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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1	Project Gutenberg's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	9	Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	11	Author: Lewis Carroll
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	12
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	13	Posting Date: June 25, 2008 [EBook #11]
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	14	Release Date: March, 1994
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	15	[Last updated: December 20, 2011]
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	17	Language: English
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	21	* START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND *
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	32	ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	34	Lewis Carroll
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	36	THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	41	CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	42
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	43	Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	44	bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	45	book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	46	it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	47	conversations?'
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	49	So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	50	hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	51	of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	52	picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	53	close by her.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	54
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	55	There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	56	VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	57	Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	58	occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	59	it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	60	OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	61	Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	62	never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	63	to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	64	after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	65	rabbit-hole under the hedge.
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	67	In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	68	in the world she was to get out again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	69
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	70	The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	71	dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	72	about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	73	well.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	74
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	75	Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	76	plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	77	going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	78	she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	79	looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	80	cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	81	hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	82	she passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	83	disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	84	of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	85	she fell past it.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	86
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	87	'Well!' thought Alice to herself, 'after such a fall as this, I shall
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	88	think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	89	home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	90	of the house!' (Which was very likely true.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	91
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	92	Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end! 'I wonder how
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	93	many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	94	somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	95	thousand miles down, I think--' (for, you see, Alice had learnt several
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	96	things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	97	was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	98	was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	99	'--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	100	or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	101	Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	102
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	103	Presently she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right THROUGH the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	104	earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	105	their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	106	there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	107	right word) '--but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	108	is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	109	she tried to curtsey as she spoke--fancy CURTSEYING as you're falling
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	110	through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	111	ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	112	ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	113
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	114	Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	115	talking again. 'Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should think!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	116	(Dinah was the cat.) 'I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	117	tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	118	mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that's very
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	119	like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?' And here Alice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	120	began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	121	sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	122	bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	123	it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	124	off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	125	Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, 'Now, Dinah, tell me the truth:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	126	did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	127	a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	128
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	129	Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	130	she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	131	long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	132	There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	133	was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, 'Oh my ears
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	134	and whiskers, how late it's getting!' She was close behind it when she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	135	turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	136	herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	137	from the roof.
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	139	There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	140	Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	141	door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	142	get out again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	143
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	144	Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	145	glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	146	first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	147	but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	148	but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	149	time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	150	behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	151	little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	153	Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	154	much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	155	into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	156	that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	157	those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	158	doorway; 'and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	159	would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	160	shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	161	For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	162	that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	163	impossible.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	164
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	165	There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	166	back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	167	any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	168	time she found a little bottle on it, ('which certainly was not here
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	169	before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	170	label, with the words 'DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	171	letters.
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	173	It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	174	not going to do THAT in a hurry. 'No, I'll look first,' she said, 'and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	175	see whether it's marked "poison" or not'; for she had read several nice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	176	little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	177	beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they WOULD not remember
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	178	the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	179	poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	180	finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	181	forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it is
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	182	almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	183
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	184	However, this bottle was NOT marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	185	it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	186	of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	187	buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	195	'What a curious feeling!' said Alice; 'I must be shutting up like a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	196	telescope.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	197
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	198	And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	199	brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	200	through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	201	waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	202	she felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	203	Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	204	what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	205	candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	206	ever having seen such a thing.
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	208	After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	209	into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	210	door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	211	went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	212	it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	213	best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	214	and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	215	sat down and cried.
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	217	'Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	218	rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute!' She generally
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	219	gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it),
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	220	and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	221	her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	222	cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	223	for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	224	'But it's no use now,' thought poor Alice, 'to pretend to be two people!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	225	Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	226
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	227	Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	228	she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	229	'EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants. 'Well, I'll eat it,' said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	230	Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	231	makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I'll
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	232	get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	233
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	234	She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, 'Which way? Which
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	235	way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	236	growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	237	size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	238	had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	239	things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	240	in the common way.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	241
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	242	So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
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leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	253	CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	254
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	255	'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	256	for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); 'now I'm
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	257	opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	258	(for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	259	sight, they were getting so far off). 'Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	260	who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	261	_I_ shan't be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	262	myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;--but I must be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	263	kind to them,' thought Alice, 'or perhaps they won't walk the way I want
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	264	to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	265
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	266	And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. 'They must
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	267	go by the carrier,' she thought; 'and how funny it'll seem, sending
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	268	presents to one's own feet! And how odd the directions will look!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	269
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	270	ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	271	HEARTHRUG,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	272	NEAR THE FENDER,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	273	(WITH ALICE'S LOVE).
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	274
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	275	Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	276
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	277	Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	278	now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	279	key and hurried off to the garden door.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	280
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	281	Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	282	look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	283	hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	284
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	285	'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, 'a great girl like
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	286	you,' (she might well say this), 'to go on crying in this way! Stop this
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	287	moment, I tell you!' But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	288	tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	289	deep and reaching half down the hall.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	290
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	291	After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	292	she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	293	Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	294	one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	295	hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	296	Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt so
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	297	desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	298	came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	299	The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	300	and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	301
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	302	Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	303	kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: 'Dear, dear! How
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	304	queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	305	I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	306	same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	307	little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	308	in the world am I? Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!' And she began thinking
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	309	over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	310	see if she could have been changed for any of them.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	311
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	312	'I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, 'for her hair goes in such long
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	313	ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I can't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	314	be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	315	very little! Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I, and--oh dear, how puzzling
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	316	it all is! I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	317	see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	318	four times seven is--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	319	However, the Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	320	London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	321	Rome--no, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain! I must have been changed for
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	322	Mabel! I'll try and say "How doth the little--"' and she crossed her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	323	hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	324	but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	325	same as they used to do:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	326
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	327	'How doth the little crocodile
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	328	Improve his shining tail,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	329	And pour the waters of the Nile
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	330	On every golden scale!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	331
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	332	'How cheerfully he seems to grin,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	333	How neatly spread his claws,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	334	And welcome little fishes in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	335	With gently smiling jaws!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	336
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	337	'I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and her eyes
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	338	filled with tears again as she went on, 'I must be Mabel after all, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	339	I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	340	no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, I've
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	341	made up my mind about it; if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	342	use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	343	shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	344	if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	345	till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	346	of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	347	of being all alone here!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	348
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	349	As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	350	that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves while
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	351	she was talking. 'How CAN I have done that?' she thought. 'I must
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	352	be growing small again.' She got up and went to the table to measure
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	353	herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	354	about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	355	out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	356	it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	357
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	358	'That WAS a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	359	sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; 'and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	360	now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed back to the little door:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	361	but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	362	lying on the glass table as before, 'and things are worse than ever,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	363	thought the poor child, 'for I never was so small as this before, never!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	364	And I declare it's too bad, that it is!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	365
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	366	As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	367	she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	368	had somehow fallen into the sea, 'and in that case I can go back by
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	369	railway,' she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	370	her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	371	to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	372	sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	373	of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	374	made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	375	was nine feet high.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	376
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	377	'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about, trying
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	378	to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	379	being drowned in my own tears! That WILL be a queer thing, to be sure!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	380	However, everything is queer to-day.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	381
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	382	Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	383	off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	384	it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	385	she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	386	slipped in like herself.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	387
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	388	'Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, 'to speak to this mouse?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	389	Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	390	likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no harm in trying.' So she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	391	began: 'O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	392	of swimming about here, O Mouse!' (Alice thought this must be the right
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	393	way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	394	she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse--of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	395	a mouse--to a mouse--a mouse--O mouse!') The Mouse looked at her rather
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	396	inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	397	but it said nothing.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	398
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	399	'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; 'I daresay it's
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	400	a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.' (For, with all
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	401	her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	402	anything had happened.) So she began again: 'Ou est ma chatte?' which
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	403	was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	404	sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	405	'Oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	406	the poor animal's feelings. 'I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	407
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	408	'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. 'Would
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	409	YOU like cats if you were me?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	410
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	411	'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: 'don't be angry
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	412	about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you'd
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	413	take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	414	thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	415	pool, 'and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	416	washing her face--and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	417	such a capital one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	418	Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	419	felt certain it must be really offended. 'We won't talk about her any
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	420	more if you'd rather not.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	421
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	422	'We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	423	tail. 'As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always HATED
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	424	cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name again!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	425
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	426	'I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	427	conversation. 'Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?' The Mouse did not
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	428	answer, so Alice went on eagerly: 'There is such a nice little dog near
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	429	our house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier, you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	430	know, with oh, such long curly brown hair! And it'll fetch things when
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	431	you throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	432	of things--I can't remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	433	you know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds! He
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	434	says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a sorrowful
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	435	tone, 'I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the Mouse was swimming
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	436	away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	437	the pool as it went.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	438
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	439	So she called softly after it, 'Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	440	won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't like them!' When the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	441	Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	442	face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	443	trembling voice, 'Let us get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	444	history, and you'll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	445
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	446	It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	447	birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	448	a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	449	way, and the whole party swam to the shore.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	450
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	451
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	452
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	453
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	454	CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	455
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	456	They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	457	birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	458	to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	459
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	460	The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	461	consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	462	to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	463	known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	464	Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, 'I am older than
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	465	you, and must know better'; and this Alice would not allow without
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	466	knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	467	age, there was no more to be said.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	468
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	469	At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	470	called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	471	dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	472	in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	473	sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	474
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	475	'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	476	is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	477	the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	478	to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	479	accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	480	Mercia and Northumbria--"'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	481
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	482	'Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	483
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	484	'I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: 'Did
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	485	you speak?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	486
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	487	'Not I!' said the Lory hastily.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	488
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	489	'I thought you did,' said the Mouse. '--I proceed. "Edwin and Morcar,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	490	the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	491	the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	492
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	493	'Found WHAT?' said the Duck.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	494
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	495	'Found IT,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of course you know what
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	496	"it" means.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	497
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	498	'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	499	Duck: 'it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	500	archbishop find?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	501
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	502	The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, '"--found
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	503	it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	504	crown. William's conduct at first was moderate. But the insolence of his
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	505	Normans--" How are you getting on now, my dear?' it continued, turning
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	506	to Alice as it spoke.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	507
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	508	'As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone: 'it doesn't seem to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	509	dry me at all.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	510
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	511	'In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, 'I move
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	512	that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	513	remedies--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	514
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	515	'Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	516	those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!' And
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	517	the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	518	tittered audibly.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	519
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	520	'What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone, 'was, that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	521	the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	522
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	523	'What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much to know,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	524	but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY ought to speak,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	525	and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	526
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	527	'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it.' (And, as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	528	you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	529	you how the Dodo managed it.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	530
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	531	First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ('the exact
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	532	shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party were placed
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	533	along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	534	away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	535	liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	536	when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	537	the Dodo suddenly called out 'The race is over!' and they all crowded
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	538	round it, panting, and asking, 'But who has won?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	539
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	540	This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	541	and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	542	(the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	543	of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	544	'EVERYBODY has won, and all must have prizes.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	545
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	546	'But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices asked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	547
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	548	'Why, SHE, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	549	and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	550	way, 'Prizes! Prizes!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	551
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	552	Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	553	pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	554	not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	555	a-piece all round.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	556
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	557	'But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the Mouse.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	558
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	559	'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What else have you got in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	560	your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	561
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	562	'Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	563
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	564	'Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	565
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	566	Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	567	presented the thimble, saying 'We beg your acceptance of this elegant
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	568	thimble'; and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	569
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	570	Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	571	that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	572	to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	573	could.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	574
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	575	The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	576	confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	577	theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	578	However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	579	begged the Mouse to tell them something more.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	580
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	581	'You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice, 'and why
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	582	it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half afraid that it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	583	would be offended again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	584
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	585	'Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	586	sighing.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	587
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	588	'It IS a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with wonder at
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	589	the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad?' And she kept on puzzling
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	590	about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	591	something like this:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	592
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	593	'Fury said to a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	594	mouse, That he
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	595	met in the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	596	house,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	597	"Let us
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	598	both go to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	599	law: I will
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	600	prosecute
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	601	YOU.--Come,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	602	I'll take no
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	603	denial; We
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	604	must have a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	605	trial: For
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	606	really this
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	607	morning I've
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	608	nothing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	609	to do."
