. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . idnt succeed, principally, Alicesaid, because the kitten wouldnt fold itsarms properly. So, to punish it, she held itup to the Looking-glass that it might seehow sulky it was— and if youre not gooddirectly, she added, Ill put you throughinto Looking-glass House. How would youlike that? Now, if youll only attend, Kitty, and nottalk so much, Ill tell you all my ideas aboutLooking-glass House, First, theres the roomyou can see through the glass—thats justthe same as our drawing-room, only thethings go the other way. I can see all of itwhe
. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . idnt succeed, principally, Alicesaid, because the kitten wouldnt fold itsarms properly. So, to punish it, she held itup to the Looking-glass that it might seehow sulky it was— and if youre not gooddirectly, she added, Ill put you throughinto Looking-glass House. How would youlike that? Now, if youll only attend, Kitty, and nottalk so much, Ill tell you all my ideas aboutLooking-glass House, First, theres the roomyou can see through the glass—thats justthe same as our drawing-room, only thethings go the other way. I can see all of itwhen I get upon a chair—all but the bit justbehind the fireplace. Oh! I do so wish Icould see that bit! I want so much to knowwhether theyve a fire in the winter: younever can tell, you know, unless our firesmokes, and then smoke comes up in thatroom too--but that may be only pretence,just to make it look as if they had a then, the books are something like ourbooks, only the words go the wrong1 way;I know that, because Ive held up one of our. 2— Through the Looking-Glass 22 THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, books to the glass, and then they hold upone in the other room. How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty ? I wonder if theyd giveyou milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glassmilk isnt good to drink—But oh, Kitty! nowwe come to the passage. You can just see alittle peep of the passage in Looking-glassHouse, if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open: and its very like our pas-sage as far as you can see, only you know itmay be quite different on beyond. Oh,Kitty ! how nice it would be if we could onlyget through into Looking-glass House! Imsure its got, oh ! such beautiful things in it!Lets pretend theres a way of getting throughinto it, somehow, Kitty. Lets pretend theglass has got all soft like gauze, so that wecan get through. Why, its turning into asort of mist now, I declare! Itll be easy enough to get through She was up on the chimney-piece
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