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+Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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+<hr>
+<h1 align="Center">ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND</h1>
+
+<h3 align="Center">Lewis Carroll</h3>
+
+<p align="Center"><i>THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0</i></p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER I</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">Down the Rabbit-Hole</h3>
+
+<p>Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
+on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had
+peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
+pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,'
+thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'</p>
+
+<p>So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,
+for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether
+the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble
+of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White
+Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.</p>
+
+<p>There was nothing so <i>very</i> remarkable in that; nor did
+Alice think it so <i>very</i> much out of the way to hear the
+Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when
+she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought
+to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite
+natural); but when the Rabbit actually <i>took a watch out of its
+waistcoat-pocket,</i> and looked at it, and then hurried on,
+Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that
+she had never before seen a rabbit with either a
+waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with
+curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was
+just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the
+hedge.</p>
+
+<p>In another moment down went Alice after it, never once
+considering how in the world she was to get out again.</p>
+
+<p>The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,
+and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a
+moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself
+falling down a very deep well.</p>
+
+<p>Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for
+she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to
+wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look
+down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to
+see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and
+noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves;
+here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took
+down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled
+'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty:
+she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so
+managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past
+it.</p>
+
+<p>'Well!' thought Alice to herself, 'after such a fall as this,
+I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll
+all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even
+if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely
+true.)</p>
+
+<p>Down, down, down. Would the fall <i>never</i> come to an end!
+'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said
+aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.
+Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--'
+(for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in
+her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a <i>very</i>
+good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no
+one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over)
+'--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what
+Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what
+Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice
+grand words to say.)</p>
+
+<p>Presently she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right
+<i>through</i> the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among
+the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies,
+I think--' (she was rather glad there <i>was</i> no one listening, this
+time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '--but I shall
+have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.
+Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried
+to curtsey as she spoke--fancy <i>curtseying</i> as you're
+falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And
+what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No,
+it'll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up
+somewhere.'</p>
+
+<p>Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon
+began talking again. 'Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I
+should think!' (Dinah was the cat.) 'I hope they'll remember her
+saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down
+here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you
+might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know. But do
+cats eat bats, I wonder?' And here Alice began to get rather
+sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way,
+'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat
+cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it
+didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was
+dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand
+in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, 'Now,
+Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly,
+thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves,
+and the fall was over.</p>
+
+<p>Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in
+a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her
+was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in
+sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away
+went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as
+it turned a corner, 'Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's
+getting!' She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but
+the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long,
+low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the
+roof.</p>
+
+<p>There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked;
+and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the
+other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle,
+wondering how she was ever to get out again.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made
+of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key,
+and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the
+doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or
+the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of
+them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low
+curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little
+door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key
+in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!</p>
+
+<p>Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small
+passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and
+looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.
+How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about
+among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but
+she could not even get her head though the doorway; 'and even if
+my head <i>would</i> go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would
+be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I
+could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know
+how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had
+happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few
+things indeed were really impossible.</p>
+
+<p>There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so
+she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another
+key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up
+like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it,
+('which certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round
+the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK
+ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.</p>
+
+<p>It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little
+Alice was not going to do <i>that</i> in a hurry. 'No, I'll look
+first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked "<i>poison</i>" or
+not'; for she had read several nice little histories about
+children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other
+unpleasant things, all because they <i>would</i> not remember the
+simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a
+red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if
+you cut your finger <i>very</i> deeply with a knife, it usually
+bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from
+a bottle marked '<i>poison</i>,' it is almost certain to disagree
+with you, sooner or later.</p>
+
+<p>However, this bottle was <i>not</i> marked 'poison,' so Alice
+ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact,
+a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple,
+roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon
+finished it off.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">
+<br>
+* * * * *
+<br>
+* * * *
+<br>
+* * * * *
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<p>'What a curious feeling!' said Alice; 'I must be shutting up
+like a telescope.'</p>
+
+<p>And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and
+her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right
+size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.
+First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was
+going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about
+this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my
+going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be
+like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is
+like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember
+ever having seen such a thing.</p>
+
+<p>After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided
+on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when
+she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little
+golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found
+she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly
+through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the
+legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had
+tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and
+cried.</p>
+
+<p>'Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to
+herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute!'
+She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very
+seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so
+severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered
+trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game
+of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious
+child was very fond of pretending to be two people. 'But it's no
+use now,' thought poor Alice, 'to pretend to be two people! Why,
+there's hardly enough of me left to make <i>one</i> respectable
+person!'</p>
+
+<p>Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under
+the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on
+which the words 'EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.
+'Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger,
+I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep
+under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I
+don't care which happens!'</p>
+
+<p>She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, 'Which
+way? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to feel
+which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find
+that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally
+happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the
+way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen,
+that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the
+common way.</p>
+
+<p>So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">
+<br>
+* * * * *
+<br>
+* * * *
+<br>
+* * * * *
+<br>
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER II</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">The Pool of Tears</h3>
+
+<p>'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much
+surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good
+English); 'now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that
+ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet,
+they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far
+off). 'Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your
+shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure <i>I</i> shan't
+be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself
+about you: you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be
+kind to them,' thought Alice, 'or perhaps they won't walk the way
+I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of boots
+every Christmas.'</p>
+
+<p>And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it.
+'They must go by the carrier,' she thought; 'and how funny it'll
+seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the
+directions will look!</p>
+
+<blockquote><i>ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.</i>
+<p><i>HEARTHRUG,</i></p>
+
+<p><i>NEAR THE FENDER,</i></p>
+
+<p><i>(WITH ALICE'S LOVE).</i></p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'</p>
+
+<p>Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in
+fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took
+up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.</p>
+
+<p>Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one
+side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get
+through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to
+cry again.</p>
+
+<p>'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, 'a great
+girl like you,' (she might well say this), 'to go on crying in
+this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!' But she went on all the
+same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all
+round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the
+hall.</p>
+
+<p>After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the
+distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
+It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a
+pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the
+other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to
+himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh!
+<i>won't</i> she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt
+so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when
+the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If
+you please, sir--' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the
+white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness
+as hard as he could go.</p>
+
+<p>Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very
+hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking:
+'Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things
+went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the
+night? Let me think: <i>was</i> I the same when I got up this
+morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little
+different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in
+the world am I? Ah, <i>that's</i> the great puzzle!' And she
+began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the
+same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for
+any of them.</p>
+
+<p>'I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, 'for her hair goes in such
+long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm
+sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she,
+oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, <i>she's</i> she, and
+<i>I'm</i> I, and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I
+know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five
+is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven
+is--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However,
+the Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography.
+London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,
+and Rome--no, <i>that's</i> all wrong, I'm certain! I must have
+been changed for Mabel! I'll try and say "<i>How doth the
+little--</i>"' and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she
+were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice
+sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same
+as they used to do:--</p>
+
+<blockquote><i>'How doth the little crocodile</i>
+<p><i>Improve his shining tail,</i></p>
+
+<p><i>And pour the waters of the Nile</i></p>
+
+<p><i>On every golden scale!</i></p>
+
+<p><i><br>
+'How cheerfully he seems to grin,</i></p>
+
+<p><i>How neatly spread his claws,</i></p>
+
+<p><i>And welcome little fishes in</i></p>
+
+<p><i>With gently smiling jaws!</i>'</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>'I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and
+her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, 'I must be Mabel
+after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little
+house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so
+many lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm
+Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their
+heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up
+and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like
+being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till
+I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden
+burst of tears, 'I do wish they <i>would</i> put their heads
+down! I am so <i>very</i> tired of being all alone here!'</p>
+
+<p>As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was
+surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little
+white kid gloves while she was talking. 'How <i>can</i> I have
+done that?' she thought. 'I must be growing small again.' She got
+up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found
+that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet
+high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that
+the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it
+hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.</p>
+
+<p>'That <i>was</i> a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal
+frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself
+still in existence; 'and now for the garden!' and she ran with
+all speed back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was
+shut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass
+table as before, 'and things are worse than ever,' thought the
+poor child, 'for I never was so small as this before, never! And
+I declare it's too bad, that it is!'</p>
+
+<p>As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another
+moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first
+idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, 'and in that
+case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself. (Alice had
+been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general
+conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find
+a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in
+the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and
+behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that
+she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine
+feet high.</p>
+
+<p>'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam
+about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it
+now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That
+<i>will</i> be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is
+queer to-day.'</p>
+
+<p>Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a
+little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at
+first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then
+she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that
+it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.</p>
+
+<p>'Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, 'to speak to
+this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I
+should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no
+harm in trying.' So she began: 'O Mouse, do you know the way out
+of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!'
+(Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse:
+she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having
+seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse--of a mouse--to a
+mouse--a mouse--O mouse!') The Mouse looked at her rather
+inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little
+eyes, but it said nothing.</p>
+
+<p>'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; 'I
+daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the
+Conqueror.' (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no
+very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she
+began again: 'Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in
+her French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the
+water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright. 'Oh, I beg your
+pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor
+animal's feelings. 'I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'</p>
+
+<p>'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate
+voice. 'Would <i>you</i> like cats if you were me?'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: 'don't be
+angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I
+think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She
+is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as
+she swam lazily about in the pool, 'and she sits purring so
+nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and
+she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such a capital
+one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice again,
+for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt
+certain it must be really offended. 'We won't talk about her any
+more if you'd rather not.'</p>
+
+<p>'We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the
+end of his tail. 'As if I would talk on such a subject! Our
+family always <i>hated</i> cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't
+let me hear the name again!'</p>
+
+<p>'I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the
+subject of conversation. 'Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?'
+The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: 'There is
+such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!
+A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly
+brown hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll
+sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I can't
+remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and
+he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds! He says it
+kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a sorrowful
+tone, 'I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the Mouse was
+swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a
+commotion in the pool as it went.</p>
+
+<p>So she called softly after it, 'Mouse dear! Do come back
+again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't
+like them!' When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam
+slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice
+thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, 'Let us get to
+the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll
+understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'</p>
+
+<p>It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded
+with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a
+Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious
+creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the
+shore.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER III</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale</h3>
+
+<p>They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the
+bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their
+fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and
+uncomfortable.</p>
+
+<p>The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they
+had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed
+quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with
+them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had
+quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky,
+and would only say, 'I am older than you, and must know better';
+and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was,
+and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no
+more to be said.</p>
+
+<p>At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority
+among them, called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me!
+<i>I'll</i> soon make you dry enough!' They all sat down at once,
+in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her
+eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a
+bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.</p>
+
+<p>'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all
+ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you
+please! "William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the
+pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders,
+and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.
+Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'</p>
+
+<p>'Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.</p>
+
+<p>'I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very
+politely: 'Did you speak?'</p>
+
+<p>'Not I!' said the Lory hastily.</p>
+
+<p>'I thought you did,' said the Mouse. '--I proceed. "Edwin and
+Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him:
+and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found
+it advisable--"'</p>
+
+<p>'Found <i>what</i>?' said the Duck.</p>
+
+<p>'Found <i>it</i>,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of
+course you know what "it" means.'</p>
+
+<p>'I know what "it" means well enough, when <i>I</i> find a
+thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or a worm. The
+question is, what did the archbishop find?'</p>
+
+<p>The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on,
+'"--found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William
+and offer him the crown. William's conduct at first was moderate.
