Stranica 105 [105]
PIG AND PEPPER. 89
might do very well as pigs, and was just say¬
ing to herself, “if one only knew the right way
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when she was a little
to change them
startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a
bough of a tree a few yards off.
The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
Ít looked good-natured, she thought: still it had
very long claws and a great many teeth, so she
felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
“Cheshire Puss,” she began, rather timidly, as
she did not at all know whether it would like
the name: however, it only grinned a little wider.
“Come, its pleased so far,” thougnt Alice, and
she went on. “ Would you tell me, please, which
way | ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want
to get to,” said the Cat.
“| don’t much care where
" said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you
go, said the Cat.
ég
—— so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added
as an explanation.