Chapter 6
The Duchess's Kitchen and the Grinning Cat
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1 Alice, only nine inches tall, stands in the tall grass at the edge of the wood.
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2 Fish- and frog-faced footmen in powdered curls face each other solemnly at the door
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3 The Fish-Footman solemnly hands the Frog-Footman a letter almost as big as himself.
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4 The two footmen bow low over the Queen's invitation, and their powdered curls tangle
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5 Alice has just hidden in the wood to stop herself laughing out loud.
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6 Alice knocks timidly at the Duchess's little door.
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7 From tiny Alice's view below, the Frog-Footman keeps talking with eyes fixed on the sky
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8 A plate from the Duchess's door grazes the Frog-Footman's nose as he stares at the sky
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9 The plate has just smashed against the tree behind him.
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10 Alice stands in front of the tall shut door of the tiny house with her arms folded tight.
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11 The Frog-Footman leans back against the Duchess's little stone house and whistles at the sky.
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12 Alice has given up on the Footman.
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13 Alice steps over the threshold into the Duchess's kitchen, which is full of pepper smoke.
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14 In the Duchess's smoky kitchen, Alice doubles over sneezing in a cloud of grey pepper
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15 The Cheshire Cat is the one calm creature in the Duchess's peppery kitchen.
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16 Tiny Alice timidly asks the huge, sour Duchess why her cat grins, in a kitchen thick with pepper.
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17 The Duchess bellows Pig! at the howling baby, and tiny Alice jumps clean off the floor
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18 In the smoky kitchen, the Duchess sourly brushes off Alice's surprise, eyes on the baby
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19 Alice, nine inches tall, stands at the foot of the Duchess's stool in the smoky kitchen.
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20 Pots, plates and fire-irons fly at the Duchess, who ignores them as the baby howls
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21 In the Duchess's peppery kitchen, a huge saucepan flies within an inch of the howling baby's nose.
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22 Nine-inch Alice, among broken china, lectures the sour Duchess on the earth's axis
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23 The Duchess leans down and jabs a finger at tiny Alice: Chop off her head!
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24 After the Duchess's order to chop off her head, tiny Alice glances anxiously at the cook
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25 On her stool, the Duchess sings a rough lullaby, shaking the howling baby at every line
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26 The Duchess bellows the second verse and flings the howling baby high into the air
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27 The Duchess flings the howling baby at Alice and strides off to her croquet.
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28 Tiny Alice staggers holding the snorting baby, its arms and legs out like a star-fish
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29 Alice carries the knotted baby out of the smoky kitchen into the sunny May wood
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30 In the leafy shade of the wood, Alice bends over the baby she carried out of the Duchess's kitchen.
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31 Alice finds no tears in the baby's small dry eyes above its turned-up snout
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32 In the May wood, Alice looks down at the baby in her arms, now a small pink pig
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33 Alice sets the little creature down in the May wood and watches the pig trot off
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34 Alice is only nine inches tall and stands in the long May grass of the wood.
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35 Up close on the low bough, the Cheshire Cat grins at Alice.
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36 Tiny Alice in the tall grass politely asks the grinning Cheshire Cat which way to go
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37 Tiny Alice stands where paths meet and looks up at the Cheshire Cat on his low bough
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38 Alice explains that she only wants to get somewhere, and the Cat's easy reply leaves her puzzled.
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39 The Cheshire Cat sits on a low bough with both front paws spread like the arms of a signpost.
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40 Grinning on his bough, the Cheshire Cat tells Alice there's no escaping madness
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41 Alice stands in the long grass with her hands on her hips and protests that she is not mad.
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42 Seen past the Cheshire Cat's striped shoulder, the Cat begins its proof of madness
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43 A close-up of the Cheshire Cat's striped tail, which swings off the bough in one slow, lazy curl.
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44 Alice shrugs and tells the Cheshire Cat she hasn't been invited to the Queen's croquet
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45 The Cheshire Cat has just said "You'll see me there" and vanished.
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46 Nine-inch Alice watches the Cheshire Cat reappear whole on his low bough
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47 In the long grass, Alice tells the grinning Cheshire Cat the baby turned into a pig
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48 The Cat has vanished again and left an empty bough.
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49 On her way to the March Hare's house, Alice finds the Cheshire Cat on a branch ahead
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50 Alice presses a hand to her forehead and tells the Cheshire Cat, "I said pig."
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51 The Cheshire Cat sits on a low bough and slowly vanishes, tail first.
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52 Alice stands still in the long grass and gazes up in hushed wonder at the Cheshire Cat's grin.
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53 Alice looks up at the March Hare's huge house with hare-ear chimneys and a fur roof
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54 Two-foot-tall Alice walks timidly towards the March Hare's huge house
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