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"Project Gutenberg’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll"
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"This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with"
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"almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or"
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"re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included"
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"with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org"
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"Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"
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"Author: Lewis Carroll"
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"Posting Date: June 25, 2008 [EBook #11]"
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"Release Date: March, 1994"
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"Last Updated: October 6, 2016"
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"Language: English"
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"Character set encoding: UTF-8"
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"*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND ***"
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"ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND"
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"Lewis Carroll"
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"THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0"
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"CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole"
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"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the"
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"bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the"
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"book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in"
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"it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or"
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"conversations?’"
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"So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the"
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"hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure"
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"of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and"
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"picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran"
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"close by her."
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"There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so"
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"VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear!"
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"Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when she thought it over afterwards, it"
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"occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time"
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"it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH"
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"OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,"
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"Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had"
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"never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch"
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"to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field"
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"after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large"
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"rabbit-hole under the hedge."
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"In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how"
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"in the world she was to get out again."
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"The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then"
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"dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think"
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"about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep"
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"well."
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"Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had"
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"plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was"
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"going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what"
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"she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she"
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"looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with"
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"cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures"
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"hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as"
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"she passed; it was labelled ‘ORANGE MARMALADE’, but to her great"
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"disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear"
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"of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as"
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"she fell past it."
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"‘Well!’ thought Alice to herself, ‘after such a fall as this, I shall"
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"think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they’ll all think me at"
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"home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top"
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"of the house!’ (Which was very likely true.)"
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"Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end! ‘I wonder how"
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"many miles I’ve fallen by this time?’ she said aloud. ‘I must be getting"
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"somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four"
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"thousand miles down, I think--’ (for, you see, Alice had learnt several"
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"things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this"
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"was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there"
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"was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over)"
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"‘--yes, that’s about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude"
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"or Longitude I’ve got to?’ (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or"
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"Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)"
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"Presently she began again. ‘I wonder if I shall fall right THROUGH the"
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"earth! How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with"
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"their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--’ (she was rather glad"
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"there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the"
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"right word) ‘--but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country"
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"is, you know. Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?’ (and"
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"she tried to curtsey as she spoke--fancy CURTSEYING as you’re falling"
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"through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) ‘And what an"
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"ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to"
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"ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.’"
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"Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began"
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"talking again. ‘Dinah’ll miss me very much to-night, I should think!’"
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"(Dinah was the cat.) ‘I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at"
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"tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no"
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"mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s very"
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"like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?’ And here Alice"
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"began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy"
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"sort of way, ‘Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?’ and sometimes, ‘Do"
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"bats eat cats?’ for, you see, as she couldn’t answer either question,"
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"it didn’t much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing"
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"off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with"
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"Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, ‘Now, Dinah, tell me the truth:"
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"did you ever eat a bat?’ when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon"
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"a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over."
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"Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment:"
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"she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another"
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"long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it."
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"There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and"
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"was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, ‘Oh my ears"
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"and whiskers, how late it’s getting!’ She was close behind it when she"
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"turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found"
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"herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging"
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"from the roof."
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"There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when"
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"Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every"
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"door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to"
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"get out again."
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"Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid"
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"glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice’s"
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"first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall;"
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"but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small,"
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"but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second"
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"time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and"
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"behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the"
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"little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!"
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"Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not"
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"much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage"
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"into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of"
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"that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and"
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"those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the"
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"doorway; ‘and even if my head would go through,’ thought poor Alice, ‘it"
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"would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could"
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"shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.’"
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"For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately,"
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"that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really"
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"impossible."
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"There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went"
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"back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at"
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"any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this"
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"time she found a little bottle on it, [‘which certainly was not here"
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"before,’ said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper"
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"label, with the words ‘DRINK ME’ beautifully printed on it in large"
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"letters."
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"It was all very well to say ‘Drink me,’ but the wise little Alice was"
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"not going to do THAT in a hurry. ‘No, I’ll look first,’ she said, ‘and"
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"see whether it’s marked “poison” or not’; for she had read several nice"
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"little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild"
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"beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they WOULD not remember"
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"the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot"
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"poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your"
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"finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never"
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"forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison,’ it is"
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"almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later."
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"However, this bottle was NOT marked ‘poison,’ so Alice ventured to taste"
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"it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour"
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"of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot"
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"buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off."
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" * * * * * * *"
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" * * * * * *"
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" * * * * * * *"
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"‘What a curious feeling!’ said Alice; ‘I must be shutting up like a"
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"telescope.’"
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"And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face"
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"brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going"
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"through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she"
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"waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further:"
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"she felt a little nervous about this; ‘for it might end, you know,’ said"
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"Alice to herself, ‘in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder"
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"what I should be like then?’ And she tried to fancy what the flame of a"
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"candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember"
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"ever having seen such a thing."
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"After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going"
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"into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the"
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"door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she"
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"went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach"
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"it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her"
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"best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery;"
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"and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing"
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"sat down and cried."
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"‘Come, there’s no use in crying like that!’ said Alice to herself,"
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"rather sharply; ‘I advise you to leave off this minute!’ She generally"
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"gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it),"
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"and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into"
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"her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having"
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"cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself,"
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"for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people."
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"‘But it’s no use now,’ thought poor Alice, ‘to pretend to be two people!"
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"Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!’"
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"Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table:"
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"she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words"
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"‘EAT ME’ were beautifully marked in currants. ‘Well, I’ll eat it,’ said"
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"Alice, ‘and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it"
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"makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll"
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"get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!’"
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"She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, ‘Which way? Which"
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"way?’, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was"
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"growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same"
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"size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice"
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"had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way"
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"things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on"
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"in the common way."
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"So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake."
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" * * * * * * *"
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" * * * * * * *"
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"CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears"
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"‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that"
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"for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); ‘now I’m"
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"opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!’"
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"(for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of"
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"sight, they were getting so far off). ‘Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder"
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"who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I’m sure"
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"_I_ shan’t be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble"
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"myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;--but I must be"
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"kind to them,’ thought Alice, ‘or perhaps they won’t walk the way I want"
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"to go! Let me see: I’ll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.’"
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"And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. ‘They must"
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"go by the carrier,’ she thought; ‘and how funny it’ll seem, sending"
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"presents to one’s own feet! And how odd the directions will look!"
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" ALICE’S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ."
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" HEARTHRUG,"
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" NEAR THE FENDER,"
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" (WITH ALICE’S LOVE)."
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"Oh dear, what nonsense I’m talking!’"
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"Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was"
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"now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden"
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"key and hurried off to the garden door."
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"Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to"
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"look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more"
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"hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again."
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"‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself,’ said Alice, ‘a great girl like"
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"you,’ (she might well say this), ‘to go on crying in this way! Stop this"
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"moment, I tell you!’ But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of"
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"tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches"
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"deep and reaching half down the hall."
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"After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and"
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"she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White"
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"Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in"
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"one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great"
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"hurry, muttering to himself as he came, ‘Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!"
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"Oh! won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!’ Alice felt so"
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"desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit"
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"came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, ‘If you please, sir--’"
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"The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan,"
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"and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go."
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"Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she"
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"kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: ‘Dear, dear! How"
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"queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual."
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"I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the"
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"same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a"
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"little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who"
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"in the world am I? Ah, THAT’S the great puzzle!’ And she began thinking"
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"over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to"
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"see if she could have been changed for any of them."
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"‘I’m sure I’m not Ada,’ she said, ‘for her hair goes in such long"
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"ringlets, and mine doesn’t go in ringlets at all; and I’m sure I can’t"
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"be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a"
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"very little! Besides, SHE’S she, and I’m I, and--oh dear, how puzzling"
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"it all is! I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me"
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"see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and"
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"four times seven is--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!"
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"However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try Geography."
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"London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and"
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"Rome--no, THAT’S all wrong, I’m certain! I must have been changed for"
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"Mabel! I’ll try and say “How doth the little--“’ and she crossed her"
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"hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it,"
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"but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the"
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"same as they used to do:--"
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" ‘How doth the little crocodile"
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" Improve his shining tail,"
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" And pour the waters of the Nile"
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" On every golden scale!"
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" ‘How cheerfully he seems to grin,"
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" How neatly spread his claws,"
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" And welcome little fishes in"
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" With gently smiling jaws!’"
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"‘I’m sure those are not the right words,’ said poor Alice, and her eyes"
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"filled with tears again as she went on, ‘I must be Mabel after all, and"
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"I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to"
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"no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, I’ve"
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"made up my mind about it; if I’m Mabel, I’ll stay down here! It’ll be no"
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"use their putting their heads down and saying “Come up again, dear!” I"
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"shall only look up and say “Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then,"
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"if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here"
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"till I’m somebody else”--but, oh dear!’ cried Alice, with a sudden burst"
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"of tears, ‘I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired"
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"of being all alone here!’"
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"As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see"
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"that she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while"
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"she was talking. ‘How CAN I have done that?’ she thought. ‘I must"
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"be growing small again.’ She got up and went to the table to measure"
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"herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now"
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"about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found"
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"out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped"
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"it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether."
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"‘That WAS a narrow escape!’ said Alice, a good deal frightened at the"
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"sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; ‘and"
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"now for the garden!’ and she ran with all speed back to the little door:"
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"but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was"
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"lying on the glass table as before, ‘and things are worse than ever,’"
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"thought the poor child, ‘for I never was so small as this before, never!"
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"And I declare it’s too bad, that it is!’"
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"As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash!"
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"she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she"
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"had somehow fallen into the sea, ‘and in that case I can go back by"
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"railway,’ she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in"
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"her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go"
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"to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the"
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"sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row"
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"of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon"
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"made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she"
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"was nine feet high."
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"‘I wish I hadn’t cried so much!’ said Alice, as she swam about, trying"
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"to find her way out. ‘I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by"
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"being drowned in my own tears! That WILL be a queer thing, to be sure!"
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"However, everything is queer to-day.’"
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"Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way"
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"off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought"
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"it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small"
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"she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had"
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"slipped in like herself."
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"‘Would it be of any use, now,’ thought Alice, ‘to speak to this mouse?"
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"Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very"
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"likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying.’ So she"
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"began: ‘O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired"
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"of swimming about here, O Mouse!’ (Alice thought this must be the right"
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"way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but"
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"she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, ‘A mouse--of"
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"a mouse--to a mouse--a mouse--O mouse!’) The Mouse looked at her rather"
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"inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes,"
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"but it said nothing."
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"‘Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,’ thought Alice; ‘I daresay it’s"
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"a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.’ (For, with all"
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"her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago"
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"anything had happened.) So she began again: ‘Ou est ma chatte?’ which"
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"was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a"
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"sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright."
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"‘Oh, I beg your pardon!’ cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt"
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"the poor animal’s feelings. ‘I quite forgot you didn’t like cats.’"
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"‘Not like cats!’ cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. ‘Would"
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"YOU like cats if you were me?’"
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"‘Well, perhaps not,’ said Alice in a soothing tone: ‘don’t be angry"
,
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"about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you’d"
,
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"take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet"
,
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"thing,’ Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the"
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"pool, ‘and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and"
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"washing her face--and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she’s"
,
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"such a capital one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!’ cried"
,
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"Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she"
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"felt certain it must be really offended. ‘We won’t talk about her any"
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"more if you’d rather not.’"
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"‘We indeed!’ cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his"
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"tail. ‘As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always HATED"
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"cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don’t let me hear the name again!’"
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"‘I won’t indeed!’ said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of"
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"conversation. ‘Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?’ The Mouse did not"
,
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"answer, so Alice went on eagerly: ‘There is such a nice little dog near"
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"our house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier, you"
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"know, with oh, such long curly brown hair! And it’ll fetch things when"
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"you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts"
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"of things--I can’t remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer,"
,
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"you know, and he says it’s so useful, it’s worth a hundred pounds! He"
,
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"says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!’ cried Alice in a sorrowful"
,
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"tone, ‘I’m afraid I’ve offended it again!’ For the Mouse was swimming"
,
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"away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in"
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"the pool as it went."
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"So she called softly after it, ‘Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we"
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"won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!’ When the"
,
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"Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its"
,
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"face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low"
,
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"trembling voice, ‘Let us get to the shore, and then I’ll tell you my"
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"history, and you’ll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.’"
,
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"It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the"
,
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"birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo,"
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"a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the"
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"way, and the whole party swam to the shore."
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"CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale"
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"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the"
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"birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close"
,
371
"to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable."
,
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"The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a"
,
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"consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural"
,
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"to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had"
,
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"known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the"
,
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"Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, ‘I am older than"
,
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"you, and must know better’; and this Alice would not allow without"
,
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"knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its"
,
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"age, there was no more to be said."
,
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"At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,"
,
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"called out, ‘Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I’LL soon make you"
,
382
"dry enough!’ They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse"
,
383
"in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt"
,
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"sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon."
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385
"‘Ahem!’ said the Mouse with an important air, ‘are you all ready? This"
,
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"is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! “William"
,
387
"the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted"
,
388
"to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much"
,
389
"accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of"
,
390
"Mercia and Northumbria--“’"
,
391
"‘Ugh!’ said the Lory, with a shiver."
,
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"‘I beg your pardon!’ said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: ‘Did"
,
393
"you speak?’"
,
394
"‘Not I!’ said the Lory hastily."
,
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"‘I thought you did,’ said the Mouse. ‘--I proceed. “Edwin and Morcar,"
,
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"the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand,"
,
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"the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--“’"
,
398
"‘Found WHAT?’ said the Duck."
,
399
"‘Found IT,’ the Mouse replied rather crossly: ‘of course you know what"
,
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"“it” means.’"
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401
"‘I know what “it” means well enough, when I find a thing,’ said the"
,
402
"Duck: ‘it’s generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the"
,
403
"archbishop find?’"
,
404
"The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, ‘“--found"
,
405
"it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the"
,
406
"crown. William’s conduct at first was moderate. But the insolence of his"
,
407
"Normans--” How are you getting on now, my dear?’ it continued, turning"
,
408
"to Alice as it spoke."
,
409
"‘As wet as ever,’ said Alice in a melancholy tone: ‘it doesn’t seem to"
,
410
"dry me at all.’"
,
411
"‘In that case,’ said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, ‘I move"
,
412
"that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic"
,
413
"remedies--’"
,
414
"‘Speak English!’ said the Eaglet. ‘I don’t know the meaning of half"
,
415
"those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!’ And"
,
416
"the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds"
,
417
"tittered audibly."
,
418
"‘What I was going to say,’ said the Dodo in an offended tone, ‘was, that"
,
419
"the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.’"
,
420
"‘What IS a Caucus-race?’ said Alice; not that she wanted much to know,"
,
421
"but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY ought to speak,"
,
422
"and no one else seemed inclined to say anything."
,
423
"‘Why,’ said the Dodo, ‘the best way to explain it is to do it.’ (And, as"
,
424
"you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell"
,
425
"you how the Dodo managed it.)"
,
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"First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, [‘the exact"
,
427
"shape doesn’t matter,’ it said,) and then all the party were placed"
,
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"along the course, here and there. There was no ‘One, two, three, and"
,
429
"away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they"
,
430
"liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However,"
,
431
"when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again,"
,
432
"the Dodo suddenly called out ‘The race is over!’ and they all crowded"
,
433
"round it, panting, and asking, ‘But who has won?’"
