← The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear. 🔊
← ‘Please would you tell me,’ said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, ‘why your cat grins like that?’ 🔊
← ‘I didn’t know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn’t know that cats could grin.’ 🔊
← ‘I didn’t know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn’t know that cats could grin.’ 🔊
← The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. 🔊
← ‘Cheshire Puss,’ she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 🔊
← and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. 🔊
← I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,’ thought Alice; 🔊
← ‘but a grin without a cat! 🔊
← it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself ‘It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.’ 🔊