Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

ALICE
ADVENTURES
IN
AND
WONDERLAND,
THBOUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS.
LEWIS CARROLL.
WITH NINETY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS

BY
JOHN TENNIEL.
NEW EDITION
IN ONE YOLUME,
XEW YORK:
MACMILLAN AND CO
1894.
p.
ALICE S
ADVENTURES II WONDERLAND.
831678
CONTENTS.
CHAPTEB
I.
PAGE
DOWN THE
RABBIT-HOLE
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II.
THE POOL OF TEARS
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15
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III.
CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TAJUE

IN A LITTLE BILL
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29
IV.
THE RABBIT SENDS
41
V.
VI.
ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR

PIG AND PEPPER
59
76
VII.
VIII.
IX..
A MAD
TEA-PARTY
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95
THE QUEEN S CROQUET-GROUND THE MOCK TURTLE S STORY THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE
112 130
147
X.
XI.
XII.
WHO
ALICE
STOLE YHE TARTS

S
162
176
EVIDENCE
ALL
in the
golden afternoon
Full leisurely
we
glide
For both our
oars, with
little skill,
By
While
little
arms are
plied,
little
\v
hands make vain pretence
Our
inderings to guide.
Ah, cmel Three
In such an hour,
Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a To stir
tale,
of breath too
!
weak
the tiniest feather
Yet what can one poor voice
avail
Against three tongues together?
Imperious Prima flashes forth
Her
edict to
"begin
it"
In gentler tone Secunda hopes

"There
will
be nonsense _n
it"
While Tertia
interrupts the talc
Not more than once a minute.
Anon,
to sudden silence
won.
In fancy they pursue
The dream-child moving through
a land
Of wonders
wild and new,
In friendly chat with bird or beast
And
half believe
it
true.
And
And
ever, as the story drained
The
wells of fancy dry,
faintly strove that
weary one
To put
"The
the subject by,

"
rest next time
"It
is
next time
The happy
voices cry.
Thus grew the tale of Wonderland Thus slowly, one by one,

Its quaint events
were hammered out

is
And now
the tale
steer,
done,
And home we
a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.
Alice
a childish story take,
And
Lay
In
it
with a gentle hand
where Childhood s dreams are twined

s
Memory
s
mystic band,
withered wreath of flowers
Like pilgrim
Plucked
in a far-off land.
CHAPTER
DOWN THE
I.
BABBIT-HOLE.
to
ALICE
sitting
was beginning
sister
to
get very tired of
by her
nothing
the
on the bank, and of having do: once or twice she had peeped into
sister
book her
was reading, but

it,
it
had no
nictures or
conversations in
"and
what
is
DOWN THE
use of a
the
boot,"
thought Alice,
"without
pictures or conversations?"
So she was considering
in
her
(as well as she could, for the
own mind, 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.
There was nothing so very remarkable

that;
in
nor did Alice think
it
so very
much
out
of the
"Oh
way
to
hear the Rabbit say to

dear!
it
itself,
late!"
dear!
Oh
I shall be too
(when she thought

at
over afterwards,
it
oc
curred to her that she ought to have wondered

this,
;
but at the time

but
it
all
seemed quite
natural)
when
the Rabbit actually took a

,
watch out of its waistcoat-pocket and looked at and then hurried on, Alice started to her it,
feet, for it flashed
across her
mind
that she
had
never before seen a rabbit with either a waist

coat-pocket- or a watch to take out of
it,
and
RABBIT-HOLE.
burning with curiosity, she ran across the

after
it,
field
and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In another moment down went Alice after it,
never once considering
how
in
the world she
was
to get out again.
went straight on like a tun nel for some way, and then dipped suddenly
rabbit-hole
The
down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think aboufe stopping herself before sne found
herself falling
down what seemed
to be a very
deep
well.
fell
Either the well was very deep, or she
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 look down and make out what she was com
to
to,
ing
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 bookshelves
here and there she saw
maps
and pictures hung upon pegs.
She took down
4:
DOWN THE
it
a jar from one of the shelves as she passed;
was
labelled
"
OKANGE MAKMALADE," but

it
to her great disappointment
was empty: she

to put
into
did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing
somebody underneath, so managed

one of the cupboards as she
w
fell
it
past
"
it.
Well
"
thought Alice to
herself,
after such
fall
as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling

stairs!
down
at
it,
How
I
brave they
t
ll
all
think
me
"
home!
even
if
Why,
I
fell
wouldn
off the
say anything about

!
top of the house
(Which was very likely true.) Down, down, down. Would the fall come to an end? wonder how many
"I
never
miles
?
I ve fallen
by
this time ?
"
she said aloud.
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 very good opportunity for showing off
her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to
RABBIT-HOLE.
her,
??
still
it
was good
practice to say
it
over)
y es
that s
about the right distance
but
then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I ve
got to
"
(Alice had not the slightest idea
what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.) w I wonder if I Presently she began again.
funny seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The Anti
it ll
shall fall right tlirougli the earth!
How
pathies, I think
"
(she
was rather glad there
was no one
at all
listening this time, as it didn t sound w but I shall have to the right word)
is,
ask them what the name of the country
you
know.
or
Please,
"
Ma am,
is
this
New
Zealand
Australia ?
(and she tried to curtsy as
she spoke
fancy curtsying as you re falling

air!
through the
Do
age
she
it
ll
w
?)
think
And me for
you think you could man what an ignorant little girl

asking!
it
No,
it ll
never do
to ask: perhaps I shall see

where."
written
up some
DOWN THE
Down, down, down. There was nothing else to Dinah ll do, so Alice soon began talking again.
"
miss
me
very
(Dinah was
I wish
are
to-night, I should think ! w I hope they ll remember the cat.)
much
"
her saucer of milk at tea-time.
Dinah,
my dear
!
you were down here with me

air,
There
no mice in the
afraid,
but you
might catch a bat, and that s very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder ?
"
And
way,
here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and

herself, in a
went on saying to
"Do
dreamy
cats eat
"
sort of
bats?"
cats eat
w
bats?
Do
and sometimes,
Do
t
bats eat cats ?
for,
you
see, as she couldn
didn
felt
answer either question, it much matter which way she put it. She
was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and was saying to her very ear
that she
nestly,
"Now,
Dinah,
?
"
you ever eat a bat
me the truth: did when suddenly, thump

tell
!
thump
down she came upon

fall
a heap of sticks over.
and dry leaves, and the
was
RABBIT-HOLE.
<
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she
jumped up
on to her
it
feet in a
was
all
moment: she looked up, but dark overhead; before her was an
other long passage, and the

still
White Rabbit was

it.
in
sight,
hurrying
down
There was
like
not a
moment
to be lost:
away went Alice

it
the wind, and

it
was
just in time to hear

"
say, as
turned a corner,
Oh my
"
ears and whiskers,
how late it s getting it when she turned the

!
She was close behind

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
but they
all
lamps hanging from the roof. There were doors all round the
hall,
were
the
all
locked, and
when
Alice had been
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.
Suddenly she came upon a

table, all
little
three-legged
made of
solid glass ; there
was nothing
on
but a tiny golden key, and Alice s first idea was that this might belong to one of the
it
DOWN THE
doors of the hall
but alas
either
the locks
small, but
were too
at
large, or the
key was too
any rate it would not open any of them,, However, on the second time round, she came
upon
low
curtain she "had
not noticed be
fore,
and
it
be
hind
a
was
door
fifteen
little
about
inches
high
she
little
tried
the
golden
in
!
key
lock,
the
and to her great delight it fitted Alice opened the door and found that
it
led
into a small passage, not

rat-hole: she knelt
much
larger than a
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
RABBIT- HOLE.
flowers and those cool fountains, but she could
not even get her head through the doorway;
would go through," thought poor Alice, it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I
"
and
even
if
my
head
w
could shut up like a telescope

if I
I think
could,
only
knew 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. 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

a
little
this time she
found
bottle
here
before,"
which certainly was not said Alice,) and tied round the
on
it,
("
neck of the bottle was a paper label with the words "DKINK ME" beautifully printed on
:<lt
in large letters.
It
was
all
very well to say
"
Drink
me,"
but
the wise
little
Alice was not going to do thai
10
DOWN THE
I
ll
in a hurry:
"no,
look
first,"
she said,
"and
see
whether
?
it s
marked
or
not:"
poison
for
she
had
nice
read
little
several
stories
about children
who
had got burnt, and

eaten up by wild
beasts,
and other
unpleasant things,
all
because
they
would not remem

ber the simple rules
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 very deeply
their friends
with a knife,
it
usually bleeds; and she had never
forgotten that, if you drink
much from
a bottle
marked
"poison,"
it
is
almost certain to dis

later.
"
agree with you, sooner or
However,
this bottle
was not marked
poison/
RABBIT-HOLE.
11
so
Alice ventured to taste

(it
it 5
very nice,
had,
in
fact,
and finding it a sort of mixed
flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast
turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast,) she very
soon finished *
it
off.
What
a curious feeling
"
said Alice,
w I
must be shutting up like a telescope." 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

First,
if
felt
little
door into that
lovely garden.
however, she waited for a

she was going to shrink a
little
few minutes to see
any further
this,
"for
she
nervous
about
it
might end, you

in
know,"
said Alice
to herself,
candle.
going out altogether, like a I wonder what I should be like then?"
my
And
she tried to fancy what the flame

is
of a
out*
candle looks like after the candle
blown
12
DOWN THE
for she could not
remember ever having seen
such a thing. 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
little
had forgotten the golden key, and when she went back to
door, she found she
it,
the table for
she found she could not possibly

it
reach
it:
she could see
quite plainly through
the glass, and she tried her best to climb
one of the legs of the

slippery,
table, but
it
up was too
and when she had

little
tired
herself out
sat
with trying, the poor
thing
down
"
and
w
cried.
Come, there
no use
in crying like that

"I
said Alice to herself, rather sharply,
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

for
to
box her own ears
having cheated herself
RABBIT-HOLE.
in a
game of
croquet she was playing against
was very fond of But it s no use pretending to be two people. w to pretend to be two now," thought poor Alice,
herself, for this curious child
"
people!
to
Why,
there s hardly
enough of me
left
make one
respectable
person!"
Soon her eye fell on a was lying under the table

found in
it
little
:
glass box that

it,
she opened
and
the
a very small
cake, on which
words w EAT
currants.
"
were oeautifully marked in w and said Alice, Well, I ll eat

"
ME
it,"
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 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
sure, this is
same
size:
to be
eats
what generally happens when one cake, but Alice had got so much into the
14
DOWN THE
RABBIT-HOLE.
way
of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way

it
things to happen, that

stupid for
life
seemed quite
dull and
to
So sho
oft
set to
go on in the common way. work, and very soon finished
the cake.
CHAPTEE
II.
THE POOL OF TEAES.
"
Curiouser and cu"
riouser!
cried Alice
(she was so
prised,
much sur
for
that
the
moment she
quite for
got how to speak good
English);
"now
m
|j
opening out like the

largest telescope that
ever was
feet !
"
Good-bye,
(for
when she
^
looked down at her

feet,
they seemed to
be almost out of sight,
they were getting so

far off)
little
"
Oh,
I
my poor
wonder
feet,
16
THE POOL
will
for
put on your shoes and stockings sure I shan t be able! you now, dears? I
who
shall
be a great deal too far off to trouble
my
self about
you can
"
you: you must manage the best way but I must be kind to them," thought
Alice,
or perhaps they
won t walk
:
want
to
go
Let
me
see
ll
give
way I them a new

the
pair of boots every
Christmas."
And
rier,"
she went on planning to herself

!f
how
she
would manage
it.
They must go by
the car
she thought;
"and
sending presents to
how funny it ll seem, one s own feet! And how
odd the directions

Alice
s
will look!
Right Foot, Esq.,

Hearthrug, near the Fender,
(with Alice
s
love.)
Oh
dear,
what nonsense I
"
talking
Just at this moment her head struck against the

roof of the hall: in fact she was
now
rather
more
than nine feet high, and she at once took up the

little
golden key and hurried
off to the
garden door.
OF TEARS.
17
Poor Alice
lying
It
was
as
much
as she could do,
down on one
side, to
look through into
the garden with one eye;
but to get through

sat
was more hopeless than ever: she

began to cry again.
"
down and
said
You ought
"
to be
ashamed of
you,"
yourself,"
Alice,
a great girl like

w to
(she might well
say
this
this,)
go on crying
"
in this
way
Stop
all
moment, I
tell
you!
But she went on
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.
After a time she heard a
feet in the distance,
little
pattering of
and she
hastily dried her

It
eyes to see what was coming.
was the White
Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed,
w ith
r
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,

r
t)h
the Duchess, the Duchess

if
Oh won t
!
"
she
be savage
felt relt
Alice kept her waiting so desperate that she was ready to ask help
!
I ve
THE POOL
of any one ; so,
when
the Rabbit came near her,

w
she began, in a low, timid voice,

sir"
If you please,
The Eabbit
started violently, dropped
the white kid gloves
and the
fan,
and skurried
away
into the darkness as hard as he could go.
TEARS.
19
Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the

hall
was very
hot, she kept fanning herself

"Dear,
all
the
time she went on talking:
dearL
How
queer everything
is
to-day!
And
yester- 11
;
day things went on just as usual. I wonder if J ve been changed in the night? Let me think:/
was I the same when I got up I almost think I can remember

different.
this
morning?
little
feeling a
But
is,
if
not the same, the next
question
Who
in the
"
world
am
I?
Ah,
that? 8
the great puzzle
And
she began thinking
over
the
all
the children she knew, that were of

herself,
same age as
to
see
if
she could
have been changed for any of them.

"I
sure I
not
Ada,"
she said,
"for
her
hair goes in such long ringlets,
and mine doesn t

sure I can
t
go
in ringlets at
all;
all
and I
be
Mabel, for I
oh! she
she,
know
sorts of things,
little!
and
she,
knows such
a very
Besides, she s
and
I
Pm
ll
I,
and
oh dear,
how
puzzling
it
all is!
try if I
know
all
the things I used
to
know.
Let me
see: four times five is twelve,
20
THE POOL
and four times six

seven
is
is
thirteen,
and four times
oh dear
I shall never get to twenty
at that rate!
However, the Multiplication Table
Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of no, that s all wrong, I m Rome, and Rome
don t
signify: let s try
certain!
I must have been changed for Mabel!
ll
try and say
How
doth the
"
little
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
*How
doth the
little
crocodile
tail.
Improve his shining
And pour
On
the waters of the Nile
every golden scale !
How cheerfully he seems to grin. How neatly spreads his claws^ And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws !
"
OF TEARS.
"I
sure those
are
not the right
words,"
said, poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears must be Mabel after again as she went on,
"I
all,
and I
little
shall
poky
v
have to go and live in that house, and have next to no toys to
play with,
learn!
if I
and oh! ever so many lessons to No, I ve made up my mind about it:
I
ll
Mabel,
stay
down
here!
It
ll
be no
saying,
use their putting their heads
down and
Tell
Come up
and
say,
again, dear!
I,
I shall only look
up
Who am
if
then?
me
till
that
ll
first,
and then,
up:
I like being that person, I

I
ll
come
some
if not,
stay
down
!
here
"
cried Alice with a but, oh dear body else do wish they would sudden burst of tears,
"I
pat their heads down!

being
all
am
so very tired of
alone
here!"
As
she said
this,
she looked
down
at her
hands, and was surprised to see that she had
put on one of the Rabbit

while she was talking.
that
"
s little
"
white kid gloves
How
can I have done
she thought.
"
I must be growing small
22
THE POOL
She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly
again."
as she could guess, she
was now about two
feet
and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the
high,
fan she
was holding, and she dropped
it
hastily,
just in time to save herself from shrinking
away
altogether.
said Alice, a That was a narrow escape good deal frightened at the sudden change, but
"
"
very glad to find herself
still
in existence;
"and
now
little
for
the garden
"
and she ran with

door:
all
speed back to the
little
but alas!
little
the
golden key was lying on the glass table as before, and things are worse than ever," thought the poor
"
door was shut again, and the
child,
"for
I never
was
so small as this before,
never!
And
she
I declare
it s
too bad, that
it is!
"
As
and
said these
words her foot
slipped,,
in another
moment, splash! she was up to
her chin in salt water.

she had
Her
first
idea
was
that
in
somehow
fallen into the sea,
"and
OF TEAKS.
23
hat case I can
o herself.
go back by railway," she said (Alice had been to the seaside once
and had come to the general con tusion, that wherever you go to on the English 3oast you find a number of bathing machines
n her
life,
some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging louses, and behind them a railway station.)
n the
sea,
However she soon made out
that she
was
in
he pool of tears which she had wept

nine feet high.
"
when
she
I wish I
hadn t
cried so
much
"
said Alice,
is
she
swam
about, trying to find her
way
out.
24
THE POOL
I shall
be punished for
in
it
now,
I suppose,
by
being drowned
my own
!
tears!
That
will be
a queer thing, to be sure

is
However, everything
queer
to-day."
Just
then
she
heard
little
about in the pool a

nearer to
something splashing way off, and she swam

it
make out what
was
at first she
must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was
thought
it
now, and she soon made out that

a mouse, that
:?
it
was only
had slipped
be
of
in like herself.
now,"
Would
w
it
any use,
thought
is
Alice,
to speak to this
mouse
Everything
so out-of-the-way
down
here, that I should think

at
very likely
it
can talk:
any rate there

"
no
harm
in
trying."
So she began:
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
in
her brother
remembered having seen Latin Grammar, "A mouse
OF TEARS.
25
of a mouse
to a
mouse
mouse
mouse
!
")
The Mouse looked

and seemed
eyes, but
it
at her rather inquisitively,
to her to
wink with one of
its little
said nothing.
it
"
"Perhaps
doesn
understand
it s
English,"
thought Alice ;
I daresay
a French mouse, (For,
come over with William the

with
all
Conqueror."
her knowledge of history, Alice had no
very clear notion

happened.)
chatte?"
how long ago anything had Ou est ma So she began again:

"
which was the
first
sentence in her
a sudden
French lesson-book.
The Mouse gave

"
leap out of the water, and

all
seemed to quiver
"
over with fright.
Oh, I beg your pardon
cried Alice hastily, afraid that she
had hurt the

forgot
poor animal
didn
"
feelings
"I
quite
you
like
cats."
Not
like cats
"
cried the Mouse, in a shrill,
passionate voice.
Would you
like cats if
you
were
T
me?"
Well, perhaps
w
:
not,"
said Alice in a sooth

it.
ing tone
don
be angry about
And
yet
THE POOL
I wish I could
show you our

is
cat
Dinah
think you d take a fancy to cats if you could
only see her.
She
such a dear quiet
thing,"
Alice went on, half to herself, as she
swam
lazily
about in the pool, w and she

nicely
sits
purring so
by the
fire,
licking her
is
paws and wash
ing her face

to nurse
and she
s
and she
oh, I
this
such a nice soft thing such a capital one for catch

"
ing mice
again, for
all
beg your pardon! cried Alice time the Mouse was bristling
felt
over,
and she
certain
it
must be
really
OF TEARS.
27
offended.
if
*We won t
not."
talk about her
any more
you d rather
;?
We,
indeed!"
cried the
Mouse, who was

his
tail.
"As
trembling
down
to the
end of
if
would talk on such a subject!
Our
"
family
always hated cats:
nasty, low, vulgar things!

!
Don t
"
me hear the name again won t indeed said Alice,

let
"
in
great
hurry
"Are
to
change the
subject of conversation.
you are you fond of of dogs?" The mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly:
"There
is
such a nice
like to
little
dog near our house
I should
show you!
little
bright-
eyed
curly
terrier,
you know, with oh! such long

hair!
brown
And
it ll
fetch things
when
for
you throw them, and it ll sit up and beg its dinner, and all sorts of I can t things
re
member
farmer,
it s
half of
them
and
it
belongs to a
useful,
it
you know, and he says it s so worth a hundred pounds! He says

oh dear
"I
"
kills
all
the rats and

tone.
cried Alice in a
I
sorrowful
afraid
ve offended
it
28
THE POOL OF TEARS.
"
again
For the Mouse was swimming away

it
from her as hard as

quite a
could go, and making

it
commotion
in the pool as
it:
went.
dear!
So she
called softly after
"Mouse
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
its
and swam slowly back

quite pale
it
to
her:
face
was
(with passion, Alice thought), and

"Let
said in a low, trembling voice,
us get
history,
to the shore,
and then
ll
tell
it
you
is
my
I
and you ll understand why and dogs."

It
hate cats
was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and ani
mals that had fallen into
it:
there
was 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.
CHAPTER
THEY were
III.
A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG
TALE.
indeed a queer-looking party that

the birds with draggled
assembled on the bank
feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close
to them,
fortable.
and
all
dripping wet, cross, and
uncom
to get
this,
The
first
question of course was,
how
dry again: they had a consultation about
30
A CAUCUS-RACE
after a
and
few minutes
it
seemed quite natura\

her
to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with
them, as
if
she had
known them
all
life.
Indeed, she had quite a long argument with

the Lory,
"
only say,
"
who at last turned sulky, and would I am older than you, and must know
this Alice
better;
and
would not
allow, with
out knowing
how
old
it
was, and as the Lory
positively refused to tell its age, there
was no
more
to be said.
last the
At
w
Sit
Mouse, who seemed to be a per
son of some authority
among them,
"
called out,
down,
all
of you, and listen to

!
me
Pll
sat
soon make you dry enough
They
all
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.

said the
all
Ahem
"
Mouse with an important

This
round,
is
air,
are
you
ready?
all
the driest thing
I
*
know.
"William
Silence
if
you
please
the
Conqueror,
whose
cause
was
AND A LONG
TALE.
31
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.
cia
"
Edwin and Morcar,

"
the earls of Mer-
and Nbrthumbria
Ugh
said the Lory, with a shiver.

"
"I
beg your pardon?

"
said the
Mouse, frown
"
ing, but
"Not
very politely:
I!"
Did you speak?
said the Lory, hastily.

"I
thought you did," said the Mouse. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Merproceed.
"I
cia
and Northumbria, declared for him; and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Can
it
terbury, found
advisable
said the
"Found what?"
Duck.
"Found
"
it"
the
Mouse
replied rather crossly:

f
of course you
"
know what
<
it
means."
know what
thing,"
it
find a
said
means well enough when the Duck: s generally

"it
a frog or a worm.
the archbishop
The
question
is,
what did
find?"
The Mouse
did not notice this question, but
32
A CAUCUS-RACE
"
hurriedly went on,
found
it
advisable to go
with Edgar Atheling to meet
"William
and
first
offer
him the crown.

moderate.
"William
conduct at
was
*
But the
insolence of his
Normans
"
How
"
are
you getting on now,

it
my
dear?
it
con
tinued, turning to Alice as
spoke.
As wet
"it
as
ever,"
said Alice in a melancholy

to dry
tone:
*
doesn
seem
In that
case,"
"
said the
me at Dodo solemnly,
all."
rising
to its feet,
for
move
that the meeting adjourn,
the immediate adoption of more energetic

"
remedies
"Speak English!"
said the Eaglet.
"I
don
know
what
s
the meaning of half those long words, and
you do either And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile some of the other birds tittered audibly.
t
more, I don
believe
"
*
"What
was going
to
say,"
said the
Dodo
in
an offended tone,
"was,
that the best thing to

Caucus-race."
get us dry would be a

*"What
is
a Caucus-race?" said Alice;

to
not
that she
much wanted
know, but the Dodo
AND A LONG
TALE.
33
had paused as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say
anything.
"Why/
said the
is
Dodo,
"the
best
way
to
explain
it
to do
it."
(And
as
you might
like
to try the thing yourself,

will tell
some winter day,

it.)
you how the Dodo managed First it marked out a race-course,

("the
in a sort
of circle,
said,)
exact shape doesn

all
t matter," it
and then
the party were placed along
the course, here and there.

two, three, and
away,"
There was no
"
One,
but they began running
when they
that
it
liked,
and
left off
was not easy to
when they liked, so know when the race was
However, when they had been running half-an-hour or so, and were quite dry again, the
over.
Dodo suddenly
and they
ing,
all
"But
called out,
"
The
race
is
over
"
crowded round
won?"
it,
panting, and ask
who has
This question the
Dodo
could
not
it
answer
sat for
its
without a great deal of thought, and

a long time with one finger pressed
upon
34
A CAUCUS-RACE
forehead, (the position in which
you usually see
Shakespeare, in the pictures of him,) while the

rest waited in silence.
ec
At
last the
Dodo
"
said ?
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes." w But who is to give the prizes ? quite a
w
chorus of voices asked.
Why,
she,
of
course,"
said the
ing to Alice with one finger;
Dodo, point and the whole
party at once crowded round her, calling out in

a confused
w ay,
r
"
Prizes
Prizes
"
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair

she put her hand into her pocket, and pulled out
a
box of
comfits, (luckily the salt water

it,)
had not
prizes.
got into
and handed them round as
There was exactly one a-piece, all round. "But she must have a prize herself, you know," said the Mouse.
"
Of
course,"
the
Dodo
replied very gravely.

pocket?"
What
"
else
have you got in your
he
went on, turning to Alice.
Only a
it
thimble,"
said Alice sadly.
"Hand
over
here,"
said the
Dodo.
AND A LONG TALE
35
Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble
"
saying,
We beg your acceptance

"
of this elegant
this short
thimble ;
and,
when
it
had finished
speech, they
all
cheered.
36
A CAUCUS-RACE
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.
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

on the back.
they sat
to be patted
at last,
However
it
was over
and
down again
in a ring,
and begged the
Mouse
to tell
them something more.

"
"You
know,"
promised to tell me your history, you C and why it is you hate said Alice,
she added in a whisper, half afraid that
and
it
D,"
"
would be offended again. Mine is a long and a sad

It is a
talc
"
said the
Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing.

long tail, certainly," said Alice, look ing down with wonder at the Mouse s tail; K And she kept on but why do you call it sad ?
f?
"
puzzling about
it
while the
Mouse was
speaking,
AND A LONG
so that her idea of the tale
this:
"Fury
TALE.
37
was something-
like
said to a mouse, That he met in the

4
house, Let us
:
both go
to
law
/
Come,
I
will
prosecute you.
ll
take no
denial
;
We
must
have a
trial
:
For
really
this
morning
I ve nothing
to do.
Said the
mouse
the cur,
to
Such a
trial,
dear
With uo
,iury
sir,
or
judge,
would be
wasting
our breath. Til be
rn
jury.
judge, be
Caid
cunning old Fury;

I
ll
try the whole cause,
and condemn you

to
deatli.
"
A CAUCUS-RACE
are not
to Alice, severely.
"
attending!"
f?
said the
Mouse
"
What are you thinking of?

said Alice very
I beg your
pardon,"
humbly
"you
had got to the fifth bend, I think?" cried the Mouse, sharply and I had not !
"
very angrily.
"A
knot!"
said Alice, always ready to
make
herself useful, and looking anxiously about her.

"Oh,
do
let
me
help to undo
it!"
do nothing of the sort," said the You Mouse, getting up and walking away. insult me by talking such nonsense!"
"I
shall
;?
"I
didn
mean
it!"
pleaded
poor
Alice.
But you re so easily offended, you know!" The Mouse only growled in reply.
"Please
come back, and

it;
r
finish
your
story!"
Alice called after

in
and the others

"
all
joined
but the Mouse Yes, please do chorus, only shook its head impatiently, and walked
!
little
quicker.
"What
pity
it
wouldn
it
stay!"
sighed
the Lory, as soon as
was
quite out of sight;
AND A LONG
TALE.
39
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 your
"Hold
temper!"
your tongue, Ma!

:?
"
said the
young
crab,
little
snappishly.
You re enough
"
to try the
patience of an oyster
"I
wish I had our Dinah here, I know I

said
do
"
Alice aloud,
"
addressing nobody in
it
particular.
"And
She d soon fetch

is
back
"
who
Dinah,
if I
might venture
she
to
ask the
question?"
said the Lory.
Alice replied eagerly, for
was always
"Dinah s our ready to talk about her pet. cat. And she s such a capital one for catching
mice,
you can
think
And
!
oh,
I wish you
could see her after the birds
Why,
"
she
ll
eat
little
bird as soon as look at
it
This speech caused a remarkable sensation
among
off at
itself
the party.
Some of
the birds hurried
once:
one old magpie began wrapping

carefully,
up very
remarking,
"I
really
t
must be getting home; the night-air doesn
40
A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG
TALE.
suit
my
throat
"
and a canary called out

its
in a
trembling voice to
dears!
It s
children,
high time
Come away, my On you were all in bed!

"
various pretexts they
all
moved
off,
and Alice
was soon
"I
left alone.
t
wish I hadn
mentioned
Dinah!"
she
said to herself in a melancholy tone.
"Nobodj?
seems to
like her,
down
here,
!
and I
sure she
s
!
the best cat in the world I
Oh,
my
dear Dinah
!
wonder
if I shall
ever see you any more
"
And
felt
here poor Alice began to cry again, for she
very lonely and low-spirited.
In a
little
little
while, however, she again heard a
patter
ing of footsteps in the distance, and she looked
up
eagerly,
his
half hoping that the
Mouse had
to
changed
finish his
mind, and was coming back
story.
CHAPTEE
IV.
THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL.

IT was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it
went, as
it
if it
had
to
lost
something; and she heard

"
muttering
itself,
The Duchess
The
Duchess!
whiskers!
Oh my
She
ll
dear paws!
get
Oh my
fur and
ferrets are ferrets!
me executed, as sure as Where can I have dropped

moment
them, I
that
it
wonder!"
Alice guessed in a
was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very goodnaturedly
began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen everything seemed to have
42
THE RABBIT SENDS

in the pool,
changed since her swim

great
door,
hall,
and the
little
with the glass table and the
had vanished completely.

the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she
called out to her in an
Very soon
angry tone,
doing out
fetch
went hunting about, and

"Why,
Mary Ann, what are you here? Run home this moment, and
Quick,
Alice was so
me
"
a pair of gloves and a fan!
now!
And
much
frightened that
it
she ran off at once in the direction

to,
it
pointed
without trying to explain the mistake that
had made.
"
He
took
me
for his housemaid," she said to

"
herself as
she ran.
How
I
surprised he
ll
be
when he
finds out
who
am!
But
that
I
is,
d better
if I
take him his fan and gloves

find
them."
can
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 knock fear lest ing, and hurried upstairs, in great she should meet the real Mary Ann, and be
IN
A LITTLE
BILL.
43
turned out of the house before she had found

the fan and gloves.
w
How
queer
it
seems,"
Alice said to herself,

!
I suppose going messages for a rabbit Dinah ll be sending me on messages next

!
to be
"
And
she began fancying the sort of thing that
would happen: :? Miss Alice! Come here di Coming rectly, and get ready for your walk in a minute, nurse! But I ve got to watch this
?
!
Dinah comes back, and see that the mouse doesn t get out. Only I don t think,"
mousehole
till
Alice went on,

the house if
that
"
"that
they d
let
Dinah stop
in
it
began ordering people about
like
By
a tidy
this
little
it
time she had found her
way
into
room with a
and on
(as
window, she had hoped) a fan and two or

she took
table in the
three pairs of tiny white kid gloves:
up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was

just going to leave the room,
when her eye
fell
upon a
glass.
little
bottle that stood near the lookinglabel this time with the
There was no
M
words w
corked
THE RABBIT SENDS
DEINK
it
ME,"
but nevertheless she un

to
is
and put
it
her
lips.
"I
know
she
something interesting
sure to
happen,"
said to herself, "whenever I eat or drink
any
does.
thing;
so
ll
just see
what
this
bottle
I do hope
really
little
it ll
make me grow
tired
large again, for
quite
of being such
tiny
thing!"
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, w I hope saying to herself, That s quite enough As it is, I can t get I shan t grow any more
out at the door
quite so
I
do wish I hadn
drunk
much!
It
"
Alas!
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

she tried the effect
this,
and
of lying down, with one
IN
A LITTLE
BILL.
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

said to herself,
Now
up the chimney, and I can do no more, what

become of
magic
me?"
ever happens.
What
will
Luckily for Alice, the
little
bottle
had
now had
still
it
its full effect,
and she grew no larger:
was very uncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever
46
THE RABBIT SENDS
getting out of the

felt
room
again,
no wonder she
unhappy.
was much pleasanter at home," thought when one wasn t always growing poor Alice, larger and smaller, and being ordered about by
"It
"
mice and rabbits.
I almost wish I
hadn
gone
it s
!
down
that rabbit-hole
and yet
and yet
life
rather curious,
you know, this sort of do wonder what can have happened
I
!
to
me
When
am
I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
kind of thing never happened, and

in the middle of one!
now
here I
There ought to be
that
a book written about me,
there
And when
grown up
*
grow
up, I
ll
write one
ought but I m
!
now,"
she added in a sorrowful tone,
at least there s
no room to grow up any more
thought Alice, "shall I never That ll be a get any older than I am now ? never to be an old woman comfort, one way
"But
then,"
but then
always to have lessons to learn

t
Oh, I shouldn
like
that!"
IN
A LITTLE
BILL.
47
"Oh,
"
you
foolish
Alice!"
she answered her

?
self.
How
can you learn lessons in here
Why,
at
all
there s hardly
for
room
for you,
"
and no room
And
of
it
any lesson-books so she went on, taking

!
first
one side and
then the other, and making quite a conversation

altogether, but
after a
few minutes she

listen.
heard a voice outside, and stopped to

c?
Mary Ann
"
fetch
little
said the voice, Mary Ann me my gloves this moment! Then came
"
"
pattering of feet on the stairs.
Alice
knew
it
was the Kabbit coming

till
to look for her,
and she trembled
she shook the house, quite
forgetting that she
was now about a thousand
times as large as the Kabbit, and had no reason

to be afraid of
it.
Presently the Kabbit came up to the door,
and
triad to
open
it,
but as the door opened
inwards, and Alice

against
it,
elbow was pressed hard
heard
it
that attempt proved a failure. Alice w Then I ll go round and say to itself,
window."
get in at the
THE RABBIT SENDS
"
That you won t

till
waiting
just
thought Alice, and, after she fancied she heard the Rabbit
I
"
under the window, she suddenly spread out her hand, and
made
air.
a snatch in the
She did not get

heard
hold of anything, but

she
a
a
little
fall,
shriek
and
and a crash of bro

ken
she
it
glass, from which
concluded that
just possible
fallen into a
was
had
it
cucumber- frame, or
something of the sort. the Babbit s Next came an angry voice Pat! Pat! Where are you?" And then a
"
2?
Yoice she had never heard before,

I
Sure then
m
w
here
Digging
for
for apples, yer
honour
said
"
Digging
apples,
"Here!
indeed
"
the
Rabbit angrily.
Come and
help
me
IN
A LITTLE
BILL.
49
out of
this!"
"Now tell
(Sounds of more broken glass.) me, Pat, what s that in the window?
an arm, yer
arrum.")
53
"Sure,
it s
"
honor!"
(He pro
nounced
"An
it
arm, you goose!
Who
:
ever saw one

window!"
it
that size?
"
Why,
it
it
fills
the whole
Sure,
for all
*
does, yer honor
but
an arm
that,"
Well,
it
got no business there, at any rate:

"
go and tako it away! There AY; is a long

"
silence after this,
and Alice
could only hear whispers

as,
all
"
now and
then, such
all
Sure, I don
"
t like
it,
yer honor, at
"
at
and at you coward last she spread out her hand again and made another e natch in the air. This time there were
!
Bo
as I tell you,
two
little
shrieks,
and more sounds of broken
glass.
"What
a
"
number of cucumber frames

thought Alice.
"
there
must be
ll
wonder
what they
sure
do next!
As
for pulling
me
out
I
of the window, I only wish they could!
m
*
/ don t want
to stay in here
any longer!
00
THE HABBIT SENDS
some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cart-wheels, and the sound of a good many
She waited
for
voices
all
talking together:
she
made out
the
1
words,
"Where s
the
other ladder?
Why,
em up
!
hadn t
to bring but one: Bill s got the other

it
Bill! fetch
this
here, lad!
Here, put
together
at
corner
No,
tie
em
first
they
they
ll
don t reach half high enough yet Oh do well enough; don t be particular
Bill!
Here,
catch hold of this rope
Will the roof
bear?
!
Mind
that loose slate

"
Oh,
it s
coming
w
down Heads below (a loud crash) who did that? It was Bill, I fancy
!
Now,
t!
Who s
shan
to
go
down
itl
the
chimney?
t
Nay,
then!
You do
to
That I won
Bill s got
go down
Here, Bill! the master says you ve

the chimney
"
got to go
"Oh,
down
so Bill s got to
he?"
come down the chim=

:?
ney, has
said Alice to herself.
Why,
I
they
seem to
t
put
everything
s
upon
Bill!
wouldn
be in Bill
place for a
good
deal:
IN
A LITTLE
I3ILL.
5]
this fireplace is
narrow,
to be
sure, bat I think

little!"
I can kick a
She drew her foot as

far
down
the chimney as
till
she could, and waited
she heard a
(she
little
animal of
couldn
sort
it
guess
what
was) scratch ing and scrambling about

in the chimney close
above
her: then, saying to her

self,
"This
is
Bill,"
she
gave, one sharp kick,
and
waited to see what would
happen next.
The
heard
first
thing
a
she
was
w
general
chorus of
Bill!"
There goes then the Rabbit s

"
voice alone,
Catch him, you by the hedê! then

"
52
THE RABBIT SENDS
silence,
"Hold
and then another confusion of voices
up
his
head
it,
Brandy now
old fellow?
him
to
How
was
Don t choke What happened
you?
Last
Tell us
all
about
"
it!
came a
s
Bill,"
little
feeble
squeaking voice,
w
w
(
That
know
but I
I
No
thought Alice,) Well, I hardly more, thank ye, I m better now

tell
a deal too flustered to

is,
you
all
something comes at me like a Jackin-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket
know
"
"
said the others. So you did, old fellow * We must burn the house down said the
"
"
Rabbit
s voice,
"
and Alice called out as loud as

ll
she could,
If you do, I
set
Dinah
There was a dead silence

"I
instantly,
you and Alice

!
at
"
wonder what they will thought to herself, 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.*
"A
barrowful of
what?"
thought Alice; but
she had not long to doubt, for the next
moment
IN
A LITTLE
BILL.
53
a shower of
little
pebbles came rattling in at
the window, and

face.
some of them
this,"
hit her in the
ll
put a stop to
out,
she said to herself,
and shouted
"
You d
better
not do that
again
which produced another dead silence. Alice noticed with some surprise that the
!
pebbles were
all
turning into
little
cakes as they
into
lay on the floor,
and a bright idea came

cakes,"
her head.
"
"If
I eat one of these
she
thought,
size:
it
it s
sure to
it
and as
can
make some change in my possibly make me larger,
must make me smaller, I suppose." So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was
to
find
began shrinking soon as she was small enough to directly. get through the door, she ran out of the house,
delighted
that
she
As
and found quite a crowd of

birds waiting
Bill,
little
animals and
little
outside.
The poor
Lizard,
was
in the middle, being held
up by two
out
the
guinea-pigs,
of a bottle.
who were giving it something They all made a rush at Alice
moment
she appeared, but she ran off as hard
M
as she could,
THE
KAB131T SENDS
and soon found herself
safe in a
thick wood.
"
The
first
thing I ve got to
do,"
said Alice
to herself, as she
"is
wandered about
in the
wood,
to
grow
to
is
my
right size again;
and the
second thing
garden.
It
to find
my way
into that lovely

plan."
I think that will be the best
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
little
about
anxiously
among
the
trees,
sharp bark just over her head made her
look up in a great hurry.
enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching
out one paw, trying to touch her.
thing!"
"Poor little
An
said Alice in a coaxing tone,

to whistle to
all
it,
and she
tried
hard
but she was terribly

it
frightened
the time at the thought that

in
might be hungry,
likely to eat her
which case
it
would be very
up
in spite of all her coaxing.
IN
A LITTLE
BILL.
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up little bit of stick, and held it out to the
Hippy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the
iir
off
all
its
feet
at
once,
with a yelp of
36
THE RABBIT SENDS
delight,
lieve
and rushed
worry
the
it;
at the stick,
and made be
to
then Alice dodged behind
a great thistle, to keep herself from being run

over,
and,
moment
she
appeared
on the
at the
other side, the puppy

stick,
made another rush
and tumbled head over heelj

it;
in its hurry
it
to get hold of
then Alice, thinking
was
very like having a game of play with a cart
and expecting every moment to be tram pled under its feet, ran round the thistle again;
horse,
then the puppy began a series of short charges

at the stick,
each
running a very little way forwards time and a long way back, and bark
all
ing hoarsely
the while,
off,
till
at
last
its
it
sat
down
good way
panting, with
its
tongue
hanging out of
half shut.
its
mouth, and
great eyes
This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape, so she set off at once, and
ran
till
she,
was
quite tired
s
and
in
till
the
puppy
and out of breath, bark sounded quite faint
the
distance.
ri
A.
LITTLE BILL.
57
And
yet what a dear
little
puppy
it was!"
eaid Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to

rest herself,
and fanned herself with one of the

it
leaves;
"I
should have liked teaching

if if I
tricks
very much,
to
do
it!
Oh
d only been the right size dear! I d nearly forgotten that

again!
I ve got to
is it to
grow up
Let me see
how
be managed? I suppose I ought to eat
or drink
something or other;
is,
what?"
but
the
great
question
The great
Alice looked
question
all
certainly
was,
what?
and
round her
at the flowers
the blades of grass, but she could not see any
thing 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 look
it,
ed under
it ? it
and on both
sides of
it,
and behind
occurred to her that she might as well

it.
look and see what was on the top of
She
stretched
herself
up
on
tiptoe,
and
peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her
58
THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE
BILL.
eyes
immediately"
met those of
sitting
large
blue
caterpillar^ that
was
on the top with

a long hookah,
to arms
folded, quietly
smoking
and taking not the smallest notice of her or of

anything
else.
CATERPILLAR.
then after that into a butterfly, I should think
you ll
feel it a little queer,
won t
you?"
"Not
bit,"
said the Caterpillar.
"Well,
perhaps your feelings

"
may
it
be
differ
ent,"
said Alice ;
all
know
is,
would
feel
very queer to
"
me"
You
"
said the Caterpillar contemptuously.

you?"
"Who
arc
Which brought them back

ginning of the conversation.
irritated at the Caterpillar s
again to the be
Alice
felt
little
short
said,
making such very remarks, and she drew herself up and

"I
very gravely,
are,
think you ought to
tell
me who you
"Why?"
first."
Here was another puzzling question; and, as Alice could not think of any good reason, and
as the Caterpillar
seemed to be
in a very
un
pleasant state of mind, she turned away.