,
434
"This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought,"
,
435
"and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead"
,
436
"(the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures"
,
437
"of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said,"
,
438
"‘EVERYBODY has won, and all must have prizes.’"
,
439
"‘But who is to give the prizes?’ quite a chorus of voices asked."
,
440
"‘Why, SHE, of course,’ said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger;"
,
441
"and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused"
,
442
"way, ‘Prizes! Prizes!’"
,
443
"Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her"
,
444
"pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had"
,
445
"not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one"
,
446
"a-piece all round."
,
447
"‘But she must have a prize herself, you know,’ said the Mouse."
,
448
"‘Of course,’ the Dodo replied very gravely. ‘What else have you got in"
,
449
"your pocket?’ he went on, turning to Alice."
,
450
"‘Only a thimble,’ said Alice sadly."
,
451
"‘Hand it over here,’ said the Dodo."
,
452
"Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly"
,
453
"presented the thimble, saying ‘We beg your acceptance of this elegant"
,
454
"thimble’; and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered."
,
455
"Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave"
,
456
"that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything"
,
457
"to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she"
,
458
"could."
,
459
"The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and"
,
460
"confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste"
,
461
"theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back."
,
462
"However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and"
,
463
"begged the Mouse to tell them something more."
,
464
"‘You promised to tell me your history, you know,’ said Alice, ‘and why"
,
465
"it is you hate--C and D,’ she added in a whisper, half afraid that it"
,
466
"would be offended again."
,
467
"‘Mine is a long and a sad tale!’ said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and"
,
468
"sighing."
,
469
"‘It IS a long tail, certainly,’ said Alice, looking down with wonder at"
,
470
"the Mouse’s tail; ‘but why do you call it sad?’ And she kept on puzzling"
,
471
"about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was"
,
472
"something like this:--"
,
473
" ‘Fury said to a"
,
474
" mouse, That he"
,
475
" met in the"
,
476
" house,"
,
477
" “Let us"
,
478
" both go to"
,
479
" law: I will"
,
480
" prosecute"
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481
" YOU.--Come,"
,
482
" I’ll take no"
,
483
" denial; We"
,
484
" must have a"
,
485
" trial: For"
,
486
" really this"
,
487
" morning I’ve"
,
488
" nothing"
,
489
" to do.”"
,
490
" Said the"
,
491
" mouse to the"
,
492
" cur, “Such"
,
493
" a trial,"
,
494
" dear Sir,"
,
495
" With"
,
496
" no jury"
,
497
" or judge,"
,
498
" would be"
,
499
" wasting"
,
500
" our"
,
501
" breath.”"
,
502
" “I’ll be"
,
503
" judge, I’ll"
,
504
" be jury,”"
,
505
" Said"
,
506
" cunning"
,
507
" old Fury:"
,
508
" “I’ll"
,
509
" try the"
,
510
" whole"
,
511
" cause,"
,
512
" and"
,
513
" condemn"
,
514
" you"
,
515
" to"
,
516
" death.”’"
,
517
"‘You are not attending!’ said the Mouse to Alice severely. ‘What are you"
,
518
"thinking of?’"
,
519
"‘I beg your pardon,’ said Alice very humbly: ‘you had got to the fifth"
,
520
"bend, I think?’"
,
521
"‘I had NOT!’ cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily."
,
522
"‘A knot!’ said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking"
,
523
"anxiously about her. ‘Oh, do let me help to undo it!’"
,
524
"‘I shall do nothing of the sort,’ said the Mouse, getting up and walking"
,
525
"away. ‘You insult me by talking such nonsense!’"
,
526
"‘I didn’t mean it!’ pleaded poor Alice. ‘But you’re so easily offended,"
,
527
"you know!’"
,
528
"The Mouse only growled in reply."
,
529
"‘Please come back and finish your story!’ Alice called after it; and the"
,
530
"others all joined in chorus, ‘Yes, please do!’ but the Mouse only shook"
,
531
"its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker."
,
532
"‘What a pity it wouldn’t stay!’ sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite"
,
533
"out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her"
,
534
"daughter ‘Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose"
,
535
"YOUR temper!’ ‘Hold your tongue, Ma!’ said the young Crab, a little"
,
536
"snappishly. ‘You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!’"
,
537
"‘I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!’ said Alice aloud, addressing"
,
538
"nobody in particular. ‘She’d soon fetch it back!’"
,
539
"‘And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?’ said the"
,
540
"Lory."
,
541
"Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet:"
,
542
"‘Dinah’s our cat. And she’s such a capital one for catching mice you"
,
543
"can’t think! And oh, I wish you could see her after the birds! Why,"
,
544
"she’ll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!’"
,
545
"This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some of the"
,
546
"birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very"
,
547
"carefully, remarking, ‘I really must be getting home; the night-air"
,
548
"doesn’t suit my throat!’ and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to"
,
549
"its children, ‘Come away, my dears! It’s high time you were all in bed!’"
,
550
"On various pretexts they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone."
,
551
"‘I wish I hadn’t mentioned Dinah!’ she said to herself in a melancholy"
,
552
"tone. ‘Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I’m sure she’s the best"
,
553
"cat in the world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if I shall ever see you"
,
554
"any more!’ And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very"
,
555
"lonely and low-spirited. In a little while, however, she again heard"
,
556
"a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up"
,
557
"eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming"
,
558
"back to finish his story."
,
559
"CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill"
,
560
"It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking"
,
561
"anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard"
,
562
"it muttering to itself ‘The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh"
,
563
"my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are"
,
564
"ferrets! Where CAN I have dropped them, I wonder?’ Alice guessed in a"
,
565
"moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves,"
,
566
"and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were"
,
567
"nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to have changed since her swim in"
,
568
"the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door,"
,
569
"had vanished completely."
,
570
"Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and"
,
571
"called out to her in an angry tone, ‘Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing"
,
572
"out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan!"
,
573
"Quick, now!’ And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once"
,
574
"in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it"
,
575
"had made."
,
576
"‘He took me for his housemaid,’ she said to herself as she ran. ‘How"
,
577
"surprised he’ll be when he finds out who I am! But I’d better take him"
,
578
"his fan and gloves--that is, if I can find them.’ As she said this, she"
,
579
"came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass"
,
580
"plate with the name ‘W. RABBIT’ engraved upon it. She went in without"
,
581
"knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the"
,
582
"real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before she had found the"
,
583
"fan and gloves."
,
584
"‘How queer it seems,’ Alice said to herself, ‘to be going messages for"
,
585
"a rabbit! I suppose Dinah’ll be sending me on messages next!’ And she"
,
586
"began fancying the sort of thing that would happen: ‘“Miss Alice! Come"
,
587
"here directly, and get ready for your walk!” “Coming in a minute,"
,
588
"nurse! But I’ve got to see that the mouse doesn’t get out.” Only I don’t"
,
589
"think,’ Alice went on, ‘that they’d let Dinah stop in the house if it"
,
590
"began ordering people about like that!’"
,
591
"By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table"
,
592
"in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs"
,
593
"of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves,"
,
594
"and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little"
,
595
"bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time"
,
596
"with the words ‘DRINK ME,’ but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it"
,
597
"to her lips. ‘I know SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,’ she said"
,
598
"to herself, ‘whenever I eat or drink anything; so I’ll just see what"
,
599
"this bottle does. I do hope it’ll make me grow large again, for really"
,
600
"I’m quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!’"
,
601
"It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had"
,
602
"drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling,"
,
603
"and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She hastily put"
,
604
"down the bottle, saying to herself ‘That’s quite enough--I hope I shan’t"
,
605
"grow any more--As it is, I can’t get out at the door--I do wish I hadn’t"
,
606
"drunk quite so much!’"
,
607
"Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and growing,"
,
608
"and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another minute there"
,
609
"was not even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying down with"
,
610
"one elbow against the door, and the other arm curled round her head."
,
611
"Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out"
,
612
"of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself ‘Now I"
,
613
"can do no more, whatever happens. What WILL become of me?’"
,
614
"Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full effect,"
,
615
"and she grew no larger: still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there"
,
616
"seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room"
,
617
"again, no wonder she felt unhappy."
,
618
"‘It was much pleasanter at home,’ thought poor Alice, ‘when one wasn’t"
,
619
"always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and"
,
620
"rabbits. I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and"
,
621
"yet--it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what"
,
622
"CAN have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that"
,
623
"kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!"
,
624
"There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I"
,
625
"grow up, I’ll write one--but I’m grown up now,’ she added in a sorrowful"
,
626
"tone; ‘at least there’s no room to grow up any more HERE.’"
,
627
"‘But then,’ thought Alice, ‘shall I NEVER get any older than I am"
,
628
"now? That’ll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but"
,
629
"then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn’t like THAT!’"
,
630
"‘Oh, you foolish Alice!’ she answered herself. ‘How can you learn"
,
631
"lessons in here? Why, there’s hardly room for YOU, and no room at all"
,
632
"for any lesson-books!’"
,
633
"And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other, and making"
,
634
"quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few minutes she heard"
,
635
"a voice outside, and stopped to listen."
,
636
"‘Mary Ann! Mary Ann!’ said the voice. ‘Fetch me my gloves this moment!’"
,
637
"Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was"
,
638
"the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the"
,
639
"house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large"
,
640
"as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it."
,
641
"Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it; but, as"
,
642
"the door opened inwards, and Alice’s elbow was pressed hard against it,"
,
643
"that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself ‘Then I’ll"
,
644
"go round and get in at the window.’"
,
645
"‘THAT you won’t’ thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied"
,
646
"she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her"
,
647
"hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not get hold of anything,"
,
648
"but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass,"
,
649
"from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a"
,
650
"cucumber-frame, or something of the sort."
,
651
"Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit’s--‘Pat! Pat! Where are you?’ And"
,
652
"then a voice she had never heard before, ‘Sure then I’m here! Digging"
,
653
"for apples, yer honour!’"
,
654
"‘Digging for apples, indeed!’ said the Rabbit angrily. ‘Here! Come and"
,
655
"help me out of THIS!’ (Sounds of more broken glass.)"
,
656
"‘Now tell me, Pat, what’s that in the window?’"
,
657
"‘Sure, it’s an arm, yer honour!’ (He pronounced it ‘arrum.’)"
,
658
"‘An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills the whole"
,
659
"window!’"
,
660
"‘Sure, it does, yer honour: but it’s an arm for all that.’"
,
661
"‘Well, it’s got no business there, at any rate: go and take it away!’"
,
662
"There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers"
,
663
"now and then; such as, ‘Sure, I don’t like it, yer honour, at all, at"
,
664
"all!’ ‘Do as I tell you, you coward!’ and at last she spread out her"
,
665
"hand again, and made another snatch in the air. This time there were"
,
666
"TWO little shrieks, and more sounds of broken glass. ‘What a number of"
,
667
"cucumber-frames there must be!’ thought Alice. ‘I wonder what they’ll do"
,
668
"next! As for pulling me out of the window, I only wish they COULD! I’m"
,
669
"sure I don’t want to stay in here any longer!’"
,
670
"She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a"
,
671
"rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices"
,
672
"all talking together: she made out the words: ‘Where’s the other"
,
673
"ladder?--Why, I hadn’t to bring but one; Bill’s got the other--Bill!"
,
674
"fetch it here, lad!--Here, put ‘em up at this corner--No, tie ‘em"
,
675
"together first--they don’t reach half high enough yet--Oh! they’ll"
,
676
"do well enough; don’t be particular--Here, Bill! catch hold of this"
,
677
"rope--Will the roof bear?--Mind that loose slate--Oh, it’s coming"
,
678
"down! Heads below!’ (a loud crash)--‘Now, who did that?--It was Bill, I"
,
679
"fancy--Who’s to go down the chimney?--Nay, I shan’t! YOU do it!--That I"
,
680
"won’t, then!--Bill’s to go down--Here, Bill! the master says you’re to"
,
681
"go down the chimney!’"
,
682
"‘Oh! So Bill’s got to come down the chimney, has he?’ said Alice to"
,
683
"herself. ‘Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn’t be in"
,
684
"Bill’s place for a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure; but"
,
685
"I THINK I can kick a little!’"
,
686
"She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited"
,
687
"till she heard a little animal (she couldn’t guess of what sort it was)"
,
688
"scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then,"
,
689
"saying to herself ‘This is Bill,’ she gave one sharp kick, and waited to"
,
690
"see what would happen next."
,
691
"The first thing she heard was a general chorus of ‘There goes Bill!’"
,
692
"then the Rabbit’s voice along--‘Catch him, you by the hedge!’ then"
,
693
"silence, and then another confusion of voices--‘Hold up his head--Brandy"
,
694
"now--Don’t choke him--How was it, old fellow? What happened to you? Tell"
,
695
"us all about it!’"
,
696
"Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, [‘That’s Bill,’ thought"
,
697
"Alice,) ‘Well, I hardly know--No more, thank ye; I’m better now--but I’m"
,
698
"a deal too flustered to tell you--all I know is, something comes at me"
,
699
"like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!’"
,
700
"‘So you did, old fellow!’ said the others."
,
701
"‘We must burn the house down!’ said the Rabbit’s voice; and Alice called"
,
702
"out as loud as she could, ‘If you do. I’ll set Dinah at you!’"
,
703
"There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, ‘I"
,
704
"wonder what they WILL do next! If they had any sense, they’d take the"
,
705
"roof off.’ After a minute or two, they began moving about again, and"
,
706
"Alice heard the Rabbit say, ‘A barrowful will do, to begin with.’"
,
707
"‘A barrowful of WHAT?’ thought Alice; but she had not long to doubt,"
,
708
"for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the"
,
709
"window, and some of them hit her in the face. ‘I’ll put a stop to this,’"
,
710
"she said to herself, and shouted out, ‘You’d better not do that again!’"
,
711
"which produced another dead silence."
,
712
"Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into"
,
713
"little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her"
,
714
"head. ‘If I eat one of these cakes,’ she thought, ‘it’s sure to make"
,
715
"SOME change in my size; and as it can’t possibly make me larger, it must"
,
716
"make me smaller, I suppose.’"
,
717
"So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she"
,
718
"began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small enough to get through"
,
719
"the door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd of little"
,
720
"animals and birds waiting outside. The poor little Lizard, Bill, was"
,
721
"in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it"
,
722
"something out of a bottle. They all made a rush at Alice the moment she"
,
723
"appeared; but she ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself"
,
724
"safe in a thick wood."
,
725
"‘The first thing I’ve got to do,’ said Alice to herself, as she wandered"
,
726
"about in the wood, ‘is to grow to my right size again; and the second"
,
727
"thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think that will be"
,
728
"the best plan.’"
,
729
"It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply"
,
730
"arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea"
,
731
"how to set about it; and while she was peering about anxiously among"
,
732
"the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a"
,
733
"great hurry."
,
734
"An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and"
,
735
"feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. ‘Poor little thing!’"
,
736
"said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it; but"
,
737
"she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be"
,
738
"hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of"
,
739
"all her coaxing."
,
740
"Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and"
,
741
"held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off"
,
742
"all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick,"
,
743
"and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle,"
,
744
"to keep herself from being run over; and the moment she appeared on the"
,
745
"other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head"
,
746
"over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was"
,
747
"very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every"
,
748
"moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; then"
,
749
"the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very"
,
750
"little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely"
,
751
"all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with"
,
752
"its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut."