+But the insolence of his Normans--" How are you getting on now,
+my dear?' it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke.</p>
+
+<p>'As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone: 'it doesn't
+seem to dry me at all.'</p>
+
+<p>'In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, 'I
+move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more
+energetic remedies--'</p>
+
+<p>'Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of
+half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do
+either!' And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some
+of the other birds tittered audibly.</p>
+
+<p>'What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone,
+'was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a
+Caucus-race.'</p>
+
+<p>'What <i>is</i> a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she
+wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought
+that <i>somebody</i> ought to speak, and no one else seemed
+inclined to say anything.</p>
+
+<p>'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do
+it.' (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some
+winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)</p>
+
+<p>First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ('the
+exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party
+were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One,
+two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked,
+and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know
+when the race was over. However, when they had been running half
+an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called
+out 'The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting,
+and asking, 'But who has won?'</p>
+
+<p>This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal
+of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed
+upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see
+Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in
+silence. At last the Dodo said, '<i>everybody</i> has won, and
+<i>all</i> must have prizes.'</p>
+
+<p>'But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices
+asked.</p>
+
+<p>'Why, <i>she</i>, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice
+with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her,
+calling out in a confused way, 'Prizes! Prizes!'</p>
+
+<p>Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand
+in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt
+water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.
+There was exactly one a-piece all round.</p>
+
+<p>'But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the
+Mouse.</p>
+
+<p>'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What else have
+you got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.</p>
+
+<p>'Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.</p>
+
+<p>Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo
+solemnly presented the thimble, saying 'We beg your acceptance of
+this elegant thimble'; and, when it had finished this short
+speech, they all cheered.</p>
+
+<p>Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked
+so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not
+think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble,
+looking as solemn as she could.</p>
+
+<p>The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise
+and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not
+taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on
+the back. However, it was over at last, and they sat down again
+in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.</p>
+
+<p>'You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice,
+'and why it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half
+afraid that it would be offended again.</p>
+
+<p>'Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to
+Alice, and sighing.</p>
+
+<p>'It <i>is</i> a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with
+wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad?' And she
+kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that
+her idea of the tale was something like this:--</p>
+
+<p>'Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, "Let us both
+go to law: I will prosecute <i>you</i>. --Come, I'll take no
+denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I've
+nothing to do." Said the mouse to the cur, "Such a trial, dear
+Sir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath." "I'll be
+judge, I'll be jury," said cunning old Fury: "I'll try the whole
+cause, and condemn you to death."'</p>
+
+<p>'You are not attending!' said the Mouse to Alice severely.
+'What are you thinking of?'</p>
+
+<p>'I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly: 'you had got to
+the fifth bend, I think?'</p>
+
+<p>'I had <i>not</i>!' cried the Mouse, sharply and very
+angrily.</p>
+
+<p>'A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and
+looking anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let me help to undo it!'</p>
+
+<p>'I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the Mouse, getting up
+and walking away. 'You insult me by talking such nonsense!'</p>
+
+<p>'I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor Alice. 'But you're so easily
+offended, you know!'</p>
+
+<p>The Mouse only growled in reply.</p>
+
+<p>'Please come back and finish your story!' Alice called after
+it; and the others all joined in chorus, 'Yes, please do!' but
+the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little
+quicker.</p>
+
+<p>'What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as soon as it
+was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of
+saying to her daughter 'Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you
+never to lose <i>your</i> temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said
+the young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the
+patience of an oyster!'</p>
+
+<p>'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud,
+addressing nobody in particular. 'She'd soon fetch it back!'</p>
+
+<p>'And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?'
+said the Lory.</p>
+
+<p>Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about
+her pet: 'Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for
+catching mice you can't think! And oh, I wish you could see her
+after the birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at
+it!'</p>
+
+<p>This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party.
+Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began
+wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, 'I really must be
+getting home; the night-air doesn't suit my throat!' and a Canary
+called out in a trembling voice to its children, 'Come away, my
+dears! It's high time you were all in bed!' On various pretexts
+they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.</p>
+
+<p>'I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!' she said to herself in a
+melancholy tone. 'Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I'm
+sure she's the best cat in the world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder
+if I shall ever see you any more!' And here poor Alice began to
+cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited. In a little
+while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps
+in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the
+Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish his
+story.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER IV</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill</h3>
+
+<p>It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and
+looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something;
+and she heard it muttering to itself 'The Duchess! The Duchess!
+Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed,
+as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where <i>can</i> I have dropped
+them, I wonder?' Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking
+for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very
+good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were
+nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to have changed since her
+swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and
+the little door, had vanished completely.</p>
+
+<p>Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about,
+and called out to her in an angry tone, 'Why, Mary Ann, what
+<i>are</i> you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me
+a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!' And Alice was so much
+frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed
+to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.</p>
+
+<p>'He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as she
+ran. 'How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am! But I'd
+better take him his fan and gloves--that is, if I can find them.'
+As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door
+of which was a bright brass plate with the name 'W. RABBIT'
+engraved upon it. She went in without knocking, and hurried
+upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann,
+and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and
+gloves.</p>
+
+<p>'How queer it seems,' Alice said to herself, 'to be going
+messages for a rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be sending me on
+messages next!' And she began fancying the sort of thing that
+would happen: '"Miss Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for
+your walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to see that
+the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't think,' Alice went on,
+'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering
+people about like that!'</p>
+
+<p>By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room
+with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan
+and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the
+fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the
+room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the
+looking- glass. There was no label this time with the words
+'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her
+lips. 'I know <i>something</i> interesting is sure to happen,'
+she said to herself, 'whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll
+just see what this bottle does. I do hope it'll make me grow
+large again, for really I'm quite tired of being such a tiny
+little thing!'</p>
+
+<p>It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected:
+before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing
+against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being
+broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself
+'That's quite enough--I hope I shan't grow any more--As it is, I
+can't get out at the door--I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so
+much!'</p>
+
+<p>Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and
+growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another
+minute there was not even room for this, and she tried the effect
+of lying down with one elbow against the door, and the other arm
+curled round her head. Still she went on growing, and, as a last
+resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the
+chimney, and said to herself 'Now I can do no more, whatever
+happens. What <i>will</i> become of me?'</p>
+
+<p>Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its
+full effect, and she grew no larger: still it was very
+uncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of
+her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt
+unhappy.</p>
+
+<p>'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when
+one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered
+about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that
+rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know,
+this sort of life! I do wonder what <i>can</i> have happened to
+me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing
+never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There
+ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I
+grow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now,' she added in a
+sorrowful tone; 'at least there's no room to grow up any more
+<i>here</i>.'</p>
+
+<p>'But then,' thought Alice, 'shall I <i>never</i> get any older
+than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old
+woman-- but then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I
+shouldn't like <i>that</i>!'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself. 'How can you
+learn lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for you, and no
+room at all for any lesson-books!'</p>
+
+<p>And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other,
+and making quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few
+minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen.</p>
+
+<p>'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. 'Fetch me my gloves this
+moment!' Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
+Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she
+trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was
+now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no
+reason to be afraid of it.</p>
+
+<p>Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open
+it; but, as the door opened inwards, and Alice's elbow was
+pressed hard against it, that attempt proved a failure. Alice
+heard it say to itself 'Then I'll go round and get in at the
+window.'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>That</i> you won't' thought Alice, and, after waiting till
+she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she
+suddenly spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. She
+did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a
+fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that
+it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or
+something of the sort.</p>
+
+<p>Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit's--'Pat! Pat! Where are
+you?' And then a voice she had never heard before, 'Sure then I'm
+here! Digging for apples, yer honour!'</p>
+
+<p>'Digging for apples, indeed!' said the Rabbit angrily. 'Here!
+Come and help me out of <i>this</i>!' (Sounds of more broken
+glass.)</p>
+
+<p>'Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'</p>
+
+<p>'Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' (He pronounced it
+'arrum.')</p>
+
+<p>'An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills
+the whole window!'</p>
+
+<p>'Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that.'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and take it
+away!'</p>
+
+<p>There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear
+whispers now and then; such as, 'Sure, I don't like it, yer
+honour, at all, at all!' 'Do as I tell you, you coward!' and at
+last she spread out her hand again, and made another snatch in
+the air. This time there were <i>two</i> little shrieks, and more
+sounds of broken glass. 'What a number of cucumber-frames there
+must be!' thought Alice. 'I wonder what they'll do next! As for
+pulling me out of the window, I only wish they <i>could</i>! I'm
+sure I don't want to stay in here any longer!'</p>
+
+<p>She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at
+last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a
+good many voices all talking together: she made out the words:
+'Where's the other ladder?--Why, I hadn't to bring but one;
+Bill's got the other--Bill! fetch it here, lad!--Here, put 'em up
+at this corner--No, tie 'em together first--they don't reach half
+high enough yet--Oh! they'll do well enough; don't be
+particular-- Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope--Will the roof
+bear?--Mind that loose slate--Oh, it's coming down! Heads below!'
+(a loud crash)--'Now, who did that?--It was Bill, I fancy--Who's
+to go down the chimney?--Nay, I shan't! <i>you</i> do it!--That I
+won't, then!--Bill's to go down--Here, Bill! the master says
+you're to go down the chimney!'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?' said
+Alice to herself. 'Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I
+wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal: this fireplace is
+narrow, to be sure; but I <i>think</i> I can kick a little!'</p>
+
+<p>She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and
+waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess of what
+sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close
+above her: then, saying to herself 'This is Bill,' she gave one
+sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.</p>
+
+<p>The first thing she heard was a general chorus of 'There goes
+Bill!' then the Rabbit's voice along--'Catch him, you by the
+hedge!' then silence, and then another confusion of voices--'Hold
+up his head--Brandy now--Don't choke him--How was it, old fellow?
+What happened to you? Tell us all about it!'</p>
+
+<p>Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, ('That's Bill,'
+thought Alice,) 'Well, I hardly know--No more, thank ye; I'm
+better now--but I'm a deal too flustered to tell you--all I know
+is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes
+like a sky-rocket!'</p>
+
+<p>'So you did, old fellow!' said the others.</p>
+
+<p>'We must burn the house down!' said the Rabbit's voice; and
+Alice called out as loud as she could, 'If you do. I'll set Dinah
+at you!'</p>
+
+<p>There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to
+herself, 'I wonder what they <i>will</i> do next! If they had any
+sense, they'd take the roof off.' After a minute or two, they
+began moving about again, and Alice heard the Rabbit say, 'A
+barrowful will do, to begin with.'</p>
+
+<p>'A barrowful of <i>what</i>?' thought Alice; but she had not
+long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles
+came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the
+face. 'I'll put a stop to this,' she said to herself, and shouted
+out, 'You'd better not do that again!' which produced another
+dead silence.</p>
+
+<p>Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all
+turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright
+idea came into her head. 'If I eat one of these cakes,' she
+thought, 'it's sure to make <i>some</i> change in my size; and as
+it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I
+suppose.'</p>
+
+<p>So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find
+that she began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small
+enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and
+found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.
+The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by
+two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle.
