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Title: Clara In Blunderland
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Caroline Lewis, pseud.
Subjects: Satire Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Satire Political science Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898, Parodies, imitations, etc
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inits eyes. In order, she said, to arouse it toa sense of its responsibilities. The Duchess did not seem to mind the potsand pans, even when they hit her, which wasntoften, and she seemed pleased whenever theDalmeny Cat, who appeared to be trying toescape observation in a hot corner of thekitchen, got a particularly hard knock. You see, she said to Clara, that Cat doesnot really belong to this house. 4* How do you make it stop here? askedClara. Have you buttered its feet ? Weve buttered it all over, my dear, attimes, and yet it wont stop. It seems a very nice Cat, said Clara ; butI dont see that it will be much use here, andIm sure theres no room for it in this pokeylittle kitchen. Ah! my dear, you dont know what respec- Digitized by Google 32 THE CONSERVATORY. tability a real Dalmeny Cat, one that can appearand disappear just as it likes, and that doesnothing but sneer, lends to an establishment ofthis sort. We found it, 4 mee-yowing, in alonely furrow, sneering so dreadfully because
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the people next door had turned it out, that wedetermined to offer it a home.,, All this time the Cat did nothing but sneer atClara, and wink solemnly, as if it understoodall about the Duchess and the baby, and theCook ; and Clara thought to herself it wouldntstop long in their company. Digitized by Google THE CONSERVATORY. 33 Please, would you tell me, said Clara, why your Cat mews like that ? Its because it knows we cant put salt onits tail. You see it hasnt got one now ; it lostit when it quarrelled with Crumpty-Bumpty,and now nobody can persuade it to stop morethan a week anywhere. What a very unsatisfactory Cat, said Clara, I must say I never expected to see it in thishouse. No, my dear, you wouldnt, and perhapsyou didnt expect to find that Cook here either ;but if you knew the nasty spiteful things peoplehave been saying about my keeping the wholekitchen for my nephews and nieces, youwouldnt wonder at it. Nobody can say thatthe Cook, who is really only a charwoman fromover the w

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