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Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when 2901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought 2911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite 2921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinatural); but when the Rabbit actually <i>took a watch out of its 2931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwaistcoat-pocket,</i> and looked at it, and then hurried on, 2941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that 2951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe had never before seen a rabbit with either a 2961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwaistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with 2971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicuriosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was 2981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijust in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the 2991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihedge.</p> 3001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>In another moment down went Alice after it, never once 3021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciconsidering how in the world she was to get out again.</p> 3031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, 3051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a 3061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimoment to think about stopping herself before she found herself 3071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifalling down a very deep well.</p> 3081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for 3101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to 3111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look 3121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidown and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to 3131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisee anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and 3141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinoticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; 3151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihere and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took 3161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidown a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled 3171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty: 3181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so 3191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimanaged to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past 3201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit.</p> 3211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well!' thought Alice to herself, 'after such a fall as this, 3231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll 3241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciall think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even 3251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciif I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely 3261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrue.)</p> 3271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Down, down, down. Would the fall <i>never</i> come to an end! 3291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said 3301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cialoud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. 3311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciLet me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' 3321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci(for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in 3331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a <i>very</i> 3341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigood opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no 3351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cione to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) 3361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what 3371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciLatitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what 3381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciLatitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice 3391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrand words to say.)</p> 3401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Presently she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right 3421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>through</i> the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among 3431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, 3441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI think--' (she was rather glad there <i>was</i> no one listening, this 3451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citime, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '--but I shall 3461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihave to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. 3471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciPlease, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried 3481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito curtsey as she spoke--fancy <i>curtseying</i> as you're 3491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifalling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And 3501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhat an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, 3511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit'll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up 3521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisomewhere.'</p> 3531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon 3551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibegan talking again. 'Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I 3561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishould think!' (Dinah was the cat.) 'I hope they'll remember her 3571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down 3581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihere with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you 3591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimight catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know. But do 3601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicats eat bats, I wonder?' And here Alice began to get rather 3611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 3621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat 3631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it 3641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cididn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was 3651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand 3661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, 'Now, 3671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, 3681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, 3691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand the fall was over.</p> 3701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in 3721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her 3731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in 3741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away 3751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwent Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as 3761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit turned a corner, 'Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's 3771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigetting!' She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but 3781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, 3791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilow hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the 3801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciroof.</p> 3811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; 3831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the 3841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciother, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, 3851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwondering how she was ever to get out again.</p> 3861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made 3881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, 3891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the 3901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidoors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or 3911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of 3921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithem. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low 3931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicurtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little 3941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidoor about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key 3951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!</p> 3961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 3971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small 3981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipassage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and 3991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. 4001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciHow she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about 4011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciamong those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but 4021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe could not even get her head though the doorway; 'and even if 4031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimy head <i>would</i> go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would 4041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibe of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I 4051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicould shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know 4061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihow to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had 4071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihappened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few 4081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithings indeed were really impossible.</p> 4091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so 4111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe went back to the table, half hoping she might find another 4121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cikey on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up 4131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, 4141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci('which certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round 4151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK 4161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.</p> 4171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little 4191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice was not going to do <i>that</i> in a hurry. 'No, I'll look 4201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifirst,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked "<i>poison</i>" or 4211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinot'; for she had read several nice little histories about 4221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cichildren who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other 4231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciunpleasant things, all because they <i>would</i> not remember the 4241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisimple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a 4251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cired-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if 4261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou cut your finger <i>very</i> deeply with a knife, it usually 4271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from 4281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia bottle marked '<i>poison</i>,' it is almost certain to disagree 4291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith you, sooner or later.</p> 4301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>However, this bottle was <i>not</i> marked 'poison,' so Alice 4321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civentured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, 4331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, 4341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciroast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon 4351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifinished it off.</p> 4361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p class="asterisks"> 4381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<br> 4391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci* * * * * 4401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<br> 4411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci* * * * 4421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<br> 4431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci* * * * * 4441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<br> 4451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci</p> 4461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What a curious feeling!' said Alice; 'I must be shutting up 4481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike a telescope.'</p> 4491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and 4511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right 4521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisize for going through the little door into that lovely garden. 4531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciFirst, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was 4541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigoing to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about 4551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithis; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my 4561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigoing out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be 4571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is 4581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember 4591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciever having seen such a thing.</p> 4601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided 4621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cion going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when 4631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little 4641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigolden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found 4651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly 4661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithrough the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the 4671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilegs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had 4681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and 4691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicried.</p> 4701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to 4721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciherself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute!' 4731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciShe generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very 4741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciseldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so 4751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciseverely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered 4761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game 4771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious 4781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cichild was very fond of pretending to be two people. 'But it's no 4791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciuse now,' thought poor Alice, 'to pretend to be two people! Why, 4801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithere's hardly enough of me left to make <i>one</i> respectable 4811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciperson!'</p> 4821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under 4841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on 4851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhich the words 'EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants. 4861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger, 4871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep 4881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciunder the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I 4891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidon't care which happens!'</p> 4901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 4911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, 'Which 4921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciway? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to feel 4931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhich way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find 4941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally 4951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihappens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the 4961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciway of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, 4971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the 4981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicommon way.</p> 4991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.</p> 5011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p class="asterisks"> 5031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<br> 5041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci* * * * * 5051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<br> 5061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci* * * * 5071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<br> 5081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci* * * * * 5091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<br> 5101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci</p> 5111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 5131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER II</h3> 5141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">The Pool of Tears</h3> 5161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much 5181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisurprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good 5191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciEnglish); 'now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that 5201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, 5211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far 5221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cioff). 'Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your 5231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure <i>I</i> shan't 5241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibe able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself 5251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciabout you: you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be 5261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cikind to them,' thought Alice, 'or perhaps they won't walk the way 5271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of boots 5281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cievery Christmas.'</p> 5291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. 5311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'They must go by the carrier,' she thought; 'and how funny it'll 5321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciseem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the 5331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidirections will look!</p> 5341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<blockquote><i>ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.</i> 5361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>HEARTHRUG,</i></p> 5371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>NEAR THE FENDER,</i></p> 5391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>(WITH ALICE'S LOVE).</i></p> 5411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci</blockquote> 5421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'</p> 5441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in 5461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took 5471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciup the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.</p> 5481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one 5501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciside, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get 5511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithrough was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to 5521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicry again.</p> 5531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, 'a great 5551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigirl like you,' (she might well say this), 'to go on crying in 5561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithis way! Stop this moment, I tell you!' But she went on all the 5571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisame, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all 5581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciround her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the 5591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihall.</p> 5601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the 5621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidistance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. 5631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciIt was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a 5641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the 5651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciother: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to 5661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihimself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! 5671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>won't</i> she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt 5681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciso desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when 5691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If 5701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou please, sir--' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the 5711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhite kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness 5721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias hard as he could go.</p> 5731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very 5751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: 5761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things 5771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwent on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the 5781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinight? Let me think: <i>was</i> I the same when I got up this 5791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimorning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little 5801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidifferent. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in 5811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe world am I? Ah, <i>that's</i> the great puzzle!' And she 5821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibegan thinking over all the children she knew that were of the 5831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisame age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for 5841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciany of them.</p> 5851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 5861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, 'for her hair goes in such 5871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilong ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm 5881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, 5891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cioh! she knows such a very little! Besides, <i>she's</i> she, and 5901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>I'm</i> I, and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I 5911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciknow all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five 5921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciis twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven 5931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciis--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, 5941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography. 5951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciLondon is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, 5961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand Rome--no, <i>that's</i> all wrong, I'm certain! I must have 5971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeen changed for Mabel! I'll try and say "<i>How doth the 5981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle--</i>"' and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she 5991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwere saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice 6001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same 6011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias they used to do:--</p> 6021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<blockquote><i>'How doth the little crocodile</i> 6041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>Improve his shining tail,</i></p> 6051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>And pour the waters of the Nile</i></p> 6071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>On every golden scale!</i></p> 6091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i><br> 6111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'How cheerfully he seems to grin,</i></p> 6121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>How neatly spread his claws,</i></p> 6141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>And welcome little fishes in</i></p> 6161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>With gently smiling jaws!</i>'</p> 6181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci</blockquote> 6191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and 6211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher eyes filled with tears again as she went on, 'I must be Mabel 6221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciafter all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little 6231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihouse, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so 6241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimany lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm 6251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciMabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their 6261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciheads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up 6271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like 6281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeing that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till 6291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden 6301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciburst of tears, 'I do wish they <i>would</i> put their heads 6311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidown! I am so <i>very</i> tired of being all alone here!'</p> 6321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was 6341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisurprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little 6351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhite kid gloves while she was talking. 'How <i>can</i> I have 6361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidone that?' she thought. 'I must be growing small again.' She got 6371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciup and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found 6381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet 6391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihigh, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that 6401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it 6411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.</p> 6421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That <i>was</i> a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal 6441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifrightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself 6451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistill in existence; 'and now for the garden!' and she ran with 6461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciall speed back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was 6471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass 6481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citable as before, 'and things are worse than ever,' thought the 6491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipoor child, 'for I never was so small as this before, never! And 6501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI declare it's too bad, that it is!'</p> 6511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another 6531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimoment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first 6541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciidea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, 'and in that 6551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicase I can go back by railway,' she said to herself. (Alice had 6561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeen to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general 6571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciconclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find 6581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in 6591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and 6601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibehind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that 6611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine 6621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifeet high.</p> 6631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam 6651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciabout, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it 6661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinow, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That 6671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>will</i> be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is 6681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciqueer to-day.'</p> 6691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a 6711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at 6721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifirst she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then 6731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that 6741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.</p> 6751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, 'to speak to 6771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithis mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I 6781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishould think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no 6791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciharm in trying.' So she began: 'O Mouse, do you know the way out 6801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!' 6811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci(Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: 6821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having 6831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciseen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse--of a mouse--to a 6841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimouse--a mouse--O mouse!') The Mouse looked at her rather 6851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little 6861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieyes, but it said nothing.