+They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared; but she
+ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a
+thick wood.</p>
+
+<p>'The first thing I've got to do,' said Alice to herself, as
+she wandered about in the wood, 'is to grow to my right size
+again; and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely
+garden. I think that will be the best plan.'</p>
+
+<p>It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and
+simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the
+smallest idea how to set about it; and while she was peering
+about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over
+her head made her look up in a great hurry.</p>
+
+<p>An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round
+eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.
+'Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried
+hard to whistle to it; but she was terribly frightened all the
+time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it
+would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her
+coaxing.</p>
+
+<p>Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of
+stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped
+into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight,
+and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice
+dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run
+over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy
+made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in
+its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very
+like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every
+moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle
+again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the
+stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long
+way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat
+down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its
+mouth, and its great eyes half shut.</p>
+
+<p>This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape;
+so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out
+of breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the
+distance.</p>
+
+<p>'And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said Alice, as she
+leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself
+with one of the leaves: 'I should have liked teaching it tricks
+very much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it! Oh dear!
+I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again! Let me
+see--how <i>is</i> it to be managed? I suppose I ought to eat or drink
+something or other; but the great question is, what?'</p>
+
+<p>The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round
+her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see
+anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under
+the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her,
+about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under
+it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her
+that she might as well look and see what was on the top of
+it.</p>
+
+<p>She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge
+of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large
+caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded,
+quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice
+of her or of anything else.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER V</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">Advice from a Caterpillar</h3>
+
+<p>The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time
+in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its
+mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.</p>
+
+<p>'Who are <i>you</i>?' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice
+replied, rather shyly, 'I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--
+at least I know who I <i>was</i> when I got up this morning, but I think
+I must have been changed several times since then.'</p>
+
+<p>'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly.
+'Explain yourself!'</p>
+
+<p>'I can't explain <i>myself</i>, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice,
+'because I'm not myself, you see.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very
+politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and
+being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'</p>
+
+<p>'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; 'but
+when you have to turn into a chrysalis--you will some day, you
+know--and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll
+feel it a little queer, won't you?'</p>
+
+<p>'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice;
+'all I know is, it would feel very queer to <i>me</i>.'</p>
+
+<p>'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 'Who are
+<i>you</i>?'</p>
+
+<p>Which brought them back again to the beginning of the
+conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's
+making such <i>very</i> short remarks, and she drew herself up
+and said, very gravely, 'I think, you ought to tell me who
+<i>you</i> are, first.'</p>
+
+<p>'Why?' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not
+think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in
+a <i>very</i> unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.</p>
+
+<p>'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her. 'I've something
+important to say!'</p>
+
+<p>This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back
+again.</p>
+
+<p>'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>'Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well
+as she could.</p>
+
+<p>'No,' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else
+to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth
+hearing. For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at
+last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth
+again, and said, 'So you think you're changed, do you?'</p>
+
+<p>'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember things
+as I used--and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes
+together!'</p>
+
+<p>'Can't remember <i>what</i> things?' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, I've tried to say "<i>How doth the little busy
+bee,</i>" but it all came different!' Alice replied in a very
+melancholy voice.</p>
+
+<p>'Repeat, "<i>you are old, Father William,</i>"' said the
+Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>Alice folded her hands, and began:--</p>
+
+<p><i>'You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And
+your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on
+your head-- Do you think, at your age, it is right?'</i></p>
+
+<p><i>'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I feared
+it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I
+have none, Why, I do it again and again.'</i></p>
+
+<p><i>'You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before, And
+have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back-somersault
+in at the door-- Pray, what is the reason of that?'</i></p>
+
+<p><i>'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
+'I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment--one
+shilling the box-- Allow me to sell you a couple?'</i></p>
+
+<p><i>'You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak
+For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with
+the bones and the beak-- Pray how did you manage to do
+it?'</i></p>
+
+<p><i>'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, And
+argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which
+it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.'</i></p>
+
+<p><i>'You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose
+That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on
+the end of your nose-- What made you so awfully clever?'</i></p>
+
+<p><i>'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,' Said
+his father; 'don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen
+all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down
+stairs!'</i></p>
+
+<p>'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>'Not <i>quite</i> right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly;
+'some of the words have got altered.'</p>
+
+<p>'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar
+decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.</p>
+
+<p>The Caterpillar was the first to speak.</p>
+
+<p>'What size do you want to be?' it asked.</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied;
+'only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.'</p>
+
+<p>'I <i>don't</i> know,' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in
+her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.</p>
+
+<p>'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, I should like to be a <i>little</i> larger, sir, if you
+wouldn't mind,' said Alice: 'three inches is such a wretched
+height to be.'</p>
+
+<p>'It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar
+angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three
+inches high).</p>
+
+<p>'But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous
+tone. And she thought of herself, 'I wish the creatures wouldn't
+be so easily offended!'</p>
+
+<p>'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it
+put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.</p>
+
+<p>This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak
+again. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of
+its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got
+down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely
+remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow taller, and
+the other side will make you grow shorter.'</p>
+
+<p>'One side of <i>what</i>? The other side of <i>what</i>?'
+thought Alice to herself.</p>
+
+<p>'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had
+asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.</p>
+
+<p>Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a
+minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as
+it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.
+However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they
+would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.</p>
+
+<p>'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a
+little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment
+she felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her
+foot!</p>
+
+<p>She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but
+she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking
+rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.
+Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was
+hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and
+managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.</p>
+
+<p align="Center">* * * * *</p>
+
+<p>'Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of
+delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she
+found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could
+see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which
+seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay
+far below her.</p>
+
+<p>'What <i>can</i> all that green stuff be?' said Alice. 'And
+where <i>have</i> my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how
+is it I can't see you?' She was moving them about as she spoke,
+but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the
+distant green leaves.</p>
+
+<p>As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her
+head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted
+to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction,
+like a serpent. She had just succeeded in curving it down into a
+graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which
+she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she
+had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a
+hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating
+her violently with its wings.</p>
+
+<p>'Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.</p>
+
+<p>'I'm <i>not</i> a serpent!' said Alice indignantly. 'Let me
+alone!'</p>
+
+<p>'Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more
+subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every
+way, and nothing seems to suit them!'</p>
+
+<p>'I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,' said
+Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've
+tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 'but
+those serpents! There's no pleasing them!'</p>
+
+<p>Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no
+use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.</p>
+
+<p>'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the
+Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and
+day! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'</p>
+
+<p>'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was
+beginning to see its meaning.</p>
+
+<p>'And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,'
+continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, 'and just as
+I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs
+come wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!'</p>
+
+<p>'But I'm <i>not</i> a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. 'I'm
+a--I'm a--'</p>
+
+<p>'Well! <i>what</i> are you?' said the Pigeon. 'I can see
+you're trying to invent something!'</p>
+
+<p>'I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she
+remembered the number of changes she had gone through that
+day.</p>
+
+<p>'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the
+deepest contempt. 'I've seen a good many little girls in my time,
+but never <i>one</i> with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a
+serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be
+telling me next that you never tasted an egg!'</p>
+
+<p>'I <i>have</i> tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a
+very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as
+serpents do, you know.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why
+then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.'</p>
+
+<p>This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent
+for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of
+adding, 'You're looking for eggs, I know <i>that</i> well enough;
+and what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a
+serpent?'</p>
+
+<p>'It matters a good deal to <i>me</i>,' said Alice hastily;
+'but I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I
+shouldn't want <i>yours</i>: I don't like them raw.'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it
+settled down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the
+trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled
+among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and
+untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the
+pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very
+carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and
+growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had
+succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.</p>
+
+<p>It was so long since she had been anything near the right
+size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it
+in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. 'Come,
+there's half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes
+are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to
+another! However, I've got back to my right size: the next thing
+is, to get into that beautiful garden--how <i>is</i> that to be
+done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open
+place, with a little house in it about four feet high. 'Whoever
+lives there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them
+<i>this</i> size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!'
+So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not
+venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to
+nine inches high.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER VI</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">Pig and Pepper</h3>
+
+<p>For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and
+wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came
+running out of the wood--(she considered him to be a footman
+because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only,
+she would have called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door
+with his knuckles. It was opened by another footman in livery,
+with a round face, and large eyes like a frog; and both footmen,
+Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their
+heads. She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and
+crept a little way out of the wood to listen.</p>
+
+<p>The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great
+letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to
+the other, saying, in a solemn tone, 'For the Duchess. An
+invitation from the Queen to play croquet.' The Frog-Footman
+repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the
+words a little, 'From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to
+play croquet.'</p>
+
+<p>Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled
+together.</p>
+
+<p>Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into
+the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped
+out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the
+ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.</p>
+
+<p>Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.</p>
+
+<p>'There's no sort of use in knocking,' said the Footman, 'and
+that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the
+door as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise
+inside, no one could possibly hear you.' And certainly there was
+a most extraordinary noise going on within--a constant howling
+and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish
+or kettle had been broken to pieces.</p>
+
+<p>'Please, then,' said Alice, 'how am I to get in?'</p>
+
+<p>'There might be some sense in your knocking,' the Footman went
+on without attending to her, 'if we had the door between us. For
+instance, if you were <i>inside</i>, you might knock, and I could
+let you out, you know.' He was looking up into the sky all the
+time he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil.
+'But perhaps he can't help it,' she said to herself; 'his eyes
+are so <i>very</i> nearly at the top of his head. But at any rate
+he might answer questions.--How am I to get in?' she repeated,
+aloud.</p>
+
+<p>'I shall sit here,' the Footman remarked, 'till
+tomorrow--'</p>
+
+<p>At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate
+came skimming out, straight at the Footman's head: it just grazed
+his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind
+him.</p>
+
+<p>'--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the same
+tone, exactly as if nothing had happened.</p>
+
+<p>'How am I to get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder tone.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Are</i> you to get in at all?' said the Footman. 'That's
+the first question, you know.'</p>
+
+<p>It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so. 'It's
+really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the
+creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!'</p>
+
+<p>The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for
+repeating his remark, with variations. 'I shall sit here,' he
+said, 'on and off, for days and days.'</p>
+
+<p>'But what am I to do?' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began
+whistling.</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice
+desperately: 'he's perfectly idiotic!' And she opened the door
+and went in.</p>
+
+<p>The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of
+smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a
+three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was
+leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to
+be full of soup.</p>
+
+<p>'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said
+to herself, as well as she could for sneezing.</p>
+
+<p>There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the
+Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was
+sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause. The
+only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook,
+and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from
+ear to ear.</p>
+
+<p>'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for
+she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to
+speak first, 'why your cat grins like that?'</p>
+
+<p>'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why.
