line_number └──inside └──alice_two ├──1: The Project Getenberd eBook of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ├──11: Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ├──30: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ├──49: CHAPTER XII. Alice’s Evidence ├──58: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the ├──61: conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice ├──70: There was nothing so _very_ remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it ├──76: on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she ├──82: In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how ├──86: dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think ├──102: “Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall ├──110: be four thousand miles down, I think—” (for, you see, Alice had learnt ├──115: then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?” (Alice had no ├──130: Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began ├──136: Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a ├──146: Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: ├──149: it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, ├──157: Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every ├──162: glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice’s ├──170: Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not ├──176: poor Alice, “it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, ├──179: happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things ├──186: before,” said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper ├──190: It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was ├──202: However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to ├──214: “What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must be shutting up like a ├──222: said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle. I ├──228: into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the ├──236: “Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, ├──243: “But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two ├──250: Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it ├──257: size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice ├──277: “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that ├──285: kind to them,” thought Alice, “or perhaps they won’t walk the way I ├──293: _Alice’s Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near the Fender,_ (_with ├──294: Alice’s love_). ├──302: Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to ├──306: “You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” said Alice, “a great girl like ├──317: Duchess! Oh! won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!” Alice felt ├──323: Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she ├──359: “I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her eyes ├──367: here till I’m somebody else’—but, oh dear!” cried Alice, with a sudden ├──380: “That _was_ a narrow escape!” said Alice, a good deal frightened at the ├──391: railway,” she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in ├──399: “I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying ├──410: “Would it be of any use, now,” thought Alice, “to speak to this mouse? ├──414: of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Alice thought this must be the right ├──421: “Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,” thought Alice; “I daresay it’s ├──423: her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago ├──427: fright. “Oh, I beg your pardon!” cried Alice hastily, afraid that she ├──434: “Well, perhaps not,” said Alice in a soothing tone: “don’t be angry ├──437: quiet thing,” Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about ├──441: pardon!” cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all ├──450: “I won’t indeed!” said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of ├──452: answer, so Alice went on eagerly: “There is such a nice little dog near ├──458: it kills all the rats and—oh dear!” cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, ├──466: was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low ├──472: Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice ├──488: natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if ├──491: older than you, and must know better;” and this Alice would not allow ├──498: Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she ├──532: turning to Alice as it spoke. ├──534: “As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to ├──549: “What _is_ a Caucus-race?” said Alice; not that she wanted much to ├──574: “Why, _she_, of course,” said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one ├──578: Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her ├──586: your pocket?” he went on, turning to Alice. ├──588: “Only a thimble,” said Alice sadly. ├──597: Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave ├──608: “You promised to tell me your history, you know,” said Alice, “and why ├──612: “Mine is a long and a sad tale!” said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and ├──615: “It _is_ a long tail, certainly,” said Alice, looking down with wonder ├──628: “You are not attending!” said the Mouse to Alice severely. “What are ├──631: “I beg your pardon,” said Alice very humbly: “you had got to the fifth ├──636: “A knot!” said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking ├──642: “I didn’t mean it!” pleaded poor Alice. “But you’re so easily offended, ├──647: “Please come back and finish your story!” Alice called after it; and ├──657: “I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!” said