"Come
back!"
the
Caterpillar
called
"
after
her.
"
I ve something important to say
This
sounded
promising,
certainly:
Alice
turned and came back again.
62
ADVICE FROM A
"Keep
"Is
your
temper,"
that
all?"
said Alice, swallowipg
down
her anger as well as she could.

"No,"
Alice thought she

she had nothing else
all
it
might as well wait, as to do, and perhaps after
might tell her something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed away without speak
ing, but at last
it
unfolded
its
arms, took the
hookah out of
its
mouth
again,
and
said,
"So
you think you

"I
re changed,
sir,"
do
you?"
"I
afraid I am,
said Alice;
can
remember things as I used -and I don the same size for ten minutes together
!
t
"
keep
the
"Can t
remember what
things?"
said
Caterpillar.
"Well,
I ve
tried
to
it
say
all
How
came
doth the
different!"
little
busy bee,
but
Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.

"Repeat
You
are
old,
Father
William
/"
Alice folded her hands, and began
CATERPILLAR.
"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
9"
In
"
my
youth,"
father William replied

the
to his
son,
I feared
it
might injure
brain;
Hut now
that
Pm perfectly
it
sure
I have
none.
Why, I do
again and
again"
64
ADVICE FROM A
"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
?"
"In
my
1
youth"
said the sage, as he shook his grey locks?

very supple
one shilling the box "
"
kept all
my limbs
By
the use
of this ointment
to sell
Allow me
you a couple
CATERPILLAR.
65
*Ybu
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

e?
to
do
"
it
my youth" said his father, I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, ivhich it gave to my jaw.
In
"
Has
lasted the rest
of my
life"
ADVICE FROM A
You
are
old"
said the youth; one would hardly sup
pose
That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose
What made you

K
so
awfully clever
?"
I have
answered three questions, and that

"
is
enough*
Said his father;
don t give yourself airs!

stuff 9
Do you think I can listen all day to such Be off, or Til kick you down stairs!"
CATERPILLAR.
67
"That
"Not
is
not said
right,"

afraid,"
quite
"
right,
said
Alice
timidly;
"It
some of the words have got

to
altered."
is
wrong from beginning
end,"
said
the Caterpillar decidedly,

for
and there was
silence
some minutes.
Caterpillar
size
The
:?
"
was the
first
to speak.
be?"
What
Oh,
I
do you want to
one doesn
it
asked.
not particular as to
"only
size,"
Alice
hastily replied;
t like
changing
so often,
"I
you don t know,"
know."
Alice said nothing:
she had never been so
much
contradicted in
all
her
life
before,
and she
felt that
"Are
:?
she was losing her temper.
you content
t
now?"

little
"
Well, I should like to be a

mind,"
larger,
sir,
if
is
you wouldn
"
said Alice
be."
three inches
such a wretched height to

It is a
very good height indeed
"
said the
it
Caterpillar
angrily, rearing itself upright as
spoke
(it
was exactly
three inches high).
68
ADVICE FROM A
But
not used to
"
it
pleaded
pool
Alice in a piteous tone.

herself,
"I
And
she thought to
t
wish the creatures wouldn

"
be so
easily offended
"You ll
get used to
it
in
time,"
said
into
the
its
Caterpillar;
and
it
put
the
hookah
mouth and began smoking

This
time Alice
again.
waited
patiently
until
it
chose to speak again.

Caterpillar took the
In a minute or two the

its
mouth, and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled
hookah out of
away
went,
into
"
the grass, merely remarking as

side
will
it
One
side
and the other

"One
side will
make you grow taller, make you grow shorter."

The
said
it
of what?
other
side
of
what?"
"Of
thought Alice to herself.

the
mushroom,"
the
Caterpillar^
just as if she
had asked
it
aloud;
sight.
and
in
another
moment
for
was out of
Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the
mushroom
a minute, trying to
make
out
CATERPILLAR.
69
which were the two sides of
it;
and, as
it
was
perfectly round, she found this a very difficult
However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and
question.
broke off a
"And
bit
of the edge with each hand.

is which?"
now which
she said to her
self,
and nibbled a
little
of the right-hand bit to
try the effect: the next

lent
moment
she
it
felt
a vio
blow underneath her chin;
had struck
her foot!
She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no
time to be
lost,
as she
at
so she set to
work
was shrinking rapidly; once to eat some of the

so closely
other
bit.
Her chin was pressed
against her foot, that there
was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and
managed
bit.
to swallow a morsel of the left-hand
****
70
ADVICE FROM A
Come,
my
head
s free at last
"
said Alice in
a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in
moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she
another
could see,
when she looked down, was an im

to rise
mense length of neck, which seemed

like
a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that
lay far below her.

"What
can
all
that* green
stuff
be?"
said
Alice.
"And
where have
poor hands,
my
shoulders got to?

is
it
And
oh,
my
how
I can
see
you?"
She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a
shaking among the distant green leaves.
there seemed to be no chance of getting
little
As
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
CATERPILLAR.
7]
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
trees under
beating her violently with

"Serpent!"
"
its
wings.
screamed the Pigeon.

"
not a serpent
"
said Alice indignantly.
"
Let me alone
"
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
t
them
"
I haven
the least idea what
you re talking
I
about,"
"I
said Alice.
ve tried the roots of trees, and

hedges,"
ve tried
banks, and I ve tried
the Pigeon went

"but
on, without attending to her;
those ser
pents!
no pleasing them!" Alice was more and more puzzled, but she
There
s
thought there was no use in saying anything
more
"
till
the Pigeon had finished.
As
if
the
eggs,"
wasn t trouble enough hatching said the Pigeon, "but I must be on

it
72
ADVICE FROM A
the look-out for serpents night and day!
Why,
haven
"
had a wink of sleep these three

said
weeks
"
very sorry you ve been
annoyed,"
Alice,
who was beginning

just as I
to see its meaning.

tree in
its
"And
d taken the highest

"
the
wood,"
continued the Pigeon, raising
voice to a shriek,
I should be free
and just as I was thinking of them at last, they must needs
come wriggling down from the sky!

Serpent!"
"
Ugh!
But
not a serpent, I
I
tell
"
you
said Alice,
"I
ma
*Well!
"
What
are
you?"
said the Pigeon.

"
J can see you re trying to invent something!

"I
little
girl,"
said Alice, rather doubt
fully, as
she remembered the
number of changes
said the
"I
she had gone through that day.

"A
likely story
indeed!"
Pigeon in
ve seen a
a tone of the deepest contempt.
good many
little
girls in
my
time, but never one
with such a neck as that!
No, no
You re
CATERPILLAR.
73
serpent; and there
no use denying
it.
I sup
pose you
tasted an
"I
ll
be telling
"
me
next that you never
egg
have tasted eggs,
certainly,"
"but
said Alice,
little
who was
eat
a very truthful child;
girls
eggs quite as much as serpents do, you

don
believe
said the Pigeon;
know."
"I
it,"
"but
if
they do,
that s
all
why
then they re a kind of serpent,

say."
I can
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
enough
;
looking for eggs, I
and what does

little
it
know that well matter to me whether

said Alice
it
you re a
"It
girl or a serpent?"
me"
matters a good deal to

"but
hastily;
not looking for eggs, as

was, I shouldn
raw."
happens; and
I don
*
if I
want yours:
in a
its
t like
them
off,
it
Well, be
then
"
said the
Pigeon
sulky tone, as
settled
down again
into
74
ADVICE FROM A
nest.
Alice crouched
down among
the trees as
well as she could, for her neck kept getting
entangled
among
the branches, and every

to stop
now
and then she had
and untwist
it.
After
a while she remembered that she

pieces of
to
still
held the
set
mushroom
in her hands,
and she
first
work very
carefully,
nibbling
at
one
and then
taller
and growing sometimes and sometimes shorter, until she had suc
at the other,
ceeded in bringing herself down to her usual

height.
It
was so long
since she
had been anything

felt
it
near the right
size,
that
it
quite
in a
strange
at first, but she got
used to
to
few min
as
!
utes, w
and began talking

s
herself
usual.
Come, there
all
half
my
plan done
I
now
How
sure
puzzling
these changes are!

to be,
m never
to
what I m going
other!
size:
tiful
from one minute to an
However, I ve got back

the next thing
is,
my
right
to get into that
beau
garden
"
how
is that to
this,
be done, I
won
der?
As
she said
she came suddenly upon
CATERPILLAR.
75
an open place, with a

four feet high.
Alice,
size:
"it
r
<
little
house in
it
about
Whoever
lives there/
thought
ll
never do to come upon them this
why, I should frighten them out of their wits So she began nibbling at the right-hand
"
bit again,
house
till
and did not venture to go near the she nad Drought nerseif down to nine
inches high.
CHAPTEB
/
YT.
PIG
AND PEPPER.
FOR
the
a minute or two she stood looking at
and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came run
house,
ning out of the wood (she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: other
wise, judging
called
by
his face only, she
would have
and rapped loudly at the It was opened by door with his knuckles. another footman in livery, with a round face
him a
fish)
and large eyes
like a frog;
and both footmen,
Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled

all
over their heads.
She
felt
very curious
PIG
AND PEPPER.
77
to
know what
it
was
all
about,
and crept a
little
way out of the wood to listen. 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
ess.
solemn tone,
"
For the Duch
An
invitation
from the Que6n to play
78
PIG
AND PEPPER.
repeated, in the
croquet."
The Frog-Footman
tone, only
"
same solemn
the words a
tation for the
changing the order of

the Queen.
croquet."
little,
From
An
invi
Duchess
to play
Then they both bowed

got entangled together. Alice laughed so
to
low, and their curls
much
at this that she
had
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.
Alice
went
timidly
up
to
the
door,
and
knocked.
"There
no
"
sort of use in
knocking,"
said
the Footman,
and that
for
two reasons.
First,
because I
on the same side of the door as
you
are ; secondly, because they re
making such a
you."
noise inside, no one could possibly hear
And
noise
certainly there
was
a most extraordinary a
going on within and sneezing, and every
constant
howling
now and
then a great
PIG
AND
PEPPER.
79
crash, as if a dish or kettle

pieces.
"Please,
then,"
had been broken
to
said
Alice,
"how
am
I to
get
:?
in?"
There might be some sense in your knock the Footman went on without attending ing,"
to her,
"if
we had
let
the door between us.

inside,
For
instance, if
you were
and I could
looking up
speaking,
uncivil.
you
this
out,
you might knock, you know." He was

all
into the
sky
the time he
was
and
"But
thought decidedly she perhaps he can t help

it,"
Alice
said
at
to
herself;
"his
eyes are so very nearly
the top
of his head.
But
at
any rate he
I to get
might
in?"
answer questions
How am
she repeated, aloud.

shall
sit
here,"
"
"I
the
Footman remarked,
door
of the
"till
to-morrow
this
At
moment
the
house
opened, and a large plate came skimming out,

straight at the
his
Footman s head:
it
just grazed
nose,
and broke to pieces against one of
the trees behind him.
80
PIG
AND
PEPPER.
"
or next day,
maybe,"
the
Footman con
if
tinued in the same tone, exactly as
nothing
had happened.
"How
am
I to
get
in?"
Alice asked again in
a louder tone.
"
Are
you
"
to
get
s
in
at
first
all?"
said
the
Footman.
know."
That
the
question,
you
It was,
be told
to
It s
so.
no doubt: only Alice did not like to It s really dreadful," she muttered
"
herself,
"the
way
all
the
creatures
"
argue.
enough
to drive one crazy
The Footman seemed

opportunity
variations.
off,
"
"
to think this a
his
good
with
for
repeating
sit
remark,
"
I shall
here,"
he
said,
on and
for days
and
days."
But what am
I to
do?
"
said Alice.
"Anything
you
s
like,"
said the
Footman, and
began whistling.
"
Oh, there
no use
"
in talking to
him,"
"
said
Alice desperately:
he
s perfectly idiotic!
in.
And
she opened the door and went
PIG
AND
PEPPER.
81
The door
was
the
in
full
led right into a large kitchen, which
of smoke from one end to the other:

sitting
on a three-legged stool the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was

fire,
Duchess was
leaning over the
stirring a large cauldron

full
which seemed
f
to
be
of soup.
There
"
certainly too
much pepper
in that
youp
Alice said to herself, as well as she could
for sneezing.
82
PIG
AND PEPPER.
There was certainly too much of it in the Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; air.
and as
for the baby,
it
was sneezing and howl
ing alternately without a
moment s
pause.
The
only two creatures 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.
"Please,
little
it
would you tell me," said Alice, a timidly, for she was not quite sure whether
for
was good manners
her to speak
"
first,
why
"
your cat grins like that ?

Cheshire
cat,"
It s a
said the Duchess, w and
that s why.
Pig!"
She said the
last
word with such sudden

was addressed
vio
in
lence that Alice quite jumped; but she
saw
another
moment
that
it
to the
baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and
went on again
"I
didn
know
fact,
that
Cheshire
cats
always
grinned; in
grin."
I didn t
know
that cats could
PIG
AND PEPPER.
83
They
all
can,"
said the
Duchess
"
and most
of
"
em
do."
I don
know
of any that
do,"
Alice said very
politely, feeling quite
pleased to have got into a
conversation.
T
You don t know

that s a
fact."
much,"
said the
Duchess;
of this
to
"and
Alice did not at
all
it
like
the tone
remark, and thought

introduce
would be as well
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
fire-irons
the
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.
please
"Oh,
mind w hat you

r
re
in
doing!"
cried
llice,
jumping up and down
an agony of
84
PIG
AND
PEITKR.
terror.
"
Oh, there goes
his precious nose
"
as
an unusually large saucepan flew close by

very nearly carried
K
it off.
it,
and
If everybody minded their
own
"
business,"
said the
Duchess
in a
hoarse growl,
the world
would go round a deal faster than it does." * not be an advantage," said "Which would
Alice,
very glad to get an opportunity Just of showing off a little of her knowledge.
felt
"
who
think what
work
it
would make with the day

its axis"
and night
"
You
see the earth takes twenty-four
hours to turn round on
Talking of
head!"
axes,"
said the Duchess,
"
chop
off her
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

c
be listening, so she went on again:

four hours, I think; or
"Oh,
TwentyI
"
is it
twelve?
don
bother
me,"
said the
Duchess;
"I
never could abide
figures."
And
with that she

sort of
began nursing her child again, singing a
PIG
AND PEPPER.
85
lullaby to
it
as she did so,
and giving
line:
it
a violent
shake at the end of every

"
Speak roughly to your little boy, A.nd beat him when he sneezes;
He
annoy Because he knows it teases."

,
only does
it to
CHORUS
(in which the cook
"Wow!
and the baby joined)

u-ow!
wow!"
While the Duchess sang the second verse of

the song, she kept tossing the baby violently
up
so,
thing howled that Alice could hardly hear the words:

little
"I
and down, and the poor
speak severely
to
my
boy,
I beat him when

For
he sneezes;
he can thoroughly enjoy

"
The pepper when he pleases!
CHORUS
*WowI wow!
wow!"
86
PIG
AND
PEPPER.
you may nurse it a bit, if you like said the Duchess to Alice, flinging the baby at I must go and get ready to her as she spoke.
"
Here
"
play croquet with the

out of the room.
Queen,"
and she hurried

a fryingpan
The cook threw

it
after her as she went, but
just missed her.
Alice caught the baby with

as
it
some
difficulty,
was
a queer-shaped
little
creature,
and held
"just
out
a
its
arms and legs
in all directions,
like
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.
it
was
as
much
as
she could do to hold
As
sort
soon as she had made out the proper
way
of nursing
it, (which was to twist it up into a of knot, and then keep tight hold of its
right
ear and
itself,)
left
foot,
so as to
it
prevent
its
undoing
air.
she carried
t
out into the open
"If
I don
take this child
away with me,

kill it in
thought Alice,
they re sure to
a day
PIG
AND
it
PEPPER.
87
or two:
behind?"
wouldn t
be
murder
to
leave
it
She said the
last
the
little
thing grunted in
time).
all
words out loud, and reply (it had left off

grunt,"
sneezing by this
Alice:
"that
"Don t
said
not at
proper
way of
expressing
yourself."
The baby grunted

very anxiously into
matter with
it
it.
again, and Alice looked

face to see
its
what was the
There could be no doubt that

like a
had a very turn-up nose, much more

also
its
snout than a real nose;
eyes
were
getting extremely small, for a baby: altogether
Alice did not like the look of the thing at

w
all,
but
perhaps
it
was only
its
sobbing,"
she
thought, and looked into

if there
eyes again, to see
were any tears. No, there were no tears.
"
If you re going to
turn into a pig,

wl
ll
my
dear,"
said Alice, seriously,
have nothing more to do with you. Mind The poor little thing sobbed again, (or now!"
grunted,
was impossible to say which,) and they went on for some while in silence.
it
88
PIG
AND PEPPER.
Alice was just beginning to think to herself,

"Now,
what am I to do with
it
this
creature
?
when
I get
home?"
when
it
grunted again
so violently, that she
looked
face in
down
into its
some alarm.
This time there could
be no mistake about
it
:
it
was
neither
more nor
less
than
felt
a pig, and she

that
it
would
be
quite absurd for her

to carry
ther.
it
any fur
set
So
little
she
the
creature down, and felt quite relieved to

trot
see
it
it
away
quietly into the wood.
"If
had grown
up,"
"
it it
would
have been a dreadfully ugly child: but

rather a
makes
she be
handsome
pig, I
think."
And
gan thinking over other children she knew, who
PIG
AND
PEPPER.
might do very well as pigs, and was just say one only knew the right way ing to herself,
"if
to
change them
"
when
she
was a
little
by seeing the Cheshire Cat a bough of a tree a few yards off.

startled
sitting
on
The Cat only grinned when

It
it
saw Alice.
still
it
looked
goodnatured, she thought:
had very long claws and a great many

"
teeth,
so she...lULit ought to be treated with respect.
Cheshire
Puss,"
SiSwoeganjLratlier timidly,
all
as
she did not at
know whether
it
it
would
little
like the
name
*
however,
only grinned a
far,"
wider.
Alice,
please,
Come, it s pleased so thought and she went on, Would you tell me, ft which way I ought to flne from here?"
That depends a good deal on where you want to get said the Cat.
to,"
"
don t much care where

lien
it
"
said Alice.
doesn
matter
which
way you
Alice
*"
said the Cat.

somewhere"
long as I get added as an explanation.
--- so
90
PIG
AND PEPPER.
"
Oh, you
fi ii
j
re sure to
do
that,"
said the Cat,
"if
you only walk long

that tnis
tried
enough."
Aiiw
she
ftftuia
hot
"
ftg
aemed,
sort
so
another
question.
\\hat
of
people live about

"In
here?"
that
direction,"
"
fhj_(Cnili
nii1,f n n
in
.
its
right
pnw minnty
waving
1i-rn a
Hatter:
1
and
in
//////
direction,"
(lie utliiii
p;
fr
lives a Mni-ch
Hare.
Visit either
I
"But
don
you like: they re, both nuid." want to go among mad

said
people,"
"Oh,
Aliee remarked.
you can
help
I
that,"
the
Cat:
we
re all
mad
here.
"How
You
wouldn
Alice
t
do you know said must

be,"
m mad. You re I m said

mad?"
mad."
Alice.
the
Cat,
"or
yon
have come
didn
t
here."\
think
that
"and
however, she went on:

that
proved it at all; how do you know
you
re
mad?"
"To
begin
with,"
said the Cat,
"a
dog s
not
mad.
"I
You
grant
that?"
suppose
so,"
said Alice.
AXI>
"Well
tluV
"you
the
see a
Cal
\\(
nt on,
dog
ifs
ii
growls
when
it
angry,
and wags
pleased.
its tail
when
Now /growl u
and wag
an^ry.
I
-.
pleased,
my
taihvhrn
m
it
Thnv-
Pm
"/
mad."
call
growling,"
t?
puiTm;\ not said A!K ^

.
Call
it
what you
f
l>o
like.*
said
the Cat.
to-day
you
nlay croijiu
with thr
(.^.IUHMI
?"
92
PIG
AND
PEPPER.
should
I haven
like
t
it
very
much,"
said Alice,
"but
c
been invited
yet."
You ll
see
me
there,"
said
the
Cat,
and
vanished.
Alice was not
much
surprised at this, she
was getting
pening.
so well used to queer things hap
"While
she was
still
it
looking at the
place where
again.
"By
it
had been,
suddenly appeared
-the -bye, what became of the baby?
said the Cat.

"
It
d nearly forgotten to ask." turned into a pig," Alice answered very

"
quietly, just as if the
Cat had come back in a
natural way.
"
I thought
it would,"
said the Cat,
and van
ished again.
Alice waited a
again, but
it
little,
half expecting to see
it
did not appear, and after a minute
or two she walked on in the direction in which

the
March Hare was

before,"
said to live.
"
"I
ve seen
hatters
she said to herself:
the
March
Hare
will
be
much
the most interesting, and
PIG
AND
PEPPER.
perhaps as this
at least not so
is
May it won t be raving mad mad as it was in March." As

on a branch of a
fig?"
she said
this,
she looked up, and there was the

tree.
Cat again,
"Did
"
sitting
you say
pig,"
pig, or
said the Cat.

w
and I wish you wouldn t keep appearing and vanishing so sud denly: you make one quite giddy."
I said
replied Alice ;
"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 re
mained some time
after the rest of
it
had gone.
94
PIG
AND
PEPPER.
Well
I ve often seen a cat without a

"but
grin,"
thought Alice;
It s
grin
without
cat!
the most curious thing I ever

life!"
saw
in
all
my
She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the March Hare:
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,
she thought
it
that she did not like to
go nearer
till
she had
nibbled some more of the left-hand bit o. ^nush-
room, and raised herself to about two feet high:
even then she walked
up towards
"Suppose
it it
rather
timidly, saying to herself,
should
be raving
mad
after all!
I almost wish I d gone
to see the
Hatter
instead!"
CHAPTEK
YH.
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
THERE was
a table set out under a tree in
front of the house,
and the March Hare and the

it:
Hatter were having tea at

sitting
Dormouse was
and the other
between them,
fast asleep,
two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. "Very
uncomfortable for the
"
Dormouse,"
only, as
it
s asleep, I
suppose
it
thought Alice; doesn t mind."
The
were
w
table
all
was a large one, but the three crowded together at one corner of it:
!
~No room
No room
"
they cr;ed out when

"
they saw Alice
coming.
There
plenty of
96
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
"
room
said Alice indignantly,
and she
sa.t
down
in a large arm-chair at one

"Have
end of the
table.
some
wine,"
the
March Hare
said in
an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the
table,
"I
but there
t
was nothing on
wine,"
c
it
but
tea.
don
see
any
she remarked.
isn
it
There
any,"
said the
March Hare.
of you to
oifer
"
Then
wasn
very
civil
it,"
said Alice angrily.
"It
wasn
very
civil
of you to
sit
down
said
without being
"I
invited,"
said the
March Hare.
table,"
didn
"it
know
it
was your
Alice;
three."
laid for a great
many more than

said the Hatter.
Your
hair wants
cutting,"
He had
with
speech.
been looking at Alice for some time great curiosity, and this was his first
You
remarks,"
should learn not
to
make
personal
"it
Alice said with some severity:
very
rude."
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
The Hatter opened

hearing this-
his
eyes very wide on

"Why is
but
all
he said was,
raven like a
"
writing-desk?"
Come,
ing riddles
we
shall
"I
have
some fun now w

!
thought Alice.
glad they ve begun ask

that,"
I believe I can guess
she
added aloud.
"Do
you mean that you think you can

it?"
find
it
the answer to
said the
March Hare.
w
?
Exactly
so,"
said Alice.
7
&8
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
Then you should say what you March Hare went on.
"I
mean,"
the
do,"
Alice hastily replied;

I say
"at
least
at
least I
mean what
that s the
same
thing,
you
"
know."
Not the same thing a

is
bit
"
said the Hatter.

*
Why, you might

hat I eat
!"
just as well say that
I see
the same thing as
I eat
what I
see
might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that I like what I get is the
"You
C
same thing as
*
I get w^hat I like

as well
say,"
!"
You might just

*
added the Dor

in his sleep,
is
"
mouse, who seemed to be talking

"
that
I breathe I sleep
when
when
sleep
the
same
thing as
"It
I breathe
is
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
t
ravens and writing-desks, which wasn
much.
The Hatter was
the
first
to break the silence.
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
*
99
What day
of the month
is
it?"
he
said,
turn
ing to Alice: he had taken his watch out of

his pocket,
ing
it
and was looking at it uneasily, shak every now and then, and holding it to
considered
a
his ear.
Alice
fourth."
little,
and
"
said,
The
"Two
days
wrong!"
sighed the Hatter.

t
"I
told
you butter wouldn
suit the
works
"
he
added, looking angrily at the March Hare.

"It
was the
replied.
lest
butter,"
the
March Hare
meekly
r
Yes, but some crumbs must have got in

the Hatter grumbled:
it
"you
as
well,"
shouldn
have put
in
with the
bread-knife."
The March Hare took

at
it
the watch and looked

it
gloomily:
then he dipped
it
into his cup
of tea, and looked at
again:
but he could
first
think of nothing better to say than his
remark,
"It
was the
lest butter,
you
know."
Alice had been looking over his shoulder with
some
"
curiosity.
What
a funny watch
"
100
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
the day of the month, and
it is
"
remarked.
"It
tells
doesn
t tell
what o clock
it?"
"Why
"Does
"Of
should
muttered
the
Hatter.
it
is?"
your watch
tell
you what year

stays the
course not/ Alice replied very readily:

it
"but
that s because
same year
for
such a long time

"Which
is
together."
just the
case with
mine"
said
the Hatter.
Alice
felt
dreadfully puzzled.
The Hatter s
remark seemed to her to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. don t
"I
quite understand
you/ she
said, as politely
as
she could.
"
The Dormouse
nose.
is
asleep
again,"
said the
Hatter,
its
and he poured a
little
hot tea on to
The Dormouse shook

and
said,
its
its
head impatiently,
"
without opening
eyes,
Of
course ?
of course: just what I was going to remark

myself."
"Have
you guessed the
riddle
yet?"
the
Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
I give
*
up,"
101
"No,
it
Alice-replied:
what s
the
answer?"
"I
haven
the
slightest
idea,"
said
the
Hatteiv"Nbr
I,"
said the
March Hare.
"I
Alice
sighed wearily.
think you might

time,"
do something better with the

"than
she said,
wasting
it
in
asking riddles that have
no
answers."
"If
said you knew Time as well as I the Hatter, "you wouldn t talk about wasting
do,"
it.
It s
"I
him"
"
don t know what you Of course you don t
mean,"
"
said Alice.
the
Hatter
"I
said,
head contemptuously. you never even spoke to Time

tossing his
!
"
dare say
"
Perhaps
I
not,"
Alice cautiously replied

beat
"
but
know
I have to
time
when I
learn
music."
"Ah!
that accounts for
it,"
said the Hatter a

if
"He
won t
stand beating.
Now,
you only
kept on good terms with him, he d do almost
102
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
anything you liked with the clock.

stance, suppose
it
For
in
were nine o clock
in the
morn
ing, just time to begin lessons:
to whisper a hint to
you d only have Time, and round goes the

Half-past one, time for
clock in a twinkling!
dinner
w
(
"
I only wish
it
was,"
the
March Hare
said to
itself in a
whisper.)
certainly,"
That would be grand,

w
said Alice
thoughtfully:
for
it,
but then
I shouldn
be hungry
w
you
know."
Not
at first,
perhaps,"
said the Hatter:
but
you could keep

you
liked."
it
to half-past one as long as
"Is
that
the
way you
his
manage?"
Alice,
asked.
The Hatter shook

I
"
head mournfully.
"
rp
Not
he replied.
lie
"We
quarrelled last
March
(point
just before
w
went mad, you know

at
ing with his teaspoon

it
the
March Hare,)
by the
was
at the great concert given
Queen of Hearts, and
had
to
sing."
A MAD
TEA-PARTY.
Twinkle, twinkle,
little
bat!
re at/*
How I wonder
You know
"I
what you
the song perhaps?
ve heard something like
it,"
said Alice.
w w
It
goes on, you know/ the Hatter continued,
in this
way:
*
Up
above the world you fly^

the sky.
Like a teatray in
Twinkle, twinkle- ~~~ J
101
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
Here the Dormouse shook

singing in
twinkle
to pinch
"Well,
"
itself,
and began
its
"
sleep,
Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle,
and went on so long that they had
it
to
make
it
stop.
first
verse,"
d hardly finished the

"when
said the Hatter,
the
!
Queen bawled out

exclaimed Alice.
He s murdering
"
the time
Off with his head!

"
How
dreadfully savage
"And
ever since
that,"
the Hatter went on
in
a mournful tone,
It s
"he
won t do
now."
a thing I
ask!
always six o clock
bright idea came into Alice
head.
"Is
that the reason so

riere?"
many
tea-things are put out
she asked.
s
it,"
*
"
Yes, that
said the Hatter with a sigh:
it s
always tea-time, and
we ve no
time to wasn
the things between

"Then
Avhiles."
you keep moving round, I

said the Hatter
"
suppose?"
said Alice.
"
Exactly get used up."

"But
so,"
as the things
when you come

Alice ventured
to
the
beginning
again?"
to- ask.
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
"
105
Suppose we change the

interrupted, yawning.
subject,"
r
"
the
March
us
Jrlare
getting tired
tells
of
this.
I vote
the
young lady
story."
"I
afraid I
don t know
one,"
said Alice,
rather alarmed at the proposal.

*
Then
the
Dormouse
Dormouse
!
shall
"
"
they both cried.

they pinched
it
"
Wake
^^^ggggPPpBMMMMMHMHHMBiM on both sides at once.
up,
And
The Dormouse slowly opened

wasn
"
his eyes.
"I
asleep,"
he said in a hoarse, feeble voice:
heard every word you fellows were say
ing."
Tell us a
:?
story!"
"
said the
March Hare.
Yes, please do
pleaded Alice.
it,"
"And
"or
be quick about
ll
added the Hatter,

it s
clone."
you
be asleep again before
upon a time there were three little in a great hurry; sisters," the Dormouse began and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie
"Once
"
and they lived

:?
at the
bottom of a well
"
"
What
did they live on ?
said Alice,
who
106
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
always took a great interest in questions of eat

ing and drinking.
"
They
lived on
treacle,"
said the
Dormouse,
after thinking a
"They
minute or two.
t
couldn
have done
"
that,
you
"
know,"
ill."
Alice gently remarked:

"
they d have been
So they
were,"
said the
Dormouse;
very
ill."
Alice tried a
little
to fancy to herself
what
such an extraordinary
like,
way of
living
would be
but
"
it
puzzled her too much, so she went

live at the
on
a
But why did they
bottom of
well?"
*
Take some more

ve had nothing
"so
tea,"
the
March Hare
said
to Alice, very earnestly.

"I
yet,"
Alice replied in an
take
more."
offended tone,
?
I can
You
:
mean, you can

"
take
to
less"
said the
Hatter
it
very
easy
take
more than
nothing."
"Nobody
*
asked your
opinion,"
said Alice.
now?"
Who s
making personal remarks
the
Hatter asked triumphantly.
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
107
Alice did not quite
know what
some
tea
to the
to say to this:
so she helped herself to

butter,
and bread-and-
and then turned
Dormouse, and
did they live at
repeated her question.

the bottom of a
well?"
Why
The Dormouse again took

to
a minute or
said,
"It
two
think about
it,
and then
was a
treacle- well."
"There s
no such
thing!"
Alice was begin
ning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March
Hare
wevit
"
Sh! sh!
.,
remarked,
"If
and the Dormouse sulkily J can t be civil, you d better you

"
finish the story for

"No,
"
yourself."
"
please
t
go on!
Alice said very humbly:

again.
won
be
interrupt
one."
you
I dare say there
may
ly.
"One,
indeed!
"
said the
Dormouse indignant
go on. "And they were learning
to
However, he consented
little sisters
"
so these three
to draw,
you know
did they
What
draw?"
said Alice, quite for
getting her promise.
108
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
said the
"Treacle,"
Dormouse, without con

interrupted the Hatter
on."
sidering at
"
all this
time.
cup,"
:
want a clean
let s all
move one
place
on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the
He moved
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.

Alice did not wish to offend the
again, so she
Dormouse
w
:
began very cautiously
But
don
understand.
from?"
Where
did they draw the
treacle
You
draw
w
can draw water out of a water- well,"

"so
said the Hatter;
I should think
you could
stupid?"
treacle out of a treacle- well

well,"
eh,
But they were in the
Alice said to
the Dormouse, not choosing to notice this iast
remark.
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
w
109
Of course
in."
they
were,"
said the
Dormouse,
well
This answer so confused poor Alice, that she

et the
Dormouse go on
it.
for
some time without
nterrupting
"
They were learning
to
draw,"
the
Dormouse
went on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; "and they drew all
nanner of things
an
everything that begins with
M
"Why
"Why
"
with an
not?"
M?"
aid Alice.
said the
March Hare.
Alice was
silent.
The Dormouse had

;ime,
closed
its
eyes by this
but,
and was going

a
off into a doze,

it
on
jeing pinched by the Hatter,

with
little
woke up again
"
shriek,
and went on:
that
3egins with an
M, such
r
as mousetraps, and the
noon, and memory, and muchness
you say things are you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a
nuchness?"
you know did much of a muchness
110
A MAD TEA-PARTY.
"
Kealiy,
now you ask

"I
me,"
said Alice, very

"
much
confused,
don t think
talk,"
"Then
you shouldn t
said the Hatter.
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and
walked
off:
the
Dormouse
fell
asleep instantly,
least notice
and neither of the others took the
of her going, though she looked back once or

twice, half
hoping that they would

time
call
after
her:
the last
she
saw them, they were

into
trying to put the
Dormouse
the teapot
A MAD
w
JTEA-PARTY.
11T-
never go there again said Alice as she picked her way through the wood.
rate I
ll
"
At any
s
"It
the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in

life!"
all
my
Just as she said
this,
she noticed that one

it.
of the trees had a door leading right into

c
That- s
very
s
curious
"
she
"
thought.
I think I
But
as
everything
well
curious to-day.
may
go in at once." And in she went. Once more she found herself in- the long
to the little glass table.
"JSTow,
hall,
and close
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
she was
set to
work nibbling
it
at the
mushroom
till
(she had kept a piece of
in her pocket)
about a foot high: then she walked

little
down
the
passage: and
tlien
she found
herself at last in the beautiful

the bright flowerbeds
garden,
among
and the cool fountains.
CHAPTER
VIII.
THE QUEEN S CROQUET-GROUND.
A LARGE rose-tree stood near the

the garden: the roses growing on
it
entrance of
were white,
it,
but there were three gardeners at

painting them
curious thing,
red.
busily
Alice thought this a very
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
"I
splashing paint over

t
me
like that
"
couldn
help
it,"
said
Five in a sulky
w
said,
tone;
"Seven
On
jogged my elbow." which Seven looked up and
That
"
right, Five!
Always lay the blame on others!
THE QUEEN
"You
CKOQUE1 -GROUND.
"
113
better not talk!
said Five.
"I
heard
to
the
Queen say only yesterday you deserved

"
be beheaded
"What
for?"
said the one
who
none
had spoken w That s

of your
first.
business,
Two! "said
Yes,
business
Five,
tell
!
Seven.
is his
it
"
said
and
it
ll
him
was
the
roots
for
bringing
tulip
-
cook
instead of
onions."
Seven
flung
114
THE QUEEN
Would you
timidly,
tell
me,
please,"
said
Alice,
little
"why
you are painting those
roses?"
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 red rose-tree, and we put a white one

in
by mistake, and
if
the
Queen was
to find
off,
it
out,
we should
So you
all
have our heads cut
you
know.
see, Miss,
"
afore she comes, to
we re doing our best, At this moment Five,
who had been
anxiously looking across the gar

"The
Queen! The Queen!" and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves There was a sound of flat upon their faces. many footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager
den, called out
to see the
Queen.
soldiers carrying clubs; these
like the three gardeners,
First
came ten
shaped
were
all
flat,
oblong
and
with their hands and feet at the cor
ners: next the ten courtiers; these were orna
mented
all
over with diamonds, and walked two
CROQUET-GROUND.
115
and two, as the soldiers

the
royal
children;
did.
After these came

of them,
there
were ten
and the
little
dears came jumping merrily along

all
hand, in hand, in couples: they were
orna
mented with
hearts.
Next came
the
guests,
mostly Kings and Queens, and
among them
it
Alice recognized the White Rabbit:
was
talk
at
ing in
a hurried
nervous manner, smiling
everything that was said, and went by without

noticing her.
Then followed
the
Knave of
a crimson
Hearts, carrying the
King s crown on
all
velvet cushion; and, last of

cession,
this
grand pro
came
THE KING AND QUEEN OF
HEAKTS.
Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to He down on her face like the three
gardeners, but she could not remember ever
w having heard of such a rule at processions ; and
besides,
what would be the

"
iise
of a
procession,"
she thought,
if
people had
all
to lie
it ?
down on
"
their faces, so that they couldn t see
So she
stood where she was, and waited.
16
THE QUEEN
the procession
When
they
all
came opposite
her,
to Alice,
stopped and looked at
and the
She
said
Queen
It
said severely,
"Who is this?"
to the
Knave of
"
Hearts,
who
only
bowed and
smiled in reply.
Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and, turning to Alice, she went
"
Idiot
said
the
on,
"
"What
your name,
is
child?"
My
name
Alice, so please your
Majesty,"
said
Alice
very politely; but
she
added,
to
herself,
"Why,
they re only a pack of cards,

t
after
all.
I needn
be afraid of
them!"
"And
who
are
these?"
said the Queen, point
ing to the three
gardeners
who were
lying
round the rose-tree; 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, 7 she could not tell whether f iey were gardeners,
or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her
children.
"How
own
should
/know?
"
"
said Alice, surprised
at
her
own
courage.
It s
no business of
mine"
CROQUET-GROUND.
117
The Queen turned crimson with fury, ancl after glaring at her for a moment like a wild
s
"
beast,
began screaming,
Off with her head
Off"
118
THE QUEEN S
"
Nonsense
"
said
Alice,
very loudly and

silent.
decidedly, and the
Queen was
The King
timidly said,
laid his
"
hand upon her arm, and
Consider,
my
dear
she
is
only
child!"
The Queen turned

and said
to the
away from him, Knave, "Turn them over!"

angrily
r
The Knave did

foot.
"
"
so, verj
carefully, with
one
said the Queen in a shrill, loud Get up voice, and the three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the Queen,
!
the royal children, and everybody else.

