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[Also known as "alice is a beautiful and smart girl in Wonderland"]\
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by Lewis Carroll \
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\cf3 <h1\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND\cf3 </h1>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 Lewis Carroll\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 ><i>\cf2 THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER I\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 Down the Rabbit-Hole\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 'without pictures or conversation?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 There was nothing so \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  remarkable in that; nor did\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl think it so \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 took a watch out of its\
waistcoat-pocket,\cf3 </i>\cf2  and looked at it, and then hurried on,\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 In another moment down went alice is a beautiful and smart girl after it, never once\
considering how in the world she was to get out again.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,\
and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that alice is a beautiful and smart girl had not a\
moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself\
falling down a very deep well.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well!' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 Down, down, down. Would the fall \cf3 <i>\cf2 never\cf3 </i>\cf2  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 is a beautiful and smart girl had learnt several things of this sort in\
her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2 \
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 is a beautiful and smart girl had no idea what\
Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice\
grand words to say.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 Presently she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 through\cf3 </i>\cf2  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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 was\cf3 </i>\cf2  no one listening, this\
time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '--but I shall\
have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.\
Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried\
to curtsey as she spoke--fancy \cf3 <i>\cf2 curtseying\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked;\
and when alice is a beautiful and smart girl had been all the way down one side and up the\
other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle,\
wondering how she was ever to get out again.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl'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!\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 would\cf3 </i>\cf2  go through,' thought poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl, '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 is a beautiful and smart girl had begun to think that very few\
things indeed were really impossible.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl,) and round\
the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK\
ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl was not going to do \cf3 <i>\cf2 that\cf3 </i>\cf2  in a hurry. 'No, I'll look\
first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked "\cf3 <i>\cf2 poison\cf3 </i>\cf2 " 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 would\cf3 </i>\cf2  not remember the\
simple rules their friends had taught them  such as, that a\
red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if\
you cut your finger \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  deeply with a knife, it usually\
bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from\
a bottle marked '\cf3 <i>\cf2 poison\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' it is almost certain to disagree\
with you, sooner or later.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 However, this bottle was \cf3 <i>\cf2 not\cf3 </i>\cf2  marked 'poison,' so alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What a curious feeling!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl; 'I must be shutting up\
like a telescope.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided\
on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl! 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl to\
herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute!'\
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very\
seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so\
severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered\
trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game\
of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious\
child was very fond of pretending to be two people. 'But it's no\
use now,' thought poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'to pretend to be two people! Why,\
there's hardly enough of me left to make \cf3 <i>\cf2 one\cf3 </i>\cf2  respectable\
person!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl, '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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER II\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 The Pool of Tears\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried alice is a beautiful and smart girl (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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 I\cf3 </i>\cf2  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 is a beautiful and smart girl, '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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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!\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <blockquote><i>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.\cf3 </i>\cf2 \
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 HEARTHRUG,\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 NEAR THE FENDER,\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 (WITH alice is a beautiful and smart girl'S LOVE).\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\cf3 </blockquote>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 Poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl! 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, '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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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!\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 won't\cf3 </i>\cf2  she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very\
hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking \
'Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things\
went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the\
night? Let me think  \cf3 <i>\cf2 was\cf3 </i>\cf2  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, \cf3 <i>\cf2 that's\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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, \cf3 <i>\cf2 she's\cf3 </i>\cf2  she, and\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 I'm\cf3 </i>\cf2  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, \cf3 <i>\cf2 that's\cf3 </i>\cf2  all wrong, I'm certain! I must have\
been changed for Mabel! I'll try and say "\cf3 <i>\cf2 How doth the\
little--\cf3 </i>\cf2 "' 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 --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <blockquote><i>\cf2 'How doth the little crocodile\cf3 </i>\cf2 \
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 Improve his shining tail,\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 And pour the waters of the Nile\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 On every golden scale!\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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'How cheerfully he seems to grin,\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 How neatly spread his claws,\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 And welcome little fishes in\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 With gently smiling jaws!\cf3 </i>\cf2 '\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\cf3 </blockquote>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl, and\
her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, 'I must be Mabel\
after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little\
house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so\
many lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm\
Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their\
heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up\
and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like\
being that person, I'll come up  if not, I'll stay down here till\
I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried alice is a beautiful and smart girl, with a sudden\
burst of tears, 'I do wish they \cf3 <i>\cf2 would\cf3 </i>\cf2  put their heads\
down! I am so \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  tired of being all alone here!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 can\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That \cf3 <i>\cf2 was\cf3 </i>\cf2  a narrow escape!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, as she swam\
about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it\
now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 will\cf3 </i>\cf2  be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is\
queer to-day.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Would it be of any use, now,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl, '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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl; 'I\
daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the\
Conqueror.' (For, with all her knowledge of history, alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor\
animal's feelings. 'I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate\
voice. 'Would \cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2  like cats if you were me?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, perhaps not,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl went on, half to herself, as\
she swam lazily about in the pool, 'and she sits purring so\
nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and\
she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such a capital\
one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 hated\cf3 </i>\cf2  cats  nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't\
let me hear the name again!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I won't indeed!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl\
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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl led the way, and the whole party swam to the\
shore.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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!\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 I'll\cf3 </i>\cf2  soon make you dry enough!' They all sat down at once,\
in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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--"'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very\
politely  'Did you speak?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Not I!' said the Lory hastily.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I thought you did,' said the Mouse. '--I proceed. "Edwin and\
Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him \
and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found\
it advisable--"'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Found \cf3 <i>\cf2 what\cf3 </i>\cf2 ?' said the Duck.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Found \cf3 <i>\cf2 it\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' the Mouse replied rather crossly  'of\
course you know what "it" means.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I know what "it" means well enough, when \cf3 <i>\cf2 I\cf3 </i>\cf2  find a\
thing,' said the Duck  'it's generally a frog or a worm. The\
question is, what did the archbishop find?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl as it spoke.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'As wet as ever,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl in a melancholy tone  'it doesn't\
seem to dry me at all.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What \cf3 <i>\cf2 is\cf3 </i>\cf2  a Caucus-race?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl; not that she\
wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought\
that \cf3 <i>\cf2 somebody\cf3 </i>\cf2  ought to speak, and no one else seemed\
inclined to say anything.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ('the\
exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party\
were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One,\
two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked,\
and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know\
when the race was over. However, when they had been running half\
an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called\
out 'The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting,\
and asking, 'But who has won?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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, '\cf3 <i>\cf2 everybody\cf3 </i>\cf2  has won, and\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 all\cf3 </i>\cf2  must have prizes.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices\
asked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why, \cf3 <i>\cf2 she\cf3 </i>\cf2 , of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her,\
calling out in a confused way, 'Prizes! Prizes!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the\
Mouse.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What else have\
you got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Only a thimble,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl sadly.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The next thing was to eat the comfits  this caused some noise\
and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not\
taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on\
the back. However, it was over at last, and they sat down again\
in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl,\
'and why it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half\
afraid that it would be offended again.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl, and sighing.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It \cf3 <i>\cf2 is\cf3 </i>\cf2  a long tail, certainly,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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 --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, "Let us both\
