emoninja 0.1.42 → 0.2.42
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- checksums.yaml +4 -4
- data/README.md +39 -39
- data/config/emoninja.yml +5 -0
- data/config/yandex_translate.yml +3 -0
- data/data/SpecialCasing.txt +119 -0
- data/data/UnicodeData.txt +30592 -0
- data/data/translations/ru.yml +4095 -0
- data/emoninja.gemspec +2 -0
- data/lib/emoninja.rb +21 -0
- data/lib/emoninja/data.rb +84 -0
- data/lib/emoninja/grabber.rb +35 -91
- data/lib/emoninja/i18n.rb +58 -0
- data/lib/emoninja/version.rb +1 -1
- data/translated/alice-in-wonderland.md +3336 -0
- metadata +37 -2
data/emoninja.gemspec
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data/lib/emoninja.rb
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require 'forkforge'
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require 'forkforge/knife/string'
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require 'emoninja/version'
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require 'emoninja/porter_stemmer'
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require 'emoninja/grabber'
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require 'emoninja/data'
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require 'emoninja/i18n'
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module Emoninja
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class << self
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end
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alias_method :yay, :emoninja
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# rubocop:disable Style/MethodName
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# rubocop:disable Style/OpMethod
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def аватар text
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Data.emoji(text, exact: false, number: 0, lang: :ru)
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end
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# NB this won’t work with cased words, since `Regexp`
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# is currently failing to match it.
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# Will fix later.
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def аватарки text
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emoninja(text.gsub(Regexp.union(I18n.ru_en.keys), I18n.ru_en))
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end
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alias_method :йо, :аватарки
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# rubocop:enable Style/OpMethod
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# rubocop:enable Style/MethodName
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end
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end
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require 'kungfuig'
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module Emoninja
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STOPWORD_MIN_LENGTH = 3
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# Utility to grab consortium’s data for emojis
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module Data
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include Kungfuig
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class << self
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def data
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@data ||= Grabber.load
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end
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def stopword? term
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term.length < STOPWORD_MIN_LENGTH || options[:stopwords].include?(term)
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end
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# @return [Hashie::Mash]
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def keywords term, lang: nil
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term = marshal term, lang
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(cache[:keywords][term.to_s.downcase] || []).map(&data.method(:[])).map(&Hashie::Mash.method(:new))
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end
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# @return Hashie::Mash
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def exact term, lang: nil
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term = marshal term, lang
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Hashie::Mash.new(cache[:exacts][term.to_s.downcase] ? data[cache[:exacts][term.to_s.downcase]] : {})
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end
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##########################################################################
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# @return Hash
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def vocabulary
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@vocabulary ||= data.map { |h| [h[:name], h[:glyph]] }.to_h.reject { |k, _| stopword?(k) }
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end
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# @return Hashie::Mash
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def argo
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@argo ||= data.each_with_object(Hashie::Mash.new) do |h, memo|
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h[:keywords].each do |kw|
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(memo[kw] ||= []) << h[:glyph] unless stopword?(kw)
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end
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end
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##########################################################################
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def emoji term, kind: :glyph, exact: false, number: nil, lang: nil
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match = exact(term, lang: lang)[kind]
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return match if match || exact
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return nil unless (match = keywords(term, lang: lang).map { |kw| kw[kind] })
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number ? match[number] : match.sample
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end
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private
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def cache
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return @cache if @cache
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@cache = data.each_with_index.with_object(keywords: {}, exacts: {}) do |(e, i), memo|
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memo[:exacts][e[:name].downcase] = i
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e[:keywords].each do |kw|
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(memo[:keywords][kw.downcase] ||= []) << i
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end
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def marshal term, lang = nil
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return term if lang.nil? || options.translate!.languages!.none? { |l| l == lang.to_s }
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end
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# Data.kungfuig(LOCAL_DATA) do |options|
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# end
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File.join(__dir__, '..', '..', 'config', 'emoninja.yml').tap do |cfg|
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kungfuig(cfg) if File.exist?(cfg)
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end
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end
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data/lib/emoninja/grabber.rb
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# Utility to grab consortium’s data for emojis
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module Grabber
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# http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
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DATA_HTML = 'http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html'.freeze
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apple: blob(tr, 6), google: blob(tr, 8), twitter: blob(tr, 10),
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def load
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# Utility to translate emoji names to different languages
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module I18n
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LOCAL_I18N = File.join(__dir__, '..', '..', 'data', 'translations', '%{lang}.yml').freeze
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def translations lang
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file = LOCAL_I18N % { lang: lang }
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keys = [Data.vocabulary, Data.argo].map(&:keys).reduce(:|) - @translations[lang].keys
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def reversed_translations lang
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(@reversed_translations ||= {})[lang] ||= translations(lang).invert.map { |k, v| [k.downcase, v.downcase] }.to_h
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%i(ru).each do |m|
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class_eval <<-METH
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alias_method :[], :key
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private
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
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Alice was beginning to get very 😩 of sitting by her sister on the
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So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the
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♨ day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure
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of making a daisy-⛓ would be worth the trouble of getting 🆙 and
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⛏ the daisies, when suddenly a White 🐇 with pink 👀 ran
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close by her.
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There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so
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VERY much out of the way to 🙉 the 🐇 say to itself, 'Oh dear!
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Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she 💭 it over afterwards, it
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occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time
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it all seemed quite natural); but when the 🐇 actually TOOK A ⌚
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OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
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Alice started to her 🐾, for it 📸 across her mind that she had
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never before seen a 🐇 with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a ⌚
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to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the 🏑
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after it, and fortunately was just in time to 🙈 it pop 📩 a large
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she was coming to, but it was too 🌑 to 🙈 anything; then she
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cupboards and 📗-shelves; here and there she saw 🗾 and pictures
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hung upon pegs. She took 📩 a jar from 1️⃣ of the shelves as
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she passed; it was 🏷 '🔶 MARMALADE', but to her great
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disappointment it was empty: she did 🚯 like to 💧 the jar for 😱
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of killing somebody, so managed to put it into 1️⃣ of the cupboards as
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think nothing of tumbling 📩 stairs! How brave they'll all think me at
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🏡! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell 📴 the 🔝
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of the 🏡!' (Which was very likely true.)
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📩, 📩, 📩. Would the fall NEVER come to an 🔚! 'I wonder how
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many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting
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somewhere near the centre of the 🌐. Let me 🙈: that would be 🕓
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thousand miles 📩, I think--' (for, you 🙈, Alice had learnt several
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things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this
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was 🙊 1️⃣ to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over)
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'--yes, that's about the ⏯ distance--but then I wonder what Latitude
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or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had 🙊 💡 what Latitude was, or
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Longitude either, but 💭 they were nice grand words to say.)
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🎁 she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall ⏯ THROUGH the
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🌐! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that 🚶 with
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their 🗣 downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad
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there WAS 🙊 1️⃣ listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the
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⏯ word) '--but I shall have to 🙏 them what the Brow. of the country
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is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this 🇳🇿 Zealand or 🇦🇺?' (and
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she tried to curtsey as she spoke--fancy CURTSEYING as you're 🍂
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through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an
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ignorant little 👧 she'll think me for 🙏! 🙊, it'll never do to
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🙏: perhaps I shall 🙈 it written 🆙 somewhere.'
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talking again. 'Dinah'll miss me very much to-🌉, I should think!'
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(Dinah was the 🐈.) 'I hope they'll remember her saucer of 🥛 at
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🍵-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were 📩 here with me! There are 🙊
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mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch a 🦇, and that's very
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like a 🐁, you know. But do 😽 eat 🏓, I wonder?' And here Alice
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began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy
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sort of way, 'Do 😾 eat 🏏? Do 🐈 eat 🏓?' and sometimes, 'Do
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🦇 eat 😹?' for, you 🙈, as she couldn't answer either ❓,
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it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing
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Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, 'Now, Dinah, tell me the truth:
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did you ever eat a 🦇?' when suddenly, thump! thump! 📩 she came upon
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a heap of 🍢 and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
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she looked 🆙, but it was all 🌑 overhead; before her was another
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long passage, and the White 🐇 was still in sight, hurrying 📩 it.
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was just in time to 🙉 it say, as it turned a corner, 'Oh my 👂
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and whiskers, how late it's getting!' She was close behind it when she
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turned the corner, but the 🐇 was 🙊 longer to be seen: she found
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herself in a long, 🔅 hall, which was lit 🆙 by a row of 🛋 hanging
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Alice had been all the way 📩 1️⃣ side and 🆙 the other, trying every
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get out again.
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🥇 💭 was that it might belong to 1️⃣ of the 🚪 of the hall;
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but, alas! either the 🔑 were too large, or the 🔑 was too 🦐,
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but at any rate it would 🚯 📬 any of them. However, on the 🥈
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time round, she came upon a 🔅 curtain she had 🚯 noticed before, and
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behind it was a little 🚪 about fifteen inches 🔊: she tried the
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little golden 🔑 in the 🔒, and to her great delight it fitted!
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Alice 😅 the 🚪 and found that it led into a 🦐 passage, 🚯
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much larger than a 🐀-🕳: she knelt 📩 and looked along the passage
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into the loveliest 🏡 you ever saw. How she longed to get out of
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that 🌑 hall, and wander about among those 🛏 of 🌞 🌻 and
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those 🆒 🖋, but she could 🚯 even get her 🗣 through the
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doorway; 'and even if my 🗣 would go through,' 💭 poor Alice, 'it
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would be of very little 🇺🇲 without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could
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shut 🆙 like a 🔭! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.'
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that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really
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impossible.
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any rate a 📗 of rules for shutting people 🆙 like telescopes: this
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time she found a little 🍾 on it, ('which certainly was 🚯 here
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before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of the 🍾 was a 🗞
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🏷, with the words '🚱 ME' beautifully 👣 on it in large
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🚯 going to do THAT in a hurry. '🙊, I'll look 🥇,' she said, 'and
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🙈 whether it's 🆙 "poison" or 🚯'; for she had read several nice
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little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten 🆙 by wild
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beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they WOULD 🚯 remember
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the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a 🔽-♨
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poker will burn you if you 👬 it too long; and that if you cut your
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🤘 VERY deeply with a 🗡, it usually bleeds; and she had never
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forgotten that, if you 🚱 much from a 🍾 ❕ 'poison,' it is
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almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
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However, this 🍾 was 🚯 ‼ 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste
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it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour
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of 🍒-tart, 🍮, 🎍-🍏, roast 🦃, toffee, and ♨
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buttered toast,) she very 🔜 finished it 📴.
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brightened 🆙 at the 💭 that she was now the ⏯ size for going
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through the little 🚪 into that 💕 🏡. 🥇, however, she
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waited for a few minutes to 🙈 if she was going to shrink any further:
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she felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might 🔚, you know,' said
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Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a 🕯. I wonder
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what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the 🔥 of a
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🕯 is like after the 🕯 is blown out, for she could 🚯 remember
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ever having seen such a thing.
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into the 🏡 at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the
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went 🔙 to the table for it, she found she could 🚯 possibly reach
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it: she could 🙈 it quite plainly through the 🍷, and she tried her
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best to climb 🆙 1️⃣ of the 🍗 of the table, but it was too slippery;
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'Come, there's 🙊 🇺🇲 in 😢 like that!' said Alice to herself,
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rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave 📴 this minute!' She generally
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her 👀; and once she remembered trying to 🗳 her own 👂 for having
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cheated herself in a 🎲 of croquet she was 🎴 against herself,
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for this curious 🚸 was very fond of pretending to be 2️⃣ people.
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'But it's 🙊 🇻🇮 now,' 💭 poor Alice, 'to pretend to be 2️⃣ people!
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Why, there's hardly enough of me ◀ to make 1️⃣ respectable person!'
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she 📬 it, and found in it a very 🦐 🍰, on which the words
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'EAT ME' were beautifully 📑 in currants. 'Well, I'll eat it,' said
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Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the 🔑; and if it
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makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the 🚪; so either way I'll
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get into the 🏡, and I don't 💅 which happens!'
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growing, and she was quite 🙀 to find that she remained the same
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size: to be sure, this generally happens when 1️⃣ eats 🍰, but Alice
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things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on
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for the moment she quite forgot how to 🗣 good English); 'now I'm
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😃 out like the largest 🔭 that ever was! Good-bye, 🐾!'
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sight, they were getting so far 📴). 'Oh, my poor little 🐾, I wonder
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who will put on your 👢 and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure
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_I_ shan't be able! I shall be a great deal too far 📴 to trouble
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myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;--but I must be
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kind to them,' 💭 Alice, 'or perhaps they 😤't 🚶 the way I want
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to go! Let me 🙈: I'll give them a 🇳🇿 pair of 👢 every 🎄.'
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now more than 🕤 🐾 🔊, and she at once took 🆙 the little golden
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look through into the 🏡 with 1️⃣ 👁; but to get through was more
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hopeless than ever: she sat 📩 and began to 😿 again.
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you,' (she might well say this), 'to go on 😿 in this way! ⏹ this
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moment, I tell you!' But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of
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she hastily dried her 👀 to 🙈 what was coming. It was the White
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1️⃣ ✌ and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great
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hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess!
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Oh! 😤't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt so
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desperate that she was ready to 🙏 🆘 of any 1️⃣; so, when the 🐇
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came near her, she began, in a 🔅, timid voice, 'If you please, sir--'
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queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual.
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I wonder if I've been changed in the 🌉? Let me think: was I the
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same when I got 🆙 this 🌅? I almost think I can remember feeling a
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little different. But if I'm 🚯 the same, the next ❓ is, Who
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in the 🌏 am I? Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!' And she began thinking
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over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to
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🙈 if she could have been changed for any of them.
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'I'm sure I'm 🚯 Ada,' she said, 'for her hair goes in such long
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ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I can't
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be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a
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very little! Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I, and--oh dear, how puzzling
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it all is! I'll try if I know all the things I 🇺🇲 to know. Let me
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🕓 times 7️⃣ is--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
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London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and
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Rome--🙊, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain! I must have been changed for
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Mabel! I'll try and say "How doth the little--"' and she 🎌 her
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🤞 on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to 🔁 it,
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but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did 🚯 come the
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same as they 🇻🇮 to do:--
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'How doth the little 🐊
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On every golden scale!
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'I'm sure those are 🚯 the ⏯ words,' said poor Alice, and her 👀
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filled with 😂 again as she went on, 'I must be Mabel after all, and
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I shall have to go and live in that poky little 🏡, and have next to
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🙊 toys to ⏯ with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! 🙊, I've
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made 🆙 my mind about it; if I'm Mabel, I'll stay 📩 here! It'll be 🙊
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🇺🇲 their putting their 🗣 📩 and saying "Come 🆙 again, dear!" I
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shall only look 🆙 and say "Who am I then? Tell me that 🥇, and then,
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if I like being that person, I'll come 🆙: if 🚯, I'll stay 📩 here
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till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst
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of 😢, 'I do wish they WOULD put their 🗣 📩! I am so VERY 😩
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of being all alone here!'
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As she said this she looked 📩 at her 👈, and was 🙀 to 🙈
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that she had put on 1️⃣ of the 🐇's little white kid 🥊 while
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she was talking. 'How CAN I have done that?' she 💭. 'I must
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be growing 🦐 again.' She got 🆙 and went to the table to measure
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herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now
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about 2️⃣ 🐾 🔊, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she 🔜 found
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out that the cause of this was the fan she was 👫, and she ☔
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it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
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sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; 'and
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now for the 🏡!' and she ran with all 🚅 🔙 to the little 🚪:
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but, alas! the little 🚪 was shut again, and the little golden 🔑 was
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lying on the 🍷 table as before, 'and things are worse than ever,'
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💭 the poor 🚸, 'for I never was so 🦐 as this before, never!
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And I declare it's too bad, that it is!'
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As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash!
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she was 🆙 to her chin in salt 🤽. Her 🥇 💡 was that she
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had somehow fallen into the ⛵, 'and in that case I can go 🔙 by
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🚅,' she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in
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her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go
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to on the English coast you find a number of 🛀 machines in the
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⛵, some children digging in the ⏳ with wooden ♠, then a row
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of lodging houses, and behind them a 🚅 🚉.) However, she 🔜
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made out that she was in the pool of 😿 which she had wept when she
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was 🕤 🐾 🔊.
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'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about, trying
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to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by
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being drowned in my own 😂! That WILL be a queer thing, to be sure!
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However, everything is queer to-day.'
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Just then she 🇭🇲 something splashing about in the pool a little way
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📴, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at 🥇 she 💭
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it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how 🦐
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she was now, and she 🔜 made out that it was only a 🐁 that had
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slipped in like herself.
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'Would it be of any 🇻🇮, now,' 💭 Alice, 'to 🗣 to this 🐁?
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Everything is so out-of-the-way 📩 here, that I should think very
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likely it can talk: at any rate, there's 🙊 harm in trying.' So she
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began: '🅾 🐁, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very 😩
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of 👙 about here, 🅾 🐁!' (Alice 💭 this must be the ⏯
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way of 🙊 to a 🐁: she had never done such a thing before, but
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she remembered having seen in her brother's 🔡 Grammar, 'A 🐁--of
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a 🐁--to a 🐁--a 🐁--🅾 🐁!') The 🐁 looked at her rather
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inquisitively, and seemed to her to 😜 with 1️⃣ of its little 👀,
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but it said nothing.
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'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' 💭 Alice; 'I daresay it's
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a 🇲🇫 🐁, come over with William the Conqueror.' (For, with all
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her knowledge of history, Alice had 🙊 very clear notion how long ago
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anything had happened.) So she began again: 'Ou est ma chatte?' which
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was the 🥇 sentence in her 🇲🇫 lesson-📗. The 🐁 gave a
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sudden leap out of the 🤽, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.
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'Oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had 🤕
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the poor animal's feelings. 'I quite forgot you didn't like 🐱.'
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'🚯 like 😽!' cried the 🐁, in a shrill, passionate voice. 'Would
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YOU like 😺 if you were me?'
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'Well, perhaps 🚯,' said Alice in a soothing 🏽: 'don't be 💢
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about it. And yet I wish I could show you our 🐈 Dinah: I think you'd
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take a fancy to 😻 if you could only 🙈 her. She is such a dear 🔇
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thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the
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pool, 'and she sits purring so nicely by the 🔥, licking her 🐾 and
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washing her 😡--and she is such a nice 🍦 thing to nurse--and she's
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such a capital 1️⃣ for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried
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Alice again, for this time the 🐁 was bristling all over, and she
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felt certain it must be really offended. 'We 😤't talk about her any
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more if you'd rather 🚯.'
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'We indeed!' cried the 🐁, who was trembling 📩 to the 🔚 of his
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tail. 'As if I would talk on such a subject! Our 👪 always HATED
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🐱: nasty, 🔅, vulgar things! Don't let me 🙉 the Brow. again!'
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'I 😤't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of
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conversation. 'Are you--are you fond--of--of 🐕?' The 🐁 did 🚯
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answer, so Alice went on eagerly: 'There is such a nice little 🐕 near
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our 🏡 I should like to show you! A little 🌞-eyed terrier, you
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know, with oh, such long curly brown hair! And it'll fetch things when
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you throw them, and it'll sit 🆙 and beg for its dinner, and all sorts
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of things--I can't remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer,
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you know, and he says it's so 🇺🇲, it's worth a hundred #️⃣! He
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says it kills all the 🐀 and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a sorrowful
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🏽, 'I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the 🐁 was 🏊
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away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in
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the pool as it went.
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So she 🤙 softly after it, '🐁 dear! Do come 🔙 again, and we
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😤't talk about 😻 or 🐶 either, if you don't like them!' When the
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🐁 🇭🇲 this, it turned round and swam slowly 🔙 to her: its
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😡 was quite pale (with passion, Alice 💭), and it said in a 🔅
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trembling voice, 'Let us get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my
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history, and you'll understand why it is I hate 🐱 and 🐶.'
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It was 🔊 time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the
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🦉 and animals that had fallen into it: there were a 🦆 and a Dodo,
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a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the
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way, and the whole party swam to the shore.
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CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
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They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the 🏦--the
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🕊 with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close
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to them, and all dripping wet, ⛑, and uncomfortable.
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The 🥇 ❓ of course was, how to get dry again: they had a
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consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural
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to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had
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known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the
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Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, 'I am older than
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you, and must know better'; and this Alice would 🚯 allow without
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knowing how 🗝 it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its
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age, there was 🙊 more to be said.
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At last the 🐁, who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
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🤙 out, 'Sit 📩, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL 🔜 make you
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dry enough!' They all sat 📩 at once, in a large 💍, with the 🐁
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in the middle. Alice kept her 👀 anxiously fixed on it, for she felt
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sure she would catch a bad 🌨 if she did 🚯 get dry very 🔜.
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'Ahem!' said the 🐁 with an important air, 'are you all ready? This
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is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William
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the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was 🔜 submitted
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to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much
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accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
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Mercia and Northumbria--"'
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'Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.
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'I beg your pardon!' said the 🐁, 😦, but very politely: 'Did
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you 🗣?'
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'🚯 I!' said the Lory hastily.
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'I 💭 you did,' said the 🐁. '--I proceed. "Edwin and Morcar,
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the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand,
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the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"'
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'Found WHAT?' said the 🦆.
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'Found IT,' the 🐁 replied rather crossly: 'of course you know what
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"it" means.'
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'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said the
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🦆: 'it's generally a 🐸 or a worm. The ❓ is, what did the
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archbishop find?'
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The 🐁 did 🚯 notice this ❓, but hurriedly went on, '"--found
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it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the
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👑. William's conduct at 🥇 was moderate. But the insolence of his
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Normans--" How are you getting on now, my dear?' it continued, turning
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to Alice as it spoke.
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'As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy 🏽: 'it doesn't seem to
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dry me at all.'
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'In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, 💹 to its 🐾, 'I move
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that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic
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remedies--'
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'🗣 English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half
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those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!' And
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the Eaglet bent 📩 its 🗣 to hide a 😆: some of the other 🦆
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tittered audibly.
