Stranica 98 [98]
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82 | PIG AND PEPPER. There was certainly too much of it in the air. ven the Duchess sneezed occasionally ; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moments pause. The only two creatures in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cai whisk was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear. ‘Please would you tell me,’ said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, “ why your cat grins like that ?” c [ts a Cheshire cat, said the Duchess, “ and that’s why. Pig!” She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again :— “YT didn’t know that Cheshire cats always erinned ; in fact, I didn’t know that cats could grin.’