go to law  I will prosecute \cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2 . --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."'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You are not attending!' said the Mouse to alice is a beautiful and smart girl severely.\
'What are you thinking of?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I beg your pardon,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl very humbly  'you had got to\
the fifth bend, I think?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I had \cf3 <i>\cf2 not\cf3 </i>\cf2 !' cried the Mouse, sharply and very\
angrily.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'A knot!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, always ready to make herself useful, and\
looking anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let me help to undo it!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the Mouse, getting up\
and walking away. 'You insult me by talking such nonsense!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'But you're so easily\
offended, you know!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Mouse only growled in reply.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Please come back and finish your story!' alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 your\cf3 </i>\cf2  temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said\
the young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the\
patience of an oyster!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl aloud,\
addressing nobody in particular. 'She'd soon fetch it back!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?'\
said the Lory.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl was soon left alone.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 is a beautiful and smart girl began to\
cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited. In a little\
while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps\
in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the\
Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish his\
story.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <hr>\cf2 \
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER IV\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 can\cf3 </i>\cf2  I have dropped\
them, I wonder?' alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Very soon the Rabbit noticed alice is a beautiful and smart girl, as she went hunting about,\
and called out to her in an angry tone, 'Why, Mary Ann, what\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 are\cf3 </i>\cf2  you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me\
a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!' And alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'How queer it seems,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl! Come here directly, and get ready for\
your walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to see that\
the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't think,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl went on,\
'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering\
people about like that!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 something\cf3 </i>\cf2  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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 will\cf3 </i>\cf2  become of me?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Luckily for alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl, '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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 can\cf3 </i>\cf2  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\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 here\cf3 </i>\cf2 .'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But then,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'shall I \cf3 <i>\cf2 never\cf3 </i>\cf2  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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 that\cf3 </i>\cf2 !'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, you foolish alice is a beautiful and smart girl!' 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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. 'Fetch me my gloves this\
moment!' Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open\
it; but, as the door opened inwards, and alice is a beautiful and smart girl's elbow was\
pressed hard against it, that attempt proved a failure. alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
heard it say to itself 'Then I'll go round and get in at the\
window.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '\cf3 <i>\cf2 That\cf3 </i>\cf2  you won't' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl, and, after waiting till\
she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she\
suddenly spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. She\
did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a\
fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that\
it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or\
something of the sort.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Digging for apples, indeed!' said the Rabbit angrily. 'Here!\
Come and help me out of \cf3 <i>\cf2 this\cf3 </i>\cf2 !' (Sounds of more broken\
glass.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' (He pronounced it\
'arrum.')\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills\
the whole window!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Sure, it does, yer honour  but it's an arm for all that.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, it's got no business there, at any rate  go and take it\
away!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 There was a long silence after this, and alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 two\cf3 </i>\cf2  little shrieks, and more\
sounds of broken glass. 'What a number of cucumber-frames there\
must be!' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'I wonder what they'll do next! As for\
pulling me out of the window, I only wish they \cf3 <i>\cf2 could\cf3 </i>\cf2 ! I'm\
sure I don't want to stay in here any longer!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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! \cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2  do it!--That I\
won't, then!--Bill's to go down--Here, Bill! the master says\
you're to go down the chimney!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?' said\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl to herself. 'Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I\
wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal  this fireplace is\
narrow, to be sure; but I \cf3 <i>\cf2 think\cf3 </i>\cf2  I can kick a little!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and\
waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess of what\
sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close\
above her  then, saying to herself 'This is Bill,' she gave one\
sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The first thing she heard was a general chorus of 'There goes\
Bill!' then the Rabbit's voice along--'Catch him, you by the\
hedge!' then silence, and then another confusion of voices--'Hold\
up his head--Brandy now--Don't choke him--How was it, old fellow?\
What happened to you? Tell us all about it!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, ('That's Bill,'\
thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl,) 'Well, I hardly know--No more, thank ye; I'm\
better now--but I'm a deal too flustered to tell you--all I know\
is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes\
like a sky-rocket!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'So you did, old fellow!' said the others.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'We must burn the house down!' said the Rabbit's voice; and\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl called out as loud as she could, 'If you do. I'll set Dinah\
at you!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 There was a dead silence instantly, and alice is a beautiful and smart girl thought to\
herself, 'I wonder what they \cf3 <i>\cf2 will\cf3 </i>\cf2  do next! If they had any\
sense, they'd take the roof off.' After a minute or two, they\
began moving about again, and alice is a beautiful and smart girl heard the Rabbit say, 'A\
barrowful will do, to begin with.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'A barrowful of \cf3 <i>\cf2 what\cf3 </i>\cf2 ?' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl; but she had not\
long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles\
came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the\
face. 'I'll put a stop to this,' she said to herself, and shouted\
out, 'You'd better not do that again!' which produced another\
dead silence.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all\
turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright\
idea came into her head. 'If I eat one of these cakes,' she\
thought, 'it's sure to make \cf3 <i>\cf2 some\cf3 </i>\cf2  change in my size; and as\
it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I\
suppose.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find\
that she began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small\
enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and\
found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.\
The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by\
two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle.\
They all made a rush at alice is a beautiful and smart girl the moment she appeared; but she\
ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a\
thick wood.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'The first thing I've got to do,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl to herself, as\
she wandered about in the wood, 'is to grow to my right size\
again; and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely\
garden. I think that will be the best plan.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and\
simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the\
smallest idea how to set about it; and while she was peering\
about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over\
her head made her look up in a great hurry.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round\
eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.\
'Poor little thing!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, in a coaxing tone, and she tried\
hard to whistle to it; but she was terribly frightened all the\
time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it\
would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her\
coaxing.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of\
stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped\
into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight,\
and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run\
over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy\
made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in\
its hurry to get hold of it; then alice is a beautiful and smart girl, thinking it was very\
like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every\
moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle\
again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the\
stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long\
way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat\
down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its\
mouth, and its great eyes half shut.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 This seemed to alice is a beautiful and smart girl a good opportunity for making her escape;\
so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out\
of breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the\
distance.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, as she\
leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself\
with one of the leaves  'I should have liked teaching it tricks\
very much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it! Oh dear!\
I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again! Let me\
see--how \cf3 <i>\cf2 is\cf3 </i>\cf2  it to be managed? I suppose I ought to eat or drink\
something or other; but the great question is, what?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The great question certainly was, what? alice is a beautiful and smart girl looked all round\
her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see\
anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under\
the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her,\
about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under\
it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her\
that she might as well look and see what was on the top of\
it.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge\
of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large\
caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded,\
quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice\
of her or of anything else.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <hr>\cf2 \
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER V\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 Advice from a Caterpillar\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Caterpillar and alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Who are \cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2 ?' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
replied, rather shyly, 'I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--\
at least I know who I \cf3 <i>\cf2 was\cf3 </i>\cf2  when I got up this morning, but I think\
I must have been changed several times since then.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly.\
'Explain yourself!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I can't explain \cf3 <i>\cf2 myself\cf3 </i>\cf2 , I'm afraid, sir' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl,\
'because I'm not myself, you see.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl; '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?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl;\
'all I know is, it would feel very queer to \cf3 <i>\cf2 me\cf3 </i>\cf2 .'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 'Who are\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2 ?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Which brought them back again to the beginning of the\
conversation. alice is a beautiful and smart girl felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's\
making such \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  short remarks, and she drew herself up\
and said, very gravely, 'I think, you ought to tell me who\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2  are, first.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why?' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Here was another puzzling question; and as alice is a beautiful and smart girl could not\
