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ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

she looked down at its face with some fear. This time there could be no doubt a-bout it—it was a pig!

So she set it down, and felt glad to see it trot off in-to the wood.

As she turned to walk on, she saw the Che-shire Cat on the bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat grinned when it saw Al-ice. It looked like a good cat, she thought; still it had long claws and large teeth, so she felt she ought to be kind to it.

"Puss," said Al-ice, "would you please tell me which way I ought to walk from here?"

"That de-pends a good deal on where you want to go to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where——" said Al-ice.

"Then you need not care which way you walk," said the Cat.

"——so long as I get somewhere," Al-ice add-ed.