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	610	Said the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	611	mouse to the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	612	cur, "Such
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	613	a trial,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	614	dear Sir,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	615	With
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	616	no jury
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	617	or judge,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	618	would be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	619	wasting
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	620	our
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	621	breath."
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	622	"I'll be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	623	judge, I'll
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	624	be jury,"
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	625	Said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	626	cunning
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	627	old Fury:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	628	"I'll
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	629	try the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	630	whole
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	631	cause,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	632	and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	633	condemn
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	634	you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	635	to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	636	death."'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	637
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	638
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	639	'You are not attending!' said the Mouse to Alice severely. 'What are you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	640	thinking of?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	641
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	642	'I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly: 'you had got to the fifth
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	643	bend, I think?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	644
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	645	'I had NOT!' cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	646
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	647	'A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	648	anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let me help to undo it!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	649
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	650	'I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the Mouse, getting up and walking
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	651	away. 'You insult me by talking such nonsense!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	652
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	653	'I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor Alice. 'But you're so easily offended,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	654	you know!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	655
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	656	The Mouse only growled in reply.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	657
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	658	'Please come back and finish your story!' Alice called after it; and the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	659	others all joined in chorus, 'Yes, please do!' but the Mouse only shook
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	660	its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	661
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	662	'What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	663	out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	664	daughter 'Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	665	YOUR temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	666	snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	667
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	668	'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud, addressing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	669	nobody in particular. 'She'd soon fetch it back!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	670
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	671	'And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?' said the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	672	Lory.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	673
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	674	Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	675	'Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for catching mice you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	676	can't think! And oh, I wish you could see her after the birds! Why,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	677	she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	678
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	679	This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	680	birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	681	carefully, remarking, 'I really must be getting home; the night-air
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	682	doesn't suit my throat!' and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	683	its children, 'Come away, my dears! It's high time you were all in bed!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	684	On various pretexts they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	685
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	686	'I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!' she said to herself in a melancholy
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	687	tone. 'Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I'm sure she's the best
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	688	cat in the world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if I shall ever see you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	689	any more!' And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	690	lonely and low-spirited. In a little while, however, she again heard
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	691	a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	692	eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	693	back to finish his story.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	694
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	695
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	696
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	697
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	698	CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	699
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	700	It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	701	anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	702	it muttering to itself 'The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	703	my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	704	ferrets! Where CAN I have dropped them, I wonder?' Alice guessed in a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	705	moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	706	and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	707	nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to have changed since her swim in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	708	the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	709	had vanished completely.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	710
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	711	Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	712	called out to her in an angry tone, 'Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	713	out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	714	Quick, now!' And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	715	in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	716	had made.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	717
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	718	'He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as she ran. 'How
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	719	surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am! But I'd better take him
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	720	his fan and gloves--that is, if I can find them.' As she said this, she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	721	came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	722	plate with the name 'W. RABBIT' engraved upon it. She went in without
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	723	knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	724	real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before she had found the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	725	fan and gloves.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	726
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	727	'How queer it seems,' Alice said to herself, 'to be going messages for
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	728	a rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be sending me on messages next!' And she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	729	began fancying the sort of thing that would happen: '"Miss Alice! Come
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	730	here directly, and get ready for your walk!" "Coming in a minute,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	731	nurse! But I've got to see that the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	732	think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	733	began ordering people about like that!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	734
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	735	By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	736	in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	737	of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	738	and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	739	bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	740	with the words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	741	to her lips. 'I know SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,' she said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	742	to herself, 'whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see what
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	743	this bottle does. I do hope it'll make me grow large again, for really
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	744	I'm quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	745
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	746	It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	747	drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	748	and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She hastily put
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	749	down the bottle, saying to herself 'That's quite enough--I hope I shan't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	750	grow any more--As it is, I can't get out at the door--I do wish I hadn't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	751	drunk quite so much!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	752
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	753	Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and growing,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	754	and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another minute there
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	755	was not even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying down with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	756	one elbow against the door, and the other arm curled round her head.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	757	Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	758	of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself 'Now I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	759	can do no more, whatever happens. What WILL become of me?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	760
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	761	Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full effect,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	762	and she grew no larger: still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	763	seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	764	again, no wonder she felt unhappy.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	765
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	766	'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	767	always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	768	rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	769	yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	770	CAN have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	771	kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	772	There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	773	grow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now,' she added in a sorrowful
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	774	tone; 'at least there's no room to grow up any more HERE.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	775
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	776	'But then,' thought Alice, 'shall I NEVER get any older than I am
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	777	now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	778	then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't like THAT!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	779
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	780	'Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself. 'How can you learn
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	781	lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for YOU, and no room at all
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	782	for any lesson-books!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	783
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	784	And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other, and making
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	785	quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few minutes she heard
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	786	a voice outside, and stopped to listen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	787
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	788	'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. 'Fetch me my gloves this moment!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	789	Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	790	the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	791	house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	792	as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	793
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	794	Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it; but, as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	795	the door opened inwards, and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	796	that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself 'Then I'll
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	797	go round and get in at the window.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	798
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	799	'THAT you won't' thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	800	she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	801	hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not get hold of anything,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	802	but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	803	from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	804	cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	805
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	806	Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit's--'Pat! Pat! Where are you?' And
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	807	then a voice she had never heard before, 'Sure then I'm here! Digging
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	808	for apples, yer honour!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	809
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	810	'Digging for apples, indeed!' said the Rabbit angrily. 'Here! Come and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	811	help me out of THIS!' (Sounds of more broken glass.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	812
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	813	'Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	814
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	815	'Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' (He pronounced it 'arrum.')
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	816
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	817	'An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills the whole
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	818	window!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	819
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	820	'Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	821
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	822	'Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and take it away!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	823
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	824	There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	825	now and then; such as, 'Sure, I don't like it, yer honour, at all, at
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	826	all!' 'Do as I tell you, you coward!' and at last she spread out her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	827	hand again, and made another snatch in the air. This time there were
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	828	TWO little shrieks, and more sounds of broken glass. 'What a number of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	829	cucumber-frames there must be!' thought Alice. 'I wonder what they'll do
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	830	next! As for pulling me out of the window, I only wish they COULD! I'm
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	831	sure I don't want to stay in here any longer!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	832
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	833	She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	834	rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	835	all talking together: she made out the words: 'Where's the other
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	836	ladder?--Why, I hadn't to bring but one; Bill's got the other--Bill!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	837	fetch it here, lad!--Here, put 'em up at this corner--No, tie 'em
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	838	together first--they don't reach half high enough yet--Oh! they'll
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	839	do well enough; don't be particular--Here, Bill! catch hold of this
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	840	rope--Will the roof bear?--Mind that loose slate--Oh, it's coming
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	841	down! Heads below!' (a loud crash)--'Now, who did that?--It was Bill, I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	842	fancy--Who's to go down the chimney?--Nay, I shan't! YOU do it!--That I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	843	won't, then!--Bill's to go down--Here, Bill! the master says you're to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	844	go down the chimney!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	845
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	846	'Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?' said Alice to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	847	herself. 'Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	848	Bill's place for a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure; but
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	849	I THINK I can kick a little!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	850
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	851	She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	852	till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess of what sort it was)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	853	scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	854	saying to herself 'This is Bill,' she gave one sharp kick, and waited to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	855	see what would happen next.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	856
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	857	The first thing she heard was a general chorus of 'There goes Bill!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	858	then the Rabbit's voice along--'Catch him, you by the hedge!' then
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	859	silence, and then another confusion of voices--'Hold up his head--Brandy
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	860	now--Don't choke him--How was it, old fellow? What happened to you? Tell
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	861	us all about it!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	862
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	863	Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, ('That's Bill,' thought
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	864	Alice,) 'Well, I hardly know--No more, thank ye; I'm better now--but I'm
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	865	a deal too flustered to tell you--all I know is, something comes at me
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	866	like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	867
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	868	'So you did, old fellow!' said the others.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	869
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	870	'We must burn the house down!' said the Rabbit's voice; and Alice called
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	871	out as loud as she could, 'If you do. I'll set Dinah at you!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	872
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	873	There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, 'I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	874	wonder what they WILL do next! If they had any sense, they'd take the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	875	roof off.' After a minute or two, they began moving about again, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	876	Alice heard the Rabbit say, 'A barrowful will do, to begin with.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	877
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	878	'A barrowful of WHAT?' thought Alice; but she had not long to doubt,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	879	for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	880	window, and some of them hit her in the face. 'I'll put a stop to this,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	881	she said to herself, and shouted out, 'You'd better not do that again!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	882	which produced another dead silence.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	883
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	884	Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	885	little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	886	head. 'If I eat one of these cakes,' she thought, 'it's sure to make
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	887	SOME change in my size; and as it can't possibly make me larger, it must
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	888	make me smaller, I suppose.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	889
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	890	So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	891	began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small enough to get through
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	892	the door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd of little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	893	animals and birds waiting outside. The poor little Lizard, Bill, was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	894	in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	895	something out of a bottle. They all made a rush at Alice the moment she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	896	appeared; but she ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	897	safe in a thick wood.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	898
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	899	'The first thing I've got to do,' said Alice to herself, as she wandered
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	900	about in the wood, 'is to grow to my right size again; and the second
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	901	thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think that will be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	902	the best plan.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	903
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	904	It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	905	arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	906	how to set about it; and while she was peering about anxiously among
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	907	the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	908	great hurry.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	909
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	910	An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	911	feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. 'Poor little thing!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	912	said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it; but
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	913	she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	914	hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	915	all her coaxing.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	916
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	917	Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	918	held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	919	all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	920	and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	921	to keep herself from being run over; and the moment she appeared on the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	922	other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	923	over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	924	very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	925	moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; then
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	926	the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	927	little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	928	all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	929	its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	930
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	931	This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	932	set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	933	till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	934
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	935	'And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said Alice, as she leant
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	936	against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	937	leaves: 'I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I'd
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	938	only been the right size to do it! Oh dear! I'd nearly forgotten that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	939	I've got to grow up again! Let me see--how IS it to be managed? I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	940	suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	941	question is, what?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	942
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	943	The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round her at
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	944	the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	945	looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	946	There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	947	herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	948	behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	949	was on the top of it.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	950
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	951	She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	952	mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	953	that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	954	hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	955
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	956
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	957
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	958
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	959	CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	960
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	961	The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	962	at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	963	her in a languid, sleepy voice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	964
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	965	'Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	966
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	967	This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	968	rather shyly, 'I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--at least I know
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	969	who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	970	changed several times since then.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	971
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	972	'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly. 'Explain
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	973	yourself!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	974
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	975	'I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, 'because I'm not
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	976	myself, you see.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	977
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	978	'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	979
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	980	'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	981	'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	982	different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	983
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	984	'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	985
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	986	'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; 'but when you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	987	have to turn into a chrysalis--you will some day, you know--and then
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	988	after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	989	queer, won't you?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	990
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	991	'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	992
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	993	'Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice; 'all I know
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	994	is, it would feel very queer to ME.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	995
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	996	'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 'Who are YOU?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	997
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	998	Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	999	Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's making such VERY
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1000	short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, 'I think,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1001	you ought to tell me who YOU are, first.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1002
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1003	'Why?' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1004
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1005	Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1006	good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a VERY unpleasant
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1007	state of mind, she turned away.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1008
