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'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself, and began to sneeze.

Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and the baby was sneezing and howling all the time. Only the cook and a large cat did not sneeze. The cat was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.

'Please can you tell me,' said Alice timidly, 'why does your cat grin?'

'It's a Cheshire cat[7],' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'

She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice jumped. But she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, and not to her. So she took courage, and went on again:

'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.'

'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of them do.'

'I don't know anything about it,' Alice said very politely.

'You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.'

Alice did not like the tone of this remark. Meanwhile the cook took the cauldron of soup off the fire, and began to throw everything at the Duchess and the baby-saucepans, plates, and dishes.