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That suggestion hurt the Glass Cat more than anything else . The Pink Kitten always quarreled with the Glass Cat and insisted that flesh was superior to glass , while the Glass Cat would jeer at the Pink Kitten , because it had no pink brains . But the pink brains were all daubed with blue mud , just now , and if the Pink Kitten should see the Glass Cat in such a condition , it would be dreadfully humiliating . For several hours the Glass Cat walked along very meekly , but toward noon it seized an opportunity when no one was looking and darted away through the long grass . It remembered that there was a tiny lake of pure water near by , and to this lake the Cat sped as fast as it could go . The others never missed her until they stopped for lunch , and then it was too late to hunt for her . `` I s ` pect she 's gone somewhere to clean herself , '' said Dorothy .