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1009	'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her. 'I've something important
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1010	to say!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1011
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1012	This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1013
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1014	'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1015
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1016	'Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1017	could.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1018
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1019	'No,' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1020
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1021	Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1022	perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing. For some
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1023	minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1024	arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, 'So you think
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1025	you're changed, do you?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1026
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1027	'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember things as I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1028	used--and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1029
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1030	'Can't remember WHAT things?' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1031
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1032	'Well, I've tried to say "HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE," but it all came
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1033	different!' Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1034
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1035	'Repeat, "YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,"' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1036
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1037	Alice folded her hands, and began:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1038
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1039	'You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1040	'And your hair has become very white;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1041	And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1042	Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1043
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1044	'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1045	'I feared it might injure the brain;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1046	But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1047	Why, I do it again and again.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1048
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1049	'You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1050	And have grown most uncommonly fat;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1051	Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1052	Pray, what is the reason of that?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1053
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1054	'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1055	'I kept all my limbs very supple
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1056	By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1057	Allow me to sell you a couple?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1058
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1059	'You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1060	For anything tougher than suet;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1061	Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1062	Pray how did you manage to do it?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1063
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1064	'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1065	And argued each case with my wife;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1066	And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1067	Has lasted the rest of my life.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1068
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1069	'You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1070	That your eye was as steady as ever;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1071	Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1072	What made you so awfully clever?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1073
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1074	'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1075	Said his father; 'don't give yourself airs!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1076	Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1077	Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1078
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1079
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1080	'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1081
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1082	'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1083	have got altered.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1084
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1085	'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1086	there was silence for some minutes.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1087
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1088	The Caterpillar was the first to speak.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1089
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1090	'What size do you want to be?' it asked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1091
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1092	'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; 'only one
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1093	doesn't like changing so often, you know.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1094
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1095	'I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1096
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1097	Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1098	before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1099
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1100	'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1101
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1102	'Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1103	said Alice: 'three inches is such a wretched height to be.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1104
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1105	'It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1106	itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1107
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1108	'But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone. And
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1109	she thought of herself, 'I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1110	offended!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1111
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1112	'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it put the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1113	hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1114
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1115	This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1116	a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1117	and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1118	mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1119	'One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1120	grow shorter.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1121
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1122	'One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to herself.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1123
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1124	'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1125	aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1126
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1127	Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1128	to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1129	round, she found this a very difficult question. However, at last she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1130	stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1131	of the edge with each hand.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1132
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1133	'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a little of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1134	the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1135	blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1136
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1137	She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1138	that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1139	set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1140	so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1141	mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1142	lefthand bit.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1143
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1144
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1145	* * * * * * *
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1146
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1147	* * * * * *
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1148
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1149	* * * * * * *
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1150
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1151	'Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of delight, which
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1152	changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1153	were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1154	an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1155	sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1156
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1157	'What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice. 'And where HAVE my
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1158	shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can't see you?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1159	She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1160	except a little shaking among the distant green leaves.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1161
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1162	As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1163	tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1164	neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. She had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1165	just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1166	to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1167	of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1168	her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1169	was beating her violently with its wings.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1170
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1171	'Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1172
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1173	'I'm NOT a serpent!' said Alice indignantly. 'Let me alone!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1174
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1175	'Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1176	and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1177	to suit them!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1178
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1179	'I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1180
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1181	'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've tried
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1182	hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 'but those
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1183	serpents! There's no pleasing them!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1184
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1185	Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1186	saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1187
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1188	'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the Pigeon;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1189	'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day! Why, I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1190	haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1191
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1192	'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was beginning to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1193	see its meaning.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1194
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1195	'And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1196	Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, 'and just as I was thinking I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1197	should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1198	the sky! Ugh, Serpent!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1199
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1200	'But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. 'I'm a--I'm a--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1201
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1202	'Well! WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon. 'I can see you're trying to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1203	invent something!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1204
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1205	'I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1206	the number of changes she had gone through that day.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1207
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1208	'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1209	contempt. 'I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never ONE
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1210	with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1211	denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1212	egg!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1213
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1214	'I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1215	child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1216	know.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1217
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1218	'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why then they're
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1219	a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1220
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1221	This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1222	minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, 'You're
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1223	looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough; and what does it matter to me
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1224	whether you're a little girl or a serpent?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1225
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1226	'It matters a good deal to ME,' said Alice hastily; 'but I'm not looking
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1227	for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I shouldn't want YOURS: I don't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1228	like them raw.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1229
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1230	'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1231	down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1232	she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1233	every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1234	remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1235	she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1236	other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1237	succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1238
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1239	It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1240	felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1241	and began talking to herself, as usual. 'Come, there's half my plan done
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1242	now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1243	to be, from one minute to another! However, I've got back to my right
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1244	size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden--how IS that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1245	to be done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1246	place, with a little house in it about four feet high. 'Whoever lives
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1247	there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them THIS size: why,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1248	I should frighten them out of their wits!' So she began nibbling at the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1249	righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1250	had brought herself down to nine inches high.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1251
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1252
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1253
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1254
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1255	CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1256
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1257	For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1258	to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1259	wood--(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1260	otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1261	fish)--and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles. It was opened
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1262	by another footman in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1263	frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1264	over their heads. She felt very curious to know what it was all about,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1265	and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1266
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1267	The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1268	nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1269	saying, in a solemn tone, 'For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1270	to play croquet.' The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn tone,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1271	only changing the order of the words a little, 'From the Queen. An
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1272	invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1273
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1274	Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1275
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1276	Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1277	wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1278	Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1279	door, staring stupidly up into the sky.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1280
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1281	Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1282
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1283	'There's no sort of use in knocking,' said the Footman, 'and that for
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1284	two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1285	are; secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1286	possibly hear you.' And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1287	going on within--a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1288	a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1289
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1290	'Please, then,' said Alice, 'how am I to get in?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1291
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1292	'There might be some sense in your knocking,' the Footman went on
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1293	without attending to her, 'if we had the door between us. For instance,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1294	if you were INSIDE, you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1295	He was looking up into the sky all the time he was speaking, and this
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1296	Alice thought decidedly uncivil. 'But perhaps he can't help it,' she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1297	said to herself; 'his eyes are so VERY nearly at the top of his head.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1298	But at any rate he might answer questions.--How am I to get in?' she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1299	repeated, aloud.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1300
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1301	'I shall sit here,' the Footman remarked, 'till tomorrow--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1302
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1303	At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1304	skimming out, straight at the Footman's head: it just grazed his nose,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1305	and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1306
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1307	'--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the same tone, exactly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1308	as if nothing had happened.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1309
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1310	'How am I to get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder tone.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1311
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1312	'ARE you to get in at all?' said the Footman. 'That's the first
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1313	question, you know.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1314
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1315	It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so. 'It's really
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1316	dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1317	It's enough to drive one crazy!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1318
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1319	The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating his
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1320	remark, with variations. 'I shall sit here,' he said, 'on and off, for
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1321	days and days.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1322
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1323	'But what am I to do?' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1324
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1325	'Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began whistling.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1326
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1327	'Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice desperately: 'he's
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1328	perfectly idiotic!' And she opened the door and went in.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1329
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1330	The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1331	one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1332	the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over the fire, stirring
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1333	a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1334
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1335	'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1336	as well as she could for sneezing.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1337
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1338	There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the Duchess
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1339	sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1340	alternately without a moment's pause. The only things in the kitchen
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1341	that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1342	the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1343
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1344	'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1345	not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, 'why
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1346	your cat grins like that?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1347
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1348	'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. Pig!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1349
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1350	She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1351	jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1352	and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1353
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1354	'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1355	that cats COULD grin.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1356
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1357	'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1358
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1359	'I don't know of any that do,' Alice said very politely, feeling quite
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1360	pleased to have got into a conversation.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1361
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1362	'You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1363
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1364	Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1365	be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation. While she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1366	was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1367	fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1368	the Duchess and the baby--the fire-irons came first; then followed a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1369	shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes. The Duchess took no notice of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1370	them even when they hit her; and the baby was howling so much already,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1371	that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1372
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1373	'Oh, PLEASE mind what you're doing!' cried Alice, jumping up and down in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1374	an agony of terror. 'Oh, there goes his PRECIOUS nose'; as an unusually
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1375	large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1376
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1377	'If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said in a hoarse
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1378	growl, 'the world would go round a deal faster than it does.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1379
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1380	'Which would NOT be an advantage,' said Alice, who felt very glad to get
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1381	an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge. 'Just think of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1382	what work it would make with the day and night! You see the earth takes
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1383	twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1384
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1385	'Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, 'chop off her head!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1386
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1387	Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1388	the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1389	be listening, so she went on again: 'Twenty-four hours, I THINK; or is
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1390	it twelve? I--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1391
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1392	'Oh, don't bother ME,' said the Duchess; 'I never could abide figures!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1393	And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1394	lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1395	every line:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1396
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1397	'Speak roughly to your little boy,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1398	And beat him when he sneezes:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1399	He only does it to annoy,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1400	Because he knows it teases.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1401
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1402	CHORUS.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1403
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1404	(In which the cook and the baby joined):--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1405
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1406	'Wow! wow! wow!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1407
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1408	While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1409	the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1410	that Alice could hardly hear the words:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1411
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1412	'I speak severely to my boy,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1413	I beat him when he sneezes;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1414	For he can thoroughly enjoy
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1415	The pepper when he pleases!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1416
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1417	CHORUS.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1418
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1419	'Wow! wow! wow!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1420
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1421	'Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the Duchess said to Alice,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1422	flinging the baby at her as she spoke. 'I must go and get ready to play
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1423	croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of the room. The cook threw
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1424	a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1425
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1426	Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1427	little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all directions, 'just
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1428	like a star-fish,' thought Alice. The poor little thing was snorting
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1429	like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1430	straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1431	or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1432
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1433	As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, (which was to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1434	twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1435	ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1436	it out into the open air. 'IF I don't take this child away with me,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1437	thought Alice, 'they're sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn't it be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1438	murder to leave it behind?' She said the last words out loud, and the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1439	little thing grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time).
