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As this is one of the early PG Classics, a portion of the header from the previous edition is copied here:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This is the Project Gutenberg Etext of Through the Looking-Glass This 17th edition should be labeled lglass18.txt or lglass18.zip ***This Edition Is Being Officially Released On March 8, 1994*** **In Celebration Of The 23rd Anniversary of Project Gutenberg*** Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll [Charles Dodgson]

March, 1994] [Originally released February/March, 1991 as Etext #12] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

by LEWIS CARROLL

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 1.7

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CHAPTER 1

Looking-Glass house

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

But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been r

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