Alice aloud, ├──663: Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet: ├──673: bed!” On various pretexts they all moved off, and Alice was soon left ├──679: any more!” And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very ├──696: ferrets! Where _can_ I have dropped them, I wonder?” Alice guessed in a ├──703: Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and ├──706: a fan! Quick, now!” And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off ├──719: “How queer it seems,” Alice said to herself, “to be going messages for ├──721: began fancying the sort of thing that would happen: “‘Miss Alice! Come ├──724: don’t think,” Alice went on, “that they’d let Dinah stop in the house ├──753: Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full effect, ├──758: “It was much pleasanter at home,” thought poor Alice, “when one wasn’t ├──768: “But then,” thought Alice, “shall I _never_ get any older than I am ├──772: “Oh, you foolish Alice!” she answered herself. “How can you learn ├──781: Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was ├──787: the door opened inwards, and Alice’s elbow was pressed hard against it, ├──788: that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself “Then I’ll ├──791: “_That_ you won’t!” thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied ├──816: There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers ├──821: of cucumber-frames there must be!” thought Alice. “I wonder what ├──838: “Oh! So Bill’s got to come down the chimney, has he?” said Alice to ├──856: Alice,) “Well, I hardly know—No more, thank ye; I’m better now—but I’m ├──862: “We must burn the house down!” said the Rabbit’s voice; and Alice ├──865: There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, “I ├──868: Alice heard the Rabbit say, “A barrowful will do, to begin with.” ├──870: “A barrowful of _what?_” thought Alice; but she had not long to doubt, ├──876: Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into ├──887: something out of a bottle. They all made a rush at Alice the moment she ├──891: “The first thing I’ve got to do,” said Alice to herself, as she ├──904: thing!” said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to ├──912: and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, ├──915: over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was ├──923: This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she ├──927: “And yet what a dear little puppy it was!” said Alice, as she leant ├──935: The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round her at ├──956: The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in ├──962: This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, ├──970: “I can’t explain _myself_, I’m afraid, sir,” said Alice, “because I’m ├──975: “I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly,” Alice replied very politely, ├──981: “Well, perhaps you haven’t found it so yet,” said Alice; “but when you ├──988: “Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,” said Alice; “all I know ├──994: Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s making such _very_ ├──1000: Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any ├──1007: This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back again. ├──1011: “Is that all?” said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she ├──1016: Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, ├──1022: “I’m afraid I am, sir,” said Alice; “I can’t remember things as I ├──1028: came different!” Alice replied in a very melancholy voice. ├──1032: Alice folded her hands, and began:— ├──1077: “Not _quite_ right, I’m afraid,” said Alice, timidly; “some of the ├──1087: “Oh, I’m not particular as to size,” Alice hastily replied; “only one ├──1092: Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life ├──1098: mind,” said Alice: “three inches is such a wretched height to be.” ├──1103: “But I’m not used to it!” pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone. And she ├──1110: This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In a ├──1117: “One side of _what?_ The other side of _what?_” thought Alice to ├──1123: Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, ├──1147: “Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which ├──1153: “What _can_ all that green stuff be?” said Alice. “And where _have_ my ├──1169: “I’m _not_ a serpent!” said Alice indignantly. “Let me alone!” ├──1175: “I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,” said Alice. ├──1181: Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in ├──1188: “I’m very sorry you’ve been annoyed,” said Alice, who was beginning to ├──1196: “But I’m _not_ a serpent, I tell you!” said Alice. “I’m a—I’m a—” ├──1201: “I—I’m a little girl,” said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered ├──1210: “I _have_ tasted eggs, certainly,” said Alice, who was a very truthful ├──1217: This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a ├──1222: “It matters a good deal to _me_,” said Alice hastily; “but I’m not ├──1227: down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well ├──1243: “Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them ├──1261: frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled ├──1274: Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood ├──1279: Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked. ├──1289: “Please, then,” said Alice, “how am I to get in?” ├──1295: this Alice thought decidedly uncivil. “But perhaps he can’t help it,” ├──1309: “How am I to get in?” asked Alice again, in a louder tone. ├──1314: It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so. “It’s really ├──1322: “But