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1440	'Don't grunt,' said Alice; 'that's not at all a proper way of expressing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1441	yourself.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1442
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1443	The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1444	see what was the matter with it. There could be no doubt that it had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1445	a VERY turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1446	eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1447	like the look of the thing at all. 'But perhaps it was only sobbing,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1448	she thought, and looked into its eyes again, to see if there were any
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1449	tears.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1450
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1451	No, there were no tears. 'If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1452	said Alice, seriously, 'I'll have nothing more to do with you. Mind
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1453	now!' The poor little thing sobbed again (or grunted, it was impossible
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1454	to say which), and they went on for some while in silence.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1455
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1456	Alice was just beginning to think to herself, 'Now, what am I to do with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1457	this creature when I get it home?' when it grunted again, so violently,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1458	that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This time there could
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1459	be NO mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1460	felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1461
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1462	So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1463	it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If it had grown up,' she said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1464	to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1465	rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1466	children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1467	to herself, 'if one only knew the right way to change them--' when she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1468	was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1469	tree a few yards off.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1470
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1471	The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1472	thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1473	felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1474
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1475	'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1476	whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1477	'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1478	tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1479
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1480	'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1481
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1482	'I don't much care where--' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1483
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1484	'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1485
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1486	'--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1487
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1488	'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1489	enough.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1490
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1491	Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1492	'What sort of people live about here?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1493
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1494	'In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, 'lives
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1495	a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, 'lives a March
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1496	Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1497
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1498	'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1499
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1500	'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1501	You're mad.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1502
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1503	'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1504
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1505	'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1506
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1507	Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on 'And how
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1508	do you know that you're mad?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1509
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1510	'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant that?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1511
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1512	'I suppose so,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1513
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1514	'Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1515	and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1516	wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1517
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1518	'I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1519
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1520	'Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet with the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1521	Queen to-day?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1522
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1523	'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been invited
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1524	yet.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1525
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1526	'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1527
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1528	Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used to queer
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1529	things happening. While she was looking at the place where it had been,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1530	it suddenly appeared again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1531
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1532	'By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. 'I'd nearly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1533	forgotten to ask.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1534
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1535	'It turned into a pig,' Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1536	in a natural way.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1537
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1538	'I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1539
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1540	Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1541	appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1542	which the March Hare was said to live. 'I've seen hatters before,' she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1543	said to herself; 'the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1544	perhaps as this is May it won't be raving mad--at least not so mad as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1545	it was in March.' As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1546	again, sitting on a branch of a tree.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1547
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1548	'Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1549
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1550	'I said pig,' replied Alice; 'and I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1551	vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1552
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1553	'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1554	beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1555	remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1556
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1557	'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice; 'but a grin
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1558	without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1559
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1560	She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1561	of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1562	chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. It
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1563	was so large a house, that she did not like to go nearer till she had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1564	nibbled some more of the lefthand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1565	about two feet high: even then she walked up towards it rather timidly,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1566	saying to herself 'Suppose it should be raving mad after all! I almost
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1567	wish I'd gone to see the Hatter instead!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1568
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1569
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1570
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1571
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1572	CHAPTER VII. A Mad Tea-Party
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1573
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1574	There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1575	March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1576	between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1577	cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. 'Very
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1578	uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' thought Alice; 'only, as it's asleep, I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1579	suppose it doesn't mind.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1580
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1581	The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1582	one corner of it: 'No room! No room!' they cried out when they saw Alice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1583	coming. 'There's PLENTY of room!' said Alice indignantly, and she sat
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1584	down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1585
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1586	'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1587
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1588	Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1589	'I don't see any wine,' she remarked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1590
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1591	'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1592
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1593	'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice angrily.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1594
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1595	'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited,' said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1596	the March Hare.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1597
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1598	'I didn't know it was YOUR table,' said Alice; 'it's laid for a great
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1599	many more than three.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1600
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1601	'Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1602	for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1603
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1604	'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said with some
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1605	severity; 'it's very rude.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1606
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1607	The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he SAID
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1608	was, 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1609
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1610	'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad they've
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1611	begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,' she added aloud.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1612
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1613	'Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?' said the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1614	March Hare.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1615
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1616	'Exactly so,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1617
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1618	'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1619
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1620	'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean what I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1621	say--that's the same thing, you know.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1622
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1623	'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'You might just as well say
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1624	that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1625
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1626	'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that "I like what I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1627	get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1628
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1629	'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1630	talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1631	as "I sleep when I breathe"!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1632
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1633	'It IS the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and here the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1634	conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1635	thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1636	which wasn't much.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1637
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1638	The Hatter was the first to break the silence. 'What day of the month
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1639	is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1640	pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1641	and holding it to his ear.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1642
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1643	Alice considered a little, and then said 'The fourth.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1644
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1645	'Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. 'I told you butter wouldn't suit
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1646	the works!' he added looking angrily at the March Hare.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1647
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1648	'It was the BEST butter,' the March Hare meekly replied.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1649
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1650	'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter grumbled:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1651	'you shouldn't have put it in with the bread-knife.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1652
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1653	The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1654	it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1655	nothing better to say than his first remark, 'It was the BEST butter,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1656	you know.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1657
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1658	Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. 'What a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1659	funny watch!' she remarked. 'It tells the day of the month, and doesn't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1660	tell what o'clock it is!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1661
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1662	'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does YOUR watch tell you what
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1663	year it is?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1664
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1665	'Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: 'but that's because it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1666	stays the same year for such a long time together.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1667
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1668	'Which is just the case with MINE,' said the Hatter.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1669
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1670	Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1671	sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1672	understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1673
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1674	'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured a little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1675	hot tea upon its nose.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1676
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1677	The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without opening its
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1678	eyes, 'Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1679
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1680	'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to Alice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1681	again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1682
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1683	'No, I give it up,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1684
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1685	'I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1686
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1687	'Nor I,' said the March Hare.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1688
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1689	Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1690	time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1691
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1692	'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, 'you wouldn't talk
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1693	about wasting IT. It's HIM.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1694
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1695	'I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1696
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1697	'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1698	'I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1699
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1700	'Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: 'but I know I have to beat time
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1701	when I learn music.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1702
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1703	'Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. 'He won't stand beating.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1704	Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1705	you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1706	the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1707	hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1708	time for dinner!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1709
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1710	('I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in a whisper.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1711
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1712	'That would be grand, certainly,' said Alice thoughtfully: 'but then--I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1713	shouldn't be hungry for it, you know.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1714
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1715	'Not at first, perhaps,' said the Hatter: 'but you could keep it to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1716	half-past one as long as you liked.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1717
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1718	'Is that the way YOU manage?' Alice asked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1719
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1720	The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he replied. 'We
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1721	quarrelled last March--just before HE went mad, you know--' (pointing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1722	with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) '--it was at the great concert
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1723	given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1724
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1725	"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1726	How I wonder what you're at!"
