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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN
WONDERLAND
Lewis Carroll
CHAPTER I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her
sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once
or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was
reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it,
'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without
pictures or conversation?'
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as
she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy
and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-
chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and
picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit
with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did
Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the
Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be
late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at
this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but
when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its
waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried
on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her
mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with
either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it,
and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop
down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never
once considering how in the world she was to get out
again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for
some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so
suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about
ALISA U ZEMLJI ČUDA
Luis Kerol
(na srpski preveo Luka Semenović)
Glava I
U ZEČJOJ JAMI
Alisi je već dosadilo da sjedi kraj sestre na obali i
ništa ne radi. Jedanput-dvaput je preko oka
pogledala u knjigu koju je sestra ĉitala, ali u njoj
nije bilo ni slika ni razgovora, "i kakva mi je to
knjiga", pomisli Alisa, "kad u njoj nema ni slika ni
razgovora?"
I zato je premišljala (što je bolje umjela, jer se na
ovoj vrućini osjećala vrlo pospano i glupo) da li bi
se isplatilo da ustane i nabere tratinĉica pa od njih
isplete vjenĉić, kad pored nje protrĉa jedan Bijeli
Zec ruţiĉastih oĉiju.
U tome nije bilo niĉeg posebno znaĉajnog, a Alisi se
nije uĉinilo ni posebno neobiĉnim kad je ĉula kako
Zec govori sam sebi: "Oh jadan ti sam! Jadan ti
sam! Suviše ću odocniti!" (Kad je o tome kasnije
razmišljala, ĉinilo joj se da se tome trebalo zaĉuditi,
ali tog trena sve joj je izgledalo potpuno prirodno.)
No kad Zec iz svog dţepa na prsluku izvadi sat,
pogleda u njega i onda pojuri, Alisa skoĉi, jer joj
sinu kroz glavu da nikad do sada nije vidjela zeca
koji ima dţep na prsluku i još iz njega vadi sat, pa
goreći od znatiţelje stušti se preko polja za njim, i
na sreću upravo dospije da vidi kako on klisnu u
jednu veliku zeĉju logu ispod ţivice.
Istoga trena i Alisa se sjuri za njim i ne misleći ni
ĉasa kako će se odatle izvući.
Loga se najprije pruţala pravo, kao kakav tunel, a
onda naglo obrušavala. Tako naglo da Alisa nemade
ni ĉasa vremena da porazmisli pa da se zaustavi,
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stopping herself before she found herself falling
down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly,
for she had plenty of time as she went down to look
about her and to wonder what was going to happen
next. First, she tried to look down and make out what
she was coming to, but it was too dark to see
anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and
noticed that they were filled with cupboards and
book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and
pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from
one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled
'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop
the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to
put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
'Well!' thought Alice to herself, 'after such a fall as
this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!
How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I
wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the
top of the house!' (Which was very likely true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an
end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this
time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere
near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be
four thousand miles down, I think--' (for, you see,
Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her
lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a
very good opportunity for showing off her
knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it
was good practice to say it over) '--yes, that's about
the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or
Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what
Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they
were nice grand words to say.) Presently she began
again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth!
How funny it'll seem to come out among the people
that walk with their heads downward! The
Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there was
no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the
right word) '--but I shall have to ask them what the
name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is
nego poĉe da propada kroz neki vrlo dubok bunar.
Sad ili je bunar bio vrlo dubok ili je ona propadala
vrlo lagano, tek imala je dovoljno vremena da uz put
razgleda sve oko sebe i da se pita šta li će se sad
zbiti. Najprije pokuša da pogleda dolje, ne bi li
saznala gdje će dospjeti, ali je bilo isuviše mraĉno
da bi šta mogla vidjeti. Onda osmotri zidove bunara
i zapazi da su naĉiĉkani ormarima i policama za
knjige. Tu i tamo primijeti zemljopisne karte i slike
okaĉene o klinove. S jedne od polica, onako u
prolazu, skide jednu teglu. Na njoj je pisalo
"Marmelada od naranĉe", ali na Alisino veliko
razoĉarenje, tegla bijaše prazna. Nije htjela da je
baci, bojala se da koga ne udari, već je ostavi u
jedan ormar pored kojeg je padala.
"Eh", pomisli Alisa, "poslije ovakvog padanja
tumbanje niz stepenice će za mene biti maĉji kašalj!
Ala će me svi kod kuće smatrati junakom! Ma ne
bih pisnula ni kad bih pala s krova kuće!" (To nije
bilo daleko od istine.)
Dolje, dolje, dolje! Zar ovom padanju nikad neće
biti kraja? "Koliko li sam kilometara dosad pala?",
izusti naglas. "Mora da se pribliţavam središtu
Zemlje. Ĉekaj, mislim da bi dotle moglo biti oko
šest i po hiljada kilometara..." (Kako vidiš, Alisa je
bila nauĉila nešto o tome na ĉasovima u školi, pa
iako ovo nije bila neka bog zna kako zgodna prilika
da se podiĉi svojim znanjem, budući da nije bilo
nikog da je ĉuje – ipak je bilo dobro da ponešto i
ponovi.) "...da, to bi otprilike bila prava razdaljina –
ali na koju sam geografsku širinu ili geografsku
duţinu dospjela?" (Alisa nije imala pojma ni šta je
to geografska širina ni geografska duţina, ali rijeĉi
su joj se ĉinile fine i uĉene.) Domalo opet poĉe: "Ko
zna da neću preletjeti pravo kroz Zemlju! Kakva bi
to bila smijurija, doći meĊu ljude što hodaju
naglavaĉke! To su Antipati (Htjela je kazati
"antipodi". Ljudi koji ţive na suprotnoj strani
Zemlje su naši antipodi.), ĉini mi se..." Bilo joj je
milo što je ovog puta niko ne sluša, jer joj ova rijeĉ
nikako nije zvuĉala kako treba. "Ali, znaš, moraću
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this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried to
curtsey as she spoke--fancy curtseying as you're
falling through the air! Do you think you could
manage it?) 'And what an ignorant little girl she'll
think me for asking! No, it'll never do to ask: perhaps
I shall see it written up somewhere.'
Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so
Alice soon began talking again. 'Dinah'll miss me
very much to-night, I should think!' (Dinah was the
cat.) 'I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at
tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here
with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but
you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse,
you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?' And here
Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying
to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats?
Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?'
for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it
didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that
she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that
she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying
to her very earnestly, 'Now, Dinah, tell me the truth:
did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, thump!
thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry
leaves, and the fall was over.
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her
feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark
overhead; before her was another long passage, and
the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it.
There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice
like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it
turned a corner, 'Oh my ears and whiskers, how late
it's getting!' She was close behind it when she turned
the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen:
she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up
by a row of lamps hanging from the roof. There were
doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and
when Alice had been all the way down one side and
up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly
down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get
ih pitati kako im se zemlja zove. Molim vas,
gospoĊo, da li je ovo Novi Zeland ili Australija?" (i
govoreći to, pokuša da se pokloni. Zamisli da se
klanjaš dok propadaš kroz vazduh! Šta misliš, bi li
to tebi pošlo za rukom?) "Ali kakvom li će me
neznalicom smatrati! Ne, bolje da ne pitam. Moţda
će to biti negdje i napisano."
Dolje, dolje, dolje. Pošto nikakvog drugog posla nije
imala, Alisa ubrzo opet poĉe da razgovara sama sa
sobom. "Vjerujem da će Dajni noćas biti nebiĉno
bez mene!" (Dajna je bila maĉka.) "Nadam se da će
se sjetiti da joj popodne daju njen tanjirić mlijeka.
Dajna, mila moja, kamo sreće da si i ti ovdje dolje
sa mnom! Na ţalost u vazduhu nema miševa, ali
mogla bi uloviti kojeg šišmiša, a šišmiš je gotovo
isto što i miš, znaš. Ali ko zna jedu li maĉke
šišmiše?" Ovdje Alisu poĉe popriliĉno da hvata san,
te ona nastavi da govori u sebi nekako pospano.
"Jedu li maĉke šišmiše? Jedu li maĉke šišmiše?," a
ponekad "Jedu li šišmiši maĉke?", jer, znaš, pošto
nije uspjela da odgovori ni na jedno ovo pitanje, nije
bilo ni vaţno kako ga postavlja. Osjećala je da tone
u san i upravo je poĉela sanjati kako šeta sa
Dajnom, drţeći je za šapu, i kako joj vrlo ozbiljno
govori: "Ĉuj, Dajna, pravo mi reci jesi li ikad
smazala kojeg šišmiša?", kad najednom, tupa-tup!
Sletje na hrpu suhog lišća i padanju bi kraj.
Kad vidje da joj nije ništa, Alisa za tili ĉas skoĉi na
noge. Podiţe pogled, ali gore je svuda bio mrak.
Pred njom se pruţao još jedan dugaĉak hodnik i ona
ugleda Bijelog Zeca kako niz njega juri. Nije se
smjelo dangubiti. Zato se Alisa poput vjetra stušti za
njim i upravo ga ĉu kako govori skrećući za ugao:
"Oh, ušiju mi i brkova, kako to vrijeme leti!" Bila
mu je sasvim za petama kad i sama skrenu za ugao,
ali sad Zeca nigdje, kao da je u zemlju propao. Alisa
se naĊe u nekoj dugaĉkoj niskoj dvorani,
osvijetljenoj nizom lampi koje su visile sa stropa.
Dvorana je imala mnogo vrata, ali su sva bila
zakljuĉana. I pošto je prvo prošla jednom stranom,
pa se onda vratila drugom, oprobavši svaka vrata,
Alisa se tuţno zaputi sredinom dvorane pitajući se
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out again.
Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table,
all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except
a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it
might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas!
either the locks were too large, or the key was too
small, but at any rate it would not open any of them.
However, on the second time round, she came upon a
low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it
was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried
the little golden key in the lock, and to her great
delight it fitted!
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a
small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she
knelt down and looked along the passage into the
loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get
out of that dark hall, and wander about among those
beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but
she could not even get her head though the doorway;
'and even if my head would go through,' thought poor
Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my
shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a
telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to
begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things
had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think
that very few things indeed were really impossible.
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little
door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she
might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of
rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time
she found a little bottle on it, ('which certainly was
not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of
the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK
ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.
It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise
little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No,
I'll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked
"poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little
histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten
up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all
because they would not remember the simple rules
their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot
hoće li se ikad moći odavde izvući.
Najednom ugleda tronoţac sav od stakla. Na njemu
nije bilo niĉeg do jednog majušnog zlatnog kljuĉa, i
Alisina prva pomisao bijaše da kljuĉić, moţda,
otvara jedna od vrata u dvorani. Ali, o, nesreće! Ili
su brave bile prevelike ili je kljuĉić bio premalen,
tek nijednu nije mogao otkljuĉati. MeĊutim, kad još
jednom obiĊe dvoranu, ugleda pri dnu zavjesu koju
ranije nije zapazila, a iza nje vratašca od ĉetrdesetak
santimetara. Pokuša da stavi zlatni kljuĉić u bravu, i
na svoju veliku radost vidje da otvara!
Alisa otvori vrata i spazi da vode u hodniĉić što ne
bješe mnogo veći od kakve mišje rupe. Kleknu, baci
pogled niz hodnik i ugleda najljepšu baštu koju je
ikad vidjela. Kako je ţarko ţeljela da se izvuĉe iz
ove mraĉne dvorane i prošeta izmeĊu nasada
šarenog cvijeća i prohladnih vodoskoka, ali kroz
vrata ĉak ni glavu nije mogla da promoli. "Pa kad bi
mi glava i prošla", pomisli jadna Alisa, "šta vrijedi
kad ramena ne mogu. Oh, kad bih se mogla sklopiti
kao kakav teleskop! Vjerujem da bih i mogla, samo
kad bih znala kako da poĉnem." (Vidiš, toliko se
neobiĉnih stvari u posljednje vrijeme dogodilo da je
Alisa poĉela vjerovati da je malo šta uistinu
nemoguće.) Izgledalo je da nema nikakve koristi
ĉekati pred ovim vratašcima, zato se Alisa vrati
stolu, ponadavši se da će moţda na njemu naći još
kakav kljuĉ ili bar kakvu knjigu sa uputstvima kako
se ĉovjek moţe sklopiti kao teleskop. Ovoga puta na
stoliću naĊe jednu boĉicu ("Ona ranije sigurno nije
bila tu", reĉe Alisa), a na njenom grliću naljepnicu
na kojoj su lijepo bile odštampane krupnim slovima
rijeĉi: "Pij me!"
Lako je bilo kazati "pij me", ali to mala mudra Alisa
nije hijela da uradi na brzinu. "Ne, prvo ću pogledati
da na njoj ne piše 'Otrov'". Jer, Alisa je proĉitala
nekoliko lijepih priĉica o djeci koja su izgorjela,
koju su pojele divlje zvijeri i sve tako o nekim
neprijatnostima, a sve samo zato što nisu htjela da
upamte najprostija pravila kojim su ih uĉili njihovi
prijatelji. Na primjer, usijani će te ţaraĉ opeći ako
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poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if
you cut your finger very deeply 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 disagree with you, sooner or later.
However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so
Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it
had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart,
custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot
buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
'What a curious feeling!' said Alice; '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 little
door into that lovely garden. First, however, she
waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to
shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this;
'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in
my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what
I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the
flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out,
for she could not remember ever having seen such a
thing.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened,
she decided on going into the garden at once; but,
alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she
found she had forgotten the little golden key, and
when she went back to the table for it, she found she
could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite
plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to
climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too
slippery; and when she had tired herself out with
trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
'Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice
to herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off
this minute!' She generally gave herself very good
advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and
sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring
tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying
to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a
ga predugo drţiš u ruci; ako noţem zareţeš prst vrlo
duboko, sva je prilika da će ti poteći krv; i nikad nije
zaboravila, da je gotovo sigurno da će ti kad-tad
pozliti ako podobro potegneš iz boĉice na kojoj piše
"Otrov".
Ali, na ovoj boĉici nije pisalo "Otrov", zato se Alisa
usudi da napitak okuša i, pošto joj se uĉinio vrlo
prijatnim (imao je nekako u isto vrijeme i ukus pite
od trešanja, i šatoa, i ananasa, i peĉene ćurke, i
karamela i vrućeg prepeĉenog hljeba premazanog
maslacem), ona ga na dušak iskapi.
"Kako se ĉudno osjećam!" uskliknu Alisa. "Mora da
se sklapam kao teleskop."
A tako je uistinu i bilo. Sad je bila visoka svega
dvadeset pet santimetara i sva se ozari pri pomisli da
je sad upravo tolika da će kroz vratašca moći proći u
onu divnu baštu. Ipak poĉeka još koji trenutak da
vidi neće li se još više smanjiti. Malo se i zabrinu.
"Jer moglo bi se desiti, znaš", reĉe Alisa, "da
potpuno nestanem, kao svijeća. Kako li bih onda
izgledala?" I pokuša da zamisli kako izgleda plamen
svijeće kad se ugasi, jer se nije mogla sjetiti da je
ikad tako nešto vidjela.
Poslije nekog vremena, pošto se ništa ne desi, odluĉi
da odmah poĊe u baštu. Ali, sirota Alisa! Kad doĊe
do vrata, sjeti se da je zaboravila zlatni kljuĉić, a
kad se vrati da ga sa stola uzme, uvidje da ga uopšte
ne moţe dohvatiti. Lijepo ga je mogla vidjeti kroz
staklo, zato svim silama pokuša da se nekako uspne
uz jednu nogu stolića, ali je noga bila isuviše
skliska. I kad se izmori od uzaludnog pentranja,
jadna mala Alisa sjede i zaplaka.
"De, nema ikakve koristi od tog tvog plaĉa!" reĉe
Alisa sama sebi priliĉno strogo. "Savjetujem ti da
smjesta prestaneš!" Obiĉno je davala sebi dobre
savjete (iako bi ih vrlo rijetko poslušala), a ponekad
bi izgrdila sebe tako oštro da bi joj i suze navrle na
oĉi. Sjećala se da je jedanput pokušala i da samu
sebe ošamari, zato što je varala u kroketu kada je
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game of croquet she was playing against herself, for
this curious child was very fond of pretending to be
two people. 'But it's no use now,' thought poor Alice,
'to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly
enough of me left to make one respectable person!'
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying
under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very
small cake, on which the words 'EAT ME' were
beautifully marked in currants. 'Well, I'll eat it,' said
Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the
key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep
under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden,
and I don't care which happens!'
She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself,
'Which way? Which way?', holding her hand on the
top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and
she was quite surprised to find that she remained the
same size: to be sure, this generally happens when
one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way
of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to
happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to
go on in the common way.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the
cake.
CHAPTER II
The Pool of Tears
'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so
much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot
how to speak good English); 'now I'm opening out
like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye,
feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, they
seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so
far off). 'Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will
put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears?
I'm sure I shan't be able! I shall be a great deal too far
off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the
best way you can; --but I must be kind to them,'
thought Alice, 'or perhaps they won't walk the way I
want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of
boots every Christmas.'
igrala protiv same sebe, jer je ova ĉudna djevojĉica
mnogo voljela da zamišlja kao da u njoj postoje
dvije Alise. "Ali sad nemam nikakve koristi od
toga," pomisli Alisa, "da umišljam kao da su u meni
dvije osobe! Ta jedva me ĉestito ima i za jednu!"
Domalo, pogled joj pade na jednu staklenu kutijicu
ispod stola. Otvori je i naĊe u njoj jedan majušni
kolaĉić na kome su groţĊicama bile lijepo ispisane
rijeĉi "Pojedi me!" "Pa, poješću te", reĉe Alisa, "i
ako porastem, moći ću dohvatiti kljuĉ, a ako se
smanjim, moći ću se provući ispod vrata. Tako ću, u
svakom sluĉaju dospjeti u baštu i baš mi je svejedno
kako ću ući."
Pojede komadić i zabrinuto se zapita: "Smanjujem li
se ili rastem?", pa stavi ruku na tjeme ne bi li
osjetila u kom pravcu se pomjera. Vrlo se iznenadi
kad uvidje da je ostala ista. U stvari, tako se obiĉno i
dešava kad se jede kolaĉ, ali Alisa se toliko navikla
da oĉekuje samo neobiĉne stvari pa joj se ĉinilo
neobiĉno i glupo da ţivot poteĉe svojim
uobiĉajenim tokom.
Zato prionu na posao i u tren oka smaza kolaĉ.
Glava II
JEZERO SUZA
"Sve ĉudnoje i ĉudnoje!", povika Alisa. (Bila je
toliko iznenaĊena da je na ĉasak zaboravila kako se
pravilno govori.) "Sad se rasklapam kao najveći
teleskop na svijetu! Zbogom noge!" (jer kad je
pogledala u noge, uĉini joj se da ih i ne vidi, toliko
su se udaljavale). "Oh, jadne moje noţice, ko li će
vam sada obuvati cipele i ĉarape, mile moje?
Sigurna sam da ja to neću moći! Biću isuviše daleko
da bih se brinula o vama. Moraćete se snalaziti kako
znate i umijete... ali moram biti ljubazna prema
njima", pomisli Alisa, "inaĉe bi se moglo desiti da
me ne htjednu nositi kuda ja budem zaţeljela! Pa,
eto, svakog Boţića darovaću im po jedne nove
cipele!"
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And she went on planning to herself how she would
manage it. 'They must go by the carrier,' she thought;
'and how funny it'll seem, sending presents to one's
own feet! And how odd the directions will look!
ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.
HEARTHRUG,
NEAR THE FENDER,
(WITH ALICE'S LOVE).
Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall:
in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she
at once took up the little golden key and hurried off
to the garden door.
Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying
down on one side, to look through into the garden
with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless
than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.
'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, 'a
great girl like you,' (she might well say this), 'to go
on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!'
But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of
tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about
four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.
After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the
distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what
was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning,
splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in
one hand and a large fan in the other: he came
trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as
he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't
she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt so
desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one;
so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a
low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir--' The Rabbit
started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and
the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard
as he could go.
Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was
very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she
went on talking: 'Dear, dear! How queer everything is
to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I
I stade da razmišlja kako će to izvesti. "Moraću ih
poslati po nosaĉu", pomisli. "Kakva smijurija, slati
poklon svojim vlastitim nogama! A kako će ĉudna
biti adresa!
Poštovanoj Alisinoj desnoj nozi
Ćilimĉe
Kraj kamina
(S ljubavlju, Alisa)
Oh, kakve gluposti govorim!"
Upravo tada udari glavom o strop dvorane. Zapravo,
sada je bila visoka gotovo tri metra, te odmah uze
zlatni kljuĉić i odhita do baštenskih vrata.
Sirota Alisa! Sve što je mogla uraditi kad je legla
postrance, bilo je da jednim okom virka u baštu. Ali
da proĊe kroz vrata, ta za to je sad bilo manje nade
nego ikada! Stoga sjede i gorko zaplaka.
"Treba da se sramiš", reĉe samoj sebi. "Tako velika
djevojĉica (a to je bila istina) pa da toliko cmizdri!
Da si smjesta prestala, kaţem ti!" Ali je i dalje
plakala, prolivajući bujice suza sve dok se oko nje
ne stvori poveliko jezero. Bilo je nešto preko deset
santimetara duboko i sezalo sve do polovine
dvorane.
Poslije nekog vremena zaĉu iz daljine sitno tapkanje
i brzo obrisa oĉi da vidi ko to dolazi. To se vraćao
Bijeli Zec, divno odjeven, noseći u jednoj ruci par
bijelih koţnih rukavica a u drugoj veliku lepezu.
Trupkao je ţurno, mrmljajući: "Oh, Vojvotkinja,
Vojvotkinja! Oh, razbješnjeće se bude li me morala
ĉekati!" Alisa je bila toliko oĉajna da je bila
spremna da od koga mu drago zatraţi pomoć. I kad
joj se Zec pribliţi, ona otpoĉe tihim, stidljivim
glasom: "Molim vas, gospodine!" Zec se ţestoko
trgnu, ispusti bijele koţne rukavice i lepezu i nagari
u tamu što je brţe mogao.
Alisa podiţe rukavice i lepezu, pa se, pošto je u
dvorani bilo vrlo toplo, stade hladiti lepezom,
govoreći: "Ah! Ah! Kako je danas sve ĉudno! A još
juĉe je sve bilo kao i obiĉno. Da se nisam preko noći
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wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me
think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I
almost think I can remember feeling a little different.
But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in
the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!' And she
began thinking over all the children she knew that
were of the same age as herself, to see if she could
have been changed for any of them.
'I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, 'for her hair goes in
such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at
all; and I'm sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts
of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little!
Besides, she's she, and I'm I, and--oh dear, how
puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the things I used
to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and
four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh
dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
However, the Multiplication Table doesn't signify:
let's try Geography. London is the capital of Paris,
and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome--no, that's
all wrong, I'm certain! I must have been changed for
Mabel! I'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
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
'How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!'
'I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor
Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went
on, 'I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go
and live in that poky little house, and have next to no
toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to
learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm
Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting
their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!"
promijenila? Ĉekaj da promislim: jesam li bila ista
kad sam jutros ustala? Sve mi se nekako ĉini kao da
sam se osjećala malo drukĉijom. Ali ako nisam ista,
pitanje je ko sam? Ah, to je velika zagonetka!" I
poĉe da premišlja o svim djevojĉicama koje je
poznavala, a koje su bile istih godina kao i ona, da
vidi da se nije prometnula u koju od njih.
"Sigurna sam da nisam Ada", reĉe, jer je njena kosa
sva u dugaĉkim kovrdţama, a moja uopšte nije
kovrdţava. A sigurna sam da ne mogu biti ni Mejbl,
jer ja mnogo štošta znam, a ona, oh! Ona je takva
neznalica! Uz to ona je ona, a ja sam ja – oh, jadna
ti sam, kako je to sve zapleteno! Oprobaću da li
znam sve ono što sam znala. Ĉekaj da vidim: ĉetiri
puta pet je dvanaest, a ĉetiri puta šest je trinaest, a
ĉetiri puta sedam je – oh, jadna ja! Ovako nikad
neću stići do dvadeset! Uostalom, tablica mnoţenja
nije ni vaţna. Da pokušam sa geografijom. London
je prijestonica Pariza, a Pariz je prijestonica Rima, a
Rim – ne, sve je to pogrešno, uvjerena sam! Mora
da sam se premetnula u Mejbl! Da pokušam da
recitujem "Gle malenog...", i ona poloţi ruke na
krilo kao da govori lekciju i poĉe da se preslišava,
ali joj je glas zvuĉao promuklo i ĉudno a rijeĉi nisu
bile iste kao prije:
"Gle malenog krokodila,
gladi repinu sjajnu
i pršće vodom iz Nila
svaku krljušt zlatnu.
Kako lijepo pruža šape,
kako se veselo osmjehuje,
i u slatko nasmijane ralje
dobrodošlicom ribice dočekuje."
"Sigurna sam da ovo nisu prave rijeĉi", reĉe jadna
Alisa i oĉi joj se iznova napuniše suzama. "Ipak
mora da sam Mejbl, moraću otići i ţivjeti u onoj
njenoj Bijednoj kućici; neću, tako reći, imati ni
igraĉaka da se igram i oh! Moraću uĉiti tolike
lekcije! Ne, što se toga tiĉe, odluĉila sam! Ako sam
Mejbl, ostaću ovdje dolje! Zaludu će provirivati i
zvati: Vrati se gore, dušo! Ja ću samo pogledati
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I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me
that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll
come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody
else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst
of tears, 'I do wish they would put their heads down!
I am so very tired of being all 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's little white kid gloves while she was talking.
'How can I have done that?' she thought. 'I must be
growing small again.' She got up and went to the
table to measure herself by it, and found that, as
nearly as she could guess, she was now about two
feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she
soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she
was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time
to avoid shrinking away altogether.
'That was a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal
frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find
herself still in existence; 'and now for the garden!'
and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but,
alas! the little door was shut again, and the little
golden key was lying on the glass table as before,
'and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor
child, 'for I never was so small as this before, never!
And I declare it's too bad, that it is!'
As she said these words her foot slipped, and in
another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in
salt water. Her first idea was that she had somehow
fallen into the sea, 'and in that case I can go back by
railway,' she said to herself. (Alice had been to the
seaside once in her life, and had come to the general
conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English
coast you find a number of bathing machines in the
sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden
spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind
them a railway station.) However, she soon made out
that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept
when she was nine feet high.
'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she
swam about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be
punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in
naviše i reći: "Ko sam ja? Prvo mi to recite, pa ako
mi se bude sviĊala ta osoba, doći ću. Ako ne bude,
ostaću dolje sve dok ne postanem neko drugi... – Ali
jadna ja!", uzviknu Alisa i briţnu plaĉ. "Kamo puste
sreće da provire! Toliko mi je dojadila ova samoća!"
Rekavši to, spusti pogled na svoje ruke i zaĉudi se
kad ugleda da je u priĉi navukla jednu Zekinu bijelu
koţnu rukavicu. "Kako sam mogla?", pomisli.
"Sigurno se opet smanjujem. " Ustade i ode do stola
da se tu premjeri i vidje, koliko je sama mogla da
procijeni, da je visoka šezdesetak santimetara i da se
naglo smanjuje. Ubrzo shvati da je uzrok tome
lepeza koju je drţala u ruci i hitro je ispusti. Baš u
pravi ĉas, inaĉe bi je potpuno nestalo.
"Za dlaku sam se izvukla!" reĉe Alisa, veoma
prestrašena ovom naglom promjenom, ali sretna što
je još u ţivotu. "A sada u baštu!" i otrĉa što je brţe
mogla pred vratašca. Ali kakva nesreća! Vratašca su
opet bila zakljuĉana, a zlatni kljuĉić je kao i ranije
leţao na staklenom stoliću. "Sad je gore nego ikad",
pomisli siroto dijete, jer nikad dosad nisam bila
ovako mala, nikad! I moram priznati da to ništa ne
valja, baš ništa."
Kako ovo izusti, okliznu se i pljus! NaĊe se sve do
grla u slanoj vodi. Najprije pomisli da je nekako
upala u more. "U tom sluĉaju mogu se vratiti
vozom", reĉe sama sebi. (Alisa je samo jednom u
ţivotu bila na moru, i došla do općenitog zakljuĉka
da, kud god makneš po engleskoj obali, moţeš u
moru vidjeti izvjestan broj kupaĉa, djecu kako
drvenim lopaticama kopaju po pijesku, zatim red
hotela, a iza njih ţeljezniĉku stanicu.) MeĊutim,
domalo shvati da je u jezeru suza što ih je prolila
kad je bila visoka tri metra.
"Kamo sreće da nisam toliko plakala!", reĉe Alisa
plivajući po jezeru i nastojeći da se nekako iz njega
iskobelja. "Sada će mi to prisjesti, udaviću se u
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my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure!
However, everything is queer to-day.'
Just then she heard something splashing about in the
pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make
out what it was: at first she thought it must be a
walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered
how small she was now, and she soon made out that
it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
'Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, 'to
speak to this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way
down here, that I should think very likely it can talk:
at any rate, there's no harm in trying.' So she began:
'O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I
am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!'
(Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking
to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before,
but she remembered having seen in her brother's
Latin Grammar, 'A mouse--of a mouse--to a mouse--
a mouse--O mouse!') The Mouse looked at her rather
inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of
its little eyes, but it said nothing.
'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice;
'I daresay it's a French mouse, come over with
William the Conqueror.' (For, with all her knowledge
of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long
ago anything had happened.) So she began again: 'Ou
est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in her
French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap
out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with
fright. 'Oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice hastily,
afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's feelings. 'I
quite forgot you didn't like cats.'
'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate
voice. 'Would you like cats if you were me?'
'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone:
'don't be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show
you our cat Dinah: I think you'd take a fancy to cats if
you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet
thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam
lazily about in the pool, 'and she sits purring so nicely
svojim vlastitim suzama! Zaista će to biti
ĉudno.Uostalom, danas je sve ĉudno!"
Upravo tada, malo podalje, zaĉu nekakvo pljuskanje
po jezeru i otpliva u tom pravcu, da vidi šta je to. U
prvi mah pomisli da to mora da je nekakav morski
konj ili hipopotam (nilski konj), ali se dosjeti da je
sad vrlo malena i ubrzo shvati da je to samo jedan
miš koji se okliznuo i pao u jezero baš kao i ona.
"Bi li imalo smisla", pomisli Alisa, "da se obratim
ovom mišu? Ovdje je sve tako neobiĉno da je vrlo
vjerovatno da i miš umije da govori. Uostalom,
nikom neće naškoditi ako pokušam." Zato otpoĉe:
"O, Mišu, znaš li kako se moţe izaći iz ovog jezera.
Vrlo sam se umorila plivajući po njemu, o, Mišu!"
(Alisa je pomislila da je sigurno ovo pravi naĉin da
se razgovara s jednini mišom. Nikada to ranije nije
ĉinila, ali se sjećala da je u latinskoj gramatici svoga
brata vidjela "miš – miša – mišu – miša – o, mišu!")
Miš je pogleda priliĉno radoznalo i kao da joj
jednim okcem namignu, ali ništa ne reĉe.
"Moţda ne razumije engleski", pomisli Alisa.
"Moţda je to francuski miš koji je ovamo došao s
Viljemom Osvajaĉem" (jer uprkos svem svom
znanju istorije , Alisa nije imala baš sasvim jasnu
predstavu kad se je šta dogodilo). Zato opet poĉe:
"Ou est ma chatte?" (Gdje je moja maĉka?), što je
bila prva lekcija u njenoj francuskoj ĉitanci. Miš
poskoĉi iz vode kao oparen, i izgledalo je kao da sav
cepti od straha. "Oh, oprosti!" brţe-bolje uzviknu
Alisa, bojeći se da je povrijedila osjećanja jadne
ţivotinjice. "Potpuno sam smetnula s uma da ti ne
voliš maĉke."
"Ne volim maĉke!", uzviknu miš piskavim,
ojaĊenim glasom. "Bi li ti voljela maĉke da si na
mom mjestu?"
"Pa, moţda i ne bih", reĉe Alisa blago. "Ne ljuti se
zbog toga. Pa ipak bih voljela kad bih ti mogla
pokazati našu maĉku Dajnu. Vjerujem da bi zavolio
maĉke samo kad bi je vidio. Ona je tako drago,
mirno stvorenje", nastavi Alisa više za sebe, lagano
plivajući po jezeru, "sjedi kraj vatre i prede tako
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by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--
and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's
such a capital one for catching mice--oh, I beg your
pardon!' cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse
was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must be
really offended. 'We won't talk about her any more if
you'd rather not.'
'We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling
down to the end of his tail. 'As if I would talk on such
a subject! Our family always hated cats: nasty, low,
vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name again!'
'I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change
the subject of conversation. 'Are you--are you fond--
of--of dogs?' The Mouse did not answer, so Alice
went on eagerly: 'There is such a nice little dog near
our house I should like to show you! A little bright-
eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly
brown hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw
them, and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all
sorts of things--I can't remember half of them--and it
belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it's so
useful, it's worth a hundred pounds! He says it kills
all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a sorrowful
tone, 'I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the
Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it
could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool
as it went.
So she called softly after it, 'Mouse dear! Do come
back again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs
either, if you don't like them!' When the Mouse heard
this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its
face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and
it said in a low trembling voice, 'Let us get to the
shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll
understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite
crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen
into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an
Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led
the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.
lijepo, liţe šape i umiva lice – i toliko je krasna i
meka kad je pogladiš – a takav majstor u lovu na
miševe – Oh, oprosti!" opet će Alisa, jer sad se miš
sav nakostriješio, te je bila sigurna da ga je stvarno
povrijedila. "Ako ne ţeliš, nećemo više o njoj
razgovarati."
"Vidi, molim te!", uzviknu miš koji je drhtao sve do
posljednje dlake na repiću. "Kao da bih ja i
razgovarao o tako neĉem! Naša porodica je oduvijek
mrzila maĉke, ta odvratna, niska, prosta stvorenja!
Da mi to ime više nisi pomenula!"
"Neću, zaista!", reĉe Alisa ţureći da promijeni
predmet razgovora. "Voliš li – voliš li – pse?" Miš
ne odgovori, zato Alisa ţivo nastavi: "U našem
komšiluku stanuje jedan tako lijep psić, voljela bih
da ti ga pokaţem! Mali jazaviĉar blistavih oĉiju,
znaš, i, oh, tako dugaĉke, kudrave smeĊe dlake! I
umije da uhvati kad šta baciš, i da sjedi na zadnjim
šapama i moli da mu daš da jede, i puno takvih
stvari – ni pola ih se ne mogu sjetiti – gospodar mu
je jedan farmer, znaš, i on kaţe da mu je toliko
koristan da vrijedi stotinu funti! Veli, potamani sve
pacove – oh, boţe!", uzviknu Alisa tuţno. "Bojim se
da sam ga opet uvrijedila!", jer se miš odmicao od
nje plivajući što je brţe mogao, te je uzburkao cijelo
jezero.
Zato ga ona njeţno zovnu: "Mišu mili! Vrati se, pa
nećemo razgovarati ni o maĉkama ni o psima, ako ih
ne voliš!" Kad to miš ĉu, okrenu se i lagano dopliva
do nje. U licu je bio blijed kao krpa (od srdţbe,
pomisli Alisa), pa će tihim drhtavim glasom:
"Hajdemo na obalu, pa ću ti onda ispriĉati svoju
priĉu, iz koje ćeš razumjeti zašto mrzim maĉke i
pse."
Bilo je krajnje vrijeme da se ide, jer je jezero bilo
prepuno ptica i ţivotinja koje su u njega upale. Bili
su tu: jedna Patka i jedna ptica Dodo (Dodo – ptica
koja je nekad ţivjela na otoku Mauricijusu, u
Indijskom okeanu.), jedan Lori (Lori – mali papagaj
koji ţivi u Australiji.) i jedan Orlić i još nekoliko
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CHAPTER III
A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
They were indeed a queer-looking party that
assembled on the bank--the birds with draggled
feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to
them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
The first question of course was, how to get dry
again: they had a consultation about this, and after a
few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find
herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had
known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long
argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and