"
Leave
off that!
giddy."
"
screamed the Queen.
You
the
make me
And
on,
then, turning to
rose-tree, she
went
"What
have you been
doing
here?"
"May
it
please your
Majesty,"
said
Two,
in
humble tone, going down on one knee as he spoke, "we were trying
a very
"
"
see
"
said
the
Queen, who had mean

roses.
"
while been
examining the
Off with
CROQUET-GROUND.
their
119
heads
"
and the procession moved
on,
three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute
the unfortunate gardeners,

protection.
?
who
ran to Alice for
You
shan
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
"Are
"
marched
off after the others.

off?"
their heads
shouted the Queen.

if
it
Their heads are gone,

"
please
your
Majesty
the soldiers shouted in reply.

right!"
"That
shouted the Queen.
"Can
you play
croquet?"
The
soldiers
were
silent,
and looked
at Alice,
as the question
"Yes!"
was evidently meant

then
"
for her.
shouted Alice.
!
"
Come on
roared
the
Queen,
and
very
Alice
joined the procession,
wondering
much what would happen

"It
next.
day!"
it s
a very fine
said a timid
voice at her side.
She was walking by the White
120
THE QUEEN
Rabbit,
face.
:?
who was peeping

said Alice
Hush!"
"
anxiously into
her
Very,"
where
the Duchess ?
in a
"
"Hush!
said the Rabbit
low
hurried tone.
He
looked anxiously over his
shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself
upon
tiptoe,
put his mouth close to her

s
ear,
and
whispered,
"What
"Did
"She
under sentence of
execution."
for?"
said Alice.
you say
I
What
a pity!
?"
the Rabbit
asked.
"No,
didn
t,"
said Alice:
"I
don
"
think
it
s at all
"
a pity.
I said
s
What
ears
for?
"
She boxed the Queen

Alice gave a
"
the Rabbit
began.
"
little
scream of laughter.
Oh, hush
T
the Rabbit whispered in a frightened

will
tone.
The Queen
late,
hear you
You
"
see she
came rather
"Get
and the Queen said

places!"
to
your
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
minute or two, and the game began.
CROQUET-GROUND.
121
Alice thought she had never seen

curious croquet-ground in her
life
:
such a
it
was
all
ridges and furrows; the croquet-balls were live
hedgehogs,
the
soldiers
arid the mallets live flamingoes,
and
had to
double themselves up
and
stand on their
hands
and
feet,
to
make
The
first
the arches.
chief
diffi
culty Alice found at
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
would twist
face,
itself
round and look
up into her
with such a puzzled expres-
122
THE QUEEN S
sion that she could not help bursting out laugh
ing
and when she had got

to begin again,
it
its
head down,
arid
was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides
was going
all this,
in
was generally a ridge or a furrow the way wherever she wanted to send the
there
to,
hedgehog
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
players
all
difficult
game
all
indeed.
The
played at once without wait

the while,
in a
ing for turns, quarrelling

fighting for the hedgehogs;
and
and
very short
time the Queen was in a furious passion, and
went stamping about, and shouting, Off with or Off with her head his head about once
"
"
"
"
in a minute.
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 w what would minute, and then," thought she,
"
CROQUET-GROUND.
123
become of me?
They
:
re
dreadfully fend of
is 3
the great wonder beheading people here that there s any one left alive!"
She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she could get away
without being seen,
when she
it
noticed a curious
appearance in the
at first, but after
air:
puzzled her very

it
much
watching
a minute or two
she
self,
made
"It
it
out to be a grin, and sho said to her
the Cheshire Cat:

to talk
to."
now
"
I shall have
somebody
"
How
are
as soon as
said the Cat, you getting on ? there was mouth enough for it to
speak with.
Alice waited
till
the eyes appeared, and then
nodded.
"
"
It s
no
use
speaking to
it,"
she
thought,
till
them."
its
ears
have come, or
at least
one of
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 some one to listen to
her.
The Cat seemed
to think that there
was
124
THE QUEEN
of
it
enough
t?
now
in sight,
and no more of
i*
appeared.
l
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 one s-self
speak
in
and they don

at
seem to have any

if
rules
particular;
least,
there
are,
nobody
for in
attends to
them
all
and you ve no idea how con

the things being alive;
fusing
it
is
stance, there s the arch I ve got to
next walking
about at
I
go through the other end of the

have
croqueted
it
ground
and
should
the
Queen s hedgehog just now, only when it saw mine coming

"
ran away
"How
do you
voice. at
"
like the Queen?" said the
Cat
in a
low
"Not
all,"
said
Alice:
"she
so
ex
tremely
Just then
she noticed that the

so she
Queen was
went on
"
close behind her, listening:

likely to win, that it s hardly
game."
worth
while finishing the
The Queen smiled and passed
on.
CROQUET-GROUND.
12,1
"Who
are you talking

to Alice,
to?"
said the
at the
coming up head with great

"It
and looking
King, Cat s
curiosity.
s
:
a friend of mine
"
a Cheshire
it."
Cat,"
said
Alice
"I
allow
me
to introduce
it
don t
like the look of

it
at
all,"
said the
if
it
King:
likes."
"however,
may
kiss
my
hand
"I
d rather
be
at
not,"
the Cat remarked.

said the King,
"and
"Don t
impertinent,"
don t look
me
like
that!"
He
got behind
Alice as he spoke.
"A
cat
may
look at a
king,"
said
Alice.
t
"I
ve read that in some book, but I don

where."
re
member
r?
Well,
it
must be
removed,"
said the
very decidedly, and he called was passing at the moment,
to the
"My
!
King Queen, who
dear! I wish
"
you would have this cat removed The Queen had only one way of
difficulties,
settling all
"
great or small.
"
Off with his head!
she said without even looking round.
126
THE QUEEN
fetch
"I
ll
the executioner
myself,"
said tbe
King
see
eagerly,
and he hurried
off.
Alice thought she might as well go back and
how
the
s
game was going

voice in the
on, as she heard
the
screaming with passion. She had already heard her sen tence three of the players to be executed for
distance,
Queen
having missed their turns, and she did not

the look of things at
all,
like
such confusion that
game was in she never knew whether it

as the
was her turn or
not.
So she went
off in search
of her hedgehog.
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

in a helpless sort
it
trying
tree,,
of
way
to fly
up
into a
By
the
time she had caught the flamingo

it
and brought
back, the fight was over, and

e?
both the hedgehogs were out of sight:
but
it
CROQUET-GROUND.
127
doesn
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 to have

a
little
more conversation with her
friend.
When
she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she
was surprised to find quite a large crowd col lected round it: there was a dispute going on
between
the
executioner,
all
the
King, and the

all
Queen, who were

the
rest
talking at once, while

silent,
were
quite
and looked very
uncomfortable.
The moment Alice appeared, she was ap

pealed to by
all
three to
their
settle
the question,
to
her,
it
and
they
repeated
all
arguments
at once, she
though, as they
spoke
found
very hard to
make
out exactly what they said.
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

t
do such a thing before, and he wasn begin at his time of life.
going to
128
THE QUEEN
The King s argument was,
that anything that

you.
had a head could be beheaded, and that weren t to talk nonsense.
The Queen s argument was, that if some thing wasn t done about it in less than no time,
she d have everybody executed,
all
round.
(It
CROQUET-GROUND.
129
was
this last
remark that had made the whole
party look so grave and anxious.)
"It
Alice could think of nothing else to say but belongs to the Duchess: you d better ask
it."
her about
"
She
s in
prison,"
the
Queen
said to the exe
cutioner:
tioner
"fetch
her
here."
And
the execu
went
s
off like
an arrow.
head began fading away the mo ment he was gone, and, by the time he had come
The Cat
back with the Duchess,

peared:
wildly
so the
it
had
entirely disap
King up and down looking
and the executioner ran

for
it,
while the
rest of the party
went bacK to uie game.
CHAPTER
THE MOCK TURTLE
*
IX.
STORY.
You
can
think
how glad
am
to see
yon
again,
yon dear old thing!" said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice s,
off together.
and they walked
Alice was very glad to find her in such a

pleasant
temper,
it
and thought
to
herself that
was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
perhaps
When J ra
in a
Duchess,"
she said to herself, (not

"I
very hopeful tone thoiigh,)

in
won t have
Soup does
any pepper
my
kitchen at
all.
THE MOCK TURTLE S STORY.
always pepper that makes people hot-tempered/ she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, w and vinegar that makes them
sour
very well without
Maybe
it
and camomile that makes them
bitter
and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish
and
people
knew
tliat:
it,
then they wouldn

t
"
be so
stingy about
you know
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,
forget to talk.
my dear, and that makes you I can t tell you just now what
is,
the moral of that

in a
bit."
but I shall remember
it
"Perhaps
it
hasn
one,"
Alice ventured to
remark.
w
Tut, tut, child

s
"
said the Duchess.
Every
it."
thing
got a moral, if only
you can find
And
she squeezed herself
up
closer to Alice s
side as she spoke.
132
THE MOCK
Alice did not

to her
:
much
like her
keeping so close
first,
because the Duchess was very
ugly, and secondly, because she
was exactly the

height
to
right
rest her chin on
Alice
s
it
shoulder,
and
was
an
uncomfortably
sharp chin.
How
ever, she did not

like to
be rude, so
it
she bore
as well
as she could.
"
The
game s
she
going on rather
better
said
now,"
by way of
the moral
a keeping up the conversation said the Duchess: Tis

so,"
little.
"and
of that
is
Oh,
tis
!
love, tis love, that
makes
the world w
go round
said,"
Somebody
Alice whispered,
that
it
!
s
"
done by everybody minding their own business
TURTLE
well!
STORY.
133
"Ah,
It
means much the same thing/

little
"and
said the Duchess, digging her sharp

into
chin
the
Alice
shoulder as she added,

is
moral of that
Take
care of the sense, and
the sounds will take care of themselves.

"How
"
fond
she
is
of
finding
morals
in
things
"I
Alice thought to herself.
daresay you re wondering
why
don
put
my arm
round your
"the
waist,"
said the
Duchess
doubt
Shall
after a pause:
ful
reason
is,
that I
about the temper of your flamingo.
I try the experiment?"

"He
might
bite,"
Alice
cautiously replied,
not feeling at
all
anxious to have the experi
ment
tried.
true,"
*Very
is
"
said the Duchess:

bite.
"flamingoes
and mustard both

?
And
the moral of that

1
Birds of a feather flock

isn t a
bird,"
together."
Only mustard
as
Alice remarked,
"what
"
"Right,
usual,"
said the Duchess:
a clear
"It
way you have of

a mineral, I
putting things
said Alice.
think"
134
THE MOCK
"Of
course
it
is,"
said
the
Duchess, who
seemed ready
said;
"there
to agree to everything that Alice
a large mustard-mine near here.

is
is
And
"
the moral of that
The more
of yours.
there
is
of mine, the less there
Oh, I know
"
exclaimed Alice,
"
who had
not attended to this last remark,

It
it
a vegetable.
doesn
"I
look like one, but
it
is."
quite agree with
you,"
said the Duchess,
"
and the moral of that

to
is
Be what you would

like
it
seern
be
or,
if
you d
put more
to
simply
Never imagine yourself not

it
be
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. think I should understand that better,"
"I
otherwise than what
Alice
said very politely,
"if
had
it
it
written
down: but I can t quite follow

it."
as
you sa^
if I
"That
nothing to what
could say
chose,"
the Duchess replied in a pleased tone.
TURTLE S STORY.
135
"Pray
don
trouble
yourself to say
it
any
longer than that/

"Oh,
said Alice.
don
talk
about
trouble!"
said
the
Duchess.
"I
make you
yet."
a present
of every
thing I ve said as
"A
cheap
sort
of
present!"
t
thought Alice.
"I
glad they don

that!"
give
birthday presents
to say
it
like
But she did not venture
out loud.
"Thinking again?"
the Duchess asked, with

little
another dig of her sharp

"I
chin.
ve a right to
think,"
said Alice
sharply,
for she
"
was beginning
to feel a little worried.

right,"
Just about as
pigs have to
here,
much
fly:
said the Duchess,
"as
and the
s
"
But
to
Alice
great
surprise,
the
Duchess voice died away, even in the middle of her favorite word and the arm moral,
that
was linked
into
hers began to
tremble.
Alice looked up, and there stood the

front of them, with her
like a thunderstorm.
Queen
in
arms folded, frowning
136
THE MOCK
fine
day, your
Majesty!"
the
Duchess
began
w
in a low,
weak
voice.
you fair warning," shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke; "either you or your head must be off, and that
Now,
I give
in about half
Take your choice The Duchess took her choice, and was gone
no time
"
in a
moment.
"Let
said to
go on with the game," the Queen Alice, and Alice was too much frightened
s
to say a word, but slowly followed her
back to
the croquet-ground.
The other guests had taken advantage of

the
Queen s
absence, and were resting in the
moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment s delay would cost
shade: however, the
them
their lives.
All the
time they were playing the
Queen
never
left off
quarrelling with the other players ?

"Off
and shouting
with her
with his
head!"
or
"Off
head!"
Those
whom
she sentenced
TURTLE
S STORY.
13?
were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do
by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players,
this,
so that
except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in

custody, and under sentence of execution.
Then the Queen

and said to Alice,
Turtle
"
left off,
"Have
quite out of breath,
you seen the Mock

t
yet?"
No,"
said Alice.
"
I don
even
know what
is
Mock
"It
Turtle
is."
the thing
Mock
Turtle Soup
made
from,"
"
said the Queen.
I never
saw
one, or heard of
one,"
said Alice.
"
"
Come
on,
then,"
said the Queen,
and he
shall tell
you his As they walked

in a
c
history."
off together, Alice
heard the
King say
ally,
low voice, to the company gener

all
"
You
are
pardoned."
Come,
that? s a
good
felt
thing!"
she said to herself, for she had
unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.

quite
THE MOCK
They very soon came upon

fast asleep in tho sun.
a Gryphon, lying
t
(If
you don
know what
"
Gryphon
"
is,
look at the picture.)

"
Up, lazy
this
thing
said the Queen,
and take
young
lady to see the
Turtle, and to hear his I must go back and see after some history. executions I have ordered;" and she walked off
Mock
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
TURTLE
safe to stay with
S STORY.
139
it
as to
go
after that savage
Queen: so she waited.
The Gryphon
then
sight
it
:
sat
up
anal
rubbed
its
eyes
watched the Queen

then
it
till
she was out of
chuckled.
itself,
fun?"
:c
What
fun
"
said the
Gryphon, half to
"What
"Why,
half to Alice.
said Alice.
is
the
she,"
said the
Gryphon.
"It
all
her
fancy, that
they never executes nobody, you

"
know.
Come on
"Everybody
says
come on!
after
all
it
:
here,"
thought
Alice, as she
went slowly
"I
never was never

"
so ordered about before in
my
life,
They had not gone
far before they
saw the
Mock
lonely
Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and
on a
little
ledge of rock, and, as they
came
if his
nearer, Alice could hear
heart would break.

is
him sighing as She pitied him deeply.
What
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
got no sorrow, you know.
Come
on!
140
THE MOCK
So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large eyes full of tears
but said nothing.
"This
here young
lady,"
said the
Gryphon,
do."
"she
wants for to know your history, she

ll
"I
tell it
her,"
said the
"sit
Mock
Turtle in a
deep, hollow tone:
down both of
you, and
don t speak a word till I ve finished." So they sat down, and nobody spoke
minutes.
for
some
t
Alice thought to herself,
"
don
t
see
how he can
ever finish, if he doesn

patiently.
begin."
But she waited

"Once,"
said the
"
Mock
real
Turtle at
Turtle."
last,
with
a deep sigh,
was a
These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclama
tion of
"Hjckrrh!"
from the Gryphon, and the

of the
constant heavy sobbing
Mock
Turtle.
Alice was very nearly getting up and saying,

"
Thank
you,
sir,
for
your interesting
story,"
but she could not help thinking there must be
more
to come, so she sat
still
and said nothing.
TURTLE
S STORY.
141
When we
went on
bing a
little
were
little,"
the
Mock
Turtle
at last,
more calmly, though now and then, we went

" "
still
sob
to school
in the sea.
The master was an

him Tortoise
old Turtle
we
used to
call
142
THE MOCK
"
Why
did you call him Tortoise,
if
he wasn t
one?"
Alice asked.
called
"We
him Tortoise because he taught

Turtle angrily;
"really
us,"
said the
Mock
"
you
are very dull

"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
said to
!
into the earth.
At
"
last the
Gryphon
the
Mock
all
Turtle,
Drive on, old fellow
Don t
in these
be
day about
it!"
and he went on
words.
Yes,
we went
to school in the sea,

"
though
you mayn t believe

"
it
I never said I didn

did,"
"
interrupted Alice.
Turtle.
5
"You
"
said the
!
Mock
"
Hold your tongue
added the Gryphon
before
Alice could speak again.
The Mock
Turtle went on.

:?
We
had the best of educations

"
in fact,
we
went to school every day
TURTLE
**
STORX".
143
been to a day-school too," said Alice; *you needn t be so proud as all that." extras?" asked the Mock Turtle a "With
little
I ve
anxiously.
said Alice,
"we
"Yes,"
learned French and
music."
"
And
!
washing ?
!
"
said the
Mock
Turtle.
"
Certainly not
"
said Alice indignantly.

school,"
"
Ah Then yours wasn t a really good

Mock
at ours
said the
"Now
Turtle in a tone of great
relief.
bill,
they had at the end of the

extra.
it
*
French, music, and washing
You
Alice;
"
couldn
have wanted
much,"
sea."
said
"living
at the
bottom of the
it,"
I couldn
afford to learn
"I
said the
Mock
Turtle with a sigh.

course."
only took the regular
What was
that ?
"
enquired Alice.
"Reeling
with,"
and Writhing, of course, to begin the Mock Turtle replied and then the
"
different
branches of Arithmetic
Ambition, Dis
traction, Uglification,
and
Derision."
144
THE MOCK
"
I never heard of ? Uglification. 9

"
"
Alice ven
tured to say.
What
is it ?
"
The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surNever heard of uglifying it exclaimed. prise.
"
"
You know what

"Yes,"
to beautify
is,
I suppose ?
"it
"
said Alice, doubtfully:
means
to
:<r
make
Well
t
anything
the
prettier."
then,"
Gryphon went
to
on,
"if
you
a
don
know what
uglify
is,
you
are
simpleton."
Alice did not feel encouraged to
more questions about it, Mock Turtle, and said, What

"
ask any so she turned to the

else
had you to
Turtle
learn?"
"Well,
there
was
Mystery,"
the
Mock
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: he
in
taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting

Coils."
"
What was
that like ?
"
said Alice.
TURTLE
w
STORY.
145
Well, I can
show
too
it
you,
myself,"
the
Mock
Turtle said:
"I
stiff.
And
the
Gryphon
went
an
never learnt
"Hadn t
it."
time,"
said the
Gryphon:
"I
to the
Classical
master, though.
He was
Mock
old crab, he
"I
was."
never went to
a sigh:
him,"
the
Turtle
said with
Grief, they
"
"he
taught Laughing and
used to
did, so
say."
So he
he
did,"
said
the Gryphon,
sighing in his turn, and both creatures hid their

faces in their paws.
"And
how many hours

"
day did you do
lessons ?
subject.
"Ten
said Alice, in a hurry to change the
hours the
"nine
first
day,"
said the
on."
Mock
Turtle:
*
the next, and so

"
What
That
s
a curious plan! the
exclaimed Alice.
called
lessons,"
reason they re
the
Gryphon remarked:
"because
they lessen
from day to day." This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she
10
146
THE MOCK TURTLE
S STORY.
thought
remark.
it
over a
".Then
little
before she
made her next
the
eleventh day must have
been a
"
holiday?"
was,"
"
Of course it said the Mock Turtle. And how did you manage on the twelfth ?
That
s
"
Alice went on eagerly.

"
enough about
lessons,"
the
Gryphon
"tell
interrupted in a very decided tone:
hei
something about the games
now."
CHAPTER
X.
THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE.
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: *You may not have lived much under the
sea
"
I haven
("
t,"
said Alice)
"
and perhaps
"
you were never even introduced to a lobster
A48
THE LOBSTER
(Alice began to
say
"I
once tasted
said,
"No,
"
but
checked herself hastily, and

"so
never")
you can have no idea what a delightful thing

"
a Lobster-Quadrille
"
is
No,
dance
is
indeed,"
it?"
said Alice.
What
sort of a
*Why,"
said the
Gryphon,
"you
-"
first
form
into a line along the seashore

"
Two
lines
"
cried the
Mock
Turtle.
"
Seals,
turtles,
salmon, and so on: then, when you ve

all
cleared
"
the jelly-fish out of the
way
"
That generally
takes
some
time,"
inter
rupted the Gryphon.

"-you
"Each
advance twice
"
with a lobster as a
partner!"
cried
the Gryphon.
"
Of course,"
-
the
Mock
"
Turtle said:
"
advance
twice, set to partners

"
change
lobsters,
and
retire in
same
order,"
continued the Gryphon.

"Then,
on,
"you
you know," the Mock Turtle went throw the

"
QUADRILLE.
*
149
The
lobsters
"
shouted the Gryphon, with
a bound into the

"
air.
as far out to sea as
you can
the
sea
"
"
"
Swim
after
them
"
screamed the Gryphon.

in
!
Turn a somersault
cried the
Mock
"
Turtle, capering wildly about.

lobsters again
"
Change
at the top
"
yelled the
Gryphon
the
first
of
its
voice.
Back
to land again,
and
that s
all
figure,"
said the
Mock
like
Turtle, suddenly dropping
his voice,
and the two creatures, who had been
jumping about
sat
mad
things
all
this time,
down again very

It
sadly and
quietly,
and
looked at Alice.
"
must be a very pretty

like to see
dance,"
said Alice
timidly.
"Would
you
little
of
it?"
said
the
Mock
Turtle.
indeed,"
Very much
"Come,
said Alice.
first
figure!"
:
let s
try the
said
the
it
Mock
Turtle to the Gryphon.
We
can do
without lobsters, you know.
Which
shall
sing?"
150
THE LOBSTER
"Oh,
you
sing,"
said
the
Gryphon.
"I
ve
forgotten the
words."
So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and then treading on
her toes
their
when they passed fore-paws to mark

Turtle sang
this,
too close, and waving

the
time,
while
the
:
Mock
very slowly and sadly
QUADRILLE.
151
you walk a
snail,
"There
little
faster
I"
said a whiting to a
a porpoise close behind us, and he

tail.
treading
on
my
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance !
They are waiting on

join the dance ? Will you, won
t
the shingle
will you come
and
you, will you, won
you, will you
join
the
dance?
Will you,
won
you, will you,
won t
you,
won t you
join the dance?
"
You can
be
really have
no notion how delightful
it
will
When
But
they take us up
and throw
us, with the lobsters,
out to seal
the snail replied
K
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.
152
THE LOBSTER
matters
What
it
how far we go
"
his scaly friend
replied,
w
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.
Will you, won

the
you, will you,
won
you, will you Join
dance?
t
Will you, won
you, will you,

?"
won t
you,
won t you
Join the dance

"
Thank
you,
it s
a very interesting dance to

it
watch,"
said Alice, feeling very glad that

"
was
over at last
and I do so
"
like
that curious
song about the whiting

"
Oh,
Turtle,
as
to
the
whiting,"
said
the
Mock
"they
"Yes,"
"
said
5? you ve seen them, of course ? ve often seen them at Alice,

"I
dinii
"
she checked herself hastily.

be,"
don t know where Dinn may

"
said
the
Mock
I
often,
<
you ve seen them so of course you know what they re

Turtle,
but
if
like."
believe
so,"
Alice
replied
thoughtfully-
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w
153
They have
all
*
their tails in their

crumbs."
mouths;
and
they re
over
You re wrong about the crumbs," said the Mock Turtle: "crumbs would all wash off in
But they have their tails in their here the Mock mouths; and the reason is Turtle yawned and shut his eyes. "Tell her
the
sea.
"
about the reason and
all
that,"
he said to the
Gryphon.
"
The reason
is,"
said
the
"
Gryphon,
that
they would 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.
"Thank
That
you,"
all."
said Alice,
"it
very interest
a whiting
ing.
I never
knew
so
much about
that, if
before."
"
I can tell
you more than

"Do
you
like,"
said
the
Gryphon.
whiting?"
you know why

said
it s
called a
"I
never
thought
about
it,"
Alice.
154
THE LOBSTER
It does the boots
"
and
shoes"
the
Gryphon
Does the
replied very solemnly.
Alice was thoroughly puzzled.

boots and shoes
"
"
she repeated in a wonder
ing tone.
what are your shoes done with?" said the Gryphon. mean, what makes them
:?
"Why,
"I
so
shiny?"
Alice looked
a
little
down
at
them, and considered
before she gave her
answer
"
They
the
re
done with blacking, I believe." "Boots and shoes under the
sea,"
Gry
phon went on
whiting.
"And
in a
deep voice,
know."
"are
done with
]STow
you
what are they made

and
of
of?"
Alice asked
in a tone of great curiosity.

"
Soles
eels,
course,"
the
Gryphon
replied rather impatiently:
"any
shrimp could
have told you that." I d been the whiting," said Alice, whose
"If
thoughts were
still
running on the song,
"I
have said to the porpoise, Keep back, please: we don t want vou with us
"
QUADRILLE.
155
"
They were obliged
to have
"no
him with
them,"
the
Mock
Turtle said:
wise fish would go
anywhere without a
porpoise."
Wouldn t
course
if
it
really?"
said Alice in a tone
of great surprise.
"Of
not,"
said
the
Mock
Turtle:
"why,
a fish
came
to me,
and told me he
was going
Dorpoise ?
"Don
:
a journey, I should say
With wha
"I
said Alice. you mean purpose? the Mock Turtle re mean what I
"
say,"
plied in an offended tone.
And
the
Gryphon
added
tures."
"
"
Come,
let s
hear some of your adven
I could
tell
you
my
adventures
beginning
from
"but
this morning," said Alice a little timidly:

it
no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

s
w
"
Explain
all
!
that,"
said the
Mock
Turtle.
said the
No,
no
in
the
adventures
first,"
Gryphon
an impatient tone:
time."
"explanations
take such a dreadful
156
THE LOBSTER
So Alice began
Rabbit: she was a
first,
telling
them her adventures

first
from the time when she

little
saw the White

it
nervous about
just at
two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened their eyes and mouths
the
so very wide, but she gained courage
as
she
went
till
"
on.
Her
listeners
were perfectly quiet

her
repeating
to the Cater
she got to the part about

are
old,,
You
Father
William"
coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and
pillar,
all
"
and the words
said,
"It
That
very
curious."
s all
about as curious as
it
can
be,"
said
the Gryphon.
"It
all
came
different!"
"I
the
Mock
Turtle
repeated thoughtfully.
should like to hear

Tell her
if
her try and repeat something now.

to
begin."
He
looked at the Gryphon as
he
thought
Alice.
it
had some kind of authority over
"Stand
up and repeat
said the
Tis the voice of
ihe
sluggard?"
Gryphon.
QUADRILLE.
?!
157
How the creatures

repeat les
Alice.
order one about, and
make one
sons
"
"thought
I might just as well

once."
be at school at
However, she got up, and began to repeat

it,
but her head was
so full of the
Lob
that
ster-Quadrille,
she hardly knew what she was saying, and

the words
came very
:
queer indeed
"Tis
*
the voice
of the
lobster;
too
I heard him
declare,
You have baked me
brown, 1 must sugar
my hair.
As a duck
Trims his
with
belt
its
eyelids, so he
with his nose
and
his buttons,
and turns out his toes*
"That
different
from what
said the
used to saj
when I was
child,"
Gryphon.
158
THE LOBSTER
"
Well, I never heard

"but
it before,"
said the
Mock
Turtle;
it
sounds
uncommon
nonsense."
Alice said nothing: she had sat
down
if
again
with her face in her hands, wondering

thing would ever happen
again.
"
any
in
natural
way
I should like to have

Turtle.
it
explained,"
said the
Mock
"She
can
"
explain
it,"
said the
Gryphon
Turtle
hastily.
"But
Go
on with the next

his
toes?"
verse."
about
the
Mock
persisted.
his nose,
"It
"How
could he turn them out with
you
the
know?"
first
position
in
dancing,"
Alice
said;
but she was dreadfully puzzled by the
whole thing, and longed to change the subject. the next verse," the Gryphon "Go on with
repeated impatiently:
his garden.
77
"it
begins
I passed
by
Alice did not dare to disobey, though she

felt
sure
it
would
all
come wrong, and she went

:
on in a trembling voice
QUADRILLE.
w
159
/ passed
by his garden, and marked^ with one eye,
How
the
owl and the oyster were sharing the pie
"
:f
the
What is the use of repeating all that Mock Turtle interrupted, if you don t
"
stuff,"
ex
plain
it
as
you go on?
It s
!
by far the most con

"
fusing thing
ever heard
Yes, I think you d better leave

the
off,"
said
Gryphon, and Alice was only too glad to

so.
do
w
Shall
we
try another figure of the Lobsterthe
Quadrille?"
Gryphon went
if
on.
"Or
would
you
"
like the
Mock
Turtle to sing you a

the
song?"
Oh, a song, please,

kind,"
Mock
Turtle would
be so
Alice replied, so eagerly that the

offended tone,
"
Gryphon
said, in a rather
Hm
No
accounting for tastes!

will you, old
fellow?"
Sing her
Turtle
Soup,
The Mock Turtle sighed

in a voice
deeply, and began,
sometimes choked with sobs, to sing
this
160
w
THE LOBSTER
Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop f
Soup of
the evening, beautiful
Soup!
Soup!
Soup of the Beau Beau

Sco
evening, beautiful
ootiful
Soo Soo
e
oop!
ootiful
e
oop!
oop of the
evening,
Beautiful, beautiful
Soup!
Beautiful Soup!
Who
cares for fish 5
Game, or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two p
enny worth only of beautiful Soup?
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? Beau ootiful Soo oop!
Beau
Soo
ootiful
the e
Soo
e
oop!
evening,
SOUP!"
oop of
Beautiful,
beautiFUL
Chorus
again!"
cried the
Gryphon, and the

it,
Mock
Turtle had just begun to repeat
when
QUADRILLE.
161
a cry of w
The
"
trial s
"
beginning
was heard
in
the distance.
"
Come on
cried the
it
Gryphon, and, taking

off,
Alice by the hand,
hurried
without wait
ing for the end of the song.

*"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 tnat followed them,

the melancholy words
"
tioo
oop of
the e
evening*
Soup?"
Beautiful, beautiful
CHAPTER XL
WHO
STOLE THE TARTS ?
THE King and Queen

on
their throne
of Hearts were seated

arrived, with a great
all
when they
1
crowd assembled about them

birds
sorts of
little
and
beasts, as
we! as the whole pack of

before them,
cards:
the
Knave was standing
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
WHO
tarts
STOLE THE TARTS?
163
upon
it:
they looked
so good,
that
it
"I
made Alice
quite
hungry
trial
to look at
done,"
them
wish they d get the

"
she thought,
"
and hand round the refreshments

to be
But
there
seemed
no chance of
this,
so she
began
looking at everything
the time.
about her to pass away
Alice had never been in a court of justice

before, but she
had read about them in books,

find that she
and she was quite pleased to

the
the
knew
s
name of nearly everything

judge,"
there.
"
"That
because of his
great
wig."
The judge, by
as he
the way, was the King, and
crown over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did and it it,) he did not look at all comfortable,
his
wore
was certainly not becoming.

"And
"
that s
the
jury-box,"
creatures,"
thought Alice,
and those twelve

"
(she was obliged
to
you see, because some of WT them were animals, and some were birds,)
say
creatures,"
164
WHO
STOLE
suppose they are the

last
jurors."
She said
this
word two or
three times over to herself,

it:
being rather proud of

rightly too, that very
for she thought,

little girls
all.
and
few
it
of her age
"jury
knew
men"
the meaning of
at
However,
would have done just as well. The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. "What are they doing?" Alice
whispered to the Gryphon.
an}^thing to put
begun."
:?
They can
have
trial s
down
yet,
before the
"They
re
putting
down
their
names,"
the
fear they Gryphon whispered in reply, should forget them before the end of the
"for
trial."
"Stupid
things!"
Alice
began
"
in
loud
indignant voice, but she stopped herself hastily,

for the
White Kabbit
cried out,
Silence in the
court
"
and the King put on
his spectacles
and
looked anxiously round, to make out

talking.
who was
Alice could see, as well as
if
all
she were look

the jurors were
ing over their shoulders, that
THE TARTS?
165
writing
down
"
stupid things
w
on their
slates,
and she could even make out that one of them

didn
t
know how
their
to spell
stupid,"
and that he
"A
had
to ask his neighbor to tell

slates
11
him.
nice
muddle
over!"
be in before the
trial s
thought Alice.
of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked.
One
This, of course, Alice could not stand, and she
went round the court and got behind him, and veiy soon found an opportunity of taking it
away.
little
She did
juror
(it
it
so
quickly that
the
poor
was
all
all
Bill, the
Lizard) could not

it;
make out
after
at
what had become of

about for
it,
so,
hunting
he was obliged
to
write
with one finger for the rest of the
day; and this
w as of very
r
little
use, as
it left
no mark on the
"Herald,
slate.
read
the
accusation!"
said
the
King.
On
ment
this the
White Kabbit blew three
blasts
on the trumpet, and then unrolled the parch

scroll,
and read as follows:
WHO STOLE
The Queen of Hearts, she made some All on a summer day :

The Knave of Hearts, he
tarts*
stole those tarts ,
And
took
them quite
away!"
Consider your
the jury.
verdict,"
the
King
said to
THE TARTS?
yet, not
"
167
"JSTot
yet!"
the Babbit hastily in
terrupted.
that!"
There
a great deal to
come
before
"Call
the
first witness,"
said the
the
White Rabbit blew
three
"
King; and blasts on the

"
trumpet, and called out,
First witness !
The
in
first
witness was the Hatter.
He came
with a teacup in one hand, and a piece of

"I
bread-and-butter in the other.
beg pardon,
tea
your
in:
I
Majesty,"
he began,
t
"for
bringing these
but I hadn
for."
quite
finished
my
when
was sent
"
You ought
to
have
finished,"
said the King.
"When
did you
begin?"
The Hatter looked

with the Dormouse.
think
it
was,"
at the
March Hare, who

court,
had followed him into the
arm-in-arm
of March, I
"Fourteenth
he
said.
"Fifteenth,"
"
said the
March Hare.
Sixteenth,"
*
added the Dormouse.

down,"
Write that
and the
jury,
King said to the jury eagerly wrote down all three
the
168
WHO STOLE
dates on their slates, and then added
them
up,
and reduced the answer to

"Take
shillings
and pence.
said to the
off
your
hat,"
the
King
Hatter.
"It
isn t
mine,"
said the Hatter.
"Stolen!"
the
King
exclaimed,
turning
to
the jury,
who
instantly
made a memorandum
the Hatter
of the
"I
fact.
sell,"
keep them to
"I
added as
own.
I
an explanation:
a
hatter."
ve none
of
my
Here the Queen put on her

began staring hard pale and fidgeted.
"Give
spectacles,
and
at the Hatter,
who turned
your
evidence,"
said the
King;
"and
don t be nervous, or
the
spot."
ll
have you executed on
This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot to the
other, looking
his
uneasily
at
the
Queen, and
in
confusion he bit a large piece
out of his
teacup instead of the bread-and-butter.
THE TARTS?
169
Just at this moment Alice
felt
a very curious
sensation, which puzzled her a
she
made out what
it
good deal until was: she was beginning

at first
to gro~# larger again,
and she thought
she would get up and leave the court; but on
second thoughts she decided to remain where/

she was as long as there was
"I
room
for her.
wish you wouldn
squeeze
so,"
said
"
thje
Dormouse, who was

hardly
"I
sitting next to her.
I can
breathe."
can
help
it,"
said Alice very meekly:
"
m
?
growing."
You ve no
right to
grow
here"
said
the
Dormouse.
"
Don t talk nonsense," said you know you re growing

"
Alice more boldly:
too."
:?
Yes, but
/ grow
"not
at a reasonable
pace,"
said
the
Dormouse:
in that ridiculous
fashion."
And
he got up very sulkily and crossed over
to the other side of the court.
All this time the

staring at the Hatter,
Queen had never left oft* and, just as the Dormouse
170
WHO
STOLE
crossed the court, she said to one of the officers
of the court,
the last
Bring me the list of the singers in concert! on which the wretched Hatter
" "
trembled
so,
that
he
shook both his shoes

off.
"
Give
your
evi
re
"
dence,"
the
King
peated
I
ll
angrily,
or
have you execu
ted,
whether
you re
nervous or
"I
not."
a poor man,
Majesty,"
your Hatter
the
in
"
began
trembling voice,
I
and
hadn t but just begun my tea -not above a week or so and what with the bread-andbutter getting so thin the tea
"The
e?
-"
and the twinkling of

said the King.
twinkling of
what?"
It began with the
tea,"
the Hatter replied.
THE TARTS?
"
171
Of
course twinkling begins with a

"
"
said
the
King
I
sharply.
Do you
take
me
for
dunce?
"
Go
on!
"
a poor
man,"
the Hatter went on,
"
and
most things twinkled
after that
only the
March
Hare
"
said
"
didn
"
the
March Hare
interrupted in
a great hurry.
"You
"
did!"
"
said the Hatter. said the

it,"
I deny
it
March Hare.
King:
"leave
"He
denies
said the
out
that
:c
part."
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.

