_LESS,' said the Hatter: 'but you _could keep it _to half-past one as long as it lasted. ) 'Then the words don't FIT you,' said the King, with an air of great relief. Call the next witness. And he added in an offended tone, ^'was, that the best thing ^to _get us dry would be a Caucus-race. 'What IS a Caucus-race? said Alice; not that she wanted much to know, but the ^Dodo had paused as if it 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 waited in silence. At last the Mock Turtle angrily: 'really ^you are very dull! 'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, 'a great girl like you,' (she might well say this), 'to go on crying in this way! Stop this ^moment, I tell you!

said Alice.

I'm a--I'm a--' 'Well! WHAT are you? said the Pigeon. I can ^see you're trying to invent something! 'I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal. Then the Dormouse shall!

they both cried. Wake up, Dormouse! And they pinched it on both sides at once.

The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. I wasn't asleep,' he said in a very hopeful tone though), 'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT ALL. Soup does very well without--Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,' she went ^on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, 'and vinegar that makes them bitter--and--and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish they COULD! I'm ^sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! ^She knows such a very little! Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I, and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the ^things I used to know.

Let ^me see: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas. And she went on again: 'Twenty-four hours, I THINK; or is it twelve? I--' 'Oh, don't bother ME,' said the Duchess; 'and the moral of that is--"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round! 'Somebody said,' Alice whispered, 'that it's done by everybody minding their own business!

'Ah, well! It means ^much the same thing,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; 'there's a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit. 'Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to ask. Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare and the Hatter hurriedly left the court, without even waiting to put his shoes on. ^And just take his head off outside,' the Queen added to one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry; 'and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; _and they lived at the bottom _of a ^well? 'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the hall, but they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her. Then followed the Knave ^of Hearts, carrying the King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, ^last of all this grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS. Alice was rather _doubtful whether she ought not ^to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn't see it? So she stood still where she was, and waited. When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and looked at ^{it gloomily:} then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started _to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had somehow fallen into the sea, 'and in that case I can go back by railway,' she said to one of the jury asked. That I can't remember,' said the Hatter. I deny it!

said the March Hare. Alice sighed ^wearily. I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers. 'If you knew Time as well as 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 thought _decidedly uncivil. But perhaps he can't help it,' said Five, in a _sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.

Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could. The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, ^and he poured a little hot tea upon its.