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“Would you please tell me…why is your cat grinning like that?” “It’s a Cheshire Cat,” said the Duchess, “and that’s why…”

The Cheshire Cat was another addition to the printed version of Alice and is now one of Wonderland’s most recognizable and beloved creatures. Almost every illustrator chooses to depict it, and it’s present in almost every film version, starting with the very first Alice in Wonderland film in 1903. The Cheshire Cat is another character who employs Wonderland’s “flawed logic,” particularly prove in their argument that he is “crazy”.

“And how do you know you’re crazy?”

‘First of all,’ said the cat, ‘a dog is not mad.

“I think so,” said Alice.

“Now then,” continued the cat, “you see a dog growling when it is angry and wagging its tail when it is pleased. Now I growl when I’m happy and wag my tail when I’m angry. So I’m angry.”

The cat draws bad conclusions from wrong assumptions, but when Alice tries to call him, he changes the subject. The result is, once again, a frustrated Alice.

However, when the cat reappears at the Queen’s croquet court, Alice is actually pleased to see her.

“How are you?” said the cat as soon as it had enough mouth to speak to it… Alice put down her flamingo and began a report on the game, very glad she had someone to listen to her…”

The Cheshire Cat is sometimes interpreted as the guiding spirit for Alice, as it is he who guides her to the house of the March Hare and the Mad Tea Party, which eventually leads them to their final destination, the Garden. The cat also seems to have some sort of privileged knowledge of how Wonderland works, which combined with its ability to immaterialize is certainly spirit-like. Through the Cheshire Cat, we also learn the essential secret of Wonderland: It’s crazy!

Character from Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

This article is about a character primarily associated with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. For other uses, see Cheshire Cat (disambiguation)

Fictional Character

The Cheshire Cat ( or ) is a fictional cat popularized by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland, known for its distinctive, mischievous grin. While the association of a “Cheshire cat” with grin is most commonly used in Alice-related contexts today, it dates back to the 1865 book. It has transcended the context of literature and entangled itself in popular culture, appearing in various forms of media, from political cartoons to television, and in interdisciplinary studies, from economics to science. A distinctive feature of the Alice-style Cheshire Cat is that her body periodically and gradually disappears, leaving only one last visible trace: her iconic grin.

Origins [edit]

The first known appearance of the phrase in literature is in the 18th-century Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Second, Corrected and Enlarged Edition (1788), which contains the following entry:

Grinning cat. He’s grinning like a Cheshire Cat; said of anyone who shows their teeth and gums while laughing.

The phrase appears again in print in John Wolcot’s pseudonymous Peter Pindar’s Pair of Lyric Epistles (1792):

“Behold, like a Cheshire cat shall our court grin.”

The phrase also appears in print in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel The Newcomes (1855):

“This woman is grinning like a Cheshire cat.”

There are numerous theories as to the origin of the phrase ‘grinning like a Cheshire Cat’ in English history. A possible origin of the phrase is one preferred by the people of Cheshire, a county in England with numerous dairy farms; hence the cats grin at the abundance of milk and cream.[1]

In 1853, Samuel Maunder offered this explanation:

This expression owes its origin to the ill-fated attempts of a sign painter in that country to depict a rampant lion, which was the coat of arms of an influential family, on the signs of many inns. The resemblance of these lions to cats led to them being commonly referred to by the more unworthy name. A similar case is found in the village of Charlton between Pewsey and Devizes, Wiltshire. A roadside inn is commonly known as The Cat at Charlton. The mark of the house was originally a lion or tiger or similar animal, the coat of arms of Sir Edward Poore’s family.[2]

According to Brewer’s Dictionary (1870), “the expression has never been satisfactorily explained, but it has been said that cheese was formerly sold in Cheshire shaped like a cat that looked as if it were grinning”. [a] The cheese was cut from the end of the tail so that the last part eaten was the smiling cat’s head.[3]

A poll published in 2015 showed how highly imaginative many purported explanations online were.[4][verification needed]

Lewis Carroll’s character[ edit ]

The Cheshire Cat is now largely identified with the character of the same name in Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland. Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat first in the Duchess’ house in her kitchen and later on the branches of a tree, where it appears and disappears at will, engaging Alice in an amusing but sometimes confusing conversation. The cat sometimes raises philosophical points that annoy or perplex Alice; but seems to cheer her up when it suddenly appears in the Queen of Hearts’ croquet court; and when sentenced to death, he stuns everyone by making his head appear without his body, sparking a debate between the Executioner and the King and Queen of Hearts as to whether a disembodied head can actually be decapitated. At one point, the cat gradually disappears until nothing is left but its grin, leading Alice to remark that “she has often seen a cat without a grin, but never a grin without a cat”.