</p> 6871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; 'I 6891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidaresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the 6901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciConqueror.' (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no 6911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civery clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she 6921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibegan again: 'Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in 6931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the 6941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwater, and seemed to quiver all over with fright. 'Oh, I beg your 6951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor 6961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cianimal's feelings. 'I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'</p> 6971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 6981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate 6991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice. 'Would <i>you</i> like cats if you were me?'</p> 7001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: 'don't be 7021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciangry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I 7031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithink you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She 7041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciis such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as 7051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe swam lazily about in the pool, 'and she sits purring so 7061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and 7071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such a capital 7081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cione for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice again, 7091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifor this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt 7101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicertain it must be really offended. 'We won't talk about her any 7111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimore if you'd rather not.'</p> 7121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the 7141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciend of his tail. 'As if I would talk on such a subject! Our 7151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifamily always <i>hated</i> cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't 7161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilet me hear the name again!'</p> 7171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the 7191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisubject of conversation. 'Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?' 7201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciThe Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: 'There is 7211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisuch a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! 7221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciA little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly 7231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibrown hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll 7241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I can't 7251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciremember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and 7261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihe says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds! He says it 7271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cikills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a sorrowful 7281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citone, 'I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the Mouse was 7291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciswimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a 7301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicommotion in the pool as it went.</p> 7311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>So she called softly after it, 'Mouse dear! Do come back 7331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't 7341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike them!' When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam 7351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cislowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice 7361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithought), and it said in a low trembling voice, 'Let us get to 7371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll 7381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciunderstand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'</p> 7391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded 7411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a 7421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDuck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious 7431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicreatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the 7441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishore.</p> 7451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 7471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER III</h3> 7481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale</h3> 7501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the 7521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their 7531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and 7541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciuncomfortable.</p> 7551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they 7571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihad a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed 7581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with 7591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithem, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had 7601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, 7611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand would only say, 'I am older than you, and must know better'; 7621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, 7631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no 7641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimore to be said.</p> 7651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority 7671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciamong them, called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! 7681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>I'll</i> soon make you dry enough!' They all sat down at once, 7691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her 7701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a 7711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibad cold if she did not get dry very soon.</p> 7721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all 7741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you 7751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciplease! "William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the 7761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, 7771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. 7781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciEdwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'</p> 7791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.</p> 7811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very 7831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipolitely: 'Did you speak?'</p> 7841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Not I!' said the Lory hastily.</p> 7861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I thought you did,' said the Mouse. '--I proceed. "Edwin and 7881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciMorcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: 7891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found 7901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit advisable--"'</p> 7911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Found <i>what</i>?' said the Duck.</p> 7931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Found <i>it</i>,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of 7951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicourse you know what "it" means.'</p> 7961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 7971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I know what "it" means well enough, when <i>I</i> find a 7981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or a worm. The 7991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquestion is, what did the archbishop find?'</p> 8001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, 8021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'"--found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William 8031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand offer him the crown. William's conduct at first was moderate. 8041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciBut the insolence of his Normans--" How are you getting on now, 8051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimy dear?' it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke.</p> 8061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone: 'it doesn't 8081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciseem to dry me at all.'</p> 8091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, 'I 8111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimove that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more 8121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cienergetic remedies--'</p> 8131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of 8151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihalf those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do 8161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieither!' And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some 8171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof the other birds tittered audibly.</p> 8181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone, 8201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a 8211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciCaucus-race.'</p> 8221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What <i>is</i> a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she 8241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought 8251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat <i>somebody</i> ought to speak, and no one else seemed 8261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinclined to say anything.</p> 8271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do 8291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit.' (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some 8301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwinter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)</p> 8311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ('the 8331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciexact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party 8341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwere placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, 8351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citwo, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, 8361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know 8371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhen the race was over. However, when they had been running half 8381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cian hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called 8391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciout 'The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting, 8401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand asking, 'But who has won?'</p> 8411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal 8431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed 8441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciupon its forehead (the position in which you usually see 8451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciShakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in 8461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisilence. At last the Dodo said, '<i>everybody</i> has won, and 8471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>all</i> must have prizes.'</p> 8481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices 8501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciasked.</p> 8511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why, <i>she</i>, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice 8531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, 8541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicalling out in a confused way, 'Prizes! Prizes!'</p> 8551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand 8571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt 8581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwater had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. 8591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciThere was exactly one a-piece all round.</p> 8601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the 8621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciMouse.</p> 8631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What else have 8651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.</p> 8661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.</p> 8681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.</p> 8701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo 8721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisolemnly presented the thimble, saying 'We beg your acceptance of 8731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithis elegant thimble'; and, when it had finished this short 8741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cispeech, they all cheered.</p> 8751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked 8771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciso grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not 8781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithink of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, 8791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooking as solemn as she could.</p> 8801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise 8821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not 8831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citaste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on 8841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe back. However, it was over at last, and they sat down again 8851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.</p> 8861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice, 8881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'and why it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half 8891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciafraid that it would be offended again.</p> 8901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to 8921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice, and sighing.</p> 8931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It <i>is</i> a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with 8951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad?' And she 8961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cikept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that 8971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher idea of the tale was something like this:--</p> 8981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 8991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, "Let us both 9001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigo to law: I will prosecute <i>you</i>. --Come, I'll take no 9011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidenial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I've 9021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinothing to do." Said the mouse to the cur, "Such a trial, dear 9031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciSir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath." "I'll be 9041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijudge, I'll be jury," said cunning old Fury: "I'll try the whole 9051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicause, and condemn you to death."'</p> 9061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You are not attending!' said the Mouse to Alice severely. 9081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'What are you thinking of?'</p> 9091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly: 'you had got to 9111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe fifth bend, I think?'</p> 9121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I had <i>not</i>!' cried the Mouse, sharply and very 9141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciangrily.</p> 9151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and 9171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooking anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let me help to undo it!'</p> 9181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the Mouse, getting up 9201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand walking away. 'You insult me by talking such nonsense!'</p> 9211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor Alice. 'But you're so easily 9231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cioffended, you know!'</p> 9241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Mouse only growled in reply.</p> 9261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Please come back and finish your story!' Alice called after 9281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit; and the others all joined in chorus, 'Yes, please do!' but 9291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little 9301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquicker.</p> 9311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as soon as it 9331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of 9341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaying to her daughter 'Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you 9351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinever to lose <i>your</i> temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said 9361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the 9371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipatience of an oyster!'</p> 9381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud, 9401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciaddressing nobody in particular. 'She'd soon fetch it back!'</p> 9411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?' 9431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid the Lory.</p> 9441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about 9461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher pet: 'Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for 9471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicatching mice you can't think! And oh, I wish you could see her 9481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciafter the birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at 9491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit!'</p> 9501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. 9521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciSome of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began 9531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, 'I really must be 9541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigetting home; the night-air doesn't suit my throat!' and a Canary 9551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicalled out in a trembling voice to its children, 'Come away, my 9561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidears! It's high time you were all in bed!' On various pretexts 9571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.</p> 9581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!' she said to herself in a 9601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimelancholy tone. 'Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I'm 9611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisure she's the best cat in the world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder 9621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciif I shall ever see you any more!' And here poor Alice began to 9631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited. In a little 9641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhile, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps 9651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the 9661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciMouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish his 9671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistory.</p> 9681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 9701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER IV</h3> 9711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill</h3> 9731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and 9751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; 9761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand she heard it muttering to itself 'The Duchess! The Duchess! 9771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciOh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, 9781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where <i>can</i> I have dropped 9791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithem, I wonder?' Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking 9801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifor the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very 9811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigood-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were 9821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinowhere to be seen--everything seemed to have changed since her 9831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciswim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and 9841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe little door, had vanished completely.</p> 9851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, 9871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand called out to her in an angry tone, 'Why, Mary Ann, what 9881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>are</i> you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me 9891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!' And Alice was so much 9901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifrightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed 9911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.</p> 9921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 9931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as she 9941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciran. 'How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am! But I'd 9951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibetter take him his fan and gloves--that is, if I can find them.' 9961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAs she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door 9971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof which was a bright brass plate with the name 'W. RABBIT' 9981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciengraved upon it. She went in without knocking, and hurried 9991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciupstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann, 10001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and 10011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigloves.</p> 10021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'How queer it seems,' Alice said to herself, 'to be going 10041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimessages for a rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be sending me on 10051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimessages next!' And she began fancying the sort of thing that 10061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwould happen: '"Miss Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for 10071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyour walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to see that 10081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't think,' Alice went on, 10091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering 10101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipeople about like that!'</p> 10111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room 10131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan 10141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the 10151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the 10161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciroom, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the 10171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooking- glass. There was no label this time with the words 10181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her 10191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilips. 'I know <i>something</i> interesting is sure to happen,' 10201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe said to herself, 'whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll 10211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijust see what this bottle does. I do hope it'll make me grow 10221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilarge again, for really I'm quite tired of being such a tiny 10231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle thing!'</p> 10241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: 10261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibefore she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing 10271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagainst the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being 10281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibroken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself 10291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'That's quite enough--I hope I shan't grow any more--As it is, I 10301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cican't get out at the door--I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so 10311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimuch!'</p> 10321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and 10341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrowing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another 10351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciminute there was not even room for this, and she tried the effect 10361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof lying down with one elbow against the door, and the other arm 10371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicurled round her head. Still she went on growing, and, as a last 10381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciresource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the 10391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cichimney, and said to herself 'Now I can do no more, whatever 10401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihappens. What <i>will</i> become of me?'</p> 10411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its 10431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifull effect, and she grew no larger: still it was very 10441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciuncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of 10451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt 10461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciunhappy.</p> 10471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when 10491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cione wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered 10501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciabout by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that 10511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know, 10521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithis sort of life! I do wonder what <i>can</i> have happened to 10531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cime! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing 10541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinever happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There 10551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I 10561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now,' she added in a 10571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisorrowful tone; 'at least there's no room to grow up any more 10581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>here</i>.'</p> 10591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But then,' thought Alice, 'shall I <i>never</i> get any older 10611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithan I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old 10621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwoman-- but then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I 10631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishouldn't like <i>that</i>!'</p> 10641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself. 'How can you 10661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilearn lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for you, and no 10671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciroom at all for any lesson-books!'</p> 10681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other, 10701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand making quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few 10711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciminutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen.</p> 10721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. 'Fetch me my gloves this 10741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimoment!' Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. 10751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she 10761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was 10771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinow about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no 10781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cireason to be afraid of it.</p> 10791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open 10811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit; but, as the door opened inwards, and Alice's elbow was 10821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipressed hard against it, that attempt proved a failure. Alice 10831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciheard it say to itself 'Then I'll go round and get in at the 10841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwindow.'</p> 10851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'<i>That</i> you won't' thought Alice, and, after waiting till 10871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she 10881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisuddenly spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. She 10891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidid not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a 10901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that 10911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or 10921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisomething of the sort.</p> 10931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit's--'Pat! Pat! Where are 10951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou?' And then a voice she had never heard before, 'Sure then I'm 10961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihere! Digging for apples, yer honour!'</p> 10971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 10981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Digging for apples, indeed!' said the Rabbit angrily. 'Here! 10991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciCome and help me out of <i>this</i>!' (Sounds of more broken 11001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciglass.)</p> 11011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'</p> 11031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' (He pronounced it 11051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'arrum.')</p> 11061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills 11081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe whole window!'