would only say, 'I am older than you, and must know
better'; and this Alice would not allow without
knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively
refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.
At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of
authority among them, called out, 'Sit down, all of
you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry
enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring,
with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes
anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would
catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are
you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence
all round, if you please! "William the Conqueror,
whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon
submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and
had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and
conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and
Northumbria--"'
'Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.
'I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but
very politely: 'Did you speak?'
'Not I!' said the Lory hastily.
'I thought you did,' said the Mouse. '--I proceed.
"Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and
neobiĉnih stvorenja. Alisa poĊe naprijed, i cijela
druţina otpliva na obalu.
Glava III
IZBORNA TRKA I JEDNA DUGA PRIČA
Na obali se iskupi zaista ĉudna druţina: ptice
blatnjava perja, ţivotinje slijepljena krzna i svi
mokri kao ĉep, ljuti i promrzli.
Naravno, prva briga im je bila kako da se osuše.
Dogovarali su se, i poslije nekoliko trenutaka Alisi
se ĉinilo sasvim prirodno da s njima prijateljski
razgovara, kao da ih je poznavala ĉitavog svog
ţivota. Istina, dugo je raspravljala sa Lorijem, koji
se na kraju nadurio i samo rekao: "Stariji sam od
tebe i moram znati više", a to Alisa nije htjela da
prizna prije nego što sazna koliko mu je godina, a
pošto je Lori konaĉno odbio da joj otkrije svoje
godine, tu nije imalo više šta da se kaţe.
Najzad Miš, koji je, izgleda, uţivao najveći autoritet
meĊu njima, uskliknu: “Sjedite svi i saslušajte me!
Ja ću vam kazati kako ćete se osušiti!" Svi
odjednom posjedaše u veliki krug, a Miš osta u
sredini. Alisa ga je zabrinuto promatrala, osjećala je
da će se grdno prehladiti ukoliko se uskoro ne osuši.
"Hm!" reĉe Miš vaţno. "Jeste li svi spremni? Ovo je
najsuvlja stvar za koju znam. Tišina, molim!
Viljemu Osvajaĉu, koga je papa podrţavao,
pokoriše se Englezi kojima su bile potrebne voĊe, i
koji su u posljednje vrijeme bili navikli na
uzurpacije i osvajanja. Edvin i Morkar, grofovi
Meršije i Notambrije."
"Uf!", reĉe Lori, sav se tresući.
"Molim!", reĉe Miš mršteći se, ali vrlo uĉtivo. "Jesi
li nešto rekao?"
"Ja nisam!", odvrati Lori ţurno.
"Uĉinilo mi se da jesi!", reĉe Miš. "Nastavljam.
Edvin i Morkar, grofovi Meršije i Notambrije,
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Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the
patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it
advisable--"
''Found what?' said the Duck.
'Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of course
you know what "it" means.'
'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a
thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or a worm.
The question is, what did the archbishop find?'
The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly
went on, '"--found it advisable to go with Edgar
Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown.
William's conduct at first was moderate. But the
insolence of his Normans--" How are you getting on
now, my dear?' it continued, turning to Alice as it
spoke.
'As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone: 'it
doesn't seem to dry me at all.'
'In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its
feet, 'I move that the meeting adjourn, for the
immediate adoption of more energetic remedies--'
'Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the
meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I
don't believe you do either!' And the Eaglet bent
down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds
tittered audibly.
'What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an
offended tone, 'was, that the best thing to get us dry
would be a Caucus-race.'
'What is a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she
wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if
it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one
else seemed inclined to say anything.
'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to
do it.' (And, as you might like to try the thing
yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the
Dodo managed it.)
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle,
('the exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all
the party were placed along the course, here and
there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but
izjasniše se za njega, pa ĉak i Stigand, rodoljubivi
nadbiskup od Kenteberija, naĊe to za shodno ..."
"NaĊe šta?", zapita Patka.
"NaĊe to", odvrati Miš priliĉno ljutito. "Naravno da
znate šta to znaĉi."
"Znam vrlo dobro šta to znaĉi kad ja nešto naĊem",
reĉe Patka. "Obiĉno je to ţaba ili crv. Pitanje je šta
je nadbiskup našao?"
Miš ne obrati paţnju na ovo pitanje nego ţurno
nastavi. "...i naĊe to za shodno da sa Edgarom
Atelingom doĉeka Viljema i ponudi mu krunu.
Viljemovo drţanje je u poĉetku bilo umjereno. Ali
bezobrazluci njegovih Normana ..." "Kako si, draga
moja?", nastavi Miš obrativši se Alisi.
"Još sam mokra", odvrati Alisa tuţno. "Izgleda da
me ta tvoja priĉa uopšte ne suši."
"U tom sluĉaju", sveĉano reĉe Dodo ustajući na
noge, "predlaţem da se sastanak odloţi radi
urgentne aplikacije intenzivnijih medikamenata."
"Govori engleski!", dobaci Orlić. "Ja ne razumijem
ni pola tih dugaĉkih rijeĉi i, što je još gore, ne
vjerujem da ih i ti razumiješ!" I Orlić obori glavu da
prikrije osmijeh. Neke od ptica se glasno zakikotaše.
"Ono što sam htio da kaţem", reĉe Dodo povrijeĊen,
"jest da bi nas najbolje mogla osušiti jedna izborna
trka."
"Šta je to izborna trka?", zapita Alisa. Ne zato što je
posebno ţeljela da to sazna, već je Dodo bio zastao,
kao da je smatrao da neko treba nešto da kaţe, a po
svemu sudeći niko drugi nije bio voljan išta da
rekne.
"Pa", reĉe Dodo "najbolji naĉin da se trka objasni
jeste da se uĉestvuje u njoj." (A pošto ćeš i ti moţda
poţeljeti jednog zimskog dana da je isprobaš,
kazaću ti kako je i šta je Dodo uradio.)
Najprije je oznaĉio stazu za trku. Bila je to neka
vrsta kruga ("Nije vaţno da li će krug biti pravilan",
reĉe), a onda je druţinu rasporedio tu i tamo po
stazi. Nije bilo onog "jedan, dva, tri, sad!", nego je
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they began running when they liked, and left off
when they liked, so that it was not easy to know
when the race was over. However, when they had
been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry
again, the Dodo suddenly called out 'The race is
over!' and they all crowded round it, panting, and
asking, 'But who has won?'
This question the Dodo could not answer without a
great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with
one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in
which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of
him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the
Dodo said, 'everybody has won, and all must have
prizes.'
'But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of
voices asked.
'Why, she, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to
Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once
crowded round her, calling out in a confused way,
'Prizes! Prizes!'
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put
her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of
comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it),
and handed them round as prizes. There was exactly
one a-piece all round. 'But she must have a prize
herself, you know,' said the Mouse.
'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What else
have you got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to
Alice.
'Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.
'Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.
Then they all crowded round her once more, while
the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying 'We
beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble'; and,
when it had finished this short speech, they all
cheered.
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
svako poĉinjao da trĉi kad je htio i prestajao kad je
htio, tako da nije bilo lako odrediti kad je trka bila
završena. MeĊutim, pošto su tako trĉali nekih pola
sata i osušili se, Dodo najednom uzviknu: "Trka je
završena!", i svi se sjatiše oko njega, dršćući i
raspitujući se: "Ali ko je pobijedio?"
Na ovo pitanje Dodo nije umio odgovoriti prije
nego što dobro promisli, zato je zadugo sjedio
pritisnuvši prst na ĉelo (poloţaj koji obiĉno zauzima
Šekspir na slikama), dok su ostali bez rijeĉi ĉekali.
Najzad Dodo izjavi: "Svako je pobijedio i svi
moraju dobiti nagrade."
"Ali ko će predati nagrade?", upitaše gotovo svi u
jedan glas.
"Pa, naravno, ona", odvrati Dodo upirući prstom u
Alisu. I ĉitava druţina je najednom opkoli izvikujući
bez reda: "Nagrade! Nagrade!"
Alisa ni pojma nije imala šta da radi, i u oĉajanju
zavuĉe ruku u dţep i izvuĉe kutiju bombona
(srećom, slana voda nije u nju bila prodrla) i
raspodijeli ih unaokolo kao nagrade. Taĉno je
doteklo, i svako je dobio po jedan komad. "Ali i ona
mora dobiti nagradu", reĉe Miš.
"Naravno", odvrati Dodo vrlo ozbiljno. "Šta još
imaš u dţepu?", nastavi, okrenuvši se Alisi.
"Samo naprstak", reĉe Alisa tuţno.
"Daj ga ovamo", na to će Dodo.
Onda se još jednom postaviše ukrug oko nje, a Dodo
joj sveĉano predade naprstak govoreći: "Molimo te
da primiš ovaj elegantni naprstak", a kad on završi
ovaj kratki govor, svi zapljeskaše.
Alisi je sve ovo bilo smiješno, ali svi su izgledali
toliko ozbiljno da se nije usudila nasmijati se. I
pošto se ne sjeti niĉega što bi mogla da kaţe,
jednostavno se nakloni i primi naprstak što je mogla
sveĉanije. Sada doĊe red na bombone. To izazva
malo buke i guţve, pošto su se velike ptice ţalile da
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large birds complained that they could not taste
theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted
on the back. However, it was over at last, and they sat
down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell
them something more.
'You promised to tell me your history, you know,'
said Alice, 'and why it is you hate--C and D,' she
added in a whisper, half afraid that it would be
offended again.
'Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse,
turning to Alice, and sighing.
'It is a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down
with wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call
it sad?' And she kept on puzzling about it while the
Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was
something like this:--
'Fury said to a mouse,
That he met in the house,
"Let us both go to law:
I will prosecute you.
--Come, I'll take no denial;
We must have a trial:
For really this morning
I've nothing to do."
Said the mouse to the cur,
"Such a trial, dear Sir,
With no jury or judge,
would be wasting our breath."
"I'll be judge, I'll be jury,"
said cunning old Fury:
"I'll try the whole cause,
and condemn you to death."'
'You are not attending!' said the Mouse to Alice
severely. 'What are you thinking of?'
'I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly: 'you had
got to the fifth bend, I think?'
'I had not!' cried the Mouse, sharply and 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!'
'I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the Mouse, getting
up and walking away. 'You insult me by talking such
nisu mogle ni da osjete ukus svoje bombone, a male
su se zagrcnule i morali su ih udarati po leĊima. Ali
se najzad sve završi, i svi opet posjedaše u krug i
zamoliše Miša da im još štogod ispriĉa.
"Znaš, obećao si mi ispriĉati svoju priĉu", reĉe
Alisa, "i zašto mrziš – M. i P.", dodade šapatom,
pribojavajući se da ga opet ne uvrijedi.
"Duga je i tuţna!" reĉe Miš, okrenuvši se Alisi i
uzdahnuvši.
"Repina ti i jest duga", reĉe Alisa pogledajući u
ĉudu Mišev rep, "ali zašto kaţeš da je tuţna?" I dok
je Miš pripovijedao, ona je neprestano lupala glavu
oka toga, tako da joj se priĉa ovako nekako uĉini:
Šarov reče mišu jednom
kog u kući srete,
"Na sud hajdmo,
tužiću te.
Hajdemo, vrdanja nećemo,
Moramo se suditi,
jer baš jutros
ništa nemam raditi."
A miš cijukne:
"Dragi gospodine,
takvo suĎenje bez sudije il' porote
bilo bi tako mi imena pusto traćenje vremena."
"Ja ću biti porota, ja ću biti sudija"
Reče Šarov, stara lija.
"Ispitaću cijelu stvar,
i trt-mrt, osudit te na smrt."
"Ti ne pratiš!", Miš će strogo Alisi. "Na šta misliš?"
"Oprosti", reĉe Alisa vrlo snishodljivo. "Stigao si do
petog zavijutka, ĉini mi se?"
"Kakav stvor!", povika Miš gnjevno.
"Aha, ĉvor!", reĉe Alisa, uvijek spremna da svakom
pritekne u pomoć, i ogleda se zabrinuto. "Oh,
dopusti da ti pomognem da ga razveţeš!"
I ne pada mi na pamet", reĉe Miš polako ustajući i
odlazeći. "VrijeĊaš me govoreći takve besmislice!"
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nonsense!'
'I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor Alice. 'But you're so
easily offended, you know!'
The Mouse only growled in reply. 'Please come back
and finish your story!' Alice called after it; and the
others all joined in chorus, 'Yes, please do!' but the
Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a
little quicker.
'What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as
soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took
the opportunity of saying to her daughter 'Ah, my
dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your
temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young
Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the
patience of an oyster!'
'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice
aloud, addressing nobody in particular. 'She'd soon
fetch it back!'
'And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the
question?' said the Lory.
Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to
talk about her pet: 'Dinah's our cat. And she's such a
capital one for catching mice you can't think! And oh,
I wish you could see her after the birds! Why, she'll
eat a little bird as soon as look at it!'
This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the
party. Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old
Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully,
remarking, 'I really must be getting home; the night-
air doesn't suit my throat!' and a Canary called out in
a trembling voice to its children, 'Come away, my
dears! It's high time you were all in bed!' On various
pretexts they all moved off, and Alice was soon left
alone.
'I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!' she said to herself
in a melancholy tone. 'Nobody seems to like her,
down here, and I'm sure she's the best cat in the
world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if I shall ever
see you any more!' And here poor Alice began to cry
again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited. In a
little while, however, she again heard a little pattering
of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up
"Nisam htjela!", branila se Alisa. "Ali ti se tako lako
vrijeĊaš, znaš!"
U znak odgovora, Miš samo u svoja njedra nešto
promrmlja. "Molim te vrati se i završi priĉu!",
uzviknu Alisa za njim. I drugi joj se uglas
pridruţiše. "Hajde, molim te!" Ali Miš samo
nestrpljivo odmahnu glavom i poĊe malo brţe.
"Šteta što nije ostao!", uzdahnu Lori ĉim se Miš
izgubi iz vida. A jedna stara raĉica iskoristi priliku
da kaţe kćerki: "Ah, draga moja! Neka ti ovo bude
pouka da nikad ne izgubiš glavu!" "Prestani,
mama!", obrecnu se mlada raĉica. "Ti bi i Ostrigu
izbacila iz takta!"
"Da je kojom srećom sad naša Dajna ovdje!", reĉe
Alisa glasno, ne obraćajući se nikom posebno. "Za
tili ĉas bi ona njega ulovila i donijela!"
"A ko je Dajna, ako smijem upitati?" javi se Lori.
Alisa odgovori ţivo, jer je uvijek bila spremna da
razgovara o svojoj ljubimici. "Dajna je naša maĉka.
A takva je silna lovica na miševe da to ne moţete ni
zamisliti! I, oh, da vam je samo vidjeti kako ganja
ptice! Ma, slistiće ptiĉicu, samo što je ugleda!"
Ove Alisine rijeĉi uznemiriše druţinu. Neke ptiĉice
odmah odjuriše. Jedna stara svraka poĉe se briţljivo
umotavati, primijetivši: "Odista moram kući. Noćni
vazduh mi ne prija grlu!", a jedna kanarinka
drhtavim glasom doviknu djeci: "Hajde, mili moji!
Krajnje je vrijeme da se legne!" Tako se pod
razliĉitim izgovorima svi raziĊoše, i Alisa ostade
sama samcijata.
"Kamo sreće da nisam ni pominjala Dajnu!", reĉe u
sebi sjetno. "Izgleda da je ovdje niko ţiv ne voli, a
uvjerena sam da je to najbolja maĉka na svijetu! Oh,
draga moja Dajna! Ko zna hoću li te ikad više
vidjeti!" I jadna Alisa opet briţnu u plaĉ, jer se
osjećala vrlo usamljenom i obeshrabrenom. Ali
domalo opet zaĉu sitno tapkanje u daljini i ţivo
podiţe pogled, u nadi da se Miš predomislio i da
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eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his
mind, and was coming back to finish his story.
CHAPTER 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 if it had
lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself
'The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh
my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure
as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them,
I wonder?' Alice guessed in a moment that it was
looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves,
and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for
them, but they were nowhere to be seen--everything
seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool,
and the great hall, with the glass table and the little
door, had vanished completely.
Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went
hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone,
'Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run
home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and
a fan! Quick, now!' And Alice was so much
frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it
pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it
had made.
'He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as
she ran. 'How surprised he'll be when he finds out
who I am! But I'd better take him his fan and gloves--
that is, if I can find them.' As she said this, she came
upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a
bright brass plate with the name 'W. RABBIT'
engraved upon it. She went in without knocking, and
hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the
real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before
she had found the fan and gloves.
'How queer it seems,' Alice said to herself, 'to be
going messages for a rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be
sending me on messages next!' And she began
fancying the sort of thing that would happen: '"Miss
Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for your
dolazi da završi priĉu.
Glava IV
ZEC ŠALJE MALOG BILA
Bio je to Bijeli Zec. Vraćao se lagano kaskajuć i i u
hodu se briţno ogledavao kao da nešto traţi. Alisa
ĉu kako u sebi mrmori: "Vojvotkinja! Vojvotkinja!
O, drage moje šape! Oh, moje krzno i brkovi!
Narediće da me pogube. Sigurno je kao što je
sigurio da je lasica – lasica. Gdje li sam ih samo
mogao ispustiti?" Alisa odmah pogodi da to on traţi
lepezu i bijele koţne rukavice i sasvim
dobronamjerno poĉe i sama da ih traţi, ali ih nigdje
nije bilo. Kao da se sve promijenilo poslije plivanja
po jezeru, pa i velika dvorana sa staklenim stolom i
vratašcima potpuno bješe išĉezla.
Uskoro Zec primijeti Alisu kako nešto traţi i ljutito
joj do viknu: "E, Meri En, šta ti ovdje radiš? Trĉi
smjesta kući i donesi mi rukavice i lepezu! Brzo,
ovog istog ĉasa!" Alisa je bila toliko prestrašena da
odmah otrĉa u pravcu koji je Zec pokazivao, i ne
pokušavši da mu objasni da je pogriješio.
"Misli da sam mu sluţavka", reĉe u sebi trĉeći. "Što
će se iznenaditi kad vidi ko sam! Ali najbolje da mu
donesem lepezu i rukavice – to jest, ako ih mognem
naći." Rekavši to, ugleda jednu urednu kućicu, a na
njenim vratima sjajnu mesinganu ploĉicu na kojoj je
bilo ugravirano "B. Zec". UĊe bez kucanja i pohita
uz stepenice, u silnom strahu da ne sretne pravu
Meri En, i da je ne izbace iz kuće prije no što joj
uspije da pronaĊe lepezu i rukavice.
"Kako je ĉudno", reĉe Alisa sama sebi, "morati
slušati jednog zeca!" Vjerujem da će sljedeći put i
Dajna traţiti da je poslušam!" I poĉe da zamišlja
kako bi to izgledalo. "GospoĊice Alisa! Dolazite
odmah ovamo i spremajte se za šetnju!" "Odmah,
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walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to
see that the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't
think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah stop in the
house if it began ordering people about like that!'
By this time she had found her way into a tidy little
room with a table in the window, and on it (as she
had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white
kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the
gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when
her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the
looking- glass. There was no label this time with the
words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it
and put it to her lips. 'I know something interesting is
sure to happen,' she said to herself, 'whenever I eat or
drink anything; so I'll just see what this bottle does. I
do hope it'll make me grow large again, for really I'm
quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!'
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had
expected: before she had drunk half the bottle, she
found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had
to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She
hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself 'That's
quite enough--I hope I shan't grow any more--As it is,
I can't get out at the door--I do wish I hadn't drunk
quite so much!'
Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on
growing, and growing, and very soon had to kneel
down on the floor: in another minute there was not
even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying
down with one elbow against the door, and the other
arm curled round her head. Still she went on growing,
and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the
window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to
herself 'Now I can do no more, whatever happens.
What will become of me?'
Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had
its full effect, and she grew no larger: still it was very
uncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be no sort of
chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no
wonder she felt unhappy.
'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice,
Dado! Ali moram da motrim na ovu mišju rupu dok
se Dajna ne vrati, i da pazim da miš ne umakne."
"Samo ne vjerujem", nastavi Alisa, "da bi Dajni
dopustili da i dalje ostane u kući kad bi tako svima
poĉela da nareĊuje!"
Dotle je već našla put do jedne uredne sobice u
kojoj je do prozora stajao sto i na njemu Alisa
ugleda (kao što se i nadala) lepezu i dva-tri para
majušnih bijelih koţnih rukavica. Dohvati lepezu i
jedan par rukavica i upravo htjede da izaĊe iz sobe,
kad joj pogled pade na jednu boĉicu što je stajala uz
ogledalo. Ovoga puta na njoj nije bilo naljepnice sa
rijeĉima "Pij me!", pa ipak je Alisa otĉepi i prinese
ustima. "Znam da se uvijek nešto zanimljivo
dogodi", reĉe sama sebi, "kad god pojedem ili
popijem štogod, pa baš da vidim kakvu moć ima ova
boĉica. Nadam se da ću ponovo porasti, jer mi je
zaista dojadilo da budem ovako malena."
Tako je uistinu i bilo, i to prije no što se i nadala.
Nije ispila ni do pola, kad osjeti kako joj glava upire
u tavanicu tako da se morade sageti da ne bi slomila
vrat. Brzo spusti boĉicu govoreći: "Ovo je dovoljno
– nadam se da neću više rasti. I ovako ne mogu kroz
vrata. Kamo sreće da nisam toliko popila!"
Avaj! Prekasno je to zaţeljela! I dalje je rasla i rasla,
i uskoro morade kleknuti na pod. Već idućeg
trenutka nije bilo mjesta ĉak ni za to, i ona htjede da
vidi kako će biti ako legne i jednim laktom se
odupre o vrata a drugu ruku savije oko glave. Ipak
je još uvijek rasla, i jedino što joj preostade bijaše
da proturi jednu ruku kroz prozor a jednu nogu
gurne u dimnjak. "E, sad više ništa ne mogu, pa ma
šta se desilo. Šta li će biti sa mnom?"
Srećom, ĉarobni napitak je već bio postigao svoje i
Alisa prestade da raste. Pa ipak joj je bilo vrlo
neudobno i, pošto je izgledalo da se više nikad neće
moći iskobeljati iz ove sobe, nije ni ĉudo što je
uhvati oĉaj.
"Bilo je mnogo ljepše kod kuće", pomisli jadna
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'when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller,
and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost
wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--
and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of
life! I do wonder what can have happened to me!
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of
thing never happened, and now here I am in the
middle of one! There ought to be a book written
about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I'll
write one--but I'm grown up now,' she added in a
sorrowful tone; 'at least there's no room to grow up
any more here.''But then,' thought Alice, 'shall I never
get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort,
one way--never to be an old woman-- but then--
always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't like
that!''Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself.
'How can you learn lessons in here? Why, there's
hardly room for you, and no room at all for any
lesson-books!'
And so she went on, taking first one side and then the
other, and making quite a conversation of it
altogether; but after a few minutes she heard a voice
outside, and stopped to listen.
'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. 'Fetch me my
gloves this moment!'
Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice
knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and
she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting
that she was now about a thousand times as large as
the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.
Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to
open it; but, as the door opened inwards, and Alice's
elbow was pressed hard against it, that attempt
proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself 'Then I'll
go round and get in at the window.'
'That you won't' thought Alice, and, after waiting till
she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the
window, she suddenly spread out her hand, and made
a snatch in the air. She did not get hold of anything,
but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of
broken glass, from which she concluded that it was
just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or
Alisa, "kad nisi morao stalno da rasteš i da se
smanjuješ, i kad ti nisu zapovijedali miševi i zeĉevi.
Zamalo pa da zaţalim što sam i sišla u ovu zeĉju
logu – pa ipak – pa ipak – znaš, priliĉno je zanimljiv
ovakav ţivot! Kad sam ĉitala bajke, mislila sam da
se tako nešto nikad ne dogaĊa, a sada evo me usred
bajke! Treba napisati knjigu o meni, i te kako treba!
A kad odrastem, napisaću je ja. Ali, sad sam već
odrasla", dodade ţalosno. "Bar ovdje nema više
mjesta za rast." "Znaĉi li to, da nikad neću biti
starija nego što sam sada?", pomisli Alisa. "To je
utješno, s jedne strane – nikada ne biti starica. Ali, s
druge – uvijek morati uĉiti! To ne bih voljela!" "Eh,
luda Aliso!", sama sebi odgovori. "Kako moţeš
ovdje uĉiti? Ta nema dovoljno mjesta ni za tebe, a
kamoli za knjige!"
I tako ona nastavi da vodi pravi pravcati razgovor,
preuzimajući prvo jednu pa zatim drugu stranu. Ali
poslije nekoliko trenutaka zaĉu spolja jedan glas i
zastade da bi oslušnula.
"Meri En! Meri En!", javljao se glas. "Brzo mi
dodaj rukavice!"
Onda se zaĉu sitno trupkanje uz stepenice. Alisa je
znala da to Zec dolazi da je traţi i tako zadrhta da se
sva kuća zadrma. Potpuno je zaboravila da je sad
hiljadu puta veća od Zeca i da nema razloga da ga se
plaši.
U to Zec doĊe do vrata i pokuša da ih otvori. Ali
pošto su se vrata otvarala unutra, a bila dobro
poduprta Alisinim laktom, to mu ne poĊe za rukom.
Alisa ĉu kako veli sam sebi: "Onda ću proći okolo i
ući kroz prozor."
"E, to nećeš!", pomisli Alisa, i pošto priĉeka sve
dotle dok joj se ne uĉini da ĉuje Zeca ispod samog
prozora, naglo ispruţi ruku i zagrabi njom po
vazduhu. Ništa nije uhvatila, ali zaĉu vrisak i pad, i
lomljavu razbijenog stakla, na osnovu ĉega zakljuĉi
da je Zec vjerovatno upao u staklenik sa
krastavcima, ili tako nešto.
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something of the sort.
Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit's--'Pat! Pat!
Where are you?' And then a voice she had never
heard before, 'Sure then I'm here! Digging for apples,
yer honour!'
'Digging for apples, indeed!' said the Rabbit angrily.
'Here! Come and help me out of this!' (Sounds of
more broken glass.)
'Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'
'Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' (He pronounced it
'arrum.')
'An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size?
Why, it fills the whole window!'
'Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that.'
'Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and
take it away!'
There was a long silence after this, and Alice could
only hear whispers now and then; such as, 'Sure, I
don't like it, yer honour, at all, at all!' 'Do as I tell
you, you coward!' and at last she spread out her hand
again, and made another snatch in the air. This time
there were two little shrieks, and more sounds of
broken glass. 'What a number of cucumber-frames
there must be!' thought Alice. 'I wonder what they'll
do next! As for pulling me out of the window, I only
wish they could! I'm sure I don't want to stay in here
any longer!'
She waited for some time without hearing anything
more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and
the sound of a good many voices all talking together:
she made out the words: 'Where's the other ladder?--
Why, I hadn't to bring but one; Bill's got the other--
Bill! fetch it here, lad!--Here, put 'em up at this
corner--No, tie 'em together first--they don't reach
half high enough yet--Oh! they'll do well enough;
don't be particular-- Here, Bill! catch hold of this
rope--Will the roof bear?--Mind that loose slate--Oh,
it's coming down! Heads below!' (a loud crash)--
'Now, who did that?--It was Bill, I fancy--Who's to
go down the chimney?--Nay, I shan't! you do it!--
That I won't, then!--Bill's to go down--Here, Bill! the
master says you're to go down the chimney!'
Onda do nje dopre jedan ljutit glas – Zeĉev: "Pat!
Pat! Gdje si?" A tada glas koji nikad dosad nije
ĉula: "Ma, gdje bih bio, tu sam! Okopavam jabuke,
vaša milosti!"
"Okopavaš jabuke, je li?", reĉe Zec gnjevno.
"Ovamo! Dolazi i pomozi mi da se izvuĉem
odavde!" (Opet lomljava razbijena stakla.)
"Ĉuj, Pat, šta je ono na prozoru?"
"Pa, ruka, vaša milosti!"
"Ruka, tikvane jedan! Ko je ikad vidio toliku
ruĉetinu? Zakrilila je ĉitav prozor!"
"Tako je, vaša milosti. Pa ipak je ruka."
"Ali tu njoj i tako i tako nije mjesto. Idi i ukloni je."
Poslije toga nastade dug tajac i Alisa je samo s
vremena na vrijeme mogla ĉuti šapat kao: "Sigurno,
ne sviĊa mi se to, vaša milosti, nikako, nikako!"
"Uĉini kao što ti kaţem, kukavico!", i ona najzad
opet proturi ruku i opet zagrabi po vazduhu. Ovoga
puta se zaĉuše dva nejaka vriska i ponovna lomljava
razbijena stakla. "Koliko li tu mora da ima
staklenika s krastavcima!", pomisli Alisa. "Da mi je
znati šta li će sad uraditi! A što se tiĉe onog da me
izvuku s prozora, kamo sreće da to mognu! Sigurna
sam da i ne ţelim da ovdje duţe ostanem!"
Neko vrijeme je ĉekala. Ništa se nije ĉulo. Najzad,
doprije do nje tandrkanje malih kolica i
mnogobrojni glasovi što su u isti mah govorili. Alisa
razabra rijeĉi: "Gdje su druge ljestve? – Pa trebalo je
da ja donesem samo jedne. Druge su kod Bila –
Bile! Donesi ih ovamo, momĉe! – Evo, prisloni ih
uz ovo ćoše! – Ne, prvo ih zajedno sveţi – ne seţu
ni do polovine! – Eto, sad će biti dosta dobro. Ne
budi prznica! Ovamo, Bile! Uhvati ovo uţe! – Hoće
li krov izdrţati? – Pazi na taj rasklimani crijep! –
Oh, pada! Sagnite glave! (snaţan prasak) – E, ko je
to uradio? – Ĉini mi se Bil – Ko će se spustiti niz
dimnjak? – Ne, ja neću! Ti ćeš! – To ja neću! – Bil
će poći dolje – Hej, Bile! Gospodar veli da se ti
moraš spustiti niz dimnjak!"
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'Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has "Oh! Znaĉi, Bil se mora spustiti niz dimnjak, je li?",
he?' said Alice to herself. 'Shy, they seem to put reĉe Alisa. "Oho, izgleda sve navalili na Bila. Ne
everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be in Bill's place for bih baš bila u Bilovoj koţi. Istina, ovaj dimnjak je
a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure; but I uzan, ali ja mislim, da ću se moći malo ritnuti!"
think I can kick a little!'
She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she Alisa povuĉe nogu niz dimnjak koliko god je mogla
could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she i ĉekaše sve dok ne zaĉu kako neka ţivotinjica (nije
couldn't guess of what sort it was) scratching and mogla pogoditi koja) grebe i puţe niz dimnjak taĉno
scrambling about in the chimney close above her: iznad nje, a onda rekavši sebi: "To je Bil!", oštro se
then, saying to herself 'This is Bill,' she gave one ritnu i ĉekaše da vidi šta će se sad zbiti.
sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen
next.
The first thing she heard was a general chorus of Prvo što zaĉu bijaše opšta graja. "Odletje Bil!" Onda
'There goes Bill!' then the Rabbit's voice along-- se javi sam Zec – "Uhvatite ga vi, tamo pokraj
'Catch him, you by the hedge!' then silence, and then ţivice!". Onda tišina, pa opet ţamor glasova –
another confusion of voices--'Hold up his head-- "Pridrţite mu glavu – Daj rakiju – Pazite da se ne
Brandy now--Don't choke him--How was it, old zagrcne – Kako to bi, stari draškane? Šta ti se
fellow? What happened to you? Tell us all about it!' desilo? Ispriĉaj nam sve!"
Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, ('That's Najzad se javi sitan, slabašan, piskav glasić. ("To je
Bill,' thought Alice,) 'Well, I hardly know--No more, Bil", pomisli Alisa.) "Pa jedva da i znam – Neću
thank ye; I'm better now--but I'm a deal too flustered više, hvala vam. Sad mi je bolje – ali sam isuviše
to tell you--all I know is, something comes at me like ošamućen da bih vam umio ispriĉati – sve što znam
a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!' jest da je put mene krenulo nešto kao onaj
ĉovjeĉuljak iz kutije, i da sam uzletio kao raketa!"
'So you did, old fellow!' said the others. "I jesi, druškane!" rekoše ostali.
'We must burn the house down!' said the Rabbit's "Moramo zapaliti kuću!", javi se Zeĉev glas. A
voice; and Alice called out as loud as she could, 'If Alisa grmnu iz sve snage: "Ako to uradite, poslaću
you do. I'll set Dinah at you!' Dajnu na vas!"
There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought Najednom nastade grobna tišina, i Alisa pomisli:
to herself, 'I wonder what they will do next! If they "Da mi je znati šta li će sad uraditi? Ako su imalo
had any sense, they'd take the roof off.' After a mudri, skinuće krov." Poslije ĉasak-dva opet se
minute or two, they began moving about again, and uzmuvaše i Alisa ĉu kako Zec kaţe: "Za poĉetak će
Alice heard the Rabbit say, 'A barrowful will do, to biti dovoljna jedna kolica."
begin with.'
'A barrowful of what?' thought Alice; but she had not "Kolica ĉega?", premišljaše Alisa. Ali nije morala
long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little dugo nagaĊati, jer već sljedećeg trena pljusak sitnog
pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some of šljunka poĉe da dobuje po prozora i nekoliko
them hit her in the face. 'I'll put a stop to this,' she kamenĉića zgodiše je u lice. "Staću ja u kraj tome",
said to herself, and shouted out, 'You'd better not do reĉe u sebi i povika: "Bolje vam je da to više ne
that again!' which produced another dead silence. radite!" Poslije toga opet zavlada grobna tišina.
Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles Priliĉno iznenaĊena, Alisa primijeti da se kamenĉići,
were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the koji su bili rasuti po podu, pretvaraju svi odreda u
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floor, and a bright idea came into her head. 'If I eat kolaĉiće, i jedna joj sjajna misao sinu u glavi. "Ako
one of these cakes,' she thought, 'it's sure to make pojedem jedan od ovih kolaĉića", premišljaše,
some change in my size; and as it can't possibly make "sigurno će nastupiti neka promjena u mojoj
me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.' veliĉini. A pošto po svoj prilici ne mogu biti veća,
valjda ću postati manja."
So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was Zato pojede jedan kolaĉ i sva oduševljena zapazi da
delighted to find that she began shrinking directly. As se istog trena poĉe smanjivati. Ĉim se toliko
soon as she was small enough to get through the smanjila da je mogla proći kroz vrata, strelimice
door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a istrĉa iz kuće i ugleda mnoštvo ţivotinjica i ptica
crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside. The kako napolju ĉekaju. Jadni mali gušter, Bil, bijaše u
poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held sredini. Pridrţavala su ga dva zamorĉeta i davala mu
up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something da pije nešto iz boce. Ĉim se Alisa pojavi, svi
out of a bottle. They all made a rush at Alice the jurnuše na nju. Ali ona potrĉa što je brţe mogla i
moment she appeared; but she ran off as hard as she uskoro se naĊe pod okriljem guste šume.
could, and soon found herself safe in a thick wood.
'The first thing I've got to do,' said Alice to herself, as "Prvo što moram da uradim", reĉe Alisa tumarajući
she wandered about in the wood, 'is to grow to my po šumi, "jest da se opet vratim na svoju pravu
right size again; and the second thing is to find my mjeru. A drugo, da pronaĊem put do one divne
way into that lovely garden. I think that will be the bašte. Mislim da je ovo najbolji plan."
best plan.'
It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very Bez sumnje bio je to izvrstan plan, zgodan i
neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was, jednostavan. Teškoća je bila samo u tome što ni
that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it; pojma nije imala kako da ga ostvari. I dok je briţno
and while she was peering about anxiously among zavirivala meĊu drveće, sitan, oštar laveţ, taman
the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made poviše njene glave – natjera je da ţurno podigne
her look up in a great hurry. pogled.
An enormous puppy was looking down at her with Neki krupni psić gledao je u nju svojim velikim,
large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, okruglastim oĉima i uzaludno pruţao šapu, nastojeći
da je dotakne. "Jadniĉak moj lijepi!", javi mu se
trying to touch her. 'Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a
coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it; but Alisa umiljato i pokuša da mu što jaĉe zvizne, ali
she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought sve vrijeme uţasno ju je plašila pomisao da je pas
that it might be hungry, in which case it would be moţda gladan, pa bi se u tom sluĉaju moglo bogme
very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing. desiti i da je pojede, uprkos svem njenom
umiljavanju.
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little I ne znajući zapravo šta radi, Alisa dohvati jedan
bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon štapić i pruţi ga psiću. Istog ĉasa psić poskoĉi uvis
the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, sa sve ĉetiri, radosno zakevta i jurnu prema štapiću,
with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and kao da će ga raskomadati. Tada se Alisa skloni iza
made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a stabljike jednog velikog ĉiĉka da je pseto ne bi
great thistle, to keep herself from being run over; and pregazilo. Ali ĉim se pojavi sa druge strane, psić se
the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy ponovo zaletje na štap i u jurnjavi ga dohvati,
made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head prevrnu se preko glave. Onda Alisa pomisli kako je
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over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, ova igra nalik na igru sa kakvim snaţnim konjem, i
thinking it was very like having a game of play with a oĉekujući svakog ĉasa da je psić obori pod noge i
cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be zgazi, ona opet optrĉa oko ĉiĉka. Psić je nasrtao na
trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; štapić, ali je svaki put trĉao malĉice naprijed, a
then the puppy began a series of short charges at the uzmicao mnogo više nazad, i cijelo vrijeme
stick, running a very little way forwards each time promuklo lajao dok najzad ne sjede na popriliĉnoj
and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the razdaljini, zadihan, isplaţena jezika i poluzatvorenih
while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, krupnih oĉiju.
with its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great
eyes half shut.
This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making Alisi se uĉini da je ovo pogodna prilika da umakne.
her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was Zato smjesta krenu i trĉala je sve dok ne ostade bez
quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy's bark daha. Pseći laveţ je sad jedva ĉujno dopirao do nje
sounded quite faint in the distance. iz daljine.
'And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said Alice, "Pa ipak, što je to bio divan psić!", reĉe Alisa i
as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and osloni se na maslaĉak da se odmori, mašući se
fanned herself with one of the leaves: 'I should have jednim njegovim listom. "Baš bih voljela da ga
liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I'd only been nauĉim kojekakvim vještinama, samo – samo kad
the right size to do it! Oh dear! I'd nearly forgotten bih bila toliko velika da to mogu! Oh, jadna ja!
that I've got to grow up again! Let me see--how is it Zamalo ne zaboravih da opet moram da porastem!
to be managed? I suppose I ought to eat or drink Ĉekaj – kako li ću to postići? Vjerovatno treba da
something or other; but the great question is, what?' pojedem ili popijem štogod. Ali veliko je pitanje
šta."
The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked Veliko pitanje i jeste bilo: šta? Alisa pregleda
all round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, cvijeće i vlati trave, ali ne vidje ništa što bi u ovoj
but she did not see anything that looked like the right prilici moglo izgledati baš ono pravo što treba
thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. There pojesti ili popiti. U blizini je rasla jedna velika
was a large mushroom growing near her, about the peĉurka, otprilike njene visine. Alisa zaviri pod
same height as herself; and when she had looked peĉurku, pogleda na jednu pa na drugu stranu, zaviri
under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it i iza peĉurke i dosjeti se da bi mogla pogledati i ima
occurred to her that she might as well look and see li šta na njoj.
what was on the top of it.
She stretched herself up on tiptoe , and peeped over Prope se na prste i pogleda iznad peĉurkinog ruba i
the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately tog istog ĉasa oĉi joj se susretoše sa oĉima jedne
met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the velike plave gusjenice koja je skrštenih ruku sjedjela
top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long na samom vrhu peĉurke i mirno pušila na dugu
hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or nargilu ne obraćajući ni najmanje paţnje Alisi niti
of anything else. iĉem drugom.

