9. Just then his mother came into the kitchen, and Harry told her what he had been doing.
She asked:
'Have you looked at pussy's eyes?'
10. 'They are funny eyes,' he said; 'they are green, but there is not much of them to be seen.'
'Not just now,' said his mother, 'but she can open them wide when she likes. Then she can see even in the dark.'
11. 'In the dark, mother? Well, she is not a bit like me!'
'No, she is not like you. But she has plenty of cousins. Her cousins are the big lions and tigers, that live in hot countries, and eat sheep and horses, and even people when they can get them.'
12. Harry thought a little, and then said: 'If I were as small as pussy is now, and if pussy were as big as I am now, I believe she would eat me!'