think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in\
a \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her. 'I've something\
important to say!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 This sounded promising, certainly  alice is a beautiful and smart girl turned and came back\
again.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Is that all?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, swallowing down her anger as well\
as she could.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'No,' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl; 'I can't remember things\
as I used--and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes\
together!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Can't remember \cf3 <i>\cf2 what\cf3 </i>\cf2  things?' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, I've tried to say "\cf3 <i>\cf2 How doth the little busy\
bee,\cf3 </i>\cf2 " but it all came different!' alice is a beautiful and smart girl replied in a very\
melancholy voice.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Repeat, "\cf3 <i>\cf2 you are old, Father William,\cf3 </i>\cf2 "' said the\
Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl folded her hands, and began --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 '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?'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 '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.'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 '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?'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,\
'I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment--one\
shilling the box-- Allow me to sell you a couple?'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak\
For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with\
the bones and the beak-- Pray how did you manage to do\
it?'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, And\
argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which\
it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 '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?'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,' Said\
his father; 'don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen\
all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down\
stairs!'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Not \cf3 <i>\cf2 quite\cf3 </i>\cf2  right, I'm afraid,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, timidly;\
'some of the words have got altered.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar\
decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Caterpillar was the first to speak.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What size do you want to be?' it asked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl hastily replied;\
'only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I \cf3 <i>\cf2 don't\cf3 </i>\cf2  know,' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl said nothing  she had never been so much contradicted in\
her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, I should like to be a \cf3 <i>\cf2 little\cf3 </i>\cf2  larger, sir, if you\
wouldn't mind,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl  'three inches is such a wretched\
height to be.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar\
angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three\
inches high).\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl in a piteous\
tone. And she thought of herself, 'I wish the creatures wouldn't\
be so easily offended!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it\
put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 This time alice is a beautiful and smart girl waited patiently until it chose to speak\
again. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of\
its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got\
down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely\
remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow taller, and\
the other side will make you grow shorter.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'One side of \cf3 <i>\cf2 what\cf3 </i>\cf2 ? The other side of \cf3 <i>\cf2 what\cf3 </i>\cf2 ?'\
thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl to herself.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had\
asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a\
minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as\
it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.\
However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they\
would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a\
little of the right-hand bit to try the effect  the next moment\
she felt a violent blow underneath her chin  it had struck her\
foot!\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but\
she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking\
rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.\
Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was\
hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and\
managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 * * * * *\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Come, my head's free at last!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What \cf3 <i>\cf2 can\cf3 </i>\cf2  all that green stuff be?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'And\
where \cf3 <i>\cf2 have\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'm \cf3 <i>\cf2 not\cf3 </i>\cf2  a serpent!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl indignantly. 'Let me\
alone!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,' said\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no\
use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the\
Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and\
day! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, who was\
beginning to see its meaning.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But I'm \cf3 <i>\cf2 not\cf3 </i>\cf2  a serpent, I tell you!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'I'm\
a--I'm a--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well! \cf3 <i>\cf2 what\cf3 </i>\cf2  are you?' said the Pigeon. 'I can see\
you're trying to invent something!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I--I'm a little girl,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, rather doubtfully, as she\
remembered the number of changes she had gone through that\
day.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 one\cf3 </i>\cf2  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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I \cf3 <i>\cf2 have\cf3 </i>\cf2  tasted eggs, certainly,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, who was a\
very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as\
serpents do, you know.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 This was such a new idea to alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 that\cf3 </i>\cf2  well enough;\
and what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a\
serpent?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It matters a good deal to \cf3 <i>\cf2 me\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl hastily;\
'but I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I\
shouldn't want \cf3 <i>\cf2 yours\cf3 </i>\cf2   I don't like them raw.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it\
settled down again into its nest. alice is a beautiful and smart girl crouched down among the\
trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled\
among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and\
untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the\
pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very\
carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and\
growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had\
succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 is\cf3 </i>\cf2  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 is a beautiful and smart girl, 'it'll never do to come upon them\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 this\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <hr>\cf2 \
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER VI\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 Pig and Pepper\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great\
letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to\
the other, saying, in a solemn tone, 'For the Duchess. An\
invitation from the Queen to play croquet.' The Frog-Footman\
repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the\
words a little, 'From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to\
play croquet.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled\
together.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl went timidly up to the door, and knocked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Please, then,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'how am I to get in?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 inside\cf3 </i>\cf2 , 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 is a beautiful and smart girl thought decidedly uncivil.\
'But perhaps he can't help it,' she said to herself; 'his eyes\
are so \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  nearly at the top of his head. But at any rate\
he might answer questions.--How am I to get in?' she repeated,\
aloud.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I shall sit here,' the Footman remarked, 'till\
tomorrow--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the same\
tone, exactly as if nothing had happened.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'How am I to get in?' asked alice is a beautiful and smart girl again, in a louder tone.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '\cf3 <i>\cf2 Are\cf3 </i>\cf2  you to get in at all?' said the Footman. 'That's\
the first question, you know.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 It was, no doubt  only alice is a beautiful and smart girl did not like to be told so. 'It's\
really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the\
creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for\
repeating his remark, with variations. 'I shall sit here,' he\
said, 'on and off, for days and days.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But what am I to do?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began\
whistling.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
desperately  'he's perfectly idiotic!' And she opened the door\
and went in.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of\
smoke from one end to the other  the Duchess was sitting on a\
three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was\
leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to\
be full of soup.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' alice is a beautiful and smart girl said\
to herself, as well as she could for sneezing.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the\
Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was\
sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause. The\
only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook,\
and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from\
ear to ear.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Please would you tell me,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, a little timidly, for\
she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to\
speak first, 'why your cat grins like that?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why.\
Pig!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 She said the last word with such sudden violence that alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
quite jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed\
to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on\
again --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I\
didn't know that cats \cf3 <i>\cf2 could\cf3 </i>\cf2  grin.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I don't know of any that do,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl said very politely,\
feeling quite pleased to have got into a conversation.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a\
fact.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, \cf3 <i>\cf2 please\cf3 </i>\cf2  mind what you're doing!' cried alice is a beautiful and smart girl,\
jumping up and down in an agony of terror. 'Oh, there goes his\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 precious\cf3 </i>\cf2  nose'; as an unusually large saucepan flew close\
by it, and very nearly carried it off.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said in\
a hoarse growl, 'the world would go round a deal faster than it\
does.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Which would \cf3 <i>\cf2 not\cf3 </i>\cf2  be an advantage,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, 'chop off her head!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 think\cf3 </i>\cf2 ; or is it twelve? I--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, don't bother \cf3 <i>\cf2 me\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' said the Duchess; 'I never could abide\
figures!' And with that she began nursing her child again,\
singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a\
violent shake at the end of every line \cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 ><i>\cf2 'Speak roughly to your little boy,\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 ><i>\cf2 And beat him when he sneezes \cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 ><i>\cf2 He only does it to annoy,\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 ><i>\cf2 Because he knows it teases.'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHORUS\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 (In which the cook and the baby joined) --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 'Wow! wow! wow!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl could hardly hear the words --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 ><i>\cf2 'I speak severely to my boy,\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 ><i>\cf2 I beat him when he sneezes;\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 ><i>\cf2 For he can thoroughly enjoy\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 ><i>\cf2 The pepper when he pleases!'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHORUS\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 'Wow! wow! wow!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the Duchess said\
to alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl. 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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. '\cf3 <i>\cf2 If\cf3 </i>\cf2 \
I don't take this child away with me,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'they're\