what am _I_ to do?” said Alice. ├──1326: “Oh, there’s no use in talking to him,” said Alice desperately: “he’s ├──1334: “There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup!” Alice said to ├──1343: “Please would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, for she was ├──1349: She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite ├──1358: “I don’t know of any that do,” Alice said very politely, feeling quite ├──1363: Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would ├──1372: “Oh, _please_ mind what you’re doing!” cried Alice, jumping up and down ├──1380: “Which would _not_ be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very glad to ├──1387: Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take ├──1412: that Alice could hardly hear the words:— ├──1426: “Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!” the Duchess said to Alice, ├──1431: Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped ├──1433: “just like a star-fish,” thought Alice. The poor little thing was ├──1442: thought Alice, “they’re sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn’t it be ├──1445: “Don’t grunt,” said Alice; “that’s not at all a proper way of ├──1448: The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face ├──1451: its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did ├──1457: said Alice, seriously, “I’ll have nothing more to do with you. Mind ├──1461: Alice was just beginning to think to herself, “Now, what am I to do ├──1477: The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she ├──1483: wider. “Come, it’s pleased so far,” thought Alice, and she went on. ├──1488: “I don’t much care where—” said Alice. ├──1492: “—so long as I get _somewhere_,” Alice added as an explanation. ├──1497: Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another ├──1504: “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. ├──1509: “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. ├──1513: Alice didn’t think that proved it at all; however, she went on “And how ├──1518: “I suppose so,” said Alice. ├──1524: “_I_ call it purring, not growling,” said Alice. ├──1529: “I should like it very much,” said Alice, “but I haven’t been invited ├──1534: Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used to queer ├──1541: “It turned into a pig,” Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back ├──1546: Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not ├──1556: “I said pig,” replied Alice; “and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing ├──1563: “Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “but a ├──1586: uncomfortable for the Dormouse,” thought Alice; “only, as it’s asleep, ├──1591: Alice coming. “There’s _plenty_ of room!” said Alice indignantly, and ├──1596: Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. ├──1601: “Then it wasn’t very civil of you to offer it,” said Alice angrily. ├──1606: “I didn’t know it was _your_ table,” said Alice; “it’s laid for a great ├──1610: Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first ├──1613: “You should learn not to make personal remarks,” Alice said with some ├──1619: “Come, we shall have some fun now!” thought Alice. “I’m glad they’ve ├──1625: “Exactly so,” said Alice. ├──1629: “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I ├──1644: Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and ├──1648: is it?” he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his ├──1652: Alice considered a little, and then said “The fourth.” ├──1667: Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. “What a ├──1674: “Of course not,” Alice replied very readily: “but that’s because it ├──1679: Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no ├──1689: “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice ├──1692: “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “what’s the answer?” ├──1698: Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the ├──1705: “I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice. ├──1710: “Perhaps not,” Alice cautiously replied: “but I know I have to beat ├──1722: “That would be grand, certainly,” said Alice thoughtfully: “but then—I ├──1728: “Is that the way _you_ manage?” Alice asked. ├──1741: “I’ve heard something like it,” said Alice. ├──1758: “How dreadfully savage!” exclaimed Alice. ├──1763: A bright idea came into Alice’s head. “Is that the reason so many ├──1769: “Then you keep moving round, I suppose?” said Alice. ├──1773: “But what happens when you come to the beginning again?” Alice ventured ├──1779: “I’m afraid I don’t know one,” said Alice, rather alarmed at the ├──1790: “Yes, please do!” pleaded Alice. ├──1799: “What did they live on?” said Alice, who always took a great interest ├──1805: “They couldn’t have done that, you know,” Alice gently remarked; ├──1810: Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary ways of ├──1814: “Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. ├──1816: “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t ├──1822: “Nobody asked _your_ opinion,” said Alice. ├──1826: Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself to ├──1833: “There’s no such thing!” Alice was beginning very angrily, but the ├──1838: “No, please go on!” Alice said very humbly; “I won’t interrupt again. I ├──1845: “What did they draw?” said Alice, quite forgetting her promise. ├──1853: moved into the Dormouse’s place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the ├──1855: advantage from the change: and Alice was a good deal worse off than ├──1858: Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very ├──1865: “But they were _in_ the well,” Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing ├──1870: This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for ├──1877: “Why with an M?” said Alice. ├──1881: Alice was silent. ├──1890: “Really, now you ask me,” said Alice, very much confused, “I don’t ├──1895: This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in ├──1902: “At any rate I’ll never go _there_ again!” said Alice as she picked her ├──1929: painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she ├──1951: things—” when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching ├──1955: “Would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, “why you are ├──1966: and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen. ├──1975: and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a ├──1981: Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face ├──1988: When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and looked ├──1993: Alice, she went on, “What’s your name, child?” ├──1995: “My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,” said Alice very politely; ├──2005: “How should _I_ know?” said Alice, surprised at her own courage. “It’s ├──2011: “Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was ├──2036: to Alice for protection. ├──2038: “You shan’t be beheaded!” said Alice, and she put them into a large ├──2050: The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question was ├──2053: “Yes!” shouted Alice. ├──2055: “Come on, then!” roared the Queen, and Alice joined the procession, ├──2061: “Very,” said Alice: “—where’s the Duchess?” ├──2068: “What for?” said Alice. ├──2072: “No, I didn’t,” said Alice: “I don’t think it’s at all a pity. I said ├──2075: “She boxed the Queen’s ears—” the Rabbit began. Alice gave a little ├──2083: began. Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground ├──2088: The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: ├──2099: always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice ├──2108: Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any ├──2124: Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. “It’s no use ├──2126: of them.” In another minute the whole head appeared, and then Alice put ├──2131: “I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a ├──2142: “Not at all,” said Alice: “she’s so extremely—” Just then she noticed ├──2148: “Who _are_ you talking to?” said the King, going up to Alice, and ├──2151: “It’s a friend of mine—a Cheshire Cat,” said Alice: “allow me to ├──2160: that!” He got behind Alice as he spoke. ├──2162: “A cat may look at a king,” said Alice. “I’ve read that in some book, ├──2175: Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game was going ├──2183: to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the ├──2185: the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a ├──2190: matter much,” thought Alice, “as all the arches are gone from this side ├──2200: The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to settle ├──2217: Alice could think of nothing else to say but “It belongs to the ├──2236: said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice’s, ├──2239: Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought ├──2258: “Perhaps it hasn’t one,” Alice ventured to remark. ├──2261: you can find it.” And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice’s side as ├──2264: Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the ├──2266: right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an ├──2276: “Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding ├──2280: sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of ├──2284: “How fond she is of finding morals in things!” Alice thought to ├──2291: “He might bite,” Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious ├──2297: “Only mustard isn’t a bird,” Alice remarked. ├──2302: “It’s a mineral, I _think_,” said Alice. ├──2305: everything that Alice said; “there’s a large mustard-mine near here. ├──2309: “Oh, I know!” exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last ├──2319: “I think I should understand that better,” Alice said very politely, ├──2326: Alice. ├──2331: “A cheap sort of present!” thought Alice. “I’m glad they don’t give ├──2338: “I’ve a right to think,” said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to ├──2344: But here, to Alice’s great surprise, the Duchess’s voice died away, ├──2346: linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up, and there stood the ├──2358: “Let’s go on with the game,” the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was too ├──2372: all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody ├──2375: Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Have ├──2378: “No,” said Alice. “I don’t even know what a Mock Turtle is.” ├──2382: “I never saw one, or heard of one,” said Alice. ├──2386: As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low voice, ├──2395: executions I have ordered;” and she walked off, leaving Alice alone ├──2396: with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, ├──2402: half to itself, half to Alice. ├──2404: “What _is_ the fun?” said Alice. ├──2409: “Everybody says ‘come on!’ here,” thought Alice, as she went slowly ├──2414: nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She ├──2428: So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to ├──2437: heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly getting up and ├──2446: “Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn’t one?” Alice asked. ├──2453: at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. At last the ├──2459: “I never said I didn’t!” interrupted Alice. ├──2463: “Hold your