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'What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended 🏽, 'was, that
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the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'
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'What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; 🚯 that she wanted much to know,
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but the Dodo had paused as if it 💭 that SOMEBODY ought to 🗣,
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and 🙊 1️⃣ else seemed inclined to say anything.
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'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it.' (And, as
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you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell
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you how the Dodo managed it.)
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🥇 it ✅ out a race-course, in a sort of ⚪, ('the exact
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shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party were placed
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along the course, here and there. There was 🙊 '1️⃣, 2️⃣, 🔊, and
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away,' but they began 💨 when they liked, and ◀ 📴 when they
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liked, so that it was 🚯 easy to know when the race was over. However,
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when they had been 💨 half an hour or so, and were quite dry again,
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the Dodo suddenly 📲 out 'The race is over!' and they all crowded
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round it, panting, and 🙏, 'But who has 😤?'
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This ❓ the Dodo could 🚯 answer without a great deal of 💭,
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and it sat for a long time with 1️⃣ 🤘 pressed upon its forehead
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(the position in which you usually 🙈 Shakespeare, in the pictures
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of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said,
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'EVERYBODY has 😤, and all must have 🏆.'
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'But who is to give the 🏆?' quite a chorus of voices 🙏.
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'Why, SHE, of course,' said the Dodo, 👈 to Alice with 1️⃣ 🤘;
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and the whole party at once crowded round her, 🤙 out in a confused
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way, '🏆! 🏆!'
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Alice had 🙊 💡 what to do, and in despair she put her ✌ in her
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pocket, and pulled out a 🗳 of comfits, (luckily the salt 🤽 had
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🚯 got into it), and 🖖 them round as 🏆. There was exactly 1️⃣
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a-piece all round.
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'But she must have a 🏆 herself, you know,' said the 🐁.
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'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What else have you got in
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your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.
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'Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.
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'✌ it over here,' said the Dodo.
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Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly
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🎁 the thimble, saying 'We beg your acceptance of this elegant
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thimble'; and, when it had finished this short 🗨, they all cheered.
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Alice 💭 the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave
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that she did 🚯 dare to 🤣; and, as she could 🚯 think of anything
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to say, she simply 🙏, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she
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could.
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The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and
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confusion, as the large 🦉 complained that they could 🚯 taste
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theirs, and the 🦐 🔛 choked and had to be patted on the 🔙.
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However, it was over at last, and they sat 📩 again in a 💍, and
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begged the 🐁 to tell them something more.
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'You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice, 'and why
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it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half afraid that it
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would be offended again.
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'Mine is a long and a 😿 tale!' said the 🐁, turning to Alice, and
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sighing.
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'It IS a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking 📩 with wonder at
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the 🐁's tail; 'but why do you 📲 it 😿?' And she kept on puzzling
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about it while the 🐁 was 🙊, so that her 💡 of the tale was
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something like this:--
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'Fury said to a
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🐁, That he
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met in the
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🏡,
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"Let us
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both go to
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law: I will
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prosecute
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YOU.--Come,
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I'll take 🙊
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denial; We
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must have a
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trial: For
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really this
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🌅 I've
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nothing
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to do."
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Said the
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🐁 to the
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cur, "Such
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a trial,
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dear Sir,
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With
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🙊 jury
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or judge,
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would be
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wasting
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our
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breath."
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"I'll be
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judge, I'll
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be jury,"
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Said
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cunning
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🗝 Fury:
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"I'll
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try the
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whole
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cause,
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and
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condemn
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you
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to
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⚱."'
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'You are 🚯 attending!' said the 🐁 to Alice severely. 'What are you
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thinking of?'
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+
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'I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly: 'you had got to the fifth
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bend, I think?'
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'I had 🚯!' cried the 🐁, sharply and very angrily.
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+
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'A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself 🇻🇮, and looking
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anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let me 🆘 to undo it!'
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'I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the 🐁, getting 🆙 and 🚶
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away. 'You insult me by talking such nonsense!'
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'I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor Alice. 'But you're so easily offended,
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you know!'
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The 🐁 only growled in reply.
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'Please come 🔙 and finish your story!' Alice 🤙 after it; and the
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others all joined in chorus, 'Yes, please do!' but the 🐁 only shook
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its 🗣 impatiently, and 🚶 a little quicker.
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'What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as 🔜 as it was quite
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out of sight; and an 🗝 🦀 took the opportunity of saying to her
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daughter 'Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose
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YOUR temper!' '👬 your 👅, Ma!' said the 🌱 🦀, a little
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snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!'
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+
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'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud, addressing
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nobody in particular. 'She'd 🔜 fetch it 🔙!'
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+
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'And who is Dinah, if I might venture to 🙏 the ❓?' said the
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Lory.
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Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her 🐹:
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'Dinah's our 🐈. And she's such a capital 1️⃣ for catching mice you
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can't think! And oh, I wish you could 🙈 her after the 🦅! Why,
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she'll eat a little 🐦 as 🔜 as look at it!'
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+
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This 🗨 caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some of the
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🐦 hurried 📴 at once: 1️⃣ 🗝 Magpie began wrapping itself 🆙 very
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carefully, remarking, 'I really must be getting 🏡; the 🌉-air
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doesn't ♣ my throat!' and a Canary 🤙 out in a trembling voice to
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its children, 'Come away, my dears! It's 🔊 time you were all in 🛏!'
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On various pretexts they all moved 📴, and Alice was 🔜 ◀ alone.
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+
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'I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!' she said to herself in a melancholy
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🏽. 'Nobody seems to like her, 📩 here, and I'm sure she's the best
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🐈 in the 🌏! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if I shall ever 🙈 you
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any more!' And here poor Alice began to 😿 again, for she felt very
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lonely and 🔅-spirited. In a little while, however, she again 🇭🇲
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a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked 🆙
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eagerly, half hoping that the 🐁 had changed his mind, and was coming
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🔙 to finish his story.
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CHAPTER IV. The 🐇 Sends in a Little 💶
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+
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It was the White 🐇, trotting slowly 🔙 again, and looking
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anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she 🇭🇲
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it muttering to itself 'The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear 🐾! Oh
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my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are
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ferrets! Where CAN I have 💧 them, I wonder?' Alice guessed in a
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moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid 🥊,
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+
and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were
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nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to have changed since her 🏊 in
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the pool, and the great hall, with the 🍷 table and the little 🚪,
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+
had vanished completely.
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+
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Very 🔜 the 🐇 noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and
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🤙 out to her in an 💢 🏽, 'Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing
|
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+
out here? Run 🏡 this moment, and fetch me a pair of 🥊 and a fan!
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+
Quick, now!' And Alice was so much frightened that she ran 📴 at once
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in the ↖ it 👈 to, without trying to explain the mistake it
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had made.
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+
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'He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as she ran. 'How
|
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+
🙀 he'll be when he finds out who I am! But I'd better take him
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his fan and 🥊--that is, if I can find them.' As she said this, she
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came upon a neat little 🏡, on the 🚪 of which was a 🌞 brass
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🍽 with the Brow. 'W. 🐇' engraved upon it. She went in without
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knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great 😱 lest she should meet the
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real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the 🏡 before she had found the
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fan and 🥊.
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+
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'How queer it seems,' Alice said to herself, 'to be going messages for
|
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+
a 🐇! I suppose Dinah'll be sending me on messages next!' And she
|
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began fancying the sort of thing that would happen: '"Miss Alice! Come
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+
here directly, and get ready for your 🚶!" "Coming in a minute,
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+
nurse! But I've got to 🙈 that the 🐁 doesn't get out." Only I don't
|
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+
think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah ⏹ in the 🏡 if it
|
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+
began ordering people about like that!'
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+
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+
By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table
|
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+
in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and 2️⃣ or 🔊 pairs
|
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+
of tiny white kid 🥊: she took 🆙 the fan and a pair of the 🥊,
|
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+
and was just going to leave the room, when her 👁 fell upon a little
|
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+
🍾 that stood near the looking-🍷. There was 🙊 🏷 this time
|
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+
with the words '🚱 ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it
|
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+
to her 💋. 'I know SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,' she said
|
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+
to herself, 'whenever I eat or 🚱 anything; so I'll just 🙈 what
|
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+
this 🍾 does. I do hope it'll make me grow large again, for really
|
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+
I'm quite 😩 of being such a tiny little thing!'
|
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+
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+
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had
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+
drunk half the 🍾, she found her 🗣 pressing against the ceiling,
|
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+
and had to stoop to save her neck from being 💔. She hastily put
|
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+
📩 the 🍾, saying to herself 'That's quite enough--I hope I shan't
|
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+
grow any more--As it is, I can't get out at the 🚪--I do wish I hadn't
|
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+
drunk quite so much!'
|
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+
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+
Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and growing,
|
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+
and very 🔜 had to kneel 📩 on the 🤣: in another minute there
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+
was 🚯 even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying 📩 with
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+
1️⃣ elbow against the 🚪, and the other arm ➰ round her 🗣.
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+
Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put 1️⃣ arm out
|
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+
of the window, and 1️⃣ foot 🆙 the chimney, and said to herself 'Now I
|
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+
can do 🙊 more, whatever happens. What WILL become of me?'
|
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+
|
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+
Luckily for Alice, the little magic 🍾 had now had its 🌝 effect,
|
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+
and she grew 🙊 larger: still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there
|
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+
seemed to be 🙊 sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room
|
728
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+
again, 🙊 wonder she felt unhappy.
|
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+
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+
'It was much pleasanter at 🏡,' 💭 poor Alice, 'when 1️⃣ wasn't
|
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+
always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
|
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+
🐰. I almost wish I hadn't gone 📩 that 🐇-🕳--and yet--and
|
733
|
+
yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what
|
734
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+
CAN have happened to me! When I 🇻🇮 to read fairy-tales, I fancied that
|
735
|
+
kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of 1️⃣!
|
736
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+
There ought to be a 📗 written about me, that there ought! And when I
|
737
|
+
grow 🆙, I'll ✍ 1️⃣--but I'm grown 🆙 now,' she added in a sorrowful
|
738
|
+
🏽; 'at least there's 🙊 room to grow 🆙 any more HERE.'
|
739
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+
|
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+
'But then,' 💭 Alice, 'shall I NEVER get any older than I am
|
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|
+
now? That'll be a comfort, 1️⃣ way--never to be an 🗝 👩--but
|
742
|
+
then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't like THAT!'
|
743
|
+
|
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|
+
'Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself. 'How can you learn
|
745
|
+
lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for YOU, and 🙊 room at all
|
746
|
+
for any lesson-📚!'
|
747
|
+
|
748
|
+
And so she went on, taking 🥇 1️⃣ side and then the other, and making
|
749
|
+
quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few minutes she 🇭🇲
|
750
|
+
a voice outside, and 🛑 to listen.
|
751
|
+
|
752
|
+
'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. 'Fetch me my 🥊 this moment!'
|
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|
+
Then came a little pattering of 🐾 on the stairs. Alice knew it was
|
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+
the 🐇 coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the
|
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+
🏡, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large
|
756
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+
as the 🐇, and had 🙊 reason to be afraid of it.
|
757
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+
|
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+
🎁 the 🐇 came 🆙 to the 🚪, and tried to 📬 it; but, as
|
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|
+
the 🚪 😅 inwards, and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it,
|
760
|
+
that attempt proved a failure. Alice 🇭🇲 it say to itself 'Then I'll
|
761
|
+
go round and get in at the window.'
|
762
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+
|
763
|
+
'THAT you 😤't' 💭 Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied
|
764
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+
she 🇭🇲 the 🐇 just under the window, she suddenly spread out her
|
765
|
+
✌, and made a snatch in the air. She did 🚯 get 👬 of anything,
|
766
|
+
but she 🇭🇲 a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of 💔 🍷,
|
767
|
+
from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a
|
768
|
+
🥒-🖼, or something of the sort.
|
769
|
+
|
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|
+
Next came an 💢 voice--the 🐇's--'Pat! Pat! Where are you?' And
|
771
|
+
then a voice she had never 🇭🇲 before, 'Sure then I'm here! Digging
|
772
|
+
for apples, yer honour!'
|
773
|
+
|
774
|
+
'Digging for apples, indeed!' said the 🐇 angrily. 'Here! Come and
|
775
|
+
🆘 me out of THIS!' (Sounds of more 💔 🍷.)
|
776
|
+
|
777
|
+
'Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'
|
778
|
+
|
779
|
+
'Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' (He pronounced it 'arrum.')
|
780
|
+
|
781
|
+
'An arm, you goose! Who ever saw 1️⃣ that size? Why, it fills the whole
|
782
|
+
window!'
|
783
|
+
|
784
|
+
'Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that.'
|
785
|
+
|
786
|
+
'Well, it's got 🙊 business there, at any rate: go and take it away!'
|
787
|
+
|
788
|
+
There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only 🙉 whispers
|
789
|
+
now and then; such as, 'Sure, I don't like it, yer honour, at all, at
|
790
|
+
all!' 'Do as I tell you, you coward!' and at last she spread out her
|
791
|
+
✌ again, and made another snatch in the air. This time there were
|
792
|
+
2️⃣ little shrieks, and more sounds of 💔 🍷. 'What a number of
|
793
|
+
🥒-🖼 there must be!' 💭 Alice. 'I wonder what they'll do
|
794
|
+
next! As for pulling me out of the window, I only wish they COULD! I'm
|
795
|
+
sure I don't want to stay in here any longer!'
|
796
|
+
|
797
|
+
She waited for some time without 🙉 anything more: at last came a
|
798
|
+
rumbling of little 🤸, and the sound of a good many voices
|
799
|
+
all talking together: she made out the words: 'Where's the other
|
800
|
+
ladder?--Why, I hadn't to bring but 1️⃣; 💶's got the other--💶!
|
801
|
+
fetch it here, lad!--Here, put 'em 🆙 at this corner--🙊, tie 'em
|
802
|
+
together 🥇--they don't reach half 🔊 enough yet--Oh! they'll
|
803
|
+
do well enough; don't be particular--Here, 💶! catch 👬 of this
|
804
|
+
rope--Will the roof 🐨?--Mind that loose slate--Oh, it's coming
|
805
|
+
📩! 🗣 below!' (a 📢 crash)--'Now, who did that?--It was 💶, I
|
806
|
+
fancy--Who's to go 📩 the chimney?--Nay, I shan't! YOU do it!--That I
|
807
|
+
😤't, then!--💶's to go 📩--Here, 💶! the master says you're to
|
808
|
+
go 📩 the chimney!'
|
809
|
+
|
810
|
+
'Oh! So 💶's got to come 📩 the chimney, has he?' said Alice to
|
811
|
+
herself. 'Shy, they seem to put everything upon 💶! I wouldn't be in
|
812
|
+
💶's place for a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure; but
|
813
|
+
I THINK I can 🛴 a little!'
|
814
|
+
|
815
|
+
She drew her foot as far 📩 the chimney as she could, and waited
|
816
|
+
till she 🇭🇲 a little animal (she couldn't guess of what sort it was)
|
817
|
+
scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then,
|
818
|
+
saying to herself 'This is 💶,' she gave 1️⃣ sharp 🛴, and waited to
|
819
|
+
🙈 what would happen next.
|
820
|
+
|
821
|
+
The 🥇 thing she 🇭🇲 was a general chorus of 'There goes 💶!'
|
822
|
+
then the 🐇's voice along--'Catch him, you by the hedge!' then
|
823
|
+
silence, and then another confusion of voices--'👬 🆙 his 🗣--Brandy
|
824
|
+
now--Don't choke him--How was it, 🗝 fellow? What happened to you? Tell
|
825
|
+
us all about it!'
|
826
|
+
|
827
|
+
Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, ('That's 💶,' 💭
|
828
|
+
Alice,) 'Well, I hardly know--🙊 more, thank ye; I'm better now--but I'm
|
829
|
+
a deal too flustered to tell you--all I know is, something comes at me
|
830
|
+
like a 🎃-in-the-🗳, and 🆙 I goes like a sky-🚀!'
|
831
|
+
|
832
|
+
'So you did, 🗝 fellow!' said the others.
|
833
|
+
|
834
|
+
'We must burn the 🏡 📩!' said the 🐇's voice; and Alice 🤙
|
835
|
+
out as 📢 as she could, 'If you do. I'll 📐 Dinah at you!'
|
836
|
+
|
837
|
+
There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice 💭 to herself, 'I
|
838
|
+
wonder what they WILL do next! If they had any sense, they'd take the
|
839
|
+
roof 📴.' After a minute or 2️⃣, they began moving about again, and
|
840
|
+
Alice 🇭🇲 the 🐇 say, 'A barrowful will do, to begin with.'
|
841
|
+
|
842
|
+
'A barrowful of WHAT?' 💭 Alice; but she had 🚯 long to 🤷,
|
843
|
+
for the next moment a 🚿 of little pebbles came rattling in at the
|
844
|
+
window, and some of them 🎯 her in the 😡. 'I'll put a ⏹ to this,'
|
845
|
+
she said to herself, and shouted out, 'You'd better 🚯 do that again!'
|
846
|
+
which produced another dead silence.
|
847
|
+
|
848
|
+
Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into
|
849
|
+
little 🍥 as they lay on the 🤣, and a 🌞 💡 came into her
|
850
|
+
🗣. 'If I eat 1️⃣ of these 🍰,' she 💭, 'it's sure to make
|
851
|
+
SOME change in my size; and as it can't possibly make me larger, it must
|
852
|
+
make me smaller, I suppose.'
|
853
|
+
|
854
|
+
So she swallowed 1️⃣ of the 🍰, and was delighted to find that she
|
855
|
+
began shrinking directly. As 🔜 as she was 🦐 enough to get through
|
856
|
+
the 🚪, she ran out of the 🏡, and found quite a crowd of little
|
857
|
+
animals and 🦆 waiting outside. The poor little 🦎, 💶, was
|
858
|
+
in the middle, being held 🆙 by 2️⃣ 🇵🇬-🐷, who were giving it
|
859
|
+
something out of a 🍾. They all made a rush at Alice the moment she
|
860
|
+
appeared; but she ran 📴 as hard as she could, and 🔜 found herself
|
861
|
+
safe in a thick wood.
|
862
|
+
|
863
|
+
'The 🥇 thing I've got to do,' said Alice to herself, as she wandered
|
864
|
+
about in the wood, 'is to grow to my ⏯ size again; and the 🥈
|
865
|
+
thing is to find my way into that 😍 🏡. I think that will be
|
866
|
+
the best plan.'
|
867
|
+
|
868
|
+
It sounded an excellent plan, 🙊 🤷, and very neatly and simply
|
869
|
+
arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had 🚯 the smallest 💡
|
870
|
+
how to 📐 about it; and while she was peering about anxiously among
|
871
|
+
the 🎄, a little sharp bark just over her 🗣 made her look 🆙 in a
|
872
|
+
great hurry.
|
873
|
+
|
874
|
+
An enormous puppy was looking 📩 at her with large round 👀, and
|
875
|
+
feebly stretching out 1️⃣ 🐾, trying to touch her. 'Poor little thing!'
|
876
|
+
said Alice, in a coaxing 🏽, and she tried hard to whistle to it; but
|
877
|
+
she was terribly frightened all the time at the 💭 that it might be
|
878
|
+
hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her 🆙 in spite of
|
879
|
+
all her coaxing.
|
880
|
+
|
881
|
+
Hardly knowing what she did, she ⛏ 🆙 a little bit of 🏒, and
|
882
|
+
held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air 📴
|
883
|
+
all its 🐾 at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the 🏒,
|
884
|
+
and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle,
|
885
|
+
to keep herself from being run over; and the moment she appeared on the
|
886
|
+
other side, the puppy made another rush at the 🏒, and tumbled 🗣
|
887
|
+
over 👠 in its hurry to get 👬 of it; then Alice, thinking it was
|
888
|
+
very like having a 🎲 of ⏯ with a 🛒-🐎, and expecting every
|
889
|
+
moment to be trampled under its 🐾, ran round the thistle again; then
|
890
|
+
the puppy began a series of short charges at the 🏒, 💨 a very
|
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little way ⏩ each time and a long way 🔙, and barking hoarsely
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all the while, till at last it sat 📩 a good way 📴, panting, with
|
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its 👅 hanging out of its 👄, and its great 👀 half shut.
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+
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This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she
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📐 📴 at once, and ran till she was quite 😩 and out of breath, and
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till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
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+
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'And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said Alice, as she leant
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against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with 1️⃣ of the
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leaves: 'I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I'd
|
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only been the ⏯ size to do it! Oh dear! I'd nearly forgotten that
|
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+
I've got to grow 🆙 again! Let me 🙈--how IS it to be managed? I
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suppose I ought to eat or 🚱 something or other; but the great
|
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❓ is, what?'
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+
|
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+
The great ❓ certainly was, what? Alice looked all round her at
|
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the 🥀 and the blades of grass, but she did 🚯 🙈 anything that
|
909
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looked like the ⏯ thing to eat or 🚱 under the circumstances.
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+
There was a large 🍄 growing near her, about the same height as
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herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and
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behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and 🙈 what
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was on the 🔝 of it.
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+
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She stretched herself 🆙 on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the
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🍄, and her 👀 immediately met those of a large caterpillar,
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that was sitting on the 🔝 with its arms folded, quietly 🚭 a long
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hookah, and taking 🚯 the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
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+
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920
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+
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+
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+
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CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar
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+
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The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence:
|
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at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its 👄, and addressed
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her in a languid, sleepy voice.
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+
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'Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.
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+
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This was 🚯 an encouraging 😄 for a conversation. Alice replied,
|
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rather shyly, 'I--I hardly know, sir, just at 🎁--at least I know
|
933
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+
who I WAS when I got 🆙 this 🌅, but I think I must have been
|
934
|
+
changed several times since then.'
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+
|
936
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+
'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly. 'Explain
|
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+
yourself!'
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+
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+
'I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, 'because I'm 🚯
|
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+
myself, you 🙈.'
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+
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+
'I don't 🙈,' said the Caterpillar.
