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Shaking

Through the Looking-Glass · Lewis Carroll

Alice, wearing a golden crown, shakes the Red Queen, who is turning into a small round black kitten above a messy banquet table.

She took her off the table as she spoke, and shook her backwards and forwards with all her might.

The Red Queen made no resistance whatever; only her face grew very small, and her eyes got large and green: and still, as Alice went on shaking her, she kept on growing shorter—and fatter—and softer—and rounder—and—