Through the Looking-Glass

CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house

 
That's three faults, Kitty, and you've not been punished for any of them yet.

One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten’s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it COULDN’T have [...]

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CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers

 
O Tiger-lily, said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, «I wish you could talk!

‘I should see the garden far better,’ said Alice to herself, ‘if I could get to the top of that hill: and here’s a path that leads straight to it—at least, no, it doesn’t do that—’ (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), ‘but I suppose it will at [...]

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CHAPTER III. Looking-Glass Insects

 
the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope

Of course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the country she was going to travel through. ‘It’s something very like learning geography,’ thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of being able to see a little further. ‘Principal rivers—there ARE none. Principal mountains—I’m on the only one, [...]

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CHAPTER IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee

 
Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had Dum embroidered on his collar, and the other Dee.

They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other’s neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had ‘DUM’ embroidered on his collar, and the other ‘DEE.’ ‘I suppose they’ve each got “TWEEDLE” round at the back of the collar,’ she said to herself. They [...]

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CHAPTER V. Wool and Water

 
It CAN'T go straight, you know, if you pin it all on one side, Alice said

She caught the shawl as she spoke, and looked about for the owner: in another moment the White Queen came running wildly through the wood, with both arms stretched out wide, as if she were flying, and Alice very civilly went to meet her with the shawl. ‘I’m very glad I happened to be in [...]

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CHAPTER VI. Humpty Dumpty

 
To send all his horses and all his men, Alice interrupted, rather unwisely.

However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had eyes and a nose and mouth; and when she had come close to it, she saw clearly that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself. ‘It can’t be anybody [...]

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CHAPTER VII. The Lion and the Unicorn

 
Alice got behind a tree, for fear of being run over, and watched them go by

The next moment soldiers came running through the wood, at first in twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such crowds that they seemed to fill the whole forest. Alice got behind a tree, for fear of being run over, and watched them go by. She thought that in all [...]

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CHAPTER VIII. ‘It’s my own Invention’

 
Alice got behind a tree to be out of the way of the blows

After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was no one to be seen, and her first thought was that she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those queer Anglo-Saxon Messengers. However, there [...]

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