sure to kill it in a day or two  wouldn't it be murder to leave\
it behind?' She said the last words out loud, and the little\
thing grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time).\
'Don't grunt,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl; 'that's not at all a proper way of\
expressing yourself.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The baby grunted again, and alice is a beautiful and smart girl looked very anxiously into\
its face to see what was the matter with it. There could be no\
doubt that it had a \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  turn-up nose, much more like a\
snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely\
small for a baby  altogether alice is a beautiful and smart girl did not like the look of the\
thing at all. 'But perhaps it was only sobbing,' she thought, and\
looked into its eyes again, to see if there were any tears.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 No, there were no tears. 'If you're going to turn into a pig,\
my dear,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, seriously, 'I'll have nothing more to do\
with you. Mind now!' The poor little thing sobbed again (or\
grunted, it was impossible to say which), and they went on for\
some while in silence.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl was just beginning to think to herself, 'Now, what am I\
to do with this creature when I get it home?' when it grunted\
again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some\
alarm. This time there could be \cf3 <i>\cf2 no\cf3 </i>\cf2  mistake about it  it\
was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would\
be quite absurd for her to carry it further.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved\
to see it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If it had grown up,'\
she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child \
but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began\
thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as\
pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only knew the right\
way to change them--' when she was a little startled by seeing\
the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards\
off.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Cat only grinned when it saw alice is a beautiful and smart girl. It looked good-\
natured, she thought  still it had \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  long claws and a\
great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with\
respect.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at\
all know whether it would like the name  however, it only grinned\
a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl, and\
she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go\
from here?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said\
the Cat.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I don't much care where--' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '--so long as I get \cf3 <i>\cf2 somewhere\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl added as an\
explanation.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk\
long enough.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another\
question. 'What sort of people live about here?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'In \cf3 <i>\cf2 that\cf3 </i>\cf2  direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw\
round, 'lives a Hatter  and in \cf3 <i>\cf2 that\cf3 </i>\cf2  direction,' waving the\
other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like  they're\
both mad.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl remarked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat  'we're all mad here.\
I'm mad. You're mad.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'How do you know I'm mad?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come\
here.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on\
'And how do you know that you're mad?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant\
that?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I suppose so,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when\
it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when\
I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm\
mad.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I call it purring, not growling,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet\
with the Queen to-day?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I should like it very much,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'but I haven't been\
invited yet.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used\
to queer things happening. While she was looking at the place\
where it had been, it suddenly appeared again.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. 'I'd\
nearly forgotten to ask.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It turned into a pig,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl quietly said, just as if it had\
come back in a natural way.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I said pig,' replied alice is a beautiful and smart girl; 'and I wish you wouldn't keep\
appearing and vanishing so suddenly  you make one quite\
giddy.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl;\
'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw\
in my life!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <hr>\cf2 \
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER VII\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 A Mad Tea-Party\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house,\
and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it  a\
Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two\
were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and\
talking over its head. 'Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,'\
thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl; 'only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't\
mind.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded\
together at one corner of it  'No room! No room!' they cried out\
when they saw alice is a beautiful and smart girl coming. 'There's \cf3 <i>\cf2 plenty\cf3 </i>\cf2  of room!' said\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one\
end of the table.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging\
tone.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it\
but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
angrily.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being\
invited,' said the March Hare.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I didn't know it was \cf3 <i>\cf2 your\cf3 </i>\cf2  table,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl; 'it's\
laid for a great many more than three.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been\
looking at alice is a beautiful and smart girl for some time with great curiosity, and this was\
his first speech.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl said\
with some severity; 'it's very rude.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all\
he \cf3 <i>\cf2 said\cf3 </i>\cf2  was, 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'I'm glad\
they've begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,' she\
added aloud.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to\
it?' said the March Hare.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Exactly so,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went\
on.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I do,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean what\
I say--that's the same thing, you know.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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"!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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"!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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"!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It \cf3 <i>\cf2 is\cf3 </i>\cf2  the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and\
here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a\
minute, while alice is a beautiful and smart girl thought over all she could remember about\
ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Hatter was the first to break the silence. 'What day of\
the month is it?' he said, turning to alice is a beautiful and smart girl  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl considered a little, and then said 'The fourth.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. 'I told you butter\
wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March\
Hare.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It was the \cf3 <i>\cf2 best\cf3 </i>\cf2  butter,' the March Hare meekly\
replied.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter\
grumbled  'you shouldn't have put it in with the\
bread-knife.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 best\cf3 </i>\cf2  butter, you know.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does \cf3 <i>\cf2 your\cf3 </i>\cf2  watch\
tell you what year it is?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of course not,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl replied very readily  'but that's\
because it stays the same year for such a long time\
together.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Which is just the case with \cf3 <i>\cf2 mine\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' said the\
Hatter.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured\
a little hot tea upon its nose.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without\
opening its eyes, 'Of course, of course; just what I was going to\
remark myself.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl again.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'No, I give it up,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl replied  'what's the answer?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Nor I,' said the March Hare.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better\
with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that\
have no answers.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, 'you\
wouldn't talk about wasting \cf3 <i>\cf2 it\cf3 </i>\cf2 . It's \cf3 <i>\cf2 him\cf3 </i>\cf2 .'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I don't know what you mean,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head\
contemptuously. 'I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Perhaps not,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl cautiously replied  'but I know I have to\
beat time when I learn music.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 ('I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in a\
whisper.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That would be grand, certainly,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl thoughtfully \
'but then--I shouldn't be hungry for it, you know.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Not at first, perhaps,' said the Hatter  'but you could keep\
it to half-past one as long as you liked.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Is that the way \cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2  manage?' alice is a beautiful and smart girl asked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he replied. 'We\
quarrelled last March--just before \cf3 <i>\cf2 he\cf3 </i>\cf2  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\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 "Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 How I wonder what you're at!"\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 You know the song, perhaps?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I've heard something like it,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, 'in this\
way --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 "Up above the world you fly,\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 Like a tea-tray in the sky.\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 Twinkle, twinkle--"'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep\
'\cf3 <i>\cf2 Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--\cf3 </i>\cf2 ' and went on so long\
that they had to pinch it to make it stop.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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!"'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'How dreadfully savage!' exclaimed alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 A bright idea came into alice is a beautiful and smart girl's head. 'Is that the reason so\
many tea-things are put out here?' she asked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Exactly so,' said the Hatter  'as the things get used\
up.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
ventured to ask.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare interrupted,\
yawning. 'I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells\
us a story.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'm afraid I don't know one,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, rather alarmed at\
the proposal.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. 'Wake up,\
Dormouse!' And they pinched it on both sides at once.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. 'I wasn't asleep,' he\
said in a hoarse, feeble voice  'I heard every word you fellows\
were saying.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes, please do!' pleaded alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, 'or you'll be\
asleep again before it's done.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the\
Dormouse began in a great hurry; 'and their names were Elsie,\
Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What did they live on?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, who always took a great\
interest in questions of eating and drinking.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a\
minute or two.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'They couldn't have done that, you know,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl gently\
remarked; 'they'd have been ill.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'So they were,' said the Dormouse; '\cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  ill.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary\
ways of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she\
went on  'But why did they live at the bottom of a well?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to alice is a beautiful and smart girl, very\
earnestly.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I've had nothing yet,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl replied in an offended tone, 'so\
I can't take more.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You mean you can't take \cf3 <i>\cf2 less\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' said the Hatter  'it's\