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943
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+
|
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+
'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely,
|
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+
'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many
|
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+
different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
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+
|
948
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+
'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
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949
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+
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+
'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; 'but when you
|
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+
have to turn into a chrysalis--you will some day, you know--and then
|
952
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+
after that into a 🦋, I should think you'll feel it a little
|
953
|
+
queer, 😤't you?'
|
954
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+
|
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+
'🚯 a bit,' said the Caterpillar.
|
956
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+
|
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+
'Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice; 'all I know
|
958
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+
is, it would feel very queer to ME.'
|
959
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+
|
960
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+
'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 'Who are YOU?'
|
961
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+
|
962
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+
Which brought them 🔙 again to the beginning of the conversation.
|
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|
+
Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's making such VERY
|
964
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+
short remarks, and she drew herself 🆙 and said, very gravely, 'I think,
|
965
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+
you ought to tell me who YOU are, 🥇.'
|
966
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+
|
967
|
+
'Why?' said the Caterpillar.
|
968
|
+
|
969
|
+
Here was another puzzling ❓; and as Alice could 🚯 think of any
|
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+
good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a VERY unpleasant
|
971
|
+
state of mind, she turned away.
|
972
|
+
|
973
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+
'Come 🔙!' the Caterpillar 📲 after her. 'I've something important
|
974
|
+
to say!'
|
975
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+
|
976
|
+
This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came 🔙 again.
|
977
|
+
|
978
|
+
'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.
|
979
|
+
|
980
|
+
'Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing 📩 her anger as well as she
|
981
|
+
could.
|
982
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+
|
983
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+
'🙊,' said the Caterpillar.
|
984
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+
|
985
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+
Alice 💭 she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and
|
986
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+
perhaps after all it might tell her something worth 🙉. For some
|
987
|
+
minutes it puffed away without 🗣, but at last it unfolded its
|
988
|
+
arms, took the hookah out of its 👄 again, and said, 'So you think
|
989
|
+
you're changed, do you?'
|
990
|
+
|
991
|
+
'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember things as I
|
992
|
+
🇻🇮--and I don't keep the same size for 🔟 minutes together!'
|
993
|
+
|
994
|
+
'Can't remember WHAT things?' said the Caterpillar.
|
995
|
+
|
996
|
+
'Well, I've tried to say "HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY 🐝," but it all came
|
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|
+
different!' Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.
|
998
|
+
|
999
|
+
'🔁, "YOU ARE 🗝, 👪 WILLIAM,"' said the Caterpillar.
|
1000
|
+
|
1001
|
+
Alice folded her ✊, and began:--
|
1002
|
+
|
1003
|
+
'You are 🗝, 👪 William,' the 🌱 👨 said,
|
1004
|
+
'And your hair has become very white;
|
1005
|
+
And yet you incessantly stand on your 🗣--
|
1006
|
+
Do you think, at your age, it is ⏯?'
|
1007
|
+
|
1008
|
+
'In my youth,' 👪 William replied to his son,
|
1009
|
+
'I 😱 it might injure the brain;
|
1010
|
+
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
|
1011
|
+
Why, I do it again and again.'
|
1012
|
+
|
1013
|
+
'You are 🗝,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before,
|
1014
|
+
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
|
1015
|
+
Yet you turned a 🔙-somersault in at the 🚪--
|
1016
|
+
Pray, what is the reason of that?'
|
1017
|
+
|
1018
|
+
'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey 🔑,
|
1019
|
+
'I kept all my limbs very supple
|
1020
|
+
By the 🇺🇲 of this ointment--1️⃣ shilling the 🗳--
|
1021
|
+
Allow me to sell you a 👨❤️👨?'
|
1022
|
+
|
1023
|
+
'You are 🗝,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak
|
1024
|
+
For anything tougher than suet;
|
1025
|
+
Yet you finished the goose, with the 🍗 and the beak--
|
1026
|
+
Pray how did you manage to do it?'
|
1027
|
+
|
1028
|
+
'In my youth,' said his 👪, 'I took to the law,
|
1029
|
+
And argued each case with my wife;
|
1030
|
+
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
|
1031
|
+
Has lasted the rest of my life.'
|
1032
|
+
|
1033
|
+
'You are 🗝,' said the youth, '1️⃣ would hardly suppose
|
1034
|
+
That your 👁 was as steady as ever;
|
1035
|
+
Yet you balanced an eel on the 🔚 of your 👃--
|
1036
|
+
What made you so awfully clever?'
|
1037
|
+
|
1038
|
+
'I have answered 🔊 ⁉, and that is enough,'
|
1039
|
+
Said his 👪; 'don't give yourself airs!
|
1040
|
+
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
|
1041
|
+
Be 📴, or I'll 🛴 you 📩 stairs!'
|
1042
|
+
|
1043
|
+
|
1044
|
+
'That is 🚯 said ⏯,' said the Caterpillar.
|
1045
|
+
|
1046
|
+
'🚯 QUITE ⏯, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words
|
1047
|
+
have got altered.'
|
1048
|
+
|
1049
|
+
'It is wrong from beginning to 🔚,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and
|
1050
|
+
there was silence for some minutes.
|
1051
|
+
|
1052
|
+
The Caterpillar was the 🥇 to 🗣.
|
1053
|
+
|
1054
|
+
'What size do you want to be?' it 🙏.
|
1055
|
+
|
1056
|
+
'Oh, I'm 🚯 particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; 'only 1️⃣
|
1057
|
+
doesn't like changing so often, you know.'
|
1058
|
+
|
1059
|
+
'I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar.
|
1060
|
+
|
1061
|
+
Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life
|
1062
|
+
before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.
|
1063
|
+
|
1064
|
+
'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.
|
1065
|
+
|
1066
|
+
'Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind,'
|
1067
|
+
said Alice: '🔊 inches is such a wretched height to be.'
|
1068
|
+
|
1069
|
+
'It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing
|
1070
|
+
itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly 🔊 inches 🔊).
|
1071
|
+
|
1072
|
+
'But I'm 🚯 🇻🇮 to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous 🏽. And
|
1073
|
+
she 💭 of herself, 'I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily
|
1074
|
+
offended!'
|
1075
|
+
|
1076
|
+
'You'll get 🇺🇲 to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it put the
|
1077
|
+
hookah into its 👄 and began 🚭 again.
|
1078
|
+
|
1079
|
+
This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to 🗣 again. In
|
1080
|
+
a minute or 2️⃣ the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its 👄
|
1081
|
+
and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got 📩 📴 the
|
1082
|
+
🍄, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went,
|
1083
|
+
'1️⃣ side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you
|
1084
|
+
grow shorter.'
|
1085
|
+
|
1086
|
+
'1️⃣ side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' 💭 Alice to herself.
|
1087
|
+
|
1088
|
+
'Of the 🍄,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had 🙏 it
|
1089
|
+
aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
|
1090
|
+
|
1091
|
+
Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the 🍄 for a minute, trying
|
1092
|
+
to make out which were the 2️⃣ sides of it; and as it was perfectly
|
1093
|
+
round, she found this a very difficult ❓. However, at last she
|
1094
|
+
stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke 📴 a bit
|
1095
|
+
of the edge with each ✌.
|
1096
|
+
|
1097
|
+
'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a little of
|
1098
|
+
the ⏯-✌ bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent
|
1099
|
+
🌬 underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!
|
1100
|
+
|
1101
|
+
She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt
|
1102
|
+
that there was 🙊 time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she
|
1103
|
+
📐 to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed
|
1104
|
+
so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to 📬 her
|
1105
|
+
👄; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the
|
1106
|
+
lefthand bit.
|
1107
|
+
|
1108
|
+
|
1109
|
+
* * * * * * *
|
1110
|
+
|
1111
|
+
* * * * * *
|
1112
|
+
|
1113
|
+
* * * * * * *
|
1114
|
+
|
1115
|
+
'Come, my 🗣's 🆓 at last!' said Alice in a 🏽 of delight, which
|
1116
|
+
changed into ⏰ in another moment, when she found that her shoulders
|
1117
|
+
were nowhere to be found: all she could 🙈, when she looked 📩, was
|
1118
|
+
an immense length of neck, which seemed to 💹 like a stalk out of a
|
1119
|
+
⛵ of 🍏 leaves that lay far below her.
|
1120
|
+
|
1121
|
+
'What CAN all that 🍏 stuff be?' said Alice. 'And where HAVE my
|
1122
|
+
shoulders got to? And oh, my poor 🤘, how is it I can't 🙈 you?'
|
1123
|
+
She was moving them about as she spoke, but 🙊 result seemed to follow,
|
1124
|
+
except a little 🤝 among the distant 🍏 leaves.
|
1125
|
+
|
1126
|
+
As there seemed to be 🙊 chance of getting her 🙆 🆙 to her 🗣, she
|
1127
|
+
tried to get her 🗣 📩 to them, and was delighted to find that her
|
1128
|
+
neck would bend about easily in any ↖, like a ⛎. She had
|
1129
|
+
just succeeded in curving it 📩 into a graceful zigzag, and was going
|
1130
|
+
to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the 🎩
|
1131
|
+
of the 🎄 under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made
|
1132
|
+
her draw 🔙 in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her 😡, and
|
1133
|
+
was beating her violently with its wings.
|
1134
|
+
|
1135
|
+
'⛎!' 😱 the Pigeon.
|
1136
|
+
|
1137
|
+
'I'm 🚯 a ⛎!' said Alice indignantly. 'Let me alone!'
|
1138
|
+
|
1139
|
+
'⛎, I say again!' 🔁 the Pigeon, but in a more subdued 🏽,
|
1140
|
+
and added with a kind of 😭, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems
|
1141
|
+
to ♣ them!'
|
1142
|
+
|
1143
|
+
'I haven't the least 💡 what you're talking about,' said Alice.
|
1144
|
+
|
1145
|
+
'I've tried the roots of 🌴, and I've tried 💷, and I've tried
|
1146
|
+
hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 'but those
|
1147
|
+
⛎! There's 🙊 pleasing them!'
|
1148
|
+
|
1149
|
+
Alice was more and more puzzled, but she 💭 there was 🙊 🇺🇲 in
|
1150
|
+
saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.
|
1151
|
+
|
1152
|
+
'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the 🥚,' said the Pigeon;
|
1153
|
+
'but I must be on the look-out for 🐍 🌉 and day! Why, I
|
1154
|
+
haven't had a 😜 of 😴 these 🔊 weeks!'
|
1155
|
+
|
1156
|
+
'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was beginning to
|
1157
|
+
🙈 its meaning.
|
1158
|
+
|
1159
|
+
'And just as I'd taken the highest 🎋 in the wood,' continued the
|
1160
|
+
Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, 'and just as I was thinking I
|
1161
|
+
should be 🆓 of them at last, they must needs come wriggling 📩 from
|
1162
|
+
the sky! Ugh, ⛎!'
|
1163
|
+
|
1164
|
+
'But I'm 🚯 a ⛎, I tell you!' said Alice. 'I'm a--I'm a--'
|
1165
|
+
|
1166
|
+
'Well! WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon. 'I can 🙈 you're trying to
|
1167
|
+
invent something!'
|
1168
|
+
|
1169
|
+
'I--I'm a little 👧,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered
|
1170
|
+
the number of changes she had gone through that day.
|
1171
|
+
|
1172
|
+
'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a 🏽 of the deepest
|
1173
|
+
contempt. 'I've seen a good many little 👨👨👧👧 in my time, but never 1️⃣
|
1174
|
+
with such a neck as that! 🙊, 🙊! You're a ⛎; and there's 🙊 🇻🇮
|
1175
|
+
denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an
|
1176
|
+
🥚!'
|
1177
|
+
|
1178
|
+
'I HAVE tasted 🥚, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful
|
1179
|
+
🚸; 'but little 👨👨👧👧 eat 🥚 quite as much as 🐍 do, you
|
1180
|
+
know.'
|
1181
|
+
|
1182
|
+
'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why then they're
|
1183
|
+
a kind of ⛎, that's all I can say.'
|
1184
|
+
|
1185
|
+
This was such a 🇳🇿 💡 to Alice, that she was quite 🔇 for a
|
1186
|
+
minute or 2️⃣, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, 'You're
|
1187
|
+
looking for 🥚, I know THAT well enough; and what does it matter to me
|
1188
|
+
whether you're a little 👧 or a ⛎?'
|
1189
|
+
|
1190
|
+
'It matters a good deal to ME,' said Alice hastily; 'but I'm 🚯 looking
|
1191
|
+
for 🥚, as it happens; and if I was, I shouldn't want YOURS: I don't
|
1192
|
+
like them raw.'
|
1193
|
+
|
1194
|
+
'Well, be 📴, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky 🏽, as it settled
|
1195
|
+
📩 again into its nest. Alice crouched 📩 among the 🌴 as well as
|
1196
|
+
she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and
|
1197
|
+
every now and then she had to ⏹ and untwist it. After a while she
|
1198
|
+
remembered that she still held the pieces of 🍄 in her ✊, and
|
1199
|
+
she 📐 to work very carefully, nibbling 🥇 at 1️⃣ and then at the
|
1200
|
+
other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had
|
1201
|
+
succeeded in bringing herself 📩 to her usual height.
|
1202
|
+
|
1203
|
+
It was so long since she had been anything near the ⏯ size, that it
|
1204
|
+
felt quite strange at 🥇; but she got 🇺🇲 to it in a few minutes,
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and began talking to herself, as usual. 'Come, there's half my plan done
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now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going
|
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to be, from 1️⃣ minute to another! However, I've got 🔙 to my ⏯
|
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size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful 🏡--how IS that
|
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+
to be done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an 📬
|
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+
place, with a little 🏡 in it about 🕓 🐾 🔊. 'Whoever lives
|
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+
there,' 💭 Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them THIS size: why,
|
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I should frighten them out of their wits!' So she began nibbling at the
|
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+
righthand bit again, and did 🚯 venture to go near the 🏡 till she
|
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had brought herself 📩 to 🕤 inches 🔊.
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+
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CHAPTER VI. 🐖 and 🌶
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For a minute or 2️⃣ she stood looking at the 🏡, and wondering what
|
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+
to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came 💨 out of the
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1223
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+
wood--(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery:
|
1224
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+
otherwise, judging by his 😡 only, she would have 🤙 him a
|
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+
🐟)--and rapped loudly at the 🚪 with his knuckles. It was 👐
|
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+
by another footman in livery, with a round 😡, and large 👀 like a
|
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+
🐸; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair that ➰ all
|
1228
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+
over their 🗣. She felt very curious to know what it was all about,
|
1229
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+
and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.
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1230
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+
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1231
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The 🐟-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great 📨,
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1232
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+
nearly as large as himself, and this he ✊ over to the other,
|
1233
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+
saying, in a solemn 🏽, 'For the Duchess. An invitation from the 👑
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1234
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+
to ⏯ croquet.' The 🐸-Footman 🔁, in the same solemn 🏽,
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1235
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+
only changing the order of the words a little, 'From the 👑. An
|
1236
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invitation for the Duchess to ⏯ croquet.'
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1237
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+
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1238
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+
Then they both 🏹 🔅, and their ➰ got entangled together.
|
1239
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+
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1240
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+
Alice 🤣 so much at this, that she had to run 🔙 into the
|
1241
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+
wood for 😱 of their 🙉 her; and when she next peeped out the
|
1242
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+
🐟-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the
|
1243
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+
🚪, staring stupidly 🆙 into the sky.
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1244
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+
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1245
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+
Alice went timidly 🆙 to the 🚪, and knocked.
|
1246
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+
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1247
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+
'There's 🙊 sort of 🇺🇲 in knocking,' said the Footman, 'and that for
|
1248
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+
2️⃣ reasons. 🥇, because I'm on the same side of the 🚪 as you
|
1249
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+
are; secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, 🙊 1️⃣ could
|
1250
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+
possibly 🙉 you.' And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise
|
1251
|
+
going on within--a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then
|
1252
|
+
a great crash, as if a 📡 or kettle had been 💔 to pieces.
|
1253
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+
|
1254
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+
'Please, then,' said Alice, 'how am I to get in?'
|
1255
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+
|
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+
'There might be some sense in your knocking,' the Footman went on
|
1257
|
+
without attending to her, 'if we had the 🚪 between us. For instance,
|
1258
|
+
if you were 💠, you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.'
|
1259
|
+
He was looking 🆙 into the sky all the time he was 🗣, and this
|
1260
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+
Alice 💭 decidedly uncivil. 'But perhaps he can't 🆘 it,' she
|
1261
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+
said to herself; 'his 👀 are so VERY nearly at the 🔝 of his 🗣.
|
1262
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+
But at any rate he might answer ❓.--How am I to get in?' she
|
1263
|
+
🔁, aloud.
|
1264
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+
|
1265
|
+
'I shall sit here,' the Footman remarked, 'till tomorrow--'
|
1266
|
+
|
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|
+
At this moment the 🚪 of the 🏡 😆, and a large 🍽 came
|
1268
|
+
skimming out, straight at the Footman's 🗣: it just grazed his 👃,
|
1269
|
+
and broke to pieces against 1️⃣ of the 🌳 behind him.
|
1270
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+
|
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+
'--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the same 🏽, exactly
|
1272
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+
as if nothing had happened.
|
1273
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+
|
1274
|
+
'How am I to get in?' 🙏 Alice again, in a louder 🏽.
|
1275
|
+
|
1276
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+
'ARE you to get in at all?' said the Footman. 'That's the 🥇
|
1277
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+
❓, you know.'
|
1278
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+
|
1279
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+
It was, 🙊 🤷: only Alice did 🚯 like to be told so. 'It's really
|
1280
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+
dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue.
|
1281
|
+
It's enough to drive 1️⃣ crazy!'
|
1282
|
+
|
1283
|
+
The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for 🔁 his
|
1284
|
+
remark, with variations. 'I shall sit here,' he said, 'on and 📴, for
|
1285
|
+
days and days.'
|
1286
|
+
|
1287
|
+
'But what am I to do?' said Alice.
|
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|
+
|
1289
|
+
'Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began whistling.
|
1290
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+
|
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+
'Oh, there's 🙊 🇻🇮 in talking to him,' said Alice desperately: 'he's
|
1292
|
+
perfectly idiotic!' And she 👐 the 🚪 and went in.
|
1293
|
+
|
1294
|
+
The 🚪 led ⏯ into a large kitchen, which was 🌝 of smoke from
|
1295
|
+
1️⃣ 🔚 to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a 🔊-🍗 stool in
|
1296
|
+
the middle, nursing a 👶; the 🇨🇰 was leaning over the 🔥, stirring
|
1297
|
+
a large cauldron which seemed to be 🌝 of soup.
|
1298
|
+
|
1299
|
+
'There's certainly too much 🌶 in that soup!' Alice said to herself,
|
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+
as well as she could for sneezing.
|
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+
|
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|
+
There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the Duchess
|
1303
|
+
sneezed occasionally; and as for the 👶, it was sneezing and howling
|
1304
|
+
alternately without a moment's ⏸. The only things in the kitchen
|
1305
|
+
that did 🚯 sneeze, were the 🇨🇰, and a large 🐈 which was sitting on
|
1306
|
+
the hearth and 😀 from 👂 to 👂.
|
1307
|
+
|
1308
|
+
'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
|
1309
|
+
🚯 quite sure whether it was good manners for her to 🗣 🥇, 'why
|
1310
|
+
your 🐈 😀 like that?'
|
1311
|
+
|
1312
|
+
'It's a Cheshire 🐈,' said the Duchess, 'and that's why. 🐖!'
|
1313
|
+
|
1314
|
+
She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite
|
1315
|
+
jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the 👶,
|
1316
|
+
and 🚯 to her, so she took courage, and went on again:--
|
1317
|
+
|
1318
|
+
'I didn't know that Cheshire 😹 always 😸; in fact, I didn't know
|
1319
|
+
that 😺 COULD 😸.'
|
1320
|
+
|
1321
|
+
'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em do.'
|
1322
|
+
|
1323
|
+
'I don't know of any that do,' Alice said very politely, feeling quite
|
1324
|
+
pleased to have got into a conversation.
|
1325
|
+
|
1326
|
+
'You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.'
|
1327
|
+
|
1328
|
+
Alice did 🚯 at all like the 🏽 of this remark, and 💭 it would
|
1329
|
+
be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation. While she
|
1330
|
+
was trying to fix on 1️⃣, the 🇨🇰 took the cauldron of soup 📴 the
|
1331
|
+
🔥, and at once 📐 to work throwing everything within her reach at
|
1332
|
+
the Duchess and the 👶--the 🔥-irons came 🥇; then followed a
|
1333
|
+
🚿 of saucepans, 🍽, and 📡. The Duchess took 🙊 notice of
|
1334
|
+
them even when they 🎯 her; and the 👶 was howling so much already,
|
1335
|
+
that it was quite impossible to say whether the 🌬 🤕 it or 🚯.
|
1336
|
+
|
1337
|
+
'Oh, 🙏 mind what you're doing!' cried Alice, jumping 🆙 and 📩 in
|
1338
|
+
an agony of terror. 'Oh, there goes his PRECIOUS 👃'; as an unusually
|
1339
|
+
large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it 📴.
|
1340
|
+
|
1341
|
+
'If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said in a hoarse
|
1342
|
+
growl, 'the 🌏 would go round a deal faster than it does.'
|
1343
|
+
|
1344
|
+
'Which would 🚯 be an advantage,' said Alice, who felt very glad to get
|
1345
|
+
an opportunity of showing 📴 a little of her knowledge. 'Just think of
|
1346
|
+
what work it would make with the day and 🌉! You 🙈 the 🌐 takes
|
1347
|
+
twenty-🕓 hours to turn round on its axis--'
|
1348
|
+
|
1349
|
+
'Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, 'chop 📴 her 🗣!'
|
1350
|
+
|
1351
|
+
Alice glanced rather anxiously at the 🇨🇰, to 🙈 if she meant to take
|
1352
|
+
the hint; but the 🇨🇰 was busily stirring the soup, and seemed 🚯 to
|
1353
|
+
be listening, so she went on again: 'Twenty-🕓 hours, I THINK; or is
|
1354
|
+
it 🕧? I--'
|
1355
|
+
|
1356
|
+
'Oh, don't bother ME,' said the Duchess; 'I never could abide figures!'
