discount . * * * * * MR. LEWIS CARROLL , having been requested to allow `` AN EASTER GREETING '' -LRB- a leaflet , addressed to children , first published in 1876 , and frequently given with his books -RRB- to be sold separately , has arranged with Messrs. Harrison , of 59 , Pall Mall , who will supply a single copy for 1_d . , or 12 for 9_d . , or 100 for 5_s . CHAPTER I. 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 -LRB- and bearing it pretty well , considering -RRB- ; so you see that it COULD N'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 rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again ; and there it was , spread over the hearth-rug , all knots and tangles , with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle . ` Oh , you wicked little thing ! ' cried Alice , catching up the kitten , and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace . ` Really , Dinah ought to have taught you better manners ! You OUGHT , Dinah , you know you ought ! ' she added , looking reproachfully at the old cat , and speaking in as cross a voice as she could manage -- and then she scrambled back into the arm-chair , taking the kitten and the worsted with her , and began winding up the ball again . But she did n't get on very fast , as she was talking all the time , sometimes to the kitten , and sometimes to herself . Kitty sat very demurely on her knee , pretending to watch the progress of the winding , and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball , as if it would be glad to help , if it might . ` Do you know what to-morrow is , Kitty ? ' Alice began . ` You 'd have guessed if you 'd been up in the window with me -- only Dinah was making you tidy , so you could n't . I was watching the boys getting in sticks for the bonfire -- and it wants plenty of sticks , Kitty ! Only it got so cold , and it snowed so , they had to leave off .
Never mind , XXXXX , we 'll go and see the bonfire to-morrow . '
5_s 9_d Dinah Harrison Kitty Mall afternoon first hearth-rug hour