Oxford professor E.B. Pusey[ edit ]

Scholar David Day has suggested that Lewis Carroll’s cat was Edward Bouverie Pusey, Oxford professor of Hebrew and Carroll’s mentor.[6]

A hanging chain forms an overhead line

The name Pusey was suggested by Alice’s respectful address to the cat as “Cheshire Puss”. Pusey was an authority on the Fathers of the Christian Church, and in Carroll’s time Pusey was known as the Patristic Superintendent (or Chain), after the chain of authority of the Church Patriarchs.

As a mathematician, Carroll would have been well acquainted with the other meaning of catenary: the curve of a horizontally suspended chain, reminiscent of a cat’s grin.[7]

Riddle: what kind of cat can grin?

Answer: A catenary. – David Day, Queen’s Quarterly (2010)

Source of the images[edit]

The cat carving at St Nicolas’s Church, Cranleigh, Surrey

There is evidence that Carroll found inspiration for the Cheshire Cat’s name and expression in the 16th-century sandstone carving of a grinning cat on the west side of the tower of St Wilfrid’s Church in Grappenhall, a village 4.7 miles from his birthplace in Daresbury, Cheshire.[8]

Carroll wrote in his memoir that he “saw a Cheshire cat with a gigantic smile carved on the wall in Brimstage”. This refers to a roughly cut corbel at Brimstage Hall, Wirral (formerly in Cheshire) which resembles a smiling cat. This is another possible inspiration for the character.[9][10]

Lewis Carroll’s father, Reverend Charles Dodgson, was Rector of Croft and Archdeacon of Richmond in North Yorkshire, England, from 1843 to 1868; Carroll lived here from 1843 to 1850.[11] Some historians believe that Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland was inspired by a carving in Croft’s church.[3]: 62

Another possible inspiration was the British Shorthair: Carroll saw a representative British Shorthair depicted on a Cheshire cheese label.[12] According to the Cat Fanciers’ Association profile, “When carelessness is observed, the British Shorthair is duly embarrassed and quickly recovers with a ‘Cheshire cat smile'”.[13]

In 1992, members of the Lewis Carroll Society attributed it to a gargoyle found on a pillar in St Nicolas’s Church, Cranleigh, where Carroll frequently traveled when he lived in Guildford (although this is doubtful, as he was about three years ago after Guildford drew). after Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published) and a carving in a church in the village of Croft-on-Tees in north-east England, where his father had been rector.[14]

Carroll is believed to have attended St Christopher’s Church in Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, which contains a stone sculpture resembling the cat depicted in the book.[15]

Customizations[ edit ]

The Cheshire Cat character has been reimagined by other creators and used as inspiration for new characters, primarily in screen media (film, television, video games) and print media (literature, comics, art). Other non-media contexts that encompass the Cheshire Cat include music, business, and academia.

Several LSD blotters, one showing the Cheshire Cat’s face as depicted in Disney’s 1951 film

Prior to 1951, when Walt Disney released an animated adaptation of the story (see below), there were few post-Alice references to the character. Martin Gardner, author of The Annotated Alice,[3] wondered if T. S. Eliot had the Cheshire Cat in mind when he wrote Morning at the Window, but finds no other significant pre-war allusions.[3]: 62

Images and references to the Cheshire Cat became more common throughout the 1960s and 1970s, along with more frequent references to Carroll’s work in general. (See generally the lyrics to White Rabbit by the rock group Jefferson Airplane).[16][17] The Cheshire Cat has appeared on LSD blotters as well as in song lyrics and popular fiction.[18][19]

In Disney’s 1951 animated film Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat is portrayed as an intelligent and mischievous character who sometimes helps Alice and sometimes gets her into trouble. He frequently sings the first verse of the Jabberwocky poem. The animated character was voiced by Sterling Holloway (Alice in Wonderland) and Jim Cummings (2004-present).