</p> 11091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that.'</p> 11111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and take it 11131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciaway!'</p> 11141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear 11161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhispers now and then; such as, 'Sure, I don't like it, yer 11171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihonour, at all, at all!' 'Do as I tell you, you coward!' and at 11181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilast she spread out her hand again, and made another snatch in 11191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe air. This time there were <i>two</i> little shrieks, and more 11201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisounds of broken glass. 'What a number of cucumber-frames there 11211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimust be!' thought Alice. 'I wonder what they'll do next! As for 11221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipulling me out of the window, I only wish they <i>could</i>! I'm 11231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisure I don't want to stay in here any longer!'</p> 11241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at 11261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilast came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a 11271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigood many voices all talking together: she made out the words: 11281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Where's the other ladder?--Why, I hadn't to bring but one; 11291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciBill's got the other--Bill! fetch it here, lad!--Here, put 'em up 11301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciat this corner--No, tie 'em together first--they don't reach half 11311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihigh enough yet--Oh! they'll do well enough; don't be 11321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciparticular-- Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope--Will the roof 11331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibear?--Mind that loose slate--Oh, it's coming down! Heads below!' 11341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci(a loud crash)--'Now, who did that?--It was Bill, I fancy--Who's 11351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito go down the chimney?--Nay, I shan't! <i>you</i> do it!--That I 11361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwon't, then!--Bill's to go down--Here, Bill! the master says 11371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou're to go down the chimney!'</p> 11381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?' said 11401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice to herself. 'Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I 11411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal: this fireplace is 11421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinarrow, to be sure; but I <i>think</i> I can kick a little!'</p> 11431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and 11451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwaited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess of what 11461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close 11471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciabove her: then, saying to herself 'This is Bill,' she gave one 11481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.</p> 11491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The first thing she heard was a general chorus of 'There goes 11511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciBill!' then the Rabbit's voice along--'Catch him, you by the 11521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihedge!' then silence, and then another confusion of voices--'Hold 11531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciup his head--Brandy now--Don't choke him--How was it, old fellow? 11541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciWhat happened to you? Tell us all about it!'</p> 11551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, ('That's Bill,' 11571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithought Alice,) 'Well, I hardly know--No more, thank ye; I'm 11581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibetter now--but I'm a deal too flustered to tell you--all I know 11591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciis, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes 11601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike a sky-rocket!'</p> 11611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'So you did, old fellow!' said the others.</p> 11631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'We must burn the house down!' said the Rabbit's voice; and 11651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice called out as loud as she could, 'If you do. I'll set Dinah 11661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciat you!'</p> 11671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to 11691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciherself, 'I wonder what they <i>will</i> do next! If they had any 11701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisense, they'd take the roof off.' After a minute or two, they 11711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibegan moving about again, and Alice heard the Rabbit say, 'A 11721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibarrowful will do, to begin with.'</p> 11731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'A barrowful of <i>what</i>?' thought Alice; but she had not 11751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilong to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles 11761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicame rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the 11771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciface. 'I'll put a stop to this,' she said to herself, and shouted 11781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciout, 'You'd better not do that again!' which produced another 11791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidead silence.</p> 11801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all 11821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citurning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright 11831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciidea came into her head. 'If I eat one of these cakes,' she 11841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithought, 'it's sure to make <i>some</i> change in my size; and as 11851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I 11861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisuppose.'</p> 11871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find 11891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat she began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small 11901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cienough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and 11911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifound quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside. 11921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciThe poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by 11931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citwo guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle. 11941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciThey all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared; but she 11951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a 11961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithick wood.</p> 11971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 11981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'The first thing I've got to do,' said Alice to herself, as 11991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe wandered about in the wood, 'is to grow to my right size 12001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain; and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely 12011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigarden. I think that will be the best plan.'</p> 12021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and 12041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisimply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the 12051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cismallest idea how to set about it; and while she was peering 12061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciabout anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over 12071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher head made her look up in a great hurry.</p> 12081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round 12101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. 12111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried 12121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihard to whistle to it; but she was terribly frightened all the 12131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citime at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it 12141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwould be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her 12151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicoaxing.</p> 12161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of 12181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped 12191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinto the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, 12201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice 12211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run 12221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciover; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy 12231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimade another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in 12241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciits hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very 12251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every 12261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimoment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle 12271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the 12281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long 12291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciway back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat 12301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidown a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its 12311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimouth, and its great eyes half shut.</p> 12321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; 12341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciso she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out 12351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the 12361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidistance.</p> 12371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said Alice, as she 12391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cileant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself 12401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith one of the leaves: 'I should have liked teaching it tricks 12411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civery much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it! Oh dear! 12421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again! Let me 12431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisee--how <i>is</i> it to be managed? I suppose I ought to eat or drink 12441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisomething or other; but the great question is, what?'</p> 12451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round 12471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see 12481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cianything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under 12491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her, 12501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciabout the same height as herself; and when she had looked under 12511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her 12521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat she might as well look and see what was on the top of 12531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit.</p> 12541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge 12561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large 12571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicaterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, 12581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice 12591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof her or of anything else.</p> 12601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 12621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER V</h3> 12631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">Advice from a Caterpillar</h3> 12651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time 12671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its 12681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.</p> 12691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Who are <i>you</i>?' said the Caterpillar.</p> 12711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice 12731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cireplied, rather shyly, 'I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- 12741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciat least I know who I <i>was</i> when I got up this morning, but I think 12751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI must have been changed several times since then.'</p> 12761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly. 12781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Explain yourself!'</p> 12791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I can't explain <i>myself</i>, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, 12811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'because I'm not myself, you see.'</p> 12821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.</p> 12841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very 12861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipolitely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and 12871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeing so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'</p> 12881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.</p> 12901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; 'but 12921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhen you have to turn into a chrysalis--you will some day, you 12931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciknow--and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll 12941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifeel it a little queer, won't you?'</p> 12951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.</p> 12971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 12981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice; 12991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'all I know is, it would feel very queer to <i>me</i>.'</p> 13001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 'Who are 13021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>you</i>?'</p> 13031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Which brought them back again to the beginning of the 13051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciconversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's 13061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimaking such <i>very</i> short remarks, and she drew herself up 13071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand said, very gravely, 'I think, you ought to tell me who 13081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>you</i> are, first.'</p> 13091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why?' said the Caterpillar.</p> 13111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not 13131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithink of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in 13141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia <i>very</i> unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.</p> 13151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her. 'I've something 13171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciimportant to say!'</p> 13181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back 13201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain.</p> 13211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.</p> 13231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well 13251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias she could.</p> 13261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'No,' said the Caterpillar.</p> 13281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else 13301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth 13311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihearing. For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at 13321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilast it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth 13331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain, and said, 'So you think you're changed, do you?'</p> 13341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember things 13361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias I used--and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes 13371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citogether!'</p> 13381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Can't remember <i>what</i> things?' said the Caterpillar.</p> 13401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, I've tried to say "<i>How doth the little busy 13421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibee,</i>" but it all came different!' Alice replied in a very 13431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimelancholy voice.</p> 13441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Repeat, "<i>you are old, Father William,</i>"' said the 13461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciCaterpillar.</p> 13471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice folded her hands, and began:--</p> 13491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And 13511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyour hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on 13521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyour head-- Do you think, at your age, it is right?'</i></p> 13531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I feared 13551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I 13561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihave none, Why, I do it again and again.'</i></p> 13571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before, And 13591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihave grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back-somersault 13601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin at the door-- Pray, what is the reason of that?'</i></p> 13611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, 13631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment--one 13641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishilling the box-- Allow me to sell you a couple?'</i></p> 13651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak 13671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciFor anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with 13681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe bones and the beak-- Pray how did you manage to do 13691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit?'</i></p> 13701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, And 13721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciargued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which 13731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.'</i></p> 13741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose 13761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciThat your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on 13771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe end of your nose-- What made you so awfully clever?'</i></p> 13781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,' Said 13801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihis father; 'don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen 13811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciall day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down 13821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistairs!'</i></p> 13831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.</p> 13851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Not <i>quite</i> right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 13871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'some of the words have got altered.'</p> 13881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar 13901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidecidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.</p> 13911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Caterpillar was the first to speak.</p> 13931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What size do you want to be?' it asked.</p> 13951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; 13971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.'</p> 13981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 13991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I <i>don't</i> know,' said the Caterpillar.</p> 14001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in 14021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.</p> 14031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.</p> 14051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, I should like to be a <i>little</i> larger, sir, if you 14071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwouldn't mind,' said Alice: 'three inches is such a wretched 14081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciheight to be.'</p> 14091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar 14111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciangrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three 14121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinches high).</p> 14131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous 14151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citone. And she thought of herself, 'I wish the creatures wouldn't 14161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibe so easily offended!'</p> 14171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it 14191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciput the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.</p> 14201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak 14221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of 14231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciits mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got 14241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidown off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely 14251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciremarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow taller, and 14261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe other side will make you grow shorter.'</p> 14271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'One side of <i>what</i>? The other side of <i>what</i>?' 14291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithought Alice to herself.</p> 14301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had 14321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciasked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.</p> 14331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a 14351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciminute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as 14361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question. 14371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciHowever, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they 14381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwould go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.</p> 14391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a 14411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment 14421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her 14431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifoot!</p> 14441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but 14461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking 14471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. 14481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciHer chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was 14491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and 14501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimanaged to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.</p> 14511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center">* * * * *</p> 14531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of 14551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidelight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she 14561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifound that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could 14571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisee, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which 14581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciseemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay 14591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifar below her.</p> 14601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What <i>can</i> all that green stuff be?' said Alice. 'And 14621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhere <i>have</i> my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how 14631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciis it I can't see you?' She was moving them about as she spoke, 14641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibut no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the 14651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidistant green leaves.</p> 14661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her 14681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihead, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted 14691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, 14701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike a serpent. She had just succeeded in curving it down into a 14711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigraceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which 14721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she 14731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihad been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a 14741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating 14751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher violently with its wings.</p> 14761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.</p> 14781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm <i>not</i> a serpent!' said Alice indignantly. 'Let me 14801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cialone!'</p> 14811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more 14831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisubdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every 14841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciway, and nothing seems to suit them!'</p> 14851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,' said 14871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice.</p> 14881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've 14901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 'but 14911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithose serpents! There's no pleasing them!'</p> 14921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no 14941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciuse in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.</p> 14951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 14961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the 14971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciPigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and 14981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciday! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'</p> 14991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was 15011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeginning to see its meaning.</p> 15021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' 15041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicontinued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, 'and just as 15051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs 15061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicome wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!'</p> 15071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But I'm <i>not</i> a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. 'I'm 15091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia--I'm a--'</p> 15101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well! <i>what</i> are you?' said the Pigeon. 'I can see 15121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou're trying to invent something!'</p> 15131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she 15151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciremembered the number of changes she had gone through that 15161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciday.</p> 15171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the 15191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cideepest contempt. 'I've seen a good many little girls in my time, 15201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibut never <i>one</i> with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a 15211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciserpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be 15221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citelling me next that you never tasted an egg!'</p> 15231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I <i>have</i> tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a 15251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civery truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as 15261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciserpents do, you know.'</p> 15271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why 15291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithen they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.'</p> 15301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent 15321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifor a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of 15331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciadding, 'You're looking for eggs, I know <i>that</i> well enough; 15341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a 15351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciserpent?'</p> 15361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It matters a good deal to <i>me</i>,' said Alice hastily; 15381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'but I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I 15391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishouldn't want <i>yours</i>: I don't like them raw.'</p> 15401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it 15421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisettled down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the 15431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled 15441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciamong the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and 15451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciuntwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the 15461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very 15471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicarefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and 15481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrowing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had 15491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisucceeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.