"After
that,"
continued the Hatter,

"
"I
cut
some more bread-and-butter

"But
what did the Dormouse say? ".one of

said the Hatter.
he jury asked.
"
That I can t
remember,"
You must
w or I
ll
remember,"
remarked the King,
have vou
executed."
172
WHO
STOLE
The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee.
"I
m
!C
a poor man, your
Majesty,"
he began.
said
You re
a very
poor
speaker"
the
King.
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
you how it was done. They had a large canvass bag, which tied up at the mouth
just explain to
with strings: into this they slipped the guineapig,

"I
head
first,
and then
I ve
sat
upon
it.)
glad
"I
seen
that
done,"
thought
Alice.
at the
ve so often read in the newspapers,

c
There was some attempt at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court, and I never under stood what it meant till now."
end of
trials,
"If
that s
down,"
all
you know about
it,
you may
stand
"I
continued the King.

lower,"
is."
can
go no
said the Hatter:
"I
on the
floor, as it
THE TARTS?
w
173
Then you may sit down," the King replied. Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was
suppressed.
Come, that
w
finishes the guinea-pigs

shall get
"
thought
Alice.
"I
Now we
on
better."
d rather
finish
my
tea,"
said the Hatter,
with an anxious look at the Queen,

reading the
T
who was
list
of singers.
said the King,
You may
go,"
and the Hatter
hurriedly left the court, without even waiting to
put his shoes on.

w
and just take
his
head
off
outside,"
the
174
WHO
STOLE
Queen added to one of the officers; but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could
get to the door.
"
Call the next witness
"
said the King.
The next witness was
the
Duchess
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

all at
door began sneezing

w
once.
Give your
t,"
evidence,"
said the King.
"Shan
said the cook.

at w
The King looked anxiously Rabbit, who said in a low voice,

must cross-examine
Well,
if
the
White
Your Majesty
said with
this
witness."
I must, I
air,
must,"
the
King
a melancholy
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
"
Larts
"
made of ?
"
Pepper,
K
mostly,"
said the cook.
Treacle,"
said a sleepy voice behind her.
Collar that
Dormouse
"
the
Queen shrieked
THE TARTS?
w
175
out.
Behead that Dormouse
Turn
that
Dor
mouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him!

Off with his
whiskers!"
For some minutes the whole court was

confusion, getting the
in
Dormouse turned
settled
out, and,
by the time they had cook had disappeared.

"
down
again, the
Never mind
relief.
"
said the King, with an air
of great
Call the next
witness."
And
he
added
in
an
dear,
It
iinder-tone
to
the
Queen,
"Really,
my
next witness.
you must cross-examine the quite makes my forehead ache

"
Alice watched the
White Rabbit
as he fumbled
over the
the next
list,
feeling very curious to see
what
witness
would be
"
like,
yet"
for they
haven
got much evidence
she
said to
herself.
Imagine her surprise, when the White

shrill little
Rabbit read out, at the top of his

voice, the
name
"
Alice
"
CHAPTER
ALICE
w
S
XIL
EVIDENCE.
HERE
"
cried Alice, quite forgetting in the
flurry of the
in the last
moment how
large she had
grown
in
few minutes, and she jumped up
such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jury
men on
very
w
to the heads of the
crowd below, and

had
there they lay sprawling about, reminding her
much of
a globe
of gold-fish she
before.
"
accidentally upset the
week
!
she exclaimed in Oh, I beg your pardon a tone of great dismay, and began picking them
up again as quickly
as she could, for the acci-
ALICE
EVIDENCE.
177
dent of the gold-fish 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 jurybox, or they would die.
12
178
ALICE S EVIDENCE.
The
trial
*
cannot
proceed,"
"
said the
King
in
a very grave voice,
until all the

all"
jurymen are
he repeated
back
in their proper places
with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as
he said
so.
Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that,
had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving
in her haste, she
its
tail
about in a melancholy way, being quite
unable to move.
She soon got

that
it
it
out again, and

much,"
put
it
right;
"not
signifies
she
said to herself;
quite as
"I
should think
trial
it
would be
much
use in the
one way up as
the
other."
soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates
As
and pencils had been found and handed back to

them, they set to work very diligently to write
out a history of the accident,
Lizard,
all
except the
to do
who seemed
too
much overcome
anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
ALICE S EVIDENCE.
179
What do you know

King
said to Alice.
about this
business?"
the
"Nothing,"
said Alice.
"Nothing ivhatever?"
persisted the King.

said Alice.
"Nothing whatever,"
:c
That
very
important,"
the
King
when
said,
turn
ing to the jury.

write this
They were
"
just beginning to
down on
:
their slates,
the
White
Rabbit interrupted
means, of
tone, but
împortant, your Majesty

he said in a very respectful
course,"
frowning and making faces at him as
he spoke.
împortant, of course, I meant," the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an under
"
tone,
important
"
unimportant
as if he
unimportant
important
were trying which word
sounded
best.
Some of
and some
as
the jury wrote

"
it
down
"
important,"
unimportant."
Alice could see
this,
she was near enough to look

"
over
their
slates
but
it
doesn t matter a
bit,"
she thought
to herself.
180
ALICE
EVIDENCE.
At
"
this
moment
"
the King,
who had been
for
some time busily writing in his note-book, called out Silence and read out from his book, w Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile
!
high
to leave the
court"
Everybody looked
"
at Alice.
Pm not a mile
You
are,"
high,"
said Alice.
said the King.
"
:?
Nearly two miles high," added the Queen. Well, I shan t go, at any rate," said Alice;
:
w
it
besides, that s not a regular rule
you invented
said the
just
"It
now."
the oldest rule in the
book,"
King.
ought to be Number One," said Alice. The King turned pale, and shut his note
:?
Then
it
book
hastily.
"Consider
your
verdict,"
he said to
the jury, in a low trembling voice.

"
There
more evidence
said the
to
come
yet, please
your
Majesty,"
White Rabbit, jumping

paper has just been
up
in a great hurry;
up."
"this
picked
ALICE S EVIDENCE.
181
"What s
"I
in
t
it?"
said the Queen.
haven
"
Rabbit,
opened it yet," said the White but it seems to be a letter, written by

to
somebody."
that,"
the prisoner to
"It
must have been

it
"unless
King, was written to nobody, which isn t
said the
usual,
:c
you
is
know."
Who
it
directed
to?"
said
one of the
jurymen.
"It
isn
"
directed
at
all,"
said
the
White
Rabbit ;
outside"
in fact, there s
nothing written on the
He
unfolded the paper as he spoke,

isn t
and added,
set
"It
a letter after
all:
it s
of
verses."
"Are
they in the prisoner
handwriting?"
asked another of the jurymen.

said the White Rabbit, No, they re and that s the queerest thing about (The
"
not,"
"
it."
jury
all
looked puzzled.)
"He
must
have
imitated
somebody
all
else s
hand,"
said the King.
(The jury
brightened
up again.)
182
ALICE S EVIDENCE.
"Please
your
write
it,
Majesty,"
said
t
the
Knave,
"I
didn
and they can

at the
prove I did:
there s no
"If
name signed
end."
said the King, "that you didn t sign only makes the matter worse. You must have meant some mischief, or else you d have signed
it,"
your name like an honest man." There was a general clapping of hands
this:
it
at
was the
first
really
clever thing the
King had
" "
said that day.

his
guilt,"
That proves
It proves
said the Queen.

"
nothing of the sort
said Alice.
re
"Why,
about!"
you don t even know what they

said the King.
his
"Read
them,"
The White Rabbit put on

"Where
spectacles.
Majesty?"
shall I begin, please
your
the
he asked.
"Begin
"
at
the
beginning,"
till
King
to the
said,
gravely,
and go on
you come
end
then
stop."
These were the verses the White Rabbit read:
ALICE
EVIDENCE.
183
They
me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him :

told
She gave me a good
character,
not swim.
But
said
I could
He
(
sent
them word
it to
I had
not gone
:
We know
be true)
If she should push
the matter on,
What would become of you ?
I gave
They
her one, they gave him two,

three or more;
You gave us
all returned
from him
to
you,
Though they were mine before.
If
I or
she should chance
to be
Involved in this affair,
He
trusts to
you
to set
them free,
Exactly as we were.
ALICE S EVIDENCE.
My
notion was that you had been
(Before she had this fit)

A.n obstacle that catne between
Him, and
ourselves,
and
it.
Don t
for
let
him know she liked them
best 9
this
must ever
be
A secret,
kept from all the rest,

me"
Between yourself and
That s the most important piece of evidence

yet,"
we ve heard hands; so now

v
Alice, (she
said the
let
the jury
King,
"
rubbing"
his
jf any one of them can explain
it,"
said
had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn t a bit afraid of interrupt
"
ing him,)
ll
give him sixpence.
don
*
believe there s an
The jury
doesn
t
all
atom of meaning in wrote down on their slates,
it."
believe there s an
atom of meaning
in
ALICE
EVIDENCE.
38$
it,"
but none of them attempted to explain the
paper.
"
If there s no
meaning
in
it,"
said the King,
that saves a world of trouble,
we needn t
know,"
try to
find any.
you know, as And yet I don t
he went on, spreading out the verses

knee,
on
his
eye;
after
"I
and looking at them with one seem to see some meaning in them,
*
all.
said
you?"
I could
he
not
swim
you can
to
swim, can
added, turning
the
Knave.
The Knave shook

look like
it ?
"
his
he
said.
head sadly. "Do I (Which he certainly
did not, being

"All
made
entirely of cardboard.)
right, so
far,"
said the King,
and he
went on muttering over the verses to himself:

*
We know
*
it
to be true
that s the jury, of
courso
I gave
"
her one, they gave him two

tarts,
why, that must be what he did with the
you know
"
But
7
"
it
goes on
they all returned
from him
to
you,
said Alice.
186
ALICE S EVIDENCE.
<
"Why,
there the
they
are
"
said
King
the
triumphantly, pointing
to
the
w
tarts
on
table.
clearer
Nothing can be than that. Then

?
again
this fit
before she
9
had
you never
had
fits,
"
my
dear,
think ?
he said to the
Queen.
"
Never
"
said
the
Queen furiously, throw
ing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke.
(The unfortunate
little
Bill
had
left off
writing
it
on his slate with one finger, as he found
made
ALICE S EVIDENCE.
187
no mark; but he now hastily began again, using

the ink, that
was
trickling
down
his
face,
as
long as
"
it
lasted.)
Then
the
words don t
fit
you,"
said
the
King, looking round the court with a smile. There was a dead silence.
*
It s a
"
pun
the
King added
the
in
an angry
the jury
tone,
and everybody laughed.

verdict,"
"Let
consider their
King
said, for
about
the twentieth time that day.

"
No, no
"
said the Queen.
"
Sentence
first
verdict
"
afterwards."
Stuff
and
"
nonsense
said
Alice
first
!
loudly.
"
"
The
idea of having the eentence
"Hold
your
tongue!"
said the Queen, turn
ing purple.
* I won
"Off
"
said Alice.
head!"
with her
the
Queen shouted
at
the top of her voice.

:
Nobody moved.
said Alice, (she had
this liraeO
"
Who
cares for
you?"
grown
to her full size
"
by
You re
nothing but a pack of cards
188
ALICE S EVIDENCE.
At
this the
whole pack rose up into the
air,
and came flying down upon her; she gave
ALICE
EVIDENCE.
189
Uttle scream, half
of fright and half of anger,

off,
and tried to beat them

lying
011
and found herself
the bank, with her head in the lap of
who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the
her sister,
trees
:?
on to her
face.
dear!"
Wake
up, Alice
said
her
"
sister;
why, what a long sleep you ve had had such a curious dream!" said "Oh, I ve
!
Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she
could remember them,
all
these
strange
Ad
ventures of hers that you have just been read
ing about; and

ter kissed
when she had

and
said,
"It
finished, her sis
her,
was
curious
dream, dear, certainly: but

tea;
it s
off,
getting
late."
your So Alice got up and
now run
in to
ran
thinking while she ran, as well she

it
might, what a wonderful dream
had been.
190
But her
sister sat still just as she left her,
leaning her head on her hand,

setting sun,
and thinking of
a
little
till
watching the Alice and all
her wonderful Adventures,
she too began

this
dreaming dream
:
after
fashion,
and
was her
First, she
dreamed of
little
Alice herself:
once again the tiny hands were clasped upon

her knee, and the bright eager eyes were look
ing up into hers
she could hear the very tones
of her
voice,^
her head, to
and see that queer little toss of keep back the wandering hair that
would always get into her eyes and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the whole
place around her
creatures of her
became
alive
with the strange
little sister s
dream.
191
The long grass

splashed his
rustled at her feet
as the
White Rabbit hurried by
the frightened
Mouse
way through
the neighboring pool
-she
the
could hear the rattle of the teacups as

his friends shared their
March Hare and
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 knee, while plates and dishes once more the shriek of the crashed around it
Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard s slatepencil, and the choking of the suppressed guineapigs, filled the air, mixed up with the distant
sob of the miserable
Mock
Turtle.
So she
believed
sat
on,
with closed eyes, and half

in
Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again and all
herself
would change
to dull reality
the grass would
be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rip

pling 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
192
I
and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer
shepherd boy
noises,
would change (she knew)

cattle in the distance
to the con
fused clamor of the busy farm-yard
while the
lowing of the
would take
sobs.
the place of the
Mock
Turtle
heavy
Lastly, she pictured to herself

little
how
this
same
be
sister of hers
would,
in the after-time,
herself a
grown woman; and how she would

all
keep, through
her riper years, the simple and
loving
heart
of her childhood:
and how she
would gather about her other little children, and make their 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,

their simple joys,
and
find a
pleasure in
all
remembering
her
own
child-life,
and the happy summer days.
THE END.
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS,

AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE.
DRAMATIS PERSONA
(As arranged
before
commencement
WHITS.
RED.
W II
White
E.
Pawn
(Alice) to play,
and win
in eleven moves.
PAGE
1.
PAGB
1.
2.
Alice meets R.Q. Alice through Q. s 3d (by railway] to Q. s 4th (Tweedle

.
35
48
R.Q.
to to
K. R.
s 4th. s
45
...
2.
W. Q.
(after
3.
Alice
dum and Tweedledee) meets W. Q.
Q. B. shawl) Q, B.
...91
s
.
4th
54
3.
4.
(with shawl) to Alice Q.
...
s
W. Q,
to
5 th
91
101
5th
.100 (becomes sheep) 4. W.Q. to K. B. s 8th

5. 6.
7.
. (shop, river, shop). to Q. s 6th 5. Alice

.
W. Q.
(leaves egg on shelf) to Q. B. s 8th
1 1 1
6.
7. 8.
112 (Humpty Dumpty] Alice toQ. s7th(>m-/) 155 W.Kt. takes R. Kt. 161 Alice to Q. s ^(coro
.
(flying from R. Kt) 149 R.Kt.toK. s 2 nd(ch) 158
8.
W.-Kt. to K. B. s 5th 182 R. Q. to K. s sq. (ex
183 nation*) Alice becomes Queen 196 10. Alice castles (feast). 204 11. Alice takes R.Q. &
9.
9.
10.
.186 amination) Queens castle. 199 W. Q. to Q. R. 6th

. .
. .
211
wins
215
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS,

AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE
BY
LEWIS CARROLL,.
AUTHOR ov
"ALICE
ADVENTURES
IN WONDERLAND."
WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS

B T JOHN TENNIEL.
FIFTIETH THOUSAND.
fonboit
tfc
Stto goth:
MACMILLAN AND
1894.
CO.
[The Eight of Translation and Reproduction
is
Reserved.]
CHILD of the pure unclouded brow
And dreaming
fhough time be
Are half a
life
eyes of
fleet,
wonder
and I and thos
asunder,
Thy
The
loving smile will surely hail

love-gift of
fairy-tale.
have not seen thy sunny
face,
NOT heard thy
silver
laughter;
a placa
No
thought of
me
shall find
In thy young
life s
hereafter
wilt not
fail
Enough
that
now thou
To listen to
my
fairy-tale.
A
A
tale
begun in other days,

suns were glowing
When summer
simple chime, that served to time
The rhythm
of our rowing
Whose
echoes live in
memory
yet,
*
Though envious years would say
forget
Come, hearken
then, ere voice of dread,
With
Shall
bitter tidings laden,

to
summon
unwelcome bed
!
melancholy maiden
We
are but older children, dear,

fret to find
Who
our bedtime newr.
Without, the
frost,
s
the blinding snow,
The storm-wind
Within, the
moody madness
ruddy glow
firelight s
s
And
childhood
nest of gladness.
shall hold thee fast:
The magic words

Thou
shalt not heed the raving blast.
And though
the shadow of a sigh
May
For
tremble through the story,
happy summer days

vanish d
gone by,
And
summer
glory
It shall not touch with breath of ha/
Tho pleasauce
of our
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER.
I.
v
PAGE.
1
LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE
II.
THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS

LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS
26 46
III.
IV.
TWEEDLEDUM
A>
D TWEEDLEDEE
66
91
113
V.
WOOL AND WATER

IIUMPTY DUMPTY
VI.
VII.
THE LION AND THE UNICORN

"IT
137
157
vin.
IX.
MY OWN
INVENTION"
qUEEV ALICE
SHAKING
185
X.
215 216
XT.
WAKING
XII.
WHICH DREAMED IT?
...........
218
CHAPTER
I.
LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE.
ONE
thing
was
certain,
that
the
it
:
white kitten
it
had had nothing to do
with
was the
black kitten s fault entirely.
For the white kitten
had been having
its
face
washed
by the
old
cat for the last quarter of an

it
hour (and bearing

so
pretty
t
well,
considering)
you
see
that
it
couldn
have had any hand in the mischiet

B
The way Dinah washed her children s

was
this:
its
facea
first
she
held
the
poor
thing
down
the
by
ear
with one paw,

she
and then
face
all
:
with
over,
other
paw
I
rubbed
its
the
just
wrong way,
now, as
white
beginning
said,
at
the
nose
and
she was hard
at work on
the
kitten,
which was lying
quite
still
it
and
trying to purr
all
no doubt feeling that

its
waa
meant
But the
for
good.
black kitten
had been
so,
finished with
earlier
in
the afternoon, and
while Alice was
sitting
chair,
curled
half
up
in
a
to
corner of the great

herself
arm
talking
and
half
asleep,
the
kitten
had
been having
ball
a grand
game
of
romps with the trying to wind
of
worsted Alice
had been
rolling
it
up,
and
had
been
up and down till it had all come undone again and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug,
,
all
knots
its
and
tangles,
tail
with
the
the
kitten
running
after
"
own
in
middle.
"
Oh, you wicked wicked

catching
little
thing
cried
it
Alice,
up the
kitten
and giving
little
kiss
to
"
make
it
understand that
it
was
in
disgrace.
Really,
you better
Dinah ought to have taught manners You ought, Dinah, you

!
know you
fully
ought!"
she added, looKing reproach
at
voice
and speaking in as cross as she could manage and then she

the old
cat,
scrambled
kitten
back
the
into
the
arm-chair,
taking
the
and
worsted
with
her,
and
began
t
winding up on very
the ball
as
again.
But she didn
get
was talking all the time, fast, sometimes to the kitten, and sometimes to herself.
she
Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending

to
watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching
the ball, as
"
would be glad to help if it might. Do you know what to-morrow is, Kitty ? You d have guessed if you d Alice began.
if it
"
"
been up in the window
with
so
me
only Dinah
t.
was making you
tidy,
you couldn
was bon
I
watching the boys getting in sticks

fire
for the
and
it
it
wants
cold,
plenty
of
sticks,
Kitty
so,
Only
got
so
and
it
snowed
they
LOOKING &LASS HOUSE.
had to leave
off.
Never mind,
Kitty,
we
ll
go
and
see
the
bonfire
to-morrow."
Here
the
see
in
Alice
wound
two
or
three
turns
just
of
to
worsted
round the
woulc1
the look
kitten s
:
neck,
led
to
how
it
this
scramble,
floor,
which
yards
ball
rolled
and yards of
"
down upon the it got unwound

I
and
again.
Kitty,"
Do you know,
on,
was
as
I
so angry,
Alice
went
as
"
soon
they
were
comfortably
settled again,
when
I
saw
all
the mischief you
had been doing,
window,
was very nearly opening the and putting you out into the snow
I
And you d have

chievous
for
deserved
it,
you
little
mis
say
she
darling
What have you

don t
interrupt
got
to
yourself"?
Now
your
while
me!"
"
went on, holding up one

to
tell
finger.
going
:
you
all
faults.
squeaked
face this
:
twice
you Dinah was washing your

you
s
Number one
can
that
morning.
heard
Now
!
deny
it,
"
Kitty
you
What
you say
(pretending that the kitten was speaking.)
"Her
paw went
into
your
eye
Well,
that s
youi
fault,
keeping your eyes open if you d shut them tight up, it wouldn t have happened. Now
for
t
don
make any more
excuses, but listen
Num-
ber
tail
two
just
you
as
!
pulled
Snowdrop
away by
of
the
mill?
?
had put down the saucer

thirsty,
before her
What, you were
were you
too
How
do
for
you
know
three
she
:
wasn t
thirsty
Now
number
bit of the worsted while

"That
you unwound wasn t looking
every
!
three
faults,
Kitty,
and you ve not
been punished for any of them yet.

I
You know
for
saving up
all
your punishments
they
Wednes
day
week
Suppose
"
had
on,
saved
my
to
punishments
herself than
at
she
went
up all talking more

would they
be sent
the
of
kitten.
"What
\
do
to
the
end
I
year
should
the
prison,
let
suppose,
see
when
day
came.
Or
me
suppose
each
:
punishment
then,
was to be going without a dinner

the
when
go
miserable
day came,
should
!
have to
I
without
fifty dinners at once
Well,
shouldn t
without
mind
that
much
I
!
far
rather
go
them than eat them

"Do
panes,
you hear the snow against the windowHow nice and soft it sounds Kitty ?
1
Just as
some one was kissing the window all I wonder if the snow loves the over outside.
if
trees
and
then
fields,
it
that
it
kisses
them
so
gently
And
v
covers
;
with a white quilt

sleep,
them up snug, you know, and perhaps it says, Go to

*
darlings,
till
the
summer
in
in
comes
again/
And when they wake up

they
dress
the summer, Kitty,

green,
themselves
all
and
dance
about
that s
ball
-whenever
"
the
cried
wind
Alice,
blows
oh,**
very
of
pretty
dropping
"
the
]
worsted
to
clap
!
her
I
hands.
And
do so
look
are
"
wish
it
was true
the
sure the
woods
leaves
sleepy
in
autumn,
when
the
getting brown.
Kitty, can you play chess
dear, I
?
Now, don
t smile,
my
if
asking
just
it
:
it
seriously.
Because,
when
we were playing
you understood
!
now, you watched just as
and when
it
said
Check
;
!
you purred
Well,
was a
nice
if
it
check, Kitty,
and
really
might have won,
hadn
been
for that
nasty Knight, that came wriggling down

pieces.
among
my
Kitty, dear, let s pretend
here
I
And
things
wish
used
"
could
say,
s
tell
you
half
the her
Alice
to
beginning
with
favourite
phrase
Let
pretend.
She had had
quite
long argument with

all
her sister only the
day before
"
Let
sister,
begun with pretend we re kings and queens;" and her who liked being very exact, had argued
because
Alice
t,
had
chat
they couldn
because there were only two

at
last
of them,
say,
and Alice had been reduced
to
"Well,
you can be one of them then, and

the
rest."
ll
be
all
And
once she had really
frightened
in
her old
"
nurse
!
by shouting suddenly
let s
her
ear,
Nurse
Do
pretend that
"
a hungry hyaena, and you re a bone
But
this
is
taking
us
s
away
from
Alice s
speech to the kitten.

the
"Let
pretend that you re

I
Red Queen, Kitty

sat
Do you know,
your do
try,
think
if
you
up and
folded
arms, you d
there s
Jook
"
exactly like her.
Now
a dear
And
set
it
Alice got the
Red Queen
as
off the table,
and
it
up before the kitten

:
a model for
t
to
imitate
however, the thing didn
succeed, prin-
cipall/,
Alice
said,
because
the
kitten
it,
wouldn t
she held
see
fold its
it
arms properly.
So, to punish
up
to the Looking-glass, that it

it
might
how
sulky
was
"I
"
and
if
you
re not
good
directly,"
she added,
ll
put you
through
into Looking-
glass House.
"Now,
How
you
I
ll
would you
like that ?
if
ll
only attend, Kitty, and not

tell
talk so
much,
you
all
my
s
ideas
about
Looking-glass House.
First, there s the
can see through the glass

ns
that
room you just the same

go
the
our
drawing-room,
I
all
only the
all
things
other way.
can see
of
it
when
get upon
fire
!
a chair
place
I
but the bit just behind the
Oh
so
do so wish
to
:
could see that bit
want
in
much
know
whether
they ve
tell,
fire
the
unless
in
winter
you never
smokes,
can
know,
our
that
fire
and
but
then
that
as
you smoke
be
comes up
only
room too
to
may
if
pretence,
fire.
just
make
it
look
they
had a
like
Well then, the books are something our books, only the words go the wrong
I
way
know
that, because
ve held up one
oJ
10
our books to the glass, and then they hold up
one in
the other room.
"How
would
you
?
like
I
to
live
if
in
Looking-
glass
House,
Kitty
1
wonder
they d give
you milk
isn t
in there
to drink
Perhaps Looking-glass milk
good
But
oh,
Kitty
now we
a
little
if
come
peep
to the passage.
of
You can
just see
the
passage in
Looking-glass
House,
you leave the door of our drawing-room wide and it s very like our passage as far as open
:
you can
different
see,
only
you know
Oh,
it
!
on
if
beyond.
Kitty
may be quite how nice it

through
it s
would
be
we
could
!
only get
I
it
into
Looking-glass
House
m
!
sure
got,
oh
such beautiful things in

a
Let
pretend there
it,
way
of
getting
s
through
into
somehow,
all
Kitty.
Let
pretend
that
the glass has got

get
soft
like gauze,
it s
so
we can
through.
1
Why,
declare!
turning into a sort of mist now,
It
ll
be easy enough
to
get
through
while
she
She
said
was up
this,
ou the
chimney-piece
though
she hardly
knew how
she had
got
LOOKING -GLASS HOUSE.
11
(here.
lo
And
certainly
the
glass
was beginning
the
melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.

In
another
moment
Alice
was
through
LOOK TVG -GLASS HOUSE.
glass,
jumped lightly down into the The very first thing she did Looking-glass room.
and
had
was to
look
whether there
*vas
tire
in
the
fireplace,
18
and she was quite pleased to

real one,
find
that
there
was a
blazing
away
as
I
brightly
shall
IHJ
as
as
the
one she had
left
behind.
"So
warm
here as I was in the old room/

in
fact,
thought
ll
Alice:
"warmer,
because there
be
no
one here to scold
me away
from the
see
fire.
Oh,
what fun
the
it ll
be,
when they
glass in
here,
and can t get at
me me
through
"
Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room
was quite common and uninteresting, but that For all the rest was as different as possible.
instance,
the pictures
all
on the wall next the
fire
seemed to be
alive,
and the very clock OD
the chimney-piece
the
(you
in
know you
can only sec
back
of
it
the
Looking-glass)
had
got
the face of a little old man, and grinned at her. They don t keep this room so tidy as the
"
other/
several
Alice
thought to
herself,
as
she noticed
the hearth
of
the
chessmen
:
down
in
among
a
little
the cinders
"
but in another moment, with
Oh
"
of surprise, she
was down on
hei
14
The chessmer hands and knees watching them. were walking about, two and two
!
"
Here
are
the
said
Red
(in
"and
King
a
there
and
the
Red
oi
Queen,"
Alice
whisper,
are
for
fear
frightening
them),
the
White
King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel and here are two Castles walk
ing
arm
me,"
in
arm
don t
as
think
she
they
her
can
hear
she
went on
put
head
BOOKING-GLASS HOUSE.
closer
Ifl
down,
I
"and
nearly
as
sure
if
I
they
can
see
me.
feel
somehow
were
in
visible-
Here something began squeaking on the table

behind
in
Alice,
and made her turn her head

one
of
:
just
roll
time
to
see
the
White
Pawns
it
over and
begin
kicking
she
watched
with
great curiosity to see

"It
what would happen next.

of
is
the
voice
as
my
child!"
the
AYhite
Queen
so
cried
out,
tiiat
"
she
rushed
past the King,
violently
she
knocked
him over among

!
the cinders.
"
My
she
precious
Lily
My
imperial
kitten
and
began scrambling wildly up
the side of the fender.

"
"
Imperial
fiddlestick
said
the
King,
rub
fall.
bing his nose, which had been hurt by the
He had
the
right
for
to
be
little
annoyed with
ashes from
Queen,
he was
covered with
head to
Alice
foot.
ad
was very anxious to be of use, and, the poor little Lily was nearly screaming herinto
aelf
fit,
she
hastily
picked up
the Queen
16
set
and
noisy
her on
the
table
by the
side
of
her
little
daughter.
:
The Queen gasped, and sat down the rapid had quite taken away journey through the air her breath, and for a minute or two she could
do nothing but
As soon as
hug the little Lily in silence. she had recovered her breath a little,
she called out to the White King,

sulkily
"
who was
sitting
"
among
into
the ashes,
"
"
Mind
the volcano
What
volcano
the
said the
fire,
King, looking up
anxiously
as
if
he
thought
that
was the most likely place to find one.

"
Blew
still
me
little
up,"
panted the Queen, who

"
was
up
out of breath.
Mind yon come

up
I"
the regular
Alice
way
the
to
don
get blown
watched
White King
bar,
till
as he slowly at
last
struggled
"
up from bar
she
said,
Why, you 11 be hours and hours

table,
I
getting
to
the
at
"
that
rate.
far
better help
jrou,
hadn t
of the question
But the King took no notice it was quite clear that he could
ueither hear her nor see her.
So Alice picked him up very gently, lifted him across more slowly than she had
the
and
lifted
Queen, that
:
she
mightn t
take
his
breath
away
he
but,
before she put
him on the
dust
table, she
thought
she
so
r,aid
might as well
covered with
him
little,
was
She
ashes.
afterwards that she had never seen
In
all
her
life
such
a face
as
the
King made,
air
whsn he found hirnelf held
in the
by au
18
invisible hand,
and being dusted

to
he was far toa
much
his
astonished
cry
out,
but his eyes

larger
and
mouth
went
on
getting
till
and larger
and rounder and

so
rounder,
that
her
hand shook
with
laughing
floor.
she
nearly let
him drop
"
upon the
"
Oh
t
please don t
out,
make such
forgetting
"
faces,
my
the
dear
she
cried
quite
her.
that
King
so
couldn
that
I
hear
You make
!
me
the
laugh
t
can hardly hold you

so
And don
All
keep
will
your mouth
get into
"
wide open
there,
ashes
it
now
as
think
you
re
tidy
hair,
his added, enough and set him upon the table near the Queen.
!
she
she smoothed
The King immediately fell flat on his back, and Alice was a little and lay perfectly still
:
alarmed at what she had done, and went round

the
room
to
see if
she could find any water to
throw
over
him.
However,
she
could
find
nothing but a bottle of ink, and when she got
back with
he
it
she
found he
had
recovered, ând
in
a
and
the
Queen were talking together
frightened
1ft
whisper
so
low, that
Alice
could
bardly hear what they said.
The King was

dear,
I
"
saying,
to
assure
you,
of
turned cold
"
the
very ends
my my
whiskers
To which the Queen

got any
"The
"
replied,
You haven t
King went
whiskers."
horror of that
moment,"
"
the
on,
"I
shall
never, never forget

though,"
"You
will,
the Queen said,

it."
"if
you
don t make a memorandum of

Alice
looked on with
great
interest
as
the
King took an enormous memorandum-book out A sudden of his pocket, and began writing.
thought struck
her,
and she took

which
hold of
the
end of the
his
pencil,
came some way over

for
shoulder,
and began writing
him.
The poor King looked puzzled and unhappy, and struggled with the pencil for some time
without
saying
anything
but
Alice
was
"
too
8tro:ig for him,

clear
1
and
at last
he panted
out,
I
My
t
really
must get a thinner pencil
can
manage
this
one
I
bit
t
it
writes
"
all
manner
of things that
"
don
intend
"
What manner
of things
(in
said
the Queen,
looking over the
book
which Alice had put

1
The White Knight

sliding
is
down
the
poker.
He
).
balances
"
very badly
not
a
That s
memorandum
"
of your feelings
There was a book

lying near
Alice on
the table, and while

she
sat
watching
the White she was
King
a
(for
little
still
anxious
about
him, over over

could
and
him,
the
read,
had
in
the
ink
all
ready
to
throw
case
he fainted again), she turned

to
find
all
leaves,
"
some
in
part
that
she
t
for
it s
some language
don
know,"
she said to hersel
BOOKING-GLASS HOUSE.
It
was
like this.
She
at
it
puzzled
a
bright
over
this
for
some
her.
\
time,
"
but
last
s
thought
book,
glass,
struck
of
Looking-glass
it
course
Why, And if
all
hold
up
to
the words will
go
the right
way
again."
This was the
poem
that Alice read.
JABBERWOCKY.
Twos
brillig,
and
the sliihy toves

the
Did gyre and gimble in

All mimsy were
the
wale;
lorogcn>es,
And
the
mome
raths outgrabe*
ft
"
Beware
the Jabberwock,
bite,
my
son
The jaws that
the claws that cate& f
Beware
the
Jubjub bird, and shim

"
The frumious Bandersnatch
He
took his vorpal sivord in

the
hand:
Long time
S<>
manxome
foe he sought
tree,
rested he by the
Tumtum
And
stood awhile in tlwught.
And
Came
as in uffish thought he stood,

eyes
The Jabberwock, with
of flame,
whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And
burbled as
it
came
One, two
One, two
And
through and through

!
The vorpal blade we tit snicker-snack

lie
left
it
dead,
and with
its
head
He
went galumphing bach
23
t*
"And
hast thou slain the Jabbervjock ?

to
Come
my
arms,
my
beamish boy
n
frabjous day!
Callooh!
Callay!
He
chortled in his joy.
*Twas
lyriUig,
and
the slithy toves

the
Did yyre and gimble in

Ail mimsy were
wabe
the borogoves,
ratlis outgrabe.
fid the
mome
"
It
seems very pretty/

"
she
said
when
she
had finished
"
it,
but
it s
rather hard to under

t like to
stand
to
(You see she didn
confess, even
herself,
that she couldn t

it
make
it
out at
all.)
"Somehow
seems to
t
fill
my
head with ideas

are
!
only
don
exactly
know what they

:
However, somebody killed something

"
that s clear,
at
any rate But oh

"
"
thought Alice, suddenly jumping

t
up,
"if
don
make
haste
shall
have
to
go back through
&een what the rest
25
the
Looking-glass,
is
"
before
like
!
ve
s
of the house
first
!
Let
have a look at the garden

of the
or,
She was out
room
at
in
a moment, and ran

it
down
stairs
least,
wasn t exactly lunning, but

getting
said
to
new invention
easily,
for
down
stairs
quickly
and
as
Alice
herself.
She just
hand-rail,
kept the tips of
her
fingers
on
the
and
the
floated
stairs
gently
her
down without even touching

feet
;
with
then
she
floated
on
through the
hall,
and would have gone straight

if
out at the door in the same way,
she hadn
caught hold of the door-post.

a
little
She was getting

air,
giddy with so much floating in the

rather
and was
glad
to
find
herself
ralking
again in the natural
way.
CHAPTER
II.
THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS
"
SHOULD
to
:
see
the
I
garden
far
better,"
said
Alice
herself,
"if
could get to the top of
that hill
to
it
and here
at
least,
a path that leads straight

it
no,
doesn
do that
path,
I
it
(after
going a
several
at
last.
few
yards
along the
"but
and
turning
it
sharp
corners),
suppose
twists!
will
But how curiously

a corkscrew
the
hill,
It s
more
turn
t
!
like
than a path!
I
Well,
no,
it
this
goes to
suppose
doesn
This
I ll
goes
try
it
:
straight
back to the house

way."
Well then,
the other
And
so
she
did
wandering up and down.
GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS.

and trying turn
back
once,
to after
27
turn,
but always corning

Indeed,
the house, do
what she would.

a
corner
when
than
she
turned
she
rather
it
more
before
quickly
usual,
ran
against
she could stop herself.

"
It s
no
use
at
talking
about
it,"
Alice
it
said,
looking
up
the
her.
1
house and pretending

"I
was
arguing
yet.
I
with
not
going
in
again
know
should have
to get through the
Looking-glass
again
back
into
all
the
old
room
"
and there d be an end of

So,
resolutely
my
adventures
turning
her
back
upon
the she
the
path,
house,
she
set
out once
more
down
till
determined to keep straight on

the
hill.
got to
well,
For a few
minutes
"
all
went on
and she
this
was just saying,

"
really shall
do
it
time
when
itself
the
(as
path
gave
sudden
it
twist and shook
she described
after
herself
wards),
actually
"
and the next moment she found

walking in at the door.
it s
Oh,
too bad
"
she cried.
"
I
!
never saw
such a house for getting in the
way
Never
"
28
THE GARDEN OF
However, there was the
hill
full
in
sight,
start
so
there
was
nothing
she
to
be
done
but
again.
This time
a
bed, with
border of
came upon a large flower daisies, and a willow-tree
growing in the middle.

"
Tiger-lily,"
said
Alice,
addressing
her
self
in
to
one
wind,
that
"
was
wish
waving gracefully about

you
the
the
could
"
talk
"We
can
talk,"
said
Tiger-lily:
to."
"wheD
there s
anybody worth talking Alice was so astonished that

for
she
couldn t
take
speak
minute
away.
it
quite
seemed to
as
her breath
At
length,
the
Tiger-lily
only went on
in
waving
about, she
in
spoke
again,
"And
timid voice
almost
"
a whisper.
can all the flowers talk

"
As well
as
you
can,"
said
the
Tiger-lily.
"
And
"It
a great deal
isn t
louder."
mariners
the
"
for
us
I
to
begin,
know,"
said
Rose,
and
really
I
you was won

myself,
dering when you d speak!

c
Said
sense
to
it,
Her
face
has
got
some
in
though
LIVE FLOWERS.
it s
not a clever one T
you re the right colour, and that goes

Still,
a long
way."
"1
don
care
about
the
colour,"
the Tigera
lily
little
remarked.
"If
only her petals curled up

all
right"
more, ghe d be
SO
THE GARDEN OF
Alice
didn
like
being
"
criticised,
so
she
began asking questions.

frightened
at
Aren t you sometimes

with
n>
"
being planted out here,

care of
body to take
"
you
in
it
There
"
the
else
tree
is
the
middle,"
"
said
the
Rose
"
what
good
it
for
But
"
what
could
do,
if
any
danger
came
Alice asked.
"It
could
bark,"
said the
;
!
Rose.
cried
"
It
J
says
Bough- wough
its
a Daisy
"
"
that s
"
why
branches are called boughs
Didn t
you
know
all
"
that ?
cried
anothei
Daisy, and here they

till
began shouting together,

full
the
air
"
seemed
quite
of
little
"
shrill
voices.
Silence,
every
one
of
you
cried
the
side
Tiger-lily,
to
side,
waving itself passionately from and trembling with excitement.

