All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting ‘Off with his head!’ or ‘Off with her head!’ Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.
I don’t want to be anybody’s prisoner. I want to be a Queen.
The question is,’ said Alice, ’whether you can make words mean so many different things.
I think I could, if I only know how to begin.
No use, no use!′ said the King. ‘She runs so fearfully quick. You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch! But I’ll make a memorandum about her, if you like-she’s a dear good creature,’ he repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum-book. ‘Do you spell “creature” with a double “e”?
Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?′ and sometimes, ‘Do bats eat cats?’ for, you see, as she couldn’t answer either question, it didn’t much matter which way she put it. She felt that she.
That’s the effect of living backwards,′ the Queen said kindly: ‘it always makes one a little giddy at first – ’ ‘Living backwards!’ Alice repeated in great astonishment. ‘I never heard of such a thing!’ ‘ – but there’s one great advantage in it, that one’s memory works both ways.’ ‘I’m sure MINE only works one way,’ Alice remarked. ‘I can’t remember things before they happen.’ ‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen remarked.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what.
Down the Rabbit-Hole.
It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very simply and neatly arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it.
Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can, And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran: Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea – And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three!
Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?
Wonderland, though.
What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?
How fond she is of finding morals in things!’ Alice thought to herself.
You don’t know much,′ said the Duchess; ’and that’s a fact.
Cheshire Puss,′ she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. ‘Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the edge and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top, with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she.
First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the tiny hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes were looking up into hers – she could hear the very tones of her voice, and see that queer little toss of her head to keep back the wandering hair that would always get into her eyes – and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the whole place around her became alive the strange creatures of her little sister’s dream.