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‘To begin with,’
said the Cat, ‘a dog’s
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not mad. You grant that ?’
‘I suppose so,’ said Alice.
‘Well, then,’ the Cat went on,
‘you see a dog growls when it’s angry,
and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I
growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m
angry. Th erefore I’m mad.’
‘I call it purring, not growling,’ said Alice.
‘Call it what you like,’ said the Cat. ‘Do you play
croquet with the Queen today?’
‘I should like it very much,’ said Alice, ‘but I
haven’t been invited yet.’
‘You’ll see me there,’ said the Cat and vanished.
Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting
so used to queer things happening. While she was looking
at the place where it had been, it suddenly appeared again.
‘By-the-bye, what became of the baby?’ said the Cat. ‘I’d nearly
forgotten to ask.’
‘It turned into a pig,’ Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back in a
natural way.
‘I thought it would,’ said the Cat, and vanished again.
Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, and
aft er a minute or two she walked on in the direction in which the March Hare
was said to live. ‘I’ve seen hatters before,’ she said to herself. ‘Th e March Hare will
be much more interesting, and perhaps as this is May, it won’t be raving mad – at
least not so mad as it was in March.’ As she said this, she looked up, and there
was the Cat again, sitting on the branch of a tree.
‘Did you say “pig”, or “fi g”?’ said the Cat.
‘I said “pig”,’ replied Alice, ‘and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and
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vanishing so suddenly. You make one quite giddy .’

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grant that: agree that something is true giddy: dizzy
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