Алиса в Стране чудес / Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Алиса в Зазеркалье / Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There

[104 - I haven’t been invited yet – Меня еще не пригласили]”

“You’ll see me there,” said the Cat, and vanished.

Suddenly it appeared again.

“By-the-way, what became of the baby?” wondered the Cat. “I forgot to ask.”

“It turned into a pig,” Alice quietly said.

“I thought so,” said the Cat, and vanished again.

Alice waited a little but it did not appear, so she walked in the direction of the March Hare’s house. “I’ve seen hatters before,” she said to herself; “the March Hare will be much more interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be absolutely mad – at least not as mad as it was in March.

” As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a tree.

“Did you say pig, or fig?” asked the Cat.

“I said pig,” replied Alice; “and could you please stop appearing and vanishing so suddenly?”

“All right,” answered the Cat; and this time it vanished slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained in the tree for some time.

“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!”

And she walked to the March Hare’s house. She saw it quite soon: the chimneys looked like ears and the roof was covered with fur.

Chapter 7. A Mad Tea-Party

There was a table under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse[105 - Dormouse – соня (Сони – мелкие и средние по размерам грызуны, внешне похожие на мышей или на белок; эти ночные животные держат пальму первенства по продолжительности сна)] was sitting between them, fast asleep.

[106 - fast asleep – крепко спала]

The table was large, but the three[107 - the three – эти трое] were all together at one corner of it: “No room![108 - No room! – Нет места!] No room!” they cried out when they saw Alice.

“There’s a LOT of room!” said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.

“Have some wine,” the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.

Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it except tea. “I don’t see any wine,” she remarked.