CHAPTER V Glava V
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Advice from a Caterpillar
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for
some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the
hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a
languid, sleepy voice.
'Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a
conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I--I hardly
know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I was
when I got up this morning, but I think I must have
been changed several times since then.'
'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar
sternly. 'Explain yourself!'
'I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice,
'because I'm not myself, you see.'
'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.
'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied
very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin
with; and being so many different sizes in a day is
very confusing.'
'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice;
'but when you have to turn into a chrysalis--you will
some day, you know--and then after that into a
butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a little queer,
won't you?'
'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.
'Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said
Alice; 'all I know is, it would feel very queer to me.'
'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 'Who are
you?'
Which brought them back again to the beginning of
the conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the
Caterpillar's making such very short remarks, and she
drew herself up and said, very gravely, 'I think, you
ought to tell me who you are, first.'
'Why?' said the Caterpillar.
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 unpleasant state of
mind, she turned away.
'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her. 'I've
GUSJENIČIN SAVJET
Gusjenica i Alisa su se neko vrijeme šutke
promatrale. Naposljetku Gusjenica izvadi nargilu iz
usta i obrati joj se otegnutim, sanjivim glasom:
"Ko si ti?", zapita Gusjenica.
Ovakvo zapoĉinjanje razgovora nije djelovalo baš
ohrabrujuće. Alisa odgovori priliĉno stidljivo: "Ja –
ja – jedva to sad i znam, gospoĊo – ali bar znam ko
sam bila kad sam jutros ustala, no ĉini mi se da sam
se otada već nekoliko puta promijenila."
"Šta hoćeš time da kaţeš?", zapita Gusjenica strogo.
"Budi jasnija!"
"Naţalost, ne mogu biti jasnija, gospoĊo," reĉe
Alisa, "jer kao što vidite ja nisam ja."
"Ja to ne vidim", reĉe Gusjenica.
"Bojim se da to ne mogu izraziti jasnije", odvrati
Alisa vrlo uĉtivo, jer, prvo i prvo, ni ja sama to ne
razumijem. Moraš se zbuniti kad u jednom jedinom
danu promijeniš toliko veliĉina."
"Ne moraš" reĉe Gusjenica.
"Pa moţda vi to još niste osjetili", reĉe Alisa. "Ali
kad se preobratite u ĉauru – a tako će, znate, morati
da bude jednog dana – a poslije toga u leptira,
vjerujem da ćete se osjećati malo ĉudno, zar ne?"
"Nimalo", reĉe Gusjenica.
"Pa moţda vi drukĉije osjećate", reĉe Alisa. "Ali ja
znam da bi meni bilo vrlo ĉudno."
"Tebi!" reĉe Gusjenica prezrivo. "A ko si ti?"
I to ih opet vrati na poĉetak razgovora. Alisa se
ljutnu što Gusjenica stavlja tako kratke primjedbe,
protegnu se što je više mogla u visinu i reĉe vrlo
ozbiljno: "Mislim da vi prvo treba meni da kaţete
ko ste".
"Zašto?", Gusjenica će.
I ovo pitanje zbuni Alisu. I kako se nije mogla
dosjetiti nikakvog zgodnog razloga, i kako je
Gusjenica po svemu sudeći bila vrlo zle volje, ona
se okrenu i poĊe.
"Vrati se!", viknu Gusjenica za njom. "Imam nešto
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something important to say!'
This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and
came back again.
'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.
'Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as
well as she could.
'No,' said the Caterpillar.
Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had
nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell
her something worth hearing. For some minutes it
puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded
its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and
said, 'So you think you're changed, do you?'
'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember
things as I used--and I don't keep the same size for
ten minutes together!'
'Can't remember what things?' said the Caterpillar.
'Well, I've tried to say "How doth the little busy bee,"
but it all came different!' Alice replied in a very
melancholy voice.
'Repeat, "you are old, Father William,"' said the
Caterpillar.
Alice folded her hands, and began:--
'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?'
'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son,
'I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.'
'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 youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey "Kad mladić bijah", reče mudrac, zabaciv kovrdže
locks, sijede,
'I kept all my limbs very supple Očuvah gipkost, znaš,
vaţno da ti kaţem!"
Izgledalo je da ovo uistinu nešto obećava. Alisa se
okrenu i vrati.
"Nauĉi da se savlaĊuješ!", dobaci joj Gusjenica.
"Je li to sve?", reĉe Alisa prigušujući svoj gnjev što
je bolje umjela.
"Nije", reĉe Gusjenica.
Alisa pomisli da bi mogla i popriĉekati, jer i tako i
tako nema šta da radi a, najposlije, moţda će joj i
kazati nešto što vrijedi ĉuti. Nekoliko ĉasaka
Gusjenica je odbijala dimove bez rijeĉi, ali najzad
raskrsti ruke, ponovo izvadi iz usta nargilu i reĉe: "I
tako ti misliš da si se promijenila, je li?"
"Naţalost, jesam, gospoĊo", reĉe Alisa. "Ne pamtim
kao što sam pamtila – i ni deset minuta ne mogu da
zadrţim istu veliĉinu!"
"Šta ne pamtiš?", zapita Gusjenica.
"Pa, eto, probala sam da recitujem 'Gle, malene
pĉelice' ali ispalo je drukĉije!", odgovori Alisa vrlo
tuţno.
"Recituj 'Star si, oĉe Viljeme'", reĉe Gusjenica.
Alisa skrsti ruke i otpoĉe:
"Star si, oče Viljeme", sin se javi,
"I kosa ti je sva sijeda
Pa ipak stalno dubiš na glavi,
zar u tvojim godinama to tebi treba?"
"Kad mlad sam bio", otac je odgovor imao
spreman,
"Da ću povrijediti mozak, plaših se jadan,
Al' sada, kad siguran sam da ga nemam,
Dubim na glavi iz dana u dan."
"Star si", opet će mladić, "kao što već rekoh,
I ugojio si se baš dosta,
A da se prevrćeš preko glave maločas te zatekoh,
Reci, kako tako gibak osta?"
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By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box- Zahvaljujući masti ovoj baš – jedan šiling doĎe za
kutiju.
- Allow me to sell you a couple?' A šta veliš – da ti prodam koju?"