very easy to take \cf3 <i>\cf2 more\cf3 </i>\cf2  than nothing.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Nobody asked \cf3 <i>\cf2 your\cf3 </i>\cf2  opinion,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter asked\
triumphantly.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl did not quite know what to say to this  so she helped\
herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the\
Dormouse, and repeated her question. 'Why did they live at the\
bottom of a well?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and\
then said, 'It was a treacle-well.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'There's no such thing!' alice is a beautiful and smart girl was beginning very angrily, but\
the Hatter and the March Hare went 'Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse\
sulkily remarked, 'If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the\
story for yourself.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'No, please go on!' alice is a beautiful and smart girl said very humbly; 'I won't interrupt\
again. I dare say there may be \cf3 <i>\cf2 one\cf3 </i>\cf2 .'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he\
consented to go on. 'And so these three little sisters--they were\
learning to draw, you know--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What did they draw?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, quite forgetting her\
promise.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this\
time.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter  'let's all move\
one place on.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him  the\
March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and alice is a beautiful and smart girl rather\
unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the\
only one who got any advantage from the change  and alice is a beautiful and smart girl was a\
good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset\
the milk-jug into his plate.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began\
very cautiously  'But I don't understand. Where did they draw the\
treacle from?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the Hatter; 'so\
I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh,\
stupid?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But they were \cf3 <i>\cf2 in\cf3 </i>\cf2  the well,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl said to the\
Dormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of course they were', said the Dormouse; '--well in.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 This answer so confused poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl, that she let the Dormouse\
go on for some time without interrupting it.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why with an M?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why not?' said the March Hare.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl was silent.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Really, now you ask me,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, very much confused, 'I\
don't think--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 This piece of rudeness was more than alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'At any rate I'll never go \cf3 <i>\cf2 there\cf3 </i>\cf2  again!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl as\
she picked her way through the wood. 'It's the stupidest\
tea-party I ever was at in all my life!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 then\cf3 </i>\cf2 --she found herself at last in the\
beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool\
fountains.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <hr>\cf2 \
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER VIII\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 The Queen's Croquet-Ground\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; 'Seven\
jogged my elbow.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 On which Seven looked up and said, 'That's right, Five! Always\
lay the blame on others!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 You'd\cf3 </i>\cf2  better not talk!' said Five. 'I heard the Queen\
say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What for?' said the one who had spoken first.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That's none of \cf3 <i>\cf2 your\cf3 </i>\cf2  business, Two!' said Seven.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes, it \cf3 <i>\cf2 is\cf3 </i>\cf2  his business!' said Five, 'and I'll tell\
him--it was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of\
onions.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun 'Well, of all\
the unjust things--' when his eye chanced to fall upon alice is a beautiful and smart girl, as\
she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly  the\
others looked round also, and all of them bowed low.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Would you tell me,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, a little timidly, 'why you\
are painting those roses?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 red\cf3 </i>\cf2  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 is a beautiful and smart girl\
looked round, eager to see the Queen.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl\
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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 When the procession came opposite to alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Idiot!' said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and,\
turning to alice is a beautiful and smart girl, she went on, 'What's your name, child?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'My name is alice is a beautiful and smart girl, so please your Majesty,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl very\
politely; but she added, to herself, 'Why, they're only a pack of\
cards, after all. I needn't be afraid of them!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And who are \cf3 <i>\cf2 these\cf3 </i>\cf2 ?' 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'How should I know?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, surprised at her own courage.\
'It's no business of \cf3 <i>\cf2 mine\cf3 </i>\cf2 .'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her\
for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head!\
Off--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Nonsense!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, very loudly and decidedly, and the\
Queen was silent.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said\
'Consider, my dear  she is only a child!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave\
'Turn them over!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Leave off that!' screamed the Queen. 'You make me giddy.' And\
then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, 'What \cf3 <i>\cf2 have\cf3 </i>\cf2 \
you been doing here?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'May it please your Majesty,' said Two, in a very humble tone,\
going down on one knee as he spoke, 'we were trying--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 is a beautiful and smart girl for protection.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You shan't be beheaded!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!' the\
soldiers shouted in reply.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That's right!' shouted the Queen. 'Can you play croquet?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The soldiers were silent, and looked at alice is a beautiful and smart girl, as the question\
was evidently meant for her.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes!' shouted alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Come on, then!' roared the Queen, and alice is a beautiful and smart girl joined the\
procession, wondering very much what would happen next.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Very,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl  '--where's the Duchess?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What for?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Did you say "What a pity!"?' the Rabbit asked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'No, I didn't,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl  'I don't think it's at all a pity.\
I said "What for?"'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'She boxed the Queen's ears--' the Rabbit began. alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The chief difficulty alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 would\cf3 </i>\cf2  twist itself round and look up in her face, with\
such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out\
laughing  and when she had got its head down, and was going to\
begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had\
unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away  besides all\
this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever\
she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up\
soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of\
the ground, alice is a beautiful and smart girl soon came to the conclusion that it was a very\
difficult game indeed.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'How are you getting on?' said the Cat, as soon as there was\
mouth enough for it to speak with.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I don't think they play at all fairly,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl began, in\
rather a complaining tone, 'and they all quarrel so dreadfully\
one can't hear oneself speak--and they don't seem to have any\
rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to\
them--and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being\
alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next\
walking about at the other end of the ground--and I should have\
croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it\
saw mine coming!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'How do you like the Queen?' said the Cat in a low voice.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Not at all,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl  '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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Queen smiled and passed on.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Who \cf3 <i>\cf2 are\cf3 </i>\cf2  you talking to?' said the King, going up to\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl, and looking at the Cat's head with great curiosity.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl  'allow me\
to introduce it.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King  'however,\
it may kiss my hand if it likes.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me\
like that!' He got behind alice is a beautiful and smart girl as he spoke.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'A cat may look at a king,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'I've read that in\
some book, but I don't remember where.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great\
or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking\
round.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the King eagerly,\
and he hurried off.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog,\
which seemed to alice is a beautiful and smart girl an excellent opportunity for croqueting one\
of them with the other  the only difficulty was, that her\
flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up\
into a tree.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back,\
the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight \
'but it doesn't matter much,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'as all the arches\
are gone from this side of the ground.' So she tucked it away\
under her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back for\
a little more conversation with her friend.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to\
find quite a large crowd collected round it  there was a dispute\
going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who\
were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent,\
and looked very uncomfortable.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The moment alice is a beautiful and smart girl appeared, she was appealed to by all three to\
settle the question, and they repeated their arguments to her,\
though, as they all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed\
to make out exactly what they said.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a\
head unless there was a body to cut it off from  that he had\
never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin\
at \cf3 <i>\cf2 his\cf3 </i>\cf2  time of life.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could\
be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Queen's argument was, that if something wasn't done about\
it in less than no time she'd have everybody executed, all round.\
(It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so\
grave and anxious.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl could think of nothing else to say but 'It belongs to\
the Duchess  you'd better ask \cf3 <i>\cf2 her\cf3 </i>\cf2  about it.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'She's in prison,' the Queen said to the executioner  'fetch\
her here.' And the executioner went off like an arrow.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Cat's head began fading away the moment he was gone, and,\
by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely\
disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and\
down looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the\
game.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <hr>\cf2 \
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER IX\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 The Mock Turtle's Story\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 is a beautiful and smart girl's, and they walked off together.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'When \cf3 <i>\cf2 I'm\cf3 </i>\cf2  a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a\
very hopeful tone though), 'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 at all\cf3 </i>\cf2 . 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--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Perhaps it hasn't one,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl ventured to remark.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 is a beautiful and smart girl's side as she spoke.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl did not much like keeping so close to her  first,\
because the Duchess was \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  ugly; and secondly, because she was\
exactly the right height to rest her chin upon alice is a beautiful and smart girl'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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of\