+Pig!'</p>
+
+<p>She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice
+quite jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed
+to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on
+again:--</p>
+
+<p>'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I
+didn't know that cats <i>could</i> grin.'</p>
+
+<p>'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't know of any that do,' Alice said very politely,
+feeling quite pleased to have got into a conversation.</p>
+
+<p>'You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a
+fact.'</p>
+
+<p>Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought
+it would be as well to introduce some other subject of
+conversation. While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took
+the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work
+throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby
+--the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans,
+plates, and dishes. The Duchess took no notice of them even when
+they hit her; and the baby was howling so much already, that it
+was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, <i>please</i> mind what you're doing!' cried Alice,
+jumping up and down in an agony of terror. 'Oh, there goes his
+<i>precious</i> nose'; as an unusually large saucepan flew close
+by it, and very nearly carried it off.</p>
+
+<p>'If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said in
+a hoarse growl, 'the world would go round a deal faster than it
+does.'</p>
+
+<p>'Which would <i>not</i> be an advantage,' said Alice, who felt
+very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her
+knowledge. 'Just think of what work it would make with the day
+and night! You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn
+round on its axis--'</p>
+
+<p>'Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, 'chop off her head!'</p>
+
+<p>Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she
+meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the
+soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again:
+'Twenty-four hours, I <i>think</i>; or is it twelve? I--'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, don't bother <i>me</i>,' said the Duchess; 'I never could abide
+figures!' And with that she began nursing her child again,
+singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a
+violent shake at the end of every line:</p>
+
+<p align="Center"><i>'Speak roughly to your little boy,</i></p>
+
+<p align="Center"><i>And beat him when he sneezes:</i></p>
+
+<p align="Center"><i>He only does it to annoy,</i></p>
+
+<p align="Center"><i>Because he knows it teases.'</i></p>
+
+<p align="Center">CHORUS</p>
+
+<p>(In which the cook and the baby joined):--</p>
+
+<p align="Center">'Wow! wow! wow!'</p>
+
+<p>While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept
+tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing
+howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words:--</p>
+
+<p align="Center"><i>'I speak severely to my boy,</i></p>
+
+<p align="Center"><i>I beat him when he sneezes;</i></p>
+
+<p align="Center"><i>For he can thoroughly enjoy</i></p>
+
+<p align="Center"><i>The pepper when he pleases!'</i></p>
+
+<p align="Center">CHORUS</p>
+
+<p align="Center">'Wow! wow! wow!'</p>
+
+<p>'Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the Duchess said
+to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke. 'I must go and
+get ready to play croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of
+the room. The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out,
+but it just missed her.</p>
+
+<p>Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-
+shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all
+directions, 'just like a star-fish,' thought Alice. The poor
+little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it,
+and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again,
+so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much
+as she could do to hold it.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it,
+(which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep
+tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its
+undoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air. '<i>If</i>
+I don't take this child away with me,' thought Alice, 'they're
+sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn't it be murder to leave
+it behind?' She said the last words out loud, and the little
+thing grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time).
+'Don't grunt,' said Alice; 'that's not at all a proper way of
+expressing yourself.'</p>
+
+<p>The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into
+its face to see what was the matter with it. There could be no
+doubt that it had a <i>very</i> turn-up nose, much more like a
+snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely
+small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the
+thing at all. 'But perhaps it was only sobbing,' she thought, and
+looked into its eyes again, to see if there were any tears.</p>
+
+<p>No, there were no tears. 'If you're going to turn into a pig,
+my dear,' said Alice, seriously, 'I'll have nothing more to do
+with you. Mind now!' The poor little thing sobbed again (or
+grunted, it was impossible to say which), and they went on for
+some while in silence.</p>
+
+<p>Alice was just beginning to think to herself, 'Now, what am I
+to do with this creature when I get it home?' when it grunted
+again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some
+alarm. This time there could be <i>no</i> mistake about it: it
+was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would
+be quite absurd for her to carry it further.</p>
+
+<p>So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved
+to see it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If it had grown up,'
+she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child:
+but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began
+thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as
+pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only knew the right
+way to change them--' when she was a little startled by seeing
+the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards
+off.</p>
+
+<p>The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-
+natured, she thought: still it had <i>very</i> long claws and a
+great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with
+respect.</p>
+
+<p>'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at
+all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned
+a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and
+she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go
+from here?'</p>
+
+<p>'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said
+the Cat.</p>
+
+<p>'I don't much care where--' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.</p>
+
+<p>'--so long as I get <i>somewhere</i>,' Alice added as an
+explanation.</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk
+long enough.'</p>
+
+<p>Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another
+question. 'What sort of people live about here?'</p>
+
+<p>'In <i>that</i> direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw
+round, 'lives a Hatter: and in <i>that</i> direction,' waving the
+other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're
+both mad.'</p>
+
+<p>'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here.
+I'm mad. You're mad.'</p>
+
+<p>'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come
+here.'</p>
+
+<p>Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on
+'And how do you know that you're mad?'</p>
+
+<p>'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant
+that?'</p>
+
+<p>'I suppose so,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when
+it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when
+I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm
+mad.'</p>
+
+<p>'I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet
+with the Queen to-day?'</p>
+
+<p>'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been
+invited yet.'</p>
+
+<p>'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.</p>
+
+<p>Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used
+to queer things happening. While she was looking at the place
+where it had been, it suddenly appeared again.</p>
+
+<p>'By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. 'I'd
+nearly forgotten to ask.'</p>
+
+<p>'It turned into a pig,' Alice quietly said, just as if it had
+come back in a natural way.</p>
+
+<p>'I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again.</p>
+
+<p>Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it
+did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the
+direction in which the March Hare was said to live. 'I've seen
+hatters before,' she said to herself; 'the March Hare will be
+much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be
+raving mad--at least not so mad as it was in March.' As she said
+this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a
+branch of a tree.</p>
+
+<p>'Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.</p>
+
+<p>'I said pig,' replied Alice; 'and I wish you wouldn't keep
+appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite
+giddy.'</p>
+
+<p>'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite
+slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the
+grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.</p>
+
+<p>'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice;
+'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw
+in my life!'</p>
+
+<p>She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the
+house of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house,
+because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was
+thatched with fur. It was so large a house, that she did not like
+to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the lefthand bit
+of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high: even then
+she walked up towards it rather timidly, saying to herself
+'Suppose it should be raving mad after all! I almost wish I'd
+gone to see the Hatter instead!'</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER VII</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">A Mad Tea-Party</h3>
+
+<p>There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house,
+and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a
+Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two
+were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and
+talking over its head. 'Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,'
+thought Alice; 'only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't
+mind.'</p>
+
+<p>The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded
+together at one corner of it: 'No room! No room!' they cried out
+when they saw Alice coming. 'There's <i>plenty</i> of room!' said
+Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one
+end of the table.</p>
+
+<p>'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging
+tone.</p>
+
+<p>Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it
+but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked.</p>
+
+<p>'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.</p>
+
+<p>'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice
+angrily.</p>
+
+<p>'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being
+invited,' said the March Hare.</p>
+
+<p>'I didn't know it was <i>your</i> table,' said Alice; 'it's
+laid for a great many more than three.'</p>
+
+<p>'Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been
+looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was
+his first speech.</p>
+
+<p>'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said
+with some severity; 'it's very rude.'</p>
+
+<p>The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all
+he <i>said</i> was, 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'</p>
+
+<p>'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad
+they've begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,' she
+added aloud.</p>
+
+<p>'Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to
+it?' said the March Hare.</p>
+
+<p>'Exactly so,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went
+on.</p>
+
+<p>'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean what
+I say--that's the same thing, you know.'</p>
+
+<p>'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'You might just
+as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat
+what I see"!'</p>
+
+<p>'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that "I
+like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!'</p>
+
+<p>'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed
+to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the
+same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'</p>
+
+<p>'It <i>is</i> the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and
+here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a
+minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about
+ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.</p>
+
+<p>The Hatter was the first to break the silence. 'What day of
+the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his
+watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking
+it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.</p>
+
+<p>Alice considered a little, and then said 'The fourth.'</p>
+
+<p>'Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. 'I told you butter
+wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March
+Hare.</p>
+
+<p>'It was the <i>best</i> butter,' the March Hare meekly
+replied.</p>
+
+<p>'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter
+grumbled: 'you shouldn't have put it in with the
+bread-knife.'</p>
+
+<p>The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then
+he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he
+could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, 'It
+was the <i>best</i> butter, you know.'</p>
+
+<p>Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity.
+'What a funny watch!' she remarked. 'It tells the day of the
+month, and doesn't tell what o'clock it is!'</p>
+
+<p>'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does <i>your</i> watch
+tell you what year it is?'</p>
+
+<p>'Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: 'but that's
+because it stays the same year for such a long time
+together.'</p>
+
+<p>'Which is just the case with <i>mine</i>,' said the
+Hatter.</p>
+
+<p>Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to
+have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.
