when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!
(She Discovers a book lying near her on the Mantel, and sits down on the Mantle Piece to read it.)
It's all in some language I don't know! if I hold it up to the glass, the words will all go the right way again.
(She holds the book up to the glass reading, as if from its reflection...)
Jabberwocky
'Twass brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
and the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The Frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome for he sought...
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jadderwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the through wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snickersnack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went Galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Calloog! Callay!" He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimst were of borogoves,
And the mome raths out grabe.
It seems very pretty but it's rather hard to understand! Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas.... only I don't exactly know what that are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate...
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