|
1357
|
+
And with that she began nursing her 🚸 again, singing a sort of
|
1358
|
+
lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent 🤝 at the 🔚 of
|
1359
|
+
every line:
|
1360
|
+
|
1361
|
+
'🗣 roughly to your little 👦,
|
1362
|
+
And beat him when he sneezes:
|
1363
|
+
He only does it to annoy,
|
1364
|
+
Because he knows it teases.'
|
1365
|
+
|
1366
|
+
CHORUS.
|
1367
|
+
|
1368
|
+
(In which the 🇨🇰 and the 👶 joined):--
|
1369
|
+
|
1370
|
+
'Wow! wow! wow!'
|
1371
|
+
|
1372
|
+
While the Duchess sang the 🥈 verse of the song, she kept tossing
|
1373
|
+
the 👶 violently 🆙 and 📩, and the poor little thing howled so,
|
1374
|
+
that Alice could hardly 🙉 the words:--
|
1375
|
+
|
1376
|
+
'I 🗣 severely to my 👦,
|
1377
|
+
I beat him when he sneezes;
|
1378
|
+
For he can thoroughly enjoy
|
1379
|
+
The 🌶 when he pleases!'
|
1380
|
+
|
1381
|
+
CHORUS.
|
1382
|
+
|
1383
|
+
'Wow! wow! wow!'
|
1384
|
+
|
1385
|
+
'Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the Duchess said to Alice,
|
1386
|
+
flinging the 👶 at her as she spoke. 'I must go and get ready to ⏯
|
1387
|
+
croquet with the 👑,' and she hurried out of the room. The 🇨🇰 threw
|
1388
|
+
a frying-🥘 after her as she went out, but it just missed her.
|
1389
|
+
|
1390
|
+
Alice caught the 👶 with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped
|
1391
|
+
little 👺, and held out its arms and 🍗 in all directions, 'just
|
1392
|
+
like a 🌠-🐟,' 💭 Alice. The poor little thing was snorting
|
1393
|
+
like a 🚂-🚒 when she caught it, and kept doubling itself 🆙 and
|
1394
|
+
straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the 🥇 minute
|
1395
|
+
or 2️⃣, it was as much as she could do to 👬 it.
|
1396
|
+
|
1397
|
+
As 🔜 as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, (which was to
|
1398
|
+
twist it 🆙 into a sort of knot, and then keep tight 👬 of its ⏯
|
1399
|
+
👂 and ◀ foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried
|
1400
|
+
it out into the 📬 air. 'IF I don't take this 🚸 away with me,'
|
1401
|
+
💭 Alice, 'they're sure to kill it in a day or 2️⃣: wouldn't it be
|
1402
|
+
murder to leave it behind?' She said the last words out 📢, and the
|
1403
|
+
little thing grunted in reply (it had ◀ 📴 sneezing by this time).
|
1404
|
+
'Don't grunt,' said Alice; 'that's 🚯 at all a proper way of expressing
|
1405
|
+
yourself.'
|
1406
|
+
|
1407
|
+
The 👶 grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its 😡 to
|
1408
|
+
🙈 what was the matter with it. There could be 🙊 🤷 that it had
|
1409
|
+
a VERY turn-🆙 👃, much more like a snout than a real 👃; also its
|
1410
|
+
👀 were getting extremely 🦐 for a 👶: altogether Alice did 🚯
|
1411
|
+
like the look of the thing at all. 'But perhaps it was only 😭,'
|
1412
|
+
she 💭, and looked into its 👀 again, to 🙈 if there were any
|
1413
|
+
😂.
|
1414
|
+
|
1415
|
+
🙊, there were 🙊 😿. 'If you're going to turn into a 🐖, my dear,'
|
1416
|
+
said Alice, seriously, 'I'll have nothing more to do with you. Mind
|
1417
|
+
now!' The poor little thing 😭 again (or grunted, it was impossible
|
1418
|
+
to say which), and they went on for some while in silence.
|
1419
|
+
|
1420
|
+
Alice was just beginning to think to herself, 'Now, what am I to do with
|
1421
|
+
this 👺 when I get it 🏡?' when it grunted again, so violently,
|
1422
|
+
that she looked 📩 into its 😡 in some ⏰. This time there could
|
1423
|
+
be 🙊 mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a 🐖, and she
|
1424
|
+
felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further.
|
1425
|
+
|
1426
|
+
So she 📐 the little 👺 📩, and felt quite 😌 to 🙈
|
1427
|
+
it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If it had grown 🆙,' she said
|
1428
|
+
to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly 🚸: but it makes
|
1429
|
+
rather a handsome 🐖, I think.' And she began thinking over other
|
1430
|
+
children she knew, who might do very well as 🐷, and was just saying
|
1431
|
+
to herself, 'if 1️⃣ only knew the ⏯ way to change them--' when she
|
1432
|
+
was a little startled by 🙈 the Cheshire 🐈 sitting on a bough of a
|
1433
|
+
🎋 a few yards 📴.
|
1434
|
+
|
1435
|
+
The 🐈 only 😸 when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she
|
1436
|
+
💭: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she
|
1437
|
+
felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
|
1438
|
+
|
1439
|
+
'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did 🚯 at all know
|
1440
|
+
whether it would like the Brow.: however, it only 😁 a little wider.
|
1441
|
+
'Come, it's pleased so far,' 💭 Alice, and she went on. 'Would you
|
1442
|
+
tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
|
1443
|
+
|
1444
|
+
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the 🐈.
|
1445
|
+
|
1446
|
+
'I don't much 💅 where--' said Alice.
|
1447
|
+
|
1448
|
+
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the 🐈.
|
1449
|
+
|
1450
|
+
'--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
|
1451
|
+
|
1452
|
+
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the 🐈, 'if you only 🚶 long
|
1453
|
+
enough.'
|
1454
|
+
|
1455
|
+
Alice felt that this could 🚯 be denied, so she tried another ❓.
|
1456
|
+
'What sort of people live about here?'
|
1457
|
+
|
1458
|
+
'In THAT ↖,' the 🐈 said, 🏴 its ⏯ 🐾 round, 'lives
|
1459
|
+
a Hatter: and in THAT ↖,' 🏴 the other 🐾, 'lives a March
|
1460
|
+
Hare. Visit either you like: they're both 😠.'
|
1461
|
+
|
1462
|
+
'But I don't want to go among 😠 people,' Alice remarked.
|
1463
|
+
|
1464
|
+
'Oh, you can't 🆘 that,' said the 🐈: 'we're all 😠 here. I'm 😠.
|
1465
|
+
You're 😠.'
|
1466
|
+
|
1467
|
+
'How do you know I'm 😠?' said Alice.
|
1468
|
+
|
1469
|
+
'You must be,' said the 🐈, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'
|
1470
|
+
|
1471
|
+
Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on 'And how
|
1472
|
+
do you know that you're 😠?'
|
1473
|
+
|
1474
|
+
'To begin with,' said the 🐈, 'a 🐕's 🚯 😠. You grant that?'
|
1475
|
+
|
1476
|
+
'I suppose so,' said Alice.
|
1477
|
+
|
1478
|
+
'Well, then,' the 🐈 went on, 'you 🙈, a 🐕 growls when it's 💢,
|
1479
|
+
and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and
|
1480
|
+
wag my tail when I'm 💢. Therefore I'm 😠.'
|
1481
|
+
|
1482
|
+
'I 📲 it purring, 🚯 growling,' said Alice.
|
1483
|
+
|
1484
|
+
'📲 it what you like,' said the 🐈. 'Do you ⏯ croquet with the
|
1485
|
+
👑 to-day?'
|
1486
|
+
|
1487
|
+
'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been invited
|
1488
|
+
yet.'
|
1489
|
+
|
1490
|
+
'You'll 🙈 me there,' said the 🐈, and vanished.
|
1491
|
+
|
1492
|
+
Alice was 🚯 much 🙀 at this, she was getting so 🇻🇮 to queer
|
1493
|
+
things happening. While she was looking at the place where it had been,
|
1494
|
+
it suddenly appeared again.
|
1495
|
+
|
1496
|
+
'By-the-bye, what became of the 👶?' said the 🐈. 'I'd nearly
|
1497
|
+
forgotten to 🙏.'
|
1498
|
+
|
1499
|
+
'It turned into a 🐖,' Alice quietly said, just as if it had come 🔙
|
1500
|
+
in a natural way.
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1501
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+
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1502
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+
'I 💭 it would,' said the 🐈, and vanished again.
|
1503
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+
|
1504
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+
Alice waited a little, half expecting to 🙈 it again, but it did 🚯
|
1505
|
+
appear, and after a minute or 2️⃣ she 🚶 on in the ↖ in
|
1506
|
+
which the March Hare was said to live. 'I've seen hatters before,' she
|
1507
|
+
said to herself; 'the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and
|
1508
|
+
perhaps as this is May it 😤't be raving 😠--at least 🚯 so 😠 as
|
1509
|
+
it was in March.' As she said this, she looked 🆙, and there was the 🐈
|
1510
|
+
again, sitting on a branch of a 🎋.
|
1511
|
+
|
1512
|
+
'Did you say 🐖, or fig?' said the 🐈.
|
1513
|
+
|
1514
|
+
'I said 🐖,' replied Alice; 'and I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and
|
1515
|
+
vanishing so suddenly: you make 1️⃣ quite giddy.'
|
1516
|
+
|
1517
|
+
'All ⏯,' said the 🐈; and this time it vanished quite slowly,
|
1518
|
+
beginning with the 🔚 of the tail, and 🔚 with the 😸, which
|
1519
|
+
remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
|
1520
|
+
|
1521
|
+
'Well! I've often seen a 🐈 without a 😸,' 💭 Alice; 'but a 😸
|
1522
|
+
without a 🐈! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!'
|
1523
|
+
|
1524
|
+
She had 🚯 gone much farther before she came in sight of the 🏡
|
1525
|
+
of the March Hare: she 💭 it must be the ⏯ 🏡, because the
|
1526
|
+
chimneys were shaped like 🌽 and the roof was thatched with fur. It
|
1527
|
+
was so large a 🏡, that she did 🚯 like to go nearer till she had
|
1528
|
+
nibbled some more of the lefthand bit of 🍄, and 🙌 herself to
|
1529
|
+
about 2️⃣ 🐾 🔊: even then she 🚶 🆙 towards it rather timidly,
|
1530
|
+
saying to herself 'Suppose it should be raving 😠 after all! I almost
|
1531
|
+
wish I'd gone to 🙈 the Hatter instead!'
|
1532
|
+
|
1533
|
+
|
1534
|
+
|
1535
|
+
|
1536
|
+
CHAPTER VII. A 😠 🍵-Party
|
1537
|
+
|
1538
|
+
There was a table 📐 out under a 🎋 in front of the 🏡, and the
|
1539
|
+
March Hare and the Hatter were having 🍵 at it: a Dormouse was sitting
|
1540
|
+
between them, ⏩ asleep, and the other 2️⃣ were 🇺🇲 it as a
|
1541
|
+
cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its 🗣. 'Very
|
1542
|
+
uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' 💭 Alice; 'only, as it's asleep, I
|
1543
|
+
suppose it doesn't mind.'
|
1544
|
+
|
1545
|
+
The table was a large 1️⃣, but the 🔊 were all crowded together at
|
1546
|
+
1️⃣ corner of it: '🙊 room! 🙊 room!' they cried out when they saw Alice
|
1547
|
+
coming. 'There's PLENTY of room!' said Alice indignantly, and she sat
|
1548
|
+
📩 in a large arm-💺 at 1️⃣ 🔚 of the table.
|
1549
|
+
|
1550
|
+
'Have some 🍷,' the March Hare said in an encouraging 🏽.
|
1551
|
+
|
1552
|
+
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but 🍵.
|
1553
|
+
'I don't 🙈 any 🍷,' she remarked.
|
1554
|
+
|
1555
|
+
'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.
|
1556
|
+
|
1557
|
+
'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice angrily.
|
1558
|
+
|
1559
|
+
'It wasn't very civil of you to sit 📩 without being invited,' said
|
1560
|
+
the March Hare.
|
1561
|
+
|
1562
|
+
'I didn't know it was YOUR table,' said Alice; 'it's laid for a great
|
1563
|
+
many more than 🔊.'
|
1564
|
+
|
1565
|
+
'Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice
|
1566
|
+
for some time with great curiosity, and this was his 🥇 🗨.
|
1567
|
+
|
1568
|
+
'You should learn 🚯 to make personal remarks,' Alice said with some
|
1569
|
+
severity; 'it's very rude.'
|
1570
|
+
|
1571
|
+
The Hatter 😃 his 👀 very wide on 🙉 this; but all he SAID
|
1572
|
+
was, 'Why is a raven like a ✍-desk?'
|
1573
|
+
|
1574
|
+
'Come, we shall have some fun now!' 💭 Alice. 'I'm glad they've
|
1575
|
+
begun 🙏 riddles.--I believe I can guess that,' she added aloud.
|
1576
|
+
|
1577
|
+
'Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?' said the
|
1578
|
+
March Hare.
|
1579
|
+
|
1580
|
+
'Exactly so,' said Alice.
|
1581
|
+
|
1582
|
+
'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on.
|
1583
|
+
|
1584
|
+
'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean what I
|
1585
|
+
say--that's the same thing, you know.'
|
1586
|
+
|
1587
|
+
'🚯 the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'You might just as well say
|
1588
|
+
that "I 🙈 what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I 🙈"!'
|
1589
|
+
|
1590
|
+
'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that "I like what I
|
1591
|
+
get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!'
|
1592
|
+
|
1593
|
+
'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be
|
1594
|
+
talking in his 😴, 'that "I breathe when I 😴" is the same thing
|
1595
|
+
as "I 😴 when I breathe"!'
|
1596
|
+
|
1597
|
+
'It IS the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and here the
|
1598
|
+
conversation 💧, and the party sat 🔇 for a minute, while Alice
|
1599
|
+
💭 over all she could remember about ravens and ✍-desks,
|
1600
|
+
which wasn't much.
|
1601
|
+
|
1602
|
+
The Hatter was the 🥇 to 💔 the silence. 'What day of the month
|
1603
|
+
is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his ⌚ out of his
|
1604
|
+
pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, 🤝 it every now and then,
|
1605
|
+
and 👭 it to his 👂.
|
1606
|
+
|
1607
|
+
Alice considered a little, and then said 'The fourth.'
|
1608
|
+
|
1609
|
+
'2️⃣ days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. 'I told you butter wouldn't ♣
|
1610
|
+
the works!' he added looking angrily at the March Hare.
|
1611
|
+
|
1612
|
+
'It was the BEST butter,' the March Hare meekly replied.
|
1613
|
+
|
1614
|
+
'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter grumbled:
|
1615
|
+
'you shouldn't have put it in with the 🍞-🗡.'
|
1616
|
+
|
1617
|
+
The March Hare took the ⌚ and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped
|
1618
|
+
it into his 🍶 of 🍵, and looked at it again: but he could think of
|
1619
|
+
nothing better to say than his 🥇 remark, 'It was the BEST butter,
|
1620
|
+
you know.'
|
1621
|
+
|
1622
|
+
Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. 'What a
|
1623
|
+
funny ⌚!' she remarked. 'It tells the day of the month, and doesn't
|
1624
|
+
tell what 🅾'🕡 it is!'
|
1625
|
+
|
1626
|
+
'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does YOUR ⌚ tell you what
|
1627
|
+
year it is?'
|
1628
|
+
|
1629
|
+
'Of course 🚯,' Alice replied very readily: 'but that's because it
|
1630
|
+
stays the same year for such a long time together.'
|
1631
|
+
|
1632
|
+
'Which is just the case with MINE,' said the Hatter.
|
1633
|
+
|
1634
|
+
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have 🙊
|
1635
|
+
sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite
|
1636
|
+
understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.
|
1637
|
+
|
1638
|
+
'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured a little
|
1639
|
+
♨ 🍵 upon its 👃.
|
1640
|
+
|
1641
|
+
The Dormouse shook its 🗣 impatiently, and said, without 😆 its
|
1642
|
+
👀, 'Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.'
|
1643
|
+
|
1644
|
+
'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to Alice
|
1645
|
+
again.
|
1646
|
+
|
1647
|
+
'🙊, I give it 🆙,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer?'
|
1648
|
+
|
1649
|
+
'I haven't the slightest 💡,' said the Hatter.
|
1650
|
+
|
1651
|
+
'Nor I,' said the March Hare.
|
1652
|
+
|
1653
|
+
Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the
|
1654
|
+
time,' she said, 'than waste it in 🙏 riddles that have 🙊 answers.'
|
1655
|
+
|
1656
|
+
'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, 'you wouldn't talk
|
1657
|
+
about wasting IT. It's HIM.'
|
1658
|
+
|
1659
|
+
'I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.
|
1660
|
+
|
1661
|
+
'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his 🗣 contemptuously.
|
1662
|
+
'I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'
|
1663
|
+
|
1664
|
+
'Perhaps 🚯,' Alice cautiously replied: 'but I know I have to beat time
|
1665
|
+
when I learn 🎶.'
|
1666
|
+
|
1667
|
+
'Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. 'He 😤't stand beating.
|
1668
|
+
Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything
|
1669
|
+
you liked with the 🕡. For instance, suppose it were 🕤 🅾'🕡 in
|
1670
|
+
the 🌅, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a
|
1671
|
+
hint to Time, and round goes the 🕡 in a twinkling! Half-past 1️⃣,
|
1672
|
+
time for dinner!'
|
1673
|
+
|
1674
|
+
('I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in a whisper.)
|
1675
|
+
|
1676
|
+
'That would be grand, certainly,' said Alice thoughtfully: 'but then--I
|
1677
|
+
shouldn't be hungry for it, you know.'
|
1678
|
+
|
1679
|
+
'🚯 at 🥇, perhaps,' said the Hatter: 'but you could keep it to
|
1680
|
+
half-past 1️⃣ as long as you liked.'
|
1681
|
+
|
1682
|
+
'Is that the way YOU manage?' Alice 🙏.
|
1683
|
+
|
1684
|
+
The Hatter shook his 🗣 mournfully. '🚯 I!' he replied. 'We
|
1685
|
+
quarrelled last March--just before HE went 😠, you know--' (👉
|
1686
|
+
with his 🍵 🥄 at the March Hare,) '--it was at the great concert
|
1687
|
+
given by the 👑 of 💘, and I had to sing
|
1688
|
+
|
1689
|
+
"Twinkle, twinkle, little 🦇!
|
1690
|
+
How I wonder what you're at!"
|
1691
|
+
|
1692
|
+
You know the song, perhaps?'
|
1693
|
+
|
1694
|
+
'I've 🇭🇲 something like it,' said Alice.
|
1695
|
+
|
1696
|
+
'It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, 'in this way:--
|
1697
|
+
|
1698
|
+
"🆙 above the 🌏 you 💸,
|
1699
|
+
Like a 🍵-📥 in the sky.
|
1700
|
+
Twinkle, twinkle--"'
|
1701
|
+
|
1702
|
+
Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its 😴 'Twinkle,
|
1703
|
+
twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--' and went on so long that they had to pinch
|
1704
|
+
it to make it ⏹.
|
1705
|
+
|
1706
|
+
'Well, I'd hardly finished the 🥇 verse,' said the Hatter, 'when the
|
1707
|
+
👑 jumped 🆙 and bawled out, "He's murdering the time! 📴 with his
|
1708
|
+
🗣!"'
|
1709
|
+
|
1710
|
+
'How dreadfully savage!' exclaimed Alice.
|
1711
|
+
|
1712
|
+
'And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful 🏽, 'he 😤't
|
1713
|
+
do a thing I 🙏! It's always 6️⃣ 🅾'🕡 now.'
|
1714
|
+
|
1715
|
+
A 🌞 💡 came into Alice's 🗣. 'Is that the reason so many
|
1716
|
+
🍵-things are put out here?' she 🙏.
|
1717
|
+
|
1718
|
+
'Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: 'it's always 🍵-time,
|
1719
|
+
and we've 🙊 time to wash the things between whiles.'
|
1720
|
+
|
1721
|
+
'Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.
|
1722
|
+
|
1723
|
+
'Exactly so,' said the Hatter: 'as the things get 🇻🇮 🆙.'
|
1724
|
+
|
1725
|
+
'But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice ventured
|
1726
|
+
to 🙏.
|
1727
|
+
|
1728
|
+
'Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare interrupted, yawning.
|
1729
|
+
'I'm getting 😩 of this. I vote the 🌱 lady tells us a story.'
|
1730
|
+
|
1731
|
+
'I'm afraid I don't know 1️⃣,' said Alice, rather ⏰ at the
|
1732
|
+
proposal.
|
1733
|
+
|
1734
|
+
'Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. 'Wake 🆙, Dormouse!' And
|
1735
|
+
they pinched it on both sides at once.
|
1736
|
+
|
1737
|
+
The Dormouse slowly 😆 his 👀. 'I wasn't asleep,' he said in a
|
1738
|
+
hoarse, feeble voice: 'I 🇭🇲 every word you fellows were saying.'
|
1739
|
+
|
1740
|
+
'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare.
|
1741
|
+
|
1742
|
+
'Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice.
|
1743
|
+
|
1744
|
+
'And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, 'or you'll be asleep again
|
1745
|
+
before it's done.'
|
1746
|
+
|
1747
|
+
'🔂 upon a time there were 🔊 little sisters,' the Dormouse began
|
1748
|
+
in a great hurry; 'and their 📛 were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and
|
1749
|
+
they lived at the bottom of a well--'
|
1750
|
+
|
1751
|
+
'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great interest in
|
1752
|
+
❓ of eating and ☕.
|
1753
|
+
|
1754
|
+
'They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or
|
1755
|
+
2️⃣.
|
1756
|
+
|
1757
|
+
'They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice gently remarked; 'they'd
|
1758
|
+
have been 🤒.'
|
1759
|
+
|
1760
|
+
'So they were,' said the Dormouse; 'VERY 🤒.'
|
1761
|
+
|
1762
|
+
Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary ways of
|
1763
|
+
living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went on: 'But
|
1764
|
+
why did they live at the bottom of a well?'
|
1765
|
+
|
1766
|
+
'Take some more 🍵,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
|
1767
|
+
|
1768
|
+
'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended 🏽, 'so I can't
|
1769
|
+
take more.'
|
1770
|
+
|
1771
|
+
'You mean you can't take LESS,' said the Hatter: 'it's very easy to take
|
1772
|
+
MORE than nothing.'
|
1773
|
+
|
1774
|
+
'Nobody 🙏 YOUR opinion,' said Alice.
|
1775
|
+
|
1776
|
+
'Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter 🙏 triumphantly.
|
1777
|
+
|
1778
|
+
Alice did 🚯 quite know what to say to this: so she 🆘 herself
|
1779
|
+
to some 🍵 and 🍞-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and
|
1780
|
+
🔁 her ❓. 'Why did they live at the bottom of a well?'
|
1781
|
+
|
1782
|
+
The Dormouse again took a minute or 2️⃣ to think about it, and then
|
1783
|
+
said, 'It was a treacle-well.'
|
1784
|
+
|
1785
|
+
'There's 🙊 such thing!' Alice was beginning very angrily, but the
|
1786
|
+
Hatter and the March Hare went 'Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse sulkily
|
1787
|
+
remarked, 'If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for
|
1788
|
+
yourself.'
|
1789
|
+
|
1790
|
+
'🙊, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; 'I 😤't interrupt again. I
|
1791
|
+
dare say there may be 1️⃣.'
|
1792
|
+
|
1793
|
+
'1️⃣, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he consented to
|
1794
|
+
go on. 'And so these 🔊 little sisters--they were learning to draw,
|
1795
|
+
you know--'
|
1796
|
+
|
1797
|
+
'What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting her promise.
|
1798
|
+
|
1799
|
+
'Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time.
|
1800
|
+
|
1801
|
+
'I want a clean 🍶,' interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move 1️⃣ place
|
1802
|
+
on.'
|
1803
|
+
|
1804
|
+
He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare
|
1805
|
+
moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took
|
1806
|
+
the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only 1️⃣ who got any
|
1807
|
+
advantage from the change: and Alice was a good deal worse 📴 than
|
1808
|
+
before, as the March Hare had just upset the 🥛-🏺 into his 🍽.
|
1809
|
+
|
1810
|
+
Alice did 🚯 wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very
|
1811
|
+
cautiously: 'But I don't understand. Where did they draw the treacle
|
1812
|
+
from?'
|
1813
|
+
|
1814
|
+
'You can draw 🤽 out of a 🤽-well,' said the Hatter; 'so I should
|
1815
|
+
think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh, stupid?'
|
1816
|
+
|
1817
|
+
'But they were IN the well,' Alice said to the Dormouse, 🚯 choosing to
|
1818
|
+
notice this last remark.
|
1819
|
+
|
1820
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'Of course they were', said the Dormouse; '--well in.'