In the 1985 television adaptation of Carroll’s books, Cheshire Cat is voiced by Telly Savalas. He sings a grumpy song called “There’s No Way Home” which just makes Alice try even harder to find a way home.

In the 1999 television adaptation of Carroll’s books, Cheshire Cat is voiced by Whoopi Goldberg. She acts as Alice’s ally and friend.

The Cheshire Cat appears in Walt Disney’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland directed by Tim Burton. British actor Stephen Fry voices the character.[20] In the film, Cheshire (as he’s often called; or sometimes “Ches”) bandages the wound Alice previously received from Bandersnatch, leading her to Tarrant Hightopp, the Mad Hatter, and Thackery Earwicket, the March Hare. He is accused of desertion by the Hatter when the White Queen is deposed by the Reds; but later embodies the hatter when he is sentenced to beheaded. During his performances, “Ches” is capable of rendering himself immaterial or weightless as well as invisible (thus surviving decapitation) and is usually depicted in mid-air at shoulder height by human-sized characters. In the video game adaptation of the film, “Ches” is a playable character who can make not only himself invisible, but also other objects around him.

In October 2019, it was reported that Disney was developing an unspecified Cheshire Cat project for its Disney+ streaming service.[22]

In Alice’s Wonderland Bakery, the Cheshire Cat lives on for thousands of years, as voiced by Max Mittelman.

Cross-screen comparison [ edit ]

Every major film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s story represents the character of Cheshire Cat and his traits in a unique way.

Screen Media Adaptation and Distribution Medium Image Behavior of Cheshire Cat Appearance of Cheshire Cat Alice in Wonderland

(1951)[23]

Animated film by Walt Disney Studios)[23] Mischievous and delights in misleading Alice. He is able to detach his head from his body (does so jokingly) but is also capable of invisibility and frequently enters and exits the scene with all parts faded except for his grin or eyes. Thick build and a primarily pink coat with purple stripes. Big smile and close-set, piercing yellow eyes. The character is always shown in good lighting with high visibility, unlike other customizations that obscure or shadow them in Adventures in Wonderland

(1991–1995)[24]

aired TV show[24] A sarcastic and playful rendition of the character. In this adaptation, the Cheshire Cat has the ability to appear and disappear from any location. He is quick to play pranks on the other characters in the series. A closer resemblance to a tiger or lioness than to a domestic cat. Mantle has a purple base with stripes painted in a purple accent color. Form features human-like mouth and face structure Alice in Wonderland

(1999)[25]

TV Movie[25] A grinning cat teaching Alice “the rules” of Wonderland. Her favorite pastime is appearing and disappearing. A fluffy gray cat with a human face and feline features Alice in Wonderland

(2010)[26]

Live-action film directed by Tim Burton.[26] Cheshire Cat played by Stephen Fry. He disappears and reappears at will, and can even change size, levitate himself, assume the appearance of other characters, and become immaterial at will. The cat plays a few jokes and plays with the other characters, but is helpful on a few occasions. He speaks slowly and fluently. Slender in build, with a round head and gray fur with blue stripes. Light aqua eyes (with slit pupils) and prominent teeth. Often more backlit than other adaptations, with only a faint, glowing glow (self-generated) revealing his facial features

In addition to Cheshire Cat’s appearances in films central to her Lewis Carroll origins, Cheshire Cat has been featured in other cinematic works. The late filmmaker Chris Marker gave the English title Grin without a Cat to his monumental documentary on the 1967–1977 New Left movement, Le fond de l’air est rouge (1977). Like the original, it means revolution was in the air but failed to take root. The film also says: a spearhead without a spear, a grin without a cat. A later film by Marker, Chats perchés (2004) (The Case of the Grinning Cat in English), explored the context of M. Chat’s street art in France.