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1727
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1728	You know the song, perhaps?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1729
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1730	'I've heard something like it,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1731
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1732	'It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, 'in this way:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1733
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1734	"Up above the world you fly,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1735	Like a tea-tray in the sky.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1736	Twinkle, twinkle--"'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1737
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1738	Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep 'Twinkle,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1739	twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--' and went on so long that they had to pinch
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1740	it to make it stop.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1741
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1742	'Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse,' said the Hatter, 'when the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1743	Queen jumped up and bawled out, "He's murdering the time! Off with his
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1744	head!"'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1745
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1746	'How dreadfully savage!' exclaimed Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1747
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1748	'And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, 'he won't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1749	do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1750
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1751	A bright idea came into Alice's head. 'Is that the reason so many
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1752	tea-things are put out here?' she asked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1753
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1754	'Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: 'it's always tea-time,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1755	and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1756
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1757	'Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1758
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1759	'Exactly so,' said the Hatter: 'as the things get used up.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1760
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1761	'But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice ventured
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1762	to ask.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1763
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1764	'Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare interrupted, yawning.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1765	'I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells us a story.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1766
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1767	'I'm afraid I don't know one,' said Alice, rather alarmed at the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1768	proposal.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1769
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1770	'Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. 'Wake up, Dormouse!' And
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1771	they pinched it on both sides at once.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1772
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1773	The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. 'I wasn't asleep,' he said in a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1774	hoarse, feeble voice: 'I heard every word you fellows were saying.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1775
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1776	'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1777
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1778	'Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1779
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1780	'And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, 'or you'll be asleep again
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1781	before it's done.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1782
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1783	'Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1784	in a great hurry; 'and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1785	they lived at the bottom of a well--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1786
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1787	'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great interest in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1788	questions of eating and drinking.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1789
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1790	'They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1791	two.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1792
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1793	'They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice gently remarked; 'they'd
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1794	have been ill.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1795
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1796	'So they were,' said the Dormouse; 'VERY ill.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1797
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1798	Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary ways of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1799	living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went on: 'But
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1800	why did they live at the bottom of a well?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1801
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1802	'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1803
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1804	'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1805	take more.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1806
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1807	'You mean you can't take LESS,' said the Hatter: 'it's very easy to take
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1808	MORE than nothing.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1809
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1810	'Nobody asked YOUR opinion,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1811
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1812	'Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter asked triumphantly.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1813
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1814	Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1815	to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1816	repeated her question. 'Why did they live at the bottom of a well?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1817
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1818	The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1819	said, 'It was a treacle-well.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1820
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1821	'There's no such thing!' Alice was beginning very angrily, but the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1822	Hatter and the March Hare went 'Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse sulkily
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1823	remarked, 'If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1824	yourself.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1825
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1826	'No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; 'I won't interrupt again. I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1827	dare say there may be ONE.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1828
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1829	'One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he consented to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1830	go on. 'And so these three little sisters--they were learning to draw,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1831	you know--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1832
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1833	'What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting her promise.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1834
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1835	'Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1836
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1837	'I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move one place
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1838	on.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1839
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1840	He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1841	moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1842	the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1843	advantage from the change: and Alice was a good deal worse off than
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1844	before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1845
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1846	Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1847	cautiously: 'But I don't understand. Where did they draw the treacle
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1848	from?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1849
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1850	'You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the Hatter; 'so I should
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1851	think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh, stupid?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1852
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1853	'But they were IN the well,' Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1854	notice this last remark.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1855
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1856	'Of course they were', said the Dormouse; '--well in.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1857
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1858	This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1859	some time without interrupting it.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1860
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1861	'They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1862	its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; 'and they drew all manner of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1863	things--everything that begins with an M--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1864
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1865	'Why with an M?' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1866
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1867	'Why not?' said the March Hare.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1868
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1869	Alice was silent.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1870
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1871	The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1872	a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1873	a little shriek, and went on: '--that begins with an M, such as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1874	mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness--you know you say
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1875	things are "much of a muchness"--did you ever see such a thing as a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1876	drawing of a muchness?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1877
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1878	'Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much confused, 'I don't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1879	think--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1880
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1881	'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1882
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1883	This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1884	great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1885	neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1886	looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1887	the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1888	the teapot.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1889
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1890	'At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she picked her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1891	way through the wood. 'It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1892	my life!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1893
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1894	Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1895	leading right into it. 'That's very curious!' she thought. 'But
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1896	everything's curious today. I think I may as well go in at once.' And in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1897	she went.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1898
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1899	Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1900	glass table. 'Now, I'll manage better this time,' she said to herself,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1901	and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1902	led into the garden. Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1903	had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1904	then she walked down the little passage: and THEN--she found herself at
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1905	last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1906	fountains.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1907
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1908
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1909
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1910
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1911	CHAPTER VIII. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1912
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1913	A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1914	growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1915	painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1916	nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1917	them say, 'Look out now, Five! Don't go splashing paint over me like
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1918	that!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1919
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1920	'I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; 'Seven jogged my
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1921	elbow.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1922
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1923	On which Seven looked up and said, 'That's right, Five! Always lay the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1924	blame on others!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1925
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1926	'YOU'D better not talk!' said Five. 'I heard the Queen say only
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1927	yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1928
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1929	'What for?' said the one who had spoken first.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1930
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1931	'That's none of YOUR business, Two!' said Seven.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1932
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1933	'Yes, it IS his business!' said Five, 'and I'll tell him--it was for
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1934	bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1935
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1936	Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun 'Well, of all the unjust
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1937	things--' when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1938	them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1939	all of them bowed low.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1940
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1941	'Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, 'why you are painting
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1942	those roses?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1943
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1944	Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Two began in a low
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1945	voice, 'Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1946	RED rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1947	was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1948	So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, to--' At this
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1949	moment Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1950	out 'The Queen! The Queen!' and the three gardeners instantly threw
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1951	themselves flat upon their faces. There was a sound of many footsteps,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1952	and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1953
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1954	First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1955	the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1956	corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1957	diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did. After these came
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1958	the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1959	jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1960	with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1961	them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1962	nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1963	noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1964	crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1965	procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1966
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1967	Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1968	like the three gardeners, but she could not remember ever having heard
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1969	of such a rule at processions; 'and besides, what would be the use of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1970	a procession,' thought she, 'if people had all to lie down upon their
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1971	faces, so that they couldn't see it?' So she stood still where she was,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1972	and waited.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1973
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1974	When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and looked
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1975	at her, and the Queen said severely 'Who is this?' She said it to the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1976	Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1977
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1978	'Idiot!' said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and, turning to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1979	Alice, she went on, 'What's your name, child?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1980
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1981	'My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,' said Alice very politely;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1982	but she added, to herself, 'Why, they're only a pack of cards, after
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1983	all. I needn't be afraid of them!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1984
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1985	'And who are THESE?' said the Queen, pointing to the three gardeners who
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1986	were lying round the rosetree; for, you see, as they were lying on their
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1987	faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1988	pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners, or soldiers, or
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1989	courtiers, or three of her own children.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1990
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1991	'How should I know?' said Alice, surprised at her own courage. 'It's no
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1992	business of MINE.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1993
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1994	The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1995	moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! Off--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1996
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1997	'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1998	silent.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	1999
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2000	The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said 'Consider, my
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2001	dear: she is only a child!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2002
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2003	The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave 'Turn them
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2004	over!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2005
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2006	The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2007
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2008	'Get up!' said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the three
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2009	gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the Queen,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2010	the royal children, and everybody else.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2011
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2012	'Leave off that!' screamed the Queen. 'You make me giddy.' And then,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2013	turning to the rose-tree, she went on, 'What HAVE you been doing here?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2014
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2015	'May it please your Majesty,' said Two, in a very humble tone, going
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2016	down on one knee as he spoke, 'we were trying--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2017
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2018	'I see!' said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the roses.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2019	'Off with their heads!' and the procession moved on, three of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2020	soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2021	to Alice for protection.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2022
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2023	'You shan't be beheaded!' said Alice, and she put them into a large
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2024	flower-pot that stood near. The three soldiers wandered about for a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2025	minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly marched off after the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2026	others.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2027
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2028	'Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2029
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2030	'Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!' the soldiers shouted
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2031	in reply.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2032
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2033	'That's right!' shouted the Queen. 'Can you play croquet?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2034
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2035	The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2036	evidently meant for her.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2037
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2038	'Yes!' shouted Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2039
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2040	'Come on, then!' roared the Queen, and Alice joined the procession,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2041	wondering very much what would happen next.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2042
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2043	'It's--it's a very fine day!' said a timid voice at her side. She was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2044	walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2045
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2046	'Very,' said Alice: '--where's the Duchess?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2047
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2048	'Hush! Hush!' said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He looked
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2049	anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself upon
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2050	tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered 'She's under
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2051	sentence of execution.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2052
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2053	'What for?' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2054
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2055	'Did you say "What a pity!"?' the Rabbit asked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2056
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2057	'No, I didn't,' said Alice: 'I don't think it's at all a pity. I said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2058	"What for?"'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2059
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2060	'She boxed the Queen's ears--' the Rabbit began. Alice gave a little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2061	scream of laughter. 'Oh, hush!' the Rabbit whispered in a frightened
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2062	tone. 'The Queen will hear you! You see, she came rather late, and the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2063	Queen said--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2064
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2065	'Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2066	people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2067	other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2068	began. Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2069	her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2070	the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2071	up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2072
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2073	The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2074	she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2075	her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2076	its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2077	blow with its head, it WOULD twist itself round and look up in her face,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2078	with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2079	laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2080	again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2081	itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2082	generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2083	hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2084	and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2085	conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2086
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2087	The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2088	all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2089	time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2090	shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' about once in a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2091	minute.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2092
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2093	Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2094	dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2095	'and then,' thought she, 'what would become of me? They're dreadfully
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2096	fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's any one
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2097	left alive!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2098
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2099	She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2100	could get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2101	in the air: it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2102	a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2103	'It's the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2104
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2105	'How are you getting on?' said the Cat, as soon as there was mouth
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2106	enough for it to speak with.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2107
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2108	Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. 'It's no use
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2109	speaking to it,' she thought, 'till its ears have come, or at least one
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2110	of them.' In another minute the whole head appeared, and then Alice put
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2111	down her flamingo, and began an account of the game, feeling very glad
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2112	she had someone to listen to her. The Cat seemed to think that there was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2113	enough of it now in sight, and no more of it appeared.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2114
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2115	'I don't think they play at all fairly,' Alice began, in rather a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2116	complaining tone, 'and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2117	oneself speak--and they don't seem to have any rules in particular;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2118	at least, if there are, nobody attends to them--and you've no idea how
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2119	confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2120	arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2121	ground--and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2122	it ran away when it saw mine coming!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2123
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2124	'How do you like the Queen?' said the Cat in a low voice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2125
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2126	'Not at all,' said Alice: 'she's so extremely--' Just then she noticed
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2127	that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2128	'--likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the game.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2129
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2130	The Queen smiled and passed on.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2131
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2132	'Who ARE you talking to?' said the King, going up to Alice, and looking
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2133	at the Cat's head with great curiosity.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2134
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2135	'It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said Alice: 'allow me to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2136	introduce it.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2137
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2138	'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, it may
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2139	kiss my hand if it likes.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2140
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2141	'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2142
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2143	'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me like that!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2144	He got behind Alice as he spoke.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2145
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2146	'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. 'I've read that in some book,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2147	but I don't remember where.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2148
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2149	'Well, it must be removed,' said the King very decidedly, and he called
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2150	the Queen, who was passing at the moment, 'My dear! I wish you would
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2151	have this cat removed!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2152
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2153	The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2154	'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking round.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2155
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2156	'I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the King eagerly, and he
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2157	hurried off.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2158
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2159	Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game was going
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2160	on, as she heard the Queen's voice in the distance, screaming with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2161	passion. She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2162	executed for having missed their turns, and she did not like the look
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2163	of things at all, as the game was in such confusion that she never knew
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2164	whether it was her turn or not. So she went in search of her hedgehog.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2165