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1821
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+
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1822
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This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for
|
1823
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+
some time without interrupting it.
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1824
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+
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1825
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'They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing
|
1826
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+
its 👀, for it was getting very sleepy; 'and they drew all manner of
|
1827
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+
things--everything that begins with an M--'
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1828
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+
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1829
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+
'Why with an M?' said Alice.
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1830
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+
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1831
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+
'Why 🚯?' said the March Hare.
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1832
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+
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1833
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Alice was 🔇.
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1834
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+
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1835
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The Dormouse had 📕 its 👀 by this time, and was going 📴 into
|
1836
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+
a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke 🆙 again with
|
1837
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+
a little shriek, and went on: '--that begins with an M, such as
|
1838
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+
🐁-traps, and the 🎑, and memory, and muchness--you know you say
|
1839
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+
things are "much of a muchness"--did you ever 🙈 such a thing as a
|
1840
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+
drawing of a muchness?'
|
1841
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+
|
1842
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+
'Really, now you 🙏 me,' said Alice, very much confused, 'I don't
|
1843
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+
think--'
|
1844
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+
|
1845
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+
'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.
|
1846
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+
|
1847
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+
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could 🐨: she got 🆙 in
|
1848
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+
great disgust, and 🚶 📴; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and
|
1849
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+
neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she
|
1850
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+
looked 🔙 once or twice, half hoping that they would 📲 after her:
|
1851
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+
the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into
|
1852
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+
the teapot.
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1853
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+
|
1854
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+
'At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she ⛏ her
|
1855
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+
way through the wood. 'It's the stupidest 🍵-party I ever was at in all
|
1856
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+
my life!'
|
1857
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+
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1858
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+
Just as she said this, she noticed that 1️⃣ of the 🌳 had a 🚪
|
1859
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+
leading ⏯ into it. 'That's very curious!' she 💭. 'But
|
1860
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+
everything's curious today. I think I may as well go in at once.' And in
|
1861
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+
she went.
|
1862
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+
|
1863
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+
🔂 more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little
|
1864
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+
🍷 table. 'Now, I'll manage better this time,' she said to herself,
|
1865
|
+
and began by taking the little golden 🔑, and 🔓 the 🚪 that
|
1866
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+
led into the 🏡. Then she went to work nibbling at the 🍄 (she
|
1867
|
+
had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot 🔊:
|
1868
|
+
then she 🚶 📩 the little passage: and THEN--she found herself at
|
1869
|
+
last in the beautiful 🏡, among the 🌞 🌻-🛏 and the 🆒
|
1870
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+
⛲.
|
1871
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+
|
1872
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+
|
1873
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+
|
1874
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+
|
1875
|
+
CHAPTER VIII. The 👑's Croquet-Ground
|
1876
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+
|
1877
|
+
A large 🌹-🎋 stood near the entrance of the 🏡: the 🌹
|
1878
|
+
growing on it were white, but there were 🔊 🏡 at it, busily
|
1879
|
+
🖌 them 🔽. Alice 💭 this a very curious thing, and she went
|
1880
|
+
nearer to ⌚ them, and just as she came 🆙 to them she 🇭🇲 1️⃣ of
|
1881
|
+
them say, 'Look out now, 🕠! Don't go splashing paint over me like
|
1882
|
+
that!'
|
1883
|
+
|
1884
|
+
'I couldn't 🆘 it,' said 🕠, in a sulky 🏽; '7️⃣ jogged my
|
1885
|
+
elbow.'
|
1886
|
+
|
1887
|
+
On which 7️⃣ looked 🆙 and said, 'That's ⏯, 🕠! Always lay the
|
1888
|
+
blame on others!'
|
1889
|
+
|
1890
|
+
'YOU'D better 🚯 talk!' said 🕠. 'I 🇭🇲 the 👑 say only
|
1891
|
+
yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'
|
1892
|
+
|
1893
|
+
'What for?' said the 1️⃣ who had spoken 🥇.
|
1894
|
+
|
1895
|
+
'That's none of YOUR business, 2️⃣!' said 7️⃣.
|
1896
|
+
|
1897
|
+
'Yes, it IS his business!' said 🕠, 'and I'll tell him--it was for
|
1898
|
+
bringing the 🇨🇰 🌷-roots instead of onions.'
|
1899
|
+
|
1900
|
+
7️⃣ flung 📩 his brush, and had just begun 'Well, of all the unjust
|
1901
|
+
things--' when his 👁 chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood ⌚
|
1902
|
+
them, and he ☑ himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and
|
1903
|
+
all of them 🙏 🔅.
|
1904
|
+
|
1905
|
+
'Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, 'why you are 🖌
|
1906
|
+
those 🌹?'
|
1907
|
+
|
1908
|
+
🕠 and 7️⃣ said nothing, but looked at 2️⃣. 2️⃣ began in a 🔅
|
1909
|
+
voice, 'Why the fact is, you 🙈, Miss, this here ought to have been a
|
1910
|
+
🔽 🌹-🎋, and we put a white 1️⃣ in by mistake; and if the 👑
|
1911
|
+
was to find it out, we should all have our 🗣 cut 📴, you know.
|
1912
|
+
So you 🙈, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, to--' At this
|
1913
|
+
moment 🕠, who had been anxiously looking across the 🏡, 📲
|
1914
|
+
out 'The 👑! The 👑!' and the 🔊 🏡 instantly threw
|
1915
|
+
themselves flat upon their 😫. There was a sound of many footsteps,
|
1916
|
+
and Alice looked round, eager to 🙈 the 👑.
|
1917
|
+
|
1918
|
+
🥇 came 🔟 soldiers carrying ♣; these were all shaped like
|
1919
|
+
the 🔊 🏡, oblong and flat, with their 💁 and 🐾 at the
|
1920
|
+
corners: next the 🔟 courtiers; these were ornamented all over with
|
1921
|
+
♦, and 🚶 2️⃣ and 2️⃣, as the soldiers did. After these came
|
1922
|
+
the royal children; there were 🔟 of them, and the little dears came
|
1923
|
+
jumping merrily along ✌ in ✌, in couples: they were all ornamented
|
1924
|
+
with ❣. Next came the guests, mostly 👑 and 👑, and among
|
1925
|
+
them Alice recognised the White 🐇: it was talking in a hurried
|
1926
|
+
nervous manner, 😻 at everything that was said, and went by without
|
1927
|
+
noticing her. Then followed the Knave of 💓, carrying the 👑's
|
1928
|
+
👑 on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand
|
1929
|
+
procession, came THE 👑 AND 👑 OF ♥.
|
1930
|
+
|
1931
|
+
Alice was rather 🤷 whether she ought 🚯 to 🤥 📩 on her 😡
|
1932
|
+
like the 🔊 🏡, but she could 🚯 remember ever having 🇭🇲
|
1933
|
+
of such a rule at processions; 'and besides, what would be the 🇻🇮 of
|
1934
|
+
a procession,' 💭 she, 'if people had all to 🤥 📩 upon their
|
1935
|
+
😒, so that they couldn't 🙈 it?' So she stood still where she was,
|
1936
|
+
and waited.
|
1937
|
+
|
1938
|
+
When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all 🛑 and looked
|
1939
|
+
at her, and the 👑 said severely 'Who is this?' She said it to the
|
1940
|
+
Knave of 💚, who only 🙏 and 😺 in reply.
|
1941
|
+
|
1942
|
+
'Idiot!' said the 👑, tossing her 🗣 impatiently; and, turning to
|
1943
|
+
Alice, she went on, 'What's your Brow., 🚸?'
|
1944
|
+
|
1945
|
+
'My Brow. is Alice, so please your Majesty,' said Alice very politely;
|
1946
|
+
but she added, to herself, 'Why, they're only a pack of 📇, after
|
1947
|
+
all. I needn't be afraid of them!'
|
1948
|
+
|
1949
|
+
'And who are THESE?' said the 👑, ☝ to the 🔊 🏡 who
|
1950
|
+
were lying round the rosetree; for, you 🙈, as they were lying on their
|
1951
|
+
😆, and the pattern on their 🔙 was the same as the rest of the
|
1952
|
+
pack, she could 🚯 tell whether they were 🏡, or soldiers, or
|
1953
|
+
courtiers, or 🔊 of her own children.
|
1954
|
+
|
1955
|
+
'How should I know?' said Alice, 🙀 at her own courage. 'It's 🙊
|
1956
|
+
business of MINE.'
|
1957
|
+
|
1958
|
+
The 👑 turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a
|
1959
|
+
moment like a wild beast, 😱 '📴 with her 🗣! 📴--'
|
1960
|
+
|
1961
|
+
'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the 👑 was
|
1962
|
+
🔇.
|
1963
|
+
|
1964
|
+
The 👑 laid his ✌ upon her arm, and timidly said 'Consider, my
|
1965
|
+
dear: she is only a 🚸!'
|
1966
|
+
|
1967
|
+
The 👑 turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave 'Turn them
|
1968
|
+
over!'
|
1969
|
+
|
1970
|
+
The Knave did so, very carefully, with 1️⃣ foot.
|
1971
|
+
|
1972
|
+
'Get 🆙!' said the 👑, in a shrill, 📢 voice, and the 🔊
|
1973
|
+
🏡 instantly jumped 🆙, and began 🙇 to the 👑, the 👑,
|
1974
|
+
the royal children, and everybody else.
|
1975
|
+
|
1976
|
+
'Leave 📴 that!' 😱 the 👑. 'You make me giddy.' And then,
|
1977
|
+
turning to the 🌹-🎋, she went on, 'What HAVE you been doing here?'
|
1978
|
+
|
1979
|
+
'May it please your Majesty,' said 2️⃣, in a very humble 🏽, going
|
1980
|
+
📩 on 1️⃣ knee as he spoke, 'we were trying--'
|
1981
|
+
|
1982
|
+
'I 🙈!' said the 👑, who had meanwhile been examining the 🌹.
|
1983
|
+
'📴 with their 🗣!' and the procession moved on, 🔊 of the
|
1984
|
+
soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate 🏡, who ran
|
1985
|
+
to Alice for protection.
|
1986
|
+
|
1987
|
+
'You shan't be beheaded!' said Alice, and she put them into a large
|
1988
|
+
🌻-🍯 that stood near. The 🔊 soldiers wandered about for a
|
1989
|
+
minute or 2️⃣, looking for them, and then quietly marched 📴 after the
|
1990
|
+
others.
|
1991
|
+
|
1992
|
+
'Are their 🗣 📴?' shouted the 👑.
|
1993
|
+
|
1994
|
+
'Their 🗣 are gone, if it please your Majesty!' the soldiers shouted
|
1995
|
+
in reply.
|
1996
|
+
|
1997
|
+
'That's ⏯!' shouted the 👑. 'Can you ⏯ croquet?'
|
1998
|
+
|
1999
|
+
The soldiers were 🔇, and looked at Alice, as the ❓ was
|
2000
|
+
evidently meant for her.
|
2001
|
+
|
2002
|
+
'Yes!' shouted Alice.
|
2003
|
+
|
2004
|
+
'Come on, then!' roared the 👑, and Alice joined the procession,
|
2005
|
+
wondering very much what would happen next.
|
2006
|
+
|
2007
|
+
'It's--it's a very fine day!' said a timid voice at her side. She was
|
2008
|
+
🚶 by the White 🐇, who was peeping anxiously into her 😡.
|
2009
|
+
|
2010
|
+
'Very,' said Alice: '--where's the Duchess?'
|
2011
|
+
|
2012
|
+
'Hush! Hush!' said the 🐇 in a 🔅, hurried 🏽. He looked
|
2013
|
+
anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then 🙌 himself upon
|
2014
|
+
tiptoe, put his 👄 close to her 👂, and whispered 'She's under
|
2015
|
+
sentence of execution.'
|
2016
|
+
|
2017
|
+
'What for?' said Alice.
|
2018
|
+
|
2019
|
+
'Did you say "What a pity!"?' the 🐇 🙏.
|
2020
|
+
|
2021
|
+
'🙊, I didn't,' said Alice: 'I don't think it's at all a pity. I said
|
2022
|
+
"What for?"'
|
2023
|
+
|
2024
|
+
'She 📤 the 👑's 👯--' the 🐇 began. Alice gave a little
|
2025
|
+
😱 of laughter. 'Oh, hush!' the 🐇 whispered in a frightened
|
2026
|
+
🏽. 'The 👑 will 🙉 you! You 🙈, she came rather late, and the
|
2027
|
+
👑 said--'
|
2028
|
+
|
2029
|
+
'Get to your places!' shouted the 👑 in a voice of ⛈, and
|
2030
|
+
people began 💨 about in all directions, tumbling 🆙 against each
|
2031
|
+
other; however, they got settled 📩 in a minute or 2️⃣, and the 🎲
|
2032
|
+
began. Alice 💭 she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in
|
2033
|
+
her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the 🎱 were live hedgehogs,
|
2034
|
+
the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to ⏪ themselves
|
2035
|
+
🆙 and to stand on their 🖖 and 🐾, to make the arches.
|
2036
|
+
|
2037
|
+
The chief difficulty Alice found at 🥇 was in managing her flamingo:
|
2038
|
+
she succeeded in getting its ☠ tucked away, comfortably enough, under
|
2039
|
+
her arm, with its 🍗 hanging 📩, but generally, just as she had got
|
2040
|
+
its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a
|
2041
|
+
🌬 with its 🗣, it WOULD twist itself round and look 🆙 in her 😡,
|
2042
|
+
with such a puzzled expression that she could 🚯 🆘 bursting out
|
2043
|
+
😂: and when she had got its 🗣 📩, and was going to begin
|
2044
|
+
again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled
|
2045
|
+
itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was
|
2046
|
+
generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the
|
2047
|
+
hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-🆙 soldiers were always getting 🆙
|
2048
|
+
and 🚶 📴 to other 〽 of the ground, Alice 🔜 came to the
|
2049
|
+
conclusion that it was a very difficult 🎲 indeed.
|
2050
|
+
|
2051
|
+
The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling
|
2052
|
+
all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short
|
2053
|
+
time the 👑 was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and
|
2054
|
+
shouting '📴 with his 🗣!' or '📴 with her 🗣!' about once in a
|
2055
|
+
minute.
|
2056
|
+
|
2057
|
+
Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had 🚯 as yet had any
|
2058
|
+
dispute with the 👑, but she knew that it might happen any minute,
|
2059
|
+
'and then,' 💭 she, 'what would become of me? They're dreadfully
|
2060
|
+
fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's any 1️⃣
|
2061
|
+
◀ alive!'
|
2062
|
+
|
2063
|
+
She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she
|
2064
|
+
could get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance
|
2065
|
+
in the air: it puzzled her very much at 🥇, but, after ⌚ it
|
2066
|
+
a minute or 2️⃣, she made it out to be a 😸, and she said to herself
|
2067
|
+
'It's the Cheshire 🐈: now I shall have somebody to talk to.'
|
2068
|
+
|
2069
|
+
'How are you getting on?' said the 🐈, as 🔜 as there was 👄
|
2070
|
+
enough for it to 🗣 with.
|
2071
|
+
|
2072
|
+
Alice waited till the 👀 appeared, and then nodded. 'It's 🙊 🇺🇲
|
2073
|
+
🙊 to it,' she 💭, 'till its 🌽 have come, or at least 1️⃣
|
2074
|
+
of them.' In another minute the whole 🗣 appeared, and then Alice put
|
2075
|
+
📩 her flamingo, and began an account of the 🎲, feeling very glad
|
2076
|
+
she had someone to listen to her. The 🐈 seemed to think that there was
|
2077
|
+
enough of it now in sight, and 🙊 more of it appeared.
|
2078
|
+
|
2079
|
+
'I don't think they ⏯ at all fairly,' Alice began, in rather a
|
2080
|
+
complaining 🏽, 'and they all quarrel so dreadfully 1️⃣ can't 🙉
|
2081
|
+
oneself 🗣--and they don't seem to have any rules in particular;
|
2082
|
+
at least, if there are, nobody attends to them--and you've 🙊 💡 how
|
2083
|
+
confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the
|
2084
|
+
arch I've got to go through next 🚶 about at the other 🔚 of the
|
2085
|
+
ground--and I should have croqueted the 👑's hedgehog just now, only
|
2086
|
+
it ran away when it saw mine coming!'
|
2087
|
+
|
2088
|
+
'How do you like the 👑?' said the 🐈 in a 🔅 voice.
|
2089
|
+
|
2090
|
+
'🚯 at all,' said Alice: 'she's so extremely--' Just then she noticed
|
2091
|
+
that the 👑 was close behind her, listening: so she went on,
|
2092
|
+
'--likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the 🎲.'
|
2093
|
+
|
2094
|
+
The 👑 ☺ and passed on.
|
2095
|
+
|
2096
|
+
'Who ARE you talking to?' said the 👑, going 🆙 to Alice, and looking
|
2097
|
+
at the 🐈's 🗣 with great curiosity.
|
2098
|
+
|
2099
|
+
'It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire 🐈,' said Alice: 'allow me to
|
2100
|
+
introduce it.'
|
2101
|
+
|
2102
|
+
'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the 👑: 'however, it may
|
2103
|
+
💏 my ✌ if it likes.'
|
2104
|
+
|
2105
|
+
'I'd rather 🚯,' the 🐈 remarked.
|
2106
|
+
|
2107
|
+
'Don't be impertinent,' said the 👑, 'and don't look at me like that!'
|
2108
|
+
He got behind Alice as he spoke.
|
2109
|
+
|
2110
|
+
'A 🐈 may look at a 👑,' said Alice. 'I've read that in some 📗,
|
2111
|
+
but I don't remember where.'
|
2112
|
+
|
2113
|
+
'Well, it must be removed,' said the 👑 very decidedly, and he 🤙
|
2114
|
+
the 👑, who was passing at the moment, 'My dear! I wish you would
|
2115
|
+
have this 🐈 removed!'
|
2116
|
+
|
2117
|
+
The 👑 had only 1️⃣ way of settling all difficulties, great or 🦐.
|
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'📴 with his 🗣!' she said, without even looking round.
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+
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'I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the 👑 eagerly, and he
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hurried 📴.
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+
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Alice 💭 she might as well go 🔙, and 🙈 how the 🎲 was going
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on, as she 🇭🇲 the 👑's voice in the distance, 😱 with
|
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passion. She had already 🇭🇲 her sentence 🔊 of the players to be
|
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+
executed for having missed their turns, and she did 🚯 like the look
|
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+
of things at all, as the 🎲 was in such confusion that she never knew
|
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+
whether it was her turn or 🚯. So she went in 🔎 of her hedgehog.
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+
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+
The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed
|
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+
to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting 1️⃣ of them with the
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other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the
|
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other side of the 🏡, where Alice could 🙈 it trying in a helpless
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sort of way to 💸 🆙 into a 🎋.
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+
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By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it 🔙, the fight
|
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was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: 'but it doesn't
|
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+
matter much,' 💭 Alice, 'as all the arches are gone from this side
|
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+
of the ground.' So she tucked it away under her arm, that it might 🚯
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+
escape again, and went 🔙 for a little more conversation with her
|
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+
friend.
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+
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+
When she got 🔙 to the Cheshire 🐈, she was 🙀 to find quite a
|
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+
large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between
|
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+
the executioner, the 👑, and the 👑, who were all talking at once,
|
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+
while all the rest were quite 🔇, and looked very uncomfortable.
|
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+
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The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all 🔊 to settle
|
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+
the ❓, and they 🔁 their arguments to her, though, as they
|
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+
all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly
|
2151
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+
what they said.