'You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too "Star si", reče mladić, " i zubi su ti isuviše slabi,
weak tugo moja.
For anything tougher than suet; Da bi mogli pregrist šta tvrĎe od loja,
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the Pa ipak gusku sa kostima smaza bez po muke,
beak—
Pray how did you manage to do it?' Zar nije čudno da ti to tako ide od ruke?"

'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, "Kad mlad sam bio", reče otac, "volio sam pravo
And argued each case with my wife; I svaku stvar sa ženom sam raspravlj'o.
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, To, vidiš, očvrsnu vilice moje
Has lasted the rest of my life.' I ta snaga, eto sve dosada traje."

'You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly
suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose—
What made you so awfully clever?'
"Star si", sin će opet, " i teško bi se vjerovalo sad
Da ti je oko oštro k'o nekad.
Pa ipak si navrh nosa jegulju držao
Kako si tu silnu vještinu stekao?"

'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,' "Odgovorih na pitanja tri, više me ne gnjavi,
Said his father; 'don't give yourself airs! Važan se ne pravi!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Zar cijeli dan da slušam besmislice?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!' Gubi se dok nisi sletio niz stepenice!

'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.
'Not quite right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some
of the words have got altered.'
'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the
Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some
minutes.
The Caterpillar was the first to speak.
'What size do you want to be?' it asked.
'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily
replied; 'only one doesn't like changing so often, you
know.'
'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar.
Alice said nothing: she had never been so much
contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she
was losing her temper.
"To nisi dobro odrecitovala!", reĉe Gusjenica.
"Sve se bojim da i nisam baš sasvim dobro", reĉe
Alisa bojaţljivo. "Neke su se rijeĉi izmijenile."
"Ne valja od poĉetka do konca", reĉe Gusjenica
odluĉno, i nekoliko ĉasaka vladaše tišina.
Prva progovori Gusjenica.
"Kolika ţeliš da budeš?", zapita.
"Nisam probirljiva u pogledu veliĉine", odvrati
Alisa ţurno, "samo nikom nije drago da se mijenja
tako ĉesto, znate."
"Ne znam", odgovori Gusjenica.
Alisa ne odgovori. Još nikad dosad nije joj neko
toliko protivrjeĉio, i osjeti da gubi strpljenje.
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'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. "Jesi li sadašnjom visinom zadovoljna?" zapita
Gusjenica.
'Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you "Pa voljela bih da sam malko veća, gospoĊo, ako
wouldn't mind,' said Alice: 'three inches is such a nemate ništa protiv", reĉe Alisa. "Visina od osam
wretched height to be.' santimetara je tako bijedna!"
'It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar "To je divna visina!", odbrusi Gusjenica
angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was uspravljajući se. (Imala je taĉno osam santimetara.)
exactly three inches high).
'But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a "Ali ja nisam navikla na nju", pravdala se jadna
piteous tone. And she thought of herself, 'I wish the Alisa ţalosno. I pomisli: "Samo kad se ne bi svi
creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!' vrijeĊali tako lako!"
'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and "Vremenom ćeš se naviknuti", odsijeĉe Gusjenica i
it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking stavi nargilu u usta i nastavi da puši.
again.
This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to Alisa je sad strpljivo ĉekala da se Gusjenica
speak again. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took umilostivi pa da progovori. Koji ĉasak kasnije
the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or Gusjenica izvadi iz usta nargilu, jedanput-dvaput
twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the zijevnu i strese se. Onda siĊe sa peĉurke i otpuza u
mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely travu dobacivši onako usput: "Ako jedeš s jedne
remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow strane, postaćeš viša, a s druge, manja!"
taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.
''One side of what? The other side of what?' thought "S jedne strane ĉega? S druge strane ĉega!"
Alice to herself. premišljaše Alisa.
'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she "Peĉurke", reĉe Gusjenica baš kao da je to pitanje
had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out Alisa glasno izrekla. I već sljedećeg trena se izgubi.
of sight.
Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the Jedan ĉasak Alisa je zamišljeno gledala u peĉurku,
mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which nastojeći da odgonetne koje su to dvije njene strane.
were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly Ali pošto je peĉurka bila potpuno okrugla, bilo je to
round, she found this a very difficult question. vrlo teško. Naposljetku ispruţi ruke, obgrli peĉurku
However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far koliko god je to mogla, i svakom rukom sa njenog
as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with ruba odlomi po jedno parĉe.
each hand.
'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and "E, sad koje je koja?", upita se i gricnu malo od
nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: parĉeta iz desne ruke da vidi šta će biti. Već idućeg
the next moment she felt a violent blow underneath trena osjeti odozdo ţestok udarac u bradu. To
her chin: it had struck her foot! bradom bijaše udarila o nogu!
She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden Prestravi se od ove nagle promjene, ali osjeti da
change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, nema vremena na pretek, jer se tako brzo
as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at smanjivala. Zato se brţe bolje prihvati drugog
once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was parĉeta. Ali noga joj je toliko bila pritisla bradu, da
pressed so closely against her foot, that there was jednostavno nije mogla otvoriti usta. Najzad joj to
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hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last,
and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.
'Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of
delight, which changed into alarm in another
moment, when she found that her shoulders were
nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she
looked down, was an immense length of neck, which
seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves
that lay far below her.
'What can all that green stuff be?' said Alice. 'And
where have my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor
hands, how is it I can't see you?' She was moving
them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to
follow, except a little shaking among the distant
green leaves.
As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands
up to her head, she tried to get her head down to
them, and was delighted to find that her neck would
bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. She
had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful
zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves,
which she found to be nothing but the tops of the
trees under which she had been wandering, when a
sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large
pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her
violently with its wings.
'Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.
'I'm 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 them!'
'I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,'
said Alice.
'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and
I've tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without
attending to her; 'but those serpents! There's no
pleasing them!'
Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought
there was no use in saying anything more till the
Pigeon had finished.
'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said
poĊe za rukom i ona uspije da proguta mrvicu od
parĉeta iz lijeve ruke.
"Evo, glava mi je najzad slobodna", reĉe Alisa s
radošću koja se već idućeg trena pretvori u uţas, jer
nikako nije mogla da vidi svoja vlastita ramena.
Jedino što je mogla vidjeti kad je spustila pogled,
bio je strašno dugaĉak vrat. Izgledalo je da se poput
kakve stabljike uzdiţe iz mora zelenog lišća što se
steralo daleko ispod nje.
"Kakvo li je ovo zelenilo?", zapita se Alisa. "I gdje
su mi se djenula ramena? Oh, jadne moje ruke, kako
to da ne mogu ni vas da vidim?" Mahala je rukama,
ali se ništa ne dogodi. Samo daleko zeleno lišće
malo zatreperi.
I pošto ne bijaše nikakve nade da će moći podići
ruke do glave, Alisa pokuša da do njih spusti glavu,
i sa oduševljenjem zapazi da joj se vrat lako pomiĉe
u svim pravcima, kao kakva zmija. I baš kad joj
poĊe za rukom da ga svega ispresavija u jedan divan
cik-cak, i kad htjede da zaroni meĊu lišće – a
shvatila je da to lišće nije ništa drugo do lišće na
krošnjama drveća ispod kojeg je hodala – kad je
neko oštro pištanje natjera da se ţurno povuĉe.
Jedna velika golubica joj se bila zaletjela u lice i
snaţno je udarala krilima.
"Zmijo!" vrisnu Golubica.
"Ja nisam zmija!", odvrati Alisa srdito. "Pusti me na
miru!"
"Kaţem ti, zmijo!", ponovi Golubica, ali mnogo
blaţe i samo što ne zajeca. "Sve sam pokušala, ali
njima, izgleda ništa ne valja!"
"Nemam ni pojma o ĉemu ti to govoriš", reĉe Alisa.
"Probala sam meĊu ţilama drveća, probala na
obalama i probala u ţivicama", nastavi Golubica i
ne slušajući je. "Ah, te zmije! Ne moţeš im
ugoditi!"
Alisa se sve više i više snebivala, ali je uviĊala da
nema nikakvog smisla da išta govori sve dok
Golubica ne završi.
"Kao da nemam dosta muke dok snesem jaja", reĉe
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the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents
night and day! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep
these three weeks!'
'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who
was beginning to see its meaning.
'And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,'
continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek,
'and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at
last, they must needs come wriggling down from the
sky! Ugh, Serpent!'
'But I'm not a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. 'I'm a--
I'm a--'
'Well! what are you?' said the Pigeon. 'I can see
you're trying to invent something!'
'I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as
she remembered the number of changes she had gone
through that day.
'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of
the deepest contempt. 'I've seen a good many little
girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as
that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use
denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that
you never tasted an egg!'
'I have tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a
very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as
much as serpents do, you know.'
'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do,
why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can
say.'
This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite
silent for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the
opportunity of adding, 'You're looking for eggs, I
know that well enough; and what does it matter to me
whether you're a little girl or a serpent?'
'It matters a good deal to me,' said Alice hastily; 'but
I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I
shouldn't want yours: I don't like them raw.'
'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as
it settled down again into its nest. Alice crouched
down among the trees as well as she could, for her
neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and
every now and then she had to stop and untwist it.
Golubica, "već moram i dan i noć biti na oprezu
zbog zmija! Eto, ove tri nedjelje nisam ni oka
sklopila!"
"Vrlo mi je ţao što ti ne daju mira", reĉe Alisa koja
je poĉela da shvata šta Golubica hoće da kaţe.
"I baš kad sam se smjestila na najvišem drvetu u
šumi", nastavi Golubica, podiţući glas do piska, "i
baš kad sam mislila da ću ih se najzad osloboditi,
morala si se dovijugati s neba! Uf, zmijo!"
"Ali ja nisam zmija, kaţem ti!", reĉe Alisa. "Ja sam
– ja sam..."
"Hajde, šta si?", reĉe Golubica. "Vidim da hoćeš da
smutiš nešto!"
"Ja sam – ja sam djevojĉica", reĉe Alisa priliĉno
neuvjerljivo, jer se sjeti koliko se puta danas
promijenila.
"Bogami, lijepa priĉa!", reĉe Golubica sa najdubljim
prezirom. "U ţivotu sam vidjela puno djevojĉica, ali
nikada nijednu sa tolikim vratom! Ne, ne! Ti si
zmija! I nema nikakvog smisla da poriĉeš. Sigurno
ćeš mi sada kazati kako nikad nisi okusila nijedno
jaje!"
"Jaja sam jela, naravno", reĉe Alisa koja je bila vrlo
istinoljubivo dijete. "Ali djevojĉice jedu jaja koliko i
zmije, znaš."
"Ne vjerujem u to", reĉe Golubica. "Al' ako jedu,
onda su i one neka vrsta zmija, to je jedino što mogu
da kaţem."
Bilo je to toliko novo za Alisu da je ĉasak dva
šutjela. Na to Golubica dodade: "Traţiš jaja, vrlo
dobro to znam. I svejedno mi je jesi li djevojĉica ili
zmija."
"Meni nipošto nije svejedno", reĉe Alisa ţurno. "Ali
ja sluĉajno ne traţim jaja. A i da traţim, ne bih
uzimala tvoja. Ne volim prijesna jaja."
"Onda, gubi se odavde!", reĉe Golubica mrzovoljno
i opet se namjesti u gnijezdu. Alisa se šćućuri
izmeĊu drveća kako je najbolje znala i umjela, jer
joj se vrat zaplitao meĊu granje i svaki ĉas je morala
zastajati da ga otpetljava. Poslije nekog vremena
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After a while she remembered that she still held the
pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work
very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the
other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes
shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself
down to her usual height.
It was so long since she had been anything near the
right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got
used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to
herself, as usual. 'Come, there's half my plan done
now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never
sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to
another! However, I've got back to my right size: the
next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden--how is
that to be done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came
suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it
about four feet high. 'Whoever lives there,' thought
Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them this size:
why, I should frighten them out of their wits!' So she
began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not
venture to go near the house till she had brought
herself down to nine inches high.
CHAPTER VI
Pig and Pepper
For a minute or two she stood looking at the house,
and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a
footman in livery came running out of the wood--(she
considered him to be a footman because he was in
livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would
have called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door
with his knuckles. It was opened by another footman
in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like a
frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered
hair that curled all over their heads. She felt very
curious to know what it was all about, and crept a
little way out of the wood to listen.
The Fish-Footman began by producing from under
his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself, and
this he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn
dosjeti se da u rukama još uvijek drţi komadićke
peĉurke i vrlo oprezno prionu na posao, grickajući
prvo jedan pa onda drugi, i pri tom je ĉas rasla a ĉas
se smanjivala, sve dok joj ne poĊe za rukom da doĊe
do svoje uobiĉajene visine.
Već toliko dugo nije bila ni blizu svoje prave
veliĉine, da joj se u prvi mah to uĉini ĉudno. Ali za
nekoliko ĉasaka se naviknu i kao i obiĉno poĉe da
razgovara sama sa sobom. "Eto, pola mog plana je
sad ispunjeno! Ala me zbunjuju sve ove promjene!
Nikad nisam sigurna kakva li ću već sljedećeg
trenutka biti! Uostalom, došla sam do svoje prave
veliĉine. Sad treba da odem u onu lijepu baštu – da
mi je znati kako li ću to izvesti?" Rekavši to, izbi na
neku ĉistinu i na njoj ugleda kućicu visoku nešto
više od jednog metra. "Ţivio ko mu drago u njoj, ne
bi valjalo da se pred njim ovolika pojavim. Ta
izludio bi od straha!" Zato opet poĉe da gricka
komadić iz desne ruke, dok se ne smanji do visine
od kojih dvadesetak santimetara.
Glava VI
PRASE I BIBER
Ĉasak-dva stajala je gledajući kuću i ne znajući šta
da radi, kad najednom iz šume istrĉa jedan
livrejisani sluga (smatrala ga je slugom zato što je
bio u livreji, inaĉe sudeći po licu, prije bi se reklo da
je riba) i poĉe snaţno udarati šakama u vrata. Otvori
mu ih drugi livrejisan sluga, okruglog lica i krupnih
oĉiju kao u ţabe. Alisa zapazi da je kod obojice
kosa napuderisana i sva u uvojcima. Bila je vrlo
radoznala da sazna šta se to zbiva, pa se iz šume
malo prikrade da oslušne.
Sluga-Riba izvadi ispod miške jedno veliko pismo,
gotovo iste veliĉine kao i on sam, i predade ga
drugom slugi, govoreći sveĉanim glasom: "Za
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tone, 'For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen
to play croquet.' The Frog-Footman repeated, in the
same solemn tone, only changing the order of the
words a little, 'From the Queen. An invitation for the
Duchess to play croquet.'
Then they both bowed low, and their curls got
entangled together.
Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run
back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and
when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was
gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the
door, staring stupidly up into the sky.
Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.
'There's no sort of use in knocking,' said the Footman,
'and that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the
same side of the door as you are; secondly, because
they're making such a noise inside, no one could
possibly hear you.' And certainly there was a most
extraordinary noise going on within--a constant
howling and sneezing, and every now and then a
great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to
pieces.
'Please, then,' said Alice, 'how am I to get in?'
'There might be some sense in your knocking,' the
Footman went on without attending to her, 'if we had
the door between us. For instance, if you were inside,
you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.'
He was looking up into the sky all the time he was
speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil.
'But perhaps he can't help it,' she said to herself; 'his
eyes are so very nearly at the top of his head. But at
any rate he might answer questions.--How am I to get
in?' she repeated, aloud.
'I shall sit here,' the Footman remarked, 'till
tomorrow--'
At this moment the door of the house opened, and a
large plate came skimming out, straight at the
Footman's head: it just grazed his nose, and broke to
pieces against one of the trees behind him.
'--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the
same tone, exactly as if nothing had happened.
'How am I to get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder
Vojvotkinju. Poziv od Kraljice na igru kroketa."
Sluga-Ţabac ponovi istim sveĉanim tonom,
izmijenivši samo malo red rijeĉi: "Od Kraljice.
Poziv za Vojvotkinju na igru kroketa."
Onda se jedan drugom duboko pokloniše i uvojci im
se spletoše.
Alisa se na to toliko stade smijati da morade otrĉati
natrag u šumu, jer se poboja da bi je mogli ĉuti. A
kad ponovo izviri, Sluga-Riba bijaše već otišao, a
Sluga-Ţabac je sjedio kod vrata i blesavo zurio u
nebo.
Alisa bojaţljivo priĊe vratima i zakuca.
"Nema nikakve svrhe da kucaš", reĉe Sluga, "i to iz
dva razloga. Prvo zato što sam na istoj strani vrata
na kojoj si i ti, a drugo, što ovi unutra toliko galame
da je sva prilika da te niko ne moţe ni ĉuti." I zaista,
unutra se tako strašno larmalo – neko je neprestano
urlao i kihao, i ĉas po ĉas ĉula se nekakva silna
lomljava, kao da se kakav tanjir ili lonac razbijaju u
paramparĉad.
"A kako ću onda, moliću, ući?", zapita Alisa.
"Imalo bi nekakvog smisla da kucaš", nastavi Sluga
i ne slušajući je "da su vrata izmeĊu nas. Na primjer,
da si unutra, mogla bi kucati i ja bih te mogao,
razumiješ, ispustiti napolje." I dok je to govorio, sve
vrijeme je gledao u nebo, što je Alisa smatrala zaista
neuĉtivim. "Ali moţda i ne moţe drukĉije", reĉe u
sebi. "Oĉi samo što mu nisu na vrh glave. Ali
mogao bi bar odgovarati na pitanja." "Kako mogu
ući?", ponovi glasno.
"Sjediću ovdje", reĉe Sluga, "do sutra..."
Tog trenutka vrata na kući se otvoriše i jedan veliki
tanjir poletje pravo Slugi na glavu. Ali mu samo
okrznu nos i sasu se u komade kad udari o jedno
stablo iza njega.
"...ili do prekosutra, moţda", nastavi Sluga istim
glasom kao da se ama baš ništa nije ni dogodilo.
"Kako ću ući?", opet će Alisa, još glasnije.
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tone.
'Are you to get in at all?' said the Footman. 'That's the "A hoćeš li uopšte uć i?", Sluga će na to. "To je
first question, you know.' pitanje broj jedan, razumiješ."
It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so. Tako je, besumnje, i bilo. Samo Alisa nije voljela da
'It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way joj se to na takav naĉin kaţe. "Zaista je strašno",
all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one promrmlja Alisa u sebi, "kako se sva ova stvorenja
crazy!' vole da prepiru. Da ĉovjek izludi!"
The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity Slugi se uĉini da je ovo zgodna prilika da ponovi
for repeating his remark, with variations. 'I shall sit ono što je već rekao, samo drukĉije. "Ovdje ću
here,' he said, 'on and off, for days and days.' sjedjeti", reĉe, "neprestano, danima i danima."
'But what am I to do?' said Alice. "Ali šta ja da radim?", zapita Alisa.
'Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began "Što god ti drago", reĉe Sluga i poĉe fićukati.
whistling.
'Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice "Oh, kao da opet ima nekakvog smisla razgovarati s
desperately: 'he's perfectly idiotic!' And she opened njim!", reĉe Alisa sva oĉajna. "Prava je budala!" I
the door and went in. ona otvori vrata i uĊe.
The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full Vrata su vodila pravo u prostranu kuhinju koja je
of smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was bila puna dima. Na sred kuhinje, na jednom
sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing tronošcu, sjedjela je Vojvotkinja i u krilu drţala
a baby; the cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a djetence. Kuharica nadnesena nad vatru, miješala je
large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup. nešto u velikom loncu koji je, kako se Alisi uĉini,
bio pun ĉorbe.
'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' "Vjerovatno su ĉorbu isuviše zabiberili!", reĉe Alisa
Alice said to herself, as well as she could for sama sebi, i to na jedvite jade, jer je neprestano
sneezing. morala da kiše.
There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even Vazduh je doista bio zasićen mirisom bibera. Ĉak bi
the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the i Vojvotkinja ponekad kihnula. A djetence je kihalo
baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without i urlalo, naizmjeniĉno, bez ikakve stanke. Kihale
a moment's pause. The only things in the kitchen that nisu jedino kuharica i velika maĉka koja je sjedjela
did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which na ognjištu, usta iskešenih od uha do uha.
was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.
'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, "Molim vas hoćete li mi reći", javi se Alisa pomalo
for she was not quite sure whether it was good bojaţljivo, jer nije bila baš sigurna da li je lijepo da
manners for her to speak first, 'why your cat grins ona prva zapoĉinje razgovor, "zašto se vaša maĉka
like that?' tako kesi?"
'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. "Zato što je to Ĉeširska maĉka", reĉe Vojvotkinja.
Pig!' "Prase!"
She said the last word with such sudden violence that Vojvotkinja izgovori ovu posljednju rijeĉ sa tako
Alice quite jumped; but she saw in another moment iznenadnom ţestinom da Alisa prosto poskoĉi. Ali
that it was addressed to the baby, and not to her, so odmah shvati da je upućena djetetu a ne njoj, zato se
she took courage, and went on again:-- odvaţi i nastavi:
'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in "Nisam znala da se Ĉeširske maĉke uvijek kese.
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fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.'
'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
'I don't know of any that do,' Alice said very politely,
feeling quite pleased to have got into a conversation.
'You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's
a fact.'
Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and
thought it would be as well to introduce some other
subject of conversation. While she was trying to fix
on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the
fire, and at once set to work throwing everything
within her reach at the Duchess and the baby --the
fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of
saucepans, plates, and dishes. The Duchess took no
notice of them even when they hit her; and the baby
was howling so much already, that it was quite
impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.
'Oh, please mind what you're doing!' cried Alice,
jumping up and down in an agony of terror. 'Oh,
there goes his precious nose'; as an unusually large
saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it
off.
'If everybody minded their own business,' the
Duchess said in a hoarse growl, 'the world would go
round a deal faster than it does.'
'Which would not be an advantage,' said Alice, who
felt very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a
little of her knowledge. 'Just think of what work it
would make with the day and night! You see the
earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its
axis--'
'Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, 'chop off her
head!'
Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if
she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily
stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so
she went on again: 'Twenty-four hours, I think; or is
it twelve? I--'
'Oh, don't bother me,' said the Duchess; 'I never could
abide figures!' And with that she began nursing her
child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did
Zapravo, nisam ni znala da se maĉke umiju kesiti."
"Sve one umiju", reĉe Vojvotkinja, "i većina njih se
i kesi."
"Ja nijednu takvu ne poznajem", reĉe Alisa veoma
uĉtivo i bijaše joj milo što se upustila u razgovor.
"Ĉinjenica je da ti ne znaš mnogo", reĉe
Vojvotkinja.
Alisi se baš ne svidje ton kojim je izgovorena ova
primjedba, i pomisli da bi bilo dobro da zapodjene
razgovor o ĉemu drugom. I dok je nastojala da
iznaĊe štogod, kuharica smaknu sa vatre lonac sa
ĉorbom i istog ĉasa poĉe da na Vojvotkinju i dijete
frljaca sve što joj je dolazilo pod ruku. Prvo
poletješe mašice; onda uslijedi pljusak tava, tanjira i
zdjela. Vojvotkinja nije na njih obraćala nikakvu
paţnju, ĉak ni onda kad bi je šta od toga pogodilo. A
dijete se već i onako toliko dernjalo da nikako nisi
mogao znati kad ga je šta zaboljelo a kad nije.
"Oh, molim vas pazite šta radite!" povika Alisa sva
prestravljena, poskakujući s mjesta na mjesto. "Oh,
ode mu krasni nosić!", zavapi Alisa kad jedna
ogromna tava sunu pored djetinjeg nosa i zamalo što
mu ga ne otkide.
"Kad bi svako gledao svoja posla", javi se
Vojvotkinja promuklim mumljanjem, "svijet bi se
mnogo brţe okretao".
"Što ne bi bilo baš dobro", reĉe Alisa, koja se
obradova što joj se pruţila prilika da malo pokaţe
svoje znanje. "Zamislite šta bi bilo sa danom i noći!
Znate, Zemlji je potrebno dvadeset i ĉetiri sata da se
obrne oko svoje osi..."
"Kad pomenu os", reĉe Vojvotkinja, "odsijecite joj
glavu!"
Alisa priliĉno zabrinuto pogleda kuharicu, da vidi
hoće li izvršiti taj nalog, ali je kuharica bila
zabavljena miješanjem ĉorbe i nije, izgleda, ni
slušala. Zato se Alisa usudi da nastavi: "...mislim,
dvadeset i ĉetiri sata. Ili dvanaest? Ja..."
"Oh, ne gnjavi me!", reĉe Vojvotkinja. "Nikad
nisam podnosila brojke!" I opet poĉe da ljuljuška
dijete i da mu pri tom pjeva nešto što je liĉilo na
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so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every
line:
'Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.'
CHORUS
(In which the cook and the baby joined):--
'Wow! wow! wow!'
While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song,
she kept tossing the baby violently up and down, and
the poor little thing howled so, that Alice could
hardly hear the words:--
'I speak severely to my boy,
I beat him when he sneezes;
For he can thoroughly enjoy
The pepper when he pleases!'
CHORUS
'Wow! wow! wow!'
'Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the
Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she
spoke. 'I must go and get ready to play croquet with
the Queen,' and she hurried out of the room. The
cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, but
it just missed her.
Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was
a queer- shaped little creature, and held out its arms
and legs in all directions, 'just like a star-fish,'
thought Alice. The poor little thing was snorting like
a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling
itself up and straightening itself out again, so that
altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much
as she could do to hold it.
As soon as she had made out the proper way of
nursing it, (which was to twist it up into a sort of
knot, and then keep tight hold of its right ear and left
foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried it
out into the open air. 'If I don't take this child away
with me,' thought Alice, 'they're sure to kill it in a day
or two: wouldn't it be murder to leave it behind?' She
said the last words out loud, and the little thing
grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time).
uspavanku, ali svaki put kad bi došla na kraj stiha,
snaţno bi ga prodrmusala.
"Sa sinčićem u maženju ne pretjeraj,
I tuci ga kada kiše
Jer to čini iz inata, vjeruj,
zna da to mrziš ponajviše."
Hor
(vojvotkinji se pridružiše kuharica i dijete)
"Uau! Uau!Uau!"
I dok je pjevala drugu strofu pjesme, Vojvotkinja je
tako snaţno bacakala dijete gore-dolje, da je jadno
toliko urlalo, te je Alisa jedva mogla i da razabere
rijeĉi.
"Sa sinčićem stroga sam ja,
I tučem ga kada kiše,
Jer kad hoće, baš mu prija,
Kada biber zamiriše!"
Hor
"Uau! Uau! Uau!"
"Evo! Moţeš ga i ti malo proljuljati ako hoćeš!",
reĉe Vojvotkinja Alisi bacivši joj dijete. "Ja moram
otići da se spremim za kroket sa Kraljicom." I
odhita iz kuhinje. Kuharica zafrljaci za njom jednu
tavu, ali je u dlaku promaši.
Alisa jedva uhvati dijete, pošto to bijaše stvorenjce
ĉudnog oblika. Ruke i noge su mu se granale u svim
pravcima, "baš kao kod morske zvijezde", pomisli
Alisa. Kad ga uhvati, jadni mališan je frktao kao
lokomotiva, neprestano se skupljao i opruţao, tako
da ga je prvih ĉasak-dva jedva drţala.
Ali ĉim pronaĊe pogodan naĉin da ga prihvati
morala ga je smotati nešto kao u ĉvor i onda ga
ĉvrsto drţati za desno uho i lijevu nogu, da se ne bi
odmotao. Iznese ga na vazduh. "Ako ovo dijete ne
povedem sa sobom", pomisli Alisa "ovi će mu
sigurno za dan-dva glave doći. Zar ne bi bio zloĉin
ostaviti ga?" Posljednje rijeĉi izgovori glasno i
mališan kao u odgovor zagrokta. (Već je bio prestao
da kiše.) "Ne grokći!", opomenu ga Alisa. "To nije
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'Don't grunt,' said Alice; 'that's not at all a proper way pristojno."
of expressing yourself.'
The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very Dijete opet zagrokta i Alisa ga vrlo zabrinuto
anxiously into its face to see what was the matter pogleda u lice da vidi šta mu je. Nije bilo sumnje,
with it. There could be no doubt that it had a very nos mu je bio veoma prćast i više je liĉio na njušku
turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nego na nos. I oĉi su mu bile isuviše sitne za dijete.
nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a Sve u svemu, Alisi se nimalo nije dopadao njegov
baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the izgled. "Ali moţda je to on samo jecao?", pomisli
thing at all. 'But perhaps it was only sobbing,' she Alisa i pogleda mu u oĉi da vidi ima li suza.
thought, and looked into its eyes again, to see if there
were any tears.
No, there were no tears. 'If you're going to turn into a Ne, suza nije bilo. "Ako ćeš se pretvoriti u prasca,
pig, my dear,' said Alice, seriously, 'I'll have nothing dragi moj", reĉe Alisa ozbiljno, "onda ja s tobom
more to do with you. Mind now!' The poor little thing više nemam nikakva posla. Pazi!" Mališan opet
sobbed again (or grunted, it was impossible to say zajeca (ili zagrokta, nije se moglo odrediti da li je
which), and they went on for some while in silence. bilo jedno ili drugo), i neko vrijeme nastaviše put
šutke.
Alice was just beginning to think to herself, 'Now, Alisa je upravo poĉela razmišljati: "A šta li ću s
what am I to do with this creature when I get it njim kad doĊem kući?", kad ono opet zagrokta tako
home?' when it grunted again, so violently, that she snaţno da mu ona, malo preplašeno, pogleda u lice.
looked down into its face in some alarm. This time Sad više nije bilo nikakve sumnje. Bilo je pravo
there could be no mistake about it: it was neither pravcato prase i Alisi se uĉini da bi bila najveća
more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be glupost i dalje ga prtiti.
quite absurd for her to carry it further.
So she set the little creature down, and felt quite Zato spusti to malo stvorenje na zemlju i laknu joj
relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If it kad vidje kako ono mirno otkaska u šumu. "Kad bi
had grown up,' she said to herself, 'it would have odraslo", reĉe sama sebi "od njega bi postalo strašno
made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a ruţno dijete. Ali ĉini mi se da je ovako, kao prase,
handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over sasvim ljupko." I poĉe da razmišlja o nekoj djeci
other children she knew, who might do very well as koju je poznavala i koja bi mirne duše mogla da
pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only knew budu prasci i upravo je u sebi govorila: "Kad bi
the right way to change them--' when she was a little samo kogod znao kako da ih pretvori...", ali
startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough iznenada zastade ugledavši Ĉeširsku maĉku kako
of a tree a few yards off. sjedi na grani jednog obliţnjeg drveta.
The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked Maĉka se samo iskesi kad ugleda Alisu. "Izgleda
good- natured, she thought: still it had very long dobroćudno", pomisli Alisa. "Ipak ima vrlo dugaĉke
claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought pandţe i silesiju zuba", zato shvati da se prema njoj
to be treated with respect. mora ophoditi s poštovanjem.
'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did "Ĉeširska maco!", otpoĉe priliĉno bojaţljivo, pošto
not at all know whether it would like the name: nije znala da li će joj se to ime svidjeti. MeĊutim
however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's Maĉka se samo još više iskesi. "Oho, izgleda da je
pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. sad zadovoljna", pomisli Alisa i nastavi: "Molim te,
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'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go hoćeš li mi reći kojim putem da krenem pa da
from here?' izaĊem odavde?"
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get "To u mnogome zavisi od toga kuda ţeliš da poĊeš",
to,' said the Cat. reĉe Maĉka.
'I don't much care where--' said Alice. "Nije ni mnogo vaţno kuda", reĉe Alisa.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the "Onda je svejedno kojim ćeš putem krenuti", na to
Cat. će Maĉka.
'--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an "Samo da negdje stignem", dodade Alisa kao
explanation. objašnjenje.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only "Oh, sigurno ćeš stići", reĉe Maĉka, "samo ako
walk long enough.' zadugo hodaš."
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried Alisa priznade da se ovo ne moţe opovrgnuti i zato
another question. 'What sort of people live about postavi još jedno pitanje. "Ko ţivi u okolini?"
here?'
'In that direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw "U ovom pravcu", reĉe Maĉka zamahnuvši desnom
round, 'lives a Hatter: and in that direction,' waving šapom, "stanuje Šeširdţija, a u onom pravcu",
the other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you zamahnuvši drugom šapom, "stanuje Martovski
like: they're both mad.' Kunić. Posjeti kojeg ti god drago. Obojica su ludi."
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice "Ali ja ne ţelim da idem meĊu luĊake", primijeti
remarked. Alisa.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad "Oh, nema ti druge", reĉe Maĉka. "Svi smo mi ovdje
here. I'm mad. You're mad.' ludi. Ja sam luda. Ti si luda."
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. "Otkud znaš da sam ja luda?" zapita Alisa.
'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have "Mora da jesi", reĉe Maĉka, "inaĉe ne bi došla
come here.' ovamo."
Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she Za Alisu to uopšte nije bio dokaz. Ipak nastavi. "A
went on 'And how do you know that you're mad?' kako znaš da si ti luda?"
'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You "Da postavimo stvar ovako", reĉe Maĉka. "Pas nije
grant that?' lud. S tim se slaţeš?"
'I suppose so,' said Alice. "Mislim da je tako."
'Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls "Evo dakle", nastavi Maĉka. "Vidiš, pas reţi kad je
when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. ljut a maše repom kad mu je šta drago. A ja reţim
Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail kad mi je šta drago a mašem repom kad sam ljuta.
when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.' Zato sam luda."
'I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice. "Ja to kod tebe zovem predenjem, a ne reţanjem",
reĉe Alisa.
'Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play "Zovi ti to kako ti drago", reĉe Maĉka. "Igraš li
croquet with the Queen to-day?' danas kroket s Kraljicom?"
'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't "Vrlo bih rado", reĉe Alisa, "ali još nisam pozvana."
been invited yet.'
'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished. "Tamo ćeš me vidjeti", reĉe Maĉka i nestade je.
Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting Alisa se i ne saĉudi mnogo, bila je već toliko
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so used to queer things happening. While she was
looking at the place where it had been, it suddenly
appeared again.
'By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat.
'I'd nearly forgotten to ask.'
'It turned into a pig,' Alice quietly said, just as if it
had come back in a natural way.
'I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again.
Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again,
but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she
walked on in the direction in which the March Hare
was said to live. 'I've seen hatters before,' she said to
herself; 'the March Hare will be much the most
interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be
raving mad--at least not so mad as it was in March.'
As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat
again, sitting on a branch of a tree.
'Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.
'I said pig,' replied Alice; 'and I wish you wouldn't
keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make
one quite giddy.'
'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite
slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending
with the grin, which remained some time after the
rest of it had gone.
'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought
Alice; 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious
thing I ever saw in my life!'
She had not gone much farther before she came in
sight of the house of the March Hare: she thought it
must be the right house, because the chimneys were
shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. It
was so large a house, that she did not like to go
nearer till she had nibbled some more of the lefthand
bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet
high: even then she walked up towards it rather
timidly, saying to herself 'Suppose it should be raving
mad after all! I almost wish I'd gone to see the Hatter
instead!'
CHAPTER VII
navikla da se dogaĊaju ĉudne stvari. I dok je još bila
zagledana u ono mjesto na kojem je stajala Maĉka,
ona se opet pojavi.
"Uzgred reĉeno, šta je bilo s djetetom?", zapita
Maĉka. "Umalo ne zaboravih da te upitam."
"Postalo je prasac," reĉe Alisa mirno kao da se
Maĉka vratila na najprirodniji naĉin.
"Tako sam i mislila", reĉe Maĉka i opet je nestade.
Alisa malo popriĉeka, oĉekujući da će je moţda
opet vidjeti, ali se Maĉka više ne pojavi, i poslije
ĉasak-dva Alisa se zaputi tamo gdje joj je reĉeno da
ţivi Martovski Kunić. "Šeširdţije sam viĊala i
ranije", reĉe Alisa u sebi. "Martovski Kunić će biti
mnogo zanimljiviji i moţda, s obzirom da je maj,
neće biti suviše lud – bar neće onoliko koliko u
martu." Kad to reĉe, pogleda uvis i opet ugleda
Maĉku kako sjedi na grani jednog drveta.
"Da li si kazala prasac il kvasac?", zapita Maĉka.
"Kazala sam prasac", odvrati Alisa. "Ali ne sviĊa mi
se to što se stalno ĉas pojavljuješ, ĉas nestaješ. Da se
ĉovjeku zanesvijesti."
"Pa dobro", reĉe Maĉka. I ovoga puta je nestajala
polagano. Poĉela je od vrha repa i završila
smiješkom, i on je ostao za neko vrijeme na grani i
kad joj je sve ostalo išĉezlo.
"Eh, ĉesto sam viĊala maĉku bez smiješka, ali
smiješak bez maĉke! E, nikad u ţivotu ništa ĉudnije
nisam vidjela!"
Nije išla dugo kad ugleda kuću Martovskog Kunića.
Pomislila je da to mora da bude njegova kuća, jer su
joj dimnjaci bili u obliku ušiju a krov natkriven
krznom. Kuća je bila toliko velika da Alisa ne htjede
da joj priĊe prije nego što gricne još malo peĉurke i
poraste do visine od šezdesetak santimetara. Pa i tad
joj je prilazila priliĉno bojaţljivo, govoreći: "Šta ako
ipak bude potpuno lud! Bolje bi mi bilo da sam
otišla u posjetu Šeširdţiji!
Glava VII
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A Mad Tea-Party LUDA ČAJANKA

