You know I 'm saving up all your punishments for Wednesday week -- Suppose they had saved up all MY punishments ! ' she went on , talking more to herself than the kitten . ` What WOULD they do at the end of a year ? I should be sent to prison , I suppose , when the day came . Or -- let me see -- suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner : then , when the miserable day came , I should have to go without fifty dinners at once ! Well , I should n't mind THAT much ! I 'd far rather go without them than eat them ! ` Do you hear the snow against the window-panes , Kitty ? How nice and soft it sounds ! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside . I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields , that it kisses them so gently ? And then it covers them up snug , you know , with a white quilt ; and perhaps it says , `` Go to sleep , darlings , till the summer comes again . '' And when they wake up in the summer , Kitty , they dress themselves all in green , and dance about -- whenever the wind blows -- oh , that 's very pretty ! ' cried Alice , dropping the ball of worsted to clap her hands . ` And I do so WISH it was true ! I 'm sure the woods look sleepy in the autumn , when the leaves are getting brown . ` Kitty , can you play chess ? Now , do n't smile , my dear , I 'm asking it seriously . Because , when we were playing just now , you watched just as if you understood it : and when I said `` Check ! '' you purred !
Well , it WAS a nice check , XXXXX , and really I might have won , if it had n't been for that nasty Knight , that came wiggling down among my pieces .
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