</p> 15501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>It was so long since she had been anything near the right 15521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisize, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it 15531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. 'Come, 15541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithere's half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes 15551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciare! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to 15561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cianother! However, I've got back to my right size: the next thing 15571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciis, to get into that beautiful garden--how <i>is</i> that to be 15581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidone, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open 15591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciplace, with a little house in it about four feet high. 'Whoever 15601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilives there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them 15611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>this</i> size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!' 15621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciSo she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not 15631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civenture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to 15641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinine inches high.</p> 15651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 15671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER VI</h3> 15681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">Pig and Pepper</h3> 15701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and 15721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came 15731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirunning out of the wood--(she considered him to be a footman 15741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibecause he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, 15751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe would have called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door 15761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith his knuckles. It was opened by another footman in livery, 15771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith a round face, and large eyes like a frog; and both footmen, 15781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their 15791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciheads. She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and 15801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicrept a little way out of the wood to listen.</p> 15811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great 15831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciletter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to 15841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe other, saying, in a solemn tone, 'For the Duchess. An 15851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinvitation from the Queen to play croquet.' The Frog-Footman 15861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirepeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the 15871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwords a little, 'From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to 15881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciplay croquet.'</p> 15891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled 15911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citogether.</p> 15921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into 15941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped 15951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciout the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the 15961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.</p> 15971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 15981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.</p> 15991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'There's no sort of use in knocking,' said the Footman, 'and 16011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat for two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the 16021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidoor as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise 16031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinside, no one could possibly hear you.' And certainly there was 16041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia most extraordinary noise going on within--a constant howling 16051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish 16061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cior kettle had been broken to pieces.</p> 16071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Please, then,' said Alice, 'how am I to get in?'</p> 16091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'There might be some sense in your knocking,' the Footman went 16111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cion without attending to her, 'if we had the door between us. For 16121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinstance, if you were <i>inside</i>, you might knock, and I could 16131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilet you out, you know.' He was looking up into the sky all the 16141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citime he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil. 16151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'But perhaps he can't help it,' she said to herself; 'his eyes 16161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciare so <i>very</i> nearly at the top of his head. But at any rate 16171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihe might answer questions.--How am I to get in?' she repeated, 16181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cialoud.</p> 16191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I shall sit here,' the Footman remarked, 'till 16211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citomorrow--'</p> 16221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate 16241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicame skimming out, straight at the Footman's head: it just grazed 16251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihis nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind 16261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihim.</p> 16271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the same 16291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citone, exactly as if nothing had happened.</p> 16301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'How am I to get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder tone.</p> 16321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'<i>Are</i> you to get in at all?' said the Footman. 'That's 16341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe first question, you know.'</p> 16351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so. 'It's 16371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cireally dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the 16381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicreatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!'</p> 16391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for 16411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirepeating his remark, with variations. 'I shall sit here,' he 16421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid, 'on and off, for days and days.'</p> 16431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But what am I to do?' said Alice.</p> 16451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began 16471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhistling.</p> 16481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice 16501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidesperately: 'he's perfectly idiotic!' And she opened the door 16511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand went in.</p> 16521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of 16541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cismoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a 16551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithree-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was 16561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cileaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to 16571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibe full of soup.</p> 16581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said 16601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito herself, as well as she could for sneezing.</p> 16611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the 16631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDuchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was 16641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause. The 16651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cionly things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, 16661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from 16671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciear to ear.</p> 16681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for 16701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to 16711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cispeak first, 'why your cat grins like that?'</p> 16721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. 16741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciPig!'</p> 16751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice 16771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquite jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed 16781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on 16791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain:--</p> 16801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I 16821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cididn't know that cats <i>could</i> grin.'</p> 16831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'</p> 16851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I don't know of any that do,' Alice said very politely, 16871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifeeling quite pleased to have got into a conversation.</p> 16881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a 16901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifact.'</p> 16911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 16921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought 16931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit would be as well to introduce some other subject of 16941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciconversation. While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took 16951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work 16961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithrowing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby 16971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci--the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans, 16981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciplates, and dishes. The Duchess took no notice of them even when 16991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey hit her; and the baby was howling so much already, that it 17001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.</p> 17011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, <i>please</i> mind what you're doing!' cried Alice, 17031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijumping up and down in an agony of terror. 'Oh, there goes his 17041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>precious</i> nose'; as an unusually large saucepan flew close 17051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciby it, and very nearly carried it off.</p> 17061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said in 17081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia hoarse growl, 'the world would go round a deal faster than it 17091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidoes.'</p> 17101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Which would <i>not</i> be an advantage,' said Alice, who felt 17121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civery glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her 17131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciknowledge. 'Just think of what work it would make with the day 17141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand night! You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn 17151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciround on its axis--'</p> 17161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, 'chop off her head!'</p> 17181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she 17201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimeant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the 17211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisoup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: 17221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Twenty-four hours, I <i>think</i>; or is it twelve? I--'</p> 17231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, don't bother <i>me</i>,' said the Duchess; 'I never could abide 17251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifigures!' And with that she began nursing her child again, 17261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisinging a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a 17271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civiolent shake at the end of every line:</p> 17281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center"><i>'Speak roughly to your little boy,</i></p> 17301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center"><i>And beat him when he sneezes:</i></p> 17321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center"><i>He only does it to annoy,</i></p> 17341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center"><i>Because he knows it teases.'</i></p> 17361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center">CHORUS</p> 17381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>(In which the cook and the baby joined):--</p> 17401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center">'Wow! wow! wow!'</p> 17421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept 17441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing 17451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihowled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words:--</p> 17461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center"><i>'I speak severely to my boy,</i></p> 17481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center"><i>I beat him when he sneezes;</i></p> 17501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center"><i>For he can thoroughly enjoy</i></p> 17521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center"><i>The pepper when he pleases!'</i></p> 17541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center">CHORUS</p> 17561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p align="Center">'Wow! wow! wow!'</p> 17581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the Duchess said 17601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke. 'I must go and 17611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciget ready to play croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of 17621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe room. The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, 17631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibut it just missed her.</p> 17641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer- 17661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all 17671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidirections, 'just like a star-fish,' thought Alice. The poor 17681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, 17691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, 17701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciso that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much 17711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias she could do to hold it.</p> 17721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, 17741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci(which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep 17751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its 17761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciundoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air. '<i>If</i> 17771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI don't take this child away with me,' thought Alice, 'they're 17781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn't it be murder to leave 17791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit behind?' She said the last words out loud, and the little 17801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithing grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time). 17811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Don't grunt,' said Alice; 'that's not at all a proper way of 17821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciexpressing yourself.'</p> 17831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into 17851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciits face to see what was the matter with it. There could be no 17861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidoubt that it had a <i>very</i> turn-up nose, much more like a 17871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisnout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely 17881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cismall for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the 17891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithing at all. 'But perhaps it was only sobbing,' she thought, and 17901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooked into its eyes again, to see if there were any tears.</p> 17911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>No, there were no tears. 'If you're going to turn into a pig, 17931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimy dear,' said Alice, seriously, 'I'll have nothing more to do 17941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith you. Mind now!' The poor little thing sobbed again (or 17951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrunted, it was impossible to say which), and they went on for 17961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisome while in silence.</p> 17971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 17981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice was just beginning to think to herself, 'Now, what am I 17991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito do with this creature when I get it home?' when it grunted 18001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some 18011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cialarm. This time there could be <i>no</i> mistake about it: it 18021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would 18031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibe quite absurd for her to carry it further.</p> 18041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved 18061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito see it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If it had grown up,' 18071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: 18081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibut it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began 18091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as 18101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only knew the right 18111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciway to change them--' when she was a little startled by seeing 18121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards 18131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cioff.</p> 18141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good- 18161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinatured, she thought: still it had <i>very</i> long claws and a 18171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigreat many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with 18181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirespect.</p> 18191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at 18211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciall know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned 18221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and 18231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go 18241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifrom here?'</p> 18251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said 18271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Cat.</p> 18281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I don't much care where--' said Alice.</p> 18301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.</p> 18321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'--so long as I get <i>somewhere</i>,' Alice added as an 18341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciexplanation.</p> 18351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk 18371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilong enough.'</p> 18381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another 18401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquestion. 'What sort of people live about here?'</p> 18411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'In <i>that</i> direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw 18431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciround, 'lives a Hatter: and in <i>that</i> direction,' waving the 18441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciother paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're 18451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciboth mad.'</p> 18461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.</p> 18481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. 18501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI'm mad. You're mad.'</p> 18511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.</p> 18531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come 18551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihere.'</p> 18561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on 18581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'And how do you know that you're mad?'</p> 18591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant 18611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat?'</p> 18621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I suppose so,' said Alice.</p> 18641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when 18661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when 18671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm 18681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimad.'</p> 18691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice.</p> 18711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet 18731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith the Queen to-day?'</p> 18741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been 18761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinvited yet.'</p> 18771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.</p> 18791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used 18811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito queer things happening. While she was looking at the place 18821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhere it had been, it suddenly appeared again.</p> 18831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. 'I'd 18851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinearly forgotten to ask.'</p> 18861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It turned into a pig,' Alice quietly said, just as if it had 18881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicome back in a natural way.</p> 18891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again.</p> 18911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 18921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it 18931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidid not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the 18941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidirection in which the March Hare was said to live. 'I've seen 18951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihatters before,' she said to herself; 'the March Hare will be 18961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimuch the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be 18971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciraving mad--at least not so mad as it was in March.' As she said 18981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithis, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a 18991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibranch of a tree.</p> 19001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.</p> 19021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I said pig,' replied Alice; 'and I wish you wouldn't keep 19041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciappearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite 19051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigiddy.'</p> 19061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite 19081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cislowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the 19091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.</p> 19101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice; 19121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw 19131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin my life!'</p> 19141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the 19161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihouse of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, 19171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibecause the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was 19181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithatched with fur. It was so large a house, that she did not like 19191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the lefthand bit 19201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high: even then 19211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe walked up towards it rather timidly, saying to herself 19221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Suppose it should be raving mad after all! I almost wish I'd 19231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigone to see the Hatter instead!'</p> 19241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 19261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER VII</h3> 19271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">A Mad Tea-Party</h3> 19291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, 19311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a 19321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two 19331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwere using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and 19341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citalking over its head. 'Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' 19351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithought Alice; 'only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't 19361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimind.'</p> 19371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded 19391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citogether at one corner of it: 'No room! No room!' they cried out 19401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhen they saw Alice coming. 'There's <i>plenty</i> of room!' said 19411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one 19421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciend of the table.</p> 19431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging 19451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citone.</p> 19461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it 19481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibut tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked.</p> 19491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.</p> 19511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice 19531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciangrily.</p> 19541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being 19561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinvited,' said the March Hare.</p> 19571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I didn't know it was <i>your</i> table,' said Alice; 'it's 19591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilaid for a great many more than three.'</p> 19601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been 19621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was 19631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihis first speech.</p> 19641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said 19661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith some severity; 'it's very rude.'</p> 19671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all 19691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihe <i>said</i> was, 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'</p> 19701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad 19721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey've begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,' she 19731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciadded aloud.</p> 19741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to 19761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit?' said the March Hare.</p> 19771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Exactly so,' said Alice.</p> 19791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went 19811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cion.</p> 19821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean what 19841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI say--that's the same thing, you know.'</p> 19851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'You might just 19871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat 19881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhat I see"!'</p> 19891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that "I 19911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!'</p> 19921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed 19941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the 19951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisame thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'</p> 19961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 19971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It <i>is</i> the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and 19981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihere the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a 19991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciminute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about 20001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.</p> 20011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Hatter was the first to break the silence. 'What day of 20031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his 20041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwatch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking 20051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit every now and then, and holding it to his ear.</p> 20061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice considered a little, and then said 'The fourth.'</p> 20081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. 'I told you butter 20101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March 20111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciHare.</p> 20121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It was the <i>best</i> butter,' the March Hare meekly 20141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cireplied.</p> 20151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter 20171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrumbled: 'you shouldn't have put it in with the 20181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibread-knife.'