The Cheshire Cat was seen by television audiences in a broadcast spin-off. The Cheshire Cat appears in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (a spin-off of Once Upon a Time), voiced by Keith David. While searching for the Mad Hatter’s house, Alice meets the Cheshire Cat in giant form, where the Red Queen had promised him that Alice would be good food for him. They end up getting in a fight until the Knave of Hearts arrives and throws a piece of a mushroom side into his mouth, causing the cat to shrink back to normal size, and he leaves.

video games[edit]

The Cheshire Cat appears as an avatar character in the video games American McGee’s Alice (2000); and the sequel Alice: Madness Returns (2011), the Cheshire Cat is portrayed as an enigmatic and scathing but wise guide for Alice in corrupted Wonderland. In keeping with the twisted tone of the game, the Cheshire Cat looks mangy and emaciated. His voice was provided by Roger L. Jackson, who also voiced the in-game Mad Hatter and The Jabberwock.

The Cheshire Cat appears in Sunsoft’s 2006 mobile game Alice’s Warped Wonderland (歪みの国のアリス, Yugami no kuni no Arisu, Alice in Distortion World), serving as Ariko’s (the game’s “Alice”) guide and aiding her in the pursuit of “The white rabbits”. In the game, Cheshire Cat is depicted with a humanoid body and wears a long gray cloak with a bell of red cord around his neck, revealing only his nose, razor-sharp teeth, and wide grin. In Wonderland, Cheshire Cat is the “leader,” an important role that makes him feared by the other residents, and is driven by Ariko’s inner will to help her release her repressed, traumatic memories and overcome her suicidal depression. Later in the game, Cheshire Cat is beheaded by the Queen of Hearts, but is still alive and his body is able to move on its own. Due to the White Rabbit’s deranged state, Cheshire Cat fulfills his role of absorbing Ariko’s negative emotions, although the task weighs heavily on him.

The Cheshire Cat appears in Heart no Kuni no Alice, a dating simulation game and related media, as a young man named “Boris Airay”, with feline attributes such as a tail and cat ears, and is one of the many love interests for Alice in Wonderland. [citation required]

Other media[edit]

In the third volume of Shazam! Cheshire Cat is shown to live in the Magiclands location called Wozenderlands. When Scarecrow and the Munchkins Billy Batson, Mary Bromfield and C.C. Batson to Dorothy Gale, the Cheshire Cat appeared near the Blue Brick Road. He went on the attack, only to be blocked by Shazam and Lady Shazam.[28]

In science[edit]

Cheshire cat is used as a metaphor to describe several scientific phenomena:

The Cheshire Cat Effect, as described by Sally Duensing and Bob Miller, is a binocular rivalry that causes stationary objects seen in one eye to disappear from view when a moving object is seen in the other eye crosses.[29] Each eye sees two different views of the world, sends those images to the visual cortex where they are combined, creating a three-dimensional image. The Cheshire Cat effect occurs when one eye is fixed on a stationary object while the other notices that something is moving. As one eye sees a moving object, the brain focuses on it, causing parts of the stationary object to disappear entirely from view.[30]

In another scientific context, catalytic RNAs are considered cheshire cats. This metaphor is used to describe the fading of the ribonucleotide construct, leaving only a smile on the mineral components of the RNA catalyst.[31]

Similarly, the Cheshire Cat has been used outside of its traditional context to define another scientific phenomenon, the “Cheshire Cat’s” escape strategy. If coccolithophores – a type of successful seaweed – can withstand the haploid phase of its life cycle, it escapes meiosis and its dominant diploid genes are passed on in a virus-free environment, relieving the host of the risk of infection during reproduction. [32] The seaweed escapes death (decapitation) by disappearing (disappearing its head): … [T]aken by Lewis Carroll, let’s compare this theory to the Cheshire Cat’s strategy in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to make its body invisible to make the sentence “off with your head” uttered by the Queen of Hearts impossible … C.C. Dynamics that rely to some extent on temporal and/or spatial segregation of the sexual processes of meiosis and fusion relieve the host of short-term pathogen pressure, thereby expanding the host’s scope to evolve in other directions.[32]

Other gestures related to the tropes of disappearance and Cheshire Cat mystique have been seen in the scientific literature related to physics. “The Cheshire Cat” is a phenomenon in quantum mechanics in which a particle and its property behave as if they were separate,[33] or when a particle separates from one of its physical properties.[34] To test this idea, the researchers used an interferometer in which beams of neutrons passed through silicon crystal. The crystal physically separated the neutrons, allowing them to go two ways. Researchers reported that “the system behaves as if the neutrons pass through one path while their magnetic moment travels down the others.”[34]

The Cheshire Cat’s grin has inspired scientists in naming visual phenomena. A merger of galaxy groups in the Ursa Major constellation has been dubbed the “Cheshire Cat Galaxy Group” by astronomers because of their suggestive appearance.[35]

In linguistics, chehirization, when a sound disappears but leaves a trace, just as the cat disappears but leaves its grin.