,
753
"This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she"
,
754
"set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and"
,
755
"till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance."
,
756
"‘And yet what a dear little puppy it was!’ said Alice, as she leant"
,
757
"against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the"
,
758
"leaves: ‘I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I’d"
,
759
"only been the right size to do it! Oh dear! I’d nearly forgotten that"
,
760
"I’ve got to grow up again! Let me see--how IS it to be managed? I"
,
761
"suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great"
,
762
"question is, what?’"
,
763
"The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round her at"
,
764
"the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that"
,
765
"looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances."
,
766
"There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as"
,
767
"herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and"
,
768
"behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what"
,
769
"was on the top of it."
,
770
"She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the"
,
771
"mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar,"
,
772
"that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long"
,
773
"hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else."
,
774
"CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar"
,
775
"The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence:"
,
776
"at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed"
,
777
"her in a languid, sleepy voice."
,
778
"‘Who are YOU?’ said the Caterpillar."
,
779
"This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied,"
,
780
"rather shyly, ‘I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--at least I know"
,
781
"who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been"
,
782
"changed several times since then.’"
,
783
"‘What do you mean by that?’ said the Caterpillar sternly. ‘Explain"
,
784
"yourself!’"
,
785
"‘I can’t explain MYSELF, I’m afraid, sir’ said Alice, ‘because I’m not"
,
786
"myself, you see.’"
,
787
"‘I don’t see,’ said the Caterpillar."
,
788
"‘I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly,’ Alice replied very politely,"
,
789
"‘for I can’t understand it myself to begin with; and being so many"
,
790
"different sizes in a day is very confusing.’"
,
791
"‘It isn’t,’ said the Caterpillar."
,
792
"‘Well, perhaps you haven’t found it so yet,’ said Alice; ‘but when you"
,
793
"have to turn into a chrysalis--you will some day, you know--and then"
,
794
"after that into a butterfly, I should think you’ll feel it a little"
,
795
"queer, won’t you?’"
,
796
"‘Not a bit,’ said the Caterpillar."
,
797
"‘Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,’ said Alice; ‘all I know"
,
798
"is, it would feel very queer to ME.’"
,
799
"‘You!’ said the Caterpillar contemptuously. ‘Who are YOU?’"
,
800
"Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation."
,
801
"Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s making such VERY"
,
802
"short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, ‘I think,"
,
803
"you ought to tell me who YOU are, first.’"
,
804
"‘Why?’ said the Caterpillar."
,
805
"Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any"
,
806
"good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a VERY unpleasant"
,
807
"state of mind, she turned away."
,
808
"‘Come back!’ the Caterpillar called after her. ‘I’ve something important"
,
809
"to say!’"
,
810
"This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back again."
,
811
"‘Keep your temper,’ said the Caterpillar."
,
812
"‘Is that all?’ said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she"
,
813
"could."
,
814
"‘No,’ said the Caterpillar."
,
815
"Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and"
,
816
"perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing. For some"
,
817
"minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its"
,
818
"arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, ‘So you think"
,
819
"you’re changed, do you?’"
,
820
"‘I’m afraid I am, sir,’ said Alice; ‘I can’t remember things as I"
,
821
"used--and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together!’"
,
822
"‘Can’t remember WHAT things?’ said the Caterpillar."
,
823
"‘Well, I’ve tried to say “HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE,” but it all came"
,
824
"different!’ Alice replied in a very melancholy voice."
,
825
"‘Repeat, “YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,”’ said the Caterpillar."
,
826
"Alice folded her hands, and began:--"
,
827
" ‘You are old, Father William,’ the young man said,"
,
828
" ‘And your hair has become very white;"
,
829
" And yet you incessantly stand on your head--"
,
830
" Do you think, at your age, it is right?’"
,
831
" ‘In my youth,’ Father William replied to his son,"
,
832
" ‘I feared it might injure the brain;"
,
833
" But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,"
,
834
" Why, I do it again and again.’"
,
835
" ‘You are old,’ said the youth, ‘as I mentioned before,"
,
836
" And have grown most uncommonly fat;"
,
837
" Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--"
,
838
" Pray, what is the reason of that?’"
,
839
" ‘In my youth,’ said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,"
,
840
" ‘I kept all my limbs very supple"
,
841
" By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box--"
,
842
" Allow me to sell you a couple?’"
,
843
" ‘You are old,’ said the youth, ‘and your jaws are too weak"
,
844
" For anything tougher than suet;"
,
845
" Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--"
,
846
" Pray how did you manage to do it?’"
,
847
" ‘In my youth,’ said his father, ‘I took to the law,"
,
848
" And argued each case with my wife;"
,
849
" And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,"
,
850
" Has lasted the rest of my life.’"
,
851
" ‘You are old,’ said the youth, ‘one would hardly suppose"
,
852
" That your eye was as steady as ever;"
,
853
" Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--"
,
854
" What made you so awfully clever?’"
,
855
" ‘I have answered three questions, and that is enough,’"
,
856
" Said his father; ‘don’t give yourself airs!"
,
857
" Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?"
,
858
" Be off, or I’ll kick you down stairs!’"
,
859
"‘That is not said right,’ said the Caterpillar."
,
860
"‘Not QUITE right, I’m afraid,’ said Alice, timidly; ‘some of the words"
,
861
"have got altered.’"
,
862
"‘It is wrong from beginning to end,’ said the Caterpillar decidedly, and"
,
863
"there was silence for some minutes."
,
864
"The Caterpillar was the first to speak."
,
865
"‘What size do you want to be?’ it asked."
,
866
"‘Oh, I’m not particular as to size,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘only one"
,
867
"doesn’t like changing so often, you know.’"
,
868
"‘I DON’T know,’ said the Caterpillar."
,
869
"Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life"
,
870
"before, and she felt that she was losing her temper."
,
871
"‘Are you content now?’ said the Caterpillar."
,
872
"‘Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wouldn’t mind,’"
,
873
"said Alice: ‘three inches is such a wretched height to be.’"
,
874
"‘It is a very good height indeed!’ said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing"
,
875
"itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high)."
,
876
"‘But I’m not used to it!’ pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone. And"
,
877
"she thought of herself, ‘I wish the creatures wouldn’t be so easily"
,
878
"offended!’"
,
879
"‘You’ll get used to it in time,’ said the Caterpillar; and it put the"
,
880
"hookah into its mouth and began smoking again."
,
881
"This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In"
,
882
"a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth"
,
883
"and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the"
,
884
"mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went,"
,
885
"‘One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you"
,
886
"grow shorter.’"
,
887
"‘One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?’ thought Alice to herself."
,
888
"‘Of the mushroom,’ said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it"
,
889
"aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight."
,
890
"Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying"
,
891
"to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly"
,
892
"round, she found this a very difficult question. However, at last she"
,
893
"stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit"
,
894
"of the edge with each hand."
,
895
"‘And now which is which?’ she said to herself, and nibbled a little of"
,
896
"the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent"
,
897
"blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!"
,
898
"She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt"
,
899
"that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she"
,
900
"set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed"
,
901
"so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her"
,
902
"mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the"
,
903
"lefthand bit."
,
904
" * * * * * * *"
,
905
" * * * * * *"
,
906
" * * * * * * *"
,
907
"‘Come, my head’s free at last!’ said Alice in a tone of delight, which"
,
908
"changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders"
,
909
"were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was"
,
910
"an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a"
,
911
"sea of green leaves that lay far below her."
,
912
"‘What CAN all that green stuff be?’ said Alice. ‘And where HAVE my"
,
913
"shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can’t see you?’"
,
914
"She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow,"
,
915
"except a little shaking among the distant green leaves."
,
916
"As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she"
,
917
"tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her"
,
918
"neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. She had"
,
919
"just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going"
,
920
"to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops"
,
921
"of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made"
,
922
"her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and"
,
923
"was beating her violently with its wings."
,
924
"‘Serpent!’ screamed the Pigeon."
,
925
"‘I’m NOT a serpent!’ said Alice indignantly. ‘Let me alone!’"
,
926
"‘Serpent, I say again!’ repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone,"
,
927
"and added with a kind of sob, ‘I’ve tried every way, and nothing seems"
,
928
"to suit them!’"
,
929
"‘I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,’ said Alice."
,
930
"‘I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried"
,
931
"hedges,’ the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; ‘but those"
,
932
"serpents! There’s no pleasing them!’"
,
933
"Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in"
,
934
"saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished."
,
935
"‘As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs,’ said the Pigeon;"
,
936
"‘but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day! Why, I"
,
937
"haven’t had a wink of sleep these three weeks!’"
,
938
"‘I’m very sorry you’ve been annoyed,’ said Alice, who was beginning to"
,
939
"see its meaning."
,
940
"‘And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,’ continued the"
,
941
"Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, ‘and just as I was thinking I"
,
942
"should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from"
,
943
"the sky! Ugh, Serpent!’"
,
944
"‘But I’m NOT a serpent, I tell you!’ said Alice. ‘I’m a--I’m a--’"
,
945
"‘Well! WHAT are you?’ said the Pigeon. ‘I can see you’re trying to"
,
946
"invent something!’"
,
947
"‘I--I’m a little girl,’ said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered"
,
948
"the number of changes she had gone through that day."
,
949
"‘A likely story indeed!’ said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest"
,
950
"contempt. ‘I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never ONE"
,
951
"with such a neck as that! No, no! You’re a serpent; and there’s no use"
,
952
"denying it. I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you never tasted an"
,
953
"egg!’"
,
954
"‘I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,’ said Alice, who was a very truthful"
,
955
"child; ‘but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you"
,
956
"know.’"
,
957
"‘I don’t believe it,’ said the Pigeon; ‘but if they do, why then they’re"
,
958
"a kind of serpent, that’s all I can say.’"
,
959
"This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a"
,
960
"minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, ‘You’re"
,
961
"looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough; and what does it matter to me"
,
962
"whether you’re a little girl or a serpent?’"
,
963
"‘It matters a good deal to ME,’ said Alice hastily; ‘but I’m not looking"
,
964
"for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I shouldn’t want YOURS: I don’t"
,
965
"like them raw.’"
,
966
"‘Well, be off, then!’ said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled"
,
967
"down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well as"
,
968
"she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and"
,
969
"every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while she"
,
970
"remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and"
,
971
"she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the"
,
972
"other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had"
,
973
"succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height."
,
974
"It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it"
,
975
"felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes,"
,
976
"and began talking to herself, as usual. ‘Come, there’s half my plan done"
,
977
"now! How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going"
,
978
"to be, from one minute to another! However, I’ve got back to my right"
,
979
"size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden--how IS that"
,
980
"to be done, I wonder?’ As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open"
,
981
"place, with a little house in it about four feet high. ‘Whoever lives"
,
982
"there,’ thought Alice, ‘it’ll never do to come upon them THIS size: why,"
,
983
"I should frighten them out of their wits!’ So she began nibbling at the"
,
984
"righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she"
,
985
"had brought herself down to nine inches high."
,
986
"CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper"
,
987
"For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what"
,
988
"to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the"
,
989
"wood--(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery:"
,
990
"otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a"
,
991
"fish)--and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles. It was opened"
,
992
"by another footman in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like a"
,
993
"frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all"
,
994
"over their heads. She felt very curious to know what it was all about,"
,
995
"and crept a little way out of the wood to listen."
,
996
"The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter,"
,
997
"nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other,"
,
998
"saying, in a solemn tone, ‘For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen"
,
999
"to play croquet.’ The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn tone,"
,
1000
"only changing the order of the words a little, ‘From the Queen. An"
,
1001
"invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.’"
,
1002
"Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together."
,
1003
"Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the"
,
1004
"wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the"
,
1005
"Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the"
,
1006
"door, staring stupidly up into the sky."
,
1007
"Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked."
,
1008
"‘There’s no sort of use in knocking,’ said the Footman, ‘and that for"
,
1009
"two reasons. First, because I’m on the same side of the door as you"
,
1010
"are; secondly, because they’re making such a noise inside, no one could"
,
1011
"possibly hear you.’ And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise"
,
1012
"going on within--a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then"
,
1013
"a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces."
,
1014
"‘Please, then,’ said Alice, ‘how am I to get in?’"
,
1015
"‘There might be some sense in your knocking,’ the Footman went on"
,
1016
"without attending to her, ‘if we had the door between us. For instance,"
,
1017
"if you were INSIDE, you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.’"
,
1018
"He was looking up into the sky all the time he was speaking, and this"
,
1019
"Alice thought decidedly uncivil. ‘But perhaps he can’t help it,’ she"
,
1020
"said to herself; ‘his eyes are so VERY nearly at the top of his head."
,
1021
"But at any rate he might answer questions.--How am I to get in?’ she"
,
1022
"repeated, aloud."
,
1023
"‘I shall sit here,’ the Footman remarked, ‘till tomorrow--’"
,
1024
"At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came"
,
1025
"skimming out, straight at the Footman’s head: it just grazed his nose,"
,
1026
"and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him."
,
1027
"‘--or next day, maybe,’ the Footman continued in the same tone, exactly"
,
1028
"as if nothing had happened."
,
1029
"‘How am I to get in?’ asked Alice again, in a louder tone."
,
1030
"‘ARE you to get in at all?’ said the Footman. ‘That’s the first"
,
1031
"question, you know.’"
,
1032
"It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so. ‘It’s really"
,
1033
"dreadful,’ she muttered to herself, ‘the way all the creatures argue."
,
1034
"It’s enough to drive one crazy!’"
,
1035
"The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating his"
,
1036
"remark, with variations. ‘I shall sit here,’ he said, ‘on and off, for"
,
1037
"days and days.’"
,
1038
"‘But what am I to do?’ said Alice."
,
1039
"‘Anything you like,’ said the Footman, and began whistling."
,
1040
"‘Oh, there’s no use in talking to him,’ said Alice desperately: ‘he’s"
,
1041
"perfectly idiotic!’ And she opened the door and went in."
,
1042
"The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from"
,
1043
"one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in"
,
1044
"the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over the fire, stirring"
,
1045
"a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup."
,
1046
"‘There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup!’ Alice said to herself,"
,
1047
"as well as she could for sneezing."
,
1048
"There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the Duchess"
,
1049
"sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling"
,
1050
"alternately without a moment’s pause. The only things in the kitchen"
,
1051
"that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on"
,
1052
"the hearth and grinning from ear to ear."
,
1053
"‘Please would you tell me,’ said Alice, a little timidly, for she was"
,
1054
"not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, ‘why"
,
1055
"your cat grins like that?’"
,
1056
"‘It’s a Cheshire cat,’ said the Duchess, ‘and that’s why. Pig!’"
,
1057
"She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite"
,
1058
"jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby,"
,
1059
"and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--"
,
1060
"‘I didn’t know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn’t know"
,
1061
"that cats COULD grin.’"
,
1062
"‘They all can,’ said the Duchess; ‘and most of ‘em do.’"
,
1063
"‘I don’t know of any that do,’ Alice said very politely, feeling quite"
,
1064
"pleased to have got into a conversation."
,
1065
"‘You don’t know much,’ said the Duchess; ‘and that’s a fact.’"
,
1066
"Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would"
,
1067
"be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation. While she"
,
1068
"was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the"
,
1069
"fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at"
,
1070
"the Duchess and the baby--the fire-irons came first; then followed a"
,
1071
"shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes. The Duchess took no notice of"
,
1072
"them even when they hit her; and the baby was howling so much already,"
,
1073
"that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not."