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2166	The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2167	to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2168	other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2169	other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a helpless
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2170	sort of way to fly up into a tree.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2171
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2172	By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2173	was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: 'but it doesn't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2174	matter much,' thought Alice, 'as all the arches are gone from this side
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2175	of the ground.' So she tucked it away under her arm, that it might not
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2176	escape again, and went back for a little more conversation with her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2177	friend.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2178
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2179	When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2180	large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2181	the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all talking at once,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2182	while all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2183
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2184	The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to settle
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2185	the question, and they repeated their arguments to her, though, as they
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2186	all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2187	what they said.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2188
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2189	The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a head unless
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2190	there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2191	thing before, and he wasn't going to begin at HIS time of life.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2192
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2193	The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2194	beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2195
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2196	The Queen's argument was, that if something wasn't done about it in less
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2197	than no time she'd have everybody executed, all round. (It was this last
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2198	remark that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2199
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2200	Alice could think of nothing else to say but 'It belongs to the Duchess:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2201	you'd better ask HER about it.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2202
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2203	'She's in prison,' the Queen said to the executioner: 'fetch her here.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2204	And the executioner went off like an arrow.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2205
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2206	The Cat's head began fading away the moment he was gone, and,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2207	by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2208	disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2209	looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2210
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2211
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2212
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2213
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2214	CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle's Story
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2215
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2216	'You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2217	said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2218	they walked off together.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2219
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2220	Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2221	to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2222	savage when they met in the kitchen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2223
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2224	'When I'M a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2225	though), 'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT ALL. Soup does very
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2226	well without--Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2227	she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2228	rule, 'and vinegar that makes them sour--and camomile that makes
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2229	them bitter--and--and barley-sugar and such things that make children
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2230	sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2231	stingy about it, you know--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2232
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2233	She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2234	startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. 'You're thinking
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2235	about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2236	tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2237	a bit.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2238
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2239	'Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2240
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2241	'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2242	you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2243	she spoke.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2244
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2245	Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2246	Duchess was VERY ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2247	right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2248	uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude, so she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2249	bore it as well as she could.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2250
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2251	'The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of keeping up
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2252	the conversation a little.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2253
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2254	''Tis so,' said the Duchess: 'and the moral of that is--"Oh, 'tis love,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2255	'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2256
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2257	'Somebody said,' Alice whispered, 'that it's done by everybody minding
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2258	their own business!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2259
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2260	'Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess, digging her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2261	sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added, 'and the moral
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2262	of THAT is--"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2263	themselves."'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2264
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2265	'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2266
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2267	'I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your waist,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2268	the Duchess said after a pause: 'the reason is, that I'm doubtful about
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2269	the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2270
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2271	'HE might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2272	have the experiment tried.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2273
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2274	'Very true,' said the Duchess: 'flamingoes and mustard both bite. And
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2275	the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock together."'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2276
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2277	'Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2278
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2279	'Right, as usual,' said the Duchess: 'what a clear way you have of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2280	putting things!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2281
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2282	'It's a mineral, I THINK,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2283
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2284	'Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2285	everything that Alice said; 'there's a large mustard-mine near here. And
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2286	the moral of that is--"The more there is of mine, the less there is of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2287	yours."'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2288
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2289	'Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last remark,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2290	'it's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it is.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2291
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2292	'I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; 'and the moral of that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2293	is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put more
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2294	simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2295	appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2296	than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2297
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2298	'I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very politely, 'if
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2299	I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2300
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2301	'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied, in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2302	a pleased tone.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2303
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2304	'Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,' said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2305	Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2306
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2307	'Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. 'I make you a present
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2308	of everything I've said as yet.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2309
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2310	'A cheap sort of present!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad they don't give
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2311	birthday presents like that!' But she did not venture to say it out
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2312	loud.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2313
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2314	'Thinking again?' the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2315	little chin.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2316
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2317	'I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2318	feel a little worried.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2319
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2320	'Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, 'as pigs have to fly; and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2321	the m--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2322
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2323	But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died away, even
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2324	in the middle of her favourite word 'moral,' and the arm that was linked
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2325	into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2326	in front of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2327
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2328	'A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a low, weak voice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2329
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2330	'Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen, stamping on the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2331	ground as she spoke; 'either you or your head must be off, and that in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2332	about half no time! Take your choice!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2333
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2334	The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2335
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2336	'Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2337	too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back to the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2338	croquet-ground.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2339
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2340	The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen's absence, and were
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2341	resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2342	back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment's delay would
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2343	cost them their lives.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2344
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2345	All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2346	the other players, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2347	head!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2348	who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2349	the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2350	players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2351	under sentence of execution.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2352
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2353	Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, 'Have
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2354	you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2355
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2356	'No,' said Alice. 'I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2357
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2358	'It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said the Queen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2359
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2360	'I never saw one, or heard of one,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2361
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2362	'Come on, then,' said the Queen, 'and he shall tell you his history,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2363
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2364	As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low voice,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2365	to the company generally, 'You are all pardoned.' 'Come, THAT'S a good
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2366	thing!' she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2367	number of executions the Queen had ordered.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2368
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2369	They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2370	(IF you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) 'Up, lazy
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2371	thing!' said the Queen, 'and take this young lady to see the Mock
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2372	Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and see after some
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2373	executions I have ordered'; and she walked off, leaving Alice alone with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2374	the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2375	the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2376	after that savage Queen: so she waited.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2377
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2378	The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen till
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2379	she was out of sight: then it chuckled. 'What fun!' said the Gryphon,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2380	half to itself, half to Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2381
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2382	'What IS the fun?' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2383
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2384	'Why, SHE,' said the Gryphon. 'It's all her fancy, that: they never
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2385	executes nobody, you know. Come on!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2386
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2387	'Everybody says "come on!" here,' thought Alice, as she went slowly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2388	after it: 'I never was so ordered about in all my life, never!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2389
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2390	They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2391	sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2392	nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2393	pitied him deeply. 'What is his sorrow?' she asked the Gryphon, and the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2394	Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same words as before, 'It's all his
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2395	fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. Come on!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2396
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2397	So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large eyes
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2398	full of tears, but said nothing.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2399
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2400	'This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants for to know your
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2401	history, she do.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2402
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2403	'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: 'sit
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2404	down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've finished.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2405
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2406	So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2407	herself, 'I don't see how he can EVEN finish, if he doesn't begin.' But
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2408	she waited patiently.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2409
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2410	'Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, 'I was a real
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2411	Turtle.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2412
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2413	These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2414	occasional exclamation of 'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and the constant
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2415	heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly getting up and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2416	saying, 'Thank you, sir, for your interesting story,' but she could
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2417	not help thinking there MUST be more to come, so she sat still and said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2418	nothing.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2419
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2420	'When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2421	though still sobbing a little now and then, 'we went to school in the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2422	sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2423
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2424	'Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2425
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2426	'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2427	angrily: 'really you are very dull!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2428
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2429	'You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2430	added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2431	Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. At last the Gryphon said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2432	to the Mock Turtle, 'Drive on, old fellow! Don't be all day about it!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2433	and he went on in these words:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2434
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2435	'Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe it--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2436
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2437	'I never said I didn't!' interrupted Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2438
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2439	'You did,' said the Mock Turtle.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2440
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2441	'Hold your tongue!' added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2442	The Mock Turtle went on.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2443
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2444	'We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to school every day--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2445
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2446	'I'VE been to a day-school, too,' said Alice; 'you needn't be so proud
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2447	as all that.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2448
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2449	'With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2450
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2451	'Yes,' said Alice, 'we learned French and music.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2452
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2453	'And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2454
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2455	'Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2456
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2457	'Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock Turtle in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2458	a tone of great relief. 'Now at OURS they had at the end of the bill,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2459	"French, music, AND WASHING--extra."'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2460
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2461	'You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice; 'living at the bottom of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2462	the sea.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2463
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2464	'I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. 'I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2465	only took the regular course.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2466
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2467	'What was that?' inquired Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2468
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2469	'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2470	replied; 'and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2471	Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2472
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2473	'I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to say. 'What is it?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2474
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2475	The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. 'What! Never heard of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2476	uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is, I suppose?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2477
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2478	'Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: 'it means--to--make--anything--prettier.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2479
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2480	'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to uglify is,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2481	you ARE a simpleton.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2482
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2483	Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2484	turned to the Mock Turtle, and said 'What else had you to learn?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2485
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2486	'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting off
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2487	the subjects on his flappers, '--Mystery, ancient and modern, with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2488	Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2489	that used to come once a week: HE taught us Drawling, Stretching, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2490	Fainting in Coils.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2491
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2492	'What was THAT like?' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2493
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2494	'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: 'I'm too
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2495	stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2496
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2497	'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: 'I went to the Classics master, though.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2498	He was an old crab, HE was.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2499
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2500	'I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: 'he taught
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2501	Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2502
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2503	'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2504	creatures hid their faces in their paws.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2505
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2506	'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2507	change the subject.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2508
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2509	'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2510	on.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2511
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2512	'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2513
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2514	'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2515	'because they lessen from day to day.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2516
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2517	This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2518	before she made her next remark. 'Then the eleventh day must have been a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2519	holiday?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2520
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2521	'Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2522
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2523	'And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice went on eagerly.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2524
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2525	'That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2526	tone: 'tell her something about the games now.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2527
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2528
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2529
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2530
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2531	CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2532
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2533	The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one flapper across
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2534	his eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2535	two sobs choked his voice. 'Same as if he had a bone in his throat,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2536	said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2537	the back. At last the Mock Turtle recovered his voice, and, with tears
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2538	running down his cheeks, he went on again:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2539
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2540	'You may not have lived much under the sea--' ('I haven't,' said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2541	Alice)--'and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2542	(Alice began to say 'I once tasted--' but checked herself hastily, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2543	said 'No, never') '--so you can have no idea what a delightful thing a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2544	Lobster Quadrille is!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2545
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2546	'No, indeed,' said Alice. 'What sort of a dance is it?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2547
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2548	'Why,' said the Gryphon, 'you first form into a line along the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2549	sea-shore--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2550
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2551	'Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle. 'Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2552	then, when you've cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2553
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2554	'THAT generally takes some time,' interrupted the Gryphon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2555
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2556	'--you advance twice--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2557
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2558	'Each with a lobster as a partner!' cried the Gryphon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2559
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2560	'Of course,' the Mock Turtle said: 'advance twice, set to partners--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2561
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2562	'--change lobsters, and retire in same order,' continued the Gryphon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2563
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2564	'Then, you know,' the Mock Turtle went on, 'you throw the--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2565
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2566	'The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2567
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2568	'--as far out to sea as you can--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2569
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2570	'Swim after them!' screamed the Gryphon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2571
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2572	'Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the Mock Turtle, capering wildly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2573	about.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2574
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2575	'Change lobsters again!' yelled the Gryphon at the top of its voice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2576
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2577	'Back to land again, and that's all the first figure,' said the Mock
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2578	Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two creatures, who had been
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2579	jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down again very sadly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2580	and quietly, and looked at Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2581
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2582	'It must be a very pretty dance,' said Alice timidly.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2583
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2584	'Would you like to see a little of it?' said the Mock Turtle.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2585
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2586	'Very much indeed,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2587
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2588	'Come, let's try the first figure!' said the Mock Turtle to the Gryphon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2589	'We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall sing?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2590
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2591	'Oh, YOU sing,' said the Gryphon. 'I've forgotten the words.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2592
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2593	So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2594	then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and waving their
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2595	forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle sang this, very slowly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2596	and sadly:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2597
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2598	'"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2599	"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2600
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2601	See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2602	They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2603
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2604	Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2605	Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2606
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2607	"You can really have no notion how delightful it will be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2608	When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!"
