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<Text id=CarGlas> 
<Author>Carroll, Lewis</Author> 
<Title>Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There</Title> 
<Edition>Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1941</Edition> 
<Date>1862-1863</Date> 
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<loc><locdoc>CarGlas9</locdoc><milestone n=9> 
<div0 type=chapter n=1> 
Looking-glass house 
ONE thing was certain, that the <i>white</i> 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 <i>couldn't</i> have had any 
hand in the mischief. 
The way Dinah washed her children's faces was like 
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 still 
and trying to purr--no doub . . .