There was a table set out under a tree in front of the Pred kućom ispod jednog drveta bio je postavljen
house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were sto za kojim su sjedjeli Martovski Kunić i Seširdţija
having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between i pili ĉaj. IzmeĊu njih je sjedio Puh i ĉvrsto spavao,
them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a a njih dvojica su se nalaktili na njega i razgovarali
cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over preko njegove glave. "Baš nezgodno za Puha",
its head. 'Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' pomisli Alisa, "samo pošto spava, vjerovatno mu to
thought Alice; 'only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't ne smeta."
mind.'
The table was a large one, but the three were all Sto je bio velik, ali su se sva trojica stisla u jedan
crowded together at one corner of it: 'No room! No ugao. "Nema mjesta! Nema mjesta!", povikaše kad
room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming. ugledaše Alisu kako im prilazi. "Ima puno mjesta!",
'There's plenty of room!' said Alice indignantly, and ljutite će na to Alisa, i sjede u prostranu naslonjaĉu
she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the na jednom kraju stola.
table.
'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an "Posluţi se malo vinom!", reĉe Martovski Kunić
encouraging tone. ljubazno.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was Alisa preĊe pogledom po stolu, ali na njemu je bilo
nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she samo ĉaja. "Ne vidim nikakvo vino", primijeti.
remarked.
'There isn't any,' said the March Hare. "Pa i nema ga", reĉe Martovski Kunić.
"Onda nije baš uĉtivo od vas što ga nudite", reĉe
'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice
angrily. Alisa ljutito.
'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being"Nije bilo uĉtivo ni od tebe što si sjela bez poziva",
invited,' said the March Hare. reĉe Martovski Kunić.
"Nisam znala da je to vaš sto", odvrati Alisa.
'I didn't know it was your table,' said Alice; 'it's laid
for a great many more than three.' "Postavljen je za mnogo više osoba, a ne samo za
troje."
'Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had "Treba da se podšišaš!", reĉe Šeširdţija. Neko
been looking at Alice for some time with great vrijeme je vrlo radoznalo gledao u Alisu i ovo su
curiosity, and this was his first speech. bile njegove prve rijeĉi.
'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' "Nije potrebno da stavljaš svoje liĉne primjedbe",
Alice said with some severity; 'it's very rude.' Alisa će priliĉno strogo. "To je vrlo neuljudno."
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; Ĉuvši ovo, Šeširdţija izbeĉi oĉi. Ali samo reĉe:
but all he said was, 'Why is a raven like a writing- "Dašto mi ti dašto, zašto je gavran sliĉan pisaćem
desk?' stolu?"
'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. "Oho, biće zabavno!", pomisli Alisa. "Drago mi je
'I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.--I believe I što su poĉeli postavljati zagonetke." I dodade
can guess that,' she added aloud. naglas: "Vjerujem da ću pogoditi!"
'Do you mean that you think you can find out the "Hoćeš da kaţeš da misliš da znaš odgovor?",
answer to it?' said the March Hare. priupita Martovski Kunić.
'Exactly so,' said Alice. "Upravo to", reĉe Alisa.
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'Then you should say what you mean,' the March
Hare went on.
'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean
what I say--that's the same thing, you know.'
'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'You might
just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same
thing as "I eat what I see"!'
'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare,
'that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get
what I like"!'
'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse,
who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe
when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I
breathe"!'
'It 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 ravens and writing-desks, which
wasn't much.
The Hatter was the first to break the silence. 'What
day of the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he
had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was
looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then,
and holding it to his ear. Alice considered a little, and
then said 'The fourth.''Two days wrong!' sighed the
Hatter. 'I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!' he
added looking angrily at the March Hare.
'It was the best butter,' the March Hare meekly
replied.
'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the
Hatter grumbled: 'you shouldn't have put it in with
the bread-knife.'
The March Hare took the watch and looked at it
gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and
looked at it again: but he could think of nothing
better to say than his first remark, 'It was the best
butter, you know.'
Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some
curiosity. 'What a funny watch!' she remarked. 'It tells
the day of the month, and doesn't tell what o'clock it
is!'
'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does your
"Onda moraš reći šta misliš", nastavi Martovski
Kunić.
"To i radim", ţurno odvrati Alisa. "Bar – bar mislim
ono što kaţem – to je ista stvar, znaš."
"Nipošto nije ista!" reĉe Šeširdţija. "Onda bi isto
tako mogla reći da je 'Ja vidim ono što jedem' isto
što i 'Ja jedem ono što vidim!'"
"Onda bi isto tako mogla reći", dodade Martovski
Kunić, "da je 'Ja volim ono što dobijem' isto što i 'Ja
dobijem ono što volim!,"
"Mogla bi isto tako reći", dodade Puh koji je,
izgleda, govorio u snu, "da je 'Ja dišem kad spavam'
isto što i 'Ja spavam kad dišem!'"
"Kod tebe i jest isto", dobaci Šeširdţija i ovdje se
razgovor prekide. Društvo je jedan ĉasak sjedjelo
šutke dok je Alisa u glavi premetala sve što je znala
o gavranovima i pisaćim stolovima – ali toga nije
bilo mnogo.
Tišinu prvi prekide Šeširdţija. "Koji je danas
datum?", upisa obrativši se Alisi. Izvadio je sat iz
dţepa i uznemireno ga gledao, svaki ĉas ga je
drmusao i prinosio uhu. Alisa malo razmisli i reĉe:
"Ĉetvrti!" "Griješi za dva dana!", uzdahnu
Šeširdţija. "Rekao sam ti da maslac neće prijati
mehanizmu!" dodade ljutito pogledavši Martovskog
Kunića.
"Bio je to najbolji maslac", odgovori Martovski
Kunić ponizno.
"Da, ali je mogla i koja mrvica upasti", gunĊao je
Šeširdţija. "Nisi ga smio stavljati noţem kojim se
reţe hljeb."
Martovski Kunić uze sat i potišteno ga pogleda.
Onda ga zamoĉi u šolju s ĉajem i opet ga pogleda. I
pošto se niĉeg pametnijeg ne sjeti, ponovi ono što je
već rekao: "Znaš, bio je to najbolji maslac."
Alisa je sa izvjesnom radoznalošću gledala preko
njegovog ramena. "Ala je to smiješan sat!", dobaci.
"Pokazuje koji je datum a ne pokazuje koliko je
sati."
"A i što bi?", progunĊa Šeširdţija. "Pokazuje li tvoj
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watch tell you what year it is?'
'Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: 'but that's
because it stays the same year for such a long time
together.'
'Which is just the case with mine,' said the Hatter.
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark
seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it
was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,'
she said, as politely as she could.
'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and
he poured a little hot tea upon its nose.
The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said,
without opening its 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.
'No, I give it up,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer?'
'I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter.
'Nor I,' said the March Hare.
Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something
better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking
riddles that have no answers.'
'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter,
'you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.'
'I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.
'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head
contemptuously. 'I dare say you never even spoke to
Time!'
'Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: 'but I know I
have to beat time when I learn music.'
'Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. 'He won't
stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms
with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the
clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in
the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only
have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the
clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!'
sat koja je godina?"
"Naravno da ne pokazuje", Alisa s pika odgovori.
"Ali to je zato što godina toliko dugo traje."
"Tako je i sa mojim", reĉe Šeširdţija.
Alisa se strašno zbuni. Ĉinilo joj se da Šeširdţijina
primjedba nema nikakvog smisla, pa ipak je sasvim
sigurno bila kazana pravilnim engleskim jezikom.
"Ne razumijem baš sasvim", reĉe što je mogla
uĉtivije.
"Puh je opet zaspao", reĉe Šeširdţija i izli mu na nos
malo toplog ĉaja.
Puh zlovoljno zatrese glavom i reĉe i ne otvarajući
oĉiju: "Naravno, naravno. Upravo sam to i ja htio da
kaţem."
"Jesi li odgonetnula zagonetku?", upita Šeširdţija
Alisu.
"Nisam, predajem se", odvrati Alisa. "Kako glasi
odgovor?"
"Nemam pojma o pojmu", reĉe Šeširdţija.
"Ni ja", reĉe Martovski Kunić.
Alisa umorno uzdahnu. "Ĉini mi se da biste mogli
pametnije iskoristiti vrijeme, i ne dozvoliti da vam
ono uludo prolazi postavljajući zagonetke koje
nemaju odgovora."
"Da poznaješ Vrijeme onako kako ga ja poznajem",
reĉe Šeširdţija, "ne bi za njega kazala da je ono
nego on".
"Ne znam šta hoćeš time da kaţeš", odgovori Alisa.
"Naravno da ne znaš!", reĉe Šeširdţija i prezrivo
zatrese glavom. "Smio bih se zakleti da nisi nikad ni
progovorila s Vremenom."
"Moţda i nisam", obazrivo će Alisa, "ali znam da
moram odbrojavati, to jest udarati vrijeme kad
sviram klavir."
"Ah! Odatle mi doĊi!", reĉe Šeširdţija. "Vrijeme ne
podnosi da ga ko udara. A da si u dobrim odnosima
s njim, sa satom bi bilo kako je tebi po volji.
Recimo: devet sati ujutro je upravo vrijeme kad se
mora u školu. Trebalo bi samo da mu namigneš, i
kazaljka bi se za tili ĉas okrenula! Jedan i po,
vrijeme ruĉku!"
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('I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in a
whisper.)
'That would be grand, certainly,' said Alice
thoughtfully: 'but then--I shouldn't be hungry for it,
you know.'
'Not at first, perhaps,' said the Hatter: 'but you could
keep it to half-past one as long as you liked.'
'Is that the way you manage?' Alice asked.
The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he
replied. 'We quarrelled last March--just before he
went mad, you know--' (pointing with his tea spoon
at the March Hare,) '--it was at the great concert
given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing
"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!"
You know the song, perhaps?'
'I've heard something like it,' said Alice.
'It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, 'in this
way:--
"Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle--"'
Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in
its sleep 'Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--' and
went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it
stop.
'Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse,' said the
Hatter, 'when the Queen jumped up and bawled out,
"He's murdering the time! Off with his head!"'
'How dreadfully savage!' exclaimed Alice.
'And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a
mournful tone, 'he won't do a thing I ask! It's always
six o'clock now.'
A bright idea came into Alice's head. 'Is that the
reason so many tea-things are put out here?' she
asked.
'Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: 'it's always
tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things
between whiles.'
'Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.
'Exactly so,' said the Hatter: 'as the things get used
("Kad bi kojom srećom bilo tako!" prošapta
Martovski Kunić za sebe.)
"To bi zaista bilo odliĉno", reĉe Alisa zamišljeno.
"Ali, znaš – tada sigurno ne bih još bila gladna."
"U poĉetku moţda i ne bi", reĉe Šeširdţija. "Ali
mogla bi ga na jedan i po drţati koliko ti drago."
"Da li ti tako radiš?", zapita Alisa.
Šeširdţija tuţno odmahnu glavom. "Ne!", odgovori.
"PosvaĊali smo se prošlog marta. Upravo prije no
što je on poludio, znaš" (pokazujući kašiĉicom na
Martovskog Kunića). "Bilo je to na velikom
koncertu koji je priredila Kraljica Herc, i ja sam
morao otpjevati:
"Svjetlucaj, svjetlucaj, šišmišu maleni!
Kud se spremaš, bi li rek'o meni?"
"Moţda znaš tu pjesmicu?"
"Pa nešto sliĉno sam ĉula", reĉe Alisa.
"Znaš dalje ide ovako", nastavi Šeširdţija:
"Visoko iznad svijeta hodiš,
K'o čajni tanjirić po nebu brodiš.
Svjetlucaj, svjetlucaj..."
Sad se Puh strese i poĉe pjevati u snu: "Svjetlucaj,
svjetlucaj, svjetlucaj..." i ponavljaše to toliko dugo
da su ga morali uštinuti da bi prestao.
"I, eto, ĉestito i ne završih prvu strofu", reĉe
Šeširdţija, "kad Kraljica Ċipi i dreknu: "Samo ubija
vrijeme! Odsijecite mu glavu!"
"Kakvo divljaštvo!", uskliknu Alisa.
"I otada", nastavi Šeširdţija plaĉnim glasom, "neće
da mi uĉini ništa što ga molim! Sad je uvijek šest
sati."
Alisi puĉe pred oĉima. "Da li je zato na stolu
postavljen toliki pribor za ĉaj?", zapita.
"Da, zato", reĉe Šeširdţija uzdahnuvši. "Uvijek je
vrijeme za ĉaj, pa ne stignemo ni da operemo
posuĊe izmeĊu obroka."
"I onda se premještate?" zapita Alisa.
"Upravo tako", odgovori Šeširdţija. "Pribor se
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up.' zaprlja."
'But what happens when you come to the beginning "Al, šta bude kad opet stignete na poĉetak?", odvaţi
again?' Alice ventured to ask. se Alisa da upita.
'Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare "Kako bi bilo da promijenimo predmet rzgovora?"
interrupted, yawning. 'I'm getting tired of this. I vote upade Martovski Kunić zijevajući. "Ovo mi je već
the young lady tells us a story.' dosadilo. Glasam za to da nam mlada gospoĊica
ispriĉa jednu priĉu."
'I'm afraid I don't know one,' said Alice, rather "Naţalost, nijednu ne znam", reĉe Alisa pomalo
alarmed at the proposal. zaplašena ovim prijedlogom.
'Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. 'Wake up, "Onda će Puh!", povikaše obojica. "Puhu, probudi
Dormouse!' And they pinched it on both sides at se!" I u isto vrijeme ga sa obje strane uštinuše.
once.
The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. 'I wasn't Puh polagano otvori oĉi. "Nisam spavao", reĉe
asleep,' he said in a hoarse, feeble voice: 'I heard promuklim slabašnim glasom. "Ĉuo sam sve što ste
every word you fellows were saying.' razgovarali."
'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare. "Ispriĉaj nam jednu priĉu!", reĉe Martovski Kunić.
'Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice. "Hajde, ispriĉaj!", molila je Alisa.
'And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, 'or you'll be "I to brzo!" dodade Šeširdţija, Jer ćeš opet zaspati
asleep again before it's done.' prije no što je dovršiš."
'Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the "Nekad davno ţivjele tri sestrice", poĉe Puh ţurno.
Dormouse began in a great hurry; 'and their names "Zvale su se: Elzi, Lesi i Tili i ţivjele su na dnu
were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the jednog bunara..."
bottom of a well--'
'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took "A od ĉega su ţivjele?", zapita Alisa koju su uvijek
a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. mnogo zanimala pitanja jela i pića.
'They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after "Ţivjele su od pekmeza", reĉe Puh pošto je ĉasak-
thinking a minute or two. dva razmišljao.
'They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice "To ne bi bilo moguće, znaš", prigovori Alisa blago.
gently remarked; 'they'd have been ill.' "Razboljele bi se."
'So they were,' said the Dormouse; 'very ill.' "Pa i jesu", na to će Puh. "Bile su vrlo bolesne."
Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an Alisa pokuša da zamisli kako bi to izgledalo ţivjeti
extraordinary ways of living would be like, but it na tako ĉudan naĉin, ali je to toliko zbuni, pa
puzzled her too much, so she went on: 'But why did nastavi: "Ali zašto su ţivjele na dnu bunara?"
they live at the bottom of a well?'
'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, "Uzmi još ĉaja!", obrati se vrlo ozbiljno Martovski
very earnestly. Kunić Alisi.
'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended "Pa nisam ga nikako ni pila", odvrati Alisa
tone, 'so I can't take more.' uvrijeĊeno. "Kako onda mogu uzeti još?"
'You mean you can't take less,' said the Hatter: 'it's "Hoćeš da kaţeš da ne moţeš uzeti manje", reĉe
very easy to take more than nothing.' Šeširdţija. "Mnogo je lakše uzeti još nego ništa."
'Nobody asked your opinion,' said Alice. "Tebe niko ništa nije pitao", odbrusi Alisa.
'Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter "Ko sad stavlja liĉne primjedbe?", upita Šeširdţija
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asked triumphantly. pobjedonosno.

Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she Alisa nije znala šta da mu na to odgovori. Zato uze
helped herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and malo ĉaja i hljeba sa maslacem, okrenu se Puhu i
then turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her ponovi pitanje. "Zašto su ţivjele na dnu bunara?"
question. 'Why did they live at the bottom of a well?'
The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think Puh je opet ĉasak-dva razmišljao i onda odgovori:
about it, and then said, 'It was a treacle-well.' "Bio je to bunar sa prekmezom."
'There's no such thing!' Alice was beginning very "Tako nešto ne postoji!", poĉe Alisa veoma ljutito,
angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went 'Sh! ali Šeširdţija i Martovski Kunić zagrajaše "Pst!
sh!' and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, 'If you can't Pst!", i Puh mrzovoljno primijeti: "Ako ne umiješ da
be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself.' budeš pristojna, a ti priĉu dopriĉaj sama!"
'No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; 'I won't "Molim te, nastavi!", reĉe Alisa. "Neću te više
interrupt again. I dare say there may be one.' prekidati. Moţda i postoji jedan takav bunar."
'One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. "Baš jedan!", reĉe Puh prezrivo. Pa ipak pristade da
However, he consented to go on. 'And so these three nastavi: "I tako te tri sestrice – uĉile su, znate, da
little sisters--they were learning to draw, you know--' crtaju, da izvlaĉe..."
'What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting her "Šta su izvlaĉile?" zapita Alisa potpuno
promise. zaboravljajući na svoje obećanje.
'Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at "Pekmez", reĉe Puh ovog puta bez razmišljanja.
all this time.
"Meni treba ĉista šolja", upade Šeširdţija,
'I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all
move one place on.' "pomaknimo se svi za jedno mjesto."
He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse Govoreći to, već se bio pomaknuo, a za njim se
followed him: the March Hare moved into the pomaknu Puh. Martovski Kunić preĊe na Puhovo
Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took mjesto a Alisa malo nerado preuze mjesto
the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only Martovskog Kunića. Jedino je Šeširdţija imao
one who got any advantage from the change: and koristi od ovog premještanja. Alisa proĊe najgore,
Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the jer je Martovski Kunić na svoj tanjirić bio prevrnuo
March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate. lonĉić s mlijekom.
Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so Alisa nije ţeljela da ponovno uvrijedi Puha, zato
she began very cautiously: 'But I don't understand. otpoĉe veoma obazrivo: "Ali ja ne razumijem.
Where did they draw the treacle from?' Odakle su izvlaĉile pekmez?"
'You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the "Iz bunara u kome se nalazi voda izvlaĉiš vodu",
Hatter; 'so I should think you could draw treacle out reĉe Šeširdţija, "prema tome, rekao bih da samo
of a treacle-well--eh, stupid?' pekmez moţeš izvlaĉiti iz bunara u kome je pekmez
– zar nije tako, ej, ti, luda glavo!"
'But they were in the well,' Alice said to the "Ali one su bile u bunaru", reĉe Alisa Puhu i ne
Dormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark. obazirući se na Šeširdţijinu upadicu.
'Of course they were', said the Dormouse; '--well in.' "Naravno da su bile – i to duboko", reĉe Puh. Ovaj
This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the odgovor toliko zbuni jadnu Alisu da je pustila Puha
Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting da neko vrijeme pripovijeda, ne prekidajući ga.
it.
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'They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went on,
yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very
sleepy; 'and they drew all manner of things--
everything that begins with an M--'
'Why with an M?' said Alice.
'Why not?' said the March Hare.
Alice was silent.
The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and
was going off into a doze; but, on being pinched by
the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and
went on: '--that begins with an M, such as mouse-
traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness--
you know you say things are "much of a muchness"--
did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a
muchness?'
'Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much
confused, 'I don't think--'
'Then you shouldn't talk,' 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, and neither of the
others took the least notice of her going, though she
looked back once or twice, half hoping that they
would call after her: the last time she saw them, they
were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.
'At any rate I'll never go there again!' said Alice as
she picked her way through the wood. 'It's the
stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!'
Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees
had a door leading right into it. 'That's very curious!'
she thought. 'But everything's curious today. I think I
may as well go in at once.' And in she went.
Once more she found herself in the long hall, and
close to the little glass table. 'Now, I'll manage better
this time,' she said to herself, and began by taking the
little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into
the garden. Then she went to work nibbling at the
mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket)
till she was about a foot high: then she walked down
the little passage: and then--she found herself at last
in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds
"Uĉile su da crtaju", nastavi Puh, zijevajući i
trljajući oĉi, jer mu se baš spavalo. "Crtale su svašta
– sve što poĉinje sa M..."
"Zašto sa M?" zapita Alisa.
"A zašto ne?", reĉe Martovski Kunić.
Alisa je šutjela.
Puh je već bio zatvorio oĉi i zaveo se u san. Ali kad
ga Šeširdţija uštinu, probudi se i tiho jauknu, pa
nastavi: "...koje poĉinju sa M – kao što su:
mišolovka, mjesec, memorija, mnoštvo – znaš, to je
kad ima neĉeg mnogo – jesi li ikad vidjela da neko
crta mnoštvo?"
"Pa ako me baš pitaš", reĉe Alisa sva zbunjena, "ja
ne mislim..."
"Onda ne treba ni da govoriš", reĉe Šeširdţija.
Ovaj prostakluk Alisa nije mogla podnijeti. Ustade
ozlojeĊena i poĊe. Puh istog trena zaspa, a nijedan
od one dvojice ne obrati ni najmanju paţnju na to
što ona odlazi, iako se jedanput-dvaput osvrnula,
ponadavši se da će je moţda zovnuti da se vrati.
Kad se posljednji put osvrnu, vidje kako Martovski
Kunić i Šeširdţija pokušavaju da uguraju Puha u
ĉajnik.
"E, tamo ja više ni po koju cijenu ne idem!", reĉe
Alisa birajući put kroz šumu. "To je najgluplja
ĉajanka na kojoj sam ikad bila."
Samo što to izreĉe, kad najednom drvetu ugleda
vrata koja su vodila pravo u njegovu utrobu. "Vrlo
ĉudno!", pomisli Alisa. "Ali danas je sve ĉudno. Pa
mogla bih odmah i da uĊem". I uĊe.
Opet se naĊe u onoj istoj dugaĉkoj dvorani, i to baš
pokraj staklenog stolića. "E, sad ću biti pametnija",
reĉe u sebi te uze zlatni kljuĉić i poĉe da otkljuĉava
vrata koja su vodila u baštu. Onda stade da gricka
peĉurku (jedan komadić joj je bio u dţepu), dok se
ne smanji na trideset santimetara. Zatim poĊe malim
prolazom i najzad se obrete u onoj lijepoj bašti,
meĊu šarenim nasadima cvijeća i prohladnim
vodoskocima.
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and the cool fountains.
CHAPTER VIII
The Queen's Croquet-Ground
A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the
garden: the roses growing on it were white, but there
were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red.
Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went
nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to
them she heard one of them say, 'Look out now, Five!
Don't go splashing paint over me like that!'
'I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; 'Seven
jogged my elbow.'
On which Seven looked up and said, 'That's right,
Five! Always lay the blame on others!'
You'd better not talk!' said Five. 'I heard the Queen
say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'
'What for?' said the one who had spoken first.
'That's none of your business, Two!' said Seven.
'Yes, it is his business!' said Five, 'and I'll tell him--it
was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of
onions.'
Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun
'Well, of all the unjust things--' when his eye chanced
to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and
he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round
also, and all of them bowed low.
'Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, '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 it out, we should all have our heads cut off,
you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best,
afore she comes, to--' At this moment Five, who had
been anxiously looking across the garden, called out
'The Queen! The Queen!' and the three gardeners
instantly threw themselves flat upon their faces.
There was a sound of many footsteps, and Alice
looked round, eager to see the Queen.
Glava VIII
KRALJIČINO IGRALIŠTE KROKETA
Kraj ulaza u baštu rasla je velika ruţa. Cvjetovi su
joj bili bijeli, ali trojica baštovana marljivo su ih
bojili u crveno. Alisi se to uĉini vrlo ĉudno i priĊe
da bolje vidi i baš u tom ĉasu zaĉu kako jedan od
njih reĉe: "Pripazider ti, Petice! Ne pršći boju po
meni!"
"Šta ja tu mogu", obrecnu se na njega Petica.
"Sedmica me je gurnuo u lakat."
Na to Sedmica podiţe glavu i reĉe: "Neka ti bude,
Petice! Samo ti svaljuj krivicu na druge!"
"Tebi je bolje da šutiš!" reĉe Petica. "Ĉuo sam kako
baš juĉe Kraljica kaţe da ti treba odsijeći glavu!"
"Zašto?" javi se onaj što je prvi progovorio.
"To se tebe ne tiĉe, Dvico!" reĉe Sedmica.
"Kako da ga se ne tiĉe!", Petica će. "A kazaću mu i
zašto. Zato što je umjesto luka kuharici donio
lukovice tulipana."
Sedmica baci ĉetku i upravo zapoĉe: "Ama od svih
nepravdi...", kad mu pogled sluĉajno pade na Alisu
koja je stajala i promatrala ih, i on najednom ušutje.
I druga dvojica se okrenuše i svi joj se duboko
pokloniše.
"Hoćete li mi reći", zapita Alisa pomalo stidljivo,
"zašto premazujete ove ruţe?"
Petica i Sedmica ništa ne rekoše već pogledaše
Dvicu. Dvica otpoĉe tiho: "Pa, stvar je u tome,
razumijete, gospoĊice, ovo ovdje je trebalo da bude
crvena ruţa, ali smo mi greškom zasadili bijelu. I
ako to Kraljica sazna, svima će nam odsijeći glave.
Tako, razumijete, gospoĊice, ĉinimo što najbolje
moţemo da prije nego što ona doĊe..." U tom ĉasu
Petica, koji je briţno motrio na baštu povika:
"Kraljica! Kraljica!", i sva trojica baštovana
popadaše na zemlju niĉice. Zaĉu se bat
mnogobrojnih koraka i Alisa se osvrnu, jer je jedva
ĉekala da vidi Kraljicu.
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First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all
shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with
their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten
courtiers; these were ornamented all over with
diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers
did. After these came the royal children; there were
ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily
along hand in hand, in couples: they were all
ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests,
mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice
recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a
hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that
was said, and went by without noticing her. Then
followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's
crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all
this grand procession, came THE KING AND
QUEEN OF HEARTS.
Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie
down on her face like the three gardeners, but she
could not remember ever having heard of such a rule
at processions; 'and besides, what would be the use of
a procession,' thought she, 'if people had all to lie
down upon their faces, so that they couldn't see it?'
So she stood still where she was, and waited.
When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all
stopped and looked at her, and the Queen said
severely 'Who is this?' She said it to the Knave of
Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply.
'Idiot!' said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently;
and, turning to Alice, she went on, 'What's your
name, child?'
'My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,' said
Alice very politely; but she added, to herself, 'Why,
they're only a pack of cards, after all. I needn't be
afraid of them!'
'And who are these?' said the Queen, pointing to the
three gardeners who were lying round the rosetree;
for, you see, as they were lying on their faces, and the
pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of the
pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners,
or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her own children.
'How should I know?' said Alice, surprised at her
Najprije naiĊoše desetorica vojnika noseći oznake
maka. Svi su bili istog oblika kao i trojica
baštovana, duguljasti i pljosnati, a ruke i noge su im
bile na uglovima. Za njima su išla desetorica
dvorjana. Bili su iskićeni karo dijamantima i stupali
dvojica po dvojica, kao vojnici. Poslije njih išla su
kraljevska djeca. Bilo ih je desetoro. Mališani su se
vodili za ruke, dvoje po dvoje, i veselo skakutati.
Svi su bili iskićeni crvenim hercovima. Za njima
nastupahu gosti, uglavnom kraljevi i kraljice, i meĊu
njima Alisa prepoznade Bijelog Zeca. Razgovarao
je brzo i ţustro, osmjehujući se na sve što bi ko
rekao, i prošao je mimo Alise i ne primijetivši je. Za
njima je koraĉao Pub-Herc, noseći na grimiznom
somotskom jastuku kraljevsku krunu. I na kraju ove
veliĉanstvene povorke nalazili su se KRALJ i
KRALJICA HERC.
Alisa nije taĉno znala da li i ona treba da padne
niĉice kao ona trojica baštovana, nije se mogla
sjetiti da je kad ĉula da tako treba postupiti kad
prolazi povorka. "A i ĉemu bi sluţila povorka",
pomisli, "jer ako bi svako morao da padne niĉice,
onda je niko ne bi ni vidio?"
Zato je ostala mirno na svom mjestu i ĉekala.
Kad povorka doĊe do Alise, svi zastadoše i
pogledaše je, a Kraljica strogo zapita: "Ko je ovo?"
Pitanje je bilo upućeno Pub-Hercu koji se na to
samo pokloni i nasmiješi.
"Budala!", reĉe Kraljica, nestrpljivo zabaci glavu i
okrenuvši se Alisi, nastavi: "Kako ti je ime, dijete?"
"Neka blagoizvoli vaše veliĉanstvo, ime mi je
Alisa", reĉe Alisa vrlo uĉtivo, ali u sebi dodade: "Pa
svi su oni ipak samo špil karata. Ne treba da ih se
plašim!"
"A ko su ovi?", zapita Kraljica pokazujući na trojicu
baštovana koj su leţali unaokolo ruţe jer, vidiš,
pošto su leţali niĉice, a šara na leĊima im bila ista
kao kod svih drugih karata, Kraljica nije mogla znati
da li su to baštovani, vojnici, dvorjani ili troje njene
vlastite djece.
"Kako ja to mogu znati?", reĉe Alisa i sama
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own courage. 'It's no business of mine.'
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after
glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast,
screamed 'Off with her head! Off--'
'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly,
and the Queen was silent.
The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly
said 'Consider, my dear: she is only a child!'
The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to
the Knave 'Turn them over!'
The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
'Get up!' said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and
the three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began
bowing to the King, the Queen, the royal children,
and everybody else.
'Leave off that!' screamed the Queen. 'You make me
giddy.' And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went
on, 'What have you been doing here?'
'May it please your Majesty,' said Two, in a very
humble tone, going down on one knee as he spoke,
'we were trying--'
'I see!' said the Queen, who had meanwhile been
examining the roses. 'Off with their heads!' and the
procession moved on, three of the soldiers remaining
behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran
to Alice for protection.
'You shan't be beheaded!' said Alice, and she put
them into a large flower-pot that stood near. The
three soldiers wandered about for a minute or two,
looking for them, and then quietly marched off after
the others.
'Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen.
'Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!' the
soldiers shouted in reply.
'That's right!' shouted the Queen. 'Can you play
croquet?'
The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the
question was evidently meant for her.
'Yes!' shouted Alice.
'Come on, then!' roared the Queen, and Alice joined
the procession, wondering very much what would
happen next.
iznenaĊena svojom hrabrošću. To nije moja briga."
Kraljica pocrvenje od bijesa i gledajući je jedan
ĉasak netremice, kao kakva divlja zvijer, podvrisnu:
"Odsijecite joj glavu! Od..."
"Gluposti", reĉe Alisa vrlo glasno i odluĉno, i
Kraljica umuknu.
Kralj poloţi ruku na Kraljiĉinu mišicu i plašljivo
reĉe: "Razmisli, draga moja: ona je još dijete!"
Kraljica se ljutito okrenu od njega i naredi Pub-
Hercu: "Okreni ih!"
Pub-Herc to uĉini vrlo paţljivo, jednom nogom.
"Diţite se!", reĉe Kraljica oštro i glasno i trojica
baštovana istog trena Ċipiše na noge i poĉeše da se
klanjaju Kralju, Kraljici, kraljevskoj djeci i svim
ostalim.
"Dosta"!, vrisnu Kraljica. "Uhvatiće me nesvjestica
od vas." I okrenuvši se prema ruţi, nastavi: "Šta ste
radili ovdje?"
"Neka blagoizvoli vaše veliĉanstvo", reĉe Dvica
vrlo ponizno spustivši se na jedno koljeno,
"nastojali smo..."
"Već vidim!", reĉe Kraljica koja je u meĊuvremenu
razgledala ruţe. "Odsijecite im glave!", i povorka
krenu, samo zaostaše trojica vojnika da pogube
nesretne baštovane koji potrĉaše prema Alisi, ne bi
li ih zaštitila.
"Neće biti pogubljeni!", reĉe Alisa i sakri ih u jednu
veliku sakciju za cvijeće, što je stajala u blizini.
Trojica vojnika su se koji ĉasak muvali unaokolo
traţeći ih, a onda mirno krenuše za ostalim.
"Jesu li im odrubljene glave?", dreknu Kraljica.
"Glave im nema, neka blagoizvoli vaše
veliĉanstvo", povikaše vojnici.
"Tako i treba!" uviknu Kraljica. "Umiješ li igrati
kroket?"
Sva trojica vojnika su šutjeli i pogledali Alisu,
postoje pitanje oĉigledno bilo namijenjeno njoj.
"Umijem", reĉe Alisa.
"Onda dolazi!", grmnu Kraljica i Alisa se pridruţi
povorci, radoznala da vidi šta li će sad biti.
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'It's--it's a very fine day!' said a timid voice at her
side. She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was
peeping anxiously into her face.
'Very,' said Alice: '--where's the Duchess?'
'Hush! Hush!' said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone.
He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke,
and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth
close to her ear, and whispered 'She's under sentence
of execution.'
'What for?' said Alice.
'Did you say "What a pity!"?' the Rabbit asked.
'No, I didn't,' said Alice: 'I don't think it's at all a pity.
I said "What for?"'
'She boxed the Queen's ears--' the Rabbit began.
Alice gave a little scream of laughter. 'Oh, hush!' the
Rabbit whispered in a frightened tone. 'The Queen
will hear you! You see, she came rather late, and the
Queen said--'
'Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice of
thunder, and people began running about in all
directions, tumbling up against each other; however,
they got settled down in a minute or two, and the
game began. Alice thought she had never seen such a
curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges
and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the
mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to
double themselves up and to stand on their hands and
feet, to make the arches.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in
managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its
body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her
arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just
as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and
was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head,
it would twist itself round and look up in her face,
with such a puzzled expression that she could not
help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its
head down, and was going to begin again, it was very
provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled
itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all
this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way
wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as
"Dan je vrlo – vrlo lijep!", javi se neki plašljiv glas
pored nje. Išla je pokraj Bijelog Zeca koji joj je
zabrinuto zavirivao u lice.
"Vrlo lijep", reĉe Alisa. "Gdje je Vojvotkinja?"
"Pst! Pst!", Zec izusti tiho i ţurno, zabrinuto se
osvrnu preko ramena, onda se prope na vrh prstiju i
šapnu joj na uho: "Pod smrtnom je presudom!"
"Zbog ĉega?"
"Jesi li kazala, 'šteta'?", priupita Zec.
"Ne, nisam", reĉe Alisa. "Ne mislim da je ikakva
šteta. Kazala sam: 'Zbog ĉega'?"
"Ošamarila je Kraljicu", otpoĉe Zec. Alisa se
zakikota. "Oh, tiše!", prošapta Zec prestravljeno.
"Ĉuĉe te Kraljica" Vidiš, priliĉno je bila okasnila, i
Kraljica reĉe..."
"Svi na svoja mjesta!" grmnu Kraljica i svi se
uštrcaše, kud koji, sudarajući se jedan s drugim.
Ipak se za koji ĉas smjestiše i igra zapoĉe. Alisa
pomisli da nikad u ţivotu nije vidjela ĉudnijeg
igrališta za kroket. Ĉitavo je bilo u grebenima i
jarcima. Umjesto lopti – ţivi jeţevi, umjesto štapova
– ţivi flaminzi, a vojnici su morali da se potpuno
presaviju i stoje na rukama i nogama, da bi svojim
tijelima pravili lukove.
Alisi je najteţe spoĉetka bilo to što nikako nije znala
da drţi svog flaminga. Pošlo joj je za rukom da mu
tijelo zgodno namjesti pod mišku – noge su mu
slobodno visile – ali kad god bi mu lijepo ispravila
vrat i njegovom glavom htjela da udari jeţa, on bi se
izvio i tako zbunjeno je pogledao u lice da Alisa nije
mogla a da ne prasne u smijeh. A kad bi mu spustila
glavu i spremala se da igru ponovo otpoĉne,
naljutila bi se kad bi vidjela kako se jeţ otklupĉao i
hoće da odgamiţe. Uz to, kad god bi htiela da
pogodi jeţa, redovno bi se pred njom isprijeĉio bilo
kakav greben, bilo jarak, a presamićeni vojnici svaki
ĉas su se dizali i odlazili na drugi kraj igrališta, te
Alisa ubrzo doĊe do zakljuĉka da je ovo jedna
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the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and
walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon
came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult
game indeed.
The players all played at once without waiting for
turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the
hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in
a furious passion, and went stamping about, and
shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!'
about once in a minute.
Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had
not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she
knew that it might happen any minute, 'and then,'
thought she, 'what would become of me? They're
dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great
wonder is, that there's any one left alive!'
She was looking about for some way of escape, and
wondering whether she could get away without being
seen, when she noticed a curious appearance in the
air: it puzzled her very much at first, but, after
watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a
grin, and she said to herself 'It's the Cheshire Cat:
now I shall have somebody to talk to.'
'How are you getting on?' said the Cat, as soon as
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 its ears have
come, or at least one of them.' In another minute the
whole head appeared, and then Alice put down her
flamingo, and began an account of the game, feeling
very glad she had someone to listen to her. The Cat
seemed to think that there was enough of it now in
sight, and no more of it appeared.
'I don't think they play at all fairly,' Alice began, in
rather a complaining tone, 'and they all quarrel so
dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak--and they
don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if
there are, nobody attends to them--and you've no idea
how confusing it is all the things being alive; for
instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next
walking about at the other end of the ground--and I
should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just
doista teška igra.
Svi igraĉi su igrali u isti mah, ne ĉekajući na red,
sve vrijeme se svaĊali i otimali o jeţeve, i Kraljica
se uskoro toliko razgoropadi da je poĉela da udara
nogama o tle i svakog ĉasa je uzvikivala:
"Odsijecite mu glavu!" ili "Odsijecite joj glavu!"
Alisa se veoma uznemiri. Istina, dosada se nije
sporjeĉkala s Kraljicom, ali znala je da bi do toga
moglo da doĊe svakog ĉasa. I pomisli: "Šta bi onda
bilo sa mnom? Ovdje strašno vole da odsijecaju
glave. Pravo je ĉudo što je još iko ţiv!"
Obazirala se oko sebe i gledala da nekako umakne,
pitajući se da li će moći šmugnuti a da je niko ne
opazi, kad u vazduhu ugleda neki ĉudan prizor.
Ispoĉetka nije znala šta bi to moglo biti, ali poslije
nekoliko ĉasaka uvidje da je to maĉji smiješak i reĉe
sama sebi: "Pa to je Ĉeširska maĉka. Sad ću bar
imati s kim da razgovaram."
"Kako ti ide?", zapita Maĉka ĉim joj se ukaza toliki
dio usta da je mogla da progovori. Alisa priĉeka da
se Maĉki pojave oĉi, a onda klimnu glavom. "Nema
smisla da joj se obraćam prije no što joj se ukaţu
oba uha, ili bar jedno!" Već sljedećeg trenutka
pomoli se cijela Maĉkina glava i Alisa spusti svog
flaminga na zemlju i poĉe da joj pripovijeda o igri,
sretna što ima nekoga da je sluša. Maĉka je, izgleda,
smatrala da je pokazala dovoljan dio sebe, i na tome
osta.
"Ĉini mi se da ne igraju pošteno", poţali se Alisa. "I
tako se strašno svaĊaju da samoga sebe ne ĉuješ. I...
kao da nemaju nikakvih, odreĊenih pravila. U
najmanju ruku, i ako ih imaju, niko ih se ne
pridrţava... i ne moţeš ni zamisliti kako je nezgodno
što je sve ţivo. Na primjer, odjednom opazim da
luk, ispod kojeg treba da protjeram loptu, šeta na
drugom kraju igrališta. Ili, upravo treba da pogodim
Kraljiĉinog jeţa, a on pobjegne ĉim vidi da moj jeţ
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now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!'
'How do you like the Queen?' said the Cat in a low
voice.
'Not at all,' said Alice: 'she's so extremely--' Just then
she noticed that the Queen was close behind her,
listening: so she went on, '--likely to win, that it's
hardly worth while finishing the game.'
The Queen smiled and passed on.
'Who are you talking to?' said the King, going up to
Alice, and looking at the Cat's head with great
curiosity.
'It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said Alice:
'allow me to introduce it.'
'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King:
'however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look
at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. 'I've read that
in some book, but I don't remember where.'
'Well, it must be removed,' said the King very
decidedly, and he called the Queen, who was passing
at the moment, 'My dear! I wish you would have this
cat removed!'
The Queen had only one way of settling all
difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she
said, without even looking round.
'I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the King
eagerly, and he hurried off.
Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how
the game was going on, as she heard the Queen's
voice in the distance, screaming with passion. She
had already heard her sentence three of the players to
be executed for having missed their turns, and she did
not like the look of things at all, as the game was in
such confusion that she never knew whether it was
her turn or not. So she went in search of her
hedgehog.
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
dolazi!"
"Kako ti se sviĊa Kraljica?", Maĉka će tiho.
"Nikako", reĉe Alisa. "Sasvim je..." Upravo tada
spazi za svojim leĊima Kraljicu kako prisluškuje.
Zato nastavi: "... vjerovatno da će pobijediti, te se
takoreći ne isplati ni igrati do kraja."
Kraljica s osmjehnu i proĊe.
"S kim to razgovaraš?", zapita Kralj prilazeći Alisi i
sa velikom radoznalošću gledajući u Maĉkinu glavu.
"To je jedna moja prijateljica – Ĉeširska maĉka",
reĉe Alisa. "Dozvolite da vam je predstavim."
"Ne sviĊa mi se baš nimalo njen izgled", reĉe Kralj.
"Al, moţe da me poljubi u ruku ako ţeli."
"Pa radije ne bih!" primijeti Maĉka.
"Ne budi drska", reĉe Kralj, "i ne gledaj me tako!" I
dok je još bio u rijeĉi, proĊe Alisi iza leĊa.
"Maĉka smije gledati kralja", reĉe Alisa, "to sam
proĉitala u nekoj knjizi, samo ne znam kojoj."
"E, treba je ukloniti odavde", reĉe Kralj vrlo
odluĉno i obrati se Kraljici koja je upravo prolazila:
"Draga moja! Ţelim da se ova maĉka ukloni!"
Kraljica je imala samo jedan naĉin za sreĊivanje
svih teškoća, veliki li malih. "Neka joj se odsijeĉe
glava!", reĉe i ne osvrnuvši se ĉak.
"Odoh sam po Dţelata!", reĉe Kralj spremno i
odhita.
Alisa pomisli da bi bilo dobro da se i ona vrati, da
vidi kako napreduje igra, jer je u daljini zaĉula
Kraljiĉinu dreku. Već je ĉula kako je tri igraĉa
osudila na smrt zato što su propustili svoj red. A
ništa joj se ovdje nije sviĊalo. Igralo se tako zbrkano
da nikad nije znala da li je na nju došao red ili nije.
Zato poĊe da potraţi svog jeţa.
Njen jeţ se borio s jednim drugim jeţom, i Alisi se
uĉini da je to sjajna prilika da jednog od njih pogodi
drugim. Nevolja je bila samo u tome što se njen
flamingo odšetao na drugi kraj bašte i Alisa ga
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gone across to the other side of the garden, where ugleda kako bezuspješno pokušava da uzleti na
Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to jedno drvo.
fly up into a tree.
By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought I dok je njoj pošlo za rukom da uhvati flaminga i
it back, the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs donese ga natrag, bitka je već bila okonĉana i
were out of sight: 'but it doesn't matter much,' thought jeţevima ne bijaše ni traga ni glasa. "Uostalom, nije
Alice, 'as all the arches are gone from this side of the ni vaţno!", pomisli Alisa, "jer svi lukovi su otišli sa
ground.' So she tucked it away under her arm, that it ove strane igrališta." Zato stavi flaminga pod mišku
might not escape again, and went back for a little da joj opet ne utekne i ode da još malo porazgovara
more conversation with her friend. sa svojom prijateljicom.
When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was Kad stiţe do Ĉeširske maĉke, iznenadi se kad oko
surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round nje zateĉe okupljenu ĉitavu gomilu. SvaĊali su se
it: there was a dispute going on between the Dţelat, Kralj i Kraljica i sve je troje govorilo uglas,
executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all dok su ostali šutjeli i po svemu sudeći osjećali se
talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent, vrlo nelagodno.
and looked very uncomfortable.
The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by Ĉim se Alisa pojavi, sve troje je zamoliše da ona
all three to settle the question, and they repeated their stvar presudi i ponavljahu joj svoje tvrdnje. Ali
arguments to her, though, as they all spoke at once, pošto su svi govorili u jedan glas, bilo joj je uistinu
she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly vrlo teško da shvati o ĉemu je rijeĉ.
what they said.
The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut Dţelat je tvrdio da se ne moţe odsjeći nekom glava
off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: ako taj nema tijelo sa kojeg bi se glava odsjekla. Da
that he had never had to do such a thing before, and tako nešto nikad nije radio pa ni sad pod starost neće
he wasn't going to begin at his time of life. da radi.
The King's argument was, that anything that had a Kralj je tvrdio da se svakom ko ima glavu, glava
head could be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk moţe i odsjeći i da Dţelat ne trabunja tu koješta.
nonsense.
The Queen's argument was, that if something wasn't Kraljica je tvrdila da će, ukoliko se nešto istog ĉasa
done about it in less than no time she'd have u tom pogledu ne uĉini, svima odreda glave
everybody executed, all round. (It was this last odletjeti. (Zbog toga je ĉitavo društvo i izgledalo
remark that had made the whole party look so grave ozbiljno i zabrinuto.)
and anxious.)
Alice could think of nothing else to say but 'It Alisa se nije mogla dosjetiti da išta drugo kaţe
belongs to the Duchess: you'd better ask her about it.'osim: "Maĉka je Vojvotkinjina. Najbolje da nju
pitate o tome!"
'She's in prison,' the Queen said to the executioner: "Ona je u tamnici", reĉe Kraljica Dţelatu. "Dovedi
'fetch her here.' And the executioner went off like an je ovamo!" I Dţelat kao strijela odletje.
arrow.
The Cat's head began fading away the moment he Ĉim on ode, Maĉkina glava poĉe polako da se gubi,
was gone, and, by the time he had come back with i kad se Dţelat vrati s Vojvotkinjom, glave više ne
the Duchess, it had entirely disappeared; so the King bijaše. Stoga se Kralj i Dţelat bjesomuĉno uštrcaše
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and the executioner ran wildly up and down looking
for it, while the rest of the party went back to the
game.
CHAPTER IX
The Mock Turtle's Story
'You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you
dear old thing!' said the Duchess, as she tucked her
arm affectionately into Alice's, and they walked off
together.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant
temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was
only the pepper that had made her so savage when
they met in the kitchen. 'When I'm a Duchess,' she
said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), 'I
won't have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does
very well without--Maybe it's always pepper that
makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very much
pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, 'and
vinegar that makes them sour--and camomile that
makes them bitter--and--and barley-sugar and such
things that make children sweet-tempered. I only
wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so
stingy about it, you know--'
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and
was a little startled when she heard her voice close to
her ear. 'You're thinking about something, my dear,
and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just
now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it
in a bit.'
'Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.
'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a
moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed
herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first,
because the Duchess was very ugly; and secondly,
because she was exactly the right height to rest her
chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an
uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like
to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
da je traţe, a ostala druţina vrati se igri.
Glava IX
PRIČA LAŽNE KORNJAČE
"Ne moţeš ni zamisliti koliko mi je drago što te opet
vidim, mila moja!", reĉe Vojvotkinja, pa ljubazno
uze Alisu pod ruku i poĊe s njom.
Alisa se obradova što je vidi ovako dobro
raspoloţenu i pomisli da je moţda samo zbog bibera
bila onako goropadna kad su se ono sreli u kuhinji.
"Kad ja budem vojvotkinja", reĉe sama sebi (iako se
tome nije baš nadala), u mojoj kuhinji uopšte neće
biti bibera. Ĉorba je dobra i bez njega. Moţda ljudi
uvijek baš od bibera i postaju ljuti", nastavi
zadovoljna što je pronašla nekakvo novo pravilo,
"od sirćeta – kiseli, od kamilice – gorki, a – a od
šećera i sliĉnih stvari djeca su slatka. Eh, kad bi to
ljudi samo znali, onda, znaš, ne bi u slatkišima
toliko škrtarili."
Bila je već i zaboravila na Vojvotkinju i trgnu se
kad joj zaĉu glas na samom uhu: "Razmišljaš o
neĉem, draga moja, i zbog toga si prestala da
razgovaraš, ne bih ti baš trenutno umjela reći kakva
se pouka moţe iz tog izvući, ali ću se za tili ĉas
sjetiti."
"Moţda je i nema", Alisa se usudi da primijeti.
"De, de, dijete!", reĉe Vojvotkinja. "Sve ima pouku,
ukoliko je samo umiješ pronaći." I govoreći to, još
ĉvršće se pribi uz Alisu.
Alisi nije bilo baš po volji što joj se tako pribliţila.
Prvo, zato što je Vojvotkinja bila vrlo ruţna, a
drugo, što je upravo bila toliko visoka da se mogla
osloniti bradom na Alisino rame, a brada joj je bila
neprijatno oštra. Ali nije ţeljela da ispadne gruba i
trpjela je to što je bolje mogla.
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'The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by
way of keeping up the conversation a little.
''Tis so,' said the Duchess: 'and the moral of that is--
"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go
round!"'
'Somebody said,' Alice whispered, 'that it's done by
everybody minding their own business!'
'Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the
Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice's
shoulder as she added, 'and the moral of that is--
"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care
of themselves."'
'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice
thought to herself.
'I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm
round your waist,' the Duchess said after a pause: 'the
reason is, that I'm doubtful about the temper of your
flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?'
'He might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling
at all anxious to have the experiment tried.
'Very true,' said the Duchess: 'flamingoes and
mustard both bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of
a feather flock together."'
'Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
'Right, as usual,' said the Duchess: 'what a clear way
you have of putting things!'
'It's a mineral, I think,' said Alice.
'Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready
to agree to everything that Alice said; 'there's a large
mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is--
"The more there is of mine, the less there is of
yours."'
'Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had not attended
to this last remark, 'it's a vegetable. It doesn't look
like one, but it is.'
'I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; 'and the
moral of that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or
if you'd like it put more simply--"Never imagine
yourself not to be otherwise than what it might
appear to others that what you were or might have
been was not otherwise than what you had been
would have appeared to them to be otherwise."'
"Izgleda da igra sad teĉe mnogo bolje", reĉe.
"Tako je", reĉe Vojvotkinja, "a pouka koja se iz tog
moţe izvući jest: Oh, ljubav, ljubav svijet pokreće!"
"Neko je rekao", prošaputa Alisa, "da se svijet
okreće ako svako gleda svoja posla!"
"Pa to je gotovo jedno te isto" na to će Vojvotkinja i
svojom šiljatom bradicom još dublje zaroni u
Alisino rame, dodavši: "A pouka koja se iz toga
moţe izvući jest – Vodi raĉuna o smislu, a glas će
sam voditi raĉuna o sebi."
"Ala voli da iznalazi pouke u svemu!", pomisli
Alisa u sebi.
"Vjerovatno se ĉudiš što te ne obujmim oko pasa",
reĉe Vojvotkinja poslije izvjesne stanke. "Razlog je
što nisam sigurna u ćud tvog flaminga. Da
pokušam?"
"Mogao bi vas ugristi", odgovori Alisa obazrivo
nimalo ne ţeleći da to Bojvotkinja i uĉini.
"Sasvim taĉno", reĉe Vojvotkinja. "I flaminzi i
gorušica grizu. A pouka koja se iz tog moţe izvući
jest: Svaka ptica svoje jatu leti."
"Samo što gorušica nije ptica", primijeti Alisa.
"U pravu si kao i uvijek", reĉe Vojvotkinja. "Vrlo
jasno postavljaš stvari!"
"Ja mislim da je gorušica mineral", reĉe Alisa.
"Naravno da jest", reĉe Vojvotkinja, spremna da se
sloţi sa svim što Alisa kaţe. "Nedaleko odavde
nalazi se veliki rudnik gorušice. A pouka koja se iz
tog moţe izvući jest: Što više neĉeg meni, manje
tebi!"
"Oh, znam!" uskliknu Alisa koja nije ni slušala šta
Vojvotkinja govori. "Gorušica je povrće. Ne izgleda
tako, ali jest."
"Potpuno se s tobom slaţem", reĉe Vojvotkinja. I
pouka koja se iz toga moţe izvući, jest: Budi onakav
kakav bi htio da izgledaš, ili još jednostavnije: nikad
ne zamišljaj da nisi drukĉija od onoga kako izgledaš
drugima, da ono što jesi ili što bi mogla biti nije
drukĉije nego što bi im ono što si bila izgledalo
drukĉije."
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'I think I should understand that better,' Alice said
very politely, 'if I had it written down: but I can't
quite follow it as you say it.'
'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the
Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.
'Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than
that,' said Alice.
'Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. 'I
make you a present of everything I've said as yet.'
'A cheap sort of present!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad
they don't give birthday presents like that!' But she
did not venture to say it out loud.
'Thinking again?' the Duchess asked, with another dig
of her sharp little chin.
'I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was
beginning to feel a little worried.
'Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, 'as pigs
have to fly; and the m--'
But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's
voice died away, even in the middle of her favourite
word 'moral,' and the arm that was linked into hers
began to tremble. Alice looked up, and there stood
the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded,
frowning like a thunderstorm.
'A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a
low, weak voice.
'Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen,
stamping on the ground as she spoke; 'either you or
your head must be off, and that in about half no time!
Take your choice!'
The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a
moment.
'Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to Alice;
and Alice was too much frightened to say a word, but
slowly followed her back to the croquet-ground.
The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen's
absence, and were resting in the shade: however, the
moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game,
the Queen merely remarking that a moment's delay
would cost them their lives.
All the time they were playing the Queen never left
"Vjerujem da bih to bolje razumjela", reĉe Alisa
vrlo uĉtivo, "kad bi bilo napisano. Ovako, dok
govorite, ne mogu da vas baš najbolje pratim."
"To nije ništa prema onom što bih ja mogla kazati
da hoću", reĉe Vojvotkinja zadovoljno.
"Molim vas, ne muĉite se da biste to još opširnije
kazali!", reĉe Alisa.
"Oh, ne govori mi o muĉenju!", reĉe Vojvotkinja.
"Poklanjam ti sve što sam dosad rekla!"
"Jeftin poklon!", pomisli Alisa. "Sva sreća da se za
roĊendan ne dobijaju takvi pokloni!" Ali se ne
odvaţi da to glasno kaţe.
"Opet razmišljaš?", reĉe Vojvotkinja i iznova joj u
rame zabode svoju šiljatu bradicu.
"Imam pravo da razmišljam", odgovori Alisa
nabusito, jer joj je sve ovo već poĉelo pomalo i da
dosaĊuje.
"Upravo toliko", reĉe Vojvotkinja, "koliko prasci
imaju pravo da lete, i pou..."
Ali ovdje, na veliko Alisino ĉudo, Vojkvotkinjin
glas se prelomi, ĉak usred njene omiljene rijeĉi
"pouka" i ruka koja joj je bila oslonjena na Alisinu
ruku, poĉe da podrhtava. Alisa podiţe oĉi i ugleda
Kraljicu kako stoji pred njima, skrštenih ruku, a iz
oĉiju kao da joj varnice frcaju.
"Krasan dan, vaše veliĉanstvo!" poĉe Vojvotkinja
tihim, slabašnim glasom.
"Ĉuješ, lijepo te opominjem", uviknu Kraljica
udarajući nogom o tle, "ili ti odavde ili tvoja glava! I
to ovog istog trena! Pa biraj!"
Vojvotkinja odabra i za tili ĉas se izgubi.
"Nastavimo igru!", reĉe Kraljica Alisi. A Alisa je
bila toliko prestravljena da ne umjede ni rijeĉi
prosloviti, nego polako poĊe za njom do igrališta.
Ostali gosti su iskoristili Kraljiĉino odsustvo i u
hladovini se odmarali. Ali ĉim je ugledaše, poţuriše
da nastave igru, a Kraljica samo dobaci da ih jedan
ĉas skanjivanja moţe ţivota stajati.
I za sve vrijeme igre Kraljica nije prestajala da se
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off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting
'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those
whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the
soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches
to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so
there were no arches left, and all the players, except
the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and
under sentence of execution.
Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said
to Alice, 'Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'
'No,' said Alice. 'I don't even know what a Mock
Turtle is.'
'It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is 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 history,'
As they walked off together, Alice heard the King
say in a low voice, to the company generally, 'You
are all pardoned.' 'Come, that's a good thing!' she said
to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the
number of executions the Queen had ordered.
They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast
asleep in the sun. (If you don't know what a Gryphon
is, look at the picture.) 'Up, lazy thing!' said the
Queen, 'and take this young lady to see the Mock
Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and see
after some executions I have ordered'; and she
walked off, leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon.
Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but
on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to
stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so she
waited.
The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it
watched the Queen till she was out of sight: then it
chuckled. 'What fun!' said the Gryphon, half to itself,
half to Alice.
'What is the fun?' said Alice.
'Why, she,' said the Gryphon. 'It's all her fancy, that:
they never executes nobody, you know. Come on!'
'Everybody says "come on!" here,' thought Alice, as
she went slowly after it: 'I never was so ordered about
svaĊa sa drugim igraĉima i da uzvikuje: "Odsijecite
mu glavu" ili "Odscijecite joj glavu!" OsuĊenike su
vojnici odvodili u zatvor i zato, naravno, nisu mogli
da budu lukovi, tako da u roku od kojih pola sata na
igralištu nije bilo više ni jednog luka, a svi igraĉi,
izuzev Kralja, Kraljice i Alise, bijahu u zatvoru,
osuĊeni na smrt.
Onda Kraljica, sva zadihana, prekide igru i reĉe
Alisi: "Jesi li vidjela Laţnu Kornjaĉu?"
"Nisam, ĉak ne znam ni šta je to", odvrati Alisa.
"To je ono od ĉega se pravi laţna ĉorba", reĉe
Kraljica.
"Niti sam je kad vidjela niti ĉula za nju!" Alisa će.
"Hajde onda ovamo, pa će ti ona ispriĉati svoju
istoriju."
I dok se sa Kraljicom udaljavala, Alisa ĉu kako
Kralj tiho kaţe druţim: "Svi ste pomilovani!" "E,
tako valja!", reĉe Alisa u sebi, jer je bila vrlo
nesretna zbog tolikih smrtnih presuda što ih je
Kraljica izrekla ;
Uskoro naiĊoše na jednog Grifona (Mitološka
ţivotinja, pola lav, pola orao (glava i krila su mu
orlovski.) koji je u dubokom snu leţao na suncu.
"Ustaj, lijenštino!" prodera se Kraljica, "i odvedi
ovu mladu damu do Laţne Kornjaĉe da ĉuje njenu
istoriju. Ja se moram vratiti da nadgledani neke
smrtne kazne koje sam izrekla", i ode ostavljajući
Alisu samu sa Grifonom. Alisi se nije nimalo sviĊao
Grifonov izgled, ali pomisli kako ostati s njim nije
ništa opasnije nego poći za onom goropadnom
Kraljicom i zato ĉekaše da on ustane.
Grifon sjede i protrlja oĉi; onda gledaše za
Kraljicom sve dok se ona ne izgubi iz vida. Onda se
zakikota. "Jest smiješno", reĉe Grifon govoreći
upola sebi a upola Alisi.
"Šta je smiješno?", zapita Alisa.
"Pa, ona!", reĉe Grifon. "Sve su to njene
izmišljotine, znaš, nikada nikog ne pogube. Hajde!"
"Ovdje svako samo kaţe: Hajde!", pomisli Alisa,
polako idući za njim. "Još nikad mi u ţivotu nisu
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in all my life, never!' toliko nareĊivali, nikad!"