+'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she
+could.</p>
+
+<p>'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured
+a little hot tea upon its nose.</p>
+
+<p>The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without
+opening its eyes, 'Of course, of course; just what I was going to
+remark myself.'</p>
+
+<p>'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to
+Alice again.</p>
+
+<p>'No, I give it up,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer?'</p>
+
+<p>'I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter.</p>
+
+<p>'Nor I,' said the March Hare.</p>
+
+<p>Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better
+with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that
+have no answers.'</p>
+
+<p>'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, 'you
+wouldn't talk about wasting <i>it</i>. It's <i>him</i>.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head
+contemptuously. 'I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'</p>
+
+<p>'Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: 'but I know I have to
+beat time when I learn music.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. 'He won't stand
+beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do
+almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose
+it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons:
+you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the
+clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!'</p>
+
+<p>('I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in a
+whisper.)</p>
+
+<p>'That would be grand, certainly,' said Alice thoughtfully:
+'but then--I shouldn't be hungry for it, you know.'</p>
+
+<p>'Not at first, perhaps,' said the Hatter: 'but you could keep
+it to half-past one as long as you liked.'</p>
+
+<p>'Is that the way <i>you</i> manage?' Alice asked.</p>
+
+<p>The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he replied. 'We
+quarrelled last March--just before <i>he</i> went mad, you
+know--' (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) '--it
+was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had
+to sing</p>
+
+<p><i>"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!</i></p>
+
+<p><i>How I wonder what you're at!"</i></p>
+
+<p>You know the song, perhaps?'</p>
+
+<p>'I've heard something like it,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, 'in this
+way:--</p>
+
+<p><i>"Up above the world you fly,</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Like a tea-tray in the sky.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Twinkle, twinkle--"'</i></p>
+
+<p>Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep
+'<i>Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--</i>' and went on so long
+that they had to pinch it to make it stop.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse,' said the Hatter,
+'when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, "He's murdering the
+time! Off with his head!"'</p>
+
+<p>'How dreadfully savage!' exclaimed Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone,
+'he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.'</p>
+
+<p>A bright idea came into Alice's head. 'Is that the reason so
+many tea-things are put out here?' she asked.</p>
+
+<p>'Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: 'it's always
+tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between
+whiles.'</p>
+
+<p>'Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Exactly so,' said the Hatter: 'as the things get used
+up.'</p>
+
+<p>'But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice
+ventured to ask.</p>
+
+<p>'Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare interrupted,
+yawning. 'I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells
+us a story.'</p>
+
+<p>'I'm afraid I don't know one,' said Alice, rather alarmed at
+the proposal.</p>
+
+<p>'Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. 'Wake up,
+Dormouse!' And they pinched it on both sides at once.</p>
+
+<p>The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. 'I wasn't asleep,' he
+said in a hoarse, feeble voice: 'I heard every word you fellows
+were saying.'</p>
+
+<p>'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare.</p>
+
+<p>'Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, 'or you'll be
+asleep again before it's done.'</p>
+
+<p>'Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the
+Dormouse began in a great hurry; 'and their names were Elsie,
+Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well--'</p>
+
+<p>'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great
+interest in questions of eating and drinking.</p>
+
+<p>'They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a
+minute or two.</p>
+
+<p>'They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice gently
+remarked; 'they'd have been ill.'</p>
+
+<p>'So they were,' said the Dormouse; '<i>very</i> ill.'</p>
+
+<p>Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary
+ways of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she
+went on: 'But why did they live at the bottom of a well?'</p>
+
+<p>'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very
+earnestly.</p>
+
+<p>'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so
+I can't take more.'</p>
+
+<p>'You mean you can't take <i>less</i>,' said the Hatter: 'it's
+very easy to take <i>more</i> than nothing.'</p>
+
+<p>'Nobody asked <i>your</i> opinion,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter asked
+triumphantly.</p>
+
+<p>Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped
+herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the
+Dormouse, and repeated her question. 'Why did they live at the
+bottom of a well?'</p>
+
+<p>The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and
+then said, 'It was a treacle-well.'</p>
+
+<p>'There's no such thing!' Alice was beginning very angrily, but
+the Hatter and the March Hare went 'Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse
+sulkily remarked, 'If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the
+story for yourself.'</p>
+
+<p>'No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; 'I won't interrupt
+again. I dare say there may be <i>one</i>.'</p>
+
+<p>'One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he
+consented to go on. 'And so these three little sisters--they were
+learning to draw, you know--'</p>
+
+<p>'What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting her
+promise.</p>
+
+<p>'Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this
+time.</p>
+
+<p>'I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move
+one place on.'</p>
+
+<p>He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the
+March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather
+unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the
+only one who got any advantage from the change: and Alice was a
+good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset
+the milk-jug into his plate.</p>
+
+<p>Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began
+very cautiously: 'But I don't understand. Where did they draw the
+treacle from?'</p>
+
+<p>'You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the Hatter; 'so
+I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh,
+stupid?'</p>
+
+<p>'But they were <i>in</i> the well,' Alice said to the
+Dormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark.</p>
+
+<p>'Of course they were', said the Dormouse; '--well in.'</p>
+
+<p>This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse
+go on for some time without interrupting it.</p>
+
+<p>'They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went on, yawning
+and rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; 'and they
+drew all manner of things--everything that begins with an
+M--'</p>
+
+<p>'Why with an M?' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Why not?' said the March Hare.</p>
+
+<p>Alice was silent.</p>
+
+<p>The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going
+off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up
+again with a little shriek, and went on: '--that begins with an
+M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness--
+you know you say things are "much of a muchness"--did you ever
+see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?'</p>
+
+<p>'Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much confused, 'I
+don't think--'</p>
+
+<p>'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.</p>
+
+<p>This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got
+up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep
+instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her
+going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that
+they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were
+trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.</p>
+
+<p>'At any rate I'll never go <i>there</i> again!' said Alice as
+she picked her way through the wood. 'It's the stupidest
+tea-party I ever was at in all my life!'</p>
+
+<p>Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a
+door leading right into it. 'That's very curious!' she thought.
+'But everything's curious today. I think I may as well go in at
+once.' And in she went.</p>
+
+<p>Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the
+little glass table. 'Now, I'll manage better this time,' she said
+to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and
+unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she went to
+work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her
+pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the
+little passage: and <i>then</i>--she found herself at last in the
+beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool
+fountains.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER VIII</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">The Queen's Croquet-Ground</h3>
+
+<p>A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the
+roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at
+it, busily painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious
+thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up
+to them she heard one of them say, 'Look out now, Five! Don't go
+splashing paint over me like that!'</p>
+
+<p>'I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; 'Seven
+jogged my elbow.'</p>
+
+<p>On which Seven looked up and said, 'That's right, Five! Always
+lay the blame on others!'</p>
+
+<p><i>You'd</i> better not talk!' said Five. 'I heard the Queen
+say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'</p>
+
+<p>'What for?' said the one who had spoken first.</p>
+
+<p>'That's none of <i>your</i> business, Two!' said Seven.</p>
+
+<p>'Yes, it <i>is</i> his business!' said Five, 'and I'll tell
+him--it was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of
+onions.'</p>
+
+<p>Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun 'Well, of all
+the unjust things--' when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as
+she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the
+others looked round also, and all of them bowed low.</p>
+
+<p>'Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, 'why you
+are painting those roses?'</p>
+
+<p>Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Two began in a
+low voice, 'Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to
+have been a <i>red</i> rose-tree, and we put a white one in by
+mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have
+our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our
+best, afore she comes, to--' At this moment Five, who had been
+anxiously looking across the garden, called out 'The Queen! The
+Queen!' and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat
+upon their faces. There was a sound of many footsteps, and Alice
+looked round, eager to see the Queen.</p>
+
+<p>First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped
+like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and
+feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were
+ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the
+soldiers did. After these came the royal children; there were ten
+of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in
+hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came
+the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice
+recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous
+manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without
+noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the
+King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this
+grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.</p>
+
+<p>Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on
+her face like the three gardeners, but she could not remember
+ever having heard of such a rule at processions; 'and besides,
+what would be the use of a procession,' thought she, 'if people
+had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn't see
+it?' So she stood still where she was, and waited.</p>
+
+<p>When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped
+and looked at her, and the Queen said severely 'Who is this?' She
+said it to the Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in
+reply.</p>
+
+<p>'Idiot!' said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and,
+turning to Alice, she went on, 'What's your name, child?'</p>
+
+<p>'My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,' said Alice very
+politely; but she added, to herself, 'Why, they're only a pack of
+cards, after all. I needn't be afraid of them!'</p>
+
+<p>'And who are <i>these</i>?' said the Queen, pointing to the
+three gardeners who were lying round the rosetree; for, you see,
+as they were lying on their faces, and the pattern on their backs
+was the same as the rest of the pack, she could not tell whether
+they were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her
+own children.</p>
+
+<p>'How should I know?' said Alice, surprised at her own courage.
+'It's no business of <i>mine</i>.'</p>
+
+<p>The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her
+for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head!
+Off--'</p>
+
+<p>'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the
+Queen was silent.</p>
+
+<p>The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said
+'Consider, my dear: she is only a child!'</p>
+
+<p>The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave
+'Turn them over!'</p>
+
+<p>The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.</p>
+
+<p>'Get up!' said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the
+three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the
+King, the Queen, the royal children, and everybody else.</p>
+
+<p>'Leave off that!' screamed the Queen. 'You make me giddy.' And
+then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, 'What <i>have</i>
+you been doing here?'</p>
+
+<p>'May it please your Majesty,' said Two, in a very humble tone,
+going down on one knee as he spoke, 'we were trying--'</p>
+
+<p>'I see!' said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the
+roses. 'Off with their heads!' and the procession moved on, three
+of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate
+gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.</p>
+
+<p>'You shan't be beheaded!' said Alice, and she put them into a
+large flower-pot that stood near. The three soldiers wandered
+about for a minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly
+marched off after the others.</p>
+
+<p>'Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen.</p>
+
+<p>'Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!' the
+soldiers shouted in reply.</p>
+
+<p>'That's right!' shouted the Queen. 'Can you play croquet?'</p>
+
+<p>The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question
+was evidently meant for her.</p>
+
+<p>'Yes!' shouted Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Come on, then!' roared the Queen, and Alice joined the
+procession, wondering very much what would happen next.</p>
+
+<p>'It's--it's a very fine day!' said a timid voice at her side.
+She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously
+into her face.</p>
+
+<p>'Very,' said Alice: '--where's the Duchess?'</p>
+
+<p>'Hush! Hush!' said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He
+looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised
+himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and
+whispered 'She's under sentence of execution.'</p>
+
+<p>'What for?' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Did you say "What a pity!"?' the Rabbit asked.</p>
+
+<p>'No, I didn't,' said Alice: 'I don't think it's at all a pity.
+I said "What for?"'</p>
+
+<p>'She boxed the Queen's ears--' the Rabbit began. Alice gave a
+little scream of laughter. 'Oh, hush!' the Rabbit whispered in a
+frightened tone. 'The Queen will hear you! You see, she came
+rather late, and the Queen said--'</p>
+
+<p>'Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder,
+and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up
+against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or
+two, and the game began. Alice thought she had never seen such a
+curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and
+furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live
+flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to
+stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.</p>
+
+<p>The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her
+flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away,
+comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down,
+but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened
+out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it
+<i>would</i> twist itself round and look up in her face, with
+such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out
+laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to
+begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had
+unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all
+this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever
+she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up
+soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of
+the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very
+difficult game indeed.</p>
+
+<p>The players all played at once without waiting for turns,
+quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in
+a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went
+stamping about, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with
+her head!' about once in a minute.</p>
+
+<p>Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as
+yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might
+happen any minute, 'and then,' thought she, 'what would become of
+me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great
+wonder is, that there's any one left alive!'</p>
+
+<p>She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering
+whether she could get away without being seen, when she noticed a
+curious appearance in the air: it puzzled her very much at first,
+but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a
+grin, and she said to herself 'It's the Cheshire Cat: now I shall
+have somebody to talk to.'</p>
+
+<p>'How are you getting on?' said the Cat, as soon as there was
+mouth enough for it to speak with.</p>
+
+<p>Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. 'It's no
+use speaking to it,' she thought, 'till its ears have come, or at
+least one of them.' In another minute the whole head appeared,
+and then Alice put down her flamingo, and began an account of the
+game, feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her. The Cat
+seemed to think that there was enough of it now in sight, and no
+more of it appeared.</p>
+
+<p>'I don't think they play at all fairly,' Alice began, in
+rather a complaining tone, 'and they all quarrel so dreadfully
+one can't hear oneself speak--and they don't seem to have any
+rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to
+them--and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being
+alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next
+walking about at the other end of the ground--and I should have
+croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it
+saw mine coming!'</p>
+
+<p>'How do you like the Queen?' said the Cat in a low voice.</p>
+
+<p>'Not at all,' said Alice: 'she's so extremely--' Just then she
+noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she
+went on, '--likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing
+the game.'</p>
+
+<p>The Queen smiled and passed on.</p>
+
+<p>'Who <i>are</i> you talking to?' said the King, going up to
+Alice, and looking at the Cat's head with great curiosity.</p>
+
+<p>'It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said Alice: 'allow me
+to introduce it.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however,
+it may kiss my hand if it likes.'</p>
+
+<p>'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.</p>
+
+<p>'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me
+like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.</p>
+
+<p>'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. 'I've read that in
+some book, but I don't remember where.'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, it must be removed,' said the King very decidedly, and
+he called the Queen, who was passing at the moment, 'My dear! I
+wish you would have this cat removed!'</p>
+
+<p>The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great
+or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking
+round.</p>
+
+<p>'I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the King eagerly,
+and he hurried off.</p>
+
+<p>Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game
+was going on, as she heard the Queen's voice in the distance,
+screaming with passion. She had already heard her sentence three
+of the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and
+she did not like the look of things at all, as the game was in
+such confusion that she never knew whether it was her turn or
+not. So she went in search of her hedgehog.</p>
+
+<p>The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog,
+which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one
+of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her
+flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where
+Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up
+into a tree.</p>
+
+<p>By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back,
+the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight:
+'but it doesn't matter much,' thought Alice, 'as all the arches
+are gone from this side of the ground.' So she tucked it away
+under her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back for
+a little more conversation with her friend.</p>
+
+<p>When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to
+find quite a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute
+going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who
+were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent,
+and looked very uncomfortable.</p>
+
+<p>The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to
+settle the question, and they repeated their arguments to her,
+though, as they all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed
+to make out exactly what they said.</p>
+
+<p>The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a
+head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had
+never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin
+at <i>his</i> time of life.</p>
+
+<p>The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could
+be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.</p>
+
+<p>The Queen's argument was, that if something wasn't done about
+it in less than no time she'd have everybody executed, all round.