I
"They
know
its
can
get at
them
"
it
panted,
"or
quivering head towards bending it!" they wouldn t dare to do

"Never
mind!"
Alice,
Alice
said
to
in
soothing
bone,
and
stooping
down
the
daisies,
who
LIVE FLOWERS.
were just beginning
again,
she
whispered,
!
"If
you don t hold your tongues, 1 11 pick you There was silence in a moment, and several
"
of the pink
"
daisies turned white.

"
That
right
said
all.
the
"
Tiger- lily.
The
daisies are worst

all
of
When
it s
one speaks, they
begin
together,
to
is
it
and
the
enough
to
!
make
"
one
wither
"How
hear
way they go on
all
it
you can
"
talk
so
nicely
Alice said, hoping to get
into
a better temper
by a compliment.
"
ve been in
many
the
gardens
before, but none of the flowers could talk/

"Put
your hand down, and

"Then
"
feel
ll
ground,"
why."
said the Tiger-lily.
you
know
Alice
"but
did
so.
It s
very
hard,"
she
said,
it."
don
see
what that has
to
do with
"In
most
gardens,"
the Tiger-lily said,
"they
make the beds

are
too
soft
so
that
the
flowers
always
asleep."
This sounded
a very good reason, and Alice

"
was quite pleased to know

of that before
"
it.
never thought
she said.
THE GARDEN OF
"
It s
my
opinion
that you
never think
CM
all"
the Rose said

I
in a rather severe tone.

stupider,"
"
never saw anybody that looked

said,
Violet
so
suddenly,
that
Alice
quite
jumped; for it hadn t spoken before. cried the Hold your tongue
"
"
Tiger-lily.
"
As
if
you ever saw anybody
You keep your

away
there,
head under the leaves, and

till
snore
you know no more what s going on world, than if you were a bud
"
in the
"
Are there any more people in the garden
besides
me
"
Alice
said,
not choosing to notice
the Rose s last remark.

"There s
one
other
flower
you,"
in
the
garden
Rose.
that can
"
move about
like
said the
("
wonder how
you
do
it
You
re
always
she
s
"
wondering,"
said
the
Tiger-lily),
are."
"but
more bushy than you

Is
she like
me
"
Alice
asked eagerly,
"
fc/r
the
little
thought crossed her mind,

girl
There
"
another
in
the
garden,
somewhere
*k
Well,
she
has the
same awkward shape
as
LIVE FLOWERS.
the Rose said,
"but
38
she
redder
and
her petals are shorter,

"
thiiik."
Her
petals
are
done up
closp,
:
almost
"
like
dahlia,"
the Tiger-lily interrupted

yours."
not
tum
bled about anyhow, like

"
But that
"you
not your
fault,"
the Rose added
kindly:
re
beginning to fade, you

t
know
getting
and then one can

a
little
untidy."
help one s petals
Alice
didn
like
this
idea
"
at
all
so,
to
change the subject, she
asked
Does she ever
come out here

11
"
daresay
"
you
ll
see
her
soon,"
said
the
Rose.
"
She
one of the thorny

she
kind."
"
Where does
wear the thorns
Alice
asked with some curiosity.

"
Why, ah round
"I
her
head,
of
course,"
the got
Rose replied.
some
too.
s
was wondering you hadn thought it was the regular

coming!"
rule."
"She
cried
the
Larkspur.
"I
hear
her
footstep,
"
thump,
thump,
along
th
grave*- walk
*4
THE GARDEN OF
Alice
looked
round eagerly,
"She
and found that

s
it
was the Red Queen.

"
grown a good
:
leal
was her
Alice
first
first
remark.
She had indeed

ashes,
when
found
her in the
she
had been
only
three
inches
high
and
hero
t
she was, half a head taller than Alice herself

"
It s
"
the
fresh
air
that
it
does
is,
it,"
said
here."
the
Rose
"
wonderfully fine air

I
ll
out
think
go and meet her/
said Alice,
for,
though the flowers were interesting enough,

felt
she
talk
that
it
would be
far
grander to have a
with a real Queen.

"You
can
possibly do
that,"
said the Rose:

way."
"/
should advise you to walk the other
This sounded
nothing,
nonsense to
off
Alice,
so she said
but set
at
once
she
towards
lost
the
of
Rea
her
Queen.
in
To her
surprise,
sight
moment, and found
herself
walking in at
tho front-door again.
little
provoked, she
v/ here
drew back, and
after
iooking
every
at
for
the
Queen (whom
off),
she
spied out
ast,
long
way
she thought
LIVE FLOWERS.
she
ID
would
try
the
plan,
this
time,
of
walking
the opposite
direction.
Tt
succeeded
beautifully.
She had not
bee*.
fa/?e
walking a minute before she found herself

to face
with the Eed Queen, and
full
in
at.
sight of
the hill she
had been so long aiming
K
"Where
"
THE GAKDEN OF
do you come
are
t
from?"
said the
?
Red
up,
al]
Queen.
And where
and don
you going
Look
apeak nicely,
the
time."
twiddle your fingers
Alice
attended
as
to
all
these
could,
directions,
and
explained,
lost
well
as she
that
she
had
her way.
"I
don
know
Queen
but
she
:
what
"
you
mean by your
out
tone.
say.
way,"
said the
all
the ways about here
belong to
here
at
me
"
why
added
re
did you come

in
all
kinder
"Curtsey
while
time."
you
thinking
what
to
It
saves Alice
wondered a
in
it
little
at this, but
she was
it.
too
"I
much
ll
try
awe of the Queen to disbelieve when I go home," she thought

next
to
for
herself,
dinner."
"
"the
time
little
late
It s
time for you to answer
now,"
the
Queen
said,
looking at her watch:
"open
your mouth
a
say
little
*
wider
when
"
you
speak,
and always
youi
Majesty/
LIVL FLOWERS.
"I
S?
only
wanted
to see
what the garden waa
like,
your Majesty
s
right,"
"That
said
the
Queen,
didn
t
patting
like
ner
all
on
the
head,
which
Alice
at
"though,
,
when
you
say
garden/
this
ve
seen
a
gardens,
compared with which
would be
wilderness/
Alice
didn t dare
"
to
I
argue
I
the
point,
but
went on
and
thought
hill
"
d try and find
my way to When / rupted,

"
the top of that
you
could
-say
hill/
the
hills,
Queen
in
inter
"
show you
call
t,"
comparison
with which you d

"
that a
said
:
valley."
No,
shouldn
at
Alice,
"
surprised into
contradicting her
valley,
last
hill
cant
be
a
"
you know.
That would be nonsense

"You
The Red Queen shook her head.

call
it
may
"but
nonsense
if
you
like."
she
said,
I ve heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary

"
Alice curtseyed again, as she was afraid from

the
Queen s tone that she was a
little
offended
38
THE GARDEN OF
till
and they walked on in silence

the top of the little
hill.
they got
to
Foi some minutes Alice stood without speak

in all directions over the country ing, looking out
and a most- curious

were
a
country
little
it
was.
There
number
across
it
of
tiny
brooks
side,
running
straight
from
side
to
and
the
ground between was divided up into squares by

a
number of
little
green
hedges,
that
reached
from brook to brook.

"
declare
"
it s
marked out
at
just like a
"There
large
chess-board.
Alice said
last.
ought
LIVE FLOWERS.
to
be some
there
men moving about somewhere

"
and so
delight,
are
she
heart
added
in
tone
of
began to with excitement as she went on.
and
her
beat
"
quick
It s
-
a great
huge
all
all,
game
the
of
chess
that s
if
being
is
it
played
over
world
this
the
is!
world at
Oh, you know. wish I was one of

being a
what fun
How
t
them
I
wouldn
mind
though
Pawn,
if
only
might join
of course I should like
to be a Queen,
best."
She glanced rather shyly at the

as
real
Queen
she said this, but her companion only smiled
pleasantly,
and
the
s
said,
That
easily
s
managed.
if
You can be
like, as
White Queen
Pawn,
you
Lily
too
young
to
to play;
and you
:
re in
the
Second
Square
begin
with
when you
"
get to the Eighth Square
Just
at
this
you ll be a Queen moment, somehow or other, they
began to run.
Alice
never could quite make

afterwards,
out,
ID
think
they
ing
it
:
over
all
how
is,
it
was
that
began
she remembers
that they were ~uu
40
THE GARDEN OF
Queen went
do
to
ning hand in hand, and the

that
it
so fast
was
all
she the
could
keep up with
"
her
and
"
still
Queen kept crying

felt
Faster
Faster
but Alice
she could not go faster,

left to
though she had no breath
say
so.
The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never
however fast they changed their places at all I went, they never seemed to pass anything.
:
"
wonder
thought
if
all
the
things
move along with
us?"
poor
to
!
puzzled
her
Alice.
And
for
"
the
Queen
cried,
seemed
"
guess
thoughts,
!
she
Faster
Don t
try to talk
Not that
She
felt
Alice
if
as
had any idea of doing she would never be able to
that.
talk
:
again,
she
was getting so much out of breath

the
and
still
Queen
cried
"
"
"
Faster
Faster
and dragged her along.

Alice
Are we nearly there
"
managed
to pant out at last.
"Nearly
there!"
the
Queen
repeated.
!
"Why,
"
we passed
they ran
it
ten minutes ago

for
Faster
silence,
And
the
on
time
in
with
LIVE FLOWERS.
whistling in Alice
s
ears,
and almcet blow
she fancied. ing her hair off her head,
"
Now
"
Faster
cried Now And they went

"
the Queen.
so
fast
"
Faster
at
that
air,
last
they seemed
to
skim
through
with
their
the
hardly
sud-
touching
the
ground
feet,
till
donly, just as Alice
was getting quite exhausted,

sitting
they
stopped,
and she found herself
ou
the ground, breathless
and giddy.
her up
against
little
The Queen propped

and said kindly,
"
You may
rest a
now
"
&
Alice
"
ThE GARDEN OP
looked
round
her
in
great
surprise,
Why,
do believe we Ve been under

!
this tree
the whole time

"Of
Everything
it
is,"
s just as it
was
"
course
said
the
Queen:
"what
would you have

"
"
it \
Well,
in
little,
our
"
country,"
said
Alice,
still
panting a
you d generally get
to
some
a long
where
else
if
you ran very

doing."
"
fast for
time, as
"
we ve been
slow sort of country

here,
said
all
the
Queen.
"Now,
you
to
see,
it
takes
the
running
If
you can do,
keep
in
the
same
place.
you want
d
to get
somewhere
!
else,
"
you must rue
at least twice as fast as that

"I
rather
not
try,
please!"
said
Alice.
1
"I
m
"I
quite content
to stay
"
here
only
am
so hot
and
thirsty
know what you d

taking
a
?
"
like!"
the Queen said

of
hex
good-naturedly,
pocket.
little
"
box out
Have
a biscuit
it
Alice
u
thought
it
would not be
at all
civil
to
sa>
No/
though
wasn t
what she wanted
LIVE FLOWERS.
4&
So she took
it,
and ate
;
it
as well as she could
and
and she thought she had never been so nearly choked in all her life. While you re refreshing yourself," said the
it
was very dry
"
Queen,
she
in
"I
ll
just take the measurements."
And
took
inches,
ribbon
out
of
her
pocket,
marked
and began measuring the ground, and sticking little pegs in here and there.
"
At
the end of two
yards,"
she said, putting

"
in
a peg to mark the
distance,
shall
give
"
you your directions

"No,
"
have another biscuit

said
thank
you,"
Alice:
"one
quite
enough
"
Thirst quenched,
"
hope
said the Queen.

to
Alice
did not
the
know what
Queen
on.
say
to
for
this,
but
luckily
did
"
not
the
for
wait
an
answer,
but went
shall
At
end
fear
of of
three
yards
repeat
them
your
forgetting them.
At the end
at the
of four, I shall say

Jive,
I
good-bye.
SI 10
And
end of
shall
go
had got all the pegs put in by this interest time, and Alice looked on with great
44
THE GARDEN OF
she
as
returned
to
the
tree,
and
then
began
slowly walking
down
the row.
At the
"
two-yard
goes
peg she faced round, and
said,
A pawn
two you
squares
ll
in
its
first
move, you
know.
So
go
very
I
quickly
through the Third Square

think
by railway,
the
should
and you
ll
find yourself in
Fourth
belongs
is
Square in no time.
to
Well,
that
square
Tweedledum and Tweedledee

the
the Fifth
to
mostly water
Sixth
belongs
Humpty
Dumpty
"
But you make no

T
remark?"
didn
know
had
to
make one
just
"
then,"
Alice faltered out.

said,"
You should have
the
It s
Queen went on
extremely kind
however,
in a tone of grave reproof,
"
of you
to
it
tell
me
all
this
we
is
11
suppose
forest
said
the
Seventh
Square
all
however, one of the Knights will show
you the way

shall
be
fun
!
and in the Eighth Square we Queens together, and it s all feasting

Alice
again.
and
sat
"
got
up
and
curtseyed,
and
down
LIVE FLOWERS.
46
At
and
the
next peg
the
Queen
in
turned
again,
this
time she
t
said,
"Speak
French when
you
turn
can
out
think
of the English for a

toes
as
"
thingand
not
re
your
you
walk
did
member who
for
you
curtsey
are
She
time,
wait
Alice
to
this
but walked on
for
quickly to
the
to
next peg,
"
where she turned
moment
say
good-bye,"
and then hurried
on to the
last.
it
How
gone.
happened,
she
Alice
never
last
knew,
but
exactly as
came
to
the
peg,
she was
air,
Whether she
vanished
into
the
or
whether she ran quickly into

she
the
wood
("and
can run
"
very
of
fast
thought Alice), there

but she
that
was no
way
guessing,
to
it
was
she
gone,
and Alice
a
began and that Pawn,
remember
was
for
would soon be time
her to move.
CHAPTER
III.
LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS,
OF
course the
first
thing to do
was
to
make
going
like
a grand survey
to
of the
"It
country
s
she
was
travel
through.
geography,"
something
very
learning
thought Alice, as she stood

of being able to see a
rivers
I
little
on tiptoe
further.
in
"
hopes
Principal
there
are
none.
Principal mountains
I
on the only one, but

name.
Principal
don t
think
it s
got
any
towns
why, what are those

there
?
creatures,
making
nobody
"
honey down
ever saw
for
They can
mile
off,
be bees
bees
you know
and
of
-some time she
stood
silent,
watching one
LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS.
47
them that was bustling about among the

poking
its
flowers,
proboscis into them,

bee,"
"just
as
if it
was
a regular
thought Alice.
However,
bee
:
this
it
was anything
but
regular
in fact,
was an elephant
as Alice soon
found out, though the idea quite took her breath
away
at
"
first.
be!"
And
what
enormous
idea.
of! ,
flowers
they must
like
was her next
"Something
cottages with the roofs taken
and
stalka
put to
them
and
I
they must make!

no, I
what quantities of honey think I ll go down and

yet,"
won
go just
as she
she went on, checking
herself just
the hiU,
shy so
was beginning to run down and trying to find some excuse for turning It ll never do to go down suddenly.
"
among
them without
good
long
branch
be
I
-
to
hrush them
away
1
and what fun

liked
it
it ll
when
shall
they
say
ask
me how
I
my
walk.
Oh,
liked
well
enough
(here
came the
it
favourite
so
little
toss of the head),
only
was
dusty and
"
hot,
and
the
elephants
did
tease
ao
48
"I
think
ll
go down the other

"
way,"
she
visit
said
after
a pause
later
and perhaps
Besides,
"
may
so
the
elephants
on.
do
want
to get into the
Third Square
So with
and
this
excuse she ran

the
first
down
the
the
six
hill
little
jumped
over
of
brooks.
"
"
Tickets,
his
please
said
the In a
Guard,
putting
head in at the window.
moment
:
every
body
was
holding
size
out
as
a
the
ticket
they
were
quite
about the same
people,
and
seemed to
"
fill
the carriage.
!
Now
then
Show your
looking
"
ticket,
child
the
Guard went
a great
on,
angrily at Alice.
"
And
many
of a
voices all said together
like the
t
chorus
song,"
thought Alice),
"Don
keep
a
him waiting,
thousand
child!
Why,
his
time
is
worth
pounds a
minute!"
LOO KTNG-G LASS INSECTS.

K
IE
a
43
m
I
afraid
haven t got
"
one,"
Alice
said
frightened tone
there
wasn t a
ticket-office
wJ ere
vo:.ces
came
from."
"
And
again the chorus of

for
is
went
on.
There
wasn t room
one
wVere she came from.

a
The land there

I"
worth
thousand pounds an inch

"
you one from the engine-driver/ shculd have bought

excuses,"
:
Don t make
once
"The
said the
Guard
"
And
with
the
a
more
the
chorus
of
voices
went on
man
alone
that drives
is
the
engine.
Why,
pounds
smoke
worth a
thousand
puff!"
Alice
thought
to
"
herself,
Then
t
there s
no
use in
time,
speaking."
The
t
voices didn
but,
join in thia
as
she
hadn
all
spoken,
in
to
(I
her
great
surprise,
they
thought
chorus
hope you
understand
for
I
what thinking in chorus means

confcss that
all.
must
/ don
is
"
t),
Better
say
nothing at
Language
"
worth
thousand
pounds a
"
word
shall
I
dream about
1
thousand
pounds
tonight,
know
shall!"
thought Alice.
50
All this time the

first
Guard was looking
at her,
through a telescope, then through a micro
scope,
and then through an

"
opera-glass.
At
last
he said,
shut
"
You
re travelling the
wrong
way,"
and
up the window and went away.

So young a
child,"
said the
gentleman
sitting
opposite to her, (he

"ought
was dressed
in white paper,)
il
to
she doesn t
know which way she s going, even know her own name *
!
LOOKING-GLASS INSECT S.
A
ir,
"
Goat, that was sitting next to the gentleman
white, shut his eyes
and
said in a loud voice,
She ought
if
even
she
know her way to the ticket-office, doesn t know her alphabet

to
"
There was a Beetle sitting next the Goat
(it
was
very
queer
carriage-full
of
passengers
altogether),
and,
all
as the
rule
seemed to be that
they should
"
speak in turn, he went on with
She
ll
have
to
go back from here as luggage

t
"
Alice
couldn
see
who was
and there
sitting
"
beyond
the Beetle, but a hoarse voice spoke next.

"
engines
it
said,
it
choked
Change and
was obliged to leave

"
off.
It
sounds like a
horse,"
Alice
thought
close
honw
to
to
uul
herself.
And an
Said,
know."
extremely small
n,.ike
voice,
BO!
Car,
You miKM
joke OB
Uutt
iom thing about
hoar. yon
s<
Then a very gentle voice in the distance She must be labelled Lass, with care/
"
said,
you
know
And
a
after that other
voices
.
went on
the
("
What
number
of
people there
are -in
carnage!"
62
"
thought Alice), saying,

as
She must go by
her
"
post,
she s got a
sent
as
head on
message
the
She must
be
by
train
the
telegraph
the
----
"
"She
must draw
,"
the
way
"
herself
rest
of
and so
on.
But the
leaned
"Never
gentleman
dressed
in
white
in
paper
ear,
forwards
and
whispered
all
her
dear,
mind what they

shan
t
say,
my
but
take a return -ticket every time the train

"Indeed
stops."
t!"
Alice
said
rather
impa
tiently.
at
all
don
belong to this
in
railway journey
was
wood
there
!
just
"
now
-- and
wish
could get back

that,-
YOU might make * joke on
said the little voice close to

if
something about
you would
you coold, yon
know."
"Don
t tease
so,"
said
Alice, looking about in

;
vain to see where the voice came from

so anxious to have a joke made,
"if
you
re
why don t you

:
make one
The
unhappy,
something
yourself?"
little
voice
sighed
evidently,
and
to
was very Alice would have sold

deeply
it
it,
"if
pitying
comfort
it
would
"
63
only sigh like other people

this
she thought.
But
was such a wonderfully small sigh, that she wouldn t have heard it at all, if it hadn t come
quite close to her
ear.
was that
took
off
it
tickled
The consequence of this her ear very much, and quite

the
her thoughts from
unhappiness
of
the poor little creature.

"
know yoo
ar.
attend."
the
little
VO1C6
I
WCnt On
insect."
"adeai
trimd, and aa old friend.
And yon won t hurt me. though
am an
"
What kind
anxiously.
"
of insect
Alice
really
inquired
a
to
little
What
it
she
wanted
Know
was, whether
could sting 01 not, but she

be
quite
thought this wouldn t

to
civil
question
ask.
-what, then yon don t
-
the
little
voice began,
when
it
was drowned by a shrill scream from the engine, and everybody jumped up in alarm, Alice among
the rest.
The Horse, who had

the
put
it
his
head
said,
out
"It
ol
s
window, quietly drew

a
in
and
only
brook
we have
satisfied
to
jump
this,
over."
Every
Alice
body seemed
with
though
64
LOOKING-GLASS LNSEUT8.
a
all.
felt
little
nervous at the idea of trains jumping

ll
at
"However, it
take us into the Fourth

"
Square, that s
self.
some comfort
she
felt
said
to
her
In
another
moment
the
she
air,
the
in
carriage
rise
straight
up
into
and
her fright
she
caught at the thing
nearest
to
her
hand,
which happened to be the Goat s beard.
But the beard seemed to melt away as she

touched
it,
and she found

while
she
herself sitting
quietly
under
the
tree
the
Gnat
(for
that
to)
was was
insect
had
on
a
been
talking
balancing
itself
twig just over her head,

its
and fanning her with

It certainly
wings.
"
was a very large Gnat

chicken,"
about
she
beei)
the size of a
Alice thought.
it,
Still,
couldn
feel
nervous with
after they
hud
talking together so long.
then
you don
like
all
insects?"
the
66
Gnat
went
on,
as
quietly
as
if
nothing
had
happened.
"
them when they can Alice said None of them ever talk, where / come from.*
"
like
talk,"
"What
sort
of
insects
"
where you come from

"
you rejoice the Gnat inquired.

all,"
do
in,
don t
rejoice
I
in
insects at
Alice
ex
plained,
"because
rather afraid of
them
you the
at least the large kinds.
But
can
tell
names of some of
"
them."
Of course
they answer
to
their
names
"
the Gnat remarked carelessly.

"I
never
knew them do
it."
"What s
the use of their having

if
names,"
the
"
Gnat
"
said,
they
won t answer
said Alice
I
;
to
them
it s
"No
use to
them,"
"but
useful
to the people that
name them,
suppose.
If not,
why do
"
things have names at

t
all?"
can
say/ the Gnat replied.

there,
"
Further on,
in
the
wood down
they ve got no names

list
however,
go on with your
time."
of
bisects
you re wasting
66
"Well,
there s
the
Horse-fly,"
Alice
began,
counting
"All
off the
names on her
said
ll
fingers.
"half
right/
the
Gnat:
way ur
if
that bush,
look.
It s
you
see a
Rocking-horse-fly,
you
made
entirely of wood,
and gets about

branch."
by swinging
itself
from branch
to
"What
does
it
live
on?"
Alice
asked, with
great curiosity.
"
Sap and
list."
sawdust,"
said the Gnat.
"
Go
on
with the
Alice looked at the Rocking-horse-fly with great

Interest,
and made up her mind that
it
must have
been
sticky
just
;
repainted,
it
looked
on.
so
bright
and
and then she went

there s the
"And
"
Dragon-fly."
head,"
Look on the branch above your

"and
said
the Gnat,
tfy.
there
you
ll
find a Snap-dragonits
Its
body
is
made
its
of plum-pudding,
wings
of holly-leaves,
in
brandy."
"And
and
head
is
a raisin burning
what does
it live
on?"
Alice asked, aa
before.
11
Frumenty and mince-pie," the Gnat replied and it makes its nest in a Christmas-box."
"
58
"And
then there
the
Butterfly,"
Alice went
on, after she
had taken a good look at the ineect with its head on fire, and had thought to I wonder if that s the reason insects are herself,
"
so
fond of flying into
candles
!
because
"
they
want
"
to turn into Snap-dragon-flies
Crawling at your
feet
feet,"
said the
Gnat
"you
(Alice
drew her
observe
thin
crust,
back in some alarm),

Its
its
may
are
is
Bread-and-butter-fly.
of
its
wings
slices
bread-and-butter,
is
body
and
head
a
it
lump
live
of
sugar."
"And
what does
on?"
"Weak
6fi
tea with cream in

difficulty
it."
A new
posing
"
came
into Alice s head.

"
"
Suj>^
it
couldn
it
t find
any
she suggested.
course."
Then
But
would
die, of
"
that
must
happen very
often,"
Alice
remarked thoughtfully.
"
It
always
this,
happens,"
said the Gnat.

silent
After
or
Alice
was
for
minute
itself
two,
pondering.
The
Gnat
amused
round
meanwhile
head
:
by humming round and

it
her
"
at last
settled
t
again and remarked,

to lose
suppose you don

"No,
want
your name
little
"
indeed,"
Alice said, a
know,"
anxiously.
"And
yet
don t
"
the
Gnat went on
in a careless tone
it
only think
how
convenient
would be
it
!
without
to
call
you could manage to go home For instance, if the governess wanted

if
you
here
to
your
,
lessons,
she would
call
out
to
Come
leave
and there she would have

t
off,
because there wouldn
be any
name fn
tc
her to
go,
call,
and of course you wouldn t have

w."
you kno
60
*
That would never do,
sure,"
said Alice
"the
governess would never think of excusing

If
me
lessons for that.
she couldn
remember
my
do."
name, she d
"
call
if
me
Miss
said
*
as the servants
Well,
she
Miss/
and didn t
"of
say
anything more/
the Gnat
lessons.
remarked,
course
I
you d miss your you had made

"
That
s a joke.
wish
it."
Why
asked.
"It
do you wish I had made s a very bad one."
"
it ?
Alice
But the Gnat only sighed deeply, while large tears came rolling down its cheeks.
"
two
You shouldn
make
jokes,"
Alice said
"
if
it
makes you so unhappy." Then came another of those melancholy little sighs, and this time the poor Gnat really seemed
to have sighed itself away, for,
when
Alice looked
up, there
was nothing whatever to be seen on the twig, and, as she was getting quite chilly with sitting still so long, she got up and walked on.
She very soon came to an open field, with a wood on the other side of it it looked much
:
darker than the last wood, and Alice
felt
6]
little
timid about going into

thoughts, she
I
it.
However, on second
:
certainly
this
"
made up her mind to go on won t go back," she thought to herself,

she said thoughtfully
1
"for
and
was the only way to the Eighth Square.

wood,"
This must be the

"where
to herself,
things have no names.
wonder
?
what
11
become of
t like to
my name when
it
go in
shouldn
lose
at all
because they d
it
have to give
certain
me
an
another,
and
would be almost
to
be
ugly one.
But then the fun

had got
would
be, trying to find the creature that
my
old
name!
That
just
like
the
advertise
ments,
you know, when people lose dogs answers to the name of Dash : had on a brass
"
"
collar -
just
till
fancy calling everything you met
Alice/
one of them
all,
answered
Only they
wise."
wouldn
answer at
if
they were
in
this
She was rambling on

reached the wood
"Well,
:
way when
she
it
looked very cool and shady.

a great
comfort,"
"
at
any
rate
it s
she said
as
she stepped under
the trees,
after
being BO
62
into the
into
hot, to get into the
what
she went on, rather surprised at not being able

to think of the word.
"
mean
to get
under the
"
under the
under
this,
you know
tree.
putting
does
her hand on the trunk of the

it
"What
call itself, 1
wonder
do believe
it
it s
got no
name
why,
to be sure
hasn t
"
She stood
silent for a minute, thinking

"Then
then
she suddenly began again.
it
really has
happened, after
will
all
if
And
I
now, who
I
am
remember,
"
can
determined
to
do
it
But being determined didn t help her

all
much, and
puzzling,
she could say, after a great deal of

"
was,
L, a
know
it
begins with
"
Just
then
Fawn came wandering by

its
it
looked at Alice with
large
"
gentle
eyes, but
!
didn
seem
at all frightened.
Here then
Here
then!"
Alice said, as she held out her

stroke
it
;
hand and
back
a
tried
little,
to
but
it
only
started
and then stood looking

do you
at her again.
"What
call yourself?" the
Fawn
said
at
last
Such a
soft
sweet voice
it
had!
"I
wish
knew!"
thought poor Alice

"Nothing,
acswered, rather sadly,

"
just now.
Think
again,"
it
said
"
that
won
do
"
Alice thought, but nothing
came
call
of
"
it.
Plea&o,
would you
tell
"
me what you
I
yourself?"
sho
Raid timidly.
"
think that might help a

if
little."
11
tell
you,
you
"
11
come a
t
little
furthei
here."
on,"
the
Fawn
said.
can
remember
S4
Sc they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the
soft
neck of the Fawn,

field,
till
they came out into
and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free
another open
from Alice
in a voice
s arms.
"I
Fawn!"
it
!
cried out
of delight,
"
"
and,
dear
me
you
re
human
into
child
sudden look of alarm came
its
beautiful
it
brown
eyes,
and
full
in
another
moment
Alice
had darted away at

it,
speed.
stood looking after
almost ready to
her dear
I
little
cry with vexation at
having
lost
"
fellow-traveller so suddenly.
However,
s
know
my name
Alice
now,"
she
1
said,
"that
some comfort.
it
Alice
won t
forget
again.
And
I
now,
follow,
It
which
1
of
these
"
finger-posts
ought
to
wonder
as
was not a very difficult question to answer, there was only one road through the wood,
it,
and the two finger-posts both pointed along

"111
settle it/
Alice
said to
herself,
"when
the
road divides and they point different
ways."
65
But
this
did not seem likely to happen.

on,
She
went on and
road divided
posts
a long way,
sure
but wherever the

to
there were
be two finger
pointing
the
TWEEDLEDUM
"
same way, one marked S HOUSE/ and the other
TO TO
THE HOUSE OF TWEEDLEDEE.

I
do believe/
said
!
Alice at
I
I
"
last,
I
that they
live in the
same house
wonder
can
t
never thought
there
?
of
Til
that
just
before
call
But
stay
long.
and say
of
How
the
d ye do
and ask
I
it
them
the
way out
to
wood.
If
could
gets
only get
the
Eighth
Square
before
dark
"
So she wandered on,

till,
talking to
herself
on turning a sharp corner, she came upon two fat little men, so suddenly that
as she went,
she could not help starting back, but in another
moment
she
recovered
herself,
feeling
sure
that
they must be
CHAPTER
IV,
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEB.
THEY were
standing under
a tree, each with
an arm round the other s neck, and Alice knew
which was which
in
a moment,
because one
his collar,
oi
them had
the
other
DUM
embroidered on
"
and
got
DEE/ TWEED LE round
suppose
the
they
Ve each
at
back of the
collar,"
she said to herself.
They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she was just looking round to see
if
the word
TWEEDLE
was written
startled
at the back
of each collar,
when she was
by a
voice
coming from the one marked
DUM.
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE,
"
If
you think we
pay,
re wax-works,"
he
said,
"you
ought
to
you
know.
at
for
Wax- works weren t

nothing.
made
"
to
be
looked
Nohow
"
Contrariwise,"
s *
added the one marked

re
alive,
DEE/
if
you think
"I
m
for
sure
say
you ought speak." was all Alice could very sorry," the words of the old song kept ringing
I
we
to
through her head like the ticking of a clock, and

she could hardly help saying
them out loud
TWEEDLEDUM
~
Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Agreed
to
have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledve
Had
spoiled his nice
new
rattle.
Just then flew
down a monstrous
crow,
As Hack
as a tar-barrel;
both the heroes
their
so,
Which frightened
They quite forgot

(
quarrel"
"
know what you

"but
re
isn t
thinking
so,
about,"
said
Tweedledum:
it
nohow/
"if
"Contrariwise,"
continued
;
Tweedledee,
it
it
was
be
;
so, it
might be
it
and
it
if
t.
were
s
so, it
would
but as
"
isn
t,
ain
That
said
logic/
I
1
was
is
thinking,"
Alice
very politely,
which
the
best
getting so dark.
But the
fat
it s way Would you tell me, please ? little men only looked at each
"
out of this wood:
other and grinned.
They looked
so exactly like a couple of greet
AND TWEEDLEDEE.
schoolboys,
finger at
"
that Alice couldn
help pointing her

"
"
Tweedledum, and saying

"
First
Boy
Nohow
Tweedledum
cried
out
briskly,
and shut
"Next
his
mouth up again with a

said Alice,
felt
snap.
Boy!"
passing
quite
!
on
to
Tweedledee,
though
she
certain
"
he
so
would only shout

he did.
"
out
"
Contrariwise
and
You Ve begun wrong

first
"
cried
is
Tweedledum.
The
do
?
thing in a visit
to say
How
then
and
shake
hands
"
And
here
d ye the two
they
brothers
gave each other a hug, and
held out the two hands that were
free, to
shake
hands with
her.
Alice did not like shaking hands with

of
either
s
them
;
first,
for fear
of hurting the other one
feelings
so, as
the best
way out
of the difficulty,
:
she
took hold of both hands at once
the
in
-a
next
ring
after
moment they were
dancing
round
This seemed quite natural (she remembered

wards),
and she was not even surprised to hear music playing it seemed to come from the tree
:
70
TWEEDLEDUM
it
under which they were dancing, and

(as well as she could
was done
make
it
out) by the branches

like
ruboing one
fiddle-sticks.
"
across
the other,
fiddles
and
But
it
certainly
was
was
find
funny,"
(Alice
said
afterwards,
when
she
"to
telling
her sister the
history of all this,)
myself singing
1
Here
we go round the mulberry bush. when I began it, but somehow

been singing
it
I
I
don
know
I
felt
as if
a long long
time!"
The
other
two dancers
"
were
fat,
and
is
very
soon out of breath.

for
left
Four times round

out,
one
off
dance,"
Tweedledum panted
enough and they

:
had begun the music stopped at the same moment. Then they let go of Alice s hands, and stood
dancing as
suddenly as they
looking at her for a minute
:
there was a rather

t
awkward
begin
pause,
as
Alice
didn
know
she
how
had
to
conversation
with
"It
people
just
been dancing with.

*
would never Jo
to say
i4
How
d ye do?
to
now"
she said to herself:

thai,
we
aoein
have got beyond
somehow
M
!
AND TWEEDLEDEE.
"
7]
hope you
re
not
much
"
tired
she said
at
last.
"
Nohow.
said
And thank you

Tweedledum.
"
very
much
for
asking,"
"
So much obliged
."
added Tweedledee.
"You
like poetry
11
Ye-es,
pretty
"
well
some
tell
poetry,"
Alice
said doubtfully.
leads out of the
"What
Would you
me which
said
road
wood?"
her?"
shall I repeat to
Tweedle
great
dee,
looking round
eyes,
at
Tweedledum
s
with
solemn
"
and not noticing Alice
question.
is
The
Walrus and
the
Carpenter
giving his
the
longest,"
Tweedledum
replied,
brother
an affectionate hug.
Tweedledee began instantly

"
The sun was shining
"
Here Alice ventured to interrupt him.

it s
"
"
II
very long/ she said, as politely as she could,
would you please tell me first which road Tweedledee smiled gently, and began again
2*
TWEEDLEDUM
was shining on
Shining with
all his
lest
to
the se&8
might:
He
did his very
make
The billows smooth and bright-*
And
this
was odd, because

the night.
it
w&s
The middle of
The moon was shining
sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had
*
got no business to be there
After the day was
done*
she said,
It s very rude of him,
To come and
spoil the
fun
The sea was wet as wet could

The sands were dry as dry.
be,
You
could not see a cloud, becau& cloud
No
was in
the sky:
No
birds were flying overhead

to fly.
There were no birds
AND TWEEDLEDEE.
73
The Walrus and
the Carpenter
close
Were walking
They wept
like
at
hand
to see
:
anything
Such quantities of sand
If
this
were only cleared av:ay,

said,
it
They
would
be
grand
If
seven
maids with seven morxs.

it
Swept
/*>
for half a year,

the
you suppose,
Walrus
it
said.
9
That they could get L
clew
74
TWEEDLEDUM
I
doubt
it
said the Carpenter,
And
shed a litter tear.
*0
Oysters,
come and walk with uxf

beseech.
The
*
Walrus did
pleasant walk, a pleasant talk.

the briny leach:
Along
We
cannot do with more than four,

to each.
To give a hand
The
eldest
Oyster looked at him,
But
The
never a
word he said:
eye>
eldest
Oyster winked his
And
To
shook his heavy head

to
Meaning
say he did not choose
leave the oyster-led.
Bui four young
Oysters
hurHtd
v<p,
All eager for the treat :

Their coats were brushed, their faces washed*
Their shoes were clean and neat
ANL>
TWEEDLEDEB.
odd, because, you
kjww>
?J
And
this
was
t
They hadn
any
feet.
Four
other Oysters follovjed them,

yet another
And
And
four ;
they
thick
and fast
came at
last>
And
more, and more, and more
All hopping through the frothy waves,
And
scrambling
to
the shore.
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Walked on a mile or
so,
And
then they rested on
a rock
Conveniently low:
And
all the little
Oysters stood
And
waite*i in a row.
The time has come!
the
Walrus
:
said,
To
talk of
many
ships
things
Of
shoes
and
and
sealing
>
Of
cabbages
and kings
TWEEDLEDUM
And why the sea is And whether pigs
boiling hci~~
have wings?
But wait a
bit,
the
Oysters cried,
;
Before we have our chat
For some of us are out of
breath,
And
*
all
of us are fat
!
No
hurry
said the Carpenter.

thai,
They thanked him much for
loaf of bread,
the
Walrus
need
:
said,
*Is
what we
cliiefly
AND TWEEDLEDEE.
Pepper and vinegar
besides
71
Are very good indeed
Now
if you re ready, Oysters dear.

begin to feed.
We can
But
not on us!
the Oysters cried,

blue.
Turning a
4
little
After suck kindness, that would be
A
t
dismal thing
is
to
do
The night
fine
the
Walrus
?
said.
Do you admire
the view
It
was
so
kind of
yov, to
come
And
you are very nice!
The Carpenter said nothing but

Cut us another
slice
:
1 wish you were not I

ve
quite so
!
deaf
had
to
ask you twice
It seems
*
a shame,
the
Walrus
trick,
To play them such a
18
TWEEDLEDUM
After we ve brought them out so
fw
And made
5
them
trot so
quick!
The Carpenter said nothing but

The butter 8 spread
too thick!
weep for you
the
Walrus said:
/
With
deeply sympathize
sobs
and
tears he sorted out

size.
TTiase
of the largest
Holding his pocket-handkerchief

Before his streaming
AND TWEEDLEDEE.
*0
Oysters,
78
said the Carpenter,
You
ve
had a pleasant run
Shall we be trotting home again
But answer came there none
And
this
was scarcely odd, becau*^

oery
one."
They d eater
"
I like the
Walrus best/ said Alice

little
"
because
you
"
see he
was a
sorry for the poor
oysters."
more than the Carpenter, though/ "You see he held his hand said Tweedledee.
ate
He
kerchief in front,
so
that the
:
Carpenter couldn t
count
"
how many he took That was mean

"
contrariwise."
Alice
said
indignantly.
if
"
Then
like
the Carpenter best

as the
Walrus."
he didn
eat so
many
"But
he ate as
many
as he
could get/
said
Tweedledum.
This
"
was
Well
!
puzzler.
After
both
pause, Alice
began,
They were
very unpleasant
in
characters
Here she checked herself

hearing
some
to
alarm,
at
something
that
sounded
80
TWEEDLEDUM
the
puffing
of a
large steam-engine
it
her like
le
in
.wood near them, though she feared

likely to
was
be a wild beast.
"
Are there any
lions or tigers
"
about here
the
"
she asked timidly.
It s
only
Red
King
"
snoring/
said
Tweedledee.
"
Come and
look at
him
the brothers cried,

s
and they each took one of Alice

her up to where the
hands, and led
King was
sleeping.
"Isn
he a lovely
sight?"
said
Tweedledum,
Alice couldn t say honestly that he was.
He
and
had a
tall
red
night-cap on, with a
tassel,
AND TWEEDLEDEE.
he was lying crumpled
81
up
into a sort of untidy

"
heap, and snoring loud

off!"
fit
to snore his head
as
I
Tweedledum remarked.
afraid
"
he
ll
catch
cold
with
lyiflg
on
the
damp
"
grass,"
said
Alice,
who was a very
thoughtful
little
girl.
"
He
"
and
Tweedledee said dreaming now, what do you think he s dreaming

s
about?"
Alice said
"
"
Nobody can guess

"
that/
Why, about you

his
Tweedledee exclaimed,
"
clapping
left
hands
triumphantly.
And
if
he
off
dreaming about you, where do you sup

"
pose you d be
"
Where
I
!
am
"
now, of
course,"
said
Alice.
"
Not you
"You
Tweedledee retorted contemptu
ously.
d be nowhere.
Why, you
"
re only a
sort of thing in his

"If
dream
that
there
"
King was
go
out
to
wake,"
added
just
Twoedledum,
"
you d
bang
like
"
a candle
I
"
shouldn
Alice
exclaimed
indignantly.
S3
TWEEDLEDUM
Besides,
if
"
only
I
a sort
of
thing
in
"
hi*
dream, what are you,

"Ditto,"
should like to
know
said
!
Tweedledum.
"
Ditto, ditto
cried Tweedledee.
so
!
He
help
I
shouted
"
this
loud
that Alice couldn

11
saying,
afraid,
if
it s
Hush
You
so
be
waking him,
noise."
m
"
you make
much
Well,
him,"
no use your talking about waking
said
Tweedledum,
of the things in his
when you re only one You know very well dream.