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2609	But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a look askance--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2610	Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2611
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2612	Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2613	Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2614
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2615	'"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2616	"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2617	The further off from England the nearer is to France--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2618	Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2619
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2620	Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2621	Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?"'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2622
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2623	'Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to watch,' said Alice, feeling
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2624	very glad that it was over at last: 'and I do so like that curious song
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2625	about the whiting!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2626
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2627	'Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, 'they--you've seen them,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2628	of course?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2629
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2630	'Yes,' said Alice, 'I've often seen them at dinn--' she checked herself
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2631	hastily.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2632
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2633	'I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock Turtle, 'but if you've
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2634	seen them so often, of course you know what they're like.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2635
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2636	'I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. 'They have their tails in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2637	their mouths--and they're all over crumbs.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2638
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2639	'You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle: 'crumbs would all
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2640	wash off in the sea. But they HAVE their tails in their mouths; and the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2641	reason is--' here the Mock Turtle yawned and shut his eyes.--'Tell her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2642	about the reason and all that,' he said to the Gryphon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2643
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2644	'The reason is,' said the Gryphon, 'that they WOULD go with the lobsters
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2645	to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So they had to fall a long
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2646	way. So they got their tails fast in their mouths. So they couldn't get
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2647	them out again. That's all.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2648
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2649	'Thank you,' said Alice, 'it's very interesting. I never knew so much
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2650	about a whiting before.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2651
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2652	'I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the Gryphon. 'Do you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2653	know why it's called a whiting?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2654
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2655	'I never thought about it,' said Alice. 'Why?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2656
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2657	'IT DOES THE BOOTS AND SHOES.' the Gryphon replied very solemnly.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2658
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2659	Alice was thoroughly puzzled. 'Does the boots and shoes!' she repeated
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2660	in a wondering tone.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2661
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2662	'Why, what are YOUR shoes done with?' said the Gryphon. 'I mean, what
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2663	makes them so shiny?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2664
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2665	Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she gave her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2666	answer. 'They're done with blacking, I believe.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2667
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2668	'Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on in a deep voice,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2669	'are done with a whiting. Now you know.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2670
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2671	'And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a tone of great curiosity.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2672
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2673	'Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather impatiently:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2674	'any shrimp could have told you that.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2675
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2676	'If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were still running
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2677	on the song, 'I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep back, please: we
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2678	don't want YOU with us!"'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2679
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2680	'They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle said: 'no
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2681	wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2682
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2683	'Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great surprise.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2684
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2685	'Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: 'why, if a fish came to ME, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2686	told me he was going a journey, I should say "With what porpoise?"'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2687
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2688	'Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2689
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2690	'I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2691	the Gryphon added 'Come, let's hear some of YOUR adventures.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2692
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2693	'I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,' said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2694	Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no use going back to yesterday,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2695	because I was a different person then.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2696
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2697	'Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2698
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2699	'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an impatient tone:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2700	'explanations take such a dreadful time.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2701
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2702	So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2703	saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about it just at first,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2704	the two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2705	their eyes and mouths so VERY wide, but she gained courage as she went
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2706	on. Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part about
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2707	her repeating 'YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,' to the Caterpillar, and the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2708	words all coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2709	and said 'That's very curious.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2710
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2711	'It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the Gryphon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2712
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2713	'It all came different!' the Mock Turtle repeated thoughtfully. 'I
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2714	should like to hear her try and repeat something now. Tell her to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2715	begin.' He looked at the Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2716	authority over Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2717
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2718	'Stand up and repeat "'TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,"' said the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2719	Gryphon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2720
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2721	'How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2722	thought Alice; 'I might as well be at school at once.' However, she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2723	got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2724	Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2725	very queer indeed:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2726
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2727	''Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2728	"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2729	As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2730	Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2731
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2732	[later editions continued as follows
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2733	When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2734	And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2735	But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2736	His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.]
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2737
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2738	'That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' said the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2739	Gryphon.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2740
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2741	'Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; 'but it sounds
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2742	uncommon nonsense.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2743
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2744	Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2745	wondering if anything would EVER happen in a natural way again.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2746
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2747	'I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2748
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2749	'She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on with the next
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2750	verse.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2751
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2752	'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. 'How COULD he turn them
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2753	out with his nose, you know?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2754
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2755	'It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2756	puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2757
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2758	'Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated impatiently: 'it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2759	begins "I passed by his garden."'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2760
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2761	Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2762	wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2763
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2764	'I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2765	How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2766
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2767	[later editions continued as follows
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2768	The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2769	While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2770	When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2771	Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2772	While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2773	And concluded the banquet--]
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2774
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2775	'What IS the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2776	interrupted, 'if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far the most
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2777	confusing thing I ever heard!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2778
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2779	'Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon: and Alice was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2780	only too glad to do so.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2781
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2782	'Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the Gryphon went
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2783	on. 'Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2784
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2785	'Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,' Alice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2786	replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2787	'Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her "Turtle Soup," will you, old
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2788	fellow?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2789
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2790	The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2791	with sobs, to sing this:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2792
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2793	'Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2794	Waiting in a hot tureen!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2795	Who for such dainties would not stoop?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2796	Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2797	Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2798	Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2799	Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2800	Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2801	Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2802
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2803	'Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2804	Game, or any other dish?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2805	Who would not give all else for two
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2806	Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2807	Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2808	Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2809	Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2810	Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2811	Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2812
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2813	'Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2814	to repeat it, when a cry of 'The trial's beginning!' was heard in the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2815	distance.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2816
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2817	'Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, it hurried
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2818	off, without waiting for the end of the song.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2819
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2820	'What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2821	answered 'Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more faintly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2822	came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2823
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2824	'Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2825	Beautiful, beautiful Soup!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2826
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2827
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2828
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2829
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2830	CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2831
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2832	The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2833	arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts of little
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2834	birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2835	standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2836	him; and near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2837	and a scroll of parchment in the other. In the very middle of the court
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2838	was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2839	that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them--'I wish they'd get the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2840	trial done,' she thought, 'and hand round the refreshments!' But there
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2841	seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2842	her, to pass away the time.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2843
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2844	Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had read
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2845	about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that she knew
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2846	the name of nearly everything there. 'That's the judge,' she said to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2847	herself, 'because of his great wig.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2848
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2849	The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2850	wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,) he did
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2851	not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2852
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2853	'And that's the jury-box,' thought Alice, 'and those twelve creatures,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2854	(she was obliged to say 'creatures,' you see, because some of them were
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2855	animals, and some were birds,) 'I suppose they are the jurors.' She said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2856	this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2857	it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2858	age knew the meaning of it at all. However, 'jury-men' would have done
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2859	just as well.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2860
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2861	The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. 'What are they
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2862	doing?' Alice whispered to the Gryphon. 'They can't have anything to put
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2863	down yet, before the trial's begun.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2864
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2865	'They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in reply, 'for
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2866	fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2867
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2868	'Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2869	hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, 'Silence in the court!' and the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2870	King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2871	was talking.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2872
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2873	Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2874	that all the jurors were writing down 'stupid things!' on their slates,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2875	and she could even make out that one of them didn't know how to spell
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2876	'stupid,' and that he had to ask his neighbour to tell him. 'A nice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2877	muddle their slates'll be in before the trial's over!' thought Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2878
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2879	One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2880	could not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2881	very soon found an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so quickly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2882	that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2883	at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2884	obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2885	of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2886
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2887	'Herald, read the accusation!' said the King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2888
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2889	On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and then
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2890	unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2891
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2892	'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2893	All on a summer day:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2894	The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2895	And took them quite away!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2896
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2897	'Consider your verdict,' the King said to the jury.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2898
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2899	'Not yet, not yet!' the Rabbit hastily interrupted. 'There's a great
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2900	deal to come before that!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2901
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2902	'Call the first witness,' said the King; and the White Rabbit blew three
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2903	blasts on the trumpet, and called out, 'First witness!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2904
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2905	The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in one
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2906	hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. 'I beg pardon, your
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2907	Majesty,' he began, 'for bringing these in: but I hadn't quite finished
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2908	my tea when I was sent for.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2909
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2910	'You ought to have finished,' said the King. 'When did you begin?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2911
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2912	The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2913	court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. 'Fourteenth of March, I think it
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2914	was,' he said.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2915
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2916	'Fifteenth,' said the March Hare.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2917
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2918	'Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2919
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2920	'Write that down,' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2921	wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2922	reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2923
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2924	'Take off your hat,' the King said to the Hatter.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2925
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2926	'It isn't mine,' said the Hatter.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2927
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2928	'Stolen!' the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2929	memorandum of the fact.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2930
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2931	'I keep them to sell,' the Hatter added as an explanation; 'I've none of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2932	my own. I'm a hatter.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2933
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2934	Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the Hatter,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2935	who turned pale and fidgeted.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2936
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2937	'Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be nervous, or I'll have
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2938	you executed on the spot.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2939
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2940	This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2941	from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2942	his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2943	bread-and-butter.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2944
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2945	Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which puzzled
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2946	her a good deal until she made out what it was: she was beginning to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2947	grow larger again, and she thought at first she would get up and leave
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2948	the court; but on second thoughts she decided to remain where she was as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2949	long as there was room for her.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2950
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2951	'I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.' said the Dormouse, who was sitting
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2952	next to her. 'I can hardly breathe.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2953
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2954	'I can't help it,' said Alice very meekly: 'I'm growing.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2955
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2956	'You've no right to grow here,' said the Dormouse.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2957
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2958	'Don't talk nonsense,' said Alice more boldly: 'you know you're growing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2959	too.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2960
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2961	'Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the Dormouse: 'not in that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2962	ridiculous fashion.' And he got up very sulkily and crossed over to the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2963	other side of the court.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2964
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2965	All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the Hatter, and,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2966	just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to one of the officers
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2967	of the court, 'Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!' on
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2968	which the wretched Hatter trembled so, that he shook both his shoes off.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2969
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2970	'Give your evidence,' the King repeated angrily, 'or I'll have you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2971	executed, whether you're nervous or not.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2972
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2973	'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' the Hatter began, in a trembling voice,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2974	'--and I hadn't begun my tea--not above a week or so--and what with the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2975	bread-and-butter getting so thin--and the twinkling of the tea--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2976
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2977	'The twinkling of the what?' said the King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2978
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2979	'It began with the tea,' the Hatter replied.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2980
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2981	'Of course twinkling begins with a T!' said the King sharply. 'Do you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2982	take me for a dunce? Go on!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2983
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2984	'I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, 'and most things twinkled after
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2985	that--only the March Hare said--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2986
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2987	'I didn't!' the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2988
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2989	'You did!' said the Hatter.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2990
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2991	'I deny it!' said the March Hare.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2992
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2993	'He denies it,' said the King: 'leave out that part.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2994
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2995	'Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--' the Hatter went on, looking
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2996	anxiously round to see if he would deny it too: but the Dormouse denied
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2997	nothing, being fast asleep.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2998
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	2999	'After that,' continued the Hatter, 'I cut some more bread-and-butter--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3000
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3001	'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3002
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3003	'That I can't remember,' said the Hatter.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3004
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3005	'You MUST remember,' remarked the King, 'or I'll have you executed.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3006
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3007	The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3008	down on one knee. 'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' he began.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3009
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3010	'You're a very poor speaker,' said the King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3011
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3012	Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately suppressed by
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3013	the officers of the court. (As that is rather a hard word, I will just
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3014	explain to you how it was done. They had a large canvas bag, which tied
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3015	up at the mouth with strings: into this they slipped the guinea-pig,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3016	head first, and then sat upon it.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3017
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3018	'I'm glad I've seen that done,' thought Alice. 'I've so often read
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3019	in the newspapers, at the end of trials, "There was some attempts
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3020	at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3021	court," and I never understood what it meant till now.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3022
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3023	'If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,' continued the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3024	King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3025
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3026	'I can't go no lower,' said the Hatter: 'I'm on the floor, as it is.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3027
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3028	'Then you may SIT down,' the King replied.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3029
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3030	Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was suppressed.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3031
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3032	'Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!' thought Alice. 'Now we shall get
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3033	on better.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3034
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3035	'I'd rather finish my tea,' said the Hatter, with an anxious look at the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3036	Queen, who was reading the list of singers.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3037
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3038	'You may go,' said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3039	without even waiting to put his shoes on.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3040
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3041	'--and just take his head off outside,' the Queen added to one of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3042	officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3043	to the door.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3044
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3045	'Call the next witness!' said the King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3046
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3047	The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the pepper-box in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3048	her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3049	court, by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3050
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3051	'Give your evidence,' said the King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3052
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3053	'Shan't,' said the cook.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3054
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3055	The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a low voice,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3056	'Your Majesty must cross-examine THIS witness.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3057
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3058	'Well, if I must, I must,' the King said, with a melancholy air, and,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3059	after folding his arms and frowning at the cook till his eyes were
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3060	nearly out of sight, he said in a deep voice, 'What are tarts made of?'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3061
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3062	'Pepper, mostly,' said the cook.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3063
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3064	'Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3065
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3066	'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out. 'Behead that Dormouse!