</p> 20191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then 20211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihe dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he 20221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicould think of nothing better to say than his first remark, 'It 20231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas the <i>best</i> butter, you know.'</p> 20241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. 20261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'What a funny watch!' she remarked. 'It tells the day of the 20271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimonth, and doesn't tell what o'clock it is!'</p> 20281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does <i>your</i> watch 20301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citell you what year it is?'</p> 20311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: 'but that's 20331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibecause it stays the same year for such a long time 20341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citogether.'</p> 20351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Which is just the case with <i>mine</i>,' said the 20371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciHatter.</p> 20381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to 20401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihave no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 20411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she 20421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicould.</p> 20431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured 20451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia little hot tea upon its nose.</p> 20461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without 20481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciopening its eyes, 'Of course, of course; just what I was going to 20491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciremark myself.'</p> 20501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to 20521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice again.</p> 20531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'No, I give it up,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer?'</p> 20551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter.</p> 20571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Nor I,' said the March Hare.</p> 20591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better 20611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that 20621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihave no answers.'</p> 20631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, 'you 20651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwouldn't talk about wasting <i>it</i>. It's <i>him</i>.'</p> 20661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.</p> 20681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head 20701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicontemptuously. 'I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'</p> 20711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: 'but I know I have to 20731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeat time when I learn music.'</p> 20741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. 'He won't stand 20761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do 20771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cialmost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose 20781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: 20791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the 20801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciclock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!'</p> 20811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>('I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in a 20831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhisper.)</p> 20841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That would be grand, certainly,' said Alice thoughtfully: 20861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'but then--I shouldn't be hungry for it, you know.'</p> 20871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Not at first, perhaps,' said the Hatter: 'but you could keep 20891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit to half-past one as long as you liked.'</p> 20901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Is that the way <i>you</i> manage?' Alice asked.</p> 20921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he replied. 'We 20941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquarrelled last March--just before <i>he</i> went mad, you 20951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciknow--' (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) '--it 20961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had 20971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito sing</p> 20981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 20991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!</i></p> 21001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>How I wonder what you're at!"</i></p> 21021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>You know the song, perhaps?'</p> 21041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I've heard something like it,' said Alice.</p> 21061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, 'in this 21081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciway:--</p> 21091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>"Up above the world you fly,</i></p> 21111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>Like a tea-tray in the sky.</i></p> 21131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>Twinkle, twinkle--"'</i></p> 21151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep 21171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'<i>Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--</i>' and went on so long 21181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat they had to pinch it to make it stop.</p> 21191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse,' said the Hatter, 21211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, "He's murdering the 21221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citime! Off with his head!"'</p> 21231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'How dreadfully savage!' exclaimed Alice.</p> 21251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, 21271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.'</p> 21281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>A bright idea came into Alice's head. 'Is that the reason so 21301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimany tea-things are put out here?' she asked.</p> 21311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: 'it's always 21331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between 21341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhiles.'</p> 21351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.</p> 21371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Exactly so,' said the Hatter: 'as the things get used 21391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciup.'</p> 21401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice 21421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civentured to ask.</p> 21431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare interrupted, 21451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyawning. 'I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells 21461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cius a story.'</p> 21471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm afraid I don't know one,' said Alice, rather alarmed at 21491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe proposal.</p> 21501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. 'Wake up, 21521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDormouse!' And they pinched it on both sides at once.</p> 21531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. 'I wasn't asleep,' he 21551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid in a hoarse, feeble voice: 'I heard every word you fellows 21561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwere saying.'</p> 21571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare.</p> 21591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice.</p> 21611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, 'or you'll be 21631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciasleep again before it's done.'</p> 21641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the 21661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDormouse began in a great hurry; 'and their names were Elsie, 21671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciLacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well--'</p> 21681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great 21701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinterest in questions of eating and drinking.</p> 21711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a 21731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciminute or two.</p> 21741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice gently 21761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciremarked; 'they'd have been ill.'</p> 21771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'So they were,' said the Dormouse; '<i>very</i> ill.'</p> 21791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary 21811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciways of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she 21821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwent on: 'But why did they live at the bottom of a well?'</p> 21831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very 21851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciearnestly.</p> 21861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so 21881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI can't take more.'</p> 21891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You mean you can't take <i>less</i>,' said the Hatter: 'it's 21911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civery easy to take <i>more</i> than nothing.'</p> 21921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Nobody asked <i>your</i> opinion,' said Alice.</p> 21941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter asked 21961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citriumphantly.</p> 21971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 21981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped 21991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciherself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the 22001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDormouse, and repeated her question. 'Why did they live at the 22011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibottom of a well?'</p> 22021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and 22041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithen said, 'It was a treacle-well.'</p> 22051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'There's no such thing!' Alice was beginning very angrily, but 22071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Hatter and the March Hare went 'Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse 22081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisulkily remarked, 'If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the 22091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistory for yourself.'</p> 22101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; 'I won't interrupt 22121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain. I dare say there may be <i>one</i>.'</p> 22131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he 22151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciconsented to go on. 'And so these three little sisters--they were 22161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilearning to draw, you know--'</p> 22171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting her 22191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipromise.</p> 22201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this 22221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citime.</p> 22231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move 22251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cione place on.'</p> 22261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the 22281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciMarch Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather 22291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciunwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the 22301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cionly one who got any advantage from the change: and Alice was a 22311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigood deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset 22321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe milk-jug into his plate.</p> 22331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began 22351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civery cautiously: 'But I don't understand. Where did they draw the 22361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citreacle from?'</p> 22371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the Hatter; 'so 22391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh, 22401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistupid?'</p> 22411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But they were <i>in</i> the well,' Alice said to the 22431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark.</p> 22441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of course they were', said the Dormouse; '--well in.'</p> 22461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse 22481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigo on for some time without interrupting it.</p> 22491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went on, yawning 22511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; 'and they 22521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidrew all manner of things--everything that begins with an 22531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciM--'</p> 22541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why with an M?' said Alice.</p> 22561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why not?' said the March Hare.</p> 22581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice was silent.</p> 22601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going 22621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cioff into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up 22631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain with a little shriek, and went on: '--that begins with an 22641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciM, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness-- 22651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou know you say things are "much of a muchness"--did you ever 22661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisee such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?'</p> 22671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much confused, 'I 22691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidon't think--'</p> 22701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.</p> 22721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got 22741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciup in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep 22751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinstantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her 22761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigoing, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that 22771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were 22781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.</p> 22791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'At any rate I'll never go <i>there</i> again!' said Alice as 22811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe picked her way through the wood. 'It's the stupidest 22821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citea-party I ever was at in all my life!'</p> 22831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a 22851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidoor leading right into it. 'That's very curious!' she thought. 22861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'But everything's curious today. I think I may as well go in at 22871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cionce.' And in she went.</p> 22881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the 22901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle glass table. 'Now, I'll manage better this time,' she said 22911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and 22921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciunlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she went to 22931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwork nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her 22941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the 22951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle passage: and <i>then</i>--she found herself at last in the 22961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool 22971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifountains.</p> 22981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 22991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 23001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER VIII</h3> 23011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">The Queen's Croquet-Ground</h3> 23031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the 23051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciroses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at 23061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit, busily painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious 23071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up 23081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito them she heard one of them say, 'Look out now, Five! Don't go 23091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisplashing paint over me like that!'</p> 23101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; 'Seven 23121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijogged my elbow.'</p> 23131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>On which Seven looked up and said, 'That's right, Five! Always 23151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilay the blame on others!'</p> 23161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>You'd</i> better not talk!' said Five. 'I heard the Queen 23181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisay only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'</p> 23191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What for?' said the one who had spoken first.</p> 23211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That's none of <i>your</i> business, Two!' said Seven.</p> 23231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes, it <i>is</i> his business!' said Five, 'and I'll tell 23251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihim--it was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of 23261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cionions.'</p> 23271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun 'Well, of all 23291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe unjust things--' when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as 23301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the 23311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciothers looked round also, and all of them bowed low.</p> 23321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, 'why you 23341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciare painting those roses?'</p> 23351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Two began in a 23371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilow voice, 'Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to 23381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihave been a <i>red</i> rose-tree, and we put a white one in by 23391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have 23401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciour heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our 23411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibest, afore she comes, to--' At this moment Five, who had been 23421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cianxiously looking across the garden, called out 'The Queen! The 23431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciQueen!' and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat 23441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciupon their faces. There was a sound of many footsteps, and Alice 23451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooked round, eager to see the Queen.</p> 23461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped 23481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and 23491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifeet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were 23501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the 23511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisoldiers did. After these came the royal children; there were ten 23521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in 23531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came 23541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice 23551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirecognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous 23561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimanner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without 23571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinoticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the 23581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciKing's crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this 23591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.</p> 23601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on 23621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher face like the three gardeners, but she could not remember 23631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciever having heard of such a rule at processions; 'and besides, 23641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhat would be the use of a procession,' thought she, 'if people 23651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihad all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn't see 23661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit?' So she stood still where she was, and waited.</p> 23671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped 23691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand looked at her, and the Queen said severely 'Who is this?' She 23701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid it to the Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in 23711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cireply.</p> 23721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Idiot!' said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and, 23741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citurning to Alice, she went on, 'What's your name, child?'</p> 23751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,' said Alice very 23771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipolitely; but she added, to herself, 'Why, they're only a pack of 23781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicards, after all. I needn't be afraid of them!'</p> 23791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And who are <i>these</i>?' said the Queen, pointing to the 23811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithree gardeners who were lying round the rosetree; for, you see, 23821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias they were lying on their faces, and the pattern on their backs 23831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas the same as the rest of the pack, she could not tell whether 23841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her 23851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciown children.</p> 23861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'How should I know?' said Alice, surprised at her own courage. 23881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'It's no business of <i>mine</i>.'</p> 23891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her 23911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifor a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! 23921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciOff--'</p> 23931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the 23951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciQueen was silent.</p> 23961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 23971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said 23981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Consider, my dear: she is only a child!'</p> 23991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave 24011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Turn them over!'</p> 24021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.</p> 24041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Get up!' said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the 24061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithree gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the 24071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciKing, the Queen, the royal children, and everybody else.</p> 24081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Leave off that!' screamed the Queen. 'You make me giddy.' And 24101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithen, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, 'What <i>have</i> 24111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou been doing here?'</p> 24121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'May it please your Majesty,' said Two, in a very humble tone, 24141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigoing down on one knee as he spoke, 'we were trying--'</p> 24151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I see!' said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the 24171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciroses. 'Off with their heads!' and the procession moved on, three 24181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate 24191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.</p> 24201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You shan't be beheaded!' said Alice, and she put them into a 24221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilarge flower-pot that stood near. The three soldiers wandered 24231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciabout for a minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly 24241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimarched off after the others.</p> 24251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen.</p> 24271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!' the 24291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisoldiers shouted in reply.</p> 24301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That's right!' shouted the Queen. 'Can you play croquet?'</p> 24321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question 24341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas evidently meant for her.</p> 24351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes!' shouted Alice.</p> 24371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Come on, then!' roared the Queen, and Alice joined the 24391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciprocession, wondering very much what would happen next.</p> 24401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It's--it's a very fine day!' said a timid voice at her side. 24421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciShe was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously 24431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinto her face.</p> 24441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Very,' said Alice: '--where's the Duchess?'</p> 24461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Hush! Hush!' said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He 24481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised 24491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihimself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and 24501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhispered 'She's under sentence of execution.'</p> 24511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What for?' said Alice.</p> 24531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Did you say "What a pity!"?' the Rabbit asked.</p> 24551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'No, I didn't,' said Alice: 'I don't think it's at all a pity. 24571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI said "What for?"'</p> 24581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'She boxed the Queen's ears--' the Rabbit began. Alice gave a 24601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle scream of laughter. 'Oh, hush!' the Rabbit whispered in a 24611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifrightened tone. 'The Queen will hear you! You see, she came 24621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirather late, and the Queen said--'</p> 24631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, 24651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand people began running about in all directions, tumbling up 24661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagainst each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or 24671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citwo, and the game began. Alice thought she had never seen such a 24681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicurious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and 24691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifurrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live 24701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciflamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to 24711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.</p> 24721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her 24741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciflamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, 24751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicomfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, 24761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibut generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened 24771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciout, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it 24781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>would</i> twist itself round and look up in her face, with 24791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisuch a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out 24801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilaughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to 24811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibegin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had 24821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciunrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all 24831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithis, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever 24841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up 24851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisoldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of 24861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very 24871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidifficult game indeed.</p> 24881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The players all played at once without waiting for turns, 24901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in 24911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went 24921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistamping about, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with 24931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher head!' about once in a minute.</p> 24941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 24951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as 24961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might 24971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihappen any minute, 'and then,' thought she, 'what would become of 24981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cime? