`Your majesty shouldn't purr so loud,' Alice said, rubbing hereyes, and addressing the kitten, respectfully, yet with someseverity. `You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream! And you'vebeen along with me, Kitty -- all through the Looking-Glass world.Did you know it, dear?'

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once madethe remark) that, whatever you say to them, they Always purr.`If them would only purr for "yes" and mew for "no," or any ruleof that sort,' she had said, `so that one could keep up aconversation! But how

On this occasion the kitten only purred: and it was impossibleto guess whether it meant `yes' or `no.'

So Alice hunted among the chessmen on the table till she hadfound the Red Queen: then she went down on her knees on thehearth-rug, and put the kitten and the Queen to look at eachother. "Now, Kitty!' she cried, clapping her hands triumphantly.`Confess that was what you turned into!'

(`But it wouldn't look at it,' she said, when she wasexplaining the thing afterwards to her sister: `it turned awayits head, and pretended not to see it: but it looked a

`Sit up a little more stiffly, dear!' Alice cried with a merrylaugh. `And curtsey while you're thinking what to -- what topurr. It saves time, remember!' And she caught it up and gaveit one little kiss, `just in honour of having been a Red Queen.'

`Snowdrop, my pet!' she went on, looking over her shoulder atthe White Kitten, which was still patiently undergoing itstoilet, `when

`And what did

`By the way, Kitty, of only you'd been really with me in mydream, there was one thing you

`Now, Kitty, let's consider who it was that dreamed it all.This is a serious question, my dear, and you should

Which do

A boat beneath a sunny sky,

Children three that nestle near,

Long had paled that sunny sky:

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,

Children yet, the tale to hear,

In a Wonderland they lie,

Ever drifting down the stream --