,
1074
"‘Oh, PLEASE mind what you’re doing!’ cried Alice, jumping up and down in"
,
1075
"an agony of terror. ‘Oh, there goes his PRECIOUS nose’; as an unusually"
,
1076
"large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off."
,
1077
"‘If everybody minded their own business,’ the Duchess said in a hoarse"
,
1078
"growl, ‘the world would go round a deal faster than it does.’"
,
1079
"‘Which would NOT be an advantage,’ said Alice, who felt very glad to get"
,
1080
"an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge. ‘Just think of"
,
1081
"what work it would make with the day and night! You see the earth takes"
,
1082
"twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis--’"
,
1083
"‘Talking of axes,’ said the Duchess, ‘chop off her head!’"
,
1084
"Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take"
,
1085
"the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to"
,
1086
"be listening, so she went on again: ‘Twenty-four hours, I THINK; or is"
,
1087
"it twelve? I--’"
,
1088
"‘Oh, don’t bother ME,’ said the Duchess; ‘I never could abide figures!’"
,
1089
"And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of"
,
1090
"lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of"
,
1091
"every line:"
,
1092
" ‘Speak roughly to your little boy,"
,
1093
" And beat him when he sneezes:"
,
1094
" He only does it to annoy,"
,
1095
" Because he knows it teases.’"
,
1096
" CHORUS."
,
1097
" (In which the cook and the baby joined):--"
,
1098
" ‘Wow! wow! wow!’"
,
1099
"While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing"
,
1100
"the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so,"
,
1101
"that Alice could hardly hear the words:--"
,
1102
" ‘I speak severely to my boy,"
,
1103
" I beat him when he sneezes;"
,
1104
" For he can thoroughly enjoy"
,
1105
" The pepper when he pleases!’"
,
1106
" CHORUS."
,
1107
" ‘Wow! wow! wow!’"
,
1108
"‘Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!’ the Duchess said to Alice,"
,
1109
"flinging the baby at her as she spoke. ‘I must go and get ready to play"
,
1110
"croquet with the Queen,’ and she hurried out of the room. The cook threw"
,
1111
"a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her."
,
1112
"Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped"
,
1113
"little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all directions, ‘just"
,
1114
"like a star-fish,’ thought Alice. The poor little thing was snorting"
,
1115
"like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and"
,
1116
"straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute"
,
1117
"or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it."
,
1118
"As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, (which was to"
,
1119
"twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right"
,
1120
"ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried"
,
1121
"it out into the open air. ‘IF I don’t take this child away with me,’"
,
1122
"thought Alice, ‘they’re sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn’t it be"
,
1123
"murder to leave it behind?’ She said the last words out loud, and the"
,
1124
"little thing grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time)."
,
1125
"‘Don’t grunt,’ said Alice; ‘that’s not at all a proper way of expressing"
,
1126
"yourself.’"
,
1127
"The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face to"
,
1128
"see what was the matter with it. There could be no doubt that it had"
,
1129
"a VERY turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its"
,
1130
"eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not"
,
1131
"like the look of the thing at all. ‘But perhaps it was only sobbing,’"
,
1132
"she thought, and looked into its eyes again, to see if there were any"
,
1133
"tears."
,
1134
"No, there were no tears. ‘If you’re going to turn into a pig, my dear,’"
,
1135
"said Alice, seriously, ‘I’ll have nothing more to do with you. Mind"
,
1136
"now!’ The poor little thing sobbed again (or grunted, it was impossible"
,
1137
"to say which), and they went on for some while in silence."
,
1138
"Alice was just beginning to think to herself, ‘Now, what am I to do with"
,
1139
"this creature when I get it home?’ when it grunted again, so violently,"
,
1140
"that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This time there could"
,
1141
"be NO mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she"
,
1142
"felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further."
,
1143
"So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see"
,
1144
"it trot away quietly into the wood. ‘If it had grown up,’ she said"
,
1145
"to herself, ‘it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes"
,
1146
"rather a handsome pig, I think.’ And she began thinking over other"
,
1147
"children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying"
,
1148
"to herself, ‘if one only knew the right way to change them--’ when she"
,
1149
"was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a"
,
1150
"tree a few yards off."
,
1151
"The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she"
,
1152
"thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she"
,
1153
"felt that it ought to be treated with respect."
,
1154
"‘Cheshire Puss,’ she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know"
,
1155
"whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider."
,
1156
"‘Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. ‘Would you"
,
1157
"tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’"
,
1158
"‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat."
,
1159
"‘I don’t much care where--’ said Alice."
,
1160
"‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat."
,
1161
"‘--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation."
,
1162
"‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long"
,
1163
"enough.’"
,
1164
"Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question."
,
1165
"‘What sort of people live about here?’"
,
1166
"‘In THAT direction,’ the Cat said, waving its right paw round, ‘lives"
,
1167
"a Hatter: and in THAT direction,’ waving the other paw, ‘lives a March"
,
1168
"Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.’"
,
1169
"‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked."
,
1170
"‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here. I’m mad."
,
1171
"You’re mad.’"
,
1172
"‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice."
,
1173
"‘You must be,’ said the Cat, ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.’"
,
1174
"Alice didn’t think that proved it at all; however, she went on ‘And how"
,
1175
"do you know that you’re mad?’"
,
1176
"‘To begin with,’ said the Cat, ‘a dog’s not mad. You grant that?’"
,
1177
"‘I suppose so,’ said Alice."
,
1178
"‘Well, then,’ the Cat went on, ‘you see, a dog growls when it’s angry,"
,
1179
"and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and"
,
1180
"wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.’"
,
1181
"‘I call it purring, not growling,’ said Alice."
,
1182
"‘Call it what you like,’ said the Cat. ‘Do you play croquet with the"
,
1183
"Queen to-day?’"
,
1184
"‘I should like it very much,’ said Alice, ‘but I haven’t been invited"
,
1185
"yet.’"
,
1186
"‘You’ll see me there,’ said the Cat, and vanished."
,
1187
"Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used to queer"
,
1188
"things happening. While she was looking at the place where it had been,"
,
1189
"it suddenly appeared again."
,
1190
"‘By-the-bye, what became of the baby?’ said the Cat. ‘I’d nearly"
,
1191
"forgotten to ask.’"
,
1192
"‘It turned into a pig,’ Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back"
,
1193
"in a natural way."
,
1194
"‘I thought it would,’ said the Cat, and vanished again."
,
1195
"Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not"
,
1196
"appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in"
,
1197
"which the March Hare was said to live. ‘I’ve seen hatters before,’ she"
,
1198
"said to herself; ‘the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and"
,
1199
"perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad--at least not so mad as"
,
1200
"it was in March.’ As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat"
,
1201
"again, sitting on a branch of a tree."
,
1202
"‘Did you say pig, or fig?’ said the Cat."
,
1203
"‘I said pig,’ replied Alice; ‘and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and"
,
1204
"vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.’"
,
1205
"‘All right,’ said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly,"
,
1206
"beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which"
,
1207
"remained some time after the rest of it had gone."
,
1208
"‘Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,’ thought Alice; ‘but a grin"
,
1209
"without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!’"
,
1210
"She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house"
,
1211
"of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the"
,
1212
"chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. It"
,
1213
"was so large a house, that she did not like to go nearer till she had"
,
1214
"nibbled some more of the lefthand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to"
,
1215
"about two feet high: even then she walked up towards it rather timidly,"
,
1216
"saying to herself ‘Suppose it should be raving mad after all! I almost"
,
1217
"wish I’d gone to see the Hatter instead!’"
,
1218
"CHAPTER VII. A Mad Tea-Party"
,
1219
"There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the"
,
1220
"March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting"
,
1221
"between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a"
,
1222
"cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. ‘Very"
,
1223
"uncomfortable for the Dormouse,’ thought Alice; ‘only, as it’s asleep, I"
,
1224
"suppose it doesn’t mind.’"
,
1225
"The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at"
,
1226
"one corner of it: ‘No room! No room!’ they cried out when they saw Alice"
,
1227
"coming. ‘There’s PLENTY of room!’ said Alice indignantly, and she sat"
,
1228
"down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table."
,
1229
"‘Have some wine,’ the March Hare said in an encouraging tone."
,
1230
"Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea."
,
1231
"‘I don’t see any wine,’ she remarked."
,
1232
"‘There isn’t any,’ said the March Hare."
,
1233
"‘Then it wasn’t very civil of you to offer it,’ said Alice angrily."
,
1234
"‘It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited,’ said"
,
1235
"the March Hare."
,
1236
"‘I didn’t know it was YOUR table,’ said Alice; ‘it’s laid for a great"
,
1237
"many more than three.’"
,
1238
"‘Your hair wants cutting,’ said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice"
,
1239
"for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech."
,
1240
"‘You should learn not to make personal remarks,’ Alice said with some"
,
1241
"severity; ‘it’s very rude.’"
,
1242
"The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he SAID"
,
1243
"was, ‘Why is a raven like a writing-desk?’"
,
1244
"‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I’m glad they’ve"
,
1245
"begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud."
,
1246
"‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the"
,
1247
"March Hare."
,
1248
"‘Exactly so,’ said Alice."
,
1249
"‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on."
,
1250
"‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least--at least I mean what I"
,
1251
"say--that’s the same thing, you know.’"
,
1252
"‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘You might just as well say"
,
1253
"that “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see”!’"
,
1254
"‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that “I like what I"
,
1255
"get” is the same thing as “I get what I like”!’"
,
1256
"‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, who seemed to be"
,
1257
"talking in his sleep, ‘that “I breathe when I sleep” is the same thing"
,
1258
"as “I sleep when I breathe”!’"
,
1259
"‘It IS the same thing with you,’ said the Hatter, and here the"
,
1260
"conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice"
,
1261
"thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks,"
,
1262
"which wasn’t much."
,
1263
"The Hatter was the first to break the silence. ‘What day of the month"
,
1264
"is it?’ he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his"
,
1265
"pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then,"
,
1266
"and holding it to his ear."
,
1267
"Alice considered a little, and then said ‘The fourth.’"
,
1268
"‘Two days wrong!’ sighed the Hatter. ‘I told you butter wouldn’t suit"
,
1269
"the works!’ he added looking angrily at the March Hare."
,
1270
"‘It was the BEST butter,’ the March Hare meekly replied."
,
1271
"‘Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,’ the Hatter grumbled:"
,
1272
"‘you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.’"
,
1273
"The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped"
,
1274
"it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of"
,
1275
"nothing better to say than his first remark, ‘It was the BEST butter,"
,
1276
"you know.’"
,
1277
"Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. ‘What a"
,
1278
"funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t"
,
1279
"tell what o’clock it is!’"
,
1280
"‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what"
,
1281
"year it is?’"
,
1282
"‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it"
,
1283
"stays the same year for such a long time together.’"
,
1284
"‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter."
,
1285
"Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no"
,
1286
"sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. ‘I don’t quite"
,
1287
"understand you,’ she said, as politely as she could."
,
1288
"‘The Dormouse is asleep again,’ said the Hatter, and he poured a little"
,
1289
"hot tea upon its nose."
,
1290
"The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without opening its"
,
1291
"eyes, ‘Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.’"
,
1292
"‘Have you guessed the riddle yet?’ the Hatter said, turning to Alice"
,
1293
"again."
,
1294
"‘No, I give it up,’ Alice replied: ‘what’s the answer?’"
,
1295
"‘I haven’t the slightest idea,’ said the Hatter."
,
1296
"‘Nor I,’ said the March Hare."
,
1297
"Alice sighed wearily. ‘I think you might do something better with the"
,
1298
"time,’ she said, ‘than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.’"
,
1299
"‘If you knew Time as well as I do,’ said the Hatter, ‘you wouldn’t talk"
,
1300
"about wasting IT. It’s HIM.’"
,
1301
"‘I don’t know what you mean,’ said Alice."
,
1302
"‘Of course you don’t!’ the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously."
,
1303
"‘I dare say you never even spoke to Time!’"
,
1304
"‘Perhaps not,’ Alice cautiously replied: ‘but I know I have to beat time"
,
1305
"when I learn music.’"
,
1306
"‘Ah! that accounts for it,’ said the Hatter. ‘He won’t stand beating."
,
1307
"Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do almost anything"
,
1308
"you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in"
,
1309
"the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a"
,
1310
"hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one,"
,
1311
"time for dinner!’"
,
1312
"[‘I only wish it was,’ the March Hare said to itself in a whisper.)"
,
1313
"‘That would be grand, certainly,’ said Alice thoughtfully: ‘but then--I"
,
1314
"shouldn’t be hungry for it, you know.’"
,
1315
"‘Not at first, perhaps,’ said the Hatter: ‘but you could keep it to"
,
1316
"half-past one as long as you liked.’"
,
1317
"‘Is that the way YOU manage?’ Alice asked."
,
1318
"The Hatter shook his head mournfully. ‘Not I!’ he replied. ‘We"
,
1319
"quarrelled last March--just before HE went mad, you know--’ (pointing"
,
1320
"with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) ‘--it was at the great concert"
,
1321
"given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing"
,
1322
" “Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!"
,
1323
" How I wonder what you’re at!”"
,
1324
"You know the song, perhaps?’"
,
1325
"‘I’ve heard something like it,’ said Alice."
,
1326
"‘It goes on, you know,’ the Hatter continued, ‘in this way:--"
,
1327
" “Up above the world you fly,"
,
1328
" Like a tea-tray in the sky."
,
1329
" Twinkle, twinkle--“’"
,
1330
"Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep ‘Twinkle,"
,
1331
"twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--’ and went on so long that they had to pinch"
,
1332
"it to make it stop."
,
1333
"‘Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,’ said the Hatter, ‘when the"
,
1334
"Queen jumped up and bawled out, “He’s murdering the time! Off with his"
,
1335
"head!”’"
,
1336
"‘How dreadfully savage!’ exclaimed Alice."
,
1337
"‘And ever since that,’ the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, ‘he won’t"
,
1338
"do a thing I ask! It’s always six o’clock now.’"
,
1339
"A bright idea came into Alice’s head. ‘Is that the reason so many"
,
1340
"tea-things are put out here?’ she asked."
,
1341
"‘Yes, that’s it,’ said the Hatter with a sigh: ‘it’s always tea-time,"
,
1342
"and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.’"
,
1343
"‘Then you keep moving round, I suppose?’ said Alice."
,
1344
"‘Exactly so,’ said the Hatter: ‘as the things get used up.’"
,
1345
"‘But what happens when you come to the beginning again?’ Alice ventured"
,
1346
"to ask."
,
1347
"‘Suppose we change the subject,’ the March Hare interrupted, yawning."
,
1348
"‘I’m getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells us a story.’"
,
1349
"‘I’m afraid I don’t know one,’ said Alice, rather alarmed at the"
,
1350
"proposal."
,
1351
"‘Then the Dormouse shall!’ they both cried. ‘Wake up, Dormouse!’ And"
,
1352
"they pinched it on both sides at once."
,
1353
"The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. ‘I wasn’t asleep,’ he said in a"
,
1354
"hoarse, feeble voice: ‘I heard every word you fellows were saying.’"
,
1355
"‘Tell us a story!’ said the March Hare."
,
1356
"‘Yes, please do!’ pleaded Alice."