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+
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+
The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut 📴 a 🗣 unless
|
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+
there was a ☠ to cut it 📴 from: that he had never had to do such a
|
2155
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+
thing before, and he wasn't going to begin at HIS time of life.
|
2156
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+
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+
The 👑's argument was, that anything that had a 🗣 could be
|
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beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.
|
2159
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+
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2160
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+
The 👑's argument was, that if something wasn't done about it in less
|
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than 🙊 time she'd have everybody executed, all round. (It was this last
|
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+
remark that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.)
|
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+
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+
Alice could think of nothing else to say but 'It belongs to the Duchess:
|
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+
you'd better 🙏 HER about it.'
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+
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+
'She's in prison,' the 👑 said to the executioner: 'fetch her here.'
|
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+
And the executioner went 📴 like an 🔜.
|
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+
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+
The 🐈's 🗣 began fading away the moment he was gone, and,
|
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+
by the time he had come 🔙 with the Duchess, it had entirely
|
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+
disappeared; so the 👑 and the executioner ran wildly 🆙 and 📩
|
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|
+
looking for it, while the rest of the party went 🔙 to the 🎲.
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+
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2175
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+
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2176
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+
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+
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+
CHAPTER IX. The Mock 🐢's Story
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+
|
2180
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+
'You can't think how glad I am to 🙈 you again, you dear 🗝 thing!'
|
2181
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+
said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's, and
|
2182
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+
they 🚶 📴 together.
|
2183
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+
|
2184
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+
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and 💭
|
2185
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+
to herself that perhaps it was only the 🌶 that had made her so
|
2186
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+
savage when they met in the kitchen.
|
2187
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+
|
2188
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+
'When I'M a Duchess,' she said to herself, (🚯 in a very hopeful 🏽
|
2189
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+
though), 'I 😤't have any 🌶 in my kitchen AT ALL. Soup does very
|
2190
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+
well without--Maybe it's always 🌶 that makes people ♨-tempered,'
|
2191
|
+
she went on, very much pleased at having found out a 🇳🇿 kind of
|
2192
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+
rule, 'and vinegar that makes them sour--and camomile that makes
|
2193
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+
them bitter--and--and barley-sugar and such things that make children
|
2194
|
+
🎂-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so
|
2195
|
+
stingy about it, you know--'
|
2196
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+
|
2197
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+
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little
|
2198
|
+
startled when she 🇭🇲 her voice close to her 👂. 'You're thinking
|
2199
|
+
about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't
|
2200
|
+
tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in
|
2201
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+
a bit.'
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+
|
2203
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+
'Perhaps it hasn't 1️⃣,' Alice ventured to remark.
|
2204
|
+
|
2205
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+
'Tut, tut, 🚸!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only
|
2206
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+
you can find it.' And she squeezed herself 🆙 closer to Alice's side as
|
2207
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+
she spoke.
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2208
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+
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+
Alice did 🚯 much like keeping so close to her: 🥇, because the
|
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+
Duchess was VERY ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the
|
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+
⏯ height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an
|
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+
uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did 🚯 like to be rude, so she
|
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+
bore it as well as she could.
|
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+
|
2215
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+
'The 🎲's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of keeping 🆙
|
2216
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+
the conversation a little.
|
2217
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+
|
2218
|
+
''Tis so,' said the Duchess: 'and the moral of that is--"Oh, 'tis 🏩,
|
2219
|
+
'tis 🏩, that makes the 🌏 go round!"'
|
2220
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+
|
2221
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+
'Somebody said,' Alice whispered, 'that it's done by everybody minding
|
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+
their own business!'
|
2223
|
+
|
2224
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+
'Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess, digging her
|
2225
|
+
sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added, 'and the moral
|
2226
|
+
of THAT is--"Take 💅 of the sense, and the sounds will take 💅 of
|
2227
|
+
themselves."'
|
2228
|
+
|
2229
|
+
'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice 💭 to herself.
|
2230
|
+
|
2231
|
+
'I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your waist,'
|
2232
|
+
the Duchess said after a ⏸: 'the reason is, that I'm 🤷 about
|
2233
|
+
the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?'
|
2234
|
+
|
2235
|
+
'HE might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, 🚯 feeling at all anxious to
|
2236
|
+
have the experiment tried.
|
2237
|
+
|
2238
|
+
'Very true,' said the Duchess: 'flamingoes and mustard both bite. And
|
2239
|
+
the moral of that is--"🦆 of a feather flock together."'
|
2240
|
+
|
2241
|
+
'Only mustard isn't a 🐦,' Alice remarked.
|
2242
|
+
|
2243
|
+
'⏯, as usual,' said the Duchess: 'what a clear way you have of
|
2244
|
+
putting things!'
|
2245
|
+
|
2246
|
+
'It's a mineral, I THINK,' said Alice.
|
2247
|
+
|
2248
|
+
'Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to
|
2249
|
+
everything that Alice said; 'there's a large mustard-mine near here. And
|
2250
|
+
the moral of that is--"The more there is of mine, the less there is of
|
2251
|
+
yours."'
|
2252
|
+
|
2253
|
+
'Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had 🚯 attended to this last remark,
|
2254
|
+
'it's a 🥒. It doesn't look like 1️⃣, but it is.'
|
2255
|
+
|
2256
|
+
'I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; 'and the moral of that
|
2257
|
+
is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put more
|
2258
|
+
simply--"Never imagine yourself 🚯 to be otherwise than what it might
|
2259
|
+
appear to others that what you were or might have been was 🚯 otherwise
|
2260
|
+
than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."'
|
2261
|
+
|
2262
|
+
'I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very politely, 'if
|
2263
|
+
I had it written 📩: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.'
|
2264
|
+
|
2265
|
+
'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied, in
|
2266
|
+
a pleased 🏽.
|
2267
|
+
|
2268
|
+
'Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,' said
|
2269
|
+
Alice.
|
2270
|
+
|
2271
|
+
'Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. 'I make you a 🎁
|
2272
|
+
of everything I've said as yet.'
|
2273
|
+
|
2274
|
+
'A cheap sort of 🎁!' 💭 Alice. 'I'm glad they don't give
|
2275
|
+
birthday 🎁 like that!' But she did 🚯 venture to say it out
|
2276
|
+
📢.
|
2277
|
+
|
2278
|
+
'Thinking again?' the Duchess 🙏, with another dig of her sharp
|
2279
|
+
little chin.
|
2280
|
+
|
2281
|
+
'I've a ⏯ to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to
|
2282
|
+
feel a little worried.
|
2283
|
+
|
2284
|
+
'Just about as much ⏯,' said the Duchess, 'as 🐗 have to 💸; and
|
2285
|
+
the m--'
|
2286
|
+
|
2287
|
+
But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died away, even
|
2288
|
+
in the middle of her favourite word 'moral,' and the arm that was 🖇
|
2289
|
+
into hers began to tremble. Alice looked 🆙, and there stood the 👑
|
2290
|
+
in front of them, with her arms folded, 🙍 like a thunderstorm.
|
2291
|
+
|
2292
|
+
'A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a 🔅, weak voice.
|
2293
|
+
|
2294
|
+
'Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the 👑, stamping on the
|
2295
|
+
ground as she spoke; 'either you or your 🗣 must be 📴, and that in
|
2296
|
+
about half 🙊 time! Take your choice!'
|
2297
|
+
|
2298
|
+
The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.
|
2299
|
+
|
2300
|
+
'Let's go on with the 🎲,' the 👑 said to Alice; and Alice was
|
2301
|
+
too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her 🔙 to the
|
2302
|
+
croquet-ground.
|
2303
|
+
|
2304
|
+
The other guests had taken advantage of the 👑's absence, and were
|
2305
|
+
resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried
|
2306
|
+
🔙 to the 🎲, the 👑 merely remarking that a moment's delay would
|
2307
|
+
cost them their lives.
|
2308
|
+
|
2309
|
+
All the time they were 🎴 the 👑 never ◀ 📴 quarrelling with
|
2310
|
+
the other players, and shouting '📴 with his 🗣!' or '📴 with her
|
2311
|
+
🗣!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers,
|
2312
|
+
who of course had to leave 📴 being arches to do this, so that by
|
2313
|
+
the 🔚 of half an hour or so there were 🙊 arches ◀, and all the
|
2314
|
+
players, except the 👑, the 👑, and Alice, were in custody and
|
2315
|
+
under sentence of execution.
|
2316
|
+
|
2317
|
+
Then the 👑 ◀ 📴, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, 'Have
|
2318
|
+
you seen the Mock 🐢 yet?'
|
2319
|
+
|
2320
|
+
'🙊,' said Alice. 'I don't even know what a Mock 🐢 is.'
|
2321
|
+
|
2322
|
+
'It's the thing Mock 🐢 Soup is made from,' said the 👑.
|
2323
|
+
|
2324
|
+
'I never saw 1️⃣, or 🇭🇲 of 1️⃣,' said Alice.
|
2325
|
+
|
2326
|
+
'Come on, then,' said the 👑, 'and he shall tell you his history,'
|
2327
|
+
|
2328
|
+
As they 🚶 📴 together, Alice 🇭🇲 the 👑 say in a 🔅 voice,
|
2329
|
+
to the company generally, 'You are all pardoned.' 'Come, THAT'S a good
|
2330
|
+
thing!' she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the
|
2331
|
+
number of executions the 👑 had ordered.
|
2332
|
+
|
2333
|
+
They very 🔜 came upon a Gryphon, lying ⏩ asleep in the 🌇.
|
2334
|
+
(IF you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) '🆙, lazy
|
2335
|
+
thing!' said the 👑, 'and take this 🌱 lady to 🙈 the Mock
|
2336
|
+
🐢, and to 🙉 his history. I must go 🔙 and 🙈 after some
|
2337
|
+
executions I have ordered'; and she 🚶 📴, leaving Alice alone with
|
2338
|
+
the Gryphon. Alice did 🚯 quite like the look of the 👺, but on
|
2339
|
+
the whole she 💭 it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go
|
2340
|
+
after that savage 👑: so she waited.
|
2341
|
+
|
2342
|
+
The Gryphon sat 🆙 and rubbed its 👀: then it ⌚ the 👑 till
|
2343
|
+
she was out of sight: then it chuckled. 'What fun!' said the Gryphon,
|
2344
|
+
half to itself, half to Alice.
|
2345
|
+
|
2346
|
+
'What IS the fun?' said Alice.
|
2347
|
+
|
2348
|
+
'Why, SHE,' said the Gryphon. 'It's all her fancy, that: they never
|
2349
|
+
executes nobody, you know. Come on!'
|
2350
|
+
|
2351
|
+
'Everybody says "come on!" here,' 💭 Alice, as she went slowly
|
2352
|
+
after it: 'I never was so ordered about in all my life, never!'
|
2353
|
+
|
2354
|
+
They had 🚯 gone far before they saw the Mock 🐢 in the distance,
|
2355
|
+
sitting 😿 and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came
|
2356
|
+
nearer, Alice could 🙉 him sighing as if his 💔 would 💔. She
|
2357
|
+
pitied him deeply. 'What is his sorrow?' she 🙏 the Gryphon, and the
|
2358
|
+
Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same words as before, 'It's all his
|
2359
|
+
fancy, that: he hasn't got 🙊 sorrow, you know. Come on!'
|
2360
|
+
|
2361
|
+
So they went 🆙 to the Mock 🐢, who looked at them with large 👀
|
2362
|
+
🌝 of 😹, but said nothing.
|
2363
|
+
|
2364
|
+
'This here 🌱 lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants for to know your
|
2365
|
+
history, she do.'
|
2366
|
+
|
2367
|
+
'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock 🐢 in a deep, hollow 🏽: 'sit
|
2368
|
+
📩, both of you, and don't 🗣 a word till I've finished.'
|
2369
|
+
|
2370
|
+
So they sat 📩, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice 💭 to
|
2371
|
+
herself, 'I don't 🙈 how he can EVEN finish, if he doesn't begin.' But
|
2372
|
+
she waited patiently.
|
2373
|
+
|
2374
|
+
'🔂,' said the Mock 🐢 at last, with a deep sigh, 'I was a real
|
2375
|
+
🐢.'
|
2376
|
+
|
2377
|
+
These words were followed by a very long silence, 💔 only by an
|
2378
|
+
occasional ❕ of 'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and the constant
|
2379
|
+
heavy 😭 of the Mock 🐢. Alice was very nearly getting 🆙 and
|
2380
|
+
saying, 'Thank you, sir, for your interesting story,' but she could
|
2381
|
+
🚯 🆘 thinking there MUST be more to come, so she sat still and said
|
2382
|
+
nothing.
|
2383
|
+
|
2384
|
+
'When we were little,' the Mock 🐢 went on at last, more calmly,
|
2385
|
+
though still 😭 a little now and then, 'we went to 🏫 in the
|
2386
|
+
⛵. The master was an 🗝 🐢--we 🇺🇲 to 📲 him Tortoise--'
|
2387
|
+
|
2388
|
+
'Why did you 📲 him Tortoise, if he wasn't 1️⃣?' Alice 🙏.
|
2389
|
+
|
2390
|
+
'We 📲 him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock 🐢
|
2391
|
+
angrily: 'really you are very dull!'
|
2392
|
+
|
2393
|
+
'You ought to be ashamed of yourself for 🙏 such a simple ❓,'
|
2394
|
+
added the Gryphon; and then they both sat 🔇 and looked at poor
|
2395
|
+
Alice, who felt ready to sink into the 🌐. At last the Gryphon said
|
2396
|
+
to the Mock 🐢, 'Drive on, 🗝 fellow! Don't be all day about it!'
|
2397
|
+
and he went on in these words:
|
2398
|
+
|
2399
|
+
'Yes, we went to 🏫 in the ⛵, though you mayn't believe it--'
|
2400
|
+
|
2401
|
+
'I never said I didn't!' interrupted Alice.
|
2402
|
+
|
2403
|
+
'You did,' said the Mock 🐢.
|
2404
|
+
|
2405
|
+
'👬 your 👅!' added the Gryphon, before Alice could 🗣 again.
|
2406
|
+
The Mock 🐢 went on.
|
2407
|
+
|
2408
|
+
'We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to 🏫 every day--'
|
2409
|
+
|
2410
|
+
'I'VE been to a day-🏫, too,' said Alice; 'you needn't be so proud
|
2411
|
+
as all that.'
|
2412
|
+
|
2413
|
+
'With extras?' 🙏 the Mock 🐢 a little anxiously.
|
2414
|
+
|
2415
|
+
'Yes,' said Alice, 'we learned 🇲🇫 and 🎶.'
|
2416
|
+
|
2417
|
+
'And washing?' said the Mock 🐢.
|
2418
|
+
|
2419
|
+
'Certainly 🚯!' said Alice indignantly.
|
2420
|
+
|
2421
|
+
'Ah! then yours wasn't a really good 🏫,' said the Mock 🐢 in
|
2422
|
+
a 🏽 of great relief. 'Now at OURS they had at the 🔚 of the 💶,
|
2423
|
+
"🇲🇫, 🎶, AND WASHING--extra."'
|
2424
|
+
|
2425
|
+
'You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice; 'living at the bottom of
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+
the ⛵.'
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2427
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+
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2428
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+
'I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock 🐢 with a sigh. 'I
|
2429
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+
only took the regular course.'
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2430
|
+
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2431
|
+
'What was that?' inquired Alice.
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2432
|
+
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2433
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+
'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock 🐢
|
2434
|
+
replied; 'and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
|
2435
|
+
Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'
|
2436
|
+
|
2437
|
+
'I never 🇭🇲 of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to say. 'What is it?'
|
2438
|
+
|
2439
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+
The Gryphon lifted 🆙 both its 🐾 in surprise. 'What! Never 🇭🇲 of
|
2440
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+
uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is, I suppose?'
|
2441
|
+
|
2442
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+
'Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: 'it means--to--make--anything--prettier.'
|
2443
|
+
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2444
|
+
'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to uglify is,
|
2445
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+
you ARE a simpleton.'
|
2446
|
+
|
2447
|
+
Alice did 🚯 feel encouraged to 🙏 any more ⁉ about it, so she
|
2448
|
+
turned to the Mock 🐢, and said 'What else had you to learn?'
|
2449
|
+
|
2450
|
+
'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock 🐢 replied, counting 📴
|
2451
|
+
the subjects on his flappers, '--Mystery, ancient and modern, with
|
2452
|
+
Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an 🗝 conger-eel,
|
2453
|
+
that 🇻🇮 to come once a week: HE taught us Drawling, Stretching, and
|
2454
|
+
Fainting in Coils.'
|
2455
|
+
|
2456
|
+
'What was THAT like?' said Alice.
|
2457
|
+
|
2458
|
+
'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock 🐢 said: 'I'm too
|
2459
|
+
stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'
|
2460
|
+
|
2461
|
+
'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: 'I went to the Classics master, though.
|
2462
|
+
He was an 🗝 🦀, HE was.'
|
2463
|
+
|
2464
|
+
'I never went to him,' the Mock 🐢 said with a sigh: 'he taught
|
2465
|
+
🤣 and Grief, they 🇺🇲 to say.'
|
2466
|
+
|
2467
|
+
'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both
|
2468
|
+
creatures hid their 😅 in their 🐾.
|
2469
|
+
|
2470
|
+
'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to
|
2471
|
+
change the subject.
|
2472
|
+
|
2473
|
+
'🔟 hours the 🥇 day,' said the Mock 🐢: '🕤 the next, and so
|
2474
|
+
on.'
|
2475
|
+
|
2476
|
+
'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
|
2477
|
+
|
2478
|
+
'That's the reason they're 🤙 lessons,' the Gryphon remarked:
|
2479
|
+
'because they lessen from day to day.'
|
2480
|
+
|
2481
|
+
This was quite a 🇳🇿 💡 to Alice, and she 💭 it over a little
|
2482
|
+
before she made her next remark. 'Then the eleventh day must have been a
|
2483
|
+
holiday?'
|
2484
|
+
|
2485
|
+
'Of course it was,' said the Mock 🐢.
|
2486
|
+
|
2487
|
+
'And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice went on eagerly.
|
2488
|
+
|
2489
|
+
'That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided
|
2490
|
+
🏽: 'tell her something about the 🀄 now.'
|
2491
|
+
|
2492
|
+
|
2493
|
+
|
2494
|
+
|
2495
|
+
CHAPTER ❌. The Lobster Quadrille
|
2496
|
+
|
2497
|
+
The Mock 🐢 sighed deeply, and drew the 🔙 of 1️⃣ flapper across
|
2498
|
+
his 👀. He looked at Alice, and tried to 🗣, but for a minute or
|
2499
|
+
2️⃣ 😭 choked his voice. 'Same as if he had a 🍗 in his throat,'
|
2500
|
+
said the Gryphon: and it 📐 to work 🤝 him and 👊 him in
|
2501
|
+
the 🔙. At last the Mock 🐢 recovered his voice, and, with 😹
|
2502
|
+
💨 📩 his cheeks, he went on again:--
|
2503
|
+
|
2504
|
+
'You may 🚯 have lived much under the ⛵--' ('I haven't,' said
|
2505
|
+
Alice)--'and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster--'
|
2506
|
+
(Alice began to say 'I once tasted--' but ✔ herself hastily, and
|
2507
|
+
said '🙊, never') '--so you can have 🙊 💡 what a delightful thing a
|
2508
|
+
Lobster Quadrille is!'
|
2509
|
+
|
2510
|
+
'🙊, indeed,' said Alice. 'What sort of a dance is it?'
|
2511
|
+
|
2512
|
+
'Why,' said the Gryphon, 'you 🥇 form into a line along the
|
2513
|
+
⛵-shore--'
|
2514
|
+
|
2515
|
+
'2️⃣ lines!' cried the Mock 🐢. 'Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on;
|
2516
|
+
then, when you've cleared all the jelly-🐟 out of the way--'
|
2517
|
+
|
2518
|
+
'THAT generally takes some time,' interrupted the Gryphon.
|
2519
|
+
|
2520
|
+
'--you advance twice--'
|
2521
|
+
|
2522
|
+
'Each with a lobster as a partner!' cried the Gryphon.
|
2523
|
+
|
2524
|
+
'Of course,' the Mock 🐢 said: 'advance twice, 📐 to partners--'
|
2525
|
+
|
2526
|
+
'--change lobsters, and retire in same order,' continued the Gryphon.
|
2527
|
+
|
2528
|
+
'Then, you know,' the Mock 🐢 went on, 'you throw the--'
|
2529
|
+
|
2530
|
+
'The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air.
|
2531
|
+
|
2532
|
+
'--as far out to ⛵ as you can--'
|
2533
|
+
|
2534
|
+
'🏊 after them!' 😱 the Gryphon.
|
2535
|
+
|
2536
|
+
'Turn a somersault in the ⛵!' cried the Mock 🐢, capering wildly
|
2537
|
+
about.
|
2538
|
+
|
2539
|
+
'Change lobsters again!' yelled the Gryphon at the 🔝 of its voice.
|
2540
|
+
|
2541
|
+
'🔙 to land again, and that's all the 🥇 figure,' said the Mock
|
2542
|
+
🐢, suddenly 💧 his voice; and the 2️⃣ creatures, who had been
|
2543
|
+
jumping about like 😠 things all this time, sat 📩 again very sadly
|
2544
|
+
and quietly, and looked at Alice.
|
2545
|
+
|
2546
|
+
'It must be a very pretty dance,' said Alice timidly.
|
2547
|
+
|
2548
|
+
'Would you like to 🙈 a little of it?' said the Mock 🐢.
|
2549
|
+
|
2550
|
+
'Very much indeed,' said Alice.
|
2551
|
+
|
2552
|
+
'Come, let's try the 🥇 figure!' said the Mock 🐢 to the Gryphon.
|
2553
|
+
'We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall sing?'
|
2554
|
+
|
2555
|
+
'Oh, YOU sing,' said the Gryphon. 'I've forgotten the words.'