They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Nisu išli dugo kad u daljini ugledaše Laţnu
Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little Kornjaĉu kako tuţna i usamljena sjedi na izboĉini
ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could jedne stijene i kad joj priĊoše, Alisa ĉu kako uzdiše
hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She kao da joj srce hoće da prepukne. Saţali se na nju.
pitied him deeply.
'What is his sorrow?' she asked the Gryphon, and the "Zašto je tako tuţna?", upita Grifona, a Grifon
Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same words as odgovori gotovo istim rijeĉima kao i ono maloprije:
before, 'It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no "Sve su to njene izmišljotine. Ni zbog ĉega nije
sorrow, you know. Come on!' tuţna, znaš. Hajde!"
So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at I priĊoše Laţnoj Kornjaĉi koja ih pogleda svojim
them with large eyes full of tears, but said nothing. krupnim oĉima punim suza, ali ništa ne reĉe.
'This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants "Ova ovdje mlada dama", reĉe Grifon, "ţeljela bi da
for to know your history, she do.' ĉuje tvoju istoriju."
'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow "Ispriĉaću joj je", reĉe Kornjaĉa dubokim muklim
tone: 'sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word glasom. "Sjedite oboje i da ni rijeĉi niste proslovili
till I've finished.' sve dok ja ne završim."
So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some Oni sjedoše i nekoliko ĉasaka niko i ne progovori.
minutes. Alice thought to herself, 'I don't see how he Alisa pomisli u sebi: "Ne vidim kako će ikad
can even finish, if he doesn't begin.' But she waited završiti ako ne poĉinje." Ali je strpljivo ĉekala.
patiently.
'Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, "Nekad davno", otpoĉe najzad Laţna Kornjaĉa,
'I was a real Turtle.' duboko uzdahnuvši, "ja sam bila prava kornjaĉa."
These words were followed by a very long silence, Poslije ovih rijeĉi zavlada duga tišina koju je
broken only by an occasional exclamation of prekidao samo Grifonov povremeni usklik: "hjkrr!"
'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy i Kornjaĉini neprestani bolni jecaji. Alisa zamalo što
sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly ne ustade da kaţe: "Hvala vam gospoĊo, na vašoj
getting up and saying, 'Thank you, sir, for your zanimljivoj priĉi", ali je bila uvjerena da još nešto
interesting story,' but she could not help thinking mora doći i zato je mirno sjedjela u šutjela.
there must be more to come, so she sat still and said
nothing.
'When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at "Kad smo bili mali", nastavi Laţna Kornjaĉa najzad
last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now mirnije, iako bi tu i tamo još uvijek zajecala, "išli
and then, 'we went to school in the sea. The master smo u školu koja je bila u moru. Uĉitelj nam je bio
was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' jedna stara kornjaĉa – obiĉno smo ga zvali
'kornjuĉi'."
'Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' "A zašto ste ga zvali 'kornjuĉi'?", priupita Alisa.
Alice asked.
'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said "Zvali smo ga 'kornjuĉi' zato što je bio tu da nas
the Mock Turtle angrily: 'really you are very dull!' uĉi", odbrusi Laţna Kornjaĉa. "Stvarno si vrlo
blesava!"
'You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such "Treba da se sramiš što postavljaš pitanja prosta kao
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a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they
both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt
ready to sink into the earth. At last the Gryphon said
to the Mock Turtle, 'Drive on, old fellow! Don't be all
day about it!' and he went on in these words:
'Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't
believe it--'
'I never said I didn't!' interrupted Alice.
'You did,' said the Mock Turtle.
'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--'
'I've been to a day-school, too,' said Alice; 'you
needn't be so proud as all that.'
'With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a little
anxiously.
'Yes,' said Alice, 'we learned French and music.'
'And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.
'Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly.
'Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the
Mock Turtle in a tone of great relief. 'Now at ours
they had at the end of the bill, "French, music, and
washing--extra."'
'You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice;
'living at the bottom of the sea.'
'I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle
with a sigh. 'I only took the regular course.'
'What was that?' inquired Alice.
'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the
Mock Turtle replied; 'and then the different branches
of Arithmetic-- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification,
and Derision.'
'I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to
say. 'What is it?'
The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise.
'What! Never heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You
know what to beautify is, I suppose?'
'Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: 'it means--to--make--
pasulj!" dodade Grifon, i oboje su sjedjeli bez rijeĉi
i promatrali jadnu Alisu koja je mislila da će u
zemlju propasti. Najzad Grifon reĉe Laţnoj
Kornjaĉi: "Nastavi, starino! Nećeš se valjda ĉitav
bogovetni dan majati oko toga!" I Kornjaĉa nastavi
ovim rijeĉima:
"Da, išli smo u školu u moru, iako ti to moţda ne
vjeruješ."
"Ja nisam rekla da ne vjerujem!" prekide je Alisa.
"Jesi!" reĉe Laţna Kornjaĉa.
"Zaveţi!" dodade Grifon prije no što je Alisa mogla
išta i da kaţe.
Laţnja Kornjaĉa nastavi:
"Stekli smo najbolje obrazovanje – u stvari, išli smo
u školu svaki dan..."
"I ja sam išla u školu svaki dan", reĉe Alisa. "Ne
moraš se time toliko hvalisati."
"I imali ste vanredne ĉasove?" zapita Kornjaĉa malo
zabrinuto.
"Da, uĉili smo francuski i muziku."
"I pranje?", upita Kornjaĉa.
"To, naravno, nismo!", odgovori Alisa prezrivo.
"Ah! Onda tvoja škola nije bila bog zna šta!", reĉe
Kornjaĉa s velikim olakšanjem. "U našoj školi na
kraju popisa svih predmeta stajalo je: francuski,
muzika i pranje – neobavezno."
"Ono vam baš nije bilo ni toliko potrebno kad ste
ţivjeli na dnu mora."
"Ja nisam sebi mogla priuštiti da i to uĉim", reĉe
Kornjaĉa uzdahnuvši. "PohaĊala sam samo
obavezne predmete."
"Koji su to bili?", raspitivala se Alisa.
"U poĉetku, razumije se, okretanje i uvijanje",
odgovori Kornjaĉa, "a onda razliĉite grane
aritmetike – ambicija, odupiranje, poruţancija i
rugancija."
"Nikad nisam ĉula sa poruţanciju", usudi se Alisa
da kaţe. "Šta je to?"
Grifon podiţe obje svoje šape u ĉudu. "Šta. Nikad
nisi ĉula sa poruţnjavanje!", uskliknu,
pretpostavljam da znaš šta znaĉi poljepšavanje?"
"Da", reĉe Alisa nesigurno. "To znaĉi... uĉiniti... da
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anything--prettier.'
'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know
what to uglify is, you are a simpleton.'
Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more
questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle,
and said 'What else had you to learn?'
'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied,
counting off the subjects on his flappers, '--Mystery,
ancient and modern, with Seaography: then
Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old conger-
eel, that used to come once a week: He taught us
Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'
'What was that like?' said Alice.
'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle
said: 'I'm too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'
'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: 'I went to the
Classics master, though. He was an old crab, he was.'
'I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a
sigh: 'he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'
'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his
turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.
'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said
Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine
the next, and so on.'
'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon
remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'
This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it
over a little before she made her next remark. 'Then
the eleventh day must have been a holiday?'
'Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle.
'And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice went
on eagerly.
'That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon "Dosta priĉe o školi", upade Grifon vrlo odluĉno.
interrupted in a very decided tone: 'tell her something "Ispriĉaj joj sad štogod o igrama!"
about the games now.'
nešto... bude ljepše."
"Pa, eto", nastavi Grifon, "ako ne znaš šta znaĉi
poruţnjavati, mora da si neka glupaĉa."
Alisa nije imala hrabrosti da postavi još koje pitanje
u vezi s tim, zato se okrenu Kornjaĉi i zapita: "Šta
ste još morali uĉiti?"
"Pa, eto, bila je tu misterija", odgovori Kornjaĉa
brojeći predmete na svoje peraje, "misterija starog i
novog vijeka, sa oceanografijom; onda protezanje –
uĉitelj protezanja bila je jedna stara morska jegulja
koja je dolazila jedanput nedjeljno. Ona nas je uĉila
protezanju, pruţanju i sklupĉavanju."
"Šta je to?", zapita Alisa.
"Pa ne mogu ti to pokazati", odgovori Kornjaĉa.
"Isuviše sam kruta. A Grifon to nikad nije ni uĉio."
"Nisam imao vremena", reĉe Grifon. "Pa ipak sam
odlazio kod uĉitelja klasike. Bio je to jedan stari
rak."
"Ja njemu nikad nisam išla", reĉe Kornjaĉa
uzdahnuvši. "Govorili su da poduĉava Smijeh i
Plaĉ."
"Tako je, tako je!", reĉe Grifon uzdišući i sam. I
oboje zagnjuriše lice u šape.
"A koliko ste po rasporedu imali dnevno sati?",
zapita Alisa jedva ĉekajući da promijeni predmet
razgovora.
"Prvi dan deset sati", reĉe Kornjaĉa, "a drugi devet, i
tako redom."
"Kakav ĉudan raspored", uskliknu Alisa.
"Zato se i zove raspored sati", primijeti Grifon, "što
se po jedan sat svaki dan skrati."
Za Alisu je ovo bilo nešto sasvim novo i malo
promisli prije nego što reĉe: "Onda ste jedanaestog
dana morali imati praznik?"
"Naravno!", reĉe Laţna Kornjaĉa.
"A šta je bilo dvanaestog?", nastavi Alisa radoznalo.
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CHAPTER X Glava X
The Lobster Quadrille KADRIL JASTOGA
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of Laţna Kornjaĉa duboko uzdahnu i nadlanicom
one flapper across his eyes. He looked at Alice, and preĊe preko oĉiju. Pogleda Alisu i pokuša da
tried to speak, but for a minute or two sobs choked progovori, ali jedan ĉasak dva jecaja su guš ila njen
his voice. 'Same as if he had a bone in his throat,' said glas. "Kao da joj je kost zapala u grlo", reĉe Grifon i
the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and stade je drmati i udarati po leĊima. Najzad se
punching him in the back. At last the Mock Turtle Kornjaĉi povrati glas i dok su joj suze lile niz
recovered his voice, and, with tears running down his obraze, nastavi:
cheeks, he went on again:--
'You may not have lived much under the sea--' ('I "Ti moţda nisi ţivjela dugo pod morem... ("I
haven't,' said Alice)-- 'and perhaps you were never nisam", reĉe Alisa.) I moţda se nisi upoznala ni s
even introduced to a lobster--' (Alice began to say 'I jednim jastogom – (Alisa htjede da kaţe: "Jedanput
once tasted--' but checked herself hastily, and said sam ga probala", ali se brzo predomisli i reĉe:
'No, never') '--so you can have no idea what a "Nisam nikad".), pa onda ne moţeš ni zamisliti
delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!' kakav je divan kadril jastoga."
'No, indeed,' said Alice. 'What sort of a dance is it?' "Pa i ne mogu", reĉe Alisa. "Kako izgleda taj ples?"
'Why,' said the Gryphon, 'you first form into a line "Pa, evo!", reĉe Grifon. "Najprije svi stanu u jedan
along the sea-shore--' red duţ obale..."
'Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle. 'Seals, turtles, "U dva reda", uzviknu Kornjaĉa. "Tuljani, kornjaĉe i
salmon, and so on; then, when you've cleared all the tako dalje. I kada sa puta uklone meduze..."
jelly-fish out of the way--'
'That generally takes some time,' interrupted the "A to obiĉno zahtijeva priliĉno vremena", upade
Gryphon. Grifon.
'--you advance twice--' "... naprave dva koraka naprijed..."
'Each with a lobster as a partner!' cried the Gryphon. "A svako za partnera ima po jednog jastoga...",
uzvikne Grifon.
'Of course,' the Mock Turtle said: 'advance twice, set "Naravno", reĉe Laţna Kornjaĉa. "Naprave dva
to partners--' koraka, svi u parovima..."
'--change lobsters, and retire in same order,' "Izmijene jastoge i vrate se u istom poretku",
continued the Gryphon. produţi Grifon.
'Then, you know,' the Mock Turtle went on, 'you "A onda, znaš", nastavi Laţna Kornjaĉa, "baciš..."
throw the--'
'The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound "Jastoga!", uzviknu Grifon i poskoĉi uvis.
into the air.
'--as far out to sea as you can--' "... što moţeš dalje u more..."
'Swim after them!' screamed the Gryphon. "Zaplivaš za njim!", podvrisne Grifon.
'Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the Mock Turtle, "Prebaciš se preko glave u moru!", poviĉe Laţna
capering wildly about. Kornjaĉa skaĉući bjesomuĉno.
'Change lobster's again!' yelled the Gryphon at the "Opet promijeniš jastoga!", drekne Grifon.
top of its voice.
'Back to land again, and that's all the first figure,' said "Opet se vratiš na obalu i – to je sve prva figura",
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the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and reĉe Laţna Kornjaĉa utišavši najednom glas. I ovo
the two creatures, who had been jumping about like dvoje što su kao kakvi luĊaci skakali unaokolo, opet
mad things all this time, sat down again very sadly posjedaše vrlo tuţno i mirno i pogledaše Alisu.
and quietly, and looked at Alice.
'It must be a very pretty dance,' said Alice timidly. "To mora da je vrlo lijepa igra", reĉa Alisa
bojaţljivo.
'Would you like to see a little of it?' said the Mock "Hoćeš da je malko pogledaš?", zapita Laţna
Turtle. Kornjaĉa.
'Very much indeed,' said Alice. "Vrlo rado", reĉe Alisa.
'Come, let's try the first figure!' said the Mock Turtle "Hajde da probamo prvu figuru!" reĉe Kornjaĉa
to the Gryphon. 'We can do without lobsters, you Grifonu. "Moţemo i bez jastoga, znaš. Ko će
know. Which shall sing?' pjevati?"
'Oh, you sing,' said the Gryphon. 'I've forgotten the "TI pjevaj!", reĉe Grifon. "Ja sam zaboravio rijeĉi."
words.'
So they began solemnly dancing round and round I tako poĉeše dostojanstveno da igraju oko Alise,
Alice, every now and then treading on her toes when samo kad god bi joj se sasvim pribliţili, uvijek bi joj
they passed too close, and waving their forepaws to nagazili na noge! Mahali su prednjim šapama da
mark the time, while the Mock Turtle sang this, very oznaĉe takt a Laţna Kornjaĉa je pjevala, veoma tiho
slowly and sadly:-- i tuţno:
'"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a Bjelica će pužu: "De požuri malo, šta je?
snail.
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's Jedan trilj iza nas baš na rep mi staje.
treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all Gle jastoga i kornjača, hrle na obalu!
advance!
They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and Čekaju na pijesku – hoćeš i ti, pužu, pridružit se
join the dance? balu?

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join Hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš li se pridružiti
the dance? balu?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you Hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš, nećeš, nećeš li se pridružiti
join the dance? balu?

"You can really have no notion how delightful it will
be
When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters,
out to sea!"
But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a
look askance—
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not
join the dance.
Ni slutiti ti ne možeš svu krasotu, pužu mili,
Kad nas budu s jastozima na pučinu odbacili!"
"Predaleko, predaleko to je za me!" i Bjelici odajući
punu hvalu
Puž odluči da se neće pridružiti balu.
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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.
'"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend
replied.
"There is another shore, you know, upon the other
side.
The further off from England the nearer is to
France—
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join
the dance.
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you
join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you
join the dance?"'
'Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to watch,'
said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last:
'and I do so like that curious song about the whiting!'
'Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, 'they--
you've seen them, of course?'
'Yes,' said Alice, 'I've often seen them at dinn--' she
checked herself hastily.
'I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock
Turtle, 'but if you've seen them so often, of course
you know what they're like.'
'I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. 'They have
their tails in their mouths--and they're all over
crumbs.'
'You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock
Turtle: 'crumbs would all wash off in the sea. But
they have their tails in their mouths; and the reason
is--' here the Mock Turtle yawned and shut his eyes.--
'Tell her about the reason and all that,' he said to the
Gryphon.
'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
Ne bi htio, ne bi mog'o, ne bi mog'o, ne bi htio
pridružit se balu.
Ne bi htio, ne bi mog'o, ne bi mog'o, ne bi htio
pridružit se balu.
"A šta mari predaleko što je? Man' se, pužu, toga,
mani!
Znaš, i druga obala na drugoj je strani!
Što dalje od Engleske, bliže si francuskom žalu,
Stog, ne blijedi, dragi pužu, nego hajde pridruži se
balu.
Hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš li se pridružiti
balu?
Hoćeš, nećeš, nećeš, nećeš li se pridružiti balu?"
"Hvala vam, bilo je vrlo zanimljivo promatrati tu
igru", reĉe Alisa, sva srećna što se igra najzad
završila. "I vrlo mi se sviĊa ta ĉudna pjesma o ribi
bjelici!"
"Oh, što se tiĉe riba bjelica", reĉe Laţna Kornjaĉa,
"Ti – ti si ih već vidjela, naravno?"
"Jesam", reĉe Alisa, "ĉesto sam ih viĊala u tanj...",
ali se brzo ugrize za jezik.
"Ja ne znam gdje ti je taj Tanj", reĉe Kornjaĉa, "ali
ako si ih ĉesto viĊala, onda, razumije se, znaš kako
izgledaju."
"Ĉini mi se da znam", odgovori Alisa premišljajući.
"Repovi su im zataknuti u usta – i uvaljane su u
mrvice."
"To o mrvicama nemaš pravo", reĉe Laţna
Kornjaĉa, "jer bi mrvice spralo more. Ali su im
repovi zataknuti u usta. A razlog tome..." ovdje
Kornjaĉa zijevnu i sklopi oĉi. "Kaţi joj razlog i sve
ostalo", reĉe ona Grifonu.
"Razlog je", reĉe Grifon, "što su htiele da plešu sa
jastozima. Zato su morale biti baĉene u more. Zato
su morale pasti daleko. Zato su ĉvrsto zatakle
repove u usta. Zato ih poslije nisu mogle izvaditi.
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them out again. That's all.' To je sve."

'Thank you,' said Alice, 'it's very interesting. I never"Hvala vam!", reĉe Alisa, "Veoma je zanimljivo.
knew so much about a whiting before.' Nikad dosad nisam toliko znala o bjelicama."
'I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the "Ako hoćeš, mogu ti ja ispriĉati još i više!" reĉe
Gryphon. 'Do you know why it's called a whiting?' Grifon. "Znaš li zašto se zovu bjelice?"
'I never thought about it,' said Alice. "Nikad o tom nisam razmišljala", reĉe Alisa.
"Zašto?"
'Why?''It does the boots and shoes.' the Gryphon "Ĉiste ĉizme i cipele!", odgovori Grifon vrlo
replied very solemnly. sveĉanim glasom.
Alice was thoroughly puzzled. 'Does the boots and Alisa se potpuno zbuni. "Ĉiste ĉizme i cipele?!,
shoes!' she repeated in a wondering tone. ponovi zaĉuĊeno.
'Why, what are your shoes done with?' said the "Pa, eto, ĉime ti sve cipele ĉistiš?", zapita Grifon.
Gryphon. 'I mean, what makes them so shiny?' "Mislim, kako su tako uglancane?"
Alice looked down at them, and considered a little Alisa ih pogleda i malo razmisli prije no što
before she gave her answer. 'They're done with odgovori: "Mislim da su premazane crnilom."
blacking, I believe.'
'Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on "E, vidiš, na dnu mora ĉizme i cipele", nastavi
in a deep voice, 'are done with a whiting. Now you Grifon dubokim glasom, "ne ĉiste se crnilom nego
know.' bjelilom. Sad znaš."
'And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a tone of "A od ĉega su napravljene?", upita Alisa radoznalo.
great curiosity.
'Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather "Od tabinja i jegulja, naravno", odgovori Grifon
impatiently: 'any shrimp could have told you that.' priliĉno nestrpljivo. "Svaka bi ti i najobiĉnija
školjka umjela na to odgovoriti."
'If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts "Da sam ja bila namjesto ribice", reĉe Alisa po ĉijoj
were still running on the song, 'I'd have said to the se glavi još vrzmala pjesma, "rekla bih trilju:
porpoise, "Keep back, please: we don't want you with Odmakni se, moliću. Ne ţelimo tvoje društvo!"
us!"'
'They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock "Morale su biti s njim u društvu", odvrati Laţna
Turtle said: 'no wise fish would go anywhere without Kornjaĉa. "Nijedna pametna riba nikud ne ide bez
a porpoise.' trilja."
'Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great "Zaista?", zapita Alisa veoma iznenaĊena.
surprise.
'Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: 'why, if a fish "Naravno", reĉe Laţnja Kornjaĉa. "Eto, kad bi neka
came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I riba sad došla k meni i rekla da ide na put, ja bih je
should say "With what porpoise?"' upitala: 'Sa kojim triljem'?"
'Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice. "Misliš, ciljem,?" zapita Alisa.
'I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an "Mislim ono što kaţem", odvrati Kornjaĉa
offended tone. And the Gryphon added 'Come, let's uvrijeĊeno. A Grifon dodade: "Hajde, ti nam ispriĉaj
hear some of your adventures.' koji svoj doţivljaj!"
'I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this "Mogla bih vam ispriĉati svoje doţivljaje – tek
morning,' said Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no use odjutros", reĉe Alisa bojaţljivo. "Ne bi imalo smisla
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going back to yesterday, because I was a different
person then.'
'Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.
'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an
impatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful
time.'
So Alice began telling them her adventures from the
time when she first saw the White Rabbit. She was a
little nervous about it just at first, the two creatures
got so close to her, one on each side, and opened their
eyes and mouths so very wide, but she gained
courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly
quiet till she got to the part about her repeating 'You
are old, Father William,' to the Caterpillar, and the
words all coming different, and then the Mock Turtle
drew a long breath, and said 'That's very curious.'
'It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the
Gryphon.
'It all came different!' the Mock Turtle repeated
thoughtfully. 'I should like to hear her try and repeat
something now. Tell her to begin.' He looked at the
Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of
authority over Alice.
'Stand up and repeat "'Tis the voice of the sluggard,"'
said the Gryphon.
'How the creatures order one about, and make one
repeat lessons!' thought Alice; 'I might as well be at
school at once.' However, she got up, and began to
repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster
Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying,
and the words came very queer indeed:--
vraćati se na juĉe, pošto sam onda bila sasvim druga
osoba."
"Objasni to!", reĉe Kornjaĉa.
"Nemoj, nemoj! Prvo ispriĉaj doţivljaj!", reĉe
Grifon nestrpljivo. "Objašnjenja se uvijek strašno
otegnu."
Tako im Alisa poĉe da prepriĉava svoje zgode i
nezgode od onoga ĉasa kad je prvi put ugledala
Bijelog Zeca. U poĉetku se malko plašila, jer su joj
se oboje bili toliko pribliţili, jedno s jedne, drugo s
druge strane, izbeĉivši oĉi i razjapivši usta. Ali što
je dalje odmicala, postajala je sve odvaţnija. Slušali
su je potpuno mirno sve dok ne prispje do onog
mjesta kad je Gusjenici poĉela da recituje "Star si,
oĉe Viljeme", a sve rijeĉi ispale drukĉije. Onda
Kornjaĉa duboko uzdahnu i reĉe: "Vrlo ĉudno!"
"Ĉudno da ne moţe biti ĉudnije!, reĉe Grifon.
"Sve je ispalo drukĉije!", ponovi Kornjaĉa
zamišljeno. "Voljela bih kad bi šta izrecitovala sada.
Reci joj da poĉne!" Gledala je u Grifona kao da je
vjerovala da on posjeduje nekakvu moć na Alisom.
"Ustani i recituj: 'To je ljenjivĉev glas'", reĉe
Grifon.
"Ala ovi nareĊuju i tjeraju me da ponavljam
lekcije!", pomisli Alisa. "Mirne duše sam mogla
onda biti i u školi!" Ipak ustade i poĉe da recituje,
ali po glavi joj se neprestano motao samo Jastogov
kadril, te takoreći nije ni znala šta govori, pa pjesma
uistinu ispade vrlo ĉudno.

''Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, To jastogov je glas. Čuh ga kako osu:
"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my "Prepržili ste me, sad moram pošećeriti kosu!"
hair."
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Baš kao patak kapkom očnim, i on nosom tako
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his Namješta pojas i dugmad i okreće stopala lako.
toes.'

'That's different from what I used to say when I was a "To je drukĉije od onoga što sam ja recitovao kad
child,' said the Gryphon. sam bio mali", reĉe Grifon.
'Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; "Istina, ja tu pjesmu nikad nisam ni ĉula", reĉe
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'but it sounds uncommon nonsense.'
Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in
her hands, wondering if anything would ever happen
in a natural way again.
'I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock
Turtle.
'She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on
with the next verse.'
'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. 'How
could he turn them out with his nose, you know?'
'It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was
dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to
change the subject.
'Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated
impatiently: 'it begins "I passed by his garden."'
Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it
would all come wrong, and she went on in a
trembling voice:--
'I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--'
'What is the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock
Turtle interrupted, 'if you don't explain it as you go
on? It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!'
'Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon:
and Alice was only too glad to do so.
'Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?'
the Gryphon went on. 'Or would you like the Mock
Turtle to sing you a song?'
'Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so
kind,' Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said,
in a rather offended tone, 'Hm! No accounting for
tastes! Sing her "Turtle Soup," will you, old fellow?'
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice
sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this:--
'Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Kornjaĉa, "ali mi zvuĉi vrlo besmisleno."
Alisa ništa ne reĉe. Sjedjela je lica zagnjurenog u
ruke i pitala se da li će se ikad više išta zbivati na
prirodan naĉin.
"Voljela bih kad bi mi se to objasnilo" javi se
Kornjaĉa.
"Ona to ne umije objasniti", ţurno reĉe Grifon.
"Prelazi na drugu strofu."
"Ali ono sa stopalima?", Kornjaĉa je bila uporna.
"Kako ih je mogao" okrenuti nosom?"
"Pa to je prva figura u plesu", reĉe Alisa, ali je bila
zbog svega toga strašno zbunjena i jedva je
ĉekala da se o neĉem drugom poĉne razgovarati.
"Prelazi na drugu strofu!" ponovi Grifon. "Poĉinje
rijeĉima: Prolazeć kraj njegove bašte"
Alisa ne smjede da ga ne posluša, iako je bila
sigurna da će sve ispasti naopako, i nastavi drhtavim
glasom:
"Prolazeć kraj njegove bašte, tako mi istine cijele,
Ugledah kako Sova i Panter burek dijele.
"Kakvo li ima smisla ponavljati sve te besmislice",
prekide je Laţna Kornjaĉa, "ukoliko usput ne
objašnjavaš. To je najluĊa stvar koju sam ikad ĉula."
"I ja mislim da je najbolje da prekineš", reĉe Grifon
i Alisa to jedva doĉeka.
"Hoćemo li isprobati još jednu figuru Jastogovog
kadrila?", nastavi Grifon. "Ili bi više voljela da ti
Kornjaĉa otjpeva koju, pjesmu?"
"Oh, pjesmu, ako bi Kornjaĉa bila toliko ljubazna",
odgovori Alisa tako ţivo da Grifon, pomalo
uvrijeĊen, reĉe: "Hm! O ukusima se ne raspravlja!
Otpjevaj joj 'Kornjaĉinu ĉorbu', hoćeš li, starino?"
Kornjaĉa duboko uzdahnu i zapjeva glasom koji su
kadikad gušili jecaji:
"Krasna čorba, zelena i masna
U zdjeli čeka topla i slasna!
Ko te tako divnu, čorbo, ne bi prob'o
Čorbo večerice, krasna čorbice!
Čorbo večerice, krasna čorbice!
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Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
'Beautiful Soup!
Who cares for fish,
Game, or any other dish?
Who would not give all else for two
pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!'
'Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock
Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of 'The
trial's beginning!' was heard in the distance.
'Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by
the hand, it hurried off, without waiting 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 that followed them, the melancholy
words:--
'Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!'
CHAPTER XI
Who Stole the Tarts?
The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their
throne when they arrived, with a great crowd
assembled about them--all sorts of little birds and
beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave
was standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on
each side to guard him; and near the King was the
White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a
scroll of parchment in the other. In the very middle of
the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon
it: they looked so good, that it made Alice quite
hungry to look at them--'I wish they'd get the trial
Kraa-aasna čoo-oorbice!
Kraa-aasna čoo-oorbice!
Čoo-oorbo vee-eečerice
Krasna, krasna čorbice!
Krasna čorbo!
Ko za ribu mari,
Divljač ili druge stvari?
Ko se ne bi odrekao i najveće gozbe,
Da bi mog'o kušat makar malo čorbe?
Makar malo čorbe?
Kra-aasna čoo-oorbo!
Kra-aasna čoo-oorbo!
Čoo-oorbo vee-eečerice!
Krasna, kraa-aasna ČORBICE!"
"Opet hor!", uviknu Grifon i samo što Kornjaĉa
poĉe da ponavlja zadnje stihove, kad u daljini
odjeknu: "Poĉinje suĊenje!"
"Hajdemo!", uzviknu Grifon i uzevši Alisu za ruku
pohrli i ne saĉekavši kraj pjesme.
"Kakvo je to suĊenje?", zapita Alisa sva zadihana
od silne trke, ali Grifon samo reĉe: "Hajdemo!", i
potrĉa još brţe. Sve tiše i tiše odzvanjale su sad
sjetne rijeĉi što ih je do njih donosio lahor:
"Čorbo vee-eečerice,
Krasna, krasna čorbice!"
Glava XI
KO JE UKRAO KOLAČE
Kad Alisa i Grifon stigoše, Kralj i Kraljica su već
sjedjeli na prijestolju, a oko njih se natisla ĉitava
gomila – sve vrste ptiĉica i zvjerki kao i cijeli špil
karata. Pred njima je stajao Pub-Herc u lancima
okovan, a sa svake strane ĉuvao ga je po jedan
vojnik. Blizu Kralja stajao je Bijeli Zec. U jednoj
ruci drţao je trubu a u drugoj svitak pergamenta.
Nasred sudnice nalazio se sto a na njemu velika
zdjela kolaĉa. Izgledali su tako ukusni da Alisi,
samo što ih pogleda, poĊe voda na usta. "Da se hoće
suĊenje što prije završiti, pa da nas posluţe
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done,' she thought, 'and hand round the refreshments!'
But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she
began looking at everything about her, to pass away
the time.
Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but
she had read about them in books, and she was quite
pleased to find that she knew the name of nearly
everything there. 'That's the judge,' she said to
herself, 'because of his great wig.'
The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore
his crown over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if
you want to see how he did it,) he did not look at all
comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming.
'And that's the jury-box,' thought Alice, 'and those
twelve creatures,' (she was obliged to say 'creatures,'
you see, because some of them were animals, and
some were birds,) 'I suppose they are the jurors.' She
said this last word two or three times over to herself,
being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly
too, that very few little girls of her age knew the
meaning of it at all. However, 'jury-men' would have
done just as well.
The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on
slates. 'What are they doing?' Alice whispered to the
Gryphon. 'They can't have anything to put down yet,
before the trial's begun.'
'They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon
whispered in reply, 'for fear they should forget them
before the end of the trial.'
'Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant
voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit
cried out, 'Silence in the court!' and the King put on
his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make
out who was talking. Alice could see, as well as if she
were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors
were writing down 'stupid things!' on their slates, and
she could even make out that one of them didn't
know how to spell 'stupid,' and that he had to ask his
neighbour to tell him. 'A nice muddle their slates'll be
in before the trial's over!' thought Alice.
One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of
course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the
kolaĉima!" Ali bila je sva prilika da od toga ništa
nema, i da bi joj prošlo vrijeme, poĉe da se obazire
oko sebe.
Alisa još nikad nije bila u sudu, ali je o sudovima
ĉitala u knjigama, i vrlo se obradova kad vidje da
zna maltene sve kako se tu šta zove. "Ono je sudija",
reĉe u sebi, jer na glavi ima veliku periku.
Uzgred reĉeno, sudija je bio sam Kralj. I pošto je
krunu stavio preko perike, kao da se osjećao vrlo
nelagodno, a ruku na srce, nije mu dobro ni
pristajalo.
"A ono je pregrada sa klupama za porotnike",
pomisli Alisa, "a onih dvanaest stvorenja (znaš,
morala je kazati "stvorenja", pošto su neka od njih
bila ţivotinje a neka ptice) mislim da su porotnici."
Ovu posljednju rijeĉ ponovi u sebi dva-tri puta. Bila
je na nju vrlo ponosna, jer je pomislila, i to s
pravom, da vrlo malo djevojĉica njenih godina zna
šta ta rijeĉ uopšte i znaĉi. MeĊutim, sasvim dobro bi
bilo da je rekla i "sudski prisuditelji".
Svih dvanaest porotnika su vrlo marljivo pisali nešto
po tablicama. "Šta to oni rade?", Alisa tiho zapita
Grifona. "Nemaju šta da zapisuju kad suĊenje još
nije ni poĉelo."
"Zapisuju svoja imena!", odgovori šapatom Grifon.
"Boje se da ih ne zaborave prije no što se suĊenje
završi."
"Glupani", otpoĉe Alisa glasno i ljutito, ali naglo
ušutje jer Bijeli Zec uzviknu: "Tišina u sudnici!", a
Kralj nataknu naoĉare i srdito se osvrnu da vidi ko
to govori. Baš kao da im je virila preko ramena,
Alisa pogodi da svi porotnici na tablicama pišu
"Glupani!", i ĉak pogodi da jedan od njih ne zna
kako da tu rijeĉ napiše, pa morade priupitati svog
susjeda. "Te njihove tablice će do kraja suĊenja
postati prave papazjanije!", pomisli Alisa.
Pisaljka jednog porotnika je škripala. Alisa to,
naravno, nije mogla da podnese, zato preĊe na drugu
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court and got behind him, and very soon found an stranu sudnice, stade mu iza leĊa i domalo ugrabi
opportunity of taking it away. She did it so quickly priliku da mu je otme. Uradila je to toliko vješto, da
jadni mali porotnik (bio je to gušter Bil) nije uopšte
that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could
not make out at all what had become of it; so, after znao šta mu se zbilo sa pisaljkom. Pošto je sve
hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with unaokolo uzaludno pretraţio, bio je prinuĊen da
one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of verycijelo vrijeme piše prstom. Ali od toga je bilo slabe
little use, as it left no mark on the slate. koristi, jer prst na tablici nije ostavljao baš nikakvog
traga.
'Herald, read the accusation!' said the King. "Glasniĉe, proĉitaj optuţbu!", naredi Kralj.
On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the Na to Bijeli Zec tri puta zatrubi, onda razvi
trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scroll, and pergamentski svitak i poĉe da ĉita:
read as follows:--
'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, "Kraljica-Herc napravi kolaĉe
All on a summer day: Jednog ljetnog dana – nek znano je svima,
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, Pub-Herc ukrade te kolaĉe
And took them quite away!' I odmagli s njima!"
'Consider your verdict,' the King said to the jury. "Razmislite o presudi!", obrati se Kralj porotnicima.
'Not yet, not yet!' the Rabbit hastily interrupted. "Još je rano, još je rano!", ţurno upade Zec. "Ima
'There's a great deal to come before that!' još mnogo šta prije toga!"
'Call the first witness,' said the King; and the White "Pozovite prvog svjedoka!", reĉe Kralj a Bijeli Zec
Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called tri puta zatrubi i uzviknu: "Prvi svjedok!"
out, 'First witness!'
The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a Prvi svjedok je bio Šeširdţija. Ušao je drţeći u
teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in jednoj ruci šolju za ĉaj, a u drugoj parĉe hljeba sa
the other. 'I beg pardon, your Majesty,' he began, 'for maslacem. "Oprostite, vaše veliĉanstvo", otpoĉe,
bringing these in: but I hadn't quite finished my tea "što unosim ovo. Ali pozvali su me prije no što sam
when I was sent for.' uspio da popijem ĉaj."
'You ought to have finished,' said the King. 'When "Trebalo je da ga popiješ", reĉe Kralj. "Kad si
did you begin?' poĉeo?"
The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had Šeširdţija pogleda Martovskog Kunića koji je u
followed him into the court, arm-in-arm with the sudnicu ušao odmah iza njega, ruku pod ruku sa
Dormouse. 'Fourteenth of March, I think it was,' he Puhom. "Mislim da je bio ĉetrnaesti mart!", reĉe.
said.
'Fifteenth,' said the March Hare. "Petnaesti", reĉe Martovski Kunić.
'Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse. "Šesnaesti", dodake Puh.
'Write that down,' the King said to the jury, and the "Zapišite to!", reĉe Kralj porotnicima, i porotnici
jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their brţe-bolje zabiljeţiše na svoje tablice sva tri
slates, and then added them up, and reduced the datuma, a onda ih sabraše i rezultat pretvoriše u
answer to shillings and pence. šilinge i penije.
'Take off your hat,' the King said to the Hatter. "Skini šešir!", reĉe Kralj Šeširdţiji.
'It isn't mine,' said the Hatter. "Nije moj!", odvrati Šeširdţija.
'Stolen!' the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who "Ukradeni", uskliknu Kralj okrenuvši se
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instantly made a memorandum of the fact.
'I keep them to sell,' the Hatter added as an
explanation; 'I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.' Here
the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at
the Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.
'Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be
nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot.'
This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he
kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking
uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a
large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-
butter.
Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious
sensation, which puzzled her a good deal until she
made out what it was: she was beginning to grow
larger again, and she thought at first she would get up
and leave the court; but on second thoughts she
decided to remain where she was as long as there was
room for her.
'I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.' said the Dormouse,
who was sitting next to her. 'I can hardly breathe.'
'I can't help it,' said Alice very meekly: 'I'm growing.'
'You've no right to grow here,' said the Dormouse.
'Don't talk nonsense,' said Alice more boldly: 'you
know you're growing too.'
'Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the
Dormouse: 'not in that ridiculous fashion.' And he got
up very sulkily and crossed over to the other side of
the court.
All this time the Queen had never left off staring at
the Hatter, and, just as the Dormouse crossed the
court, she said to one of the officers of the court,
'Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!'
on which the wretched Hatter trembled so, that he
shook both his shoes off.
'Give your evidence,' the King repeated angrily, 'or
I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or
not.'
'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' the Hatter began, in a
trembling voice, '--and I hadn't begun my tea--not
above a week or so--and what with the bread-and-
butter getting so thin--and the twinkling of the tea--'
porotnicima koji istog ĉasa to zapisaše.
"Ja šešire prodajem", objasni Šeširdţija. "Nijedan
nije moj. Ja sam Šeširdţija." Tog ĉasa Kraljica
nataknu na nos naoĉare i poĉe netremice da bulji u
Šeširdţiju koji problijedje i uzvrpolji se.
"Podnesi iskaz!", reĉe Kralj. "I ne vrpolji se, inaĉe
ću narediti da ti se na licu mjesta odsijeĉe glava."
Izgleda da ovo baš nimalo ne ohrabri svjedoka.
Neprestano se premještao s noge na nogu,
pogledajući zabrinuto Kraljicu i u zabuni umjesto
hljeba odgrize poveliko parĉe šolje.
Upravo tog trena Alisu proţe neko ĉudno osjećanje
koje je strašno smete dok ne uvidje o ĉemu se radi.
Opet je poĉela da raste i u prvi mah pomisli da se
digne i napusti sudnicu. Ali se predomisli i odluĉi da
ostane tu gdje je, sve dok bude imala mjesta.
"Ne guraj se toliko!", reĉe Puh koji je sjedio uz nju.
"Jedva dišem."
"Ja tu ništa ne mogu", reĉe Alisa smjerno. "Rastem."
"Nemaš nikakvog prava da rasteš ovdje", reĉe Puh.
"Ne govori koješta!", reĉe Alisa smjelije. "Znaš da i
ti rasteš."
"Da, ali ja rastem umjereno", na to će Puh. "A ne na
tako smiješan naĉin." I on ljutito ustade i preĊe na
drugu stranu sudnice.
Za sve to vrijeme Kraljica nije skidala oĉiju sa
Šeširdţije, i baš kad je Puh prelazio preko sudnice,
reĉe jednom od dvorjana: "Donesi mi popis pjevaĉa
na posljednjem koncertu!", na što jadni Seširdţija
toliko poĉe da se trese da mu spadoše s nogu obje
cipele.
"Podnesi iskaz!", ponovi Kralj ljutito. "Inaĉe ću
narediti da te pogube, drhtao ga ne drhtao!"
"Ja sam jedan bijedni siromašak, vaše veliĉanstvo"
otpoĉe Šeširdţija drhtavim glasom, "i nisam još bio
ni sjeo za ĉaj... nema tome više od jedne sedmice ili
tako nešto... a o hljebu i maslacu da i ne priĉam,
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postali su takva tanjeţ... i svjetlucanje ĉaja..."