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great 24991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwonder is, that there's any one left alive!'</p> 25001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering 25021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhether she could get away without being seen, when she noticed a 25031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicurious appearance in the air: it puzzled her very much at first, 25041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibut, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a 25051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrin, and she said to herself 'It's the Cheshire Cat: now I shall 25061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihave somebody to talk to.'</p> 25071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'How are you getting on?' said the Cat, as soon as there was 25091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimouth enough for it to speak with.</p> 25101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. 'It's no 25121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciuse speaking to it,' she thought, 'till its ears have come, or at 25131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cileast one of them.' In another minute the whole head appeared, 25141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand then Alice put down her flamingo, and began an account of the 25151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigame, feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her. The Cat 25161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciseemed to think that there was enough of it now in sight, and no 25171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimore of it appeared.</p> 25181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I don't think they play at all fairly,' Alice began, in 25201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirather a complaining tone, 'and they all quarrel so dreadfully 25211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cione can't hear oneself speak--and they don't seem to have any 25221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to 25231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithem--and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being 25241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cialive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next 25251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwalking about at the other end of the ground--and I should have 25261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicroqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it 25271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaw mine coming!'</p> 25281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'How do you like the Queen?' said the Cat in a low voice.</p> 25301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Not at all,' said Alice: 'she's so extremely--' Just then she 25321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinoticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she 25331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwent on, '--likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing 25341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe game.'</p> 25351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Queen smiled and passed on.</p> 25371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Who <i>are</i> you talking to?' said the King, going up to 25391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice, and looking at the Cat's head with great curiosity.</p> 25401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said Alice: 'allow me 25421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito introduce it.'</p> 25431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, 25451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit may kiss my hand if it likes.'</p> 25461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.</p> 25481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me 25501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.</p> 25511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. 'I've read that in 25531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisome book, but I don't remember where.'</p> 25541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, it must be removed,' said the King very decidedly, and 25561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihe called the Queen, who was passing at the moment, 'My dear! I 25571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwish you would have this cat removed!'</p> 25581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great 25601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cior small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking 25611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciround.</p> 25621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the King eagerly, 25641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand he hurried off.</p> 25651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game 25671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas going on, as she heard the Queen's voice in the distance, 25681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciscreaming with passion. She had already heard her sentence three 25691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and 25701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe did not like the look of things at all, as the game was in 25711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisuch confusion that she never knew whether it was her turn or 25721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinot. So she went in search of her hedgehog.</p> 25731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, 25751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhich seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one 25761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her 25771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciflamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where 25781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up 25791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinto a tree.</p> 25801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, 25821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: 25831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'but it doesn't matter much,' thought Alice, 'as all the arches 25841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciare gone from this side of the ground.' So she tucked it away 25851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciunder her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back for 25861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia little more conversation with her friend.</p> 25871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to 25891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifind quite a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute 25901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigoing on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who 25911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwere all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent, 25921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand looked very uncomfortable.</p> 25931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to 25951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisettle the question, and they repeated their arguments to her, 25961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithough, as they all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed 25971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito make out exactly what they said.</p> 25981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 25991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a 26001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihead unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had 26011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinever had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin 26021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciat <i>his</i> time of life.</p> 26031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could 26051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibe beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.</p> 26061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Queen's argument was, that if something wasn't done about 26081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit in less than no time she'd have everybody executed, all round. 26091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci(It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so 26101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrave and anxious.)</p> 26111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice could think of nothing else to say but 'It belongs to 26131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Duchess: you'd better ask <i>her</i> about it.'</p> 26141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'She's in prison,' the Queen said to the executioner: 'fetch 26161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher here.' And the executioner went off like an arrow.</p> 26171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Cat's head began fading away the moment he was gone, and, 26191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciby the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely 26201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidisappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and 26211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidown looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the 26221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigame.</p> 26231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 26251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER IX</h3> 26261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">The Mock Turtle's Story</h3> 26281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old 26301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithing!' said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately 26311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinto Alice's, and they walked off together.</p> 26321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and 26341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had 26351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimade her so savage when they met in the kitchen.</p> 26361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'When <i>I'm</i> a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a 26381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civery hopeful tone though), 'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen 26391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>at all</i>. Soup does very well without--Maybe it's always 26401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipepper that makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very much 26411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipleased at having found out a new kind of rule, 'and vinegar that 26421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimakes them sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--and 26431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibarley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I 26441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cionly wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about 26451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit, you know--'</p> 26461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a 26481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. 26491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you 26501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciforget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that 26511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciis, but I shall remember it in a bit.'</p> 26521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.</p> 26541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a 26561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimoral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up 26571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicloser to Alice's side as she spoke.</p> 26581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, 26601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibecause the Duchess was <i>very</i> ugly; and secondly, because she was 26611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciexactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder, 26621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like 26631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.</p> 26641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of 26661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cikeeping up the conversation a little.</p> 26671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>''Tis so,' said the Duchess: 'and the moral of that is--"Oh, 26691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'</p> 26701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Somebody said,' Alice whispered, 'that it's done by everybody 26721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciminding their own business!'</p> 26731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess, 26751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidigging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added, 26761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'and the moral of <i>that</i> is--"Take care of the sense, and 26771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe sounds will take care of themselves."'</p> 26781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought 26801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito herself.</p> 26811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your 26831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwaist,' the Duchess said after a pause: 'the reason is, that I'm 26841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidoubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the 26851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciexperiment?'</p> 26861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'<i>He</i> might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling 26881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciat all anxious to have the experiment tried.</p> 26891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Very true,' said the Duchess: 'flamingoes and mustard both 26911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock 26921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citogether."'</p> 26931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.</p> 26951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Right, as usual,' said the Duchess: 'what a clear way you 26971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihave of putting things!'</p> 26981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 26991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It's a mineral, I <i>think</i>,' said Alice.</p> 27001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree 27021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito everything that Alice said; 'there's a large mustard-mine near 27031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihere. And the moral of that is--"The more there is of mine, the 27041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciless there is of yours."'</p> 27051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this 27071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilast remark, 'it's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it 27081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciis.'</p> 27091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; 'and the moral of 27111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put 27121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimore simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than 27131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhat it might appear to others that what you were or might have 27141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeen was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared 27151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito them to be otherwise."'</p> 27161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very 27181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipolitely, 'if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it 27191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias you say it.'</p> 27201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess 27221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cireplied, in a pleased tone.</p> 27231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,' 27251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid Alice.</p> 27261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. 'I make you 27281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia present of everything I've said as yet.'</p> 27291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'A cheap sort of present!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad they don't 27311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigive birthday presents like that!' But she did not venture to say 27321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit out loud.</p> 27331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Thinking again?' the Duchess asked, with another dig of her 27351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisharp little chin.</p> 27361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was 27381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeginning to feel a little worried.</p> 27391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, 'as pigs have to 27411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifly; and the m--'</p> 27421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died 27441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciaway, even in the middle of her favourite word 'moral,' and the 27451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciarm that was linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up, 27461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded, 27471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifrowning like a thunderstorm.</p> 27481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a low, weak 27501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice.</p> 27511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen, stamping on 27531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe ground as she spoke; 'either you or your head must be off, 27541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand that in about half no time! Take your choice!'</p> 27551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.</p> 27571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to Alice; and 27591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed 27601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher back to the croquet-ground.</p> 27611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen's absence, 27631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, 27641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a 27651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimoment's delay would cost them their lives.</p> 27661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>All the time they were playing the Queen never left off 27681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquarrelling with the other players, and shouting 'Off with his 27691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihead!' or 'Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were 27701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citaken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave 27711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cioff being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour 27721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cior so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the 27731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciKing, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of 27741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciexecution.</p> 27751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to 27771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice, 'Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'</p> 27781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'No,' said Alice. 'I don't even know what a Mock Turtle 27801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciis.'</p> 27811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said the 27831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciQueen.</p> 27841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I never saw one, or heard of one,' said Alice.</p> 27861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Come on, then,' said the Queen, 'and he shall tell you his 27881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihistory,'</p> 27891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low 27911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice, to the company generally, 'You are all pardoned.' 'Come, 27921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>that's</i> a good thing!' she said to herself, for she had 27931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifelt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had 27941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciordered.</p> 27951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 27961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the 27971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisun. (<i>If</i> you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) 27981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Up, lazy thing!' said the Queen, 'and take this young lady to 27991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisee the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and 28001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisee after some executions I have ordered'; and she walked off, 28011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cileaving Alice alone with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like 28021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would 28031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibe quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage 28041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciQueen: so she waited.</p> 28051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the 28071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciQueen till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. 'What fun!' 28081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.</p> 28091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What <i>is</i> the fun?' said Alice.</p> 28111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why, <i>she</i>,' said the Gryphon. 'It's all her fancy, 28131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat: they never executes nobody, you know. Come on!'</p> 28141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Everybody says "come on!" here,' thought Alice, as she went 28161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cislowly after it: 'I never was so ordered about in all my life, 28171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinever!'</p> 28181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the 28201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidistance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, 28211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart 28221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwould break. She pitied him deeply. 'What is his sorrow?' she 28231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciasked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the 28241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisame words as before, 'It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no 28251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisorrow, you know. Come on!'</p> 28261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with 28281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilarge eyes full of tears, but said nothing.</p> 28291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants for to 28311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciknow your history, she do.'</p> 28321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow 28341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citone: 'sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've 28351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifinished.'</p> 28361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice 28381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithought to herself, 'I don't see how he can <i>even</i> finish, 28391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciif he doesn't begin.' But she waited patiently.</p> 28401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, 'I was 28421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia real Turtle.'</p> 28431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only 28451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciby an occasional exclamation of 'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and 28461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very 28471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinearly getting up and saying, 'Thank you, sir, for your 28481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinteresting story,' but she could not help thinking there 28491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>must</i> be more to come, so she sat still and said 28501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinothing.</p> 28511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more 28531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicalmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, 'we went to 28541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cischool in the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call 28551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihim Tortoise--'</p> 28561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice 28581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciasked.</p> 28591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock 28611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciTurtle angrily: 'really you are very dull!'</p> 28621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple 28641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquestion,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and 28651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. At 28661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilast the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, 'Drive on, old fellow! 28671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDon't be all day about it!' and he went on in these words:</p> 28681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe 28701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit--'</p> 28711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I never said I didn't!' interrupted Alice.</p> 28731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You did,' said the Mock Turtle.</p> 28751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Hold your tongue!' added the Gryphon, before Alice could 28771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cispeak again. The Mock Turtle went on.</p> 28781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to school 28801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cievery day--'</p> 28811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'<i>I've</i> been to a day-school, too,' said Alice; 'you 28831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cineedn't be so proud as all that.'</p> 28841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously.</p> 28861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes,' said Alice, 'we learned French and music.'</p> 28881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.</p> 28901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly.</p> 28921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock 28941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciTurtle in a tone of great relief. 'Now at <i>ours</i> they had at 28951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe end of the bill, "French, music, <i>and 28961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwashing</i>--extra."'</p> 28971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 28981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice; 'living at the 28991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibottom of the sea.'</p> 29001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle with a 29021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisigh. 'I only took the regular course.'</p> 29031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What was that?' inquired Alice.</p> 29051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock 29071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciTurtle replied; 'and then the different branches of Arithmetic-- 29081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAmbition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'</p> 29091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to say. 29111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'What is it?'</p> 29121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. 'What! Never 29141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciheard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is, 29151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI suppose?'</p> 29161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: 'it 29181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimeans--to--make--anything--prettier.'</p> 29191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to 29211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciuglify is, you <i>are</i> a simpleton.'</p> 29221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about 29241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said 'What else had you 29251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito learn?'</p> 29261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting 29281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cioff the subjects on his flappers, '--Mystery, ancient and modern, 29291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old 29301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciconger-eel, that used to come once a week: <i>He</i> taught us 29311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDrawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'</p> 29321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What was <i>that</i> like?' said Alice.</p> 29341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: 'I'm 29361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citoo stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'</p> 29371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: 'I went to the Classics 29391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimaster, though. He was an old crab, <i>he</i> was.'</p> 29401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: 'he 29421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citaught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'</p> 29431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; 29451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand both creatures hid their faces in their paws.</p> 29461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in 29481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia hurry to change the subject.</p> 29491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the 29511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinext, and so on.'</p> 29521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.</p> 29541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon 29561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciremarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'</p> 29571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a 29591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle before she made her next remark. 'Then the eleventh day 29601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimust have been a holiday?'</p> 29611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle.