Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

'I know what you’re thinking about,' said Tweedledum: 'but it isn’t so, nohow.'
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.'

'Now, here , you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'

still and trying to purr—no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.

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 had any hand in the mischief.

The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite

the dog went away, its temper would remain!”

Remove the pudding

May I give you a slice?” she said, taking up the knife and fork, and looking from one Queen to the other.
“Certainly not,” the Red Queen said, very decidedly: “it isn't etiquette to cut any one you've been introduced to.

two great heads vanished

In another moment both Queens were fast asleep, and snoring loud.

he dog would lose its temper, wouldn't it?”