I 'd far rather go without them than eat them ! ` Do you hear the snow against the window-panes , Kitty ? How nice and soft it sounds ! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside . I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields , that it kisses them so gently ? And then it covers them up snug , you know , with a white quilt ; and perhaps it says , `` Go to sleep , darlings , till the summer comes again . '' And when they wake up in the summer , Kitty , they dress themselves all in green , and dance about -- whenever the wind blows -- oh , that 's very pretty ! ' cried Alice , dropping the ball of worsted to clap her hands . ` And I do so WISH it was true ! I 'm sure the woods look sleepy in the autumn , when the leaves are getting brown . ` Kitty , can you play chess ? Now , do n't smile , my dear , I 'm asking it seriously . Because , when we were playing just now , you watched just as if you understood it : and when I said `` Check ! '' you purred ! Well , it WAS a nice check , Kitty , and really I might have won , if it had n't been for that nasty Knight , that came wiggling down among my pieces . Kitty , dear , let 's pretend -- ' And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say , beginning with her favourite phrase ` Let 's pretend . ' She had had quite a long argument with her sister only the day before -- all because Alice had begun with ` Let 's pretend we 're kings and queens ; ' and her sister , who liked being very exact , had argued that they could n't , because there were only two of them , and Alice had been reduced at last to say , ` Well , YOU can be one of them then , and I 'LL be all the rest . ' And once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear , ` Nurse ! Do let 's pretend that I 'm a hungry hyaena , and you 're a bone . ' But this is taking us away from Alice 's speech to the kitten .
` XXXXX 's pretend that you 're the Red Queen , Kitty !
Check Let WAS dress eat hear purred smile tell won