"
you
re
"
ix>t
real."
1
"
am
"
real
said Alice,
and began
a
"
to
cry.
You won t make
yourself
:
bit
realler
s
by
crying,"
Tweedledee remarked
about."
there
nothing
to cry
"
If I
wasn
real,"
Alice
all
said
so
half-laughing
ridiculous
through her
"I
tears,
it
seemed
cry."
shouldn t be able to
"
I
"
hope
you
don t suppose
interrupted
those
in
are
real
of
tears
Tweedledum
tone
great contempt.
"
know
they re
talking
nonsense,"
Alice
AND TWEEDLEDEE.
thought
about
to
herself:
"
81
and
it s
foolish
to
cry
it."
So she brushed away her

"
tears,
and
rate
for
went on
I
as cheerfully as she could,
At any
wood,
better
it s
be
getting
out
of
the
really
it s
coming on very dark

"
Do you
umbrella
think
going to rain
Tweedledum
himself and
"
spread
brother,
it
large
over
it.
his
t
and looked up into

he said
"
No,
don
think
is,"
at least
not under here.

"
Nohow."
"
But
It
it
may
rain outside ?
if
it
chooses,"
"
may
said
Tweedledee
"we
"
ve no objection.
"
Contrariwise."
Selfish things
thought Alice, and she was
just
going to say
"
Good-night"
and leave them,

from
wrist.
when Tweedledum
umbrella, and
"
sprang
out
under the
seized her
"
by the
he
his
Do you
all
see
that ?
said,
in
voice
choking with and yellow
passion,
in
and
eyes
grew large
a moment, as he pointed with
a trembling finger at a small white thing lying
under the
tree.
84
TWEEDLEDUM
"
It s
only a
rattle,"
Alice said, after a careful
examination
rattle-swoie,
of the
little
white
"
thing.
Not
you know/ she added hastily, think only an old rattle ing that he was frightened quite old and broken."
"
*&ato*&&K3&
Tweedledum, begin ning to stamp about wildly and tear his hair, Here he looked at course!" s spoilt, of
"I
knew
it
was
"
cried
"It
Tweedledee,
ground,
umbrella.
who immediately
tried
to
sat
down on
under
the
the
and
hide
himself
AJND
TWEEDLEDEE.
in
hand upon his arm, and said You needn t be so angry a soothing tone,
Alice laid her
"
about an old
"
rattle."
"
But
it
isn t old
Tweedledum
"
cried,
in
fl
greater fury than ever.

I
It s
new,
I tell
you
bought
his
it
yesterday
my
nice
NEW RATTLE!
his best
:
and
voice rose to a perfect scream.
All this time Tweedledee

to fold
was trying
in
it
up the umbrella, with himself

to
which
that
it
was such an extraordinary thing

quite
do,
took
off
Alice
attention
from the angry

it
brother.
But he couldn t quite succeed, and

in
his
ended
rolling
over,
bundled up in
the
umbrella, with only his head out

lay,
and there he
opening and shutting his mouth and his large more like a fish than any "looking eyes
thing
"
else,"
Alice thought.
"
Of course
you
agree
to
have a battle
Tweedledum
"
said in
so,"
a calmer tone.
the
suppose
other sulkily replied,

"
na
he crawled out of the umbrella

help us to dress up,
only she must
you
know."
BC
TWEEDLEDUM
So the two
brothers
went
off
hand-in-hand
with
into the
their
wood, and returned in a minute

full
arms
of
things
such
as
bolsters,
blankets, hearth-rugs, table-cloths, dish-covers, and

"
coal-scuttles.
hope you re a good hand at pin
ning and tying

"
strings?"
Tweedledum remarked.
on,
Every one of these things has got to go

"
somehow
or other.
Alice said afterwards she had never seen such
a fuss
the
tity
made about anything

those
in all her
life
way
of
two bustled about

put on
tying
things they
and the quan and the trouble

and
fastening
they
gave
her
in
strings
buttons
of old
"Really
they
ll
be more like bundles

else,
clothes
"
than anything
by the time
they re ready
she said to herself, as she arranged

"
a bolster round the neck of Tweedledee,

his
to keep
head from being cut

"
off,"
as he said.
"
You
know,"
he added
very gravely,
it s
one of the most serious things that can possibly
happen
cut
off."
to
one in a battle
to get one s head
AND TWEEDLEDJKEAlice laughed

it
loud: but she managed to turn
into a
cough, for fear of hurting his feelings.
"Do
look
to
very
pale?"
said
Tweedledum,
on.
coming up
called
it
have his
helmet tied
it
(He
looked
helmet,
like
though
9
certainly
much more
Well
"
a saucepan.)
yes
little
Alice replied gently.
very brave
"only
generally,"
he
went on
to
in
a
a
Io\v
voice:
to-day
happen
havs
hea/Iache."
M
41
TWEELJLEDUM
And I
ve
got a toothache the
"
said Twccdle"
doo,
who had overheard

"
remark
fax
worse than you

"Then
you d
it
better
not
fight
to-day,"
said
Alice,
thinking
a good
opportunity
to
make
peace.
"
We
must have a
going
bit of a fight,
but
don
care
about
on
long/
said
Tweedledum.
"What s
the time
now?"
Tweedledee
"Half-past
"
looked
at
his
watch,
and
said
four."
Let
s fight
till
six,
and then have dinner,
said
"
Tweedledum.
Very
"
well,"
the
other
said,
rather
sadly
and
she
can
very
watch
close,"
us
only
you
"
VI
better
not come
hit
he
added
generally
everything
can see
when
get really
excited."
"
And /
hit
every thing within

1
reach,"
cried
Tweedledum,
Alice
"whether
"
can see
it
or
not!"
laughed.
You must
think,"
hit
the
tree*
pretty often, I should
she said
AND TWEEDLEDEE.
Tweedledum looked round him with a
"
88
satisfied
11
smile.
don t
suppose,"
he
"
said,
there
be
tree
left
standing,
for
"
ever so far round,
by
the time
"And
we ve
all
finished
about a
rattle!"
said
Alice,
still
hoping to make them a

for
little
ashamed of
fighting
such a
"
trifle.
shouldn
have minded
it
it
so
much,"
one."
said
Tweedledum,
"
"if
hadn
been a new
wish the monstrous crow would come
n
!
thought Alice.
"
There
only
one
sword,
"
you
know,"
Tweedledum
said to his brother

it s
but you can
have the umbrella
quite as sharp.
Only
as
we must begin
it
can."
"
quick.
It s
getting
as dark
And
darker,"
said
Tweedledee.
was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming
It
tm.
said.
"
What
"
"
thick black
cloud
that
!
is
she
I
Arid
how
fast
"
it
comes
Why,
do
beliere
it s
got wings
90
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE.

"It
the
voice
crow!"
Tweedledum
:
cried
out
in
shrill
of
alarm
and the two brothers

were out of sight
in
took to their heels and
moment.
Alice
ran a
little
way
tree.
"
into
"
the
wood, and
stopped under a large

at
It
can never get

far too large
to
me
here"
she thought
in
it s
squeeze
it
itself
among
its
the
trees.
it
But
wish
wouldn t
flap
wings so
makes quito
somebody
**
a hurricane
in
the
wood
1"
here s
shawl
being
blown away
CHAPTER
V.
WOOL AND WATER.

SHE caught
the shawl as she spoke, and looked
:
about for the owner
in
another
moment
the
White Queen came running wildly through the wood, with both arms stretched out wide, as if
she
were flying, and Alice very civilly went to
meet her with the shawL

"
very glad
said,
happened to be in
the
way,"
Alice
as
she helped
her to put on
her shawl again.
The White Queen only looked

helpless frightened
sort of way,
at
her in a
and kept repeat

to
ing
something
in
whisper
herself
that
92
WOOL AND WATER.

like
"
sounded
Bread-and-butter,
that
all,
bread-and-butter,"
and Alice
versation
felt
if
there
was
to
be any con
it
at
she
must
:
manage
"
herself.
So she began rather timidly

the
Am
addressing
White
"
Queen?"
Well, yes,
if
you
isn t
call
that
a-dressing,"
the
Queen
at
all."
"
said.
It
my
notion
of the
thing,
Alice thought
it
would never do
of
to
have an
con
argument
versation,
at
the
she
very beginning
smiled
then"If
so
and
said,
your
Majesty will only

I ll
tell
me
it
the right
way
to begin,
do
it
as well as I
I
can."
"But
the poor
for
groaned ve been a-dressing myself Queen. the last two hours/

all!"
"I
don t want
done at
It
would have
Alice,
if
been
all
the
better,
as
it
seemed to
she had got some one else to

so dreadfully untidy.
"
dress her, she

single thing
"
was
Every
crooked,"
Alice thought to herself,

!
and she
all
over pins
you?"
May
put your
shawl straight for
she added aloud.
WOOL AND WATER.

"
don
know what
in
the
matter
with
"
it
the
Queen
said,
melancholy
voice.
It \
out of temper,
I
think.
it
ve
pinned
here,
and
ned
I
it
ve pin
there,
s
!
but there
pleasing
"
no
"
it
It
cant go you
you
on
straight,
know,
pin
it
if
all
one
side,"
Alice
said,
as
she
it
"
gently
right
put
for
her
is
and,
n
\
dear
me,
what
state
your hair
"
in
The
brush
said
has
"
got
a
entangled
"
in
1
it
the
Queen
with
sigh.
And
Jost
tho
comb
yesterday."
Alice
carefully
released
the
brush,
and
did
94
WOOL AND WATER.

to
her best
get
the
hair
into
"
order.
"
Come,
after
you look
altering
rather
better
now
pins.
"
she
"
said,
most
of
the
But
really
you
should have a lady s-maid

"
sure
"
I 11
take you with pleasure
the
Queen
other
said.
day."
Twopence a week, and jam every

"
Alice couldn t help laughing, as she said,
don
for
want you
to hire
me
and
don t care
jam."
"It
very good
1
jam,"
said the Queen.

rate."
"
Well,
"
don t want any to-day, at any You couldn t have it if you did want
said.
"The
it,"
the
Queen
rule
is,
jam
*
to-morrow
but never jam to-day." and jam yesterday It must come sometimes to jam to-day/
"
"
Alice objected.
"No,
it
can
t,"
said
the
Queen.
"It
jam
day,
every
other
day:
to-day
isn t
any
other
you
"
know."
don
understand
!"
you,"
said Alice.
"
It
fl
dreadfully confusing
WOOL AND WATER.

"That
96
the
effect
:
of living
"it
backwards,"
the
a
Queen
little
"
said
kindly
at first
always
makes
one
giddy
Living backwards
"
"
Alice repeated in great

"
astonishment.
"
never heard of such a thing
but
there s
one
great
advantage
ways."
in
it,
that one s
"
memory works
sure
"
both
remarked.
they
"
mine only works one way," I can t remember things
Alice
before
happen."
It s
a poor sort of
the
memory
that only works
backwards,"
"
Queen remarked.
do you remember best
"
What
sort of things
Alice ventured to ask.

"
Oh,
next,"
"
things
that
happened
in
the
a
week
after tone.
the
Queen
replied
careless on,
For
instance,
now,"
she went
sticking
as
large
piece
"there
of
s
plaster
on
s
her
finger
she
s
spoke,
the
King
Messenger.
:
He
the
:
in
prison
now,
t
being
punished
till
and
trial
doesn
even begin
next Wednesday
all"
and
cf
course the crime comes last of
WOOL AND WATER.

"
Suppose he never
"
commits the crime

said Alice.
"That
would be all
the
"
better,
wouldn t
said,
it ?
the
Queen
as she
ter
bound the plas
round her finger
with a bit of ribbon.

Alice
felt
there
"
was no denying that. Of course it would

all
all
"
\
she
said
"but
be
be
the
better,"
it
wouldn
the
re
better his being
punished."
You
"
wrong
there,
at
any
rate,"
"
said the
Queen
"
were you ever punished

for
faults,"
Only
"
said Alice.
And you were

said
all
the better for
it,
I know!"
ihe
Queen
"
triumphantly.
I
Yes, buf then

said
punished for/
difference."
had done the things I was Alice: "that makes all the
WOOL AND WATER.

"
97
But
"
said,
you hadn t done them/ the that would have been better still
if
;
Queen
better,
and
better,
and better
"better,"
"
Her
it
voice
went higher
with each
at last.
till
got quite to a squeak
was just beginning to say There s a when the Queen began mistake somewhere
Alice
"
,"
screaming,
so
loud
that
"
she
had
"
to
leave
the
sentence unfinished.
Oh, oh, oh
shouted the
she wanted
!
Queen, shaking her hand about as

to
if
shake
oh,
"
it
"
off.
My
finger s
bleeding
Oh,
oh,
oh
Her screams were

of a
so exactly like the whistle
steam-engine,
that
ears.
Alice
had
to hold both
her hands over her

"
What
was
is
the matter
"
she said, as soon as
there
"
chance
of
making
"
herself heard.
Have you pricked your

"
finger
yet"
I
I
haven t pricked
soon shall
it
the
"
Queen
said,
"
hut
"
oh, oh, oh
When
do you expect to do
it?"
Alice asked,
feeling very
much
inclined to laugh.
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*
When
fasten
my
"the
"
shawl
again,"
the poor
Queen groaned out:

done
the
directly.
brooch will come un
Oh, oh
open,
As she
the
said the
words
brooch
it,
flew
and
Queen clutched
it
wildly at
"
and
"
tried to clasp
again.
re
Take care
crooked
!
cried
Alice.
"
You
holding
;
"
it
all
it
And
:
she caught at the brooch
but
was too
late
the pin had slipped; and the
Queen had pricked her finger. That accounts for the bleeding,
"
she said to Alice with a smile.
"Now
here."
you you under
see,"
stand the
"
way
things happen
don t you scream now ? Alice asked, holding her hands ready to put over her
But why
"
ears again.
"
Why,
said
Ve done
orer
it
all
the screaming already/
the
it
Queen.
all
"What
would be the good

"
of
having
again?"
By
;
"i
this
time
was getting
away,
gone.
I
light.
The crow
Alice
:
must have
flown
it s
think,"
said
it
so glad
thought
was the
night coming on/
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"
99
wish
said.
/
"
could
manage
to
be glad
"
tho
Queen
Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like
"
"
Only
in
it
is
so very lonely here

;
"
Alice said
and at the thought of her loneliness two large tears came rolling down
her cheeks.
"
a melancholy voice
Oh,
poor
"
don t go
on
"
like
that
cried
in
the
Queen,
wringing
her
girl
hands
despair.
Consider what a great
what a long way you ve sider what o clock it is.

only don t cry
Alice
in the
"
you come
are.
Consider
to-day.
Con
Consider
anything,
could not help laughing at

"
this,
even
midst of her
tears.
?
Can you keep from

"
crying by considering things

"That
she asked.
the
the
way
it s
"
done,"
Queen
said
with great decision

once,
nobody can do two

s
things at
you know.
Let
consider
"
your
age to begin with

"
how
old are you

exactly."
seven and a half
100
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"
You needn t
:
"
say
exactually,
it
the
that.
Queen
No\v
remarked
[11
"I
can believe
without
I m just you something to believe. one hundred and one, five months and a day."
give
"
can t believe that

"
"
said Alice.
"
Can t you
"
the
:
Queen
said in
a pitying
tone.
Try
again
draw a
long
breath,
and
shut your
eyes."
Alice laughed.
said
"
"There
no use trying/ she

things."
one cant believe impossible
"
daresay you haven t had much

"
practice,"
said
the
Queen.
did
I
it
When
was
a
your
day.
as
age,
always
for
half-an-hour
as
Why,
six
sometimes
possible
Ve
believed
before
"
many
im
goes
things
!
breakfast.
There
the
shawl again
The brooch had come undone

and
a
as she
spoke,
sudden gust of
little
v/ind
blew the Queen s
shawl across a
brook.
The Queen spread

it,
out her arms again, and went flying after

this
*
and
time she succeeded in catching

"
it
for herself.
Ve
got
it
she cried in a triumphant tone,
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"
101
Now
"
you
shall
see
me
pin
it
on again,
all
by
myself!"
Then
hope your finger
is
better
now
n
?
Alice said very politely, as she crossed
the
little
brook after the Queen.
"
Oh,
much
"
better
cried the Queen, her voice

as
rising into
a squeak
!
she
went
!
on.
!
"Much
"
be-ctterl Be-etter
last
Be-e-e-etter
Be-e-ehh
The
word ended
in
a long bleat, so like a sheep
that Alice quite started.
She looked
at
the
Queen,
who
seemed
to
have suddenly wrapped herself up
in wool.
Alice
rubbed her eyes, and looked again.
She couldn t
Was she what had happened at all. in a shop And was that really was it really a sheep that was sitting on the other side of the
make
out,
i
counter?
Rub
as
it
she
:
would, she could

she was in a
little
make
dark
nothing more of
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shop,
leaning
with
to her
her
elbows
on
the
counter,
was an old Sheep, sitting in an arm-chair knitting, and every now and theo
and opposite
leaving o
>f
off
to
look
at her through o
a great pair I o
spectacles.
"
What
is
it
you want
to
buy
the
V 7 OOL AND WATER.

said at
last,
108
looking up for a
moment from
her
knitting.
*
don t qidte know

"I
yet,"
Alice
all
said
very
gently.
first,
"
should
like
to
look
round
me
if I
might."
You may
if
look in front of you, and on both

like,"
sides,
you
said
the
"
Sheep
unless
but you
got
can t
look all round
you
youVe
eyes at the back of your head/
But
so
these, as it
happened, Alice had not got:

herself
she
contented
with
turning
round,
looking at the shelves as she came to them.
The shop seemed

of curious
all
to
be
full
of
all
manner
it
things
but the oddest part of
was,
to
that whenever she
looked hard at any
shelf,
make out
exactly
what
it
had on
it,
:
that
was always quite empty though the others round it were crowded as full
particular
shelf
as they could hold.
"
Things flow about so here

in a plaintive
tone,
after
"
she
said
at
last
she
had spent a
minute or so in vainly pursuing a large bright
104
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that
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WATER.
like
tiling,
looked
sometimes
dell
and
sometimes like a work-box, and was always b the shelf next above the one she was looking at
"
And
I
this
ll
one
is
the most provoking of

"
all
but
tell
you what
her,
all.
she
"
added, as
follow
it it
sudden thought struck

to the very top
I 11
up
to
shelf of
ceiling, I
It
!
ll
"
puzzle
go through the
expect
:
But even
this plan failed
the
thing
went
if
through the ceiling as quietly as possible, as

it
were quite used to

"Are
it.
you a child or a
she
teetotum?"
the Sheep
of
needles.
said,
"
as
11
took
up
another
soon,
pair
if
You
make me giddy
that."
you go
on
turning round like
She was now working with fourteen pairs at once, and Alice couldn t
help looking at her in great astonishment.

"
How
can
she
knit with
to
so
"
many ?
"
the
gets
"
Duzzled
child
thought
like a
row?"
herself.
She
more and more

"Can
porcupine every minute
you
the Sheep asked, handing
her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
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"
105
Yes,
little
but
"
not
on
land
and
to
not with
say,
in
needles
Alice
was beginning
they were
when suddenly
her
hands, and
gliding
the needles turned into
oars in a
;
she
found
little
boai,
along
between
banks
so
there
"
was nothing
Feather
"
for it
but to do her
best.
cried the Sheep, as she took
up
another pair of needles.
This didn
sound
Alice
like a
remark that needed

nothing,
any answer,
away.
the
so
said
but
pulled
There was something very queer about

she thought, as every
it,
water,
now and
then
the oars got fast in
and would hardly come
out again.
"
Feather
"
Feather
needles.
the Sheep cried again,

"
taking
more
You
11
be
catching a
crab
directly."
"A
dear
little
crab!"
thought Alice.
"1
should like
"Didn t
that."
you hear me say
Feather
quite
?"
the
Sheep cried angrily, taking up

of needles.
btmcL
IU6
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"
Indeed
did/
said
Alice
"
you ve
said
it
very often
crabs?"
and very
loud.
Please,
where
arc the
"
In the water, of course
"
said the Sheep,

into
I
sticking
some of the needles

"
her hair,
"
as
her hands were

"
full.
Feather,
say
Why
You
do you say
Feather
"I
"
so often
Alice
bird!"
asked at
"
last,
rather vexed.
said the
m
"
not a
are,"
Sheep
you
re
little
goose."
This offended Alice a
little,
so there
was no
while
more conversation
the
for
minute
on,
or
two,
boat
of
glided
gently
sometimes
among
beds
in
weeds (which made the oars stick fast the water, worse than ever), and sometimes
trees,
under
but
always
with
the
same
tall
river-banks frowning over their heads.

"
Oh, please
Alice
"
There are some scented rushes

a
"
cried
in
sudden transport of
delight.
"
There really are

"
and such beauties

*
You needn t
said,
say
please
to
me
about
em,"
the
Sheep
without
looking
up
from
hei
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"
109
knitting
didn
put
em
there,
and
I in
not
going to take
"No,
em
I
away."
but
meant
please,
may we
"
wait
t
and pick
some?"
Alice pleaded.
for a
"
If
you don
mind stopping the boat

"
minute."
How am /
you leave
to stop
it ?
it 11
said
the
of
Sheep.
itself."
"
If
off
rowing,
stop
So the boat was

as
it
left to drift
down
the stream
would,
till
it
glided gently in
among
arms
the
waving rushes.
carefully
rolled
And
up,
then the
little little
sleeves were
and
the
were
plunged in elbow-deep, to get hold of the rushes

a good
off
long
way
down
before
breaking them
all
and
for
a while
Alice
forgot
about
the Sheep and the knitting, as she bent over the

side
of
the
hair
boat,
with
just
the
ends
of her
tangled
dipping
into
the
water
while
with bright eager eyes she caught at one bunch

after another of the
"I
darling scented rushes.

t
only
to
hope the boat won

herself.
"Oh,
tipple
over!"
she said
what a lovely one^

it"
Only
couldn t
quite
reach
And
it
cer-
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did seem a
little
tainly
if
it
provoking
almost as
("
happened on
she
purpose,"
she thought)
that,
though
rushes
a
managed
to pick
plenty
of beautiful
as the
boat glided by, there was always

reach.
more lovely one that she couldn t

"The
prettiest
last,
are
always
sigh
at
further!"
she
said
at
with
in
the
off,
obstinacy
as,
of
the
rushes
flushed
cheeks
growing so far and dripping hair

into
with
hands,
and and
she
scrambled back
her place,
treasures.
began
to arrange her o
new-found
it
What
their
mattered
to
to
her
fade,
just
then
to
lose
that
all
the rushes had begun
and
and beauty, from the very moment Even real scented rushes, that she picked them ?
scent
you know,
these,
like
last
only a very
little
while
and
being
dream-rushes,
melted
away almost
snow, as they lay in heaps at her feet

this,
but Alice hardly noticed

>ther
there were so
many
the
curious things to think about.
They hadn t gone

blade of one of the
much
oars got
farther
fast
before
in
tne water
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and wouldn
it
t
109
come out again

and
it
(so
Alice explained
afterwards),
the
consequence
was
that
the handle of
in
caught her under the chin, and,

little
it
spite of
!
a series of
shrieks of
Oh, oh,
off
oh
from poor Alice,
swept her straight
the seat,
and down among the heap of rushes. However, she wasn t a bit hurt, and was soon
:
up again
all
"
the Sheep went on with

just as
if
her knitting
the
while,
nothing had happened.

"
That was a nice crab you caught
she
re
marked, as Alice got back into her place, very

relieved to find
"
much
herself
still
in
the boat.
Was
it ?
didn
see
it,"
said Alice, peeping
cautiously
over the side of

"
the
boat
let
into
the
]
dark
should
water.
so
like
wish
little
it
hadn t
go
crab
to take
home with
scornfully,
me
But the Sheep only laughed and went on with her knitting.
!
"
"
"
said Alice. Are there many crabs here ? and all sorts of things," said the "Crabs,
"
Sheep
mind.
plenty of
choice,
only
make up your
"
Now, what do you want
to
buy ?
no
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u
half
oars,
To buy
"
Alice echoed in a tone that
was
the
astonished
and
half
frightened
river,
for
and the boat, and the
had vanished
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all
Ili
in
moment, and she was back

shop.
again
in
the little dark

"
should like to buy an egg,

"
please,"
"
she
said
11
timidly.
How
do you
sell
them
Fivepence farthing for one

the Sheep replied.
twopence
for
two,"
"
Then two
are
cheaper than one
"
Alice
said in a surprised tone, taking out her purse.

"Only
two,"
"
you must eat them both,

the Sheep.
I 11
if
you buy
said
Then
have one,
please,"
said
Alice, as
she put the she

all
money down on
herself,
the
counter.
For
be at
thought to
nice,
"They
mightn
you
know."
The Sheep took the money, and put

in
it
away
a box
then she said
"
never put things
into people s
hands
that
would never do
you must get it for yourself." And so saying, she went off to the other end of the shop, and
set
the egg upright on a shelf.

"
wonder why
as
it
wouldn t
do
"
thought
the tables
Alice,
she groped
her
way among
112
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chairs, for
and
the
the a
the shop
was very dark towards
end.
"
more
chair
?
The egg seems to get further away walk towards it. Let me see, is this
it s
Why,
odd
got
find
branches,
trees
declare
How
And
is
very
to
growing
!
here
actually here s
little
brook
Well, this
"
the very queerest shop I ever saw
So she went on, wondering more and more

at
every step,
as
everything turned into a tree
the
moment
she
came up
to
it,
and she
quite
expected the egg to do the same.
CHAPTER
VI.
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
HOWEVER,
within
eyes
a
the egg only got larger and larger,

:
and more and more human

few yards of
a
it,
when
she
;
she had come

it
saw that
and
had
she
it
and
nose
to
and mouth
it,
when
that
had oome
close
she
saw
clearly
It
was
HUMPTY DUMPTY
else!"
himself.
can t be
"I
anybody
certain
she
if
said
his
to
herself.
as
all
of
it,
!
as
"
name were
written
over his face

It
easily,
might have been written a hundred times, on that enormous face. Humpty Dumpty
.
was
sitting with his legs crossed, like a Turk.
114
HUMPTV DUMPTY
such a narrow one
on the top of a high wall

that
his
Alice
quite
balance
in
wondered how he could keep and, as his eyes were steadily

direction,
fixed
the
opposite
notice
and
she
he
didn
take
the
least
of
her,
thought
he
must be a
"
stuffed
figure after
all.
"
And how
aloud,
exactly like an egg he
is
she
said
standing with
her
hands
ready to
expecting
catch
him, for she was every

to
fall.
moment
him
"
It s
very
provoking,"
Humpty Dumpty
away from
very
"
said
after a long silence, looking
Alice as
!
he spoke,
"
"to
be called an egg
like
said
you looked
gently
pretty,
explained.
know,"
"And
an egg, some eggs
Sir,"
Alice
are
to
very
turn
you her remark

"
she
added,
hoping
into
a sort of compliment.
said
Some
people,"
Humpty Dumpty,
"
look
ing
away from
didn
all
t
her as
"
usual,
have
no
more
sense than a
Alice,
baby
know what
to
say
she
to
this
it
wasn
at
like
conversation,
thought,
as
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
be never said anything to her; in fact, his remark was evidently addressed to a tree
she stood and softly repeated to herself:
115
last
so
"Humpty
Dumpty
sat
on a wall:
great fall.
all the
Eumpty Dumpty had a

Couldn
All the Kings Iwrses and

t
King s men
again"
put
Humpty Dumpty
in his place
"That
last
line
is
much
too
long
for
the
poetry,"
she
added,
almost
out loud,
her.
forgetting
that
"
Humpty Dumpty would hear

Don t
said,
tell
stand chattering to yourself like that/

looking
at
Humpty Dumpty
first
her
for
the
time,
"but
me
your name and your
business."
"
My
It s
name
a
is
Alice,
but
"
"
stupid
name
"
enough
"
Dumpty
it
"
interrupted
impatiently.
Humpty What does

Alice
mean?"
Must a
name mean
something?"
asked doubtfully.
116
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
"Of
course
it
must,"
Humpty Dumpty
name means
it
sa\<l
with a short laugh:

I
"my
the shape
is,
am
a
and a good handsome shape
too.
With
shape,
"
name
like
yours,
you might be any

"
almost."
Why
Why,
do you
sit
out here
all
alone
said
Alice, not
"
wishing to begin an argument.

because
there s
"
cried
Humpty Dumpty.
the answer to that ?
t
nobody with me Did you think I didn

!
"
know
Ask
another."
you think you d be safer down on Alice went on, not with any the ground ?
"Don
"
idea
of
making another
riddle,
but
simply in
her good-natured anxiety for the

"
queer creature.
That wall
"
is
so vei^y narrow
"
What tremendously
think so
s
easy riddles you ask

out.
"
"
Humpty Dumpty growled

don
t
!
Of
course
off
Why,
if
ever I did
fall
which there
no chance of
but if
did
Here he pursed up his lips, and looked so solemn and grand that Alice could hardly help laughing,
"If
did
fall"
he went on,
"the
King has
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
promised me
like
!
117
ah,
You didn t
did you?
you may turn pale, think I was going
if
you
say
to
that,
The King has promised me with his very own mouth to to To send all his horses and all his men,"
"
"
Alice interrupted, rather unwisely. u NO\VT 1 declare that s too bad!"
Humpty
Dumpty
"
cried,
breaking
into
sudden passion.
You
ve been listening at doors
and behind
or you couldn
t
trees
and down chimneys
have
known
haven
in a
"
it
"I
t,
indeed!"
Alice said very gently.
"It
s
"
book."
Ah, well
They may write such things

a
in
book,"
Humpty Dumpty
what
you
call
said in a calmer tone.
That
that
History of England,
look
at
is.
Now, take a good

never
see
me
:
one that has spoken to a King, /
am
and
mayhap
to
you
you
11
such
another
show
1
"
not proud, you

he grinned
may
a,s
shake
hands with
ear,
me
as
And
leant
almost from ear to

nearly as
he
forwards (and
possible
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
fell
off the
wall in doing
his
so)
and offered Alice
hand.
a
little
it.
She watched him

anxiously as she
"
took
If
he
smiled
much more, the ends of his mouth might meet

behind,"
"
she
thought
and then
head
!
I
I
don t know what would
happen
"
to his
"
afraid
it
would come
all
off
Yes,
all
his horses
and
his
men,"
Humpty
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
119
Dumpty went
in
on.
"They
d pick me up again
However,
too fast
:
minute,
is
they
would
this
con
versation
going on a
last
little
let s
go
hack to the
"
remark but
one."
afraid I can t quite

politely.
remember
it,"
Alice
said
"
very
In that case
"
we
start
fresh,"
said
Humpty
a sub
it
Dumpty,
"
and
it s
my
turn
to
choose
ject-
("
He
talks about it just as if

"
was
"
game
you.
thought Alice.)
So here
a question
"
for
How
made
old did
Alice
"
you say you were ? short calculation, and

months."
said
Seven years and

"
"
six
Wrong
umphantly.
"
"
Humpty Dumpty exclaimed tri You never said a word like it

"
thought you meant
How
old are you
Alice explained.
"If
d meant
that,
d have
said
it,"
said
Humpty Dumpty.
Alice
didn
want
to
begin
another
argu
ment, so she said nothing.

"
Seven
years
and
six
months
"
Humpty
120
HTJMPTY DUMPTY,
repeated
sort of
Dumpty
fortable
thoughtfully.
"An
uncom
-
age.
Now
*
if
you d asked my
at
advice, I
d have
too late
said
Leave
off
seven
but
it s
"
now."
never ask
advice
about
growing,"
Alice
said indignantly.
"
Too proud
felt
"
"
the other enquired.
Alice
gestion.
even more indignant at this sug

mean,"
older."
she
"
said,
that
one can
help growing
"
One can t,
perhaps,"
said
Humpty Dumpty,
you might
"
"
but two can.

left
With proper
seven."
assistance,
have
"
off at
What
beautiful
belt
Alice suddenly remarked.
you Ve got on (They had had quite

!
enough of the subject of age, she thought

if
and
they
really
it
were to
her
take turns
in
"
choosing
least,"
"
subjects,
was
turn now.)
At
she
corrected
herself
I
I
on
should
second
thoughts,
said
"
beautiful
belt, I
cravat,
have
no,
mean
beg your pardon
she added
dismay, for
Humpty Dumpty
looked thoroughly
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
offended,
121
and
she
began
"
to
wish
I
she
hadn t
she
chosen
that
subject.
If
only
knew,"
thought to
herself,
"
"which
was neck and which
was waist
Evidently
Humpty Dumpty was

nothing
speak
for
very
angry,
though
he
said
a
it
minute or two.
When
growl
he did
again,
was
in
deep
"It
is
a
"
most
provoking
thing,"
he said at
last,
when
"
a person doesn t know
a cravat from a belt

"I
know
it s
very ignorant of
me,"
Alice
said, in so
humble a tone that Humpty Dumpty

and a beautiful one,
the
relented.
"
It s
a cravat,
It s
child,
as
you
say.
a present from
"
White King
and Queen.
"
There now
"
Is
it
really
said Alice,
quite
pleased to
after
find
all.
"
that she
had chosen a good
subject,
They gave
it
me,"
Humpty Dumpty
con
tinued thoughtfully, as he crossed one knee over
128
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
"
the other and clasped his hands round
it,
gave
"
it
me
beg
air.
for
an un -birthday present/
"
your
pardon
Alice
said
with
puzzled
"
not
offended,"
said
Humpty Dumpty.
"
"
I
"
mean, what
is
an un-birthday present
present given
when
it
isn t
your birthday,
of
course."
Alice
presents
"
considered
best,"
"
little.
like
birthday
she said at
t
last.
You
"
don
cried
know
what
you
"
re
talking
about
Humpty Dumpty.
"
How many
days are
"
there in a year
Three hundred and
sixty-five,"
said Alice
you?"
"And
"
how many
if
birthdays have
One."
you take one from three hundred and sixty-five, what remains ?
"
"
And
"
Three hundred and sixty-four, of

looked doubtful
"
course."
Humpty Dumpty
see that
d rather
done on
couldn
t
paper,"
he
said.
Alice
help
smiling as she took
out
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
her
for
128
memorandum-book,
and
worked
the
sum
him
365
1
364
Humpty Dumpty
it
took the book, and looked at
carefully.
"That
seems to be done right
"
he began.
"
You
To
re
holding
it
upside
down
"
Alice
interrupted.
"
be
as
sure
was
"
Humpty Dumpty
round
for him.
I
"
said
gaily,
it
she turned
little
it
thought
looked a
queer.
that seems to be done right
was saying, though I haven t

just
As
time to look
it
over thoroughly
are
now
hundred
and that shows that there and

sixty-four
three
days
"
when
you might get un-
birthday presents
"
Certainly,"
"
said Alice.
for
And only one

There
s
birthday
"
presents,
you
know.
glory for
you
124
"I
don
know what you mean by
"
glory,
Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty
course you
smiled contemptuously.
till
"
Of
don
tell
you.
meant
!
there s a nice
"
knock-down argument
doesn t
"
But
glory
mean
you a nice knock
for
down argument/
"
Alice objected.
When /
in
I
use
word/
Humpty Dumpty
"it
said
rather a scornful
tone,
means,
just
what
nor
choose
it
to
mean
neither
more
less."
"
The question
is,"
said Alice,
"
whether you
can make words mean so many

"
different things/
The
is
question
is,"
said
Humpty Dumpty,
all."
"which
to be master
that s
Alice was too

so
after
much puzzled
a temper,
to say anything,
minute
ve
,
Humpty Dumpty
again.
"They
began some of them

adjec
particularly verbs
tives
they re the proudest
you can do anything with, but not verbs

however,
them
manage the whole lot That s what / say Impenetrability

!
can
of
"
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
"
Would you
that
tell
me,
please,"
said
Alice,
"what
<f
means?"
Now
you talk
*
like
a reasonable
child,"
said
Humpty Dumpty,
"
looking
very
much
that
pleased.
meant by
impenetrability
it
we ve had
as
-enough of that subject, and

well if
next, as
all
would be just
you d mention
I
what you mean to do suppose you don t mean to stop here

life."
the rest of your

"
That
great
deal
to
make
one
word
mean,"
"
Alice said in a thoughtful tone.