+(It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so
+grave and anxious.)</p>
+
+<p>Alice could think of nothing else to say but 'It belongs to
+the Duchess: you'd better ask <i>her</i> about it.'</p>
+
+<p>'She's in prison,' the Queen said to the executioner: 'fetch
+her here.' And the executioner went off like an arrow.</p>
+
+<p>The Cat's head began fading away the moment he was gone, and,
+by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely
+disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and
+down looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the
+game.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER IX</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">The Mock Turtle's Story</h3>
+
+<p>'You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old
+thing!' said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately
+into Alice's, and they walked off together.</p>
+
+<p>Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and
+thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had
+made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.</p>
+
+<p>'When <i>I'm</i> a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a
+very hopeful tone though), 'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen
+<i>at all</i>. Soup does very well without--Maybe it's always
+pepper that makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very much
+pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, 'and vinegar that
+makes them sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--and
+barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I
+only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about
+it, you know--'</p>
+
+<p>She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a
+little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear.
+'You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you
+forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that
+is, but I shall remember it in a bit.'</p>
+
+<p>'Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.</p>
+
+<p>'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a
+moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up
+closer to Alice's side as she spoke.</p>
+
+<p>Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first,
+because the Duchess was <i>very</i> ugly; and secondly, because she was
+exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder,
+and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like
+to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.</p>
+
+<p>'The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of
+keeping up the conversation a little.</p>
+
+<p>''Tis so,' said the Duchess: 'and the moral of that is--"Oh,
+'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'</p>
+
+<p>'Somebody said,' Alice whispered, 'that it's done by everybody
+minding their own business!'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess,
+digging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added,
+'and the moral of <i>that</i> is--"Take care of the sense, and
+the sounds will take care of themselves."'</p>
+
+<p>'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought
+to herself.</p>
+
+<p>'I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your
+waist,' the Duchess said after a pause: 'the reason is, that I'm
+doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the
+experiment?'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>He</i> might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling
+at all anxious to have the experiment tried.</p>
+
+<p>'Very true,' said the Duchess: 'flamingoes and mustard both
+bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock
+together."'</p>
+
+<p>'Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.</p>
+
+<p>'Right, as usual,' said the Duchess: 'what a clear way you
+have of putting things!'</p>
+
+<p>'It's a mineral, I <i>think</i>,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree
+to everything that Alice said; 'there's a large mustard-mine near
+here. And the moral of that is--"The more there is of mine, the
+less there is of yours."'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this
+last remark, 'it's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it
+is.'</p>
+
+<p>'I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; 'and the moral of
+that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put
+more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than
+what it might appear to others that what you were or might have
+been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared
+to them to be otherwise."'</p>
+
+<p>'I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very
+politely, 'if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it
+as you say it.'</p>
+
+<p>'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess
+replied, in a pleased tone.</p>
+
+<p>'Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,'
+said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. 'I make you
+a present of everything I've said as yet.'</p>
+
+<p>'A cheap sort of present!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad they don't
+give birthday presents like that!' But she did not venture to say
+it out loud.</p>
+
+<p>'Thinking again?' the Duchess asked, with another dig of her
+sharp little chin.</p>
+
+<p>'I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was
+beginning to feel a little worried.</p>
+
+<p>'Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, 'as pigs have to
+fly; and the m--'</p>
+
+<p>But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died
+away, even in the middle of her favourite word 'moral,' and the
+arm that was linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up,
+and there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded,
+frowning like a thunderstorm.</p>
+
+<p>'A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a low, weak
+voice.</p>
+
+<p>'Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen, stamping on
+the ground as she spoke; 'either you or your head must be off,
+and that in about half no time! Take your choice!'</p>
+
+<p>The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.</p>
+
+<p>'Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to Alice; and
+Alice was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed
+her back to the croquet-ground.</p>
+
+<p>The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen's absence,
+and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her,
+they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a
+moment's delay would cost them their lives.</p>
+
+<p>All the time they were playing the Queen never left off
+quarrelling with the other players, and shouting 'Off with his
+head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were
+taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave
+off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour
+or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the
+King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of
+execution.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to
+Alice, 'Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'</p>
+
+<p>'No,' said Alice. 'I don't even know what a Mock Turtle
+is.'</p>
+
+<p>'It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said the
+Queen.</p>
+
+<p>'I never saw one, or heard of one,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Come on, then,' said the Queen, 'and he shall tell you his
+history,'</p>
+
+<p>As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low
+voice, to the company generally, 'You are all pardoned.' 'Come,
+<i>that's</i> a good thing!' she said to herself, for she had
+felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had
+ordered.</p>
+
+<p>They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the
+sun. (<i>If</i> you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.)
+'Up, lazy thing!' said the Queen, 'and take this young lady to
+see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and
+see after some executions I have ordered'; and she walked off,
+leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like
+the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would
+be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage
+Queen: so she waited.</p>
+
+<p>The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the
+Queen till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. 'What fun!'
+said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'What <i>is</i> the fun?' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Why, <i>she</i>,' said the Gryphon. 'It's all her fancy,
+that: they never executes nobody, you know. Come on!'</p>
+
+<p>'Everybody says "come on!" here,' thought Alice, as she went
+slowly after it: 'I never was so ordered about in all my life,
+never!'</p>
+
+<p>They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the
+distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and,
+as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart
+would break. She pitied him deeply. 'What is his sorrow?' she
+asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the
+same words as before, 'It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no
+sorrow, you know. Come on!'</p>
+
+<p>So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with
+large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.</p>
+
+<p>'This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants for to
+know your history, she do.'</p>
+
+<p>'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow
+tone: 'sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've
+finished.'</p>
+
+<p>So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice
+thought to herself, 'I don't see how he can <i>even</i> finish,
+if he doesn't begin.' But she waited patiently.</p>
+
+<p>'Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, 'I was
+a real Turtle.'</p>
+
+<p>These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only
+by an occasional exclamation of 'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and
+the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very
+nearly getting up and saying, 'Thank you, sir, for your
+interesting story,' but she could not help thinking there
+<i>must</i> be more to come, so she sat still and said
+nothing.</p>
+
+<p>'When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more
+calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, 'we went to
+school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call
+him Tortoise--'</p>
+
+<p>'Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice
+asked.</p>
+
+<p>'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock
+Turtle angrily: 'really you are very dull!'</p>
+
+<p>'You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple
+question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and
+looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. At
+last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, 'Drive on, old fellow!
+Don't be all day about it!' and he went on in these words:</p>
+
+<p>'Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe
+it--'</p>
+
+<p>'I never said I didn't!' interrupted Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'You did,' said the Mock Turtle.</p>
+
+<p>'Hold your tongue!' added the Gryphon, before Alice could
+speak again. The Mock Turtle went on.</p>
+
+<p>'We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to school
+every day--'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>I've</i> been to a day-school, too,' said Alice; 'you
+needn't be so proud as all that.'</p>
+
+<p>'With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously.</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said Alice, 'we learned French and music.'</p>
+
+<p>'And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.</p>
+
+<p>'Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly.</p>
+
+<p>'Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock
+Turtle in a tone of great relief. 'Now at <i>ours</i> they had at
+the end of the bill, "French, music, <i>and
+washing</i>--extra."'</p>
+
+<p>'You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice; 'living at the
+bottom of the sea.'</p>
+
+<p>'I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle with a
+sigh. 'I only took the regular course.'</p>
+
+<p>'What was that?' inquired Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock
+Turtle replied; 'and then the different branches of Arithmetic--
+Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'</p>
+
+<p>'I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to say.
+'What is it?'</p>
+
+<p>The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. 'What! Never
+heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is,
+I suppose?'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: 'it
+means--to--make--anything--prettier.'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to
+uglify is, you <i>are</i> a simpleton.'</p>
+
+<p>Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about
+it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said 'What else had you
+to learn?'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting
+off the subjects on his flappers, '--Mystery, ancient and modern,
+with Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old
+conger-eel, that used to come once a week: <i>He</i> taught us
+Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'</p>
+
+<p>'What was <i>that</i> like?' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: 'I'm
+too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'</p>
+
+<p>'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: 'I went to the Classics
+master, though. He was an old crab, <i>he</i> was.'</p>
+
+<p>'I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: 'he
+taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'</p>
+
+<p>'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn;
+and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.</p>
+
+<p>'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in
+a hurry to change the subject.</p>
+
+<p>'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the
+next, and so on.'</p>
+
+<p>'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon
+remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'</p>
+
+<p>This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a
+little before she made her next remark. 'Then the eleventh day
+must have been a holiday?'</p>
+
+<p>'Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle.</p>
+
+<p>'And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice went on
+eagerly.</p>
+
+<p>'That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon interrupted in a
+very decided tone: 'tell her something about the games now.'</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER X</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">The Lobster Quadrille</h3>
+
+<p>The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one
+flapper across his eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak,
+but for a minute or two sobs choked his voice. 'Same as if he had
+a bone in his throat,' said the Gryphon: and it set to work
+shaking him and punching him in the back. At last the Mock Turtle
+recovered his voice, and, with tears running down his cheeks, he
+went on again:--</p>
+
+<p>'You may not have lived much under the sea--' ('I haven't,'
+said Alice)-- 'and perhaps you were never even introduced to a
+lobster--' (Alice began to say 'I once tasted--' but checked
+herself hastily, and said 'No, never') '--so you can have no idea
+what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!'</p>
+
+<p>'No, indeed,' said Alice. 'What sort of a dance is it?'</p>
+
+<p>'Why,' said the Gryphon, 'you first form into a line along the
+sea-shore--'</p>
+
+<p>'Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle. 'Seals, turtles, salmon,
+and so on; then, when you've cleared all the jelly-fish out of
+the way--'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>That</i> generally takes some time,' interrupted the
+Gryphon.</p>
+
+<p>'--you advance twice--'</p>
+
+<p>'Each with a lobster as a partner!' cried the Gryphon.</p>
+
+<p>'Of course,' the Mock Turtle said: 'advance twice, set to
+partners--'</p>
+
+<p>'--change lobsters, and retire in same order,' continued the
+Gryphon.</p>
+
+<p>'Then, you know,' the Mock Turtle went on, 'you throw
+the--'</p>
+
+<p>'The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the
+air.</p>
+
+<p>'--as far out to sea as you can--'</p>
+
+<p>'Swim after them!' screamed the Gryphon.</p>
+
+<p>'Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the Mock Turtle,
+capering wildly about.</p>
+
+<p>'Change lobster's again!' yelled the Gryphon at the top of its
+voice.</p>
+
+<p>'Back to land again, and that's all the first figure,' said
+the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two
+creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things all this
+time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at
+Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'It must be a very pretty dance,' said Alice timidly.</p>
+
+<p>'Would you like to see a little of it?' said the Mock
+Turtle.</p>
+
+<p>'Very much indeed,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Come, let's try the first figure!' said the Mock Turtle to
+the Gryphon. 'We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall
+sing?'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, <i>you</i> sing,' said the Gryphon. 'I've forgotten the
+words.'</p>
+
+<p>So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every
+now and then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and
+waving their forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle
+sang this, very slowly and sadly:--</p>
+
+<p><i>'"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a
+snail. "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on
+my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all
+advance! They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join
+the dance?</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the
+dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join
+the dance?</i></p>
+
+<p><i>"You can really have no notion how delightful it will be
+When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to
+sea!" But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a look
+askance-- Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not
+join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, would
+not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not,
+could not join the dance.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>'"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied.
