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 that it COULDN'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.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Daresbury, Cheshire, Reino Unido; 27 de enero de 1832-Guildford, Surrey, Reino Unido; 14 de enero de 1898), más conocido por su seudónimo Lewis Carroll, fue un diácono anglicano, lógico, matemático, fotógrafo y escritor británico. Sus obras más conocidas son Alicia en el país de las maravillas y su continuación, A través del espejo y lo que Alicia encontró allí.