I
When
that,"
make
word
do
a
"
lot
I
of work
like
it
said
Humpty Dumpty,
Alice.
always pay
extra."
"
Oh
"
said
She
was
too
much
puzzled to
".Ah,
make any
other remark.
see
you should
night,"
em come round me
from
to
of
Saturday
his
Humpty Dumpty went

gravely
side
on,
:
wagging
"for
head
side
to get their wages,
you
to
know."
(Alice
didn
;
venture
ask
what he
paid
them with
and so you
see I can t tell you.)
i26
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
"You
seem very clever at explaining

"Would
words>
Sir."
said Alice.
you kindly
tell
me
1
the
"
meaning of the poem

"
called
Jabberwocky
Let
hear
all
it,"
said
Humpty Dumpty.
that
"
-in
explain
the
poems
ever were
t
in-
Dented
and a good many that haven

yet."
been
nvented just
This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated

tfie
first
verse
"
Twas
Irillig,
and
the slithy toves
Did
gyre
and gimble in
the
wabe:
All mimsy were
the borogoves,
And
"
the
mome
to
"
raths
outgrcibe"
That
enough
:
begin
there
with,"
Humpty
in the broiling
Dumpty
words
afternoon
interrupted
are plenty of hard
there.
Brilliy
means four o clock
the
time
when you begin

said
things for
"That
4
dinner."
ll
do
slithy
"
very
well,"
Alice:
"and
Well,
slithy
means
lithe
and
slimy.
HL M^TY DUMPTY.
127
Lithe
like
is
the
same
as
active/
You
two
see
it s
portmanteau- -there are

word"
meanings
packed up into one
128
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
"
see
it
now,"
(
Alice remarked thoughtfully
"and
"
what are
Well,
toves"l"
toves
are something like badgers

like
they re
something
like
lizards
and
they re
something
"
corkscrews."
They must be very curious-looking
creatures/
*
"
They
"
are
that,"
said
Humpty Dumpty
under sun-dials
also
they
make
on
;
their nests
cheese."
also they live

"
And what
To
(
to
is
gyre
to
and to
"
gimble
"
gyre
go round and round

is
like
a gyroscope.
To
gimble
to
make
hole:; like
gimblet."
"
And
I
the
wabe
"
is
the grass-plot round a

Alice,
sun-dial,
suppose
said
surprised
at
her
own
"
ingenuity.
Of
course
it
is.
It s
called
wabe,
before
you
it,
know,
because
it
goes
a
it
long
"
way
and a long way behind

"
And
long
way beyond
Well then,
it
on each side/
Alice added.
"Exactly
so.
mimsy*
is
flimsy
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
and miserable
you).
(there s another
portmanteau
for
And
borogove
is
a thin shabby -look ing

out
all
bird with
its
feathers sticking
live
mop."
round
something
"
like a
And
then
I
mome
giving
"
ratJis
said
Alice.
"
m
"
afraid
m
rath
you
great
deal
of
trouble."
Well, a
I
is
a sort of green pig

about.
I
but
it s
mome
short
for
lost their
"
not
certain
think
from home way, you

does
know."
meaning that
they d
And what
Well,
outgrabe
is
mean
"
"
outgribing
something
between
of sneeze
bellowing
in
and whistling,
:
with a kind
the
middle
however,
down in the maybe when you ve once heard

content.
stuff to
"
you 11 hear it done, and wood yonder

it
you
11
be
that
quite
Who
"
been
repeating
all
hard
you
read
?
"
it
in
book,"
said
to
T
Alice.
But
had some poetry repeated
me, much easier

think
it
was."
than that, by
Tweedledee,
130
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
"
As
to
poetry,
you
out
know/
said
Humpty
if it
Durnpty, stretching
"
one of his great hands,
/ can
repeat poetry as well as other folk,

"
cornea to that
"
Oh,
said,
"
it
needn
come
to that
"
Alice hastily
hoping to keep him from beginning.
The
piece
going to repeat/
her remark,
"
he went
written
on
without noticing
was
entirely for your amusement."
Alice
felt
it,
that in that case she really ought

so she sat
to listen to
you"
down, and said
"
Thank
rather sadly.
"In
\
winter,
when
the fields are white,
sing this song for your delight
only
don
sing
it,"
he
added,
as
an
ex-
pi a nation.
"
I
"
see
you don
see
t,"
said Alice.
I
If
you can
sharper
whether
than
singing or not,
you Ve
eyes
most,"
Humpty
Dumpty remarked
severely.
Alice was silent.
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
^
131
In
spring,
when woods are

tell
getting green,
mean"
ll
try
and
you what I
"Thank
you very
much,"
said Alice.
"
In summer, when
Perhaps you
ll
the
days are
long,
understand the song:
In autumn, when the
leaves
are brown,
it
down."
Take pen and ink, and write
"I
will,
if
can remember
it
so
long,"
said
Alice.
"
You needn t go on
making remarks
said
out."
"
like
that,"
Humpty
/v
sensible,
"77
"
Dumpty and they put me
they re
not
^v
^^-^
This
I sent
a message
them
to the fish
is
:
9
told
what
wish.
little
fishes of the sea,
They
sent
an answer back
to
13 2
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
The
little
fishes
answer was
it,
We
cannot do
Sir,
because
**
"
afraid
don t quite
understand,"
said
Alice.
"
It
gets easier further
on,"
Humpty Dumpty
replied.
"
/
1
st rti to
them again
to
say
It will be better to obey.
The
fishes
answered with a grin,

!
Why, what a temper you are in
1 told them once,
told
them twice:
They would not
listen to advice.
took
kettle
large
and new,
to do.
Fit for the deed I had
My
I
heart went hop,
my
heart went
thump;
filled the kettle at the
pump.
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
Then some one came
The
little
183
to
me and
said,
fishes are in bed:
said to him,
said
it
plain,
Then you must wake them up agwln!
said
it
very loud
and
clear;
ear"
went and shouted in his
134
HUMPTY DUMFTY.
Humpty Dumpty
a
raised
his
voice
verse,
almost
to
scream as he repeated
"
this
I
"
and Alice
thought with a shudder,
wouldn t have beer
the messenger for anything
"
But he was very
stiff
and proud ;
shout so loud
!
He
said
You needn t
And
He
/
he
was very proud and
stiff;
said
Id
go and wake them, if
took
a corkscrew from
to
the shelf:
went
wake them up myself.
And when I found
the
door was locked,

kicked
I pulled and pushed and
and
knocked,
And when I found

I
tried to
the door
was
shut,
"
turn the handle, but
There was a long pause.

"Is
that
all?"
Alice timidly asked.
HUMPTY DQMPTY.
"That
186
all,"
said
Humpty Dumpty.
"Good
bye."
This was rather sudden, Alice thought

after such
but,
a very strong hint that she

that
it
ought to
would hardly be civil So she got up, and held out her hand. to stay. she said as Good-bye, till we meet again
be going, she felt
"
"
cheerfully as she could.

"
I
meet,"
shouldn
know
you again
if
we
did
Humpty Dumpty
giving her one
replied in a discontented
his
fingers
people."
tone,
"you
"
of
to
shake
re so exactly like other
The
face
is
what one goes
by,
generally,"
Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone.

"
That
s just
"
what
complain
of,"
said
Humpty
their
Dumpty.
has
the
Your
two
face is
eyes,
the same as everybody

"
so
his
(marking
places in the air
with
under.
thumb)
"nose
in
the
middle,
mouth
It s
always
the
same.
Now
of
side you had the two eyes on the same mouth at or the the nose, for instance
if
the top
i
that would be some
help"
136
HUMPTY DUMPTY.
"It
wouldn t look
nice,"
Alice objected.
his
But
said
Humpty Dumpty
"Wait
only shut
tried."
eyes
and
till
you ve
a
Alice
waited
minute
he
to
see
if
he would
eyes
said
speak again,
or
"
but
as
never opened his

notice of
her,
took
any
"
further
she
Good-bye
to
this,
t
once more, and, getting no answer

quietly
she
walked
to
away
as
"
but
she
she
couldn
"Of
help
saying
herself
went,
all
the
as
unsatisfactory
it
(she
repeated
to
this
aloud,
was a great comfort

"of
have
such a long word to say)

tory people I ever
all
the unsatisfac
met
at
this
"
She never finished

a heavy crash
the
sentence, for
moment
shook the forest from end to end.
CHAPTER
VII.
THE LION AND THE UNICORN.
THE
through
next
the
moment
at
soldiers
first
came
running
threes,
wood,
in
twos and
then ten or twenty together, and at last in such
crowds that they seemed to

Alice
over,
fill
the whole forest.

of being
got behind
tree,
for
fear
run
and watched them go by. She thought that in all her

soldiers
life
she
had
feet
:
never seen
so
uncertain
on
their
they
other,
were
always
tripping
over
something
or
and
always
whenever
fell
one
went
down,
several
more
over
him, so that the ground

little
was soon covered with
heaps of men.
138
THE LION AND
Then
these
diers:
came
the
horses.
Having four
than
the
feet,
managed
rather
better
foot-sol
but even they stumbled
now and then;
THE UNICORN.
and
p.\er
it
13fi
seemed
to
be a regular rule
that,
when-
a horse stumbled, the rider

confusion
fell off
instantly.
The
Alice
into
got
worse
to
every
get
moment, and
the
was
very
glad
out of
wood
an open place, where she found the White

busily writing in
King seated on the ground, his memorandum-book.

"
Ve
sent
them
"
all
the
King
cried
in
a tone
of delight,
on seeing
Alice.
"Did
you
happen to meet any soldiers, came through the wood ?

"
my
"
dear,
as
you
"
Yes, I
I
did,"
said Alice
several thousand,
should
"
think."
Four
thousand
two
hundred
the
t
and
seven,
that s the exact

to
his
number,"
"
King
send
said, referring
book.
couldn
all
the
horses,
you know, because two of them are wanted in the game. And I haven t sent the two Mes
sengers,
either.
They
re
both gone to the town.
Just look
along the road,

them."
and
tell
me
if
you
can see either of

"I
see
nobody on the
road,"
said
Alice.
140
THE LION AND

"I
only wish
in
!
/ had
such
eyes,"
the
King
to
remarked
see
it
fretful
tone.
"To
be
!
able
And at that Nobody as much as / can do

this
light!"
distance too
to
see
real
Why,
people,
by
All
this
was
lost
on
Alice,
who was
shading
still
looking
eyes
intently
along
"
the
I
"
road,
see
her
"
with one
hand.
at
last.
somebody now
s
she exclaimed
But he
coming very
he
goes
slowly
"
and
(For
what
the
curious
attitudes
into
Messenger
wriggling
his
side.)
kept
like
skipping
eel,
up
he
out
and
down,
along,
and
with
each
all,"
an
as
came
great
hands spread
like fans OD
"Not
at
said
the
King.
"He
an
Anglo-Saxon Messenger-
Saxon
happy.
it
attitudes.
and those are AngloHe only does them when he s

is
Haigha."
His name
(He pronounced
)
so as to
"
rhyme with
mayor.
love
my
love with an
"
H,"
Alice couldn t
I I
help beginning,
because he
is
is
Happy.
Hideous.
hate
fed
him with an H, because he
THE UNICORN.
141
him with
Ray.
"
with
is
with Ham-sandwiches and

Haigha, and he lives
the
"
His name
He
lives
on the Hill/
simply, without the least idea

in
King remarked that he was joining

still
the
game,
while
of a
s
Alice
was
hesitating
"The
for the
name
town beginning with H.

called
other
two,
Messenger
Hatta.
must
have
to
you know come, and one to

"
to
go."
come and
go.
One
beg your pardon
"
said Alice.
beg,"
"It
isn t respectable to
said the King.
"
only meant that I didn

"
t understand," said
"
Alice.
"
Why
I
one to come and one to go

tell
"I
Don t
impatiently.
the King you ? must have two
"
repeated
to
fetch
and
carry.
One
to fetch,
and one
to carry/
:
At
was
this
moment
the Messenger arrived
he
far too
much
out of breath to say a word,
and could only wave his hands about, and make

the most fearful faces at the poor King.
"
This
young lady
said,
loves
you with
an
H/
the
King
of introducing Alice in the hope
142
THE LION AND

oft
turning
Ee ]f
the
it
Messenger s attention from him-
but
was no
got
use
the
Anglo-Saxon
every
attitudes
only
more
extraordinary
moment, while the great eyes

side to side.
rolled wildly from
"
You alarm me
Give
"
said the
"
King.
"
feel
faint
me
the
ham sandwich
Messenger,
a
to
On which
Alice s
great
hjs
amusement, opened
bag that hung round
THE UNICORN.
neck,
148
and handed a sandwich

it
to
the King,
who
devoured
greedily.
sandwich!"
"Another
"
said the King.
There
nothing
but
hay
left
now,"
tLe
Messenger
"
said,
peeping into the bag.

the
Hay,
faint
then,"
King
murmured
in
whisper.
Alice was
glad
"
to see that
s
it
revived him a
good
deal.
There
nothing like eating
hay
when you re munched away.

"
faint,"
he remarked to her, as he
should
think
throwing cold water

"
over
or
you would be better," Alice suggested some sal- volatile."

"
didn
say there
"
King
it."
"
replied.
was nothing better" the said there was nothing like

on
"
Which
Alice did not venture to deny.
Who
went
did
on,
you
pass
the
his
road
the
the
King
holding out
hand
to
Messenger for some more hay.

"Nobody,"
said
the Messenger.
said the
"Quite
right,"
King:
"this
young
144
THE LION AND

So of course Nobody walks
lady saw him too.

slower than
"I
you."
do
my
"
best,"
the Messenger
sure
said
in
sullen
faster
"
tone.
I
!
m
"
nobody
walks
much
than
do
He
can t do
that,"
said the King,
"
or else
he d have been here
However, now you Ve got your breath, you may tell us what s hap
first.
pened in the
"
town."
11
whisper
it/
said the Messenger, putting
his
hands to his mouth in the shape of a trumpet
and stooping so as to get close to the King s Alice was sorry for this, as she wanted to ear. hear the news too. However, instead of whisper
ing,
he simply shouted at the top of his voice

re at it
again!"
"They
"Do
you
call
that
whisper?"
cried
the
poor
"
King,
jumping up
and
shaking
himself.
you do such a thing again, I 11 have you buttered It went through and through my
If
!
head
"
like
It
an earthquake
"
would
have to be
very tiny earth-
THE UNICORN.
"
146
thought quake she ventured to

!
"
Alice.
ask.
"
Who
are at
"
it
again
Why,
paid
"
the Lion and the Dnicorn, of
course,"
the King.
Fighting for the crown

Yes,
to
"
"
be
sure,"
said
the
it s
"
King
and
all
the
the
best
of the joke
!
is,
that
my
to
:
crown
while
Let
off,
run and
see
them."
And
as
they trotted
she ran,
Alice
repeating
herself,
the words of the old song
"
The Lion and
the
Unicorn were fighting for

all
the
crown
\The Lion heat the Unicorn
round
the town.
\Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out

town."
of
"
Does
she
the
one
as
that
wins
as
get
could,
the
for
:rown?"
asked,
well
she
run was putting her quite out of breath.
fe
in
"Dear
"
me,
no!"
said
the
"
King.
What
idea
TT
146
THE LION AND

"Would
you
after
be
good
enough,"
Alice
"tc
panted
stop
out,
running a
just
to
little
further,
minute
get
one
breath
again
"
I
I
good
strong
enough,"
the
"
King
said,
only
not
enough.
quick.
!
You
"
see,
minute
as well
goes by so
fearfully
You might
for
try to stop a Bandersnatch
Alice
had no
on
more
in
breath
till
talking,
so
in
they trotted
silence,
they
came
sight of a great crowd,
in the middle
of which
the
Lion
and
Unicorn
were
fighting.
first
:
They
Alice
were in such a cloud of dust, that at

could not
soon
his
make out which was which

to
but she
managed
distinguish
the
Unicorn
by
horn.
They placed themselves close to where Hatta, the other Messenger, was standing watching the of tea in one hand and a fight, with a cup
piece of bread
"
and butter
in
the other.
t
He
only just out of prison, and he hadn

tea
finished
his
when he was
sent
in,"
flaigha
THE UNICORN.
whispered to Alice
oyster-shells
"
147
and they only give them

so
in
there
you
see
he
very
hungry and thirsty. he went on, putting Hatta s neck.
How
his
are you, dear
child?"
arm
affectionately round
Hatta looked round and

on with
"
nodded, and went
his
bread-and-butter.
"
Were you happy

Haigha.
in
prison,
dear child
said
Hatta looked round once more, and

a tear or two trickled
this
:
time
down
his cheek
but not
a word would he say.

"Speak,
can t
you!"
Haigha
cried
tiently.
But
Hatta only munched

tea.
you!"
impa away, and
drank some more

"
Speak,
won t
cried the King.

fight?"
"How
are they getting on with the
Hatta made a desperate

a
large
effort,
and swallowed
"
piece
of
bread-and-butter.
They
re
:
getting on very
"
well,"
he said in a choking voice
each of them has been
down about
eighty-seven
times."
148
THE LION AND
"
Then
bread
suppose
they 11
brown?"
soon
Alice
bring
the
white
and
the
ventured
to remark.
"It
waiting
a bit of
it
for
em
now,"
said
Hatta:
"
this
is
as I
m
in
eating."
There
was
pause
the
fight
just
then,
and the Lion and the

ing,
Unicorn sat down, pant

called
while the
King
out
"
Ten
nrnutes
allowed for
refreshments!"
Haigha and
Hatta
THE UNICORN.
set
149
to
work
at
once,
carrying
Alice
round
trays
of
to
white and brown bread.

taste,
"
took a piece
but
I
it
was very dry.

think
said
don t
the
they 11
to
fight
:
any more
"go
to
day,"
King
to
like
Hatta
and order
the ing
drums
begin."
And Hatta went bound

two
Alice
away
For
a
a grasshopper.
or
minute
him.
stood
silent,
watching
"
Suddenly
"
she
brightened
up.
Look,
"
look
s
!
she
cried,
pointing
eagerly
the
There
the
White
Queen running
across
country
yonder
"
She came flying out of the wood over How fast those Queens can run
"
There
some enemy
without
after
her,
no
doubt,"
the
King said, "That wood s full of

"But
even
looking
round
them."
aren
you
going
to
run
and
help
his
her?"
Alice
it
asked,
very much
surprised at
taking
"
so quietly.
use,
No
no use
quick.
"
said the King.
"
She runs
try
to
so
fearfully
You might
!
as
well
cateh a Bandersnatch
But
I ll
make a memo-
l&O
THE LION AND

her,
1
randum about
if
you
like
She
a dear
good creature/ he repeated softly to himself, as his memorandum-book. "Do you he opened
spell
creature
this
with a double
the
?"
At
moment
Unicorn
sauntered
"
by
had
them, with his hands in his pockets.

the best of
it
this
time
"
he said to the King,
just glancing
"
at
him
a
as he passed.
little,"
little
the
King
replied,
rather
nervously.
"You
shouldn t
have
run
him through with your

"
horn,
you
know."
It
didn
hurt
him,"
the Unicorn said care

on,
:
lessly,
and
he
was
going
when
his
eye
he turned round happened to fall upon Alice instantly, and stood for some time looking at
her with an air of the deepest disgust.
"
What
This
in
is
is
-this
"
"
he said at last
eagerly,
her,
"
a child
Haigha replied
coming
front
of Alice to introduce
and
spreading out both his hands towards her in an
Anglo-Saxon
It s
attitude.
life,
"
We
only found
it
to-day"
as large as
and twice
as natural
THE UNICORN.
"I
151
always thought they were fabulous

said the Unicorn.
"Is
mon
sters!"
it
alive?"
"It
can
talk,"
said Haigha, solemnly.

at
Alice,
The Unicorn looked dreamily

said
"Talk,
child."
and
Alice could not help her lips curling
up
I
into
a smile as she began
"
Do you know,
fabulous
always
too
!
thought
I
Unicorns
were
monsters,
never saw one alive

;
before!"
Well,
said
now
that
"if
we have
you
ll
seen
believe
each
other,"
the
Unicorn,
in me, I
ll
believe in you.
"Yes,
"
Is that a bargain?"
like,"
if
you
said Alice.
Come, fetch
out the plum-cake, old
man
"
"
the
Unicorn went on, turning from her to the

"
King.
None
of your
brown bread
the
for
me
"Certainly
certainly!"
"
King muttered,
"
and beckoned to Haigha.

"
Open the bag
he
whispered.
of
hay!"
Quick
Not that one
that s full
Haigha took
and
gave
it
large
cake out of
to
the bag,
to
Alice
hold,
while
he
got
M2
out a
dish
THE LION AND

and
it
carving-knife.
How
t
they
It
all
came
out
of
Alice
couldn
guess.
was
just like
a conjuring- trick, she thought.
The Lion had joined them

going on
his
said,
:
while
this
was
he looked very tired and sleepy, and
eyes
were
half
lazily
shut.
"
What
"
this
he
and speaking in a deep hollow tone that sounded like the tolling of a great bell.
blinking
at
Alice,
THE UNICORN.
"Ah,
168
what
"
is
11
it,
DOW?"
the
!
Unicorn
couldn
"
cried
eagerly.
You
never guess
t"
The Lion looked

animal
at Alice wearily.
Are you
he
said,
or vegetable
or
mineral?"
yawning
"
at every other word.
It s
a fabulous monster
"
the Unicorn cried
out, before Alice could reply.
hand round the plum-cake, Monster," the Lion said, lying down and putting his chin
"Then
on his paws.
(to
"And
sit
down, both of
"
you,"
the
King
and
the
Unicorn)
!"
fair
play
with the cake, you knoT\
at
The King was evidently very uncomfortable having to sit down between the two great
;
creatures
"
but there was no other place for him.

a fight
What
the
we might have
said,
for the crown,
now!"
Unicorn
looking
slyly
up
at
the
crown,
which
the
poor
King
was nearly
khaking off his head, he trembled so much.

"I
should win
easy,"
said the Lion.

that,"
"
not so sure of
I
said the Unicorn.
"Why,
beat you
all
round the town, you
164
THE LION AND

tha
chicken!"
Lion replied angrily, half getting
up
as he spoke.
Here the King interrupted, to prevent the he was very nervous, and quarrel going on
:
his voice quite quivered.
"All
round the
long
town?"
he
said.
"
That
good
way.
Did
you go by the old
bridge,
or the market-place?
bridge."
You
get the best view by the old
don t know/ the Lion growled out as he lay down again. "There was too
"I
sure
much
dust to see
is,
anything.
What
a time the
Monster
Alice
little
cutting
up that
cake!"
had
seated
herself
on the bank of a
dish
brook, with the
great
on her knees,
and was sawing away

"It
diligently with the knife.
very
provoking!"
she
said,
in
reply to
to
the
Lion
(she
was getting quite used

).
"I
being
slices
called
the
Monster
ve cut several
again!"
already,
but they always join on
"You
don
know how
to
manage Looking"
glass
cakes,"
the Unicorn remarked.

it
afterwards."
Hand
it
round
first,
and cut
THE
UNlt!ORN.
15
This sounded nonsense, but Alice very obedi

ently
got up,
and carried the dish round, and

itself
the
did
cake divided
so.
"Now
into
three
said
pieces
as
she
cut
it
up,"
the
Lion, as
dish.
she returned to her place with the

"I
empty
the
say,
this
isn t
fair!"
cried
Unicorn,
as Alice
sat
with the knife in her hand, very
much
puzzled
how
to begin.
"The
Monster has
!"
given the Lion twice as

"
much
as
me
She
kept none for

"Do
herself,
anyhow,"
said
the Lion.
you
like
plum-cake,
Monster?"
But
before
Alice
could
answer
him,
the
drums began.
Where
make out:
the
the
noise
air
came from,
seemed
full
she
of
it,
couldn t
and
she
it
rang through and through her head

quite
till
felt
deafened.
across
She
the
started
to
her
in
feet
and
sprang
little
brook
her
terror,
155
THE LION AND THE UNICORN.

and had just time
to see
the
Lion
and the Unicorn

rise to their feet,
with angry looks

at
being
in
inter
their
rupted
feast,
before
to
she
dropped
knees,
her
and
put
over
her
her
hands
cars,
vainly
trying
to
shut
out the dreadful

uproar.
"If
that
doesn t
drum them out

"
of town/
"
she thought to herself,
nothing ever will
CHAPTER
"IT
VIII.
MY OWN
INVENTION."
AFTER a while the

die
noise seemed gradually to

silence,
away,
till
all
was dead
in
and Alice
There was
lifted
up her head
be
seen,
ha,ve
some alarm.
first
no one to
that
and her
been
thought was
the
she
must
dreaming about
Lion
and the Unicorn and those queer AngloSaxon Messengers. However, there was the great
still
dish
lying
at
her
feet,
on which she had

I
tried to cut the
plum-cake,
she said
to
"So
wasn t dream
"unless
ing,
after
all,"
herself,
unless
we
re all part of the
same dream.
Only
do hope
it s
my
dream, and not the Red Kings
168
"IT
MY OWN
belonging
INVENTION."
don t
like
to
another
rather
person
dream,"
she
I
went
on
in
complaining
tone
"
ve a great mind to go and wake him,

"
and see what happens
At
this
moment
her thoughts were interrupted

"
by a loud shouting of
and a Knight, dressed
galloping
club.
Ahoy
in
Ahoy
Check
"
crimson armour, came

brandishing
a
great
down upon
"
her,
Just as he reached her, the horse stopped

:
suddenly
cried, as
You
"
re
my
prisoner
the
Knight
he tumbled
off his horse.
Startled as she was, Alice

for
was more frightened

the
him than
for
herself
at
moment, and
watched him with some anxiety as he mounted As soon as he was comfortably in the again.
saddle,
he
began once more
"You
"
re
my
!
"
but here another voice broke in
Ahoy
Ahoy
Check
for
"
and Alice looked round in some surprise
the
new enemy.
was a White Knight. He drew side, and tumbled off his horse just
it
:
This time
tip at Alice s
as the
Red Knight had done
then he got on
"
IT S
MY OWN
INVENTION.
sat
169
again,
and the two

other
for
Knights
time
to
and looked
at
each
Alice
some
one
without
the
speaking
in
looked
from
other
some
bewilderment.
"She
my
prisoner,
you
know!"
the
Red
Knight said at last. Yes, but then

"
/ came and
for
"
rescued her
the
"
White Knight replied. Well, we must fight

as
her,
then,"
said the
Red Knight,
hung
"
he
took
from
the
saddle,
s
up his helmet (which and was something the

put
it
shape of a horse
head), and
on.
Battle,
of
You
"
will
observe
the
Rules of
course
the
White
too.
do,"
Knight
remarked,
putting
on his helmet
"I
always
said
the
Red Knight, and
banging away at each other with such fury that Alice got behind a tree to be out
they
began
of the
"
way
of the blows.
are,"
wonder, now, what the Rules of Battle
she said to herself, as she watched the fight, timidly
peeping out from her
hiding-place
"one
Rule
"
160
IT S
MY OWN INVENTION/
seems to be, that
if
one Knight hits the

if
other,
he knocks him off his horse, and
he misses, he
tumbles
off
himself
and another Rule seems
to be that they hold their clubs with their arms,
as if they
were Punch and Judy

!
What
a noise
they
make when they tumble
Just like a whole
"
IT S
MY OWN INVENTION/
!
161
set of fire-irons falling into the fender
And
get
"
quiet
the
horses
are
They
let
them
on
and
off
them
just as if
they were tables
Another Rule of
noticed,
Battle, that
Alice had
not
seemed to be that they always fell on their heads, and the battle ended with their both
falling
off
in
this
way, side
by
side
when
they got up
the
again, they
shook hands, and then

off.
"
"It
Red Knight mounted and galloped was a glorious victory, wasn t it

don
Alice
s
said
the White Knight, as he

"I
came up panting.
said
know,"
doubtfully.
I
"I
don
want
to be
anybody
prisoner.
want
to
be a
Queen."
"So
you
said
will,
when you ve
White Knight.
That
crossed the next

"
brook,"
the
safe to the
end of the wood

s
"
I ll
see
I
and then
you must
go back, you know.

"
the end of
my
move."
Thank you very
much,"
said Alice.
?
"May
was evidently more than he could manage by himself; however she managed to shake him out of it at last.
help you off with your helmet
It
162
"IT
MY OWN
INVENTION."
"
Now
one can breathe more easily/ said the
Knight, putting back his shaggy hair with both

hands, and turning his gentle face and large mild
eyes to Alice.
She thought she had never seen

all
such a strange-looking soldier in
her
life.
He was
to fit
little
dressed in tin armour, which seemed
him very badly, and he had a queer-shaped

deal
box
fastened
across
lid
his
shoulders,
upside-down,
and with the

it
hanging
open.
Alice looked at
"I
with great curiosity.
see
you
re
admiring
my
little
"It
box,"
the
Knight said
invention
in a to
friendly tone.
my own
in.
keep clothes and sandwiches

it
You
see I
carry
upside-down, so that the rain
can t get
"
in."
But the things can get out
Alice
gently
"
remarked.
"
Do you know the Knight didn t know

"
the lid s open

said, a
it,"
shade
the
of vexation passing over his face. things
"
Then
all
is
must have
them."
fallen out
And
the box
it
no
use without
He
unfastened
it
as he spoke,
and was just going to throw
into the bushes,
IT S
MY OWN
INVENTION."
when a sudden thought seemed

and he hung
guess
it
to
strike
"
him,
carefully on a
"
tree.
Can you
why
did that
he said to Alice.
Alice shook her head.

"In
hopes some bees

I
may make
honey."
a nest in
it
then
"
should get the
But you ve got a bee-hive

one
fastened to the
like
or something
said Alice.
saddle,"
"Yes,
it s
a very good
bee-hive,"
"
the Knight
said
in
discontented
tone,
one of the best
kind.
But not a
single bee has

is
come near
I
it
yet.
And
the other thing
a mouse-trap.
the mice keep the bees out
suppose
or the bees keep
the mice out, I don

"I
know
which."
was wondering what the mouse-trap was

Alice.
"
for,"
said
It
isn t
very
likely
there
would be any mice on the horse s back." Not very likely, perhaps," said the Knight
"
"but
if
they do come,
all
about."
don
choose
to
have
them running
"
You
to
see,"
he went on after a pause,
"
it s
as
veil
be provided for everything.
That
the
164
"IT
MY OWN
all
INVENTION."
reason the horse has

feet."
those anklets round his
"
But what are they
"
for ?
Alice asked in a
tone of great curiosity.

"
To guard
replied.
against the bites

"
of
sharks/
the
Knight
It s
on.
an invention of
I ll
my
own.
And now
"
help
me
for
go with you to the

that dish
for?"
end of the wood

It s
-What
take
in
to
it
meant
d
plum-cake/
with
said Alice.
us,"
"We
better
the
Knight any
said.
"
It 11
come
handy
get
it
if
we
find
plum-cake.
Help me
into
this
bag."
This took a long time to manage, though Alice

held the
bag
open
very
carefully,
because the
Knight was so very awkward in putting in the dish the first two or three times that he tried
:
he
fit,
*
fell
in
himself instead.
"
It s rather
it
a tight
you
see,"
he
said, as
they got
in at last;
there
are
so
it
many
candlesticks
in
the
bag."
And
arid
he hung
with
to the saddle,
which was already

fire-irons,
loaded
bunches of carrots, and
many
other things.
"IT
MY OWN
INVENTION."
165
"I
hope
youVe
got your hair well fastened

off.
on
"
?
"
he continued, as they set
Only
"That
11
in the usual
s
way,"
Alice said, smiling.

said,
hardly
enough,"
he
anxiously
It s
You
see the
wind
is
so very strong here.
as strong as
"
soup."
Have you invented a plan

blown
"
for
keeping the
hair from being

"Not
yet,"
off
Alice enquired.
"But
said the Knight.

it
ve got
a plan for keeping

"
from falling
it,
off."
should like to hear
very much/
"
First
"
Knight.
it,
you take an upright stick," said the Then you make your hair creep up
fruit-tree.
it
like
is
Now
the reason hair

things
falls
off
fall
because
hangs down
It s
never
of
upwards, you kno\v.

invention.
a plan
if
my
Alice
own
You may
sound
for
try
it
you
like."
It
didn t
comfortable
plan,
thought,
and
few minutes she walked on
in silence, puzzling over the idea,
and every now
aud then stopping to help the poor Knight, who certainly was not a good rider.
"
166
IT S
MY OWN INVENTION/
Whenever the
very often),
ever
rather
it
horse
off
stopped
in
(which
;
it
did
he
fell
front
it
and when
generally
went on again (which

suddenly),
did
he
fell
off
behind.
Otherwise
he
kept on pretty well,

of
a except that he had
tiabit
now and then
falling off
sideways
and
as
he generally did this on the side on which
"
IT s
MY OWN
INVENTION."
161
was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.
Alice
"I
riding,"
you ve not had much practice in she ventured to say, as she was helping
afraid
him up from his fifth tumble. The Knight looked very much
little
surprised,
and
offended at the remark.

?
"
"What
makes you
say that
he asked, as he scrambled back into the
saddle, keeping hold of Alice s hair with one hand,

to save himself
"Because
from
falling over
t
fall
on the other
off quite so
side.
people don
often,
when they ve had much practice." ve had plenty of practice," the Knight
"I
"
"
said
very gravely
Alice
plenty
think
"
of practice
could
?
of
nothing better to say

it
than
"
Indeed
but she said
as
heartily
as
she could.
They went on a
little
way
in silence
after this, the
Knight with his eyes shut, mutter for ing to himself, and Alice watching anxiously
the next tumble.
"
The great
in
art of
riding,"
the Knight suddenly
uegan
a loud voice, waving his right arm as he
168
"IT
MY OWN INVENTION/
"
spoke,
"is
to keep
it
Here the sentence ended
had begun, as the Knight fell heavily on the top of his head exactly in the path where Alice was walking. She was quite frightened
as suddenly as
this
time,
and
said
"
in
an anxious
tone,
as
?
she
"
picked him up,

"None
hope no bones are broken

of,"
to
speak
the
Knight
or
said,
as
if
he didn
"The
mind breaking two
three of them.
saying, is
this,
great art of riding, as I
was
to keep
your balance properly.

"
Like
you
know
He
his
let
go the
bridle,
and stretched out both

this
arms to show Alice what he meant, and

he
s
fell
time
horse
"
flat
on
his
back, right
under the
feet.
"
Plenty of practice
he went on repeating,
his
all
the time that Alice

"
was getting him on

"
feet
"
again.
It s
Plenty of practice
"
too
ridiculous
cried
"
Alice, losing all
her
patience this time.
You ought
"
to
"
have
wooden horse on wheels, that you ought the Knight Does that kind go smoothly ?
!
"
"IT
MY OWN
INVENTION."
169
asked
in
a tone of
great
interest,
clasping his
in
arms round the horse s neck as he spoke, just

time to save
"
himself from tumbling off again.

a
live
Much more smoothly than

said, with a
little
horse,
io
Alice
spite
scream of laughter,
it.
of
ll
all
she could do to prevent

one,"
"
"I
get
to himself.
Knight said thoughtfully One or two several."

a
short
silence
after
"
the
There
was
this,
and
then the Knight went on again.
a great
hand
at
inventing things.
the
last
Now,
picked
"
daresay you
noticed,
I
time you
me
up,
that
was looking rather thoughtful ? You were a little grave," said

"
Alice.
"
Well,
just
then
was
inventing
new
like
way
"
of getting
it?"
over a gate
would you
to hear
Very much
I ll
indeed,"
Alice said politely.

to think of
it,"
"
tell
you how
"You
came
I
said
the
Knight.
see,
said
:
to
myself,
is
The
high
only difficulty
is
with the feet
the head
enough already.
Now,
first
put
my
head on
170
"IT
MY OWN
gate
I
INVENTION."
the
top
of
the
then
the
head head
high
then
I
enough
the
over,
feet
then
are
stand
on
my
high enough, you see
then
you
see."
"Yes,
suppose you d
Alice
said
be over
:
when
"
that
was
done,"
thoughtfully
but don t
you think it would be rather haven t tried it

"I
hard?"
yet,"
the
Knight
but
said, I
gravely
afraid it
"so
can
t tell
little
for certain
hard."
would be a
so
He
looked
vexed at the
"
idea,
that
Alice
changed the
helmet you ve
subject
*
hastily.
What
curious
"
got
she
"
said
cheerfully.
Is
that your invention too
The Knight looked down proudly

which hung from the
"but
at his helmet,
saddle.
"Yes,"
he said,
like
fell
ve invented a better one than that
a sugar-loaf.
When
used to wear
it, if
off
the horse,
it
always touched the ground
directly.
had a very little way to fall, you see there was the danger of falling into it, to be
So
I
But
sure.
That happened to
me
once
and the worst
of
"IT
MY OWN
INVENTION."
171
it
âs, before
could get out again, the other

it
White Knight came and put it was his own helmet."
on.
He
thought
The Knight looked

Alice
so
solemn about
"
it
that
did not dare to laugh.

him,"
m
a
afraid
you
must have hurt

"
she
said
in
trembling
voice,
"
being on the top of his
head."
had
to
kick
him, of
"
course,"
the
Knight
the
sa d,
very seriously.
off
And
it
then
he
took
helmet
to get
again
out.
I
but
took hours and hours

as lightning,
me
was
as fast as
you
know."
"
But that
different
kind
of
fastness,"
Alice objected.
The
Knight shook
his
I
head.
"
It
was
"
all
kinds of fastness with me,

paid.
can assure you
he
He
fell
raised his
hands in some excitement aa

rolled out of the. saddle,
he said
this,
and instantly
and
headlong into a deep ditch.

ran to the side of the ditch to look
startled
for
Alice
by the fall, as foi some time he had kept on very well, and she was
him.
She was rather
172
IT S
MY OWN
INVENTION.
this time.
afraid that
he really was hurt
However,
though she could see nothing but the soles of his

feet,
she was
much
relieved to hear that he

"
was
talking on in his usual tone.

ness,"
All kinds of fast

careless of
he repeated
"
but
it
was
on
him
to
put another
in
it,
too."
man s
helmet
with the
man
"
How
can you go on talking so quietly, head

Alice
asked,
laid
downwards?"
as
she
dragged him
the
out by the
bank.
feet,
and
him
in a heap on
IT S
MY OWN
INVENTION."
173
The Knight looked surprised

14
at the question.
What
"
does
it
matter where
"
my
body happens
to be
he
said.
the
I
same.
My mind goes on working all In fact, the more head downwards

I
am, the more

"
keep inventing new
things."
Now
did,"
the
cleverest thing of the

"
sort that I
ever
he went on after a pause,
was invent
ing a
"
new pudding during

In time to have
"
the meat- course."
it
cooked
for
the
next
course
said Alice.
"
"
Well, that
was quick work,

the Knight said
certainly
"
Well, not the next
course,"
"
in a slow thoughtful tone
no, certainly not the
next
course."
would have to be the next day. 1 suppose you wouldn t have two pudding-courses
"Then
it
in one dinner
"Well,
"
not the next

"
day,"
the Knight repeated

In
fact,"
as before
not the next day.
he went
getting
on, holding his head
down, and
his voice
lower and lower,

ever was cooked
!
"I
don t believe that pudding Tn fact. I don t believe that
174
"IT
MY OWN
INVENTION/
pudding ever will be cooked!
And
to
yet
it
was
a very clever pudding to invent/

"
What
did
you mean
it
be
made
"
of
Alice asked, hoping to cheer
him
up, for the poor

it.
Knight seemed quite low-spirited about

"
began with blotting-paper," the Knight answered with a groan.

It
"
That wouldn t be very
nice, I
"
afraid
"
Not very nice

"but
alone"
he interrupted, quite
difference
eagerly:
it
you ve no idea what a
makes,
as
mixing it with other things And gunpowder and sealing-wax.

you."
such
here
to
1
must leave
They had
look
just
come
the
end of the wood.

Alice
could
only
puzzled
she
was
thinking of the pudding.

"You
are
sad,"
the Knight said in an anxious

you."
tone
"
let
rt
me
very
sing you a song to comfort

long?"
"Is
Alice asked, for she had
heard a good deal of poetry that day.

"It
long
"said
the Knight,
"but
it s
very,
very beautiful.
Everybody that hears me sing
"IT
MY OWN
INVENTION."
175
it
either
it
brings the
tears into
their
eyes,
or
eke
"
"
Or
else
what
"
said Alice, for the
Knight
had made a sudden pause.