tongue!” added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again. ├──2468: “_I’ve_ been to a day-school, too,” said Alice; “you needn’t be so ├──2473: “Yes,” said Alice, “we learned French and music.” ├──2477: “Certainly not!” said Alice indignantly. ├──2483: “You couldn’t have wanted it much,” said Alice; “living at the bottom ├──2489: “What was that?” inquired Alice. ├──2495: “I never heard of ‘Uglification,’” Alice ventured to say. “What is it?” ├──2500: “Yes,” said Alice doubtfully: “it means—to—make—anything—prettier.” ├──2505: Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so ├──2514: “What was _that_ like?” said Alice. ├──2528: “And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry ├──2534: “What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice. ├──2539: This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little ├──2545: “And how did you manage on the twelfth?” Alice went on eagerly. ├──2558: his eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or ├──2565: Alice)—“and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster—” ├──2566: (Alice began to say “I once tasted—” but checked herself hastily, and ├──2570: “No, indeed,” said Alice. “What sort of a dance is it?” ├──2604: sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice. ├──2606: “It must be a very pretty dance,” said Alice timidly. ├──2610: “Very much indeed,” said Alice. ├──2617: So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and ├──2644: “Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch,” said Alice, ├──2651: “Yes,” said Alice, “I’ve often seen them at dinn—” she checked herself ├──2657: “I believe so,” Alice replied thoughtfully. “They have their tails in ├──2670: “Thank you,” said Alice, “it’s very interesting. I never knew so much ├──2676: “I never thought about it,” said Alice. “Why?” ├──2680: Alice was thoroughly puzzled. “Does the boots and shoes!” she repeated ├──2686: Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she gave her ├──2692: “And what are they made of?” Alice asked in a tone of great curiosity. ├──2697: “If I’d been the whiting,” said Alice, whose thoughts were still ├──2704: “Wouldn’t it really?” said Alice in a tone of great surprise. ├──2709: “Don’t you mean ‘purpose’?” said Alice. ├──2715: Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, ├──2723: So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first ├──2737: authority over Alice. ├──2743: thought Alice; “I might as well be at school at once.” However, she got ├──2766: Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, ├──2777: “It’s the first position in dancing.” Alice said; but was dreadfully ├──2783: Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come ├──2802: “Yes, I think you’d better leave off,” said the Gryphon: and Alice was ├──2808: “Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,” Alice ├──2841: “Come on!” cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, it hurried ├──2844: “What trial is it?” Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only ├──2865: good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them—“I wish they’d ├──2870: Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had read ├──2879: “And that’s the jury-box,” thought Alice, “and those twelve creatures,” ├──2888: they doing?” Alice whispered to the Gryphon. “They can’t have anything ├──2894: “Stupid things!” Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she ├──2899: Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, ├──2903: muddle their slates’ll be in before the trial’s over!” thought Alice. ├──2905: One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice ├──2972: Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which puzzled ├──2981: “I can’t help it,” said Alice very meekly: “I’m growing.” ├──2985: “Don’t talk nonsense,” said Alice more boldly: “you know you’re growing ├──3046: “I’m glad I’ve seen that done,” thought Alice. “I’ve so often read in ├──3060: “Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!” thought Alice. “Now we shall get ├──3076: her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the ├──3107: Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling ├──3111: little voice, the name “Alice!” ├──3117: Alice’s Evidence ├──3120: “Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how ├──3135: with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said so. ├──3137: Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put ├──3151: “What do you know about this business?” the King said to Alice. ├──3153: “Nothing,” said Alice. ├──3157: “Nothing whatever,” said Alice. ├──3172: Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates; ├──3179: Everybody looked at Alice. ├──3181: “_I’m_ not a mile high,” said Alice. ├──3187: “Well, I shan’t go, at any rate,” said Alice: “besides, that’s not a ├──3192: “Then it ought to be Number One,” said Alice. ├──3235: “It proves nothing of the sort!” said Alice. “Why, you don’t even know ├──3282: “If any one of them can explain it,” said Alice, (she had grown so ├──3306: “But, it goes on ‘_they all returned from him to you_,’” said Alice. ├──3328: “Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “The idea of having the ├──3333: “I won’t!” said Alice. ├──3338: “Who cares for you?” said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by ├──3347: “Wake up, Alice dear!” said her sister; “Why, what a long sleep you’ve ├──3350: “Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!” said Alice, and she told her ├──3355: So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, ├──3360: hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all └──3364: First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the tiny