,
1357
"‘And be quick about it,’ added the Hatter, ‘or you’ll be asleep again"
,
1358
"before it’s done.’"
,
1359
"‘Once upon a time there were three little sisters,’ the Dormouse began"
,
1360
"in a great hurry; ‘and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and"
,
1361
"they lived at the bottom of a well--’"
,
1362
"‘What did they live on?’ said Alice, who always took a great interest in"
,
1363
"questions of eating and drinking."
,
1364
"‘They lived on treacle,’ said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or"
,
1365
"two."
,
1366
"‘They couldn’t have done that, you know,’ Alice gently remarked; ‘they’d"
,
1367
"have been ill.’"
,
1368
"‘So they were,’ said the Dormouse; ‘VERY ill.’"
,
1369
"Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary ways of"
,
1370
"living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went on: ‘But"
,
1371
"why did they live at the bottom of a well?’"
,
1372
"‘Take some more tea,’ the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly."
,
1373
"‘I’ve had nothing yet,’ Alice replied in an offended tone, ‘so I can’t"
,
1374
"take more.’"
,
1375
"‘You mean you can’t take LESS,’ said the Hatter: ‘it’s very easy to take"
,
1376
"MORE than nothing.’"
,
1377
"‘Nobody asked YOUR opinion,’ said Alice."
,
1378
"‘Who’s making personal remarks now?’ the Hatter asked triumphantly."
,
1379
"Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself"
,
1380
"to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and"
,
1381
"repeated her question. ‘Why did they live at the bottom of a well?’"
,
1382
"The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then"
,
1383
"said, ‘It was a treacle-well.’"
,
1384
"‘There’s no such thing!’ Alice was beginning very angrily, but the"
,
1385
"Hatter and the March Hare went ‘Sh! sh!’ and the Dormouse sulkily"
,
1386
"remarked, ‘If you can’t be civil, you’d better finish the story for"
,
1387
"yourself.’"
,
1388
"‘No, please go on!’ Alice said very humbly; ‘I won’t interrupt again. I"
,
1389
"dare say there may be ONE.’"
,
1390
"‘One, indeed!’ said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he consented to"
,
1391
"go on. ‘And so these three little sisters--they were learning to draw,"
,
1392
"you know--’"
,
1393
"‘What did they draw?’ said Alice, quite forgetting her promise."
,
1394
"‘Treacle,’ said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time."
,
1395
"‘I want a clean cup,’ interrupted the Hatter: ‘let’s all move one place"
,
1396
"on.’"
,
1397
"He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare"
,
1398
"moved into the Dormouse’s place, and Alice rather unwillingly took"
,
1399
"the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any"
,
1400
"advantage from the change: and Alice was a good deal worse off than"
,
1401
"before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate."
,
1402
"Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very"
,
1403
"cautiously: ‘But I don’t understand. Where did they draw the treacle"
,
1404
"from?’"
,
1405
"‘You can draw water out of a water-well,’ said the Hatter; ‘so I should"
,
1406
"think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh, stupid?’"
,
1407
"‘But they were IN the well,’ Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to"
,
1408
"notice this last remark."
,
1409
"‘Of course they were’, said the Dormouse; ‘--well in.’"
,
1410
"This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for"
,
1411
"some time without interrupting it."
,
1412
"‘They were learning to draw,’ the Dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing"
,
1413
"its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; ‘and they drew all manner of"
,
1414
"things--everything that begins with an M--’"
,
1415
"‘Why with an M?’ said Alice."
,
1416
"‘Why not?’ said the March Hare."
,
1417
"Alice was silent."
,
1418
"The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into"
,
1419
"a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with"
,
1420
"a little shriek, and went on: ‘--that begins with an M, such as"
,
1421
"mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness--you know you say"
,
1422
"things are “much of a muchness”--did you ever see such a thing as a"
,
1423
"drawing of a muchness?’"
,
1424
"‘Really, now you ask me,’ said Alice, very much confused, ‘I don’t"
,
1425
"think--’"
,
1426
"‘Then you shouldn’t talk,’ said the Hatter."
,
1427
"This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in"
,
1428
"great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and"
,
1429
"neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she"
,
1430
"looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her:"
,
1431
"the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into"
,
1432
"the teapot."
,
1433
"‘At any rate I’ll never go THERE again!’ said Alice as she picked her"
,
1434
"way through the wood. ‘It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all"
,
1435
"my life!’"
,
1436
"Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door"
,
1437
"leading right into it. ‘That’s very curious!’ she thought. ‘But"
,
1438
"everything’s curious today. I think I may as well go in at once.’ And in"
,
1439
"she went."
,
1440
"Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little"
,
1441
"glass table. ‘Now, I’ll manage better this time,’ she said to herself,"
,
1442
"and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that"
,
1443
"led into the garden. Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she"
,
1444
"had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high:"
,
1445
"then she walked down the little passage: and THEN--she found herself at"
,
1446
"last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool"
,
1447
"fountains."
,
1448
"CHAPTER VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground"
,
1449
"A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses"
,
1450
"growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily"
,
1451
"painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went"
,
1452
"nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of"
,
1453
"them say, ‘Look out now, Five! Don’t go splashing paint over me like"
,
1454
"that!’"
,
1455
"‘I couldn’t help it,’ said Five, in a sulky tone; ‘Seven jogged my"
,
1456
"elbow.’"
,
1457
"On which Seven looked up and said, ‘That’s right, Five! Always lay the"
,
1458
"blame on others!’"
,
1459
"‘YOU’D better not talk!’ said Five. ‘I heard the Queen say only"
,
1460
"yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!’"
,
1461
"‘What for?’ said the one who had spoken first."
,
1462
"‘That’s none of YOUR business, Two!’ said Seven."
,
1463
"‘Yes, it IS his business!’ said Five, ‘and I’ll tell him--it was for"
,
1464
"bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.’"
,
1465
"Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun ‘Well, of all the unjust"
,
1466
"things--’ when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching"
,
1467
"them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and"
,
1468
"all of them bowed low."
,
1469
"‘Would you tell me,’ said Alice, a little timidly, ‘why you are painting"
,
1470
"those roses?’"
,
1471
"Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Two began in a low"
,
1472
"voice, ‘Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a"
,
1473
"RED rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen"
,
1474
"was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know."
,
1475
"So you see, Miss, we’re doing our best, afore she comes, to--’ At this"
,
1476
"moment Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called"
,
1477
"out ‘The Queen! The Queen!’ and the three gardeners instantly threw"
,
1478
"themselves flat upon their faces. There was a sound of many footsteps,"
,
1479
"and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen."
,
1480
"First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like"
,
1481
"the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the"
,
1482
"corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with"
,
1483
"diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did. After these came"
,
1484
"the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came"
,
1485
"jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented"
,
1486
"with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among"
,
1487
"them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried"
,
1488
"nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without"
,
1489
"noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King’s"
,
1490
"crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand"
,
1491
"procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS."
,
1492
"Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face"
,
1493
"like the three gardeners, but she could not remember ever having heard"
,
1494
"of such a rule at processions; ‘and besides, what would be the use of"
,
1495
"a procession,’ thought she, ‘if people had all to lie down upon their"
,
1496
"faces, so that they couldn’t see it?’ So she stood still where she was,"
,
1497
"and waited."
,
1498
"When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and looked"
,
1499
"at her, and the Queen said severely ‘Who is this?’ She said it to the"
,
1500
"Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply."
,
1501
"‘Idiot!’ said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and, turning to"
,
1502
"Alice, she went on, ‘What’s your name, child?’"
,
1503
"‘My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,’ said Alice very politely;"
,
1504
"but she added, to herself, ‘Why, they’re only a pack of cards, after"
,
1505
"all. I needn’t be afraid of them!’"
,
1506
"‘And who are THESE?’ said the Queen, pointing to the three gardeners who"
,
1507
"were lying round the rosetree; for, you see, as they were lying on their"
,
1508
"faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of the"
,
1509
"pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners, or soldiers, or"
,
1510
"courtiers, or three of her own children."
,
1511
"‘How should I know?’ said Alice, surprised at her own courage. ‘It’s no"
,
1512
"business of MINE.’"
,
1513
"The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a"
,
1514
"moment like a wild beast, screamed ‘Off with her head! Off--’"
,
1515
"‘Nonsense!’ said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was"
,
1516
"silent."
,
1517
"The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said ‘Consider, my"
,
1518
"dear: she is only a child!’"
,
1519
"The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave ‘Turn them"
,
1520
"over!’"
,
1521
"The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot."
,
1522
"‘Get up!’ said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the three"
,
1523
"gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the Queen,"
,
1524
"the royal children, and everybody else."
,
1525
"‘Leave off that!’ screamed the Queen. ‘You make me giddy.’ And then,"
,
1526
"turning to the rose-tree, she went on, ‘What HAVE you been doing here?’"
,
1527
"‘May it please your Majesty,’ said Two, in a very humble tone, going"
,
1528
"down on one knee as he spoke, ‘we were trying--’"
,
1529
"‘I see!’ said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the roses."
,
1530
"‘Off with their heads!’ and the procession moved on, three of the"
,
1531
"soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran"
,
1532
"to Alice for protection."
,
1533
"‘You shan’t be beheaded!’ said Alice, and she put them into a large"
,
1534
"flower-pot that stood near. The three soldiers wandered about for a"
,
1535
"minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly marched off after the"
,
1536
"others."
,
1537
"‘Are their heads off?’ shouted the Queen."
,
1538
"‘Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!’ the soldiers shouted"
,
1539
"in reply."
,
1540
"‘That’s right!’ shouted the Queen. ‘Can you play croquet?’"
,
1541
"The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question was"
,
1542
"evidently meant for her."
,
1543
"‘Yes!’ shouted Alice."
,
1544
"‘Come on, then!’ roared the Queen, and Alice joined the procession,"
,
1545
"wondering very much what would happen next."
,
1546
"‘It’s--it’s a very fine day!’ said a timid voice at her side. She was"
,
1547
"walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face."
,
1548
"‘Very,’ said Alice: ‘--where’s the Duchess?’"
,
1549
"‘Hush! Hush!’ said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He looked"
,
1550
"anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself upon"
,
1551
"tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered ‘She’s under"
,
1552
"sentence of execution.’"
,
1553
"‘What for?’ said Alice."
,
1554
"‘Did you say “What a pity!”?’ the Rabbit asked."
,
1555
"‘No, I didn’t,’ said Alice: ‘I don’t think it’s at all a pity. I said"
,
1556
"“What for?”’"
,
1557
"‘She boxed the Queen’s ears--’ the Rabbit began. Alice gave a little"
,
1558
"scream of laughter. ‘Oh, hush!’ the Rabbit whispered in a frightened"
,
1559
"tone. ‘The Queen will hear you! You see, she came rather late, and the"
,
1560
"Queen said--’"
,
1561
"‘Get to your places!’ shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and"
,
1562
"people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each"
,
1563
"other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game"
,
1564
"began. Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in"
,
1565
"her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs,"
,
1566
"the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves"
,
1567
"up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches."
,
1568
"The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo:"
,
1569
"she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under"
,
1570
"her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got"
,
1571
"its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a"
,
1572
"blow with its head, it WOULD twist itself round and look up in her face,"
,
1573
"with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out"
,
1574
"laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin"
,
1575
"again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled"
,
1576
"itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was"
,
1577
"generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the"
,
1578
"hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up"
,
1579
"and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the"
,
1580
"conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed."
,
1581
"The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling"
,
1582
"all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short"
,
1583
"time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and"
,
1584
"shouting ‘Off with his head!’ or ‘Off with her head!’ about once in a"
,
1585
"minute."
,
1586
"Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any"
,
1587
"dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute,"
,
1588
"‘and then,’ thought she, ‘what would become of me? They’re dreadfully"
,
1589
"fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there’s any one"
,
1590
"left alive!’"
,
1591
"She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she"
,
1592
"could get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance"
,
1593
"in the air: it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it"
,
1594
"a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself"
,
1595
"‘It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.’"
,
1596
"‘How are you getting on?’ said the Cat, as soon as there was mouth"
,
1597
"enough for it to speak with."
,
1598
"Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. ‘It’s no use"
,
1599
"speaking to it,’ she thought, ‘till its ears have come, or at least one"
,
1600
"of them.’ In another minute the whole head appeared, and then Alice put"
,
1601
"down her flamingo, and began an account of the game, feeling very glad"
,
1602
"she had someone to listen to her. The Cat seemed to think that there was"
,
1603
"enough of it now in sight, and no more of it appeared."
,
1604
"‘I don’t think they play at all fairly,’ Alice began, in rather a"
,
1605
"complaining tone, ‘and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear"
,
1606
"oneself speak--and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular;"
,
1607
"at least, if there are, nobody attends to them--and you’ve no idea how"
,
1608
"confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the"
,
1609
"arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the"
,
1610
"ground--and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only"
,
1611
"it ran away when it saw mine coming!’"
,
1612
"‘How do you like the Queen?’ said the Cat in a low voice."
,
1613
"‘Not at all,’ said Alice: ‘she’s so extremely--’ Just then she noticed"
,
1614
"that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on,"
,
1615
"‘--likely to win, that it’s hardly worth while finishing the game.’"
,
1616
"The Queen smiled and passed on."
,
1617
"‘Who ARE you talking to?’ said the King, going up to Alice, and looking"
,
1618
"at the Cat’s head with great curiosity."
,
1619
"‘It’s a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,’ said Alice: ‘allow me to"
,
1620
"introduce it.’"
,
1621
"‘I don’t like the look of it at all,’ said the King: ‘however, it may"
,
1622
"kiss my hand if it likes.’"
,
1623
"‘I’d rather not,’ the Cat remarked."
,
1624
"‘Don’t be impertinent,’ said the King, ‘and don’t look at me like that!’"
,
1625
"He got behind Alice as he spoke."
,
1626
"‘A cat may look at a king,’ said Alice. ‘I’ve read that in some book,"
,
1627
"but I don’t remember where.’"
,
1628
"‘Well, it must be removed,’ said the King very decidedly, and he called"
,
1629
"the Queen, who was passing at the moment, ‘My dear! I wish you would"
,
1630
"have this cat removed!’"
,
1631
"The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small."
,
1632
"‘Off with his head!’ she said, without even looking round."
,
1633
"‘I’ll fetch the executioner myself,’ said the King eagerly, and he"
,
1634
"hurried off."
,
1635
"Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game was going"
,
1636
"on, as she heard the Queen’s voice in the distance, screaming with"
,
1637
"passion. She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be"
,
1638
"executed for having missed their turns, and she did not like the look"
,
1639
"of things at all, as the game was in such confusion that she never knew"
,
1640
"whether it was her turn or not. So she went in search of her hedgehog."
,
1641
"The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed"
,
1642
"to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the"
,
1643
"other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the"
,
1644
"other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a helpless"
,
1645
"sort of way to fly up into a tree."
,
1646
"By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight"
,
1647
"was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: ‘but it doesn’t"
,
1648
"matter much,’ thought Alice, ‘as all the arches are gone from this side"
,
1649
"of the ground.’ So she tucked it away under her arm, that it might not"
,
1650
"escape again, and went back for a little more conversation with her"
,
1651
"friend."
,
1652
"When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a"
,
1653
"large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between"
,
1654
"the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all talking at once,"
,
1655
"while all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable."
