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Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland
Kapitel 6:
Pig and pepper, Lewis Carroll, Seite 5 ( von 5 )
"It turned into a pig," Alice answered very quietly, just as if the
Cat 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 after 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; "the March Hare will be much the most 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 a branch of a tree.
"Did you say pig, or fig?" said the Cat.
"I said pig," replied Alice; "and I wish you wouldn't keep
appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy."
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly,
beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained
some time after the rest of it had gone.
"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice;
"but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all
my life!"
She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the
March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the chimneys were
shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. It was so large a house,
that she did not like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the
left-hand bit of mushroom, and raised herself about two feet high: even then
she walked up towards it rather timidly, saying to herself "Suppose it
should be raving mad after all! I almost wish I'd gone to see the Hatter
instead!"
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