\n \u2018Well, perhaps not,\u2019 said Alice in a soothing tone: \u2018don\u2019t be angry about\n it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you\u2019d take a\n fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,\u2019\n Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, \u2018and\n she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her\n face\u2014and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse\u2014and she\u2019s such\n a capital one for catching mice\u2014oh, I beg your pardon!\u2019 cried Alice\n again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt\n certain it must be really offended. \u2018We won\u2019t talk about her any more if\n you\u2019d rather not.\u2019\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n \u2018We indeed!\u2019 cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his\n tail. \u2018As if I<\/em> would talk on such a subject! Our family always hated<\/em> cats:\n nasty, low, vulgar things! Don\u2019t let me hear the name again!\u2019\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018I won\u2019t indeed!\u2019 said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation. \u2018Are you\u2014are you fond\u2014of\u2014of dogs?\u2019 The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: \u2018There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly brown hair! And it\u2019ll fetch things when you throw them, and it\u2019ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things\u2014I can\u2019t remember half of them\u2014and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it\u2019s so useful, it\u2019s worth a hundred pounds! <\/p>\n\n\n\n “He says it kills all the rats and\u2014oh dear!” cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, “I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ve offended it again!”<\/p>Alice in Wonderland<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So she called softly after it, \u2018Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we won\u2019t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don\u2019t like them!\u2019 When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, \u2018Let us get to the shore, and then I\u2019ll tell you my history, and you\u2019ll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Well, perhaps not,\u2019 said Alice in a soothing tone: \u2018don\u2019t be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you\u2019d take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,\u2019 Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[147,181,198],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings","tag-blog","tag-musings","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plug.littlethemeshop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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