,
1656
"The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to settle"
,
1657
"the question, and they repeated their arguments to her, though, as they"
,
1658
"all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly"
,
1659
"what they said."
,
1660
"The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless"
,
1661
"there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a"
,
1662
"thing before, and he wasn’t going to begin at HIS time of life."
,
1663
"The King’s argument was, that anything that had a head could be"
,
1664
"beheaded, and that you weren’t to talk nonsense."
,
1665
"The Queen’s argument was, that if something wasn’t done about it in less"
,
1666
"than no time she’d have everybody executed, all round. (It was this last"
,
1667
"remark that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.)"
,
1668
"Alice could think of nothing else to say but ‘It belongs to the Duchess:"
,
1669
"you’d better ask HER about it.’"
,
1670
"‘She’s in prison,’ the Queen said to the executioner: ‘fetch her here.’"
,
1671
"And the executioner went off like an arrow."
,
1672
" The Cat’s head began fading away the moment he was gone, and,"
,
1673
"by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely"
,
1674
"disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down"
,
1675
"looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game."
,
1676
"CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story"
,
1677
"‘You can’t think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!’"
,
1678
"said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice’s, and"
,
1679
"they walked off together."
,
1680
"Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought"
,
1681
"to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so"
,
1682
"savage when they met in the kitchen."
,
1683
"‘When I’M a Duchess,’ she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone"
,
1684
"though), ‘I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen AT ALL. Soup does very"
,
1685
"well without--Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,’"
,
1686
"she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of"
,
1687
"rule, ‘and vinegar that makes them sour--and camomile that makes"
,
1688
"them bitter--and--and barley-sugar and such things that make children"
,
1689
"sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so"
,
1690
"stingy about it, you know--’"
,
1691
"She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little"
,
1692
"startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. ‘You’re thinking"
,
1693
"about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can’t"
,
1694
"tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in"
,
1695
"a bit.’"
,
1696
"‘Perhaps it hasn’t one,’ Alice ventured to remark."
,
1697
"‘Tut, tut, child!’ said the Duchess. ‘Everything’s got a moral, if only"
,
1698
"you can find it.’ And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice’s side as"
,
1699
"she spoke."
,
1700
"Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the"
,
1701
"Duchess was VERY ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the"
,
1702
"right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an"
,
1703
"uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude, so she"
,
1704
"bore it as well as she could."
,
1705
"‘The game’s going on rather better now,’ she said, by way of keeping up"
,
1706
"the conversation a little."
,
1707
"‘’Tis so,’ said the Duchess: ‘and the moral of that is--“Oh, ‘tis love,"
,
1708
"‘tis love, that makes the world go round!”’"
,
1709
"‘Somebody said,’ Alice whispered, ‘that it’s done by everybody minding"
,
1710
"their own business!’"
,
1711
"‘Ah, well! It means much the same thing,’ said the Duchess, digging her"
,
1712
"sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, ‘and the moral"
,
1713
"of THAT is--“Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of"
,
1714
"themselves.”’"
,
1715
"‘How fond she is of finding morals in things!’ Alice thought to herself."
,
1716
"‘I dare say you’re wondering why I don’t put my arm round your waist,’"
,
1717
"the Duchess said after a pause: ‘the reason is, that I’m doubtful about"
,
1718
"the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?’"
,
1719
"‘HE might bite,’ Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious to"
,
1720
"have the experiment tried."
,
1721
"‘Very true,’ said the Duchess: ‘flamingoes and mustard both bite. And"
,
1722
"the moral of that is--“Birds of a feather flock together.”’"
,
1723
"‘Only mustard isn’t a bird,’ Alice remarked."
,
1724
"‘Right, as usual,’ said the Duchess: ‘what a clear way you have of"
,
1725
"putting things!’"
,
1726
"‘It’s a mineral, I THINK,’ said Alice."
,
1727
"‘Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to"
,
1728
"everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And"
,
1729
"the moral of that is--“The more there is of mine, the less there is of"
,
1730
"yours.”’"
,
1731
"‘Oh, I know!’ exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last remark,"
,
1732
"‘it’s a vegetable. It doesn’t look like one, but it is.’"
,
1733
"‘I quite agree with you,’ said the Duchess; ‘and the moral of that"
,
1734
"is--“Be what you would seem to be”--or if you’d like it put more"
,
1735
"simply--“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might"
,
1736
"appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise"
,
1737
"than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”’"
,
1738
"‘I think I should understand that better,’ Alice said very politely, ‘if"
,
1739
"I had it written down: but I can’t quite follow it as you say it.’"
,
1740
"‘That’s nothing to what I could say if I chose,’ the Duchess replied, in"
,
1741
"a pleased tone."
,
1742
"‘Pray don’t trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,’ said"
,
1743
"Alice."
,
1744
"‘Oh, don’t talk about trouble!’ said the Duchess. ‘I make you a present"
,
1745
"of everything I’ve said as yet.’"
,
1746
"‘A cheap sort of present!’ thought Alice. ‘I’m glad they don’t give"
,
1747
"birthday presents like that!’ But she did not venture to say it out"
,
1748
"loud."
,
1749
"‘Thinking again?’ the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp"
,
1750
"little chin."
,
1751
"‘I’ve a right to think,’ said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to"
,
1752
"feel a little worried."
,
1753
"‘Just about as much right,’ said the Duchess, ‘as pigs have to fly; and"
,
1754
"the m--’"
,
1755
"But here, to Alice’s great surprise, the Duchess’s voice died away, even"
,
1756
"in the middle of her favourite word ‘moral,’ and the arm that was linked"
,
1757
"into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen"
,
1758
"in front of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm."
,
1759
"‘A fine day, your Majesty!’ the Duchess began in a low, weak voice."
,
1760
"‘Now, I give you fair warning,’ shouted the Queen, stamping on the"
,
1761
"ground as she spoke; ‘either you or your head must be off, and that in"
,
1762
"about half no time! Take your choice!’"
,
1763
"The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment."
,
1764
"‘Let’s go on with the game,’ the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was"
,
1765
"too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back to the"
,
1766
"croquet-ground."
,
1767
"The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen’s absence, and were"
,
1768
"resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried"
,
1769
"back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment’s delay would"
,
1770
"cost them their lives."
,
1771
"All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with"
,
1772
"the other players, and shouting ‘Off with his head!’ or ‘Off with her"
,
1773
"head!’ Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers,"
,
1774
"who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by"
,
1775
"the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the"
,
1776
"players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and"
,
1777
"under sentence of execution."
,
1778
"Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, ‘Have"
,
1779
"you seen the Mock Turtle yet?’"
,
1780
"‘No,’ said Alice. ‘I don’t even know what a Mock Turtle is.’"
,
1781
"‘It’s the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,’ said the Queen."
,
1782
"‘I never saw one, or heard of one,’ said Alice."
,
1783
"‘Come on, then,’ said the Queen, ‘and he shall tell you his history,’"
,
1784
"As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low voice,"
,
1785
"to the company generally, ‘You are all pardoned.’ ‘Come, THAT’S a good"
,
1786
"thing!’ she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the"
,
1787
"number of executions the Queen had ordered."
,
1788
"They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun."
,
1789
"(IF you don’t know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) ‘Up, lazy"
,
1790
"thing!’ said the Queen, ‘and take this young lady to see the Mock"
,
1791
"Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and see after some"
,
1792
"executions I have ordered’; and she walked off, leaving Alice alone with"
,
1793
"the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on"
,
1794
"the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go"
,
1795
"after that savage Queen: so she waited."
,
1796
"The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen till"
,
1797
"she was out of sight: then it chuckled. ‘What fun!’ said the Gryphon,"
,
1798
"half to itself, half to Alice."
,
1799
"‘What IS the fun?’ said Alice."
,
1800
"‘Why, SHE,’ said the Gryphon. ‘It’s all her fancy, that: they never"
,
1801
"executes nobody, you know. Come on!’"
,
1802
"‘Everybody says “come on!” here,’ thought Alice, as she went slowly"
,
1803
"after it: ‘I never was so ordered about in all my life, never!’"
,
1804
"They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance,"
,
1805
"sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came"
,
1806
"nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She"
,
1807
"pitied him deeply. ‘What is his sorrow?’ she asked the Gryphon, and the"
,
1808
"Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same words as before, ‘It’s all his"
,
1809
"fancy, that: he hasn’t got no sorrow, you know. Come on!’"
,
1810
"So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large eyes"
,
1811
"full of tears, but said nothing."
,
1812
"‘This here young lady,’ said the Gryphon, ‘she wants for to know your"
,
1813
"history, she do.’"
,
1814
"‘I’ll tell it her,’ said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: ‘sit"
,
1815
"down, both of you, and don’t speak a word till I’ve finished.’"
,
1816
"So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to"
,
1817
"herself, ‘I don’t see how he can EVEN finish, if he doesn’t begin.’ But"
,
1818
"she waited patiently."
,
1819
"‘Once,’ said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, ‘I was a real"
,
1820
"Turtle.’"
,
1821
"These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an"
,
1822
"occasional exclamation of ‘Hjckrrh!’ from the Gryphon, and the constant"
,
1823
"heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly getting up and"
,
1824
"saying, ‘Thank you, sir, for your interesting story,’ but she could"
,
1825
"not help thinking there MUST be more to come, so she sat still and said"
,
1826
"nothing."
,
1827
"‘When we were little,’ the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly,"
,
1828
"though still sobbing a little now and then, ‘we went to school in the"
,
1829
"sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--’"
,
1830
"‘Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn’t one?’ Alice asked."
,
1831
"‘We called him Tortoise because he taught us,’ said the Mock Turtle"
,
1832
"angrily: ‘really you are very dull!’"
,
1833
"‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,’"
,
1834
"added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor"
,
1835
"Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. At last the Gryphon said"
,
1836
"to the Mock Turtle, ‘Drive on, old fellow! Don’t be all day about it!’"
,
1837
"and he went on in these words:"
,
1838
"‘Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn’t believe it--’"
,
1839
"‘I never said I didn’t!’ interrupted Alice."
,
1840
"‘You did,’ said the Mock Turtle."
,
1841
"‘Hold your tongue!’ added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again."
,
1842
"The Mock Turtle went on."
,
1843
"‘We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to school every day--’"
,
1844
"‘I’VE been to a day-school, too,’ said Alice; ‘you needn’t be so proud"
,
1845
"as all that.’"
,
1846
"‘With extras?’ asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously."
,
1847
"‘Yes,’ said Alice, ‘we learned French and music.’"
,
1848
"‘And washing?’ said the Mock Turtle."
,
1849
"‘Certainly not!’ said Alice indignantly."
,
1850
"‘Ah! then yours wasn’t a really good school,’ said the Mock Turtle in"
,
1851
"a tone of great relief. ‘Now at OURS they had at the end of the bill,"
,
1852
"“French, music, AND WASHING--extra.”’"
,
1853
"‘You couldn’t have wanted it much,’ said Alice; ‘living at the bottom of"
,
1854
"the sea.’"
,
1855
"‘I couldn’t afford to learn it.’ said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. ‘I"
,
1856
"only took the regular course.’"
,
1857
"‘What was that?’ inquired Alice."
,
1858
"‘Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,’ the Mock Turtle"
,
1859
"replied; ‘and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,"
,
1860
"Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.’"
,
1861
"‘I never heard of “Uglification,”’ Alice ventured to say. ‘What is it?’"
,
1862
"The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. ‘What! Never heard of"
,
1863
"uglifying!’ it exclaimed. ‘You know what to beautify is, I suppose?’"
,
1864
"‘Yes,’ said Alice doubtfully: ‘it means--to--make--anything--prettier.’"
,
1865
"‘Well, then,’ the Gryphon went on, ‘if you don’t know what to uglify is,"
,
1866
"you ARE a simpleton.’"
,
1867
"Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she"
,
1868
"turned to the Mock Turtle, and said ‘What else had you to learn?’"
,
1869
"‘Well, there was Mystery,’ the Mock Turtle replied, counting off"
,
1870
"the subjects on his flappers, ‘--Mystery, ancient and modern, with"
,
1871
"Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel,"
,
1872
"that used to come once a week: HE taught us Drawling, Stretching, and"
,
1873
"Fainting in Coils.’"
,
1874
"‘What was THAT like?’ said Alice."
,
1875
"‘Well, I can’t show it you myself,’ the Mock Turtle said: ‘I’m too"
,
1876
"stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.’"
,
1877
"‘Hadn’t time,’ said the Gryphon: ‘I went to the Classics master, though."
,
1878
"He was an old crab, HE was.’"
,
1879
"‘I never went to him,’ the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: ‘he taught"
,
1880
"Laughing and Grief, they used to say.’"
,
1881
"‘So he did, so he did,’ said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both"
,
1882
"creatures hid their faces in their paws."
,
1883
"‘And how many hours a day did you do lessons?’ said Alice, in a hurry to"
,
1884
"change the subject."
,
1885
"‘Ten hours the first day,’ said the Mock Turtle: ‘nine the next, and so"
,
1886
"on.’"
,
1887
"‘What a curious plan!’ exclaimed Alice."
,
1888
"‘That’s the reason they’re called lessons,’ the Gryphon remarked:"
,
1889
"‘because they lessen from day to day.’"
,
1890
"This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little"
,
1891
"before she made her next remark. ‘Then the eleventh day must have been a"
,
1892
"holiday?’"
,
1893
"‘Of course it was,’ said the Mock Turtle."
,
1894
"‘And how did you manage on the twelfth?’ Alice went on eagerly."
,
1895
"‘That’s enough about lessons,’ the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided"
,
1896
"tone: ‘tell her something about the games now.’"
,
1897
"CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille"
,
1898
"The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one flapper across"
,
1899
"his eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or"
,
1900
"two sobs choked his voice. ‘Same as if he had a bone in his throat,’"
,
1901
"said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in"
,
1902
"the back. At last the Mock Turtle recovered his voice, and, with tears"
,
1903
"running down his cheeks, he went on again:--"
,
1904
"‘You may not have lived much under the sea--’ [‘I haven’t,’ said"
,
1905
"Alice)--‘and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster--’"
,
1906
"(Alice began to say ‘I once tasted--’ but checked herself hastily, and"
,
1907
"said ‘No, never’) ‘--so you can have no idea what a delightful thing a"
,
1908
"Lobster Quadrille is!’"
,
1909
"‘No, indeed,’ said Alice. ‘What sort of a dance is it?’"
,
1910
"‘Why,’ said the Gryphon, ‘you first form into a line along the"
,
1911
"sea-shore--’"
,
1912
"‘Two lines!’ cried the Mock Turtle. ‘Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on;"
,
1913
"then, when you’ve cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way--’"
,
1914
"‘THAT generally takes some time,’ interrupted the Gryphon."
,
1915
"‘--you advance twice--’"
,
1916
"‘Each with a lobster as a partner!’ cried the Gryphon."
,
1917
"‘Of course,’ the Mock Turtle said: ‘advance twice, set to partners--’"
,
1918
"‘--change lobsters, and retire in same order,’ continued the Gryphon."
,
1919
"‘Then, you know,’ the Mock Turtle went on, ‘you throw the--’"
,
1920
"‘The lobsters!’ shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air."
,
1921
"‘--as far out to sea as you can--’"
,
1922
"‘Swim after them!’ screamed the Gryphon."
,
1923
"‘Turn a somersault in the sea!’ cried the Mock Turtle, capering wildly"
,
1924
"about."