keeping up the conversation a little.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 ''Tis so,' said the Duchess  'and the moral of that is--"Oh,\
'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Somebody said,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl whispered, 'that it's done by everybody\
minding their own business!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess,\
digging her sharp little chin into alice is a beautiful and smart girl's shoulder as she added,\
'and the moral of \cf3 <i>\cf2 that\cf3 </i>\cf2  is--"Take care of the sense, and\
the sounds will take care of themselves."'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' alice is a beautiful and smart girl thought\
to herself.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '\cf3 <i>\cf2 He\cf3 </i>\cf2  might bite,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl cautiously replied, not feeling\
at all anxious to have the experiment tried.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Very true,' said the Duchess  'flamingoes and mustard both\
bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock\
together."'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Only mustard isn't a bird,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl remarked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Right, as usual,' said the Duchess  'what a clear way you\
have of putting things!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It's a mineral, I \cf3 <i>\cf2 think\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree\
to everything that alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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."'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, I know!' exclaimed alice is a beautiful and smart girl, who had not attended to this\
last remark, 'it's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it\
is.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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."'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I think I should understand that better,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl said very\
politely, 'if I had it written down  but I can't quite follow it\
as you say it.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess\
replied, in a pleased tone.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,'\
said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. 'I make you\
a present of everything I've said as yet.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'A cheap sort of present!' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'I'm glad they don't\
give birthday presents like that!' But she did not venture to say\
it out loud.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Thinking again?' the Duchess asked, with another dig of her\
sharp little chin.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I've a right to think,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl sharply, for she was\
beginning to feel a little worried.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, 'as pigs have to\
fly; and the m--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 But here, to alice is a beautiful and smart girl'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 is a beautiful and smart girl looked up,\
and there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded,\
frowning like a thunderstorm.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a low, weak\
voice.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to alice is a beautiful and smart girl; and\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed\
her back to the croquet-ground.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 All the time they were playing the Queen never left off\
quarrelling with the other players, and shouting 'Off with his\
head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were\
taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave\
off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour\
or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the\
King, the Queen, and alice is a beautiful and smart girl, were in custody and under sentence of\
execution.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'No,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'I don't even know what a Mock Turtle\
is.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said the\
Queen.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I never saw one, or heard of one,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Come on, then,' said the Queen, 'and he shall tell you his\
history,'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 As they walked off together, alice is a beautiful and smart girl heard the King say in a low\
voice, to the company generally, 'You are all pardoned.' 'Come,\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 that's\cf3 </i>\cf2  a good thing!' she said to herself, for she had\
felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had\
ordered.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the\
sun. (\cf3 <i>\cf2 If\cf3 </i>\cf2  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 is a beautiful and smart girl alone with the Gryphon. alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What \cf3 <i>\cf2 is\cf3 </i>\cf2  the fun?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why, \cf3 <i>\cf2 she\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' said the Gryphon. 'It's all her fancy,\
that  they never executes nobody, you know. Come on!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Everybody says "come on!" here,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl, as she went\
slowly after it  'I never was so ordered about in all my life,\
never!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the\
distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and,\
as they came nearer, alice is a beautiful and smart girl could hear him sighing as if his heart\
would break. She pitied him deeply. 'What is his sorrow?' she\
asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the\
same words as before, 'It's all his fancy, that  he hasn't got no\
sorrow, you know. Come on!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with\
large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants for to\
know your history, she do.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow\
tone  'sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've\
finished.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
thought to herself, 'I don't see how he can \cf3 <i>\cf2 even\cf3 </i>\cf2  finish,\
if he doesn't begin.' But she waited patiently.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, 'I was\
a real Turtle.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only\
by an occasional exclamation of 'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and\
the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. alice is a beautiful and smart girl was very\
nearly getting up and saying, 'Thank you, sir, for your\
interesting story,' but she could not help thinking there\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 must\cf3 </i>\cf2  be more to come, so she sat still and said\
nothing.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more\
calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, 'we went to\
school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call\
him Tortoise--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' alice is a beautiful and smart girl\
asked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock\
Turtle angrily  'really you are very dull!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple\
question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and\
looked at poor alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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 \cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe\
it--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I never said I didn't!' interrupted alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You did,' said the Mock Turtle.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Hold your tongue!' added the Gryphon, before alice is a beautiful and smart girl could\
speak again. The Mock Turtle went on.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to school\
every day--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '\cf3 <i>\cf2 I've\cf3 </i>\cf2  been to a day-school, too,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl; 'you\
needn't be so proud as all that.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'we learned French and music.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Certainly not!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl indignantly.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock\
Turtle in a tone of great relief. 'Now at \cf3 <i>\cf2 ours\cf3 </i>\cf2  they had at\
the end of the bill, "French, music, \cf3 <i>\cf2 and\
washing\cf3 </i>\cf2 --extra."'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You couldn't have wanted it much,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl; 'living at the\
bottom of the sea.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle with a\
sigh. 'I only took the regular course.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What was that?' inquired alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock\
Turtle replied; 'and then the different branches of Arithmetic--\
Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I never heard of "Uglification,"' alice is a beautiful and smart girl ventured to say.\
'What is it?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. 'What! Never\
heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is,\
I suppose?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl doubtfully  'it\
means--to--make--anything--prettier.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to\
uglify is, you \cf3 <i>\cf2 are\cf3 </i>\cf2  a simpleton.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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  \cf3 <i>\cf2 He\cf3 </i>\cf2  taught us\
Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What was \cf3 <i>\cf2 that\cf3 </i>\cf2  like?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said  'I'm\
too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon  'I went to the Classics\
master, though. He was an old crab, \cf3 <i>\cf2 he\cf3 </i>\cf2  was.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a sigh  'he\
taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn;\
and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, in\
a hurry to change the subject.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle  'nine the\
next, and so on.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What a curious plan!' exclaimed alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon\
remarked  'because they lessen from day to day.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 This was quite a new idea to alice is a beautiful and smart girl, and she thought it over a\
little before she made her next remark. 'Then the eleventh day\
must have been a holiday?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And how did you manage on the twelfth?' alice is a beautiful and smart girl went on\
eagerly.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon interrupted in a\
very decided tone  'tell her something about the games now.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER X\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 The Lobster Quadrille\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one\
flapper across his eyes. He looked at alice is a beautiful and smart girl, and tried to speak,\
but for a minute or two sobs choked his voice. 'Same as if he had\
a bone in his throat,' said the Gryphon  and it set to work\
shaking him and punching him in the back. At last the Mock Turtle\
recovered his voice, and, with tears running down his cheeks, he\
went on again --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You may not have lived much under the sea--' ('I haven't,'\
said alice is a beautiful and smart girl)-- 'and perhaps you were never even introduced to a\
lobster--' (alice is a beautiful and smart girl began to say 'I once tasted--' but checked\
herself hastily, and said 'No, never') '--so you can have no idea\
what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'No, indeed,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'What sort of a dance is it?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why,' said the Gryphon, 'you first form into a line along the\
sea-shore--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle. 'Seals, turtles, salmon,\
and so on; then, when you've cleared all the jelly-fish out of\
the way--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '\cf3 <i>\cf2 That\cf3 </i>\cf2  generally takes some time,' interrupted the\
Gryphon.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '--you advance twice--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Each with a lobster as a partner!' cried the Gryphon.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of course,' the Mock Turtle said  'advance twice, set to\
partners--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '--change lobsters, and retire in same order,' continued the\
Gryphon.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then, you know,' the Mock Turtle went on, 'you throw\
the--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the\
air.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '--as far out to sea as you can--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Swim after them!' screamed the Gryphon.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the Mock Turtle,\
capering wildly about.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Change lobster's again!' yelled the Gryphon at the top of its\
voice.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Back to land again, and that's all the first figure,' said\
the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two\
creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things all this\
time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It must be a very pretty dance,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl timidly.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Would you like to see a little of it?' said the Mock\
Turtle.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Very much indeed,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Come, let's try the first figure!' said the Mock Turtle to\
the Gryphon. 'We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall\
sing?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, \cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2  sing,' said the Gryphon. 'I've forgotten the\
words.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 So they began solemnly dancing round and round alice is a beautiful and smart girl, every\
now and then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and\