|
2556
|
+
|
2557
|
+
So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and
|
2558
|
+
then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and 🏴 their
|
2559
|
+
forepaws to ❗ the time, while the Mock 🐢 sang this, very slowly
|
2560
|
+
and sadly:--
|
2561
|
+
|
2562
|
+
'"Will you 🚶 a little faster?" said a whiting to a 🐌.
|
2563
|
+
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.
|
2564
|
+
|
2565
|
+
🙈 how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
|
2566
|
+
They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?
|
2567
|
+
|
2568
|
+
Will you, 😤't you, will you, 😤't you, will you join the dance?
|
2569
|
+
Will you, 😤't you, will you, 😤't you, 😤't you join the dance?
|
2570
|
+
|
2571
|
+
"You can really have 🙊 notion how delightful it will be
|
2572
|
+
When they take us 🆙 and throw us, with the lobsters, out to ⛵!"
|
2573
|
+
But the 🐌 replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a look askance--
|
2574
|
+
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would 🚯 join the dance.
|
2575
|
+
|
2576
|
+
Would 🚯, could 🚯, would 🚯, could 🚯, would 🚯 join the dance.
|
2577
|
+
Would 🚯, could 🚯, would 🚯, could 🚯, could 🚯 join the dance.
|
2578
|
+
|
2579
|
+
'"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied.
|
2580
|
+
"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
|
2581
|
+
The further 📴 from 🇬🇧 the nearer is to France--
|
2582
|
+
Then turn 🚯 pale, beloved 🐌, but come and join the dance.
|
2583
|
+
|
2584
|
+
Will you, 😤't you, will you, 😤't you, will you join the dance?
|
2585
|
+
Will you, 😤't you, will you, 😤't you, 😤't you join the dance?"'
|
2586
|
+
|
2587
|
+
'Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to ⌚,' said Alice, feeling
|
2588
|
+
very glad that it was over at last: 'and I do so like that curious song
|
2589
|
+
about the whiting!'
|
2590
|
+
|
2591
|
+
'Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock 🐢, 'they--you've seen them,
|
2592
|
+
of course?'
|
2593
|
+
|
2594
|
+
'Yes,' said Alice, 'I've often seen them at dinn--' she ☑ herself
|
2595
|
+
hastily.
|
2596
|
+
|
2597
|
+
'I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock 🐢, 'but if you've
|
2598
|
+
seen them so often, of course you know what they're like.'
|
2599
|
+
|
2600
|
+
'I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. 'They have their tails in
|
2601
|
+
their 😺--and they're all over crumbs.'
|
2602
|
+
|
2603
|
+
'You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock 🐢: 'crumbs would all
|
2604
|
+
wash 📴 in the ⛵. But they HAVE their tails in their 😶; and the
|
2605
|
+
reason is--' here the Mock 🐢 yawned and shut his 👀.--'Tell her
|
2606
|
+
about the reason and all that,' he said to the Gryphon.
|
2607
|
+
|
2608
|
+
'The reason is,' said the Gryphon, 'that they WOULD go with the lobsters
|
2609
|
+
to the dance. So they got thrown out to ⛵. So they had to fall a long
|
2610
|
+
way. So they got their tails ⏩ in their 😰. So they couldn't get
|
2611
|
+
them out again. That's all.'
|
2612
|
+
|
2613
|
+
'Thank you,' said Alice, 'it's very interesting. I never knew so much
|
2614
|
+
about a whiting before.'
|
2615
|
+
|
2616
|
+
'I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the Gryphon. 'Do you
|
2617
|
+
know why it's 🤙 a whiting?'
|
2618
|
+
|
2619
|
+
'I never 💭 about it,' said Alice. 'Why?'
|
2620
|
+
|
2621
|
+
'IT DOES THE BOOTS AND SHOES.' the Gryphon replied very solemnly.
|
2622
|
+
|
2623
|
+
Alice was thoroughly puzzled. 'Does the 👢 and 👞!' she 🔁
|
2624
|
+
in a wondering 🏽.
|
2625
|
+
|
2626
|
+
'Why, what are YOUR 👡 done with?' said the Gryphon. 'I mean, what
|
2627
|
+
makes them so shiny?'
|
2628
|
+
|
2629
|
+
Alice looked 📩 at them, and considered a little before she gave her
|
2630
|
+
answer. 'They're done with 🖤, I believe.'
|
2631
|
+
|
2632
|
+
'👢 and 👢 under the ⛵,' the Gryphon went on in a deep voice,
|
2633
|
+
'are done with a whiting. Now you know.'
|
2634
|
+
|
2635
|
+
'And what are they made of?' Alice 🙏 in a 🏽 of great curiosity.
|
2636
|
+
|
2637
|
+
'Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather impatiently:
|
2638
|
+
'any 🦐 could have told you that.'
|
2639
|
+
|
2640
|
+
'If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose 💭 were still 💨
|
2641
|
+
on the song, 'I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep 🔙, please: we
|
2642
|
+
don't want YOU with us!"'
|
2643
|
+
|
2644
|
+
'They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock 🐢 said: '🙊
|
2645
|
+
🦉 🐟 would go anywhere without a porpoise.'
|
2646
|
+
|
2647
|
+
'Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a 🏽 of great surprise.
|
2648
|
+
|
2649
|
+
'Of course 🚯,' said the Mock 🐢: 'why, if a 🐟 came to ME, and
|
2650
|
+
told me he was going a journey, I should say "With what porpoise?"'
|
2651
|
+
|
2652
|
+
'Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.
|
2653
|
+
|
2654
|
+
'I mean what I say,' the Mock 🐢 replied in an offended 🏽. And
|
2655
|
+
the Gryphon added 'Come, let's 🙉 some of YOUR adventures.'
|
2656
|
+
|
2657
|
+
'I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this 🌅,' said
|
2658
|
+
Alice a little timidly: 'but it's 🙊 🇻🇮 going 🔙 to yesterday,
|
2659
|
+
because I was a different person then.'
|
2660
|
+
|
2661
|
+
'Explain all that,' said the Mock 🐢.
|
2662
|
+
|
2663
|
+
'🙊, 🙊! The adventures 🥇,' said the Gryphon in an impatient 🏽:
|
2664
|
+
'explanations take such a dreadful time.'
|
2665
|
+
|
2666
|
+
So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she 🥇
|
2667
|
+
saw the White 🐇. She was a little nervous about it just at 🥇,
|
2668
|
+
the 2️⃣ creatures got so close to her, 1️⃣ on each side, and 📖
|
2669
|
+
their 👀 and 😦 so VERY wide, but she gained courage as she went
|
2670
|
+
on. Her listeners were perfectly 🔇 till she got to the 〽 about
|
2671
|
+
her 🔁 'YOU ARE 🗝, 👪 WILLIAM,' to the Caterpillar, and the
|
2672
|
+
words all coming different, and then the Mock 🐢 drew a long breath,
|
2673
|
+
and said 'That's very curious.'
|
2674
|
+
|
2675
|
+
'It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the Gryphon.
|
2676
|
+
|
2677
|
+
'It all came different!' the Mock 🐢 🔁 thoughtfully. 'I
|
2678
|
+
should like to 🙉 her try and 🔁 something now. Tell her to
|
2679
|
+
begin.' He looked at the Gryphon as if he 💭 it had some kind of
|
2680
|
+
authority over Alice.
|
2681
|
+
|
2682
|
+
'Stand 🆙 and 🔁 "'TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,"' said the
|
2683
|
+
Gryphon.
|
2684
|
+
|
2685
|
+
'How the creatures order 1️⃣ about, and make 1️⃣ 🔁 lessons!'
|
2686
|
+
💭 Alice; 'I might as well be at 🏫 at once.' However, she
|
2687
|
+
got 🆙, and began to 🔁 it, but her 🗣 was so 🌝 of the Lobster
|
2688
|
+
Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came
|
2689
|
+
very queer indeed:--
|
2690
|
+
|
2691
|
+
''Tis the voice of the Lobster; I 🇭🇲 him declare,
|
2692
|
+
"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
|
2693
|
+
As a 🦆 with its eyelids, so he with his 👃
|
2694
|
+
Trims his belt and his 🔽, and turns out his toes.'
|
2695
|
+
|
2696
|
+
[later editions continued as follows
|
2697
|
+
When the ⌛ are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
|
2698
|
+
And will talk in contemptuous 🏿 of the 🦈,
|
2699
|
+
But, when the tide 💹 and 🦈 are around,
|
2700
|
+
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.]
|
2701
|
+
|
2702
|
+
'That's different from what I 🇻🇮 to say when I was a 🚸,' said the
|
2703
|
+
Gryphon.
|
2704
|
+
|
2705
|
+
'Well, I never 🇭🇲 it before,' said the Mock 🐢; 'but it sounds
|
2706
|
+
uncommon nonsense.'
|
2707
|
+
|
2708
|
+
Alice said nothing; she had sat 📩 with her 😡 in her 👬,
|
2709
|
+
wondering if anything would EVER happen in a natural way again.
|
2710
|
+
|
2711
|
+
'I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock 🐢.
|
2712
|
+
|
2713
|
+
'She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on with the next
|
2714
|
+
verse.'
|
2715
|
+
|
2716
|
+
'But about his toes?' the Mock 🐢 persisted. 'How COULD he turn them
|
2717
|
+
out with his 👃, you know?'
|
2718
|
+
|
2719
|
+
'It's the 🥇 position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully
|
2720
|
+
puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject.
|
2721
|
+
|
2722
|
+
'Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon 🔁 impatiently: 'it
|
2723
|
+
begins "I passed by his 🏡."'
|
2724
|
+
|
2725
|
+
Alice did 🚯 dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come
|
2726
|
+
wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:--
|
2727
|
+
|
2728
|
+
'I passed by his 🏡, and 💋, with 1️⃣ 👁,
|
2729
|
+
How the 🦉 and the Panther were sharing a pie--'
|
2730
|
+
|
2731
|
+
[later editions continued as follows
|
2732
|
+
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and 🥓,
|
2733
|
+
While the 🦉 had the 📡 as its share of the treat.
|
2734
|
+
When the pie was all finished, the 🦉, as a boon,
|
2735
|
+
Was kindly permitted to pocket the 🥄:
|
2736
|
+
While the Panther received 🗡 and 🍴 with a growl,
|
2737
|
+
And concluded the banquet--]
|
2738
|
+
|
2739
|
+
'What IS the 🇻🇮 of 🔁 all that stuff,' the Mock 🐢
|
2740
|
+
interrupted, 'if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far the most
|
2741
|
+
confusing thing I ever 🇭🇲!'
|
2742
|
+
|
2743
|
+
'Yes, I think you'd better leave 📴,' said the Gryphon: and Alice was
|
2744
|
+
only too glad to do so.
|
2745
|
+
|
2746
|
+
'Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the Gryphon went
|
2747
|
+
on. 'Or would you like the Mock 🐢 to sing you a song?'
|
2748
|
+
|
2749
|
+
'Oh, a song, please, if the Mock 🐢 would be so kind,' Alice
|
2750
|
+
replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended 🏽,
|
2751
|
+
'Hm! 🙊 accounting for tastes! Sing her "🐢 Soup," will you, 🗝
|
2752
|
+
fellow?'
|
2753
|
+
|
2754
|
+
The Mock 🐢 sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked
|
2755
|
+
with 😭, to sing this:--
|
2756
|
+
|
2757
|
+
'Beautiful Soup, so rich and 🍏,
|
2758
|
+
Waiting in a ♨ tureen!
|
2759
|
+
Who for such dainties would 🚯 stoop?
|
2760
|
+
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
|
2761
|
+
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
|
2762
|
+
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
|
2763
|
+
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
|
2764
|
+
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
|
2765
|
+
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
|
2766
|
+
|
2767
|
+
'Beautiful Soup! Who 💅 for 🐟,
|
2768
|
+
🎲, or any other 📡?
|
2769
|
+
Who would 🚯 give all else for 2️⃣
|
2770
|
+
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
|
2771
|
+
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
|
2772
|
+
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
|
2773
|
+
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
|
2774
|
+
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
|
2775
|
+
Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!'
|
2776
|
+
|
2777
|
+
'Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock 🐢 had just begun
|
2778
|
+
to 🔁 it, when a 😿 of 'The trial's beginning!' was 🇭🇲 in the
|
2779
|
+
distance.
|
2780
|
+
|
2781
|
+
'Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the ✌, it hurried
|
2782
|
+
📴, without waiting for the 🔚 of the song.
|
2783
|
+
|
2784
|
+
'What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only
|
2785
|
+
answered 'Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more faintly
|
2786
|
+
came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:--
|
2787
|
+
|
2788
|
+
'Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
|
2789
|
+
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!'
|
2790
|
+
|
2791
|
+
|
2792
|
+
|
2793
|
+
|
2794
|
+
CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts?
|
2795
|
+
|
2796
|
+
The 👑 and 👑 of 💌 were 💺 on their throne when they
|
2797
|
+
arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts of little
|
2798
|
+
🐦 and beasts, as well as the whole pack of ♣: the Knave was
|
2799
|
+
standing before them, in ⛓, with a soldier on each side to 💂
|
2800
|
+
him; and near the 👑 was the White 🐇, with a 🎺 in 1️⃣ ✌,
|
2801
|
+
and a 📜 of parchment in the other. In the very middle of the court
|
2802
|
+
was a table, with a large 📡 of tarts upon it: they looked so good,
|
2803
|
+
that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them--'I wish they'd get the
|
2804
|
+
trial done,' she 💭, 'and ✌ round the refreshments!' But there
|
2805
|
+
seemed to be 🙊 chance of this, so she began looking at everything about
|
2806
|
+
her, to pass away the time.
|
2807
|
+
|
2808
|
+
Alice had never been in a court of ♎ before, but she had read
|
2809
|
+
about them in 📚, and she was quite pleased to find that she knew
|
2810
|
+
the Brow. of nearly everything there. 'That's the judge,' she said to
|
2811
|
+
herself, 'because of his great wig.'
|
2812
|
+
|
2813
|
+
The judge, by the way, was the 👑; and as he wore his 👑 over the
|
2814
|
+
wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to 🙈 how he did it,) he did
|
2815
|
+
🚯 look at all comfortable, and it was certainly 🚯 becoming.
|
2816
|
+
|
2817
|
+
'And that's the jury-🗳,' 💭 Alice, 'and those 🕧 creatures,'
|
2818
|
+
(she was obliged to say 'creatures,' you 🙈, because some of them were
|
2819
|
+
animals, and some were 🐦,) 'I suppose they are the jurors.' She said
|
2820
|
+
this last word 2️⃣ or 🔊 times over to herself, being rather proud of
|
2821
|
+
it: for she 💭, and rightly too, that very few little 👨👩👧👦 of her
|
2822
|
+
age knew the meaning of it at all. However, 'jury-men' would have done
|
2823
|
+
just as well.
|
2824
|
+
|
2825
|
+
The 🕧 jurors were all ✍ very busily on slates. 'What are they
|
2826
|
+
doing?' Alice whispered to the Gryphon. 'They can't have anything to put
|
2827
|
+
📩 yet, before the trial's begun.'
|
2828
|
+
|
2829
|
+
'They're putting 📩 their 📛,' the Gryphon whispered in reply, 'for
|
2830
|
+
😱 they should forget them before the 🔚 of the trial.'
|
2831
|
+
|
2832
|
+
'Stupid things!' Alice began in a 📢, indignant voice, but she ⏹
|
2833
|
+
hastily, for the White 🐇 cried out, 'Silence in the court!' and the
|
2834
|
+
👑 put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who
|
2835
|
+
was talking.
|
2836
|
+
|
2837
|
+
Alice could 🙈, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders,
|
2838
|
+
that all the jurors were ✍ 📩 'stupid things!' on their slates,
|
2839
|
+
and she could even make out that 1️⃣ of them didn't know how to spell
|
2840
|
+
'stupid,' and that he had to 🙏 his neighbour to tell him. 'A nice
|
2841
|
+
muddle their slates'll be in before the trial's over!' 💭 Alice.
|
2842
|
+
|
2843
|
+
1️⃣ of the jurors had a ✏ that squeaked. This of course, Alice
|
2844
|
+
could 🚯 stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and
|
2845
|
+
very 🔜 found an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so quickly
|
2846
|
+
that the poor little juror (it was 💶, the 🦎) could 🚯 make out
|
2847
|
+
at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was
|
2848
|
+
obliged to ✍ with 1️⃣ 🤘 for the rest of the day; and this was
|
2849
|
+
of very little 🇺🇲, as it ◀ 🙊 ❗ on the slate.
|
2850
|
+
|
2851
|
+
'Herald, read the accusation!' said the 👑.
|
2852
|
+
|
2853
|
+
On this the White 🐇 blew 🔊 blasts on the 🎺, and then
|
2854
|
+
unrolled the parchment 📜, and read as follows:--
|
2855
|
+
|
2856
|
+
'The 👑 of 💗, she made some tarts,
|
2857
|
+
All on a summer day:
|
2858
|
+
The Knave of ♥, he stole those tarts,
|
2859
|
+
And took them quite away!'
|
2860
|
+
|
2861
|
+
'Consider your verdict,' the 👑 said to the jury.
|
2862
|
+
|
2863
|
+
'🚯 yet, 🚯 yet!' the 🐇 hastily interrupted. 'There's a great
|
2864
|
+
deal to come before that!'
|
2865
|
+
|
2866
|
+
'📲 the 🥇 witness,' said the 👑; and the White 🐇 blew 🔊
|
2867
|
+
blasts on the 🎺, and 📲 out, '🥇 witness!'
|
2868
|
+
|
2869
|
+
The 🥇 witness was the Hatter. He came in with a 🍵 in 1️⃣
|
2870
|
+
✌ and a piece of 🍞-and-butter in the other. 'I beg pardon, your
|
2871
|
+
Majesty,' he began, 'for bringing these in: but I hadn't quite finished
|
2872
|
+
my 🍵 when I was 📤 for.'
|
2873
|
+
|
2874
|
+
'You ought to have finished,' said the 👑. 'When did you begin?'
|
2875
|
+
|
2876
|
+
The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into the
|
2877
|
+
court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. 'Fourteenth of March, I think it
|
2878
|
+
was,' he said.
|
2879
|
+
|
2880
|
+
'Fifteenth,' said the March Hare.
|
2881
|
+
|
2882
|
+
'Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse.
|
2883
|
+
|
2884
|
+
'✍ that 📩,' the 👑 said to the jury, and the jury eagerly
|
2885
|
+
wrote 📩 all 🔊 📅 on their slates, and then added them 🆙, and
|
2886
|
+
reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
|
2887
|
+
|
2888
|
+
'Take 📴 your 👷,' the 👑 said to the Hatter.
|
2889
|
+
|
2890
|
+
'It isn't mine,' said the Hatter.
|
2891
|
+
|
2892
|
+
'Stolen!' the 👑 exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a
|
2893
|
+
memorandum of the fact.
|
2894
|
+
|
2895
|
+
'I keep them to sell,' the Hatter added as an explanation; 'I've none of
|
2896
|
+
my own. I'm a hatter.'
|
2897
|
+
|
2898
|
+
Here the 👑 put on her spectacles, and began staring at the Hatter,
|
2899
|
+
who turned pale and fidgeted.
|
2900
|
+
|
2901
|
+
'Give your evidence,' said the 👑; 'and don't be nervous, or I'll have
|
2902
|
+
you executed on the spot.'
|
2903
|
+
|
2904
|
+
This did 🚯 seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting
|
2905
|
+
from 1️⃣ foot to the other, looking uneasily at the 👑, and in
|
2906
|
+
his confusion he bit a large piece out of his 🍵 instead of the
|
2907
|
+
🍞-and-butter.
|
2908
|
+
|
2909
|
+
Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which puzzled
|
2910
|
+
her a good deal until she made out what it was: she was beginning to
|
2911
|
+
grow larger again, and she 💭 at 🥇 she would get 🆙 and leave
|
2912
|
+
the court; but on 🥈 💭 she decided to remain where she was as
|
2913
|
+
long as there was room for her.
|
2914
|
+
|
2915
|
+
'I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.' said the Dormouse, who was sitting
|
2916
|
+
next to her. 'I can hardly breathe.'
|
2917
|
+
|
2918
|
+
'I can't 🆘 it,' said Alice very meekly: 'I'm growing.'
|
2919
|
+
|
2920
|
+
'You've 🙊 ⏯ to grow here,' said the Dormouse.
|
2921
|
+
|
2922
|
+
'Don't talk nonsense,' said Alice more boldly: 'you know you're growing
|
2923
|
+
too.'
|
2924
|
+
|
2925
|
+
'Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the Dormouse: '🚯 in that
|
2926
|
+
ridiculous fashion.' And he got 🆙 very sulkily and 🎌 over to the
|
2927
|
+
other side of the court.
|
2928
|
+
|
2929
|
+
All this time the 👑 had never ◀ 📴 staring at the Hatter, and,
|
2930
|
+
just as the Dormouse 🎌 the court, she said to 1️⃣ of the officers
|
2931
|
+
of the court, 'Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!' on
|
2932
|
+
which the wretched Hatter trembled so, that he shook both his 👡 📴.
|
2933
|
+
|
2934
|
+
'Give your evidence,' the 👑 🔁 angrily, 'or I'll have you
|
2935
|
+
executed, whether you're nervous or 🚯.'
|
2936
|
+
|
2937
|
+
'I'm a poor 👨, your Majesty,' the Hatter began, in a trembling voice,
|
2938
|
+
'--and I hadn't begun my 🍵--🚯 above a week or so--and what with the
|
2939
|
+
🍞-and-butter getting so thin--and the twinkling of the 🍵--'
|
2940
|
+
|
2941
|
+
'The twinkling of the what?' said the 👑.
|
2942
|
+
|
2943
|
+
'It began with the 🍵,' the Hatter replied.
|
2944
|
+
|
2945
|
+
'Of course twinkling begins with a T!' said the 👑 sharply. 'Do you
|
2946
|
+
take me for a dunce? Go on!'
|
2947
|
+
|
2948
|
+
'I'm a poor 👨,' the Hatter went on, 'and most things twinkled after
|
2949
|
+
that--only the March Hare said--'
|
2950
|
+
|
2951
|
+
'I didn't!' the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry.