,
1925
"‘Change lobsters again!’ yelled the Gryphon at the top of its voice."
,
1926
"‘Back to land again, and that’s all the first figure,’ said the Mock"
,
1927
"Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two creatures, who had been"
,
1928
"jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down again very sadly"
,
1929
"and quietly, and looked at Alice."
,
1930
"‘It must be a very pretty dance,’ said Alice timidly."
,
1931
"‘Would you like to see a little of it?’ said the Mock Turtle."
,
1932
"‘Very much indeed,’ said Alice."
,
1933
"‘Come, let’s try the first figure!’ said the Mock Turtle to the Gryphon."
,
1934
"‘We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall sing?’"
,
1935
"‘Oh, YOU sing,’ said the Gryphon. ‘I’ve forgotten the words.’"
,
1936
"So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and"
,
1937
"then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and waving their"
,
1938
"forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle sang this, very slowly"
,
1939
"and sadly:--"
,
1940
" ‘“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail."
,
1941
" “There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail."
,
1942
" See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!"
,
1943
" They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"
,
1944
" Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?"
,
1945
" Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?"
,
1946
" “You can really have no notion how delightful it will be"
,
1947
" When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!”"
,
1948
" But the snail replied “Too far, too far!” and gave a look askance--"
,
1949
" Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance."
,
1950
" Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance."
,
1951
" Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance."
,
1952
" ‘“What matters it how far we go?” his scaly friend replied."
,
1953
" “There is another shore, you know, upon the other side."
,
1954
" The further off from England the nearer is to France--"
,
1955
" Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance."
,
1956
" Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?"
,
1957
" Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?”’"
,
1958
"‘Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch,’ said Alice, feeling"
,
1959
"very glad that it was over at last: ‘and I do so like that curious song"
,
1960
"about the whiting!’"
,
1961
"‘Oh, as to the whiting,’ said the Mock Turtle, ‘they--you’ve seen them,"
,
1962
"of course?’"
,
1963
"‘Yes,’ said Alice, ‘I’ve often seen them at dinn--’ she checked herself"
,
1964
"hastily."
,
1965
"‘I don’t know where Dinn may be,’ said the Mock Turtle, ‘but if you’ve"
,
1966
"seen them so often, of course you know what they’re like.’"
,
1967
"‘I believe so,’ Alice replied thoughtfully. ‘They have their tails in"
,
1968
"their mouths--and they’re all over crumbs.’"
,
1969
"‘You’re wrong about the crumbs,’ said the Mock Turtle: ‘crumbs would all"
,
1970
"wash off in the sea. But they HAVE their tails in their mouths; and the"
,
1971
"reason is--’ here the Mock Turtle yawned and shut his eyes.--‘Tell her"
,
1972
"about the reason and all that,’ he said to the Gryphon."
,
1973
"‘The reason is,’ said the Gryphon, ‘that they WOULD go with the lobsters"
,
1974
"to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So they had to fall a long"
,
1975
"way. So they got their tails fast in their mouths. So they couldn’t get"
,
1976
"them out again. That’s all.’"
,
1977
"‘Thank you,’ said Alice, ‘it’s very interesting. I never knew so much"
,
1978
"about a whiting before.’"
,
1979
"‘I can tell you more than that, if you like,’ said the Gryphon. ‘Do you"
,
1980
"know why it’s called a whiting?’"
,
1981
"‘I never thought about it,’ said Alice. ‘Why?’"
,
1982
"‘IT DOES THE BOOTS AND SHOES.’ the Gryphon replied very solemnly."
,
1983
"Alice was thoroughly puzzled. ‘Does the boots and shoes!’ she repeated"
,
1984
"in a wondering tone."
,
1985
"‘Why, what are YOUR shoes done with?’ said the Gryphon. ‘I mean, what"
,
1986
"makes them so shiny?’"
,
1987
"Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she gave her"
,
1988
"answer. ‘They’re done with blacking, I believe.’"
,
1989
"‘Boots and shoes under the sea,’ the Gryphon went on in a deep voice,"
,
1990
"‘are done with a whiting. Now you know.’"
,
1991
"‘And what are they made of?’ Alice asked in a tone of great curiosity."
,
1992
"‘Soles and eels, of course,’ the Gryphon replied rather impatiently:"
,
1993
"‘any shrimp could have told you that.’"
,
1994
"‘If I’d been the whiting,’ said Alice, whose thoughts were still running"
,
1995
"on the song, ‘I’d have said to the porpoise, “Keep back, please: we"
,
1996
"don’t want YOU with us!”’"
,
1997
"‘They were obliged to have him with them,’ the Mock Turtle said: ‘no"
,
1998
"wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.’"
,
1999
"‘Wouldn’t it really?’ said Alice in a tone of great surprise."
,
2000
"‘Of course not,’ said the Mock Turtle: ‘why, if a fish came to ME, and"
,
2001
"told me he was going a journey, I should say “With what porpoise?”’"
,
2002
"‘Don’t you mean “purpose”?’ said Alice."
,
2003
"‘I mean what I say,’ the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And"
,
2004
"the Gryphon added ‘Come, let’s hear some of YOUR adventures.’"
,
2005
"‘I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,’ said"
,
2006
"Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday,"
,
2007
"because I was a different person then.’"
,
2008
"‘Explain all that,’ said the Mock Turtle."
,
2009
"‘No, no! The adventures first,’ said the Gryphon in an impatient tone:"
,
2010
"‘explanations take such a dreadful time.’"
,
2011
"So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first"
,
2012
"saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about it just at first,"
,
2013
"the two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened"
,
2014
"their eyes and mouths so VERY wide, but she gained courage as she went"
,
2015
"on. Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part about"
,
2016
"her repeating ‘YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,’ to the Caterpillar, and the"
,
2017
"words all coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath,"
,
2018
"and said ‘That’s very curious.’"
,
2019
"‘It’s all about as curious as it can be,’ said the Gryphon."
,
2020
"‘It all came different!’ the Mock Turtle repeated thoughtfully. ‘I"
,
2021
"should like to hear her try and repeat something now. Tell her to"
,
2022
"begin.’ He looked at the Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of"
,
2023
"authority over Alice."
,
2024
"‘Stand up and repeat “‘TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,”’ said the"
,
2025
"Gryphon."
,
2026
"‘How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!’"
,
2027
"thought Alice; ‘I might as well be at school at once.’ However, she"
,
2028
"got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster"
,
2029
"Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came"
,
2030
"very queer indeed:--"
,
2031
" ‘’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,"
,
2032
" “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.”"
,
2033
" As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose"
,
2034
" Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.’"
,
2035
" [later editions continued as follows"
,
2036
" When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,"
,
2037
" And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark,"
,
2038
" But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,"
,
2039
" His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.]"
,
2040
"‘That’s different from what I used to say when I was a child,’ said the"
,
2041
"Gryphon."
,
2042
"‘Well, I never heard it before,’ said the Mock Turtle; ‘but it sounds"
,
2043
"uncommon nonsense.’"
,
2044
"Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands,"
,
2045
"wondering if anything would EVER happen in a natural way again."
,
2046
"‘I should like to have it explained,’ said the Mock Turtle."
,
2047
"‘She can’t explain it,’ said the Gryphon hastily. ‘Go on with the next"
,
2048
"verse.’"
,
2049
"‘But about his toes?’ the Mock Turtle persisted. ‘How COULD he turn them"
,
2050
"out with his nose, you know?’"
,
2051
"‘It’s the first position in dancing.’ Alice said; but was dreadfully"
,
2052
"puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject."
,
2053
"‘Go on with the next verse,’ the Gryphon repeated impatiently: ‘it"
,
2054
"begins “I passed by his garden.”’"
,
2055
"Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come"
,
2056
"wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:--"
,
2057
" ‘I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,"
,
2058
" How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--’"
,
2059
" [later editions continued as follows"
,
2060
" The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,"
,
2061
" While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat."
,
2062
" When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,"
,
2063
" Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:"
,
2064
" While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,"
,
2065
" And concluded the banquet--]"
,
2066
"‘What IS the use of repeating all that stuff,’ the Mock Turtle"
,
2067
"interrupted, ‘if you don’t explain it as you go on? It’s by far the most"
,
2068
"confusing thing I ever heard!’"
,
2069
"‘Yes, I think you’d better leave off,’ said the Gryphon: and Alice was"
,
2070
"only too glad to do so."
,
2071
"‘Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?’ the Gryphon went"
,
2072
"on. ‘Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?’"
,
2073
"‘Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,’ Alice"
,
2074
"replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone,"
,
2075
"‘Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her “Turtle Soup,” will you, old"
,
2076
"fellow?’"
,
2077
"The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked"
,
2078
"with sobs, to sing this:--"
,
2079
" ‘Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,"
,
2080
" Waiting in a hot tureen!"
,
2081
" Who for such dainties would not stoop?"
,
2082
" Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!"
,
2083
" Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!"
,
2084
" Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!"
,
2085
" Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!"
,
2086
" Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,"
,
2087
" Beautiful, beautiful Soup!"
,
2088
" ‘Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,"
,
2089
" Game, or any other dish?"
,
2090
" Who would not give all else for two"
,
2091
" Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?"
,
2092
" Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?"
,
2093
" Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!"
,
2094
" Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!"
,
2095
" Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,"
,
2096
" Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!’"
,
2097
"‘Chorus again!’ cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun"
,
2098
"to repeat it, when a cry of ‘The trial’s beginning!’ was heard in the"
,
2099
"distance."
,
2100
"‘Come on!’ cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, it hurried"
,
2101
"off, without waiting for the end of the song."
,
2102
"‘What trial is it?’ Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only"
,
2103
"answered ‘Come on!’ and ran the faster, while more and more faintly"
,
2104
"came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:--"
,
2105
" ‘Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,"
,
2106
" Beautiful, beautiful Soup!’"
,
2107
"CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts?"
,
2108
"The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they"
,
2109
"arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts of little"
,
2110
"birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave was"
,
2111
"standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard"
,
2112
"him; and near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand,"
,
2113
"and a scroll of parchment in the other. In the very middle of the court"
,
2114
"was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good,"
,
2115
"that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them--‘I wish they’d get the"
,
2116
"trial done,’ she thought, ‘and hand round the refreshments!’ But there"
,
2117
"seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about"
,
2118
"her, to pass away the time."
,
2119
"Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had read"
,
2120
"about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that she knew"
,
2121
"the name of nearly everything there. ‘That’s the judge,’ she said to"
,
2122
"herself, ‘because of his great wig.’"
,
2123
"The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the"
,
2124
"wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,) he did"
,
2125
"not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming."
,
2126
"‘And that’s the jury-box,’ thought Alice, ‘and those twelve creatures,’"
,
2127
"(she was obliged to say ‘creatures,’ you see, because some of them were"
,
2128
"animals, and some were birds,) ‘I suppose they are the jurors.’ She said"
,
2129
"this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of"
,
2130
"it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her"
,
2131
"age knew the meaning of it at all. However, ‘jury-men’ would have done"
,
2132
"just as well."
,
2133
"The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. ‘What are they"
,
2134
"doing?’ Alice whispered to the Gryphon. ‘They can’t have anything to put"
,
2135
"down yet, before the trial’s begun.’"
,
2136
"‘They’re putting down their names,’ the Gryphon whispered in reply, ‘for"
,
2137
"fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.’"
,
2138
"‘Stupid things!’ Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped"
,
2139
"hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, ‘Silence in the court!’ and the"
,
2140
"King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who"
,
2141
"was talking."
,
2142
"Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders,"
,
2143
"that all the jurors were writing down ‘stupid things!’ on their slates,"
,
2144
"and she could even make out that one of them didn’t know how to spell"
,
2145
"‘stupid,’ and that he had to ask his neighbour to tell him. ‘A nice"
,
2146
"muddle their slates’ll be in before the trial’s over!’ thought Alice."
,
2147
"One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice"
,
2148
"could not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and"
,
2149
"very soon found an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so quickly"
,
2150
"that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out"
,
2151
"at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was"
,
2152
"obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was"
,
2153
"of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate."
,
2154
"‘Herald, read the accusation!’ said the King."
,
2155
"On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and then"
,
2156
"unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:--"
,
2157
" ‘The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,"
,
2158
" All on a summer day:"
,
2159
" The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,"
,
2160
" And took them quite away!’"
,
2161
"‘Consider your verdict,’ the King said to the jury."
,
2162
"‘Not yet, not yet!’ the Rabbit hastily interrupted. ‘There’s a great"
,
2163
"deal to come before that!’"
,
2164
"‘Call the first witness,’ said the King; and the White Rabbit blew three"
,
2165
"blasts on the trumpet, and called out, ‘First witness!’"
,
2166
"The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in one"
,
2167
"hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. ‘I beg pardon, your"
,
2168
"Majesty,’ he began, ‘for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished"
,
2169
"my tea when I was sent for.’"
,
2170
"‘You ought to have finished,’ said the King. ‘When did you begin?’"
,
2171
"The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into the"
,
2172
"court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. ‘Fourteenth of March, I think it"
,
2173
"was,’ he said."
,
2174
"‘Fifteenth,’ said the March Hare."
,
2175
"‘Sixteenth,’ added the Dormouse."
,
2176
"‘Write that down,’ the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly"
,
2177
"wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and"
,
2178
"reduced the answer to shillings and pence."
,
2179
"‘Take off your hat,’ the King said to the Hatter."
,
2180
"‘It isn’t mine,’ said the Hatter."
,
2181
"‘Stolen!’ the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a"
,
2182
"memorandum of the fact."
,
2183
"‘I keep them to sell,’ the Hatter added as an explanation; ‘I’ve none of"
,
2184
"my own. I’m a hatter.’"
,
2185
"Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the Hatter,"
,
2186
"who turned pale and fidgeted."
,
2187
"‘Give your evidence,’ said the King; ‘and don’t be nervous, or I’ll have"
,
2188
"you executed on the spot.’"
,
2189
"This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting"
,
2190
"from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in"
,
2191
"his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the"
,
2192
"bread-and-butter."
,
2193
"Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which puzzled"
,
2194
"her a good deal until she made out what it was: she was beginning to"
,
2195
"grow larger again, and she thought at first she would get up and leave"
,
2196
"the court; but on second thoughts she decided to remain where she was as"
,
2197
"long as there was room for her."
,
2198
"‘I wish you wouldn’t squeeze so.’ said the Dormouse, who was sitting"
,
2199
"next to her. ‘I can hardly breathe.’"
,
2200
"‘I can’t help it,’ said Alice very meekly: ‘I’m growing.’"
,
2201
"‘You’ve no right to grow here,’ said the Dormouse."
,
2202
"‘Don’t talk nonsense,’ said Alice more boldly: ‘you know you’re growing"
,
2203
"too.’"
,
2204
"‘Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,’ said the Dormouse: ‘not in that"
,
2205
"ridiculous fashion.’ And he got up very sulkily and crossed over to the"
,
2206
"other side of the court."
,
2207
"All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the Hatter, and,"
,
2208
"just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to one of the officers"
,
2209
"of the court, ‘Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!’ on"
,
2210
"which the wretched Hatter trembled so, that he shook both his shoes off."
,
2211
"‘Give your evidence,’ the King repeated angrily, ‘or I’ll have you"
,
2212
"executed, whether you’re nervous or not.’"