In Conway’s Game of Life, the Cheshire Cat is a feline pattern that changes to a grin in the penultimate generation and a block (pawprint) in the final generation.

^ Commented Alice.[3] This was the explanation given in Martin Gardner’s

References[edit]

The idiom grin like a Cheshire cat was popularized by Lewis Carroll’s 1865 children’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. However, Carroll didn’t invent the term grin like a Cheshire cat. We’ll look at the meaning of this term, its likely origin, and some examples of using the phrase in a few sentences.

To grin like a Cheshire cat means to smile broadly. Some definitions of the term dictate that the smile must be wide enough to expose the gums. The idiom grin like a Cheshire cat may have the connotation that the person grinning is in possession of knowledge of which the viewer is unaware. Another connotation can be a slight malevolence. These connotations are due to the appearance of the Cheshire Cat in the children’s novel Alice in Wonderland. In the story, the Cheshire Cat is somewhat inscrutable and she disappears, leaving only her unnerving smile. The term grin like a Cheshire Cat predates the publication of Alice in Wonderland by at least 75 years, if not more. Cheshire is a county in England known for its dairy and cheese products, certainly a reason for Cheshire cats to smile. There are various stories of painted signs with poorly drawn lions in Cheshire in the early 19th century. The most intriguing story might be that a cheese shaped like a cat was once made in the county of Cheshire. The cheese was eaten from tail to head, leaving the cat’s smile as the last portion of cheese to be consumed. How cheese vendors got their customers to cooperate in their method of eating cheese is not documented. Note that the word Cheshire is capitalized like a Cheshire cat in the term grin because it is a proper place name. Related idioms are grin like a cheshire cat, grin like a cheshire cat, grin like a cheshire cat, smile like a cheshire cat, smile like a cheshire cat, smile like a cheshire cat, smile like a cheshire cat.

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You can find simple everyday items that will transform you into the perfect Alice in Wonderland character, or you can go “crazy” and give your Alice in Wonderland costume a fancy masquerade look by adding jewellery, masks, ball gowns and props. Here are a few suggestions

Alice: Wear a pretty light blue party dress (check thrift stores for a vintage look), blonde wig and matching light blue headband.

Mad Hatter: Finding the right top hat is key to this costume. If you can’t find the hat from the Tim Burton movie, use a top hat, wrap a large ribbon around it and tie it in a bow. Then place a large piece of paper under the ribbon that says “In this style 10/6”. For clothing, wear mismatched gloves, a plaid or purple coat, a polka dot bow tie, and plaid pants. Have fun with face makeup to create your own version of this popular character. Carry a teacup and pocket watch for the finishing touch.

White Rabbit: In addition to white rabbit ears, a rabbit nose, and a cotton tail, you can wear white gloves, a pocket watch, a plaid coat, and rabbit slippers. Add an umbrella and handkerchief for finishing touches, then draw whiskers on your face.

Cheshire Cat: Add some bright color and glitter to a traditional orange and brown cat costume and you have a Cheshire Cat! Paint a big grin on your face and some streaks to amp up the look.

Red Queen: Try to find or make a red and white ball gown (check thrift stores) and then sew big red hearts onto the gown. Paint your face white, apply red lipstick there and draw red hearts on your cheeks. For the finishing touch, wear a red wig and tiara, carry a scepter and flamingo stuffed animal. Get creative and see if you can make jewelry using a deck of cards!

White Queen: Wear a white and silver ball gown (see thrift stores) and white long hair wig. Carry a silver scepter and wear a silver tiara. Since the White Queen comes from a chessboard, make earrings out of small plastic chess pieces.

Tweedledee and Tweedledum: Wear extra large clothing for this costume and stuff with cotton or a pillow if necessary. Wear something striped for the shirt and a jumpsuit for the pants. Complete this look with a beanie hat. For makeup, draw large circles of roses on your cheeks and go bald if desired. Carry a book of poetry and find someone dressing up as your twin counterpart.

