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88 PIG AND PEPPER.
Alice was just beginning to think to herself,
c Now, what am I to do with this creature
when I get it home?” when it grunted again,
so violently, that she
looked down into its
face in some alarm.
This time there could
be nv mistake about
it: it was neither
more nor less than
a pig, and she felt
that it would be
quite absurd for her
to carry it any fur¬
ther.
So she set the
little creature down, and felt quite relieved to
see it trot. away quietly into the wood. “If
it had grown up,’ she said to herself, “it would
have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes
rather a handsome pig, I think.” And she be¬
gan thinking over otker children she knew, who