</p> 29631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice went on 29651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieagerly.</p> 29661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon interrupted in a 29681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civery decided tone: 'tell her something about the games now.'</p> 29691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 29711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER X</h3> 29721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">The Lobster Quadrille</h3> 29741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one 29761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciflapper across his eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, 29771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibut for a minute or two sobs choked his voice. 'Same as if he had 29781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia bone in his throat,' said the Gryphon: and it set to work 29791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishaking him and punching him in the back. At last the Mock Turtle 29801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirecovered his voice, and, with tears running down his cheeks, he 29811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwent on again:--</p> 29821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You may not have lived much under the sea--' ('I haven't,' 29841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid Alice)-- 'and perhaps you were never even introduced to a 29851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilobster--' (Alice began to say 'I once tasted--' but checked 29861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciherself hastily, and said 'No, never') '--so you can have no idea 29871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhat a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!'</p> 29881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'No, indeed,' said Alice. 'What sort of a dance is it?'</p> 29901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why,' said the Gryphon, 'you first form into a line along the 29921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisea-shore--'</p> 29931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle. 'Seals, turtles, salmon, 29951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand so on; then, when you've cleared all the jelly-fish out of 29961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe way--'</p> 29971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 29981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'<i>That</i> generally takes some time,' interrupted the 29991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciGryphon.</p> 30001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'--you advance twice--'</p> 30021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Each with a lobster as a partner!' cried the Gryphon.</p> 30041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of course,' the Mock Turtle said: 'advance twice, set to 30061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipartners--'</p> 30071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'--change lobsters, and retire in same order,' continued the 30091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciGryphon.</p> 30101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then, you know,' the Mock Turtle went on, 'you throw 30121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe--'</p> 30131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the 30151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciair.</p> 30161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'--as far out to sea as you can--'</p> 30181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Swim after them!' screamed the Gryphon.</p> 30201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the Mock Turtle, 30221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicapering wildly about.</p> 30231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Change lobster's again!' yelled the Gryphon at the top of its 30251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice.</p> 30261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Back to land again, and that's all the first figure,' said 30281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two 30291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicreatures, who had been jumping about like mad things all this 30301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citime, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at 30311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice.</p> 30321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It must be a very pretty dance,' said Alice timidly.</p> 30341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Would you like to see a little of it?' said the Mock 30361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciTurtle.</p> 30371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Very much indeed,' said Alice.</p> 30391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Come, let's try the first figure!' said the Mock Turtle to 30411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Gryphon. 'We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall 30421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cising?'</p> 30431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, <i>you</i> sing,' said the Gryphon. 'I've forgotten the 30451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwords.'</p> 30461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every 30481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinow and then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and 30491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwaving their forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle 30501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisang this, very slowly and sadly:--</p> 30511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a 30531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisnail. "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on 30541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimy tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all 30551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciadvance! They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join 30561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe dance?</i></p> 30571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the 30591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join 30601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe dance?</i></p> 30611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>"You can really have no notion how delightful it will be 30631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciWhen they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to 30641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisea!" But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a look 30651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciaskance-- Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not 30661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijoin the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, would 30671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinot join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, 30681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicould not join the dance.</i></p> 30691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied. 30711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. The 30721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifurther off from England the nearer is to France-- Then turn not 30731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.</i></p> 30741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the 30761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join 30771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe dance?"'</i></p> 30781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to watch,' said 30801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: 'and I do so 30811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike that curious song about the whiting!'</p> 30821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, 'they--you've 30841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciseen them, of course?'</p> 30851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes,' said Alice, 'I've often seen them at dinn--' she 30871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cichecked herself hastily.</p> 30881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock Turtle, 'but 30901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciif you've seen them so often, of course you know what they're 30911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilike.'</p> 30921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. 'They have their 30941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citails in their mouths--and they're all over crumbs.'</p> 30951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 30961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle: 'crumbs 30971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwould all wash off in the sea. But they <i>have</i> their tails 30981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciin their mouths; and the reason is--' here the Mock Turtle yawned 30991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand shut his eyes.--'Tell her about the reason and all that,' he 31001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid to the Gryphon.</p> 31011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'The reason is,' said the Gryphon, 'that they <i>would</i> go 31031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith the lobsters to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So 31041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey had to fall a long way. So they got their tails fast in 31051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citheir mouths. So they couldn't get them out again. That's 31061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciall.'</p> 31071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Thank you,' said Alice, 'it's very interesting. I never knew 31091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciso much about a whiting before.'</p> 31101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the 31121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciGryphon. 'Do you know why it's called a whiting?'</p> 31131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I never thought about it,' said Alice. 'Why?'</p> 31151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'It does the boots and shoes.'</i> the Gryphon replied very 31171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisolemnly.</p> 31181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice was thoroughly puzzled. 'Does the boots and shoes!' she 31201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirepeated in a wondering tone.</p> 31211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why, what are <i>your</i> shoes done with?' said the Gryphon. 31231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'I mean, what makes them so shiny?'</p> 31241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she 31261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigave her answer. 'They're done with blacking, I believe.'</p> 31271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on in a deep 31291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice, 'are done with a whiting. Now you know.'</p> 31301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a tone of great 31321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicuriosity.</p> 31331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather 31351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciimpatiently: 'any shrimp could have told you that.'</p> 31361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were 31381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cistill running on the song, 'I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep 31391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciback, please: we don't want <i>you</i> with us!"'</p> 31401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle 31421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid: 'no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'</p> 31431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great 31451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisurprise.</p> 31461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: 'why, if a fish came to 31481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>me</i>, and told me he was going a journey, I should say "With 31491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhat porpoise?"'</p> 31501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.</p> 31521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended 31541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citone. And the Gryphon added 'Come, let's hear some of <i>your</i> 31551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciadventures.'</p> 31561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,' 31581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no use going back to 31591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyesterday, because I was a different person then.'</p> 31601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.</p> 31621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an 31641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciimpatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'</p> 31651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when 31671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe first saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about it 31681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijust at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each 31691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciside, and opened their eyes and mouths so <i>very</i> wide, but 31701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly 31711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquiet till she got to the part about her repeating <i>'You are 31721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciold, Father William,'</i> to the Caterpillar, and the words all 31731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicoming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, 31741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand said 'That's very curious.'</p> 31751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the 31771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciGryphon.</p> 31781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It all came different!' the Mock Turtle repeated 31801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithoughtfully. 'I should like to hear her try and repeat something 31811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinow. Tell her to begin.' He looked at the Gryphon as if he 31821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithought it had some kind of authority over Alice.</p> 31831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Stand up and repeat <i>"'Tis the voice of the sluggard,"'</i> 31851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid the Gryphon.</p> 31861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat 31881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilessons!' thought Alice; 'I might as well be at school at once.' 31891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciHowever, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so 31901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifull of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was 31911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaying, and the words came very queer indeed:--</p> 31921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>''Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, "You have 31941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibaked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." As a duck with its 31951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and 31961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citurns out his toes.'</p> 31971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 31981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>[later editions continued as follows When the sands are all 31991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of 32001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His 32011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice has a timid and tremulous sound.]</p> 32021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' 32041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid the Gryphon.</p> 32051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; 'but it 32071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisounds uncommon nonsense.'</p> 32081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her 32101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihands, wondering if anything would <i>ever</i> happen in a 32111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinatural way again.</p> 32121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock 32141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciTurtle.</p> 32151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on with 32171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe next verse.'</p> 32181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. 'How 32201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>could</i> he turn them out with his nose, you know?'</p> 32211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was 32231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the 32241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisubject.</p> 32251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated impatiently: 32271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'it begins "I passed by his garden."'</p> 32281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would 32301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciall come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:--</p> 32311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye, How the 32331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciOwl and the Panther were sharing a pie--'</i></p> 32341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>[<tt>later editions continued as follows:</tt> <i>The Panther 32361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citook pie-crust, and gravy, and meat, While the Owl had the dish 32371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cias its share of the treat. When the pie was all finished, the 32381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciOwl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: While 32391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Panther received knife and fork with a growl, And concluded 32401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe banquet--</i>]</p> 32411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What <i>is</i> the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle 32431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinterrupted, 'if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far 32441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe most confusing thing I ever heard!'</p> 32451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon: and 32471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice was only too glad to do so.</p> 32481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the 32501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciGryphon went on. 'Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a 32511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisong?'</p> 32521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,' 32541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather 32551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cioffended tone, 'Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her "Turtle 32561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciSoup," will you, old fellow?'</p> 32571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes 32591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cichoked with sobs, to sing this:--</p> 32601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot 32621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the 32631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cievening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! 32641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciBeau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the 32651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cie--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup!</i></p> 32661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, Game, or any other 32681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth only of 32691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeautiful Soup? Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? Beau--ootiful 32701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciSoo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, 32711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciBeautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!'</i></p> 32721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had 32741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijust begun to repeat it, when a cry of 'The trial's beginning!' 32751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas heard in the distance.</p> 32761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, 32781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.</p> 32791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon 32811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cionly answered 'Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more 32821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifaintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the 32831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimelancholy words:--</p> 32841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful 32861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciSoup!'</i></p> 32871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 32891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER XI</h3> 32901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">Who Stole the Tarts?</h3> 32921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 32931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when 32941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts 32951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof little birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: 32961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe Knave was standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on 32971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieach side to guard him; and near the King was the White Rabbit, 32981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the 32991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciother. In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large 33001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice 33011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquite hungry to look at them--'I wish they'd get the trial done,' 33021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe thought, 'and hand round the refreshments!' But there seemed 33031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about 33041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher, to pass away the time.</p> 33051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had 33071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciread about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that 33081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe knew the name of nearly everything there. 'That's the judge,' 33091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe said to herself, 'because of his great wig.'</p> 33101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown 33121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciover the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he 33131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidid it,) he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly 33141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinot becoming.</p> 33151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'And that's the jury-box,' thought Alice, 'and those twelve 33171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicreatures,' (she was obliged to say 'creatures,' you see, because 33181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisome of them were animals, and some were birds,) 'I suppose they 33191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciare the jurors.' She said this last word two or three times over 33201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and 33211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the 33221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimeaning of it at all. However, 'jury-men' would have done just as 33231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwell.</p> 33241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. 33261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'What are they doing?' Alice whispered to the Gryphon. 'They 33271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cican't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's 33281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibegun.'</p> 33291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in 33311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cireply, 'for fear they should forget them before the end of the 33321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrial.'</p> 33331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but 33351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, 'Silence in 33361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe court!' and the King put on his spectacles and looked 33371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cianxiously round, to make out who was talking.</p> 33381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their 33401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishoulders, that all the jurors were writing down 'stupid things!' 33411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cion their slates, and she could even make out that one of them 33421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cididn't know how to spell 'stupid,' and that he had to ask his 33431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cineighbour to tell him. 'A nice muddle their slates'll be in 33441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibefore the trial's over!' thought Alice.</p> 33451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, 33471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice could <i>not</i> stand, and she went round the court and 33481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigot behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it 33491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciaway. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was 33501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciBill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of 33511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write 33521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwith one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very 33531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle use, as it left no mark on the slate.</p> 33541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Herald, read the accusation!' said the King.</p> 33561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and 33581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithen unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:--</p> 33591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer 33611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciday: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them 33621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciquite away!'</i></p> 33631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Consider your verdict,' the King said to the jury.</p> 33651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Not yet, not yet!' the Rabbit hastily interrupted. 'There's a 33671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigreat deal to come before that!'</p> 33681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Call the first witness,' said the King; and the White Rabbit 33701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciblew three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, 'First 33711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwitness!'</p> 33721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in 33741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cione hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. 'I beg 33751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipardon, your Majesty,' he began, 'for bringing these in: but I 33761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihadn't quite finished my tea when I was sent for.'</p> 33771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You ought to have finished,' said the King. 'When did you 33791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibegin?'</p> 33801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into 33821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. 'Fourteenth of March, I 33831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>think</i> it was,' he said.</p> 33841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Fifteenth,' said the March Hare.</p> 33861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse.</p> 33881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Write that down,' the King said to the jury, and the jury 33901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then 33911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciadded them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.</p> 33921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Take off your hat,' the King said to the Hatter.</p> 33941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It isn't mine,' said the Hatter.</p> 33961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 33971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'<i>Stolen!</i>' the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who 33981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciinstantly made a memorandum of the fact.</p> 33991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I keep them to sell,' the Hatter added as an explanation; 34011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.'</p> 34021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the 34041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciHatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.</p> 34051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be nervous, or 34071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciI'll have you executed on the spot.'</p> 34081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept 34101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the 34111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciQueen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his 34121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citeacup instead of the bread-and-butter.</p> 34131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which 34151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipuzzled her a good deal until she made out what it was: she was 34161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeginning to grow larger again, and she thought at first she 34171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwould get up and leave the court; but on second thoughts she 34181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidecided to remain where she was as long as there was room for 34191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher.</p> 34201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.' said the Dormouse, who was 34221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisitting next to her. 'I can hardly breathe.'</p> 34231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I can't help it,' said Alice very meekly: 'I'm growing.'</p> 34251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You've no right to grow <i>here</i>,' said the Dormouse.</p> 34271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Don't talk nonsense,' said Alice more boldly: 'you know 34291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou're growing too.'