,
2213
"‘I’m a poor man, your Majesty,’ the Hatter began, in a trembling voice,"
,
2214
"‘--and I hadn’t begun my tea--not above a week or so--and what with the"
,
2215
"bread-and-butter getting so thin--and the twinkling of the tea--’"
,
2216
"‘The twinkling of the what?’ said the King."
,
2217
"‘It began with the tea,’ the Hatter replied."
,
2218
"‘Of course twinkling begins with a T!’ said the King sharply. ‘Do you"
,
2219
"take me for a dunce? Go on!’"
,
2220
"‘I’m a poor man,’ the Hatter went on, ‘and most things twinkled after"
,
2221
"that--only the March Hare said--’"
,
2222
"‘I didn’t!’ the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry."
,
2223
"‘You did!’ said the Hatter."
,
2224
"‘I deny it!’ said the March Hare."
,
2225
"‘He denies it,’ said the King: ‘leave out that part.’"
,
2226
"‘Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--’ the Hatter went on, looking"
,
2227
"anxiously round to see if he would deny it too: but the Dormouse denied"
,
2228
"nothing, being fast asleep."
,
2229
"‘After that,’ continued the Hatter, ‘I cut some more bread-and-butter--’"
,
2230
"‘But what did the Dormouse say?’ one of the jury asked."
,
2231
"‘That I can’t remember,’ said the Hatter."
,
2232
"‘You MUST remember,’ remarked the King, ‘or I’ll have you executed.’"
,
2233
"The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went"
,
2234
"down on one knee. ‘I’m a poor man, your Majesty,’ he began."
,
2235
"‘You’re a very poor speaker,’ said the King."
,
2236
"Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately suppressed by"
,
2237
"the officers of the court. (As that is rather a hard word, I will just"
,
2238
"explain to you how it was done. They had a large canvas bag, which tied"
,
2239
"up at the mouth with strings: into this they slipped the guinea-pig,"
,
2240
"head first, and then sat upon it.)"
,
2241
"‘I’m glad I’ve seen that done,’ thought Alice. ‘I’ve so often read"
,
2242
"in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempts"
,
2243
"at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the"
,
2244
"court,” and I never understood what it meant till now.’"
,
2245
"‘If that’s all you know about it, you may stand down,’ continued the"
,
2246
"King."
,
2247
"‘I can’t go no lower,’ said the Hatter: ‘I’m on the floor, as it is.’"
,
2248
"‘Then you may SIT down,’ the King replied."
,
2249
"Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was suppressed."
,
2250
"‘Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!’ thought Alice. ‘Now we shall get"
,
2251
"on better.’"
,
2252
"‘I’d rather finish my tea,’ said the Hatter, with an anxious look at the"
,
2253
"Queen, who was reading the list of singers."
,
2254
"‘You may go,’ said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court,"
,
2255
"without even waiting to put his shoes on."
,
2256
"‘--and just take his head off outside,’ the Queen added to one of the"
,
2257
"officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get"
,
2258
"to the door."
,
2259
"‘Call the next witness!’ said the King."
,
2260
"The next witness was the Duchess’s cook. She carried the pepper-box in"
,
2261
"her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the"
,
2262
"court, by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once."
,
2263
"‘Give your evidence,’ said the King."
,
2264
"‘Shan’t,’ said the cook."
,
2265
"The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a low voice,"
,
2266
"‘Your Majesty must cross-examine THIS witness.’"
,
2267
"‘Well, if I must, I must,’ the King said, with a melancholy air, and,"
,
2268
"after folding his arms and frowning at the cook till his eyes were"
,
2269
"nearly out of sight, he said in a deep voice, ‘What are tarts made of?’"
,
2270
"‘Pepper, mostly,’ said the cook."
,
2271
"‘Treacle,’ said a sleepy voice behind her."
,
2272
"‘Collar that Dormouse,’ the Queen shrieked out. ‘Behead that Dormouse!"
,
2273
"Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his"
,
2274
"whiskers!’"
,
2275
"For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the Dormouse"
,
2276
"turned out, and, by the time they had settled down again, the cook had"
,
2277
"disappeared."
,
2278
"‘Never mind!’ said the King, with an air of great relief. ‘Call the next"
,
2279
"witness.’ And he added in an undertone to the Queen, ‘Really, my dear,"
,
2280
"YOU must cross-examine the next witness. It quite makes my forehead"
,
2281
"ache!’"
,
2282
"Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling very"
,
2283
"curious to see what the next witness would be like, ‘--for they haven’t"
,
2284
"got much evidence YET,’ she said to herself. Imagine her surprise, when"
,
2285
"the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the"
,
2286
"name ‘Alice!’"
,
2287
"CHAPTER XII. Alice’s Evidence"
,
2288
"‘Here!’ cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how"
,
2289
"large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such"
,
2290
"a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt,"
,
2291
"upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there"
,
2292
"they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish"
,
2293
"she had accidentally upset the week before."
,
2294
"‘Oh, I BEG your pardon!’ she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and"
,
2295
"began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of"
,
2296
"the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea"
,
2297
"that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or"
,
2298
"they would die."
,
2299
"‘The trial cannot proceed,’ said the King in a very grave voice, ‘until"
,
2300
"all the jurymen are back in their proper places--ALL,’ he repeated with"
,
2301
"great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said do."
,
2302
"Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put"
,
2303
"the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its"
,
2304
"tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move. She soon got"
,
2305
"it out again, and put it right; ‘not that it signifies much,’ she said"
,
2306
"to herself; ‘I should think it would be QUITE as much use in the trial"
,
2307
"one way up as the other.’"
,
2308
"As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being"
,
2309
"upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to"
,
2310
"them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the"
,
2311
"accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do"
,
2312
"anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the"
,
2313
"court."
,
2314
"‘What do you know about this business?’ the King said to Alice."
,
2315
"‘Nothing,’ said Alice."
,
2316
"‘Nothing WHATEVER?’ persisted the King."
,
2317
"‘Nothing whatever,’ said Alice."
,
2318
"‘That’s very important,’ the King said, turning to the jury. They were"
,
2319
"just beginning to write this down on their slates, when the White Rabbit"
,
2320
"interrupted: ‘UNimportant, your Majesty means, of course,’ he said in a"
,
2321
"very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him as he spoke."
,
2322
"‘UNimportant, of course, I meant,’ the King hastily said, and went on"
,
2323
"to himself in an undertone,"
,
2324
"‘important--unimportant--unimportant--important--’ as if he were trying"
,
2325
"which word sounded best."
,
2326
"Some of the jury wrote it down ‘important,’ and some ‘unimportant.’"
,
2327
"Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates;"
,
2328
"‘but it doesn’t matter a bit,’ she thought to herself."
,
2329
"At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in"
,
2330
"his note-book, cackled out ‘Silence!’ and read out from his book, ‘Rule"
,
2331
"Forty-two. ALL PERSONS MORE THAN A MILE HIGH TO LEAVE THE COURT.’"
,
2332
"Everybody looked at Alice."
,
2333
"‘I’M not a mile high,’ said Alice."
,
2334
"‘You are,’ said the King."
,
2335
"‘Nearly two miles high,’ added the Queen."
,
2336
"‘Well, I shan’t go, at any rate,’ said Alice: ‘besides, that’s not a"
,
2337
"regular rule: you invented it just now.’"
,
2338
"‘It’s the oldest rule in the book,’ said the King."
,
2339
"‘Then it ought to be Number One,’ said Alice."
,
2340
"The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily. ‘Consider your"
,
2341
"verdict,’ he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice."
,
2342
"‘There’s more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,’ said the White"
,
2343
"Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; ‘this paper has just been picked"
,
2344
"up.’"
,
2345
"‘What’s in it?’ said the Queen."
,
2346
"‘I haven’t opened it yet,’ said the White Rabbit, ‘but it seems to be a"
,
2347
"letter, written by the prisoner to--to somebody.’"
,
2348
"‘It must have been that,’ said the King, ‘unless it was written to"
,
2349
"nobody, which isn’t usual, you know.’"
,
2350
"‘Who is it directed to?’ said one of the jurymen."
,
2351
"‘It isn’t directed at all,’ said the White Rabbit; ‘in fact, there’s"
,
2352
"nothing written on the OUTSIDE.’ He unfolded the paper as he spoke, and"
,
2353
"added ‘It isn’t a letter, after all: it’s a set of verses.’"
,
2354
"‘Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting?’ asked another of the jurymen."
,
2355
"‘No, they’re not,’ said the White Rabbit, ‘and that’s the queerest thing"
,
2356
"about it.’ (The jury all looked puzzled.)"
,
2357
"‘He must have imitated somebody else’s hand,’ said the King. (The jury"
,
2358
"all brightened up again.)"
,
2359
"‘Please your Majesty,’ said the Knave, ‘I didn’t write it, and they"
,
2360
"can’t prove I did: there’s no name signed at the end.’"
,
2361
"‘If you didn’t sign it,’ said the King, ‘that only makes the matter"
,
2362
"worse. You MUST have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your"
,
2363
"name like an honest man.’"
,
2364
"There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really"
,
2365
"clever thing the King had said that day."
,
2366
"‘That PROVES his guilt,’ said the Queen."
,
2367
"‘It proves nothing of the sort!’ said Alice. ‘Why, you don’t even know"
,
2368
"what they’re about!’"
,
2369
"‘Read them,’ said the King."
,
2370
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. ‘Where shall I begin, please"
,
2371
"your Majesty?’ he asked."
,
2372
"‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely, ‘and go on till you"
,
2373
"come to the end: then stop.’"
,
2374
"These were the verses the White Rabbit read:--"
,
2375
" ‘They told me you had been to her,"
,
2376
" And mentioned me to him:"
,
2377
" She gave me a good character,"
,
2378
" But said I could not swim."
,
2379
" He sent them word I had not gone"
,
2380
" (We know it to be true):"
,
2381
" If she should push the matter on,"
,
2382
" What would become of you?"
,
2383
" I gave her one, they gave him two,"
,
2384
" You gave us three or more;"
,
2385
" They all returned from him to you,"
,
2386
" Though they were mine before."
,
2387
" If I or she should chance to be"
,
2388
" Involved in this affair,"
,
2389
" He trusts to you to set them free,"
,
2390
" Exactly as we were."
,
2391
" My notion was that you had been"
,
2392
" (Before she had this fit)"
,
2393
" An obstacle that came between"
,
2394
" Him, and ourselves, and it."
,
2395
" Don’t let him know she liked them best,"
,
2396
" For this must ever be"
,
2397
" A secret, kept from all the rest,"
,
2398
" Between yourself and me.’"
,
2399
"‘That’s the most important piece of evidence we’ve heard yet,’ said the"
,
2400
"King, rubbing his hands; ‘so now let the jury--’"
,
2401
"‘If any one of them can explain it,’ said Alice, (she had grown so large"
,
2402
"in the last few minutes that she wasn’t a bit afraid of interrupting"
,
2403
"him,) ‘I’ll give him sixpence. _I_ don’t believe there’s an atom of"
,
2404
"meaning in it.’"
,
2405
"The jury all wrote down on their slates, ‘SHE doesn’t believe there’s an"
,
2406
"atom of meaning in it,’ but none of them attempted to explain the paper."
,
2407
"‘If there’s no meaning in it,’ said the King, ‘that saves a world of"
,
2408
"trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any. And yet I don’t know,’"
,
2409
"he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them"
,
2410
"with one eye; ‘I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. “--SAID"
,
2411
"I COULD NOT SWIM--” you can’t swim, can you?’ he added, turning to the"
,
2412
"Knave."
,
2413
"The Knave shook his head sadly. ‘Do I look like it?’ he said. (Which he"
,
2414
"certainly did NOT, being made entirely of cardboard.)"
,
2415
"‘All right, so far,’ said the King, and he went on muttering over"
,
2416
"the verses to himself: ‘“WE KNOW IT TO BE TRUE--” that’s the jury, of"
,
2417
"course--“I GAVE HER ONE, THEY GAVE HIM TWO--” why, that must be what he"
,
2418
"did with the tarts, you know--’"
,
2419
"‘But, it goes on “THEY ALL RETURNED FROM HIM TO YOU,”’ said Alice."
,
2420
"‘Why, there they are!’ said the King triumphantly, pointing to the tarts"
,
2421
"on the table. ‘Nothing can be clearer than THAT. Then again--“BEFORE SHE"
,
2422
"HAD THIS FIT--” you never had fits, my dear, I think?’ he said to the"
,
2423
"Queen."
,
2424
"‘Never!’ said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard"
,
2425
"as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off writing on his"
,
2426
"slate with one finger, as he found it made no mark; but he now hastily"
,
2427
"began again, using the ink, that was trickling down his face, as long as"
,
2428
"it lasted.)"
,
2429
"‘Then the words don’t FIT you,’ said the King, looking round the court"
,
2430
"with a smile. There was a dead silence."
,
2431
"‘It’s a pun!’ the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed,"
,
2432
"‘Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the"
,
2433
"twentieth time that day."
,
2434
"‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first--verdict afterwards.’"
,
2435
"‘Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly. ‘The idea of having the"
,
2436
"sentence first!’"
,
2437
"‘Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple."
,
2438
"‘I won’t!’ said Alice."
,
2439
"‘Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody"
,
2440
"moved."
,
2441
"‘Who cares for you?’ said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this"
,
2442
"time.) ‘You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’"
,
2443
"At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon"
,
2444
"her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and"
,
2445
"tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her"
,
2446
"head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead"
,
2447
"leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face."
,
2448
"‘Wake up, Alice dear!’ said her sister; ‘Why, what a long sleep you’ve"
,
2449
"had!’"
,
2450
"‘Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!’ said Alice, and she told her"
,
2451
"sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures"
,
2452
"of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had"
,
2453
"finished, her sister kissed her, and said, ‘It WAS a curious dream,"
,
2454
"dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.’ So"
,
2455
"Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might,"
,
2456
"what a wonderful dream it had been."
,
2457
"But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her"
,
2458
"hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all her"
,
2459
"wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and"
,
2460
"this was her dream:--"
,
2461
"First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the tiny"
,
2462
"hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes were looking"
,
2463
"up into hers--she could hear the very tones of her voice, and see that"
,
2464
"queer little toss of her head to keep back the wandering hair that"
,
2465
"WOULD always get into her eyes--and still as she listened, or seemed to"
,
2466
"listen, the whole place around her became alive with the strange creatures"
,
2467
"of her little sister’s dream."
,
2468
"The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried by--the"
,
2469
"frightened Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool--she"
,
2470
"could hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends"
,
2471
"shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill voice of the Queen"
,
2472
"ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution--once more the pig-baby"
,
2473
"was sneezing on the Duchess’s knee, while plates and dishes crashed"
,
2474
"around it--once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the"
,
2475
"Lizard’s slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs,"
,
2476
"filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable Mock"
,
2477
"Turtle."
,
2478
"So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in"
,
2479
"Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all"
,
2480
"would change to dull reality--the grass would be only rustling in the"
,
2481
"wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds--the rattling"
,
2482
"teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells, and the Queen’s shrill"
,
2483
"cries to the voice of the shepherd boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the"
,
2484
"shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change (she"
,
2485
"knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing"
,
2486
"of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle’s"
,
2487
"heavy sobs."
,
2488
"Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers"
,
2489
"would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would"
,
2490
"keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her"
,
2491
"childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and"
,
2492
"make THEIR eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even"
,
2493
"with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with"
,
2494
"all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys,"
,
2495
"remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days."
,
2496
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