"
Or
else
is
it
doesn
t,
of the song
"
called
s
you know. The name Haddocks Eyes?"

;<
Oh, that
said,
the
name
feel
of
the
song,
is
it ?
Alice
"
trying
t
to
interested.
No, you don

a
little
understand,"
"
the Knight said,

s
looking
is
vexed.
That
what the name
called.
"
The name
really is
The Aged Aged

That
Man.
"Then
ought to have
"
said
what
the song
"No,
is
called
Alice corrected herself.
thing
you oughtn t: that s quite another The song is called Ways And Means
:
but that
only
what
is
it s
called,
you know
said
"
"Well,
what
this
the song,
then?"
Alice,
who was by
"I
"
time completely bewildered.

to
was coming
really is
The song
Knight A-sitting On A Gate

that,"
the
said.
:
and
the tune s
my own
invention."
176
(t
IT S
MY OWN
INVENTION."
So saying, he stopped his horse and let the reins fall on its neck then, slowly beating time
:
with one hand, and with
a faint smile
lighting
up music of
his gentle
foolish
face, as if he
enjoyed the
his song, he began.
Of
in
this
all
the
strange
things
that
Alice
save
her
journey
Through
The
Looking-Glass,
was the one that she always remembered

clearly.
most
the
Years afterwards she could bring

if
it
whole scene back again, as
had been
only yesterday
the mild blue eyes and kindly the setting sun gleaming
smile of the Knight
through
in
his
hair,
and shining
on
his
armour
her
reins
blaze
of light that
quite dazzled
about,
the horse
quietly
moving
with the
hanging loose on his neck, cropping the grass and the black shadows of the at her feet
forest
behind
al]
this
she
took
in
like
picture, as, with
one hand shading hex eyes, she

tree,
leant
against
listening,
watching the strange

the
pair,
and
in
a half dream, to
song.
melan
choly music of the
"IT
MY OWN
isn
s
t
INVENTION."
Ill
But the tune

said to herself:
more."
"it
his
o\vn
invention,"
she
give
thee all,
can no
She stood and listened very Attentively,

eyes.
nit
no tears came into her
"I
ll
tell
thee everything
little
can;
There s
to relate.
I saw an
Who
aged aged man,
A -sitting
1
on a
gate.
are you, aged

is it
man / /
said.
And how
And
you live?
his answer trickled through

sieve.
my
head
Like water through a
lie
said
look
for
butterflies
Tliat sleep
among
the wheat:
T make them
into mutton-pies.
And
I
sell
sell
Hum
in
tlie
street.
them unto men,

sail
he said,
Who
on stormy seas;
And
that s the
trifle,
way 1
you
get
1
my
bread
if
please.
178
IT S
MY
0\VN
INVENTION."
But I was thinking of a plan

To dye one
s
whiskers green,
And
always use so large a fan

be seen.
That they could not
So, having no reply to give
To what I
cried
the old
tell
man
said,
live
\
Come,
thumped,
me how you
And
him on
the head.
His
accents
mild took up
1
the tale:
He
said
go
my
ways,
.And when I find a mountain-rill.
set it
in
blaze
And
thence they
make a
stuff they calt
Rowlands Macassar Oil

Yet twopence-halfpenny
is all
toil.
They give me for
my
But 1 was thinking of a way
To fied
oneself on batter,
to
And
so
go on from day
little fatter.
day
Getting a
"IT
MY OWN INVENTION.
well
179
I
*
shook
him
from
side to side,
:
Until his face was
"blue,
Come,
f
tell
me how you
it
live?
!
cried,
And
what
is
you do
He
said
1 hunt for haddocks eyes

the heather
"bright,
Among
And
In
work them into waistcoat-buttons

the silent night.
IT S
MY OWN
I
do not
INVENTION.
for gold
And
Or
these
sell
coin of silvery shine,
But for a copper halfpenny,
And
that will purchase nine.
sometimes dig for buttered
rolls,
;
Or
set
limed twigs for crabs
I sometimes
search the grassy knolls
For wheels of Hansom-cabs.
And
1
that s the
way
(he
gave a wink]
By which I get my wealth And very gladly will I drink

Your Honour s
nolle health
heard him then, for

Completed
I had
just
my
it
design
Iridge
To
keep the
Menai
from
rust
By
I
boiling
in wine.
telling
thanked him much for
me
The way he got
his wealtht
But
chiefly
for his wish that he
Might drink
my
nolle health.
"IT
MY OWN
e
INVENTION."
And
now, if
er
"by
chance
I put
My fingers
Or madly
into glue,
squeeze
a right-hand foot
Into a left-hand shoe,
Or if 1 drop upon
my
toe
A
I
Of
very heavy weight,

it
weep, for
that old
reminds
me
to
so
man I
used
know
Whose look was mild, wlwse speech was
Whose hair was whiter than

Whose face was very
like
the snow.
a crow,
With
eyes, like cinders,
all aglow,
Who
seemed distracted with his woe,

to
WTio rocked his body
and
fro,
And
As
Who
muttered muwiblingly and low,
if his mouth were full of dough,

snorted like a buffalo
That summer evening, long ago,

A-sitting on a
gate"
As
ballad,
the
Knight sang the

gathered
last
words of
and
the
he
up
the
reins,
turned
182
"IT
MY OWN
INVENTION."
his
horse
had come.
lie
head along the road by which they You ve only a few yards to
"
go,"
said,
"down
the
hill
and
be
off
over
a
that
little
brook,
and
stay
then
you
see
11
Queen
"
But
you 11
as
and
me
first 1
he added
in
t
Alice
turned
to
with
an
eager
"
look
I
the
direction
long.
which he
pointed.
shan
be
You 11
i
wait and wave
your
handkerchief
?
when
it
get to that turn
in the road
see."
think
11
"
encourage me, you
Of course
11
wait,"
said Alice
so
"
and thank
you very much

the song
"
for
coming
it
far
and
for
liked
very
much."
hope
so,"
the
Knight
so
said
as
doubtfully
I
"but
you
didn
cry
much
thought
you
would."
So they shook hands, and then the

rode
Knight
It
slowly
take long to
to herself, as
away into the see him off, I

she
"
forest.
expect,"
won
Alice
"
said
stood watching
him.
usual
easily
!
There
he goes
ever,
Eight
gets
on his head on
again
as
How
that
he
pretty
"IT
MY OWN
INTENTION/
183
comes of having so many tilings hung round the horse So she went on talking to herself
-"
as she
watched the horse walking leisurely along the road, and the Knight tumbling off, first on
side
one
and
then
on
the
other.
After
the
fourth or fifth tumble he
reached
the turn,
to him,
and
and
then
she
till
waved her handkerchief

he was out of
it
waited
"
sight.
him,"
hope
encouraged
she
"
said,
as
she
for
turned to run
the
it
down
the
to
hill
and
!
now
last
brook, and
"
be a
Queen
How
Eighth
grand
her to
sounds
very few steps

brook.
"The
brought
the
edge
"
of
the
Square at last
she cried as she bounded across,
md
it
threw herself down to

with
little
"
rest
on a lawn
as
soft as moss,
flower-beds dotted about

I
here and there.

!
Oh, how glad

this
am
?
to get
"
bere
And what
is
on
my
head
she
"IT
MY OWN
INVENTION."
exclaimed
tone
as
in
of
dismay,
she
put
her
to
hands
up
that
all
something
heavy,
tight
very
fitted
round
her head
"
But how can
it
have got there
without
ing
said
as
off,
my know
"
it ?
she
herself,
to
she
lifted
it
and
set
it
on her lap to make out what

be.
it
could possibly
It
was a golden crown.
GHAJPTER
QUEEN
"
IX.
ALICE.
"
WELL,
I
siiis is
grand
said Alice.
"
I never
expected
I 11
should be a
it
is,
Queen
your
so
soon
and
tell
you what
Majesty,"
she went
on in a severe tone (she was always rather fond

of scolding
"
herself),
it 11
never do for you to

!
be lolling about on the grass like that
Queens
have
to
be dignified, you
know
"
So she got up and walked

stiffly
about
rather
just
at
first,
as
she was afraid
that
the
crown might come

with the
"
off:
but she comforted herself
thought that there was nobody to see

if
ter,
and
really
am
Queen,"
she
said
B B
186
QUEEN ALICE.
she
sat
it
as
down
again,
"I
shall
be
able
to
manage
didn t
quite well in
time."
Everything was happening so oddly that she

feel
bit
surprised
at
finding
the
Red
Queen and the White Queen

one
sitting close to her,
on each side
to
she would
have
liked very
much
she
ever,
ask
it
them
how
they came there, but

quite
civil.
feared
wouM
not be
How
in
there would
if
be no harm,
over.
she
thought,
asking
the
game was
"
"Please,
would
you
the
tell
me
Queen."
she
began, looking timidly at
Red
"
Speak when you
"
re
spoken to
the Queen
sharply interrupted her.

"
But
if
everybody obeyed that

for
rule,"
said
Alice,
who was always ready

"
little
argu
ment,
and
to,
if
you only ppoke when you were
spoken
for
you
to
and the other person always waited begin, you see nobody would ever
"
say anything, so that

" "
Ridiculous
see,
cried the Queen.
"
Why, don t
off
you
child
here she broke
with
QUEfiN ALICE.
18?
frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly
changed the subject of the conversation.

do you mean
"What
\
by
If
you
really
call
are
a Queen
?
What
the
right
have you to
yourself so
till
You
can t be a Queen, you know,

proper
it,
examination.
better."
"
And
you ve passed the sooner we
begin
"
the
only said
if
poor Alice pleaded
in
a piteous tone.
The two Queens looked

the
"
at
each other,
little
"
and
Red Queen remarked, with a

if
shudder,
She says she only said

"But
she said a great deal more than
that!"
bhe
White Queen moaned, wringing her hands. Oh, ever so much more than that
"
"
So you did, you

to
Alice.
"
know,
the
Red
Queen
said
Always
speak
the
truth
it
think before you speak

afterwards."
and write
down
"I
sure
didn t
mean
"
Alice
was
her
beginning,
impatiently.
but the Red Queen
interrupted
IBS
QUEEN
"That
ALICE.
I
just
what
!
complain
of!
You
is
should have meant
What do you
some
than even
suppose
?
the use of a child without
any meaning
meaning
a
if
Even
and
a
joke
should
have
child s
more
important
that,
joke,
hope.
You couldn t deny

both hands/
"I
you
tried with
don t deny things with
my
hands"
Alice
objected.
"Nobody
"
said
you
t
did,"
said the
tried."
Red Queen.
White
said
"
you couldn
s in
if
you
She
"
that state of
mind,"
said the
Queen,
that she wants

t
to
deny something
"
only she doesn

"A
know what
to
deny
the
nasty,
vicious
temper,"
Red Queen
remarked; and then there was an uncomfortable

silence for a
minute or two.
silence
The Red Queen broke the

to
by saying
to
the
White Queen,
White
I
"I
invite
you
Alice
dinner-party this
afternoon."
The
"
Queen
1
smiled
feebly,
and
said
And
invite
you!
QUEEN
"I
ALICE.
to
18S
didn t
know
was
if
have a party
is
at
1
all,"
said
Alice;
"but
there
to
be one,
think
"
ought
to
invite the
guests."
We
gave you the opportunity of doing it/

"
the
Ked Queen remarked
but
daresay you
"
Ve
not had
"
many
"
lessons in
are
manners yet
in to
Manners
not
taught
lessons,"
said
Alice.
Lessons teach
that
sort."
you
"
do sums, and
things of
"
Can you do Addition ? the White Queen What s one and one and one and one asked.
"
and one and one and one and one and one and
one
"
?
"
don t
can
know,"
said Alice.
"
lost
count"
"She
do
Addition,"
the
Red Queen
in
terrupted.
"Can
you
do
Subtraction?
Take
nine from
"Nine
eight."
from eight
:
can t, you know/ Alice

"
replied very readily

"
"but
She can t do Substraction/

"Can
said the
White
loaf
Queen.
you do Division? by a knife-^ what s the answer
Divide a
to that
*
?
190
QUEEN
*
"
ALICE.
suppose
Alice
was beginning, but

"
the
Red Queen answered

of
a
for her.
Bread-and-butter,
Try another Subtraction sum. bone from a dog what remains ?

course.
"
Take
Alice
considered.
course,
if
;
"The
bone
it
wouldn t
and
the
re
main, of
took
dog
wouldn
and
I
remain
sure
it
would come
t
to bite
"
me
shouldn
remain
"Then
you think
the
nothing
would
remain?"
said the
"
Eed Queen.
s
answer."
think that
QUEEN ALICE.
"
Irf
Wrong,
"
as
usual,"
said
the
Red
Queen
the
dog s temper would

I
remain."
"But
don
look
see
how
the
"Why,
"
here!"
Red Queen
wouldn
t
cried
"
The dog would

"
lose its temper,
it ?
Perhaps
"Then
it
would,"
Alice replied cautiously.
if
the
"
dog went
the
away,
its
temper
trium
would
phantly.
remain
Queen
exclaimed
Alice said, as
gravely
ways."
"
as
she
"
could,
t
They
help
might go
thinking
different
But she couldn

dreadful
to
herself,
"
What
a
nonsense
we are talking
"
She
can t
do
sums
"
bit !
the
Queens
said together, with great emphasis.

"
Can
you
do
sums
"
Alice
said,
turning
suddenly on
like
the White Queen,
for
she
didn t
being found fault with so much.
The Queen gasped and shut her

can
time
eyes.
"I
do
Addition,"
she
but
I
"
can t
you give me do Substraction under any

said,
"if
circumstances
192
QUEE-N ALICE.
"
Of
course you
know your
said Alice.
ABC?"
said
the
Red Queen.
"To
be sure
do/
"
So
ll
do
often
I,"
the
it
White
over
Queen
whispered
dear.
"we
say
together,
1
And
of
I 11
tell
you a
!
secret
t
can
?
read
words
one
letter
Isn
that
ll
grand
However, don t
time."
be discouraged.
You
come
to it in
Here
the
Red Queen
"
"
began
"
again.
"
Can
you answer
is
useful questions
?
"
she said.
How
You
bread
"
made
know
that
!
"
Alice cried eagerly.
"
take some flour

"Where
do
you
pick
"
the
flower?"
the
the
White Queen asked.

"
In
garden, or
in
hedges
"
Well,
"
it
isn t
picked at
all,"
Alice explained
"
it
s
"
ground
How many
Queen.
things."
acres
"
of
"
White
You
"
said the ground ? mustn t leave out so
many
"
Fan her head
the
Red Queen
anxiously
QUEEN ALICE
"
19S
interrupted.
thinking."
She
11
be feverish after so
set
much
fanned
to beg
so.
So
they
to
work
till
and
had
her with bunches
of leaves,
it
she
them
"
to leave
off,
blew her hair about

again
now,"
She
"
all
right
said
?
the
Red
a
Queen.
Do
you
know
Languages
"
What
the French for fiddle-de-dee

"
Fiddle-de-dee s
not
English,"
Alice
replied
gravely.
"
Who
ever
said
it
was
"
said
the
Red
Queen.
Alice
difficulty
thought
this
she
"
saw
If
way
11
out
of
the
time.
you
is,
tell
tell
me what
you
the
language
fiddle-de-dee
"
1 11
French
for it
she exclaimed triumphantly.

herself
But the Red Queen drew

stiffly,
"I
up
rather
and said
"
Queens never make
bargains."
wish Queens never asked

herself.
let
questions,"
Alice
thought to
"Don
us
quarrel/
"
the
White
is
Queen
cause
said
in
an anxious tone.
"
What
the
of lightning
c c
194
QUEEN ALICE.
"The
cause
for
of
lightning,"
Alice
said
very
this,
decidedly,
"
she
felt
quite
certain
"
about
hastily
way."
is
the
thunder
"
no,
I
no
she
cor
rected herself.
"
meant the other

to
It s
"
too
late
correct
it,"
said
the
Ked
Queen
fixes
"
when you Ve once
said
a thing, that
it,
and you must take the
consequences."
Which reminds me
looking
the White
Queen
and
said,
down and
"
nervously
clasping
unclasping her hands,
we had such
1
a thunder
of
storm
set
last
Tuesday
mean one
the
last
of Tuesdays,
you
know."
"
Alice
was puzzled.
"
In
our
country,"
she
remarked,
there s only one

said
day
s
at a
time."
The Red Queen

of
"That
a poor thin
way
and
as
doing
things.
Now
or
here,
we
at
mostly have
a time,
as
days and nights two
three
sometimes
in
the
winter
for
we take
many
five nights together

"
warmth, you
know."
Are
"
five
nights
warmer than one
night,
then
"
Alice ventured to ask.
Five
times
as
warm, of course/
QUEEN ALICE.
"
195
the
But they should be same rule

"
five
times as cold,
by
"
"
Just so
as
cried
the
five
Red Queen.
times as cold
"
Five
just
five
times
as
1
warm, and
five
times as rich as you are,

"
and
times as clever
Alice
like
"
sighed and gave
it
up.
"
"It
exactly
a riddle
with no answer
it
she thought.
too,"
Humpty Dumpty saw

in
"
the
as
White
if
Queen went on
were talking to
a low voice, more
she
herself.
He came
"
to the door
with a corkscrew in his hand

"
What
did he want
"
said
the
in,"
Red Queen.
the
"
He
said
he
on,
would
"because
come
he
it
White
for
Queen went
a
was
looking
hippopotamus.
Now,
as
happened,
that
there
wasn t such a thing

"
in the house,
"
morning."
Is
there
generally
Alice
asked
in
an
astonished tone.
"
Well, only on
I
Thursdays,"
said the Queen.

for/
"
know what he
came
said
Alice
"
"
he
wanted to punish the
fish,
because
196
QUEEN ALICE.
"It
Here the White Queen began again. such a thunderstorm, you can t think
never could, you
"And
know,"
wae She
"
!
("
said
the
of
it
Red Queen.)
and ever
so
part
of the
roof
in
came
and
much thunder
got
went
rolling
round the room in great lumps

over
the
tables
I
and
t
things
and knocking till I was so
frightened,
couldn
remember
"
my own name
I
"
Alice
try to
thought
to
herself,
never
should
remember
!
my name
in the
middle of an
"
accident
Where would be
the use of
for
it ?
but
she did not say this aloud,

the
"
fear
of hurting
poor
Queen s
feelings.
her,"
Your Majesty must excuse

to
the
Red
Queen said
Alice,
taking one
of the
White
Queen s hands
"
in
her own,
and gently stroking

can
t
it
she means well, but

things,
she
help saying
foolish
as a general
rule."
The White Queen looked timidly

felt
at Alice,
who
she ought to say something kind, but really
couldn t think of anything at the moment.

"
She never was
really
well brought
up,"
the
QUEEN
Red Queen went on
good-tempered
she
"
ALICE.
19?
but
it s
is
Pat
11
her
"
amazing how on the head,
and
see
how
pleased she
be
But
this
was
more than Alice had courage to do. "A little kindness and putting her
in papers
hail
"
would do wonders with her
The
laid
White
Queen gave
deep
sigh,
"
and
so
her head
"
on Alice s shoulder.
am
sleepy
she moaned.
s
"
"She
tired,
poor
her
thing!"
said
the
Eed
your
Queen.
nightcap
"
Smooth
hair
lend
her
and sing her a soothing haven t got a nightcap with

she
tried
lullaby."
me,"
said
:
Alice,
"
as
I
to
obey the
first
direction
and
"I
don t know any soothing lullabies." must do it myself, then," said the Red
:
Queen, and she began
"
Hush-a-ly lady, in Alice s lap

Till the feast s ready,
we
we
ve time for
//
a nap :
When
the feast s over,
go
to the ball
Bed Queen, and White Queen, and
Alice,
and attJ
198
QUEEN
"
ALICE.
And now you know

put
her
the
words,"
she added,
s
as
she
head
sing
it
down on
through
another
Alice
to
other
I
shoulder,
"just
me.
getting
sleepy
too."
In
moment
loud.
both
Queens were
fast asleep,
and snoring
"
What
am
in
to
do
"
exclaimed
as
Alice,
looking
about
head,
great
perplexity,
first
one
round
and
then
the
other,
rolled
down
from her shoulder, and lay like a

in
heavy lump
her lap
that
"
don
one
think
it
ever
happened
of two
before,
any
had
to
take
care
QUEEN ALICE.
Queens
History
asleep
at
109
once
No,
it
not
t,
in
all
the
of
England
never
couldn
you
know,
because
at a
there
was more than one Queen

"
time.
Do wake
in
up,
you heavy things

tone
;
she
went on
an
impatient
but
there
was no answer but a gentle snoring. The snoring got more distinct every minute,
and
sounded
more
like
tune
at
last
she
could even
eagerly
make out words, and she listened so that, when the two great heads suddenly
vanished from her lap, she hardly missed them.
She was standing before an arched doorway

over
in
which
were
the
words
each
;
QUEEN ALICE
side
large
letters,
and
on
of the arch
there
was
a
Bell,"
bell-handle
one
was
marked
Bell."
"Visitors
"
and the other

till
"Servants
11
wait
the
song
over/
the
on,
thought
Alice,
bell
"and
then
ring
I ll
"
ring the
which
must
she
went
"
very
a
much
visitor,
puzzled
by the
names.
servant.
not
and
not a
There
ought
-"
to
be
one marked
Queen/ you know
300
QUEEN
ALICE.
little
its
Just then the door opened a

a
for
way, and
head
till
creature
with a long beak

said
"
put
out
the
moment and
after
No
admittance
the
week
next
"
and
shut
door
again
with a bang.
Alice
knocked
but
at
and
last
rang
a
in
vain
Frog,
for
long time,
very
old
who
was
sitting
under
her
a
:
tree,
got up
and hobbled
in
slowly
towards
he
was dressed
boots
on.
bright
yellow, and had enormous

"
What
is
it,
now
"
the Frog said in a deep
hoarse whisper.
Alice turned round, ready to
"
find
fault with
anybody.
it
Where
the servant whose business

"
is
to
answer the door

door?"
she began angrily.
"Which
said the Frog.
Alice
almost
in
stamped
he
with irritation at the

"
slow drawl
"
which
spoke.
This
door,
of course
The Frog looked

dull
at
the
:
door with
his
large
eyes
for
it
minute
with
then he went nearer
and
rubbed
his
thumb, as
if
he were
QUEEN
trying
ALICE.
2CI
whether
the
paint
would
come
off
then he looked at Alice.
"To
answer
asking
the
of?"
door?"
he
said.
"What
it
been
He
was
him.
so
hoarse
tLat
Alice could
I
scarcely hear
don t know what you

D D
mean,"
she said.
202
QUEEN ALICE.
"I
speaks
on.
"
English,
are
doesn t
I?"
the
Frog
it
went
"Or
you deaf?
What
did
ask you
"Nothing!"
Alice said
"
impatiently.
"1
vo
been knocking at
"
it
Shouldn
do that
"
shouldn
do that
the
Frog
he
muttered.
Wexes
gave
"
it,
you
know."
Then
went
up and
feet.
the
door a kick
let
it
alone,"
with one of his great he panted out, as he

"
You
back
hobbled
to
his
tree
and
it
11
let
you
alone,
you
know."
At
and a
this
shrill
moment
voice
the
door was
flung
:
open,
was heard singing
"
To
the Looking- Glass
world
it
was Alice that

a crown on
said,
ve
sceptre in
hand,
ve
my
head;
be,
Let the Looking -Glass creatures, whatever they
Come and dine with
the
Red Queen,
the
White Queen,
and me
"
And
chorus
:
hundreds
of
voices
joined
in
the
QUEEN
*
s
ALICE.
&
you can,
Then
fill
up
the glasses as quick as
And
Put
sprinkle the table with buttons

cats in the coffee,
and bran
the tea
and mice in
And
welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three
"
Then followed a confused

and
three
noise
"
of cheering,
Alice
thought
ninety.
to
I
herself,
Thirty
if
times
makes
"
wonder
was
any
one
counting
In a minute there
shrill
silence again,
:
and the same
voice sang another verse
"
Looking-Glass creatures
Tis
quoth Alice,
to
draw near I
an honour
to see
me, a favour
hear :
tea
Tis a privilege high to have dinner
and
Along with
the
Red
Queen, the White Queen,
and
met*"
Then came the chorus again

H
Then
fill
up
the glasses with treacle

else
and
ink,
;
Or anything
that is pleasant to drink
Mix sand with
the cider,
and wool with
the
wine
"
And
welcome Queen Alice with ninety -times-nine
#tf
QUEEN
"
ALICE.
"
Ninety times nine

"
Alice repeated in de
!
spair.
Oh, that
11
never be done
d better
go in at once
and
in she went,
and there
was a dead
Alice
silence the
moment
she appeared. the

table, as
glanced nervously
along
walked up the large hall, and noticed that there were about fifty guests, of all kinds some
she
:
were
animals,
some
birds,
and there were even

"
a few flowers
among them.
to be
glad they
Ve
:
come without waiting

"
asked,"
she thought
should
people
never
to
have
"
known
who
were
the
right
invite
There were three chairs at the

table
;
head of the
taken
Red and White Queens had already two of them, but the middle one was
the
Alice sat
empty.
down
in
it,
rather uncomfortable
at the silence,
and longing
for
some one
began.
to speak.
"
At
last
the
Red
Queen
fish,"
You Ve
Put on
missed the
"
soup and
she said.
"
the joint
before
as
And
the waiters set a leg of muttou

at
it
Alice,
who looked
rather anxiously,
she had never had to carve a joint before
QUEEN
"
ALICE.
let
206
You
look
little
shy
me
introduce
you
to that leg of
mutton,"
said the
"Alice-
Red Queen
-Mutton
;
Mutton
The
-Alice."
leg of
mutton
got up in the dish
and made a
little
bow
Alice
to Alice;
and
returned the
not knowing
bow,
whether to be fright ened or amused.

"May
give
you
said,
slice?"
she
taking up the
knife
and
fork,
and
looking from one Queen to the other.

"Certainly
"
not,"
the
Red
Queen
to
said,
very
decidedly
it
isn t
etiquette
to.
it
cut
any one
"
you ve been introduced
Remove
off,
the joint
And
large
the waiters
carried
and brought
plum-pudding
in its place.
206
QUEEN ALICE.
"
I
1
won t
Alice
be
said
introduced
rather
to
the
"or
pudding,
please/
hastily,
I
we
shall
"
get no dinner at
all.
May
give you some

sulky,
But the Red Queen looked

*
and growled
Pudding
the pudding
!
Alice; Alice
"
Pudding.
waiters
Remove
it
and the
took
away
so quickly that Alice couldn t return its bow.
However, she didn

should be
the
see
why
"
the
Red Queen
so,
only
one to give
orders,
as
an experiment, she called out back the pudding and there

"
Waiter
Bring
in
it
moment,
that
it,
like
conjuring- trick.
t
was again It was

little
so
large
she
couldn
help feeling a
shy
with
as
she had been with the mutton
how
effort,
ever, she
conquered her shyness by a great

slice
and cut a
"
and handed
"
it
to the
Red Queen.
"
What
impertinence
like
said the Pudding.

if
!
wonder how you d

slice
it,
I
"
were to cut
out of you, you creature
It
spoke
in
t
a a
thick,
suety
to
it
sort
of
voice,
:
and Alice hadn

could only
sit
word
at
say in
reply
she
and look
and gasp.
QUEEN ALICE.
"Make
207
a
to
remark,"
said the
Red Queen:
"it
ridiculous
"
leave
all
the
conversation
to
the
pudding
"Do
you
know,
ve had
such
quantity
of poetry
repeated
to
me
to-day,"
Alice
began,
little
frightened
at
lips,
finding
there
that,
the
moment
silence,
it s
she
opened
all
her
was
dead
"and
and
eyes were
fixed
I
upon her;
very curious thing,
think
about fishes in some way.

they re so fond
of fishes,
poem was Do you know why

every
"
all
about here
She spoke to the Red Queen, whose answer As to fishes," was a little wide of the mark.
"
she said, very slowly and
solemnly,
"her
putting her
mouth
knows
about
"
close to Alice s
ear,
lovely
riddle
all
White Majesty in poetry aD

mention
fishes.
Shall she repeat
it?"
it,"
Her Red Majesty s very kind the White Queen murmured into
"
to
Alice s otb.ei
It
car, in
a voice like the cooing of a pigeon.

treat
!
would be such a
"
May
I ?
Please
do,"
Alice said very politely.
rt>0
QUEEN
ALICE.
The White Queen laughed with delight, and Then she began stroked Alice s cheek.
:
"
First, the fish
must
be caught.
it.
That
is
easy
1
a baby,
the,
think, could have caught

be
Next,
fish
must
bought.
That
is
easy: a penny,
think,
would have bought
it.
Now
That
is easy,
cook
me
the fish !
and
it
lie
will not take
more than a minute.
Let
in a dish
it
That
is easy,
because
already
is
in
it.
Bring
ft is
it
here!
Let
me sup!
table.
easy
to set
such a dish on the

dish-cover
Take
that
is so
the
up
hard that I fear I
unable
For
it
holds
to
is
it
like glue
it
Holds the lid
the dish, while

easiest
to
lies
in the
Which
do,
Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle /
QUEEN ALICE.
"
209
Take a minute
said the
to think about
"
it,
and then
T!
guess,"
Eed Queen.
Meanwhile, we
"
drink your health
Queen Alice
her
it
it
:
health
she
screamed at the top of

guests
voice,
and
all
the
began
they
drinking
directly,
and
very
queerly
managed
upon
their
some
of
them
put
their glasses
heads like
extinguishers,
and drank
others
as
it
all
that trickled
down
their faces
upset the decanters,
and drank the wine
ran off the edges of the table

like
and three
scrambled
of
them (who looked

the
kangaroos)
into
the dish of roast mutton, and began eagerly
lapping
"
up
gravy,
"just
like
pigs
in
trough
"
thought Alice.
You
ought
to
return
said,
thanks
in
neat
speech,"
the
Red Queen
frowning at Alice
as she
spoke.
"We
must support
you,
as
you
know,"
the
to
White Queen whispered,

it,
Alice
got
up
do
very obediently, but a

"
little
frightened.
Thank you very

"but
much,"
she
whispered
in
reply,
can do quite well

E E
without."
210
QUEEN
"That
ALICE.
at
all
:
wouldn t be
said
it
the
so
thing/
the
Red Queen
to
very decidedly
Alice tried
submit to
("
with a good grace.

"
And
they did push so

she
she
said
sister
after
wards,
when
was
"
telling
her
the
history of the feast.
they wanted to
You would have thought squeeze me flat

!
")
In
fact
it
was
rather
difficult
tor
her
to
:
keep in her place
while
she
so,
made her speech

one on each
into
the two Queens pushed her

that
"
side,
they
rise
nearly
lifted
her
up
"
the
air
to
return
thanks
rise
Alice
began
and she
inches;
table,
really
did
got
as
she
of
spoke,
several
but
she
hold
the
edge
of the
again.
and managed
care of
to pull
herself
down
"Take
yourself!"
screamed the White
Queen, seizing Alice

"
hair
with both her hands.

"
Something
going to happen
(as
And
all
then
Alice
afterwards described
a moment.
it)
sorts
of things happened in
all
The
candles
thing
like
grew up to the ceiling, looking some a bed of rushes with fireworks at
QUEEN ALICE.
the
top.
211
As
to
the bottles,
they
each
fitted
took
a
as
pair
of
plates,
which they hastily

with forks for
directions
"
on
wings,
and
so,
all
legs,
went
flutter
ing about in
they
she
look,"
and very
herself,
like birds
Alice
in
thought to
dreadful
as
well
as
could
the
confusion
that
was
beginning.
At
at
this
moment
and
she
heard
see
;
hoarse
laugh
her side,
turned to
what
but,
was the
of
matter with the

the
in
White Queen
was the
Here
I
instead
Queen,
the
there
"
leg
of
"
mutton
cried
sitting
chair.
am
voice
again,
from the soup-tureen, and

just
in
Alice
turned
s
time
to
see
the
Queen
broad
goodover
natured face grinning at her for a

the
moment
edge of the tureen,
before
she
disappeared
into the soup.
There was not a moment to be

several
dishes,
lost.
Already
in
of
the
guests were lying down
the
table
and the soup-ladle was walking up the towards Alice s chair, and beckoning to her
its
impatiently to get out of
way.
212
QUEEN
ALICE.
"
can
stand
"
this
any
cried
longer
as
she
she
jumped
seized
cloth
up
the
and
table
with
:
both
hands
pull,
one
good
plates,
and
dishes,
guests,
and
^^
sf
^^^îif jf
it
SMK
QUEEN
candles
ALICE.
in
213
came crashing down together

floor.
heap
on the
"
And
as
for
you"
she
went
on,
turning
she
fiercely
upon
as the
the
Red Queen,
all
whom
con
but
sidered
cause of
the
mischief
the
Queen was no longer
at her side
to the
table,
size
she had
of
suddenly dwindled
doll,
down
little
and was now on the and

round
behind
other
this,
merrily running
shawl,
round
after
her.
her
own
which
was
trailing
At any
surprised
at
time,
Alice
would
far
have
too
felt
but
she
was
much
"
excited
for
to
be surprised at anything now.
As
you"
she repeated, catching hold of the
little
creature in the very act of
jumping over a
upon the
I
bottle
"
which
had
just
lighted
table,
"
11
shake you into a kitten, that
will
CHAPTER
SHAKING.
X.
SHE took her
off the
table as she spoke,

all
and
her
shook her backwards and forwards with

might.
The Red Queen made no

only her
got
large
face
resistance whatever;
grew very small, and her eyes and still, as Alice went and green
:
on
shaking her,
she
kept
softer
on
growing
shorter
and
and
fatter
and
and rounder
CHAPTER
WAKING.
XT,
and
it
really
was a
kitten,
after
all
CHAPTER
XII.
WHICH DREAMED
IT?
"YoUR
Eed Majesty shouldn t purr

with
!
t;
so loud,
Alice said,
kitten,
"
rubbing her eyes, and addressing the

yet
respectfully,
some
severity.
!
You woke me
out of oh
such a nice dream
And you ve been

dear?"
along with
me, Kitty
all
through the Looking-Glass world.

it,
Did you know
It
is
very inconvenient
once
habit
of
that,
kittens
(Alice
had
made
the
remark)
what
"If
ever
you say to them, they always purr. yes/ and mew for they would only purr for she had said, no, or any rule of that
sort,"
WHICH DREAMED
"
IT
219
so that one could keep talk with

"
up a conversation
a person
if
But
how can you
they always
say the same thing
On
and
yes
it
this
occasion
the
kitten
only
purred
it
was impossible to guess whether or no/
meant
So Alice hunted among the chessmen on the table till she had found the Ked Queen then
:
went down on her knees on the hearth-rug, and put the kitten and the Queen to look at
she
each other.
her
"
"
Now, Kitty
"
she cried, clapping

"
hands
triumphantly.
!
Confess
that
was
what you turned into
But
("
it
wouldn
look
at
it,"
she
said,
when
she was explaining the thing afterwards to

"
her sister
it
turned
see
so
it
I
:
away
but
think
its
it it
head, and pre
tended
not
to
looked
little
ashamed of
the
itself,
must have been
Red
"
Queen.")
Sit
up a
little
more
"
stiffly,
"
dear
Alice
cried
with a merry laugh.

thinking what
to
And
what
curtsey while
to
purr.
It
you
re
220
WHICH DREAMED IT?

remember
one
little
"
saves time,
And
she caught
in
it
up
its
and gave
it
kiss,
"just
honour of
having been a Red Queen/
"
"
Snowdrop,
over her
my
pet
she went on, looking
shoulder at
the
White Kitten,
"
which
was
will
still
patiently undergoing
finished
its
toilet,
when
Dinah have
I
with your White
Ma
jesty,
wonder?
That must be the reason you
WHICH DREAMED IT?

were
so
221
untidy in
my
dream.
Dinah
Do
1
you know that you re scrubbing a White Queen Really, it s most disrespectful of you
!
"
And what
did
Dinah turn
to,
wonder
"
she prattled on, as she settled comfortably down,
with one elbow on the rug, and her chin in her

hand,
did
to
watch the
turn
to
kittens.
"Tell
me,
?
Dinah,
I
you
Humpty Dumpty
yet, for I
if
think
you did
it
however,
you d better not mention
to
"
your friends just
not sure
By
really
the
way,
Kitty,
with
me
would
of
in
my
you d been dream, there was one

only
1
thing
a
you
have
poetry
enjoyed
said
to
had
all
such
quantity
!
me,
about
a
fishes
To-morrow morning
All
I 11
you you
re
shall
have
real
treat.
the
time
eating
your
breakfast,
repeat
;
The Walrus and the Car
penter
it s
to
you
and then you can make believe

!
oysters, dear
"
Now, Kitty,
it
all.
let s
consider
is
who
on
it
was that
dreamed
dear,
This
a serious question,
my
your
and you
should
not
go
licking
222
WHICH DREAMED
like
IT
paw
you
have
that
as
!
if
Dinah
see,
hadn t
Kitty,
washed
it
this
morning
either
You
must
been
me
or
the
Red
King.
He
then
was part of my dream, of course I was part of his dream, too Was
!
but
it
the
Eed
dear,
King,
so
to
Kitty
You were
to
I
his
wife,
my
can
you
settle
ought
it
!
know
sure
Oh,
Kitty,
do help
wait
!
your paw
only
it
But the provoking kitten other paw, and pretended

question.
began
on
the
the
hadn t
hearo.
Which do you think
it
was?
A.
BOAT, beneath a sunny
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July
Children three that nestle
Eager eye and willing
ear,
Pleased a simple tale to he
Long has paled
that sunny sky:

;
Echoes fade and memories die
Autumn
frosts
have
slain July.
Still
she haunts me, phantomwise
Alice
moving under
skies
eyes.
Never seen by waking
224
Children yet, the
tale to hear,
ear,
Eager eye and willing
Lovingly shall nesilo near.
In a Wonderland they
lie,
Dreaming
as the
days go by.
Dreaming
as the
summers
din
Ever
drifting
down
the stream-
Lingering in the golden gleam

Life,
wnat
is
it
but a dreamt
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ALICE

THBOUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS.

WITH NINETY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS

THE POOL OF TEARS

CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TAJUE

THE RABBIT SENDS

ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR

STOLE YHE TARTS

For both our

hands make vain pretence

Ah, cmel Three

Beneath such dreamy weather,

the tiniest feather

Yet what can one poor voice

Against three tongues together?

Imperious Prima flashes forth

In gentler tone Secunda hopes

interrupts the talc

Not more than once a minute.

In fancy they pursue

The dream-child moving through

wild and new,

In friendly chat with bird or beast

ever, as the story drained

wells of fancy dry,

faintly strove that

the subject by,

rest next time

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland Thus slowly, one by one,

were hammered out

Beneath the setting sun.

a childish story take,

with a gentle hand

where Childhood s dreams are twined

get very tired of

was reading, but

So she was considering

(as well as she could, for the

own mind, hot day made

her feel very sleepy and stupid,) whether the

making a daisy - chain would be

worth the trouble of getting up and picking

a white rabbit with

pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remarkable

nor did Alice think

hear the Rabbit say to

(when she thought

curred to her that she ought to have wondered

but at the time

the Rabbit actually took a

never before seen a rabbit with either a waist

burning with curiosity, she ran across the

the world she

to get out again.

down what seemed

Either the well was very deep, or she

very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she

went down to look about

what was going

was too dark

then she looked at the sides of the well, and

here and there she saw

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

OKANGE MAKMALADE," but

curtain she "had