|
2952
|
+
|
2953
|
+
'You did!' said the Hatter.
|
2954
|
+
|
2955
|
+
'I deny it!' said the March Hare.
|
2956
|
+
|
2957
|
+
'He denies it,' said the 👑: 'leave out that 〽.'
|
2958
|
+
|
2959
|
+
'Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--' the Hatter went on, looking
|
2960
|
+
anxiously round to 🙈 if he would deny it too: but the Dormouse denied
|
2961
|
+
nothing, being ⏩ asleep.
|
2962
|
+
|
2963
|
+
'After that,' continued the Hatter, 'I cut some more 🍞-and-butter--'
|
2964
|
+
|
2965
|
+
'But what did the Dormouse say?' 1️⃣ of the jury 🙏.
|
2966
|
+
|
2967
|
+
'That I can't remember,' said the Hatter.
|
2968
|
+
|
2969
|
+
'You MUST remember,' remarked the 👑, 'or I'll have you executed.'
|
2970
|
+
|
2971
|
+
The miserable Hatter 💧 his 🍵 and 🍞-and-butter, and went
|
2972
|
+
📩 on 1️⃣ knee. 'I'm a poor 👨, your Majesty,' he began.
|
2973
|
+
|
2974
|
+
'You're a very poor 🔈,' said the 👑.
|
2975
|
+
|
2976
|
+
Here 1️⃣ of the 🇵🇬-🐷 cheered, and was immediately suppressed by
|
2977
|
+
the officers of the court. (As that is rather a hard word, I will just
|
2978
|
+
explain to you how it was done. They had a large canvas 🛍, which tied
|
2979
|
+
🆙 at the 👄 with strings: into this they slipped the 🇵🇬-🐖,
|
2980
|
+
🗣 🥇, and then sat upon it.)
|
2981
|
+
|
2982
|
+
'I'm glad I've seen that done,' 💭 Alice. 'I've so often read
|
2983
|
+
in the newspapers, at the 🔚 of trials, "There was some attempts
|
2984
|
+
at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the
|
2985
|
+
court," and I never understood what it meant till now.'
|
2986
|
+
|
2987
|
+
'If that's all you know about it, you may stand 📩,' continued the
|
2988
|
+
👑.
|
2989
|
+
|
2990
|
+
'I can't go 🙊 lower,' said the Hatter: 'I'm on the 🤣, as it is.'
|
2991
|
+
|
2992
|
+
'Then you may SIT 📩,' the 👑 replied.
|
2993
|
+
|
2994
|
+
Here the other 🇵🇬-🐖 cheered, and was suppressed.
|
2995
|
+
|
2996
|
+
'Come, that finished the 🇵🇬-🐖!' 💭 Alice. 'Now we shall get
|
2997
|
+
on better.'
|
2998
|
+
|
2999
|
+
'I'd rather finish my 🍵,' said the Hatter, with an anxious look at the
|
3000
|
+
👑, who was reading the list of singers.
|
3001
|
+
|
3002
|
+
'You may go,' said the 👑, and the Hatter hurriedly ◀ the court,
|
3003
|
+
without even waiting to put his 👟 on.
|
3004
|
+
|
3005
|
+
'--and just take his 🗣 📴 outside,' the 👑 added to 1️⃣ of the
|
3006
|
+
officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get
|
3007
|
+
to the 🚪.
|
3008
|
+
|
3009
|
+
'📲 the next witness!' said the 👑.
|
3010
|
+
|
3011
|
+
The next witness was the Duchess's 🇨🇰. She carried the 🌶-🗳 in
|
3012
|
+
her ✌, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the
|
3013
|
+
court, by the way the people near the 🚪 began sneezing all at once.
|
3014
|
+
|
3015
|
+
'Give your evidence,' said the 👑.
|
3016
|
+
|
3017
|
+
'Shan't,' said the 🇨🇰.
|
3018
|
+
|
3019
|
+
The 👑 looked anxiously at the White 🐇, who said in a 🔅 voice,
|
3020
|
+
'Your Majesty must ⛑-examine THIS witness.'
|
3021
|
+
|
3022
|
+
'Well, if I must, I must,' the 👑 said, with a melancholy air, and,
|
3023
|
+
after folding his arms and 😦 at the 🇨🇰 till his 👀 were
|
3024
|
+
nearly out of sight, he said in a deep voice, 'What are tarts made of?'
|
3025
|
+
|
3026
|
+
'🌶, mostly,' said the 🇨🇰.
|
3027
|
+
|
3028
|
+
'Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.
|
3029
|
+
|
3030
|
+
'Collar that Dormouse,' the 👑 shrieked out. 'Behead that Dormouse!
|
3031
|
+
Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! 📴 with his
|
3032
|
+
whiskers!'
|
3033
|
+
|
3034
|
+
For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the Dormouse
|
3035
|
+
turned out, and, by the time they had settled 📩 again, the 🇨🇰 had
|
3036
|
+
disappeared.
|
3037
|
+
|
3038
|
+
'Never mind!' said the 👑, with an air of great relief. '📲 the next
|
3039
|
+
witness.' And he added in an undertone to the 👑, 'Really, my dear,
|
3040
|
+
YOU must ⛑-examine the next witness. It quite makes my forehead
|
3041
|
+
ache!'
|
3042
|
+
|
3043
|
+
Alice ⌚ the White 🐇 as he fumbled over the list, feeling very
|
3044
|
+
curious to 🙈 what the next witness would be like, '--for they haven't
|
3045
|
+
got much evidence YET,' she said to herself. Imagine her surprise, when
|
3046
|
+
the White 🐇 read out, at the 🔝 of his shrill little voice, the
|
3047
|
+
Brow. 'Alice!'
|
3048
|
+
|
3049
|
+
|
3050
|
+
|
3051
|
+
|
3052
|
+
CHAPTER XII. Alice's Evidence
|
3053
|
+
|
3054
|
+
|
3055
|
+
'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how
|
3056
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+
large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped 🆙 in such
|
3057
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+
a hurry that she tipped over the jury-🗳 with the edge of her skirt,
|
3058
|
+
upsetting all the jurymen on to the 🗣 of the crowd below, and there
|
3059
|
+
they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a 🌐 of goldfish
|
3060
|
+
she had accidentally upset the week before.
|
3061
|
+
|
3062
|
+
'Oh, I BEG your pardon!' she exclaimed in a 🏽 of great dismay, and
|
3063
|
+
began ⛏ them 🆙 again as quickly as she could, for the accident of
|
3064
|
+
the goldfish kept 💨 in her 🗣, and she had a vague sort of 💡
|
3065
|
+
that they must be collected at once and put 🔙 into the jury-🗳, or
|
3066
|
+
they would 🎲.
|
3067
|
+
|
3068
|
+
'The trial cannot proceed,' said the 👑 in a very grave voice, 'until
|
3069
|
+
all the jurymen are 🔙 in their proper places--ALL,' he 🔁 with
|
3070
|
+
great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said do.
|
3071
|
+
|
3072
|
+
Alice looked at the jury-🗳, and saw that, in her haste, she had put
|
3073
|
+
the 🦎 in 🗣 downwards, and the poor little thing was 🏴 its
|
3074
|
+
tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move. She 🔜 got
|
3075
|
+
it out again, and put it ⏯; '🚯 that it signifies much,' she said
|
3076
|
+
to herself; 'I should think it would be QUITE as much 🇻🇮 in the trial
|
3077
|
+
1️⃣ way 🆙 as the other.'
|
3078
|
+
|
3079
|
+
As 🔜 as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being
|
3080
|
+
upset, and their slates and 📝 had been found and 👉 🔙 to
|
3081
|
+
them, they 📐 to work very diligently to ✍ out a history of the
|
3082
|
+
accident, all except the 🦎, who seemed too much overcome to do
|
3083
|
+
anything but sit with its 👄 📬, gazing 🆙 into the roof of the
|
3084
|
+
court.
|
3085
|
+
|
3086
|
+
'What do you know about this business?' the 👑 said to Alice.
|
3087
|
+
|
3088
|
+
'Nothing,' said Alice.
|
3089
|
+
|
3090
|
+
'Nothing WHATEVER?' persisted the 👑.
|
3091
|
+
|
3092
|
+
'Nothing whatever,' said Alice.
|
3093
|
+
|
3094
|
+
'That's very important,' the 👑 said, turning to the jury. They were
|
3095
|
+
just beginning to ✍ this 📩 on their slates, when the White 🐇
|
3096
|
+
interrupted: 'UNimportant, your Majesty means, of course,' he said in a
|
3097
|
+
very respectful 🏽, but ☹ and making 🐻 at him as he spoke.
|
3098
|
+
|
3099
|
+
'UNimportant, of course, I meant,' the 👑 hastily said, and went on
|
3100
|
+
to himself in an undertone,
|
3101
|
+
|
3102
|
+
'important--unimportant--unimportant--important--' as if he were trying
|
3103
|
+
which word sounded best.
|
3104
|
+
|
3105
|
+
Some of the jury wrote it 📩 'important,' and some 'unimportant.'
|
3106
|
+
Alice could 🙈 this, as she was near enough to look over their slates;
|
3107
|
+
'but it doesn't matter a bit,' she 💭 to herself.
|
3108
|
+
|
3109
|
+
At this moment the 👑, who had been for some time busily ✍ in
|
3110
|
+
his 💴-📗, cackled out 'Silence!' and read out from his 📗, 'Rule
|
3111
|
+
Forty-2️⃣. ALL PERSONS MORE THAN A MILE 🔊 TO LEAVE THE COURT.'
|
3112
|
+
|
3113
|
+
Everybody looked at Alice.
|
3114
|
+
|
3115
|
+
'I'M 🚯 a mile 🔊,' said Alice.
|
3116
|
+
|
3117
|
+
'You are,' said the 👑.
|
3118
|
+
|
3119
|
+
'Nearly 2️⃣ miles 🔊,' added the 👑.
|
3120
|
+
|
3121
|
+
'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: 'besides, that's 🚯 a
|
3122
|
+
regular rule: you invented it just now.'
|
3123
|
+
|
3124
|
+
'It's the oldest rule in the 📗,' said the 👑.
|
3125
|
+
|
3126
|
+
'Then it ought to be Number 1️⃣,' said Alice.
|
3127
|
+
|
3128
|
+
The 👑 turned pale, and shut his 💴-📗 hastily. 'Consider your
|
3129
|
+
verdict,' he said to the jury, in a 🔅, trembling voice.
|
3130
|
+
|
3131
|
+
'There's more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,' said the White
|
3132
|
+
🐇, jumping 🆙 in a great hurry; 'this 🗞 has just been ⛏
|
3133
|
+
🆙.'
|
3134
|
+
|
3135
|
+
'What's in it?' said the 👑.
|
3136
|
+
|
3137
|
+
'I haven't 😄 it yet,' said the White 🐇, 'but it seems to be a
|
3138
|
+
📨, written by the prisoner to--to somebody.'
|
3139
|
+
|
3140
|
+
'It must have been that,' said the 👑, 'unless it was written to
|
3141
|
+
nobody, which isn't usual, you know.'
|
3142
|
+
|
3143
|
+
'Who is it directed to?' said 1️⃣ of the jurymen.
|
3144
|
+
|
3145
|
+
'It isn't directed at all,' said the White 🐇; 'in fact, there's
|
3146
|
+
nothing written on the OUTSIDE.' He unfolded the 🗞 as he spoke, and
|
3147
|
+
added 'It isn't a 📨, after all: it's a 📐 of verses.'
|
3148
|
+
|
3149
|
+
'Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' 🙏 another of the jurymen.
|
3150
|
+
|
3151
|
+
'🙊, they're 🚯,' said the White 🐇, 'and that's the queerest thing
|
3152
|
+
about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.)
|
3153
|
+
|
3154
|
+
'He must have imitated somebody else's ✌,' said the 👑. (The jury
|
3155
|
+
all brightened 🆙 again.)
|
3156
|
+
|
3157
|
+
'Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't ✍ it, and they
|
3158
|
+
can't prove I did: there's 🙊 Brow. signed at the 🔚.'
|
3159
|
+
|
3160
|
+
'If you didn't sign it,' said the 👑, 'that only makes the matter
|
3161
|
+
worse. You MUST have meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed your
|
3162
|
+
Brow. like an honest 👨.'
|
3163
|
+
|
3164
|
+
There was a general 👏 of 🤙 at this: it was the 🥇 really
|
3165
|
+
clever thing the 👑 had said that day.
|
3166
|
+
|
3167
|
+
'That PROVES his guilt,' said the 👑.
|
3168
|
+
|
3169
|
+
'It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. 'Why, you don't even know
|
3170
|
+
what they're about!'
|
3171
|
+
|
3172
|
+
'Read them,' said the 👑.
|
3173
|
+
|
3174
|
+
The White 🐇 put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please
|
3175
|
+
your Majesty?' he 🙏.
|
3176
|
+
|
3177
|
+
'Begin at the beginning,' the 👑 said gravely, 'and go on till you
|
3178
|
+
come to the 🔚: then ⏹.'
|
3179
|
+
|
3180
|
+
These were the verses the White 🐇 read:--
|
3181
|
+
|
3182
|
+
'They told me you had been to her,
|
3183
|
+
And mentioned me to him:
|
3184
|
+
She gave me a good character,
|
3185
|
+
But said I could 🚯 🏊.
|
3186
|
+
|
3187
|
+
He 📤 them word I had 🚯 gone
|
3188
|
+
(We know it to be true):
|
3189
|
+
If she should push the matter on,
|
3190
|
+
What would become of you?
|
3191
|
+
|
3192
|
+
I gave her 1️⃣, they gave him 2️⃣,
|
3193
|
+
You gave us 🔊 or more;
|
3194
|
+
They all returned from him to you,
|
3195
|
+
Though they were mine before.
|
3196
|
+
|
3197
|
+
If I or she should chance to be
|
3198
|
+
Involved in this affair,
|
3199
|
+
He trusts to you to 📐 them 🆓,
|
3200
|
+
Exactly as we were.
|
3201
|
+
|
3202
|
+
My notion was that you had been
|
3203
|
+
(Before she had this fit)
|
3204
|
+
An obstacle that came between
|
3205
|
+
Him, and ourselves, and it.
|
3206
|
+
|
3207
|
+
Don't let him know she liked them best,
|
3208
|
+
For this must ever be
|
3209
|
+
A ㊙, kept from all the rest,
|
3210
|
+
Between yourself and me.'
|
3211
|
+
|
3212
|
+
'That's the most important piece of evidence we've 🇭🇲 yet,' said the
|
3213
|
+
👑, rubbing his 👐; 'so now let the jury--'
|
3214
|
+
|
3215
|
+
'If any 1️⃣ of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she had grown so large
|
3216
|
+
in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting
|
3217
|
+
him,) 'I'll give him sixpence. _I_ don't believe there's an ⚛ of
|
3218
|
+
meaning in it.'
|
3219
|
+
|
3220
|
+
The jury all wrote 📩 on their slates, 'SHE doesn't believe there's an
|
3221
|
+
⚛ of meaning in it,' but none of them attempted to explain the 🗞.
|
3222
|
+
|
3223
|
+
'If there's 🙊 meaning in it,' said the 👑, 'that saves a 🌏 of
|
3224
|
+
trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know,'
|
3225
|
+
he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them
|
3226
|
+
with 1️⃣ 👁; 'I seem to 🙈 some meaning in them, after all. "--SAID
|
3227
|
+
I COULD 🚯 🏊--" you can't 🏊, can you?' he added, turning to the
|
3228
|
+
Knave.
|
3229
|
+
|
3230
|
+
The Knave shook his 🗣 sadly. 'Do I look like it?' he said. (Which he
|
3231
|
+
certainly did 🚯, being made entirely of cardboard.)
|
3232
|
+
|
3233
|
+
'All ⏯, so far,' said the 👑, and he went on muttering over
|
3234
|
+
the verses to himself: '"WE KNOW IT TO BE TRUE--" that's the jury, of
|
3235
|
+
course--"I GAVE HER 1️⃣, THEY GAVE HIM 2️⃣--" why, that must be what he
|
3236
|
+
did with the tarts, you know--'
|
3237
|
+
|
3238
|
+
'But, it goes on "THEY ALL RETURNED FROM HIM TO YOU,"' said Alice.
|
3239
|
+
|
3240
|
+
'Why, there they are!' said the 👑 triumphantly, 👉 to the tarts
|
3241
|
+
on the table. 'Nothing can be clearer than THAT. Then again--"BEFORE SHE
|
3242
|
+
HAD THIS FIT--" you never had fits, my dear, I think?' he said to the
|
3243
|
+
👑.
|
3244
|
+
|
3245
|
+
'Never!' said the 👑 furiously, throwing an inkstand at the 🦎
|
3246
|
+
as she spoke. (The unfortunate little 💶 had ◀ 📴 ✍ on his
|
3247
|
+
slate with 1️⃣ 🤘, as he found it made 🙊 ❗; but he now hastily
|
3248
|
+
began again, 🇻🇮 the 🔏, that was trickling 📩 his 😡, as long as
|
3249
|
+
it lasted.)
|
3250
|
+
|
3251
|
+
'Then the words don't FIT you,' said the 👑, looking round the court
|
3252
|
+
with a 😆. There was a dead silence.
|
3253
|
+
|
3254
|
+
'It's a pun!' the 👑 added in an offended 🏽, and everybody 😂,
|
3255
|
+
'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the 👑 said, for about the
|
3256
|
+
twentieth time that day.
|
3257
|
+
|
3258
|
+
'🙊, 🙊!' said the 👑. 'Sentence 🥇--verdict afterwards.'
|
3259
|
+
|
3260
|
+
'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The 💡 of having the
|
3261
|
+
sentence 🥇!'
|
3262
|
+
|
3263
|
+
'👬 your 👅!' said the 👑, turning purple.
|
3264
|
+
|
3265
|
+
'I 😤't!' said Alice.
|
3266
|
+
|
3267
|
+
'📴 with her 🗣!' the 👑 shouted at the 🔝 of her voice. Nobody
|
3268
|
+
moved.
|
3269
|
+
|
3270
|
+
'Who 💅 for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her 🌝 size by this
|
3271
|
+
time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of 📇!'
|
3272
|
+
|
3273
|
+
At this the whole pack 🌹 🆙 into the air, and came 🕊 📩 upon
|
3274
|
+
her: she gave a little 😱, half of fright and half of anger, and
|
3275
|
+
tried to beat them 📴, and found herself lying on the 🏦, with her
|
3276
|
+
🗣 in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead
|
3277
|
+
leaves that had 🍃 📩 from the 🎋 upon her 😡.
|
3278
|
+
|
3279
|
+
'Wake 🆙, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long 😴 you've
|
3280
|
+
had!'
|
3281
|
+
|
3282
|
+
'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told her
|
3283
|
+
sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures
|
3284
|
+
of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had
|
3285
|
+
finished, her sister 😽 her, and said, 'It WAS a curious dream,
|
3286
|
+
dear, certainly: but now run in to your 🍵; it's getting late.' So
|
3287
|
+
Alice got 🆙 and ran 📴, thinking while she ran, as well she might,
|
3288
|
+
what a wonderful dream it had been.
|
3289
|
+
|
3290
|
+
But her sister sat still just as she ◀ her, leaning her 🗣 on her
|
3291
|
+
✌, ⌚ the 📐 🌇, and thinking of little Alice and all her
|
3292
|
+
wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and
|
3293
|
+
this was her dream:--
|
3294
|
+
|
3295
|
+
🥇, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the tiny
|
3296
|
+
👋 were clasped upon her knee, and the 🌞 eager 👀 were looking
|
3297
|
+
🆙 into hers--she could 🙉 the very 🏾 of her voice, and 🙈 that
|
3298
|
+
queer little toss of her 🗣 to keep 🔙 the wandering hair that
|
3299
|
+
WOULD always get into her 👀--and still as she listened, or seemed to
|
3300
|
+
listen, the whole place around her became alive with the strange creatures
|
3301
|
+
of her little sister's dream.
|
3302
|
+
|
3303
|
+
The long grass rustled at her 🐾 as the White 🐇 hurried by--the
|
3304
|
+
frightened 🐁 splashed his way through the neighbouring pool--she
|
3305
|
+
could 🙉 the rattle of the 🍵 as the March Hare and his friends
|
3306
|
+
shared their never-🔚 meal, and the shrill voice of the 👑
|
3307
|
+
ordering 📴 her unfortunate guests to execution--once more the 🐖-👶
|
3308
|
+
was sneezing on the Duchess's knee, while 🍽 and 📡 crashed
|
3309
|
+
around it--once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the
|
3310
|
+
🦎's slate-✏, and the choking of the suppressed 🇵🇬-🐷,
|
3311
|
+
filled the air, mixed 🆙 with the distant 😭 of the miserable Mock
|
3312
|
+
🐢.
|
3313
|
+
|
3314
|
+
So she sat on, with 📕 👀, and half believed herself in
|
3315
|
+
Wonderland, though she knew she had but to 📬 them again, and all
|
3316
|
+
would change to dull reality--the grass would be only rustling in the
|
3317
|
+
🎐, and the pool rippling to the 🏴 of the reeds--the rattling
|
3318
|
+
🍵 would change to tinkling 🐑-🛎, and the 👑's shrill
|
3319
|
+
cries to the voice of the shepherd 👦--and the sneeze of the 👶, the
|
3320
|
+
shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change (she
|
3321
|
+
knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the 🔅
|
3322
|
+
of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock 🐢's
|
3323
|
+
heavy 😭.
|
3324
|
+
|
3325
|
+
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers
|
3326
|
+
would, in the after-time, be herself a grown 👩; and how she would
|
3327
|
+
keep, through all her riper years, the simple and 🏩 💔 of her
|
3328
|
+
childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and
|
3329
|
+
make THEIR 👀 🌞 and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even
|
3330
|
+
with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with
|
3331
|
+
all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys,
|
3332
|
+
remembering her own 🚸-life, and the happy summer days.
|
3333
|
+
|
3334
|
+
THE 🔚
|
3335
|
+
|
3336
|
+
🔚 of Project Gutenberg's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
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