</p> 34301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Yes, but <i>I</i> grow at a reasonable pace,' said the 34321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDormouse: 'not in that ridiculous fashion.' And he got up very 34331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisulkily and crossed over to the other side of the court.</p> 34341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the 34361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciHatter, and, just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to 34371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cione of the officers of the court, 'Bring me the list of the 34381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisingers in the last concert!' on which the wretched Hatter 34391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrembled so, that he shook both his shoes off.</p> 34401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Give your evidence,' the King repeated angrily, 'or I'll have 34421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou executed, whether you're nervous or not.'</p> 34431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' the Hatter began, in a 34451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrembling voice, '--and I hadn't begun my tea--not above a week 34461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cior so--and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin--and 34471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe twinkling of the tea--'</p> 34481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'The twinkling of the <i>what</i>?' said the King.</p> 34501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It <i>began</i> with the tea,' the Hatter replied.</p> 34521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Of course twinkling <i>begins</i> with a T!' said the King 34541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisharply. 'Do you take me for a dunce? Go on!'</p> 34551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, 'and most things 34571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citwinkled after that--only the March Hare said--'</p> 34581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I didn't!' the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry.</p> 34601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You did!' said the Hatter.</p> 34621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I deny it!' said the March Hare.</p> 34641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'He denies it,' said the King: 'leave out that part.'</p> 34661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--' the Hatter went on, 34681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilooking anxiously round to see if he would deny it too: but the 34691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep.</p> 34701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'After that,' continued the Hatter, 'I cut some more bread- 34721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand-butter--'</p> 34731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked.</p> 34751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That I can't remember,' said the Hatter.</p> 34771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You <i>must</i> remember,' remarked the King, 'or I'll have 34791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou executed.'</p> 34801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, 34821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand went down on one knee. 'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' he 34831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibegan.</p> 34841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You're a very poor <i>speaker</i>,' said the King.</p> 34861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately 34881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisuppressed by the officers of the court. (As that is rather a 34891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihard word, I will just explain to you how it was done. They had a 34901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilarge canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings: into 34911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithis they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon 34921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit.)</p> 34931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 34941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'm glad I've seen that done,' thought Alice. 'I've so often 34951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciread in the newspapers, at the end of trials, "There was some 34961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciattempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the 34971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciofficers of the court," and I never understood what it meant till 34981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinow.'</p> 34991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,' 35011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicontinued the King.</p> 35021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I can't go no lower,' said the Hatter: 'I'm on the floor, as 35041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit is.'</p> 35051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then you may <i>sit</i> down,' the King replied.</p> 35071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was suppressed.</p> 35091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!' thought Alice. 'Now we 35111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishall get on better.'</p> 35121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I'd rather finish my tea,' said the Hatter, with an anxious 35141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilook at the Queen, who was reading the list of singers.</p> 35151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You may go,' said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the 35171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicourt, without even waiting to put his shoes on.</p> 35181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'--and just take his head off outside,' the Queen added to one 35201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof the officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the 35211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciofficer could get to the door.</p> 35221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Call the next witness!' said the King.</p> 35241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the 35261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before 35271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe got into the court, by the way the people near the door began 35281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisneezing all at once.</p> 35291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Give your evidence,' said the King.</p> 35311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Shan't,' said the cook.</p> 35331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a 35351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilow voice, 'Your Majesty must cross-examine <i>this</i> witness.'</p> 35361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, if I must, I must,' the King said, with a melancholy 35381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciair, and, after folding his arms and frowning at the cook till 35391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihis eyes were nearly out of sight, he said in a deep voice, 'What 35401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciare tarts made of?'</p> 35411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Pepper, mostly,' said the cook.</p> 35431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.</p> 35451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out. 'Behead that 35471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch 35481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihim! Off with his whiskers!'</p> 35491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the 35511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down 35521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciagain, the cook had disappeared.</p> 35531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Never mind!' said the King, with an air of great relief. 35551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Call the next witness.' And he added in an undertone to the 35561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciQueen, 'Really, my dear, <i>you</i> must cross-examine the next 35571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwitness. It quite makes my forehead ache!'</p> 35581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, 35601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifeeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like, 35611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'--for they haven't got much evidence <i>yet</i>,' she said to 35621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciherself. Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at 35631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe top of his shrill little voice, the name 'Alice!'</p> 35641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<hr> 35661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER XII</h3> 35671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<h3 align="Center">Alice's Evidence</h3> 35691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the 35711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimoment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she 35721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with 35731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads 35741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding 35751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset 35761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe week before.</p> 35771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, I <i>beg</i> your pardon!' she exclaimed in a tone of 35791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigreat dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she 35801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicould, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, 35811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at 35821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cionce and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.</p> 35831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'The trial cannot proceed,' said the King in a very grave 35851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice, 'until all the jurymen are back in their proper places-- 35861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>all</i>,' he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at 35871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice as he said do.</p> 35881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she 35901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihad put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing 35911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwas waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable 35921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cito move. She soon got it out again, and put it right; 'not that 35931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit signifies much,' she said to herself; 'I should think it would 35941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibe <i>quite</i> as much use in the trial one way up as the 35951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciother.'</p> 35961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 35971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of 35981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibeing upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and 35991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihanded back to them, they set to work very diligently to write 36001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciout a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed 36011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citoo much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, 36021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigazing up into the roof of the court.</p> 36031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What do you know about this business?' the King said to 36051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAlice.</p> 36061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Nothing,' said Alice.</p> 36081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Nothing <i>whatever?</i>' persisted the King.</p> 36101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Nothing <i>whatever,</i>' said Alice.</p> 36121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That's very important,' the King said, turning to the jury. 36141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciThey were just beginning to write this down on their slates, when 36151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe White Rabbit interrupted: '<i>Un</i>important, your Majesty 36161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimeans, of course,' he said in a very respectful tone, but 36171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifrowning and making faces at him as he spoke.</p> 36181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'<i>Un</i>important, of course, I meant,' the King hastily 36201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid, and went on to himself in an undertone, 36211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were 36221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrying which word sounded best.</p> 36231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and some 36251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'unimportant.' Alice could see this, as she was near enough to 36261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilook over their slates; 'but it doesn't matter a bit,' she 36271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithought to herself.</p> 36281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily 36301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwriting in his note-book, cackled out 'Silence!' and read out 36311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifrom his book, 'Rule Forty-two. <i>All persons more than a mile 36321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihight to leave the court</i>.'</p> 36331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Everybody looked at Alice.</p> 36351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'<i>I'm</i> not a mile high,' said Alice.</p> 36371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'You are,' said the King.</p> 36391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen.</p> 36411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: 'besides, that's 36431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cinot a regular rule: you invented it just now.'</p> 36441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.</p> 36461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice.</p> 36481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily. 36501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, trembling 36511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice.</p> 36521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'There's more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,' said 36541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; 'this paper has 36551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cijust been picked up.'</p> 36561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'What's in it?' said the Queen.</p> 36581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, 'but it 36601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciseems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to--to 36611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisomebody.'</p> 36621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It must have been that,' said the King, 'unless it was 36641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwritten to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.'</p> 36651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen.</p> 36671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It isn't directed at all,' said the White Rabbit; 'in fact, 36691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithere's nothing written on the <i>outside</i>.' He unfolded the 36701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cipaper as he spoke, and added 'It isn't a letter, after all: it's 36711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cia set of verses.'</p> 36721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked another of 36741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey jurymen.</p> 36751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, 'and that's the 36771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciqueerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.)</p> 36781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said the King. 36801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci(The jury all brightened up again.)</p> 36811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't write it, and 36831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithey can't prove I did: there's no name signed at the end.'</p> 36841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'If you didn't sign it,' said the King, 'that only makes the 36861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimatter worse. You <i>must</i> have meant some mischief, or else 36871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou'd have signed your name like an honest man.'</p> 36881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the 36901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifirst really clever thing the King had said that day.</p> 36911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That <i>proves</i> his guilt,' said the Queen.</p> 36931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. 'Why, you don't 36951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieven know what they're about!'</p> 36961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Read them,' said the King.</p> 36981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 36991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, 37001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciplease your Majesty?' he asked.</p> 37011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on 37031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citill you come to the end: then stop.'</p> 37041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>These were the verses the White Rabbit read:--</p> 37061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>'They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: 37081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciShe gave me a good character, But said I could not swim.</i></p> 37091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>He sent them word I had not gone (We know it to be true): 37111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciIf she should push the matter on, What would become of 37121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyou?</i></p> 37131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or 37151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimore; They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine 37161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibefore.</i></p> 37171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He 37191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were.</i></p> 37201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) 37221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAn obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it.</i></p> 37231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p><i>Don't let him know she liked them best, For this must ever 37251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibe A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and 37261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cime.'</i></p> 37271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,' 37291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid the King, rubbing his hands; 'so now let the jury--'</p> 37301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'If any one of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she had 37321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cigrown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit 37331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciafraid of interrupting him,) 'I'll give him sixpence. _I_ don't 37341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibelieve there's an atom of meaning in it.'</p> 37351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The jury all wrote down on their slates, '<i>She</i> doesn't 37371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibelieve there's an atom of meaning in it,' but none of them 37381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciattempted to explain the paper.</p> 37391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, 'that saves a 37411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciworld of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And 37421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyet I don't know,' he went on, spreading out the verses on his 37431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciknee, and looking at them with one eye; 'I seem to see some 37441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimeaning in them, after all. "<i>-said I could not swim--</i>" you 37451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cican't swim, can you?' he added, turning to the Knave.</p> 37461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The Knave shook his head sadly. 'Do I look like it?' he said. 37481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci(Which he certainly did <i>not</i>, being made entirely of 37491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicardboard.)</p> 37501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'All right, so far,' said the King, and he went on muttering 37521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciover the verses to himself: '"<i>We know it to be true--</i>" 37531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithat's the jury, of course-- "<i>I gave her one, they gave him 37541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citwo--</i>" why, that must be what he did with the tarts, you 37551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciknow--'</p> 37561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'But, it goes on "<i>they all returned from him to you,</i>"' 37581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisaid Alice.</p> 37591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly, pointing to 37611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe tarts on the table. 'Nothing can be clearer than <i>that</i>. 37621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciThen again--"<i>before she had this fit-</i>-" you never had 37631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>fits</i>, my dear, I think?' he said to the Queen.</p> 37641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the 37661cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciLizard as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off 37671cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwriting on his slate with one finger, as he found it made no 37681cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimark; but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that was 37691cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrickling down his face, as long as it lasted.)</p> 37701cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37711cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Then the words don't <i>fit</i> you,' said the King, looking 37721cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciround the court with a smile. There was a dead silence.</p> 37731cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37741cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and 37751cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieverybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the 37761cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciKing said, for about the twentieth time that day.</p> 37771cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37781cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first--verdict 37791cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciafterwards.'</p> 37801cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37811cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of having 37821cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe sentence first!'</p> 37831cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37841cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.</p> 37851cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37861cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'I won't!' said Alice.</p> 37871cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37881cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her 37891cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice. Nobody moved.</p> 37901cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37911cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full 37921cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisize by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'</p> 37931cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 37941cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying 37951cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidown upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half 37961cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciof anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on 37971cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently 37981cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cibrushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the 37991cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citrees upon her face.</p> 38001cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 38011cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long 38021cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisleep you've had!'</p> 38031cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 38041cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told 38051cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciher sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange 38061cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciAdventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and 38071cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwhen she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, 'It 38081cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<i>was</i> a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to 38091cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciyour tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off, 38101cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream 38111cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciit had been.</p> 38121cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 38131cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her 38141cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihead on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of 38151cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilittle Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began 38161cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cidreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:--</p> 38171cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 38181cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the 38191cb0ef41Sopenharmony_citiny hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes 38201cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciwere looking up into hers--she could hear the very tones of her 38211cb0ef41Sopenharmony_civoice, and see that queer little toss of her head to keep back 38221cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe wandering hair that <i>would</i> always get into her 38231cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cieyes--and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the whole 38241cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciplace around her became alive the strange creatures of her little 38251cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cisister's dream.</p> 38261cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 38271cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried 38281cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciby--the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the 38291cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cineighbouring pool--she could hear the rattle of the teacups as 38301cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cithe March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal, 38311cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate 38321cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciguests to execution--once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the 38331cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciDuchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once 38341cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimore the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's 38351cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cislate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, 38361cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cifilled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable 38371cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciMock Turtle.</p> 38381cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 38391cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in 38401cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciWonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and 38411cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciall would change to dull reality--the grass would be only 38421cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cirustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the 38431cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cireeds--the rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells, 38441cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd 38451cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciboy--and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and 38461cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciall the other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the 38471cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciconfused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing of the 38481cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cicattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's 38491cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciheavy sobs.</p> 38501cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 38511cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of 38521cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cihers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how 38531cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cishe would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and 38541cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciloving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her 38551cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciother little children, and make <i>their</i> eyes bright and eager with 38561cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cimany a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of 38571cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cilong ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, 38581cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciand find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own 38591cb0ef41Sopenharmony_cichild-life, and the happy summer days.</p> 38601cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 38611cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci<p>End of the Project Gutenberg Etext of Alice's Adventures in 38621cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ciWonderland</p> 38631cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci 38641cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci</body> 38651cb0ef41Sopenharmony_ci</html> 3866