White Knight: The White Knight appears in Alice Through the Looking-Glass and comes off the chessboard. Use the knight chess piece for inspiration by dressing up in a knight costume and carrying an inflatable sword and shield. Spray paint the knight costume white for an authentic look.

March Hare: Wear brown bunny ears, a brown bunny nose, and a white cotton tail for this costume. Then add a brown top coat and a blue bow tie. If you have a furry rabbit costume, dampen the fur and add hair gel to keep the fur looking messy. Carry a teacup and saucer or a teapot as props.

Use store-bought costumes to dress up as the following talking animals from Alice in Wonderland:

walrus

lobster

flamingo

Little Bill (a salamander)

Caterpillar

dodo bird

mock turtle

Alice in Wonderland is a popular literary and film character. You may want to dress up like Alice for a costume party, special event or Halloween. There are several different depictions of Alice, the most famous of which is probably the 1951 Disney animated film. However, the original illustrations by John Tenniel differ from Disney’s interpretation in several ways. Tim Burton’s 2010 film offers a more mature look for Alice. Whichever version you choose, Alice’s look is easy to recreate, and you can add props or accessories to give your costume an authentic and customized feel.

The expression grin like a cheshire cat has become synonymous with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. But while Carroll was not a problem with inventive language, the phrase predates his book and was in common use at the time. The continued success of his comic book fantasy helped popularize the parable.

A decade before Alice was first published (1865, by Macmillan), William Makepeace Thackeray used the phrase in his novel The Newcomes: “That woman grins like a Cheshire cat”, and the OED has an example from half a century earlier, by the satirist John Wolcot in 1812: “Lo! like a cheshire cat our dish will grin.”

That the origin of the phrase is unknown has led to some interesting speculation. Martin Gardner notes two possibilities in The Annotated Alice: that they are grinning lions painted on the signs of inns in Cheshire – where Carroll grew up – or that it stems from a tradition of making Cheshire cheese in the Shape of grinning cats is shaped, or marked as such.

Graeme Donald’s Dictionary of Modern Phrase considers the latter hypothesis “suspicious” because of the “very crumbly texture” of the cheese in question. He cites Eric Partridge’s suggestion that Cheshire is “a corruption of cheeser” here, but doesn’t think cats like cheese enough to make this etymology likely. Donald suggests instead that cat, as old slang for prostitutes, “might allude to a girl in a busy Cheshire inn who smiles invitingly”. I’m not sure.

The cat is one of Carroll’s most recognizable characters. When Alice first sees it lying on the stove, she asks the Duchess why it’s grinning, and gets the answer: “It’s a Cheshire Cat […] and that’s why.” That explains nothing, but reinforces the mystique of the creature – which increases when she meets the cat a little later in the forest and answers her questions in a gnomish manner:

“Would you please tell me which way to go from here?”

“That depends a lot on where you’re going,” said the cat.

“I don’t care where -” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the cat.

“—as long as I can get somewhere,” Alice added by way of explanation.

“Oh, I’m sure you can do that,” said the cat, “if you just walk long enough.”

The cat gives Alice instructions on the Mad Hatter and the March Hare (“they’re both mad”, but then “we’re all mad here”). In his Annotated Alice, Gardner points out that the phrases mad as a hatter and mad as a March hare (similar to bunny brains) were both current when Carroll wrote, which at least partially explains why he invented those two characters.

So she put the little creature down and was quite relieved when it trotted quietly into the forest. ‘If it were fully grown,’ she said to herself, ‘it would have been a terribly ugly child; And she started thinking about other kids she knew who might turn out to be very good

pigs and was just saying to herself, “If only you knew how to change them properly -” when she was a little startled to see the Cheshire Cat sitting on a branch of a tree a few meters away.

The cat just grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good natured, she thought, but it had VERY long claws and a lot of teeth, so she felt it should be treated with respect.

“Cheshire Puss,” she began a little shyly, not knowing if she would like the name, but she just grinned a little wider. “Come on, it’s content so far,” thought Alice, and continued. ‘Would you please tell me which way to go from here?’

“That depends a lot on where you’re going,” said the cat.

“I don’t care where -” said Alice.