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3067	Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3068	whiskers!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3069
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3070	For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the Dormouse
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3071	turned out, and, by the time they had settled down again, the cook had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3072	disappeared.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3073
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3074	'Never mind!' said the King, with an air of great relief. 'Call the next
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3075	witness.' And he added in an undertone to the Queen, 'Really, my dear,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3076	YOU must cross-examine the next witness. It quite makes my forehead
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3077	ache!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3078
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3079	Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling very
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3080	curious to see what the next witness would be like, '--for they haven't
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3081	got much evidence YET,' she said to herself. Imagine her surprise, when
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3082	the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3083	name 'Alice!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3084
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3085
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3086
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3087
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3088	CHAPTER XII. Alice's Evidence
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3089
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3090
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3091	'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3092	large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3093	a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3094	upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3095	they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3096	she had accidentally upset the week before.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3097
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3098	'Oh, I BEG your pardon!' she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3099	began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3100	the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3101	that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3102	they would die.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3103
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3104	'The trial cannot proceed,' said the King in a very grave voice, 'until
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3105	all the jurymen are back in their proper places--ALL,' he repeated with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3106	great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said do.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3107
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3108	Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3109	the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3110	tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move. She soon got
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3111	it out again, and put it right; 'not that it signifies much,' she said
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3112	to herself; 'I should think it would be QUITE as much use in the trial
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3113	one way up as the other.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3114
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3115	As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3116	upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3117	them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3118	accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3119	anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3120	court.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3121
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3122	'What do you know about this business?' the King said to Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3123
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3124	'Nothing,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3125
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3126	'Nothing WHATEVER?' persisted the King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3127
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3128	'Nothing whatever,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3129
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3130	'That's very important,' the King said, turning to the jury. They were
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3131	just beginning to write this down on their slates, when the White Rabbit
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3132	interrupted: 'UNimportant, your Majesty means, of course,' he said in a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3133	very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him as he spoke.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3134
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3135	'UNimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3136	to himself in an undertone,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3137
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3138	'important--unimportant--unimportant--important--' as if he were trying
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3139	which word sounded best.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3140
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3141	Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and some 'unimportant.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3142	Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3143	'but it doesn't matter a bit,' she thought to herself.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3144
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3145	At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3146	his note-book, cackled out 'Silence!' and read out from his book, 'Rule
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3147	Forty-two. ALL PERSONS MORE THAN A MILE HIGH TO LEAVE THE COURT.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3148
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3149	Everybody looked at Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3150
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3151	'I'M not a mile high,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3152
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3153	'You are,' said the King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3154
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3155	'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3156
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3157	'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: 'besides, that's not a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3158	regular rule: you invented it just now.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3159
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3160	'It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3161
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3162	'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3163
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3164	The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily. 'Consider your
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3165	verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3166
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3167	'There's more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,' said the White
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3168	Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; 'this paper has just been picked
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3169	up.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3170
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3171	'What's in it?' said the Queen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3172
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3173	'I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, 'but it seems to be a
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3174	letter, written by the prisoner to--to somebody.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3175
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3176	'It must have been that,' said the King, 'unless it was written to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3177	nobody, which isn't usual, you know.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3178
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3179	'Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3180
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3181	'It isn't directed at all,' said the White Rabbit; 'in fact, there's
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3182	nothing written on the OUTSIDE.' He unfolded the paper as he spoke, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3183	added 'It isn't a letter, after all: it's a set of verses.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3184
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3185	'Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked another of the jurymen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3186
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3187	'No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, 'and that's the queerest thing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3188	about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3189
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3190	'He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said the King. (The jury
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3191	all brightened up again.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3192
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3193	'Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't write it, and they
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3194	can't prove I did: there's no name signed at the end.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3195
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3196	'If you didn't sign it,' said the King, 'that only makes the matter
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3197	worse. You MUST have meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed your
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3198	name like an honest man.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3199
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3200	There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3201	clever thing the King had said that day.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3202
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3203	'That PROVES his guilt,' said the Queen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3204
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3205	'It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. 'Why, you don't even know
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3206	what they're about!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3207
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3208	'Read them,' said the King.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3209
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3210	The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3211	your Majesty?' he asked.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3212
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3213	'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3214	come to the end: then stop.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3215
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3216	These were the verses the White Rabbit read:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3217
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3218	'They told me you had been to her,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3219	And mentioned me to him:
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3220	She gave me a good character,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3221	But said I could not swim.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3222
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3223	He sent them word I had not gone
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3224	(We know it to be true):
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3225	If she should push the matter on,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3226	What would become of you?
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3227
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3228	I gave her one, they gave him two,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3229	You gave us three or more;
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3230	They all returned from him to you,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3231	Though they were mine before.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3232
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3233	If I or she should chance to be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3234	Involved in this affair,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3235	He trusts to you to set them free,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3236	Exactly as we were.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3237
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3238	My notion was that you had been
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3239	(Before she had this fit)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3240	An obstacle that came between
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3241	Him, and ourselves, and it.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3242
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3243	Don't let him know she liked them best,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3244	For this must ever be
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3245	A secret, kept from all the rest,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3246	Between yourself and me.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3247
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3248	'That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,' said the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3249	King, rubbing his hands; 'so now let the jury--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3250
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3251	'If any one of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she had grown so large
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3252	in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3253	him,) 'I'll give him sixpence. _I_ don't believe there's an atom of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3254	meaning in it.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3255
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3256	The jury all wrote down on their slates, 'SHE doesn't believe there's an
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3257	atom of meaning in it,' but none of them attempted to explain the paper.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3258
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3259	'If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, 'that saves a world of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3260	trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know,'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3261	he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3262	with one eye; 'I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. "--SAID
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3263	I COULD NOT SWIM--" you can't swim, can you?' he added, turning to the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3264	Knave.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3265
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3266	The Knave shook his head sadly. 'Do I look like it?' he said. (Which he
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3267	certainly did NOT, being made entirely of cardboard.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3268
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3269	'All right, so far,' said the King, and he went on muttering over
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3270	the verses to himself: '"WE KNOW IT TO BE TRUE--" that's the jury, of
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3271	course--"I GAVE HER ONE, THEY GAVE HIM TWO--" why, that must be what he
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3272	did with the tarts, you know--'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3273
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3274	'But, it goes on "THEY ALL RETURNED FROM HIM TO YOU,"' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3275
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3276	'Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly, pointing to the tarts
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3277	on the table. 'Nothing can be clearer than THAT. Then again--"BEFORE SHE
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3278	HAD THIS FIT--" you never had fits, my dear, I think?' he said to the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3279	Queen.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3280
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3281	'Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3282	as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off writing on his
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3283	slate with one finger, as he found it made no mark; but he now hastily
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3284	began again, using the ink, that was trickling down his face, as long as
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3285	it lasted.)
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3286
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3287	'Then the words don't FIT you,' said the King, looking round the court
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3288	with a smile. There was a dead silence.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3289
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3290	'It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3291	'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3292	twentieth time that day.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3293
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3294	'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first--verdict afterwards.'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3295
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3296	'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of having the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3297	sentence first!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3298
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3299	'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3300
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3301	'I won't!' said Alice.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3302
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3303	'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3304	moved.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3305
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3306	'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3307	time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3308
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3309	At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3310	her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3311	tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3312	head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3313	leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3314
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3315	'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long sleep you've
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3316	had!'
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3317
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3318	'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3319	sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3320	of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3321	finished, her sister kissed her, and said, 'It WAS a curious dream,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3322	dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it's getting late.' So
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3323	Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3324	what a wonderful dream it had been.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3325
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3326	But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3327	hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3328	wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3329	this was her dream:--
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3330
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3331	First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the tiny
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3332	hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes were looking
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3333	up into hers--she could hear the very tones of her voice, and see that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3334	queer little toss of her head to keep back the wandering hair that
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3335	WOULD always get into her eyes--and still as she listened, or seemed to
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3336	listen, the whole place around her became alive with the strange creatures
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3337	of her little sister's dream.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3338
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3339	The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried by--the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3340	frightened Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool--she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3341	could hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3342	shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill voice of the Queen
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3343	ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution--once more the pig-baby
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3344	was sneezing on the Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3345	around it--once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3346	Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3347	filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable Mock
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3348	Turtle.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3349
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3350	So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3351	Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3352	would change to dull reality--the grass would be only rustling in the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3353	wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds--the rattling
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3354	teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells, and the Queen's shrill
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3355	cries to the voice of the shepherd boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3356	shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change (she
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3357	knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3358	of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3359	heavy sobs.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3360
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3361	Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3362	would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3363	keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3364	childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3365	make THEIR eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3366	with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3367	all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys,
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3368	remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3369
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3370	THE END
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3371
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3372
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3373
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3374
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3375
leothedragon	0:8f0bb79ddd48	3376	End of Project Gutenberg's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
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