'The twinkling of the what?' said the King. "Svjetlucanje?", zapita Kralj.
'It began with the tea,' the Hatter replied. "Poĉelo je sa s...", odgovori Šeširdţija.
'Of course twinkling begins with a T!' said the King "Naravno da svjetlucanje poĉinje sa S", reĉe kralj
sharply. 'Do you take me for a dunce? Go on!' oštro. "Misliš da sam budala? Nastavi!"
'I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, 'and most things "Ja sam bijedni siromašak", nastavi Šeširdţija, "i
twinkled after that--only the March Hare said--' mnogo štošta je svjetlucalo poslije toga – jedino je
Martovski Kunić rekao..."
'I didn't!' the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry. "Nisam", upade ţurno Martovski Kunić.
'You did!' said the Hatter. "Jesi!", reĉe Šeširdţija.
'I deny it!' said the March Hare. "Poriĉem!", reĉe Martovski Kunić.
'He denies it,' said the King: 'leave out that part.' "On poriĉe!", reĉe Kralj. "Ispusti taj dio."
'Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--' the Hatter "Pa, eto, u svakom sluĉaju Puh je rekao", produţi
went on, looking anxiously round to see if he would Šeširdţija, zabrinuto se osvrnuvši da vidi hoće li i
deny it too: but the Dormouse denied nothing, being Puh poricati. Ali Puh ništa nije poricao pošto je
fast asleep. spavao dubokim snom.
'After that,' continued the Hatter, 'I cut some more "Poslije toga", reĉe Šeširdţija, "odrezao sam još
bread- and-butter--' malo hljeba."
'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury "Ali šta je Puh rekao?", zapita jedan od porotnika.
asked.
'That I can't remember,' said the Hatter. "Toga se ne mogu sjetiti", reĉe Šeširdţija.
'You must remember,' remarked the King, 'or I'll have "Moraš se sjetiti!", primijeti Kralj. "Inaĉe ĉeš biti
you executed.' pogubljen."
The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread- Jadnom šeširdţiji ispade iz ruku šolja za ĉaj i hljeb
and-butter, and went down on one knee. sa maslacem i on se spusti na jedno koljeno.
'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' he began. "Ja sam bijedni siromašak, vaše veliĉanstvo",
otpoĉe.
'You're a very poor speaker,' said the King. "Ti si siromašan u govoru!", reĉe Kralj.
Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was Na ovom mjestu jedno zamorĉe zapljeska, ali istog
immediately suppressed by the officers of the court. ĉasa sudski policajci zavedoše red. (Pošto je to
(As that is rather a hard word, I will just explain to priliĉno nerazumljiv izraz, odmah ću ti ga objasniti.
you how it was done. They had a large canvas bag, Policajci su imali jednu veliku vreću od grubog
which tied up at the mouth with strings: into this they platna koja se pri otvoru vezivala konopcem. U nju
slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon su naglavaĉke ugurali zamorĉe, vreću zavezali i sjeli
it.) na nju.)
'I'm glad I've seen that done,' thought Alice. 'I've so "Baš mi je drago što sam vidjela kako se to radi",
often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, pomisli Alisa. "Toliko puta sam ĉitala u novinama
"There was some attempts at applause, which was povodom izvještaja sa suĊenja: "Bilo je pokušaja
immediately suppressed by the officers of the court," pljeskanja, ali je sudska policija odmah zavela red, a
and I never understood what it meant till now.' nikad dosada nisam znala šta to znaĉi."
'If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,' "Ako je to sve što znaš o toj stvari, moţeš sići",
continued the King. nastavi Kralj.
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'I can't go no lower,' said the Hatter: 'I'm on the floor,
as it is.'
'Then you may sit down,' the King replied.
Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was
suppressed.
'Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!' thought Alice.
'Now we shall get on better.'
'I'd rather finish my tea,' said the Hatter, with an
anxious look at the Queen, who was reading the list
of singers.
'You may go,' said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly
left the court, without even waiting to put his shoes
on.
'--and just take his head off outside,' the Queen added
to one of the officers: but the Hatter was out of sight
before the officer could get to the door.
'Call the next witness!' said the King.
The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried
the pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it
was, even before she got into the court, by the way
the people near the door began sneezing all at once.
'Give your evidence,' said the King.
'Shan't,' said the cook.
The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who
said in a low voice, 'Your Majesty must cross-
examine this witness.'
'Well, if I must, I must,' the King said, with a
melancholy air, and, after folding his arms and
frowning at the cook till his eyes were nearly out of
sight, he said in a deep voice, 'What are tarts made
of?'
'Pepper, mostly,' said the cook.
'Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.
'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out.
'Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of
court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his
whiskers!'
For some minutes the whole court was in confusion,
getting the Dormouse turned out, and, by the time
they had settled down again, the cook had
"Kako mogu sići", reĉe Šeširdţija, "kad sam već na
podu."
"Onda moţeš sjesti!", odvrati Kralj.
U tom ĉasu i drugo zamorĉe poĉe da plješće, ali
sudska policija i ovaj put zavede red.
"Zamorĉići su sad obrali bostan!" pomisli Alisa.
"Sad će ići brţe."
"Rado bih dovršio svoj ĉaj", reĉe Šeširdţija,
zabrinuto pogledajući Kraljicu koja je ĉitala popis
pjevaĉa.
"Moţeš ići!", reĉe Kralj i Šeširdţija izletje iz
sudnice ne stigavši ĉak ni da obuje cipele.
"A napolju mu odsijecite glavu!", dobaci Kraljica
jednom sudskom policajcu. Ali prije no što je
policajac i dospio do vrata, Šeširdţiji ne bijaše ni
traga ni glasa.
"Pozovite sljedećeg svjedoka!", reĉe Kralj.
Sljedeći svjedok je bila Vojvotkinjina kuharica. U
ruci je drţala bibernicu, ali ĉak i prije no što je ušla
u sudnicu, Alisa je pogodila ko je sljedeći svjedok
po tome što su svi oni koji su stajali kod vrata,
poĉeli odmah da kišu.
"Podnesi iskaz!", reĉe Kralj.
"Neću!", odvrati kuharica.
Kralj zabrinuto pogleda u Bijelog Zeca koji mu
šapnu: "Ovom svjedoku vaše veliĉanstvo mora
postavljati unakrsna pitanja."
"Pa ako se mora, mora!", reĉe Kralj ţalosno, pa
skrstivši ruke gledaše u kuharicu toliko smrknuto,
da mu se obrve gotovo sasvim sastaviše. "Od ĉega
se prave kolaĉi?"
"Uglavnom od bibera", odgovori kuharica.
"Od mekmeza!", javi se neki sanjiv glas iza nje.
"Šĉepajte tog Puha!", podvrisnu Kraljica.
"Odsijecite tom Puhu glavu! Izbacite tog Puha iz
sudnice! Ugušite ga! Uštinite ga! Išĉupajte mu
brkove!"
I dok su izbacivali Puha, u sudnici se nekoliko
ĉasaka nije znalo ni ko pije ni ko plaća, a kad se sve
opet stiša, kuharice više nije bilo.
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disappeared.
'Never mind!' said the King, with an air of great
relief. 'Call the next witness.' And he added in an
undertone to the Queen, 'Really, my dear, you must
cross-examine the next witness. It quite makes my
forehead ache!'
Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over
the list, feeling very curious to see what the next
witness would be like, '--for they haven't got much
evidence yet,' she said to herself. Imagine her
surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the t op
of his shrill little voice, the name 'Alice!'
CHAPTER XII
Alice's Evidence
'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the
moment how large she had grown in the last few
minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she
tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt,
upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd
below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding
her very much of a globe of goldfish she had
accidentally upset the week before.
'Oh, I beg your pardon!' she exclaimed in a tone of
great dismay, and began picking them up again as
quickly as she could, for the accident of the goldfish
kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of
idea that they must be collected at once and put back
into the jury-box, or they would die.
'The trial cannot proceed,' said the King in a very
grave voice, 'until all the jurymen are back in their
proper places-- all,' he repeated with great emphasis,
looking hard at Alice as he said do.
Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her
haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards, and
the poor little thing was waving its tail about in a
melancholy way, being quite unable to move. She
soon got it out again, and put it right; 'not that it
signifies much,' she said to herself; 'I should think it
would be quite as much use in the trial one way up as
the other.'
"Nije ni vaţno!", reĉe Kralj s velikim olakšanjem.
"Pozovite idućeg svjedoka!" I poluglasno dodade
Kraljici: "Zaista, draga, idućem svjedoku ćeš ti
morati da postavljaš unakrsna pitanja. Mene već boli
glava!"
Alisa je promatrala Bijelog Zeca kako premeće po
spisku, radoznala da sazna ko će biti sljedeći
svjedok. "Jer još uvijek nisu prikupili dovoljno
dokaza", reĉe u sebi. Moţeš zamisliti koliko se
iznenadi kad svojim piskavim glasićem Bijeli Zec iz
petnih ţila podviknu: "Alisa!"
Glava XII
ALISIN ISKAZ
"Ovdje!", poviĉe Alisa i, onako zbunjena, potpuno
zaboravi koliko je porasla za ovih nekoliko
posljednjih ĉasaka i skoĉi tako ţustro da krajem
suknje preturi porotniĉku pregradu, te svi porotnici
popadaše sa klupa na glave onima što su sjedjeli u
sudnici i stadoše se koprcati, što Alisu uvelike
podsjeti na staklenu kuglu sa zlatnim ribicama koju
je prošle nedjelje sluĉajno prevrnula.
"Oh, oprostite, molim vas!", uzviknu sva
prestravljena i brţe-bolje stade da ih kupi, jer joj se
po glavi motao sluĉaj sa zlatnim ribicama i nekako
joj se ĉinilo da porotnike mora što prije pokupiti i
vratiti ih na klupe, inaĉe im nema ţivota.
"SuĊenje se ne moţe nastaviti", reĉe Kralj vrlo
vaţnim glasom, "sve dok se svi porotnic i ne vrate na
svoja prava mjesta – svi!", ponovi naglašavajući i
pri tom strogo gledajući u Alisu.
Alisa baci pogled na porotniĉke klupe i spazi da je u
ţurbi Guštera okrenula naglavaĉke, i jadniĉak je
tuţno mahao repom ne mogavši ni da mrdne. Ona
ga brzo izvuĉe i postavi kako treba. "Kao da to opet
nešto puno znaĉi", reĉe u sebi. "Sigurna sam da će
od njega biti ista korist, bio ga okrenut ovako il'
onako."
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As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the Ĉim se porotnici malo oporaviše od straha poslije
shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had prevrtanja i ĉim im pronaĊoše i opet predadoše
been found and handed back to them, they set to tablice i pisaljke, oni marljivo prionuše na posao da
work very diligently to write out a history of the napisu izvještaj o ovoj nezgodi, svi osim Guštera,
accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much koji je, kako izgleda, bio toliko uzbuĊen da nije bio
overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, ni za šta, nego je sjedio otvorenih usta zureći u strop
gazing up into the roof of the court. sudnice.
'What do you know about this business?' the King "Šta ti znaš o ovoj stvari?", upita Kralj Alisu.
said to Alice.
'Nothing,' said Alice. "Ništa", reĉe Alisa.
'Nothing whatever?' persisted the King. "Baš ništa?", Kralj je bio uporan.
'Nothing whatever,' said Alice. "Baš ništa", odvrati Alisa.
'That's very important,' the King said, turning to the "Ovo je vaţno", reĉe Kralj obrativši se porotnicima.
jury. They were just beginning to write this down on Oni su upravo htjeli da ovo pribiljeţe na svoje
their slates, when the White Rabbit interrupted: tablice, kad upade Bijeli Zec: "Nevaţno, to je,
'Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course,' he said razumije se, mislilo vaše veliĉanstvo!" reĉe sa
in a very respectful tone, but frowning and making velikim poštovanjem, ali pritom se na Kralja mrštio
faces at him as he spoke. i kreveljio.
'Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily "Nevaţno, naravno, to sam mislio, reĉe Kralj ţurno i
said, and went on to himself in an undertone, poluglasno stade u sebi da ponavlja: "Vaţno –
'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' nevaţno – nevaţno – vaţno", kao da je isprobavao
as if he were trying which word sounded best. šta bolje zvuĉi.
Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and some Neki porotnici zapisaše "vaţno", a neki "nevaţno".
'unimportant.' Alice could see this, as she was near Alisa to zapazi jer je bila toliko blizu da je mogla
enough to look over their slates; 'but it doesn't matterpriviriti u njihove tablice. "Ali to uopšte ne mijenja
a bit,' she thought to herself. stvar!", pomisli u sebi.
At this moment the King, who had been for some U tom trenutku Kralj, koji je neko vrijeme nešto
time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out marljivo zapisivao u svoju biljeţnicu, uzviknu:
'Silence!' and read out from his book, 'Rule Forty- "Tišina!" i proĉita iz knjige: "Paragraf ĉetrdeset i
two. All persons more than a mile hight to leave the drugi: 'Sve osobe koje su više od jednog i po
court.' kilometra moraju napustiti sudnicu.'"
Everybody looked at Alice. Svi pogledaše u Alisu.
'I'm not a mile high,' said Alice. "Ja nisam visoka jedan i po kilometar", reĉe Alisa.
'You are,' said the King. "Jesi!", odvrati Kralj.
'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen. "Viša si od tri kilometra!", dodade Kraljica.
'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: 'besides, "Ali ja neću otići ni u kom sluĉaju", reĉe Alisa.
that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.' "Uostalom, to nije stalni paragraf. Tek sad ste ga
izmislili."
'It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King. "To je najstariji paragraf u knjizi", reĉe Kralj.
'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice. "Onda treba da bude pod brojem jedan", reĉe Alisa.
The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily. Kralj problijedje i hitro zaklopi svoju knjigu.
'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, "Razmotrite presudu!", reĉe poroti tihim, drhtavim
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trembling voice. glasom.

'There's more evidence to come yet, please your "Postoji još jedno svjedoĉanstvo, vaše veliĉanstvo!",
Majesty,' said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a reĉe Bijeli Zec ţurno priskoĉivši "Upravo je
great hurry; 'this paper has just been picked up.' pronaĊena ova cedulja."
'What's in it?' said the Queen. "Šta piše na njoj?", upita kraljica.
'I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, 'but it "Nisam je još otvorio", reĉe Bijeli Zec, "ali mi se
seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to--to ĉini da bi moglo biti pismo koje je – nekome –
somebody.' nekome napisao optuţeni."
'It must have been that,' said the King, 'unless it was "A i kako bi moglo biti drukĉije", reĉe Kralj,
written to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.' "ukoliko nije napisano nikome, a to baš nije
uobiĉajeno."
'Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen. "Kome je upućeno?", zapita jedan porotnik.
'It isn't directed at all,' said the White Rabbit; 'in fact, "Nije ni upućeno", reĉe Bijeli Zec. "U stvari spolja
there's nothing written on the outside.' He unfolded ništa ne piše." I govoreći to, razmota cedulju i
the paper as he spoke, and added 'It isn't a letter, after dodade: "Ipak nije pismo. Tu su neki stihovi."
all: it's a set of verses.'
'Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked "Jesu li napisani optuţenikovim rukopisom?", zapita
another of they jurymen. drugi porotnik.
'No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, 'and that's the "Ne nisu", reĉe Bijeli Zec, "i to je pri tom
queerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.) najĉudnije." (Svi porotnici se zbunjeno zgledaše.)
'He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said "Mora da je oponašao neĉiji tuĊi rukopis", reĉe
the King. (The jury all brightened up again.) Kralj. (Porotnici se opet razvedriše.)
'Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't write "Molim vaše veliĉanstvo", reĉe Pub-Herc, ja to
it, and they can't prove I did: there's no name signed nisam pisao i oni ne mogu dokazati da jesam. Na
at the end.' kraju nema nikakvog potpisa."
'If you didn't sign it,' said the King, 'that only makes "Ako ga nisi potpisao", reĉe Kralj, "utoliko gore.
the matter worse. You must have meant some Mora da ti je u glavi bila nekakva ujdurma, inaĉe bi
mischief, or else you'd have signed your name like an se potpisao kao svaki pošten ĉovjek."
honest man.'
There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was Tad svi zapljeskaše. To je zaista bila prva pametna
the first really clever thing the King had said that day. stvar što ju je Kralj danas izrekao.
'That proves his guilt,' said the Queen. "To dokazuje njegovu krivicu!", reĉe Kraljica.
'It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. 'Why, you "To ništa ne dokazuje!", reĉe Alisa. "hajde, ne znate
don't even know what they're about!' ĉak ni kakvi su stihovi!"
'Read them,' said the King. "Proĉitaj ih!", reĉe Kralj.
The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. Bijeli Zec nataknu naoĉare.
'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. "Odakle da poĉnem, moliću vaše veliĉanstvo?",
zapita.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and "Poĉni od poĉetka!", reĉe Kralj vaţno, "i ĉitaj dok
go on till you come to the end: then stop.' ne doĊeš do kraja. Onda stani."
These were the verses the White Rabbit read:-- Ovo su stihovi koje je proĉitao Bijeli Zec:
'They told me you had been to her, Rekoše mi da si bio kod nje
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And mentioned me to him:
She gave me a good character,
But said I could not swim.
He sent them word I had not gone
(We know it to be true):
If she should push the matter on,
What would become of you?
I gave her one, they gave him two,
You gave us three or more;
They all returned from him to you,
Though they were mine before.
If I or she should chance to be
Involved in this affair,
He trusts to you to set them free,
Exactly as we were.
My notion was that you had been
(Before she had this fit)
An obstacle that came between
Him, and ourselves, and it.
Don't let him know she liked them best,
For this must ever be
A secret, kept from all the rest,
Between yourself and me.'
'That's the most important piece of evidence we've
heard yet,' said the King, rubbing his hands; 'so now
let the jury--'
'If any one of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she
had grown so large in the last few minutes that she
wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting him,) 'I'll give him
sixpence. _I_ don't believe there's an atom of
meaning in it.'
The jury all wrote down on their slates, 'She doesn't
believe there's an atom of meaning in 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, you know, as we needn't try to
find any. And yet I don't know,' he went on,
spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at
them with one eye; 'I seem to see some meaning in
them, after all. "-said I could not swim--" you can't
swim, can you?' he added, turning to the Knave.
I izručio mu pozdrave moje,
O meni je imala lijepo mišljenje,
Al' da ne umijem plivati, kazala je.
Da nisam otišao, glas im šalje,
A da ne laže, znamo.
Ako bi tjerala stvar dalje,
Šta li bi bilo s tebe samo?
Dao sam joj jedan, dva su njemu dali,
Ti nam dade tri ili još koji,
Od njeg su sve tebi vratili,
Iako su prije bili moji.
Ako ćemo ja il' ona biti
Upleteni u ovu stvar,
Uzda se da ćeš ih osloboditi
Baš kao što si i nas.
Mislio sam da si bio
Do ispada njenog posljednjega
Kamen smutnje što se postavio
IzmeĎu onog, nas i njega.
Ne reci mu da ih je voljela ljubavlju bezmjernom
Jer to zauvijek mora ostati
IzmeĎu mene i tebe tajnom,
Za koju niko ne smije znati.
"Ovo je najvaţniji iskaz što smo ga dosad ĉuli", reĉe
Kralj trljajući ruke, "i sad neka porotnici..."
"Ako ih ijedan od njih umjedne objasniti", reĉe
Alisa, (za posljednjih nekoliko minuta toliko je
porasla da se baš nimalo nije bojala da ga prekine)
"daću mu marjaš. Ne vjerujem da i trunke smisla
ima u svemu tome."
Porotnici pribiljeţiše na svoje tablice: "Ona ne
vjeruje da i trunke smisla ima u svemu tome", ali
nijedan od njih i ne pokuša da stihove objasni.
"Ako u njima nema smisla", reĉe Kralj, "onda nam
je, znate, kudikamo lakše, jer se ne moramo truditi
da ga na silu iznalazimo. Pa ipak, ne znam", nastavi
– razastrijevši stihove na koljeno i jednim okom
virkajući u njih, "ĉini mi se da ja u njima ipak vidim
neki smisao." "Al' da ne umijem plivati, kazala je. –
Ti ne umiješ plivati, zar ne?", dodade obrativši se
Pub-Hercu.
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The Knave shook his head sadly. Pub tuţno odmahnu glavom.
'Do I look like it?' he said. (Which he certainly did "Zar izgleda kao da umijem?", reĉe. (A zaista i nije
not, being made entirely of cardboard.) izgledalo, jer je sav bio od kartona.)
'All right, so far,' said the King, and he went on "Do sada je u redu", reĉe Kralj i nastavi mrmljajući
muttering over the verses to himself: stihove u sebi:
'"We know it to be true--" that's the jury, of course-- "'A da ne laţe, znamo' – to se, naravno, odnosi na
"I gave her one, they gave him two--" why, that must porotu." "'Dao sam joj jedan, dva su njemu dali' –
be what he did with the tarts, you know--' pa, eto, to mora da je uradio s kolaĉima, znate..."
'But, it goes on "they all returned from him to you,"' "Ali dalje ide: 'Od njega su sve tebi vratili'" reĉe
said Alice. Alisa.
'Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly, "Pa eno ih!", Kralj će pobjedonosno pokazujući
pointing to the tarts on the table. 'Nothing can be kolaĉe na stolu. "Sve je jasno kao dan." Onda opet:
clearer than that. Then again--"before she had this fit- "'Do ispada njenog posljednjega' – ja mislim da ti,
-" you never had fits, my dear, I think?' he said to the draga, nikad nisi pravila ispade?", reĉe Kraljici.
Queen.
'Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an "Nikad!", odgovori Kraljica bijesno i pritom baci na
inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke. (The unfortunate Guštera tintarnicu. (Nesretni mali Bil se već bio
little Bill had left off writing on his slate with one okanio pisanja jednim prstom, jer je uvidio da na
finger, as he found it made no mark; but he now tablici ne ostavlja nikakav trag. Ali sad opet brţe-
hastily began again, using the ink, that was trickling bolje poĉe da piše, zamaĉući prst u tintu koja mu je
down his face, as long as it lasted.) curila niz lice, i to je radio dokle god je tinte
trajalo.)
'Then the words don't fit you,' said the King, looking "Onda ispada da se ove rijeĉi ne odnose na tebe",
round the court with a smile. There was a dead reĉe Kralj gledajući sa osmijehom po sudnici.
silence. Zavlada grobna tišina.
'It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and "To je igra rijeĉi!", reĉe Kralj uvrijeĊeno i svi se
everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their nasmijaše. "Neka porota preĊe na suĊenje!" reĉe
verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time Kralj – moţda već po dvadeseti put danas.
that day.
'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first--verdict "Ne, ne!", na to će Kraljica. "Prvo osuda pa onda
afterwards.' suĊenje!"
'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of "Hajde ne lupetaj!", reĉe Alisa glasno. "Kako osuda
having the sentence first!' moţe doći prije suĊenja!"
'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple. "Zaveţi!", reĉe Kraljica pocrvenjevši.
'I won't!' said Alice. "Neću!", odvrati Alisa.
'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of "Odsijecite joj glavu!", uviknu Kraljica iz sveg
her voice. Nobody moved. glasa. Niko ne mrdnu.
'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to "Ko još vas šta zarezuje!", reĉe Alisa. (Već je bila
her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack dostigla svoju pravu visinu.) "Vi ste samo špil
of cards!' karata!"
At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came Na to se ĉitav špil vinu u vazduh i poletje pravo na
flying down upon her: she gave a little scream, half nju. Alisa vrisnu, što od straha, što od gnjeva i
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of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off,
and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in
the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away
some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the
trees upon her face.
'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a
long sleep you've had!'
'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and
she told her sister, as well as she could remember
them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you
have just been reading about; and when she had
finished, her sister kissed her, and said, 'It was a
curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your
tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off,
thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a
wonderful dream it had been.
But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her
head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and
thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful
Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a
fashion, and this was her dream:--
First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once
again the tiny hands were clasped upon her knee, and
the bright eager eyes were looking up into hers--she
could hear the very tones of her voice, and see that
queer little toss of her head to keep back the
wandering hair that would always get into her eyes--
and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the
whole place around her became alive the strange
creatures of her little sister's dream.
The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit
hurried by--the frightened Mouse splashed his way
through the neighbouring pool--she could hear the
rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his
friends shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill
voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate
guests to execution--once more the pig-baby was
sneezing on the Duchess's knee, while plates and
dishes crashed around it--once more the shriek of the
Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil,
and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled
the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the
pokuša da ih rastjera. Tog trena se prenu i vidje
kako leţi na obali, s glavom na sestrinom krilu, a
ona joj njeţno sa lica uklanja ono nekoliko svelih
listova što su dolepršali sa drveća.
"Probudi se, Alisa mila!", dozva je sestra. "Da znaš
kako si dugo spavala!"
"Oh, sanjala sam tako ĉudan san!", reĉe Alisa i što
je bolje umjela ispriĉa sestri sve one ĉudesne zgode
i nezgode o kojima ste upravo u knjizi ĉitali. A kad
je završila, sestra je poljubi i reĉe: "San je doista bio
ĉudesan, dušo, a sad poţuri da popiješ ĉaj, već je
kasno." I Alisa ustade i potrĉa, i trĉeći što je brţe
mogla, razmišljaše o tome kako je to uistinu bio
divan san.
A sestra je mirno sjedjela ondje gdje je Alisa i
ostavila, podnimljena posmatrala zalazak sunca i
razmišljala o maloj Alisi i njenim ĉudesnim
zgodama sve dok i sama ne poĉe da pomalo sniva.
Evo šta:
U svom snu najprije ugleda malu Alisu, njene
majušne ruke sklopljene na koljenima i sjajne, ţive
oĉi zagledane u njene... ĉula je ĉak i zvuk njenog
glasa i vidjela kako ĉudno zabacuje glavu da odagna
nestašnu kosu što joj je uvijek padala na oĉi. I dok je
osluškivala, ili joj se samo priĉinjalo da osluškuje,
sav prostor oko nje oţivje i ispuni se neobiĉnim
bićima iz sna njene sestrice.
Visoka trava zašušta joj pored nogu kad Bijeli Zec
kroz nju protrĉa... prestrašeni Miš je pljuskao po
obliţnjem jezeru... ĉula je zveket šolja iz kojih su
Martovski Kunić i njegovi prijatelji pili ĉaj sjedeći
za uţinom kojoj nikad nije bilo kraja, piskavi glas
Kraljiĉin kako nareĊuje da se njenim nesretnim
gostima poodsijecaju glave – još jednom je prasence
kihalo na Vojvotkinjinom krilu, dok su oko njega
letjeli tanjiri i zdjele i razbijali se u paramparĉad –
još jednom su Grifonov urlik, škripa Gušterove
pisaljke po tablici i cviljenje prigušene zamorĉadi
ispunjavali vazduh i preplitali se sa dalekim
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miserable Mock Turtle.
So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed
herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but
to open them again, and all would change to dull
reality--the grass would be only rustling in the wind,
and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds--the
rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells,
and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the
shepherd boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek
of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would
change (she knew) to the confused clamour of the
busy farm-yard--while the lowing of the cattle in the
distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's
heavy sobs.
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little
sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a
grown woman; and how she would keep, through all
her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her
childhood: and how she would gather about her other
little children, and make 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, and find a
pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her
own child-life, and the happy summer days.
jecajima nesretne Laţne Kornjaĉe.
Sjedjela je tako zatvorenih oĉiju i pomalo vjerovala
da je i sama u Zemlji ĉuda, iako svjesna da treba
samo da otvori oĉi pa da se sve preobrati u
svakidašnju stvarnost – trava će šuštati samo na
vjetru, jezero romoriti od trski što se u njemu
povijaju – zveket šolja pretvoriće se u zveckanje
praporaca na stadu, Kraljiĉini piskavi krici u glas
pastira... a kihanje djeteta, Grifonov urlik i svi ti
drugi ĉudni zvuĉi pretvoriće se (znala je to) u
nerazumljivu buku uskomešanog seoskog dvorišta –
dok će mukanje krava u daljini zamijeniti bolne
jecaje Laţne Kornjaĉe.
Najzad zamisli kako će ta ista njena sestrica postati
jednom odrasla ţena i u svim svojim zrelim
godinama saĉuvati bezazlenost i toplinu djetinjeg
srca. Kako će okupljati oko sebe drugu djeĉicu i dok
im bude pripovijedala mnoge ĉudne priĉe, moţda
ĉak i svoj davnašnji san o Zemlji ĉuda, kako će
njihove oĉi zasjati i oţivjeti. Kako će saosjećati sa
svim njihovim malim jadima i uţivati u svim
njihovim malim radostima, sjećajući se svog
vlastitog djetinjstva i sretnih dana ljeta.