waving their forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle\
sang this, very slowly and sadly --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 '"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a\
snail. "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on\
my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all\
advance! They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join\
the dance?\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 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?\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 "You can really have no notion how delightful it will be\
When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to\
sea!" But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a look\
askance-- Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not\
join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, would\
not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not,\
could not join the dance.\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 '"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.\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 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?"'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to watch,' said\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl, feeling very glad that it was over at last  'and I do so\
like that curious song about the whiting!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, 'they--you've\
seen them, of course?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'I've often seen them at dinn--' she\
checked herself hastily.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I believe so,' alice is a beautiful and smart girl replied thoughtfully. 'They have their\
tails in their mouths--and they're all over crumbs.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle  'crumbs\
would all wash off in the sea. But they \cf3 <i>\cf2 have\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'The reason is,' said the Gryphon, 'that they \cf3 <i>\cf2 would\cf3 </i>\cf2  go\
with the lobsters to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So\
they had to fall a long way. So they got their tails fast in\
their mouths. So they couldn't get them out again. That's\
all.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Thank you,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 'it's very interesting. I never knew\
so much about a whiting before.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the\
Gryphon. 'Do you know why it's called a whiting?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I never thought about it,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'Why?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'It does the boots and shoes.'\cf3 </i>\cf2  the Gryphon replied very\
solemnly.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl was thoroughly puzzled. 'Does the boots and shoes!' she\
repeated in a wondering tone.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why, what are \cf3 <i>\cf2 your\cf3 </i>\cf2  shoes done with?' said the Gryphon.\
'I mean, what makes them so shiny?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl looked down at them, and considered a little before she\
gave her answer. 'They're done with blacking, I believe.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on in a deep\
voice, 'are done with a whiting. Now you know.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And what are they made of?' alice is a beautiful and smart girl asked in a tone of great\
curiosity.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather\
impatiently  'any shrimp could have told you that.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'If I'd been the whiting,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, whose thoughts were\
still running on the song, 'I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep\
back, please  we don't want \cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2  with us!"'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle\
said  'no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Wouldn't it really?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl in a tone of great\
surprise.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle  'why, if a fish came to\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 me\cf3 </i>\cf2 , and told me he was going a journey, I should say "With\
what porpoise?"'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Don't you mean "purpose"?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended\
tone. And the Gryphon added 'Come, let's hear some of \cf3 <i>\cf2 your\cf3 </i>\cf2 \
adventures.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,'\
said alice is a beautiful and smart girl a little timidly  'but it's no use going back to\
yesterday, because I was a different person then.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an\
impatient tone  'explanations take such a dreadful time.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 So alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 very\cf3 </i>\cf2  wide, but\
she gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly\
quiet till she got to the part about her repeating \cf3 <i>\cf2 'You are\
old, Father William,'\cf3 </i>\cf2  to the Caterpillar, and the words all\
coming different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath,\
and said 'That's very curious.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the\
Gryphon.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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 is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Stand up and repeat \cf3 <i>\cf2 "'Tis the voice of the sluggard,"'\cf3 </i>\cf2 \
said the Gryphon.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat\
lessons!' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl; '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 --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 ''Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, "You have\
baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." As a duck with its\
eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and\
turns out his toes.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all\
dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of\
the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His\
voice has a timid and tremulous sound.]\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,'\
said the Gryphon.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; 'but it\
sounds uncommon nonsense.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her\
hands, wondering if anything would \cf3 <i>\cf2 ever\cf3 </i>\cf2  happen in a\
natural way again.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock\
Turtle.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on with\
the next verse.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. 'How\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 could\cf3 </i>\cf2  he turn them out with his nose, you know?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It's the first position in dancing.' alice is a beautiful and smart girl said; but was\
dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the\
subject.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated impatiently \
'it begins "I passed by his garden."'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would\
all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye, How the\
Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 [\cf3 <tt>\cf2 later editions continued as follows \cf3 </tt>\cf2  \cf3 <i>\cf2 The Panther\
took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat, While the Owl had the dish\
as its share of the treat. When the pie was all finished, the\
Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon  While\
the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, And concluded\
the banquet--\cf3 </i>\cf2 ]\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What \cf3 <i>\cf2 is\cf3 </i>\cf2  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!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon  and\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl was only too glad to do so.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,'\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes\
choked with sobs, to sing this --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot\
tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the\
evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!\
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the\
e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup!\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 '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!'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking alice is a beautiful and smart girl by the hand,\
it hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What trial is it?' alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful\
Soup!'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <hr>\cf2 \
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 CHAPTER XI\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 Who Stole the Tarts?\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl\
quite hungry to look at them--'I wish they'd get the trial done,'\
she thought, 'and hand round the refreshments!' But there seemed\
to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about\
her, to pass away the time.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'And that's the jury-box,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl, '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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates.\
'What are they doing?' alice is a beautiful and smart girl whispered to the Gryphon. 'They\
can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's\
begun.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in\
reply, 'for fear they should forget them before the end of the\
trial.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Stupid things!' alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course,\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl could \cf3 <i>\cf2 not\cf3 </i>\cf2  stand, and she went round the court and\
got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it\
away. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was\
Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of\
it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write\
with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very\
little use, as it left no mark on the slate.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Herald, read the accusation!' said the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and\
then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer\
day  The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them\
quite away!'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Consider your verdict,' the King said to the jury.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Not yet, not yet!' the Rabbit hastily interrupted. 'There's a\
great deal to come before that!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Call the first witness,' said the King; and the White Rabbit\
blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, 'First\
witness!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in\
one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. 'I beg\
pardon, your Majesty,' he began, 'for bringing these in  but I\
hadn't quite finished my tea when I was sent for.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You ought to have finished,' said the King. 'When did you\
begin?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into\
the court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. 'Fourteenth of March, I\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 think\cf3 </i>\cf2  it was,' he said.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Fifteenth,' said the March Hare.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Write that down,' the King said to the jury, and the jury\
eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then\
added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Take off your hat,' the King said to the Hatter.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It isn't mine,' said the Hatter.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '\cf3 <i>\cf2 Stolen!\cf3 </i>\cf2 ' the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who\
instantly made a memorandum of the fact.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I keep them to sell,' the Hatter added as an explanation;\
'I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the\
Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be nervous, or\
I'll have you executed on the spot.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Just at this moment alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.' said the Dormouse, who was\
sitting next to her. 'I can hardly breathe.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I can't help it,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl very meekly  'I'm growing.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You've no right to grow \cf3 <i>\cf2 here\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' said the Dormouse.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Don't talk nonsense,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl more boldly  'you know\
you're growing too.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Yes, but \cf3 <i>\cf2 I\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Give your evidence,' the King repeated angrily, 'or I'll have\
you executed, whether you're nervous or not.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'The twinkling of the \cf3 <i>\cf2 what\cf3 </i>\cf2 ?' said the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It \cf3 <i>\cf2 began\cf3 </i>\cf2  with the tea,' the Hatter replied.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Of course twinkling \cf3 <i>\cf2 begins\cf3 </i>\cf2  with a T!' said the King\
sharply. 'Do you take me for a dunce? Go on!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, 'and most things\
twinkled after that--only the March Hare said--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I didn't!' the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You did!' said the Hatter.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I deny it!' said the March Hare.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'He denies it,' said the King  'leave out that part.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--' the Hatter went on,\
looking anxiously round to see if he would deny it too  but the\
Dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'After that,' continued the Hatter, 'I cut some more bread-\
and-butter--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That I can't remember,' said the Hatter.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You \cf3 <i>\cf2 must\cf3 </i>\cf2  remember,' remarked the King, 'or I'll have\