+"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. The
+further off from England the nearer is to France-- Then turn not
+pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the
+dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join
+the dance?"'</i></p>
+
+<p>'Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to watch,' said
+Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: 'and I do so
+like that curious song about the whiting!'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, 'they--you've
+seen them, of course?'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said Alice, 'I've often seen them at dinn--' she
+checked herself hastily.</p>
+
+<p>'I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock Turtle, 'but
+if you've seen them so often, of course you know what they're
+like.'</p>
+
+<p>'I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. 'They have their
+tails in their mouths--and they're all over crumbs.'</p>
+
+<p>'You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle: 'crumbs
+would all wash off in the sea. But they <i>have</i> their tails
+in their mouths; and the reason is--' here the Mock Turtle yawned
+and shut his eyes.--'Tell her about the reason and all that,' he
+said to the Gryphon.</p>
+
+<p>'The reason is,' said the Gryphon, 'that they <i>would</i> go
+with the lobsters to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So
+they had to fall a long way. So they got their tails fast in
+their mouths. So they couldn't get them out again. That's
+all.'</p>
+
+<p>'Thank you,' said Alice, 'it's very interesting. I never knew
+so much about a whiting before.'</p>
+
+<p>'I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the
+Gryphon. 'Do you know why it's called a whiting?'</p>
+
+<p>'I never thought about it,' said Alice. 'Why?'</p>
+
+<p><i>'It does the boots and shoes.'</i> the Gryphon replied very
+solemnly.</p>
+
+<p>Alice was thoroughly puzzled. 'Does the boots and shoes!' she
+repeated in a wondering tone.</p>
+
+<p>'Why, what are <i>your</i> shoes done with?' said the Gryphon.
+'I mean, what makes them so shiny?'</p>
+
+<p>Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she
+gave her answer. 'They're done with blacking, I believe.'</p>
+
+<p>'Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on in a deep
+voice, 'are done with a whiting. Now you know.'</p>
+
+<p>'And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a tone of great
+curiosity.</p>
+
+<p>'Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather
+impatiently: 'any shrimp could have told you that.'</p>
+
+<p>'If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were
+still running on the song, 'I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep
+back, please: we don't want <i>you</i> with us!"'</p>
+
+<p>'They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle
+said: 'no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'</p>
+
+<p>'Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great
+surprise.</p>
+
+<p>'Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: 'why, if a fish came to
+<i>me</i>, and told me he was going a journey, I should say "With
+what porpoise?"'</p>
+
+<p>'Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended
+tone. And the Gryphon added 'Come, let's hear some of <i>your</i>
+adventures.'</p>
+
+<p>'I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,'
+said Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no use going back to
+yesterday, because I was a different person then.'</p>
+
+<p>'Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.</p>
+
+<p>'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an
+impatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'</p>
+
+<p>So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when
+she first saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about it
+just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each
+side, and opened their eyes and mouths so <i>very</i> wide, but
+she gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly
+quiet till she got to the part about her repeating <i>'You are
+old, Father William,'</i> to the Caterpillar, and the words all
+coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath,
+and said 'That's very curious.'</p>
+
+<p>'It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the
+Gryphon.</p>
+
+<p>'It all came different!' the Mock Turtle repeated
+thoughtfully. 'I should like to hear her try and repeat something
+now. Tell her to begin.' He looked at the Gryphon as if he
+thought it had some kind of authority over Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Stand up and repeat <i>"'Tis the voice of the sluggard,"'</i>
+said the Gryphon.</p>
+
+<p>'How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat
+lessons!' thought Alice; 'I might as well be at school at once.'
+However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so
+full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was
+saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--</p>
+
+<p>''Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, "You have
+baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." As a duck with its
+eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and
+turns out his toes.'</p>
+
+<p>[later editions continued as follows When the sands are all
+dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of
+the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His
+voice has a timid and tremulous sound.]</p>
+
+<p>'That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,'
+said the Gryphon.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; 'but it
+sounds uncommon nonsense.'</p>
+
+<p>Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her
+hands, wondering if anything would <i>ever</i> happen in a
+natural way again.</p>
+
+<p>'I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock
+Turtle.</p>
+
+<p>'She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on with
+the next verse.'</p>
+
+<p>'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. 'How
+<i>could</i> he turn them out with his nose, you know?'</p>
+
+<p>'It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was
+dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the
+subject.</p>
+
+<p>'Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated impatiently:
+'it begins "I passed by his garden."'</p>
+
+<p>Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would
+all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:--</p>
+
+<p><i>'I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye, How the
+Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--'</i></p>
+
+<p>[<tt>later editions continued as follows:</tt> <i>The Panther
+took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat, While the Owl had the dish
+as its share of the treat. When the pie was all finished, the
+Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: While
+the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, And concluded
+the banquet--</i>]</p>
+
+<p>'What <i>is</i> the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle
+interrupted, 'if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far
+the most confusing thing I ever heard!'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon: and
+Alice was only too glad to do so.</p>
+
+<p>'Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the
+Gryphon went on. 'Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a
+song?'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,'
+Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather
+offended tone, 'Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her "Turtle
+Soup," will you, old fellow?'</p>
+
+<p>The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes
+choked with sobs, to sing this:--</p>
+
+<p><i>'Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot
+tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the
+evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
+Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the
+e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup!</i></p>
+
+<p><i>'Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, Game, or any other
+dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth only of
+beautiful Soup? Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? Beau--ootiful
+Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
+Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!'</i></p>
+
+<p>'Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had
+just begun to repeat it, when a cry of 'The trial's beginning!'
+was heard in the distance.</p>
+
+<p>'Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand,
+it hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.</p>
+
+<p>'What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon
+only answered 'Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more
+faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the
+melancholy words:--</p>
+
+<p><i>'Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful
+Soup!'</i></p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER XI</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">Who Stole the Tarts?</h3>
+
+<p>The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when
+they arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts
+of little birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards:
+the Knave was standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on
+each side to guard him; and near the King was the White Rabbit,
+with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the
+other. In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large
+dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice
+quite hungry to look at them--'I wish they'd get the trial done,'
+she thought, 'and hand round the refreshments!' But there seemed
+to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about
+her, to pass away the time.</p>
+
+<p>Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had
+read about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that
+she knew the name of nearly everything there. 'That's the judge,'
+she said to herself, 'because of his great wig.'</p>
+
+<p>The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown
+over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he
+did it,) he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly
+not becoming.</p>
+
+<p>'And that's the jury-box,' thought Alice, 'and those twelve
+creatures,' (she was obliged to say 'creatures,' you see, because
+some of them were animals, and some were birds,) 'I suppose they
+are the jurors.' She said this last word two or three times over
+to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and
+rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the
+meaning of it at all. However, 'jury-men' would have done just as
+well.</p>
+
+<p>The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates.
+'What are they doing?' Alice whispered to the Gryphon. 'They
+can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's
+begun.'</p>
+
+<p>'They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in
+reply, 'for fear they should forget them before the end of the
+trial.'</p>
+
+<p>'Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but
+she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, 'Silence in
+the court!' and the King put on his spectacles and looked
+anxiously round, to make out who was talking.</p>
+
+<p>Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their
+shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down 'stupid things!'
