Hello there, and welcome to another episode of Down to Sleep, the podcast of softly spoken

stories to help you get a good night's rest, where I read you classic books every Monday.

On tonight's episode, we'll begin through the looking glass and what Alice found there by

Louis Carroll. This is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which we have previously read on the podcast,

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Chapter 1. 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,

and bearing it pretty well considering.

So you see, it couldn't have had any hand in the mischief.

The way Dina washed her children's faces was this.

First she held the poor thing down by its ear

with one poor, and then with the other poor, 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 armchair,

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