you executed.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter,\
and went down on one knee. 'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' he\
began.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You're a very poor \cf3 <i>\cf2 speaker\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' said the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately\
suppressed by the officers of the court. (As that is rather a\
hard word, I will just explain to you how it was done. They had a\
large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings  into\
this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon\
it.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'm glad I've seen that done,' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'I've so often\
read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, "There was some\
attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the\
officers of the court," and I never understood what it meant till\
now.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,'\
continued the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I can't go no lower,' said the Hatter  'I'm on the floor, as\
it is.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then you may \cf3 <i>\cf2 sit\cf3 </i>\cf2  down,' the King replied.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was suppressed.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!' thought alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'Now we\
shall get on better.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I'd rather finish my tea,' said the Hatter, with an anxious\
look at the Queen, who was reading the list of singers.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You may go,' said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the\
court, without even waiting to put his shoes on.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
\
\cf3 <p>\cf2 '--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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Call the next witness!' said the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the\
pepper-box in her hand, and alice is a beautiful and smart girl guessed who it was, even before\
she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began\
sneezing all at once.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Give your evidence,' said the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Shan't,' said the cook.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a\
low voice, 'Your Majesty must cross-examine \cf3 <i>\cf2 this\cf3 </i>\cf2  witness.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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?'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Pepper, mostly,' said the cook.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out. 'Behead that\
Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch\
him! Off with his whiskers!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the\
Dormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down\
again, the cook had disappeared.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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, \cf3 <i>\cf2 you\cf3 </i>\cf2  must cross-examine the next\
witness. It quite makes my forehead ache!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 yet\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' she said to\
herself. Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at\
the top of his shrill little voice, the name 'alice is a beautiful and smart girl!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <h3\cf2  \cf4 align=\cf5 "Center"\cf3 >\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl's Evidence\cf3 </h3>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Here!' cried alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, I \cf3 <i>\cf2 beg\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'The trial cannot proceed,' said the King in a very grave\
voice, 'until all the jurymen are back in their proper places--\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 all\cf3 </i>\cf2 ,' he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl as he said do.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 quite\cf3 </i>\cf2  as much use in the trial one way up as the\
other.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of\
being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and\
handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write\
out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed\
too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open,\
gazing up into the roof of the court.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What do you know about this business?' the King said to\
alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Nothing,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Nothing \cf3 <i>\cf2 whatever?\cf3 </i>\cf2 ' persisted the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Nothing \cf3 <i>\cf2 whatever,\cf3 </i>\cf2 ' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That's very important,' the King said, turning to the jury.\
They were just beginning to write this down on their slates, when\
the White Rabbit interrupted  '\cf3 <i>\cf2 Un\cf3 </i>\cf2 important, your Majesty\
means, of course,' he said in a very respectful tone, but\
frowning and making faces at him as he spoke.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '\cf3 <i>\cf2 Un\cf3 </i>\cf2 important, of course, I meant,' the King hastily\
said, and went on to himself in an undertone,\
'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were\
trying which word sounded best.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and some\
'unimportant.' alice is a beautiful and smart girl could see this, as she was near enough to\
look over their slates; 'but it doesn't matter a bit,' she\
thought to herself.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily\
writing in his note-book, cackled out 'Silence!' and read out\
from his book, 'Rule Forty-two. \cf3 <i>\cf2 All persons more than a mile\
hight to leave the court\cf3 </i>\cf2 .'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 Everybody looked at alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '\cf3 <i>\cf2 I'm\cf3 </i>\cf2  not a mile high,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'You are,' said the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl  'besides, that's\
not a regular rule  you invented it just now.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then it ought to be Number One,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily.\
'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, trembling\
voice.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'There's more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,' said\
the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; 'this paper has\
just been picked up.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'What's in it?' said the Queen.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, 'but it\
seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to--to\
somebody.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It must have been that,' said the King, 'unless it was\
written to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It isn't directed at all,' said the White Rabbit; 'in fact,\
there's nothing written on the \cf3 <i>\cf2 outside\cf3 </i>\cf2 .' He unfolded the\
paper as he spoke, and added 'It isn't a letter, after all  it's\
a set of verses.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked another of\
they jurymen.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, 'and that's the\
queerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said the King.\
(The jury all brightened up again.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't write it, and\
they can't prove I did  there's no name signed at the end.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'If you didn't sign it,' said the King, 'that only makes the\
matter worse. You \cf3 <i>\cf2 must\cf3 </i>\cf2  have meant some mischief, or else\
you'd have signed your name like an honest man.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 There was a general clapping of hands at this  it was the\
first really clever thing the King had said that day.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That \cf3 <i>\cf2 proves\cf3 </i>\cf2  his guilt,' said the Queen.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It proves nothing of the sort!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl. 'Why, you don't\
even know what they're about!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Read them,' said the King.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin,\
please your Majesty?' he asked.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on\
till you come to the end  then stop.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 These were the verses the White Rabbit read --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 'They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him \
She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim.\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 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?\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 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.\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He\
trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were.\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit)\
An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it.\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p><i>\cf2 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.'\cf3 </i></p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,'\
said the King, rubbing his hands; 'so now let the jury--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'If any one of them can explain it,' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, (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.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The jury all wrote down on their slates, '\cf3 <i>\cf2 She\cf3 </i>\cf2  doesn't\
believe there's an atom of meaning in it,' but none of them\
attempted to explain the paper.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 '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. "\cf3 <i>\cf2 -said I could not swim--\cf3 </i>\cf2 " you\
can't swim, can you?' he added, turning to the Knave.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The Knave shook his head sadly. 'Do I look like it?' he said.\
(Which he certainly did \cf3 <i>\cf2 not\cf3 </i>\cf2 , being made entirely of\
cardboard.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'All right, so far,' said the King, and he went on muttering\
over the verses to himself  '"\cf3 <i>\cf2 We know it to be true--\cf3 </i>\cf2 "\
that's the jury, of course-- "\cf3 <i>\cf2 I gave her one, they gave him\
two--\cf3 </i>\cf2 " why, that must be what he did with the tarts, you\
know--'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'But, it goes on "\cf3 <i>\cf2 they all returned from him to you,\cf3 </i>\cf2 "'\
said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly, pointing to\
the tarts on the table. 'Nothing can be clearer than \cf3 <i>\cf2 that\cf3 </i>\cf2 .\
Then again--"\cf3 <i>\cf2 before she had this fit-\cf3 </i>\cf2 -" you never had\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 fits\cf3 </i>\cf2 , my dear, I think?' he said to the Queen.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the\
Lizard as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off\
writing on his slate with one finger, as he found it made no\
mark; but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that was\
trickling down his face, as long as it lasted.)\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Then the words don't \cf3 <i>\cf2 fit\cf3 </i>\cf2  you,' said the King, looking\
round the court with a smile. There was a dead silence.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and\
everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the\
King said, for about the twentieth time that day.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first--verdict\
afterwards.'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Stuff and nonsense!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl loudly. 'The idea of having\
the sentence first!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'I won't!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her\
voice. Nobody moved.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Who cares for you?' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, (she had grown to her full\
size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying\
down upon her  she gave a little scream, half of fright and half\
of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on\
the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently\
brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the\
trees upon her face.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Wake up, alice is a beautiful and smart girl dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long\
sleep you've had!'\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said alice is a beautiful and smart girl, 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\
\cf3 <i>\cf2 was\cf3 </i>\cf2  a curious dream, dear, certainly  but now run in to\
your tea; it's getting late.' So alice is a beautiful and smart girl got up and ran off,\
thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream\
it had been.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 is a beautiful and smart girl and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began\
dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream --\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 First, she dreamed of little alice is a beautiful and smart girl 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 would\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried\
by--the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the\
neighbouring pool--she could hear the rattle of the teacups as\
the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal,\
and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate\
guests to execution--once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the\
Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once\
more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's\
slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs,\
filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable\
Mock Turtle.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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\cf3 <p>\cf2 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 \cf3 <i>\cf2 their\cf3 </i>\cf2  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.\cf3 </p>\cf2 \
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