+on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them
+didn't know how to spell 'stupid,' and that he had to ask his
+neighbour to tell him. 'A nice muddle their slates'll be in
+before the trial's over!' thought Alice.</p>
+
+<p>One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course,
+Alice could <i>not</i> stand, and she went round the court and
+got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it
+away. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was
+Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of
+it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write
+with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very
+little use, as it left no mark on the slate.</p>
+
+<p>'Herald, read the accusation!' said the King.</p>
+
+<p>On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and
+then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:--</p>
+
+<p><i>'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer
+day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them
+quite away!'</i></p>
+
+<p>'Consider your verdict,' the King said to the jury.</p>
+
+<p>'Not yet, not yet!' the Rabbit hastily interrupted. 'There's a
+great deal to come before that!'</p>
+
+<p>'Call the first witness,' said the King; and the White Rabbit
+blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, 'First
+witness!'</p>
+
+<p>The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in
+one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. 'I beg
+pardon, your Majesty,' he began, 'for bringing these in: but I
+hadn't quite finished my tea when I was sent for.'</p>
+
+<p>'You ought to have finished,' said the King. 'When did you
+begin?'</p>
+
+<p>The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into
+the court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. 'Fourteenth of March, I
+<i>think</i> it was,' he said.</p>
+
+<p>'Fifteenth,' said the March Hare.</p>
+
+<p>'Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse.</p>
+
+<p>'Write that down,' the King said to the jury, and the jury
+eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then
+added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.</p>
+
+<p>'Take off your hat,' the King said to the Hatter.</p>
+
+<p>'It isn't mine,' said the Hatter.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Stolen!</i>' the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who
+instantly made a memorandum of the fact.</p>
+
+<p>'I keep them to sell,' the Hatter added as an explanation;
+'I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.'</p>
+
+<p>Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the
+Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.</p>
+
+<p>'Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be nervous, or
+I'll have you executed on the spot.'</p>
+
+<p>This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept
+shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the
+Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his
+teacup instead of the bread-and-butter.</p>
+
+<p>Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which
+puzzled her a good deal until she made out what it was: she was
+beginning to grow larger again, and she thought at first she
+would get up and leave the court; but on second thoughts she
+decided to remain where she was as long as there was room for
+her.</p>
+
+<p>'I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.' said the Dormouse, who was
+sitting next to her. 'I can hardly breathe.'</p>
+
+<p>'I can't help it,' said Alice very meekly: 'I'm growing.'</p>
+
+<p>'You've no right to grow <i>here</i>,' said the Dormouse.</p>
+
+<p>'Don't talk nonsense,' said Alice more boldly: 'you know
+you're growing too.'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes, but <i>I</i> grow at a reasonable pace,' said the
+Dormouse: 'not in that ridiculous fashion.' And he got up very
+sulkily and crossed over to the other side of the court.</p>
+
+<p>All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the
+Hatter, and, just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to
+one of the officers of the court, 'Bring me the list of the
+singers in the last concert!' on which the wretched Hatter
+trembled so, that he shook both his shoes off.</p>
+
+<p>'Give your evidence,' the King repeated angrily, 'or I'll have
+you executed, whether you're nervous or not.'</p>
+
+<p>'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' the Hatter began, in a
+trembling voice, '--and I hadn't begun my tea--not above a week
+or so--and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin--and
+the twinkling of the tea--'</p>
+
+<p>'The twinkling of the <i>what</i>?' said the King.</p>
+
+<p>'It <i>began</i> with the tea,' the Hatter replied.</p>
+
+<p>'Of course twinkling <i>begins</i> with a T!' said the King
+sharply. 'Do you take me for a dunce? Go on!'</p>
+
+<p>'I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, 'and most things
+twinkled after that--only the March Hare said--'</p>
+
+<p>'I didn't!' the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry.</p>
+
+<p>'You did!' said the Hatter.</p>
+
+<p>'I deny it!' said the March Hare.</p>
+
+<p>'He denies it,' said the King: 'leave out that part.'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--' the Hatter went on,
+looking anxiously round to see if he would deny it too: but the
+Dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep.</p>
+
+<p>'After that,' continued the Hatter, 'I cut some more bread-
+and-butter--'</p>
+
+<p>'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked.</p>
+
+<p>'That I can't remember,' said the Hatter.</p>
+
+<p>'You <i>must</i> remember,' remarked the King, 'or I'll have
+you executed.'</p>
+
+<p>The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter,
+and went down on one knee. 'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' he
+began.</p>
+
+<p>'You're a very poor <i>speaker</i>,' said the King.</p>
+
+<p>Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately
+suppressed by the officers of the court. (As that is rather a
+hard word, I will just explain to you how it was done. They had a
+large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings: into
+this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon
+it.)</p>
+
+<p>'I'm glad I've seen that done,' thought Alice. 'I've so often
+read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, "There was some
+attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the
+officers of the court," and I never understood what it meant till
+now.'</p>
+
+<p>'If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,'
+continued the King.</p>
+
+<p>'I can't go no lower,' said the Hatter: 'I'm on the floor, as
+it is.'</p>
+
+<p>'Then you may <i>sit</i> down,' the King replied.</p>
+
+<p>Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was suppressed.</p>
+
+<p>'Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!' thought Alice. 'Now we
+shall get on better.'</p>
+
+<p>'I'd rather finish my tea,' said the Hatter, with an anxious
+look at the Queen, who was reading the list of singers.</p>
+
+<p>'You may go,' said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the
+court, without even waiting to put his shoes on.</p>
+
+<p>'--and just take his head off outside,' the Queen added to one
+of the officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the
+officer could get to the door.</p>
+
+<p>'Call the next witness!' said the King.</p>
+
+<p>The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the
+pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before
+she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began
+sneezing all at once.</p>
+
+<p>'Give your evidence,' said the King.</p>
+
+<p>'Shan't,' said the cook.</p>
+
+<p>The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a
+low voice, 'Your Majesty must cross-examine <i>this</i> witness.'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, if I must, I must,' the King said, with a melancholy
+air, and, after folding his arms and frowning at the cook till
+his eyes were nearly out of sight, he said in a deep voice, 'What
+are tarts made of?'</p>
+
+<p>'Pepper, mostly,' said the cook.</p>
+
+<p>'Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.</p>
+
+<p>'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out. 'Behead that
+Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch
+him! Off with his whiskers!'</p>
+
+<p>For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the
+Dormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down
+again, the cook had disappeared.</p>
+
+<p>'Never mind!' said the King, with an air of great relief.
+'Call the next witness.' And he added in an undertone to the
+Queen, 'Really, my dear, <i>you</i> must cross-examine the next
+witness. It quite makes my forehead ache!'</p>
+
+<p>Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list,
+feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like,
+'--for they haven't got much evidence <i>yet</i>,' she said to
+herself. Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at
+the top of his shrill little voice, the name 'Alice!'</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="Center">CHAPTER XII</h3>
+
+<h3 align="Center">Alice's Evidence</h3>
+
+<p>'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the
+moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she
+jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with
+the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads
+of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding
+her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset
+the week before.</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, I <i>beg</i> your pardon!' she exclaimed in a tone of
+great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she
+could, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head,
+and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at
+once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.</p>
+
+<p>'The trial cannot proceed,' said the King in a very grave
+voice, 'until all the jurymen are back in their proper places--
+<i>all</i>,' he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at
+Alice as he said do.</p>
+
+<p>Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she
+had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing
+was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable
+to move. She soon got it out again, and put it right; 'not that
+it signifies much,' she said to herself; 'I should think it would
+be <i>quite</i> as much use in the trial one way up as the
+other.'</p>
+
+<p>As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of
+being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and
+handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write
+out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed
+too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open,
+gazing up into the roof of the court.</p>
+
+<p>'What do you know about this business?' the King said to
+Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Nothing,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Nothing <i>whatever?</i>' persisted the King.</p>
+
+<p>'Nothing <i>whatever,</i>' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'That's very important,' the King said, turning to the jury.
+They were just beginning to write this down on their slates, when
+the White Rabbit interrupted: '<i>Un</i>important, your Majesty
+means, of course,' he said in a very respectful tone, but
+frowning and making faces at him as he spoke.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Un</i>important, of course, I meant,' the King hastily
+said, and went on to himself in an undertone,
+'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were
+trying which word sounded best.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and some
+'unimportant.' Alice could see this, as she was near enough to
+look over their slates; 'but it doesn't matter a bit,' she
+thought to herself.</p>
+
+<p>At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily
+writing in his note-book, cackled out 'Silence!' and read out
+from his book, 'Rule Forty-two. <i>All persons more than a mile
+hight to leave the court</i>.'</p>
+
+<p>Everybody looked at Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>I'm</i> not a mile high,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'You are,' said the King.</p>
+
+<p>'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: 'besides, that's
+not a regular rule: you invented it just now.'</p>
+
+<p>'It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.</p>
+
+<p>'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily.
+'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, trembling
+voice.</p>
+
+<p>'There's more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,' said
+the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; 'this paper has
+just been picked up.'</p>
+
+<p>'What's in it?' said the Queen.</p>
+
+<p>'I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, 'but it
+seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to--to
+somebody.'</p>
+
+<p>'It must have been that,' said the King, 'unless it was
+written to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.'</p>
+
+<p>'Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen.</p>
+
+<p>'It isn't directed at all,' said the White Rabbit; 'in fact,
+there's nothing written on the <i>outside</i>.' He unfolded the
+paper as he spoke, and added 'It isn't a letter, after all: it's
+a set of verses.'</p>
+
+<p>'Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked another of
+they jurymen.</p>
+
+<p>'No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, 'and that's the
+queerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.)</p>
+
+<p>'He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said the King.
+(The jury all brightened up again.)</p>
+
+<p>'Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't write it, and
+they can't prove I did: there's no name signed at the end.'</p>
+
+<p>'If you didn't sign it,' said the King, 'that only makes the
+matter worse. You <i>must</i> have meant some mischief, or else
+you'd have signed your name like an honest man.'</p>
+
+<p>There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the
+first really clever thing the King had said that day.</p>
+
+<p>'That <i>proves</i> his guilt,' said the Queen.</p>
+
+<p>'It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. 'Why, you don't
+even know what they're about!'</p>
+
+<p>'Read them,' said the King.</p>
+
+<p>The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin,
+please your Majesty?' he asked.</p>
+
+<p>'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on
+till you come to the end: then stop.'</p>
+
+<p>These were the verses the White Rabbit read:--</p>
+
+<p><i>'They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him:
+She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>He sent them word I had not gone (We know it to be true):
+If she should push the matter on, What would become of
+you?</i></p>
+
+<p><i>I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or
+more; They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine
+before.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He
+trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit)
+An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Don't let him know she liked them best, For this must ever
+be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and
+me.'</i></p>
+
+<p>'That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,'
+said the King, rubbing his hands; 'so now let the jury--'</p>
+
+<p>'If any one of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she had
+grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit
+afraid of interrupting him,) 'I'll give him sixpence. _I_ don't
+believe there's an atom of meaning in it.'</p>
+
+<p>The jury all wrote down on their slates, '<i>She</i> doesn't
+believe there's an atom of meaning in it,' but none of them
+attempted to explain the paper.</p>
+
+<p>'If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, 'that saves a
+world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And
+yet I don't know,' he went on, spreading out the verses on his
+knee, and looking at them with one eye; 'I seem to see some
+meaning in them, after all. "<i>-said I could not swim--</i>" you
+can't swim, can you?' he added, turning to the Knave.</p>
+
+<p>The Knave shook his head sadly. 'Do I look like it?' he said.
+(Which he certainly did <i>not</i>, being made entirely of
+cardboard.)</p>
+
+<p>'All right, so far,' said the King, and he went on muttering
+over the verses to himself: '"<i>We know it to be true--</i>"
+that's the jury, of course-- "<i>I gave her one, they gave him
+two--</i>" why, that must be what he did with the tarts, you
+know--'</p>
+
+<p>'But, it goes on "<i>they all returned from him to you,</i>"'
+said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly, pointing to
+the tarts on the table. 'Nothing can be clearer than <i>that</i>.
+Then again--"<i>before she had this fit-</i>-" you never had
+<i>fits</i>, my dear, I think?' he said to the Queen.</p>
+
+<p>'Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the
+Lizard as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off
+writing on his slate with one finger, as he found it made no
+mark; but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that was
+trickling down his face, as long as it lasted.)</p>
+
+<p>'Then the words don't <i>fit</i> you,' said the King, looking
+round the court with a smile. There was a dead silence.</p>
+
+<p>'It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and
+everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the
+King said, for about the twentieth time that day.</p>
+
+<p>'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first--verdict
+afterwards.'</p>
+
+<p>'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of having
+the sentence first!'</p>
+
+<p>'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.</p>
+
+<p>'I won't!' said Alice.</p>
+
+<p>'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her
+voice. Nobody moved.</p>
+
+<p>'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full
+size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'</p>
+
+<p>At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying
+down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half
+of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on
+the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently
+brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the
+trees upon her face.</p>
+
+<p>'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long
+sleep you've had!'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told
+her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange
+Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and
+when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, 'It
+<i>was</i> a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to
+your tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off,
+thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream
+it had been.</p>
+
+<p>But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her
+head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of
+little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began
+dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:--</p>
+
+<p>First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the
+tiny hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes
+were looking up into hers--she could hear the very tones of her
+voice, and see that queer little toss of her head to keep back
+the wandering hair that <i>would</i> always get into her
+eyes--and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the whole
+place around her became alive the strange creatures of her little
+sister's dream.</p>
+
+<p>The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried
+by--the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the
+neighbouring pool--she could hear the rattle of the teacups as
+the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal,
+and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate
+guests to execution--once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the
+Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once
+more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's
+slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs,
+filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable
+Mock Turtle.</p>
+
+<p>So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in
+Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and
+all would change to dull reality--the grass would be only
+rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the
+reeds--the rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells,
+and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd
+boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and
+all the other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the
+confused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing of the
+cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's
+heavy sobs.</p>
+
+<p>Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of
+hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how
+she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and
+loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her
+other little children, and make <i>their</i> eyes bright and eager with
+many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of
+long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows,
+and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own
+child-life, and the happy summer days.</p>
+
+<p>End of the Project Gutenberg Etext of Alice's Adventures in
+Wonderland</p>
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