Through the Looking-Glass

the White Queen came running wildly through the wood, with both arms stretched out

n the way,' Alice said, as she he

er to herself that sounded like 'bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter,' and Alice felt that if there was to be any

essing,' The Queen said. 'It isn'

ning of their conversation, so she smiled and said, 'If your Majesty

oaned the poor Queen. 'I've been a-dr

dress her, she was so dreadfully untidy. 'Every single thing's crooked,' Alice thought to

melancholy voice. 'It's out of temper, I think. I've pinned i

n one side,' Alice said, as she gently put it right

it!' the Queen said with a sigh.

r into order. 'Come, you look rather better now!' she said, after a

sure!' the Queen said. 'Twopence

she said, 'I don't want you to

ood jam,' sa

want any to-day

the Queen said. 'The rule is, jam to-morr

imes to "jam to-day

'It's jam every other day: to-da

u,' said Alice. 'It's

ds,' the Queen said kindly: 'it alwa

ated in great astonishment. 'I

dvantage in it, that one'

y,' Alice remarked. 'I can't rem

ry that only works backwa

o you remember best?'

on, sticking a large piece of plaster on her finger as she spoke, 'there's the King's Messenger. He's in prison no

r commits the cr

t?' the Queen said, as she bound the plas

e it would be all the better,' she said: 'but i

ny rate,' said the Queen:

faults,' s

tter for it, I know!' th

gs I was punished for,' said Alice

een better still; better, and better, and better!' Her voice went

g so loud that she had to leave the sentence unfinished. 'Oh, oh, oh!' shouted the Queen, sha

histle of a steam-engine, that Alice h

as there was a chance of making hersel

t,' the Queen said, 'but

it?' Alice asked, feeling

will come undone directly. Oh, oh!' As she said the words the brooch fle

!' And she caught at the brooch; but it was too late: th

' she said to Alice with a smile. 'Now yo

Alice asked, holding her hands r

eady,' said the Queen. 'What would be

have flown away, I think,' said Alice: 'I'm so gla

y I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy,

melancholy voice; and at the thought of her loneli

pair. 'Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've c

in the midst of her tears. 'Can you keep f

decision: 'nobody can do two things at once, you know.

and a hal

believe it without that. Now I'll give you something to bel

lieve that!

pitying tone. 'Try again: draw a

e trying,' she said: 'one can

age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as

. The Queen spread out her arms again, and went flying after it, and this time she succeeded in catching it for

?' Alice said very politely, as she cr

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e went on. 'Much be-etter! Be-etter! Be-e-e-etter! Be-e-ehh!' The last

? And was that really-was it really a sheep that was sitting on the other side of the counter? Rub as she could, she could make nothing more of it: she was in a little dark shop, leaning

e Sheep said at last, looking up

d, very gently. 'I should like to l

ou like,' said the Sheep: 'but you can't look all roun

: so she contented herself with turning roun

at whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular

es like a doll and sometimes like a work-box, and was always in the shelf next above the one she was looking at. 'And this one is the most provoking of all-but I'

went through the ceiling as quietly as

'You'll make me giddy soon, if you go on turning round like that.' She was now working

ed child thought to herself. 'She gets mor

ed, handing her a pair of kn

n suddenly the needles turned into oars in her hands, and she found they were in a li

heep, as she took up a

but pulled away. There was something very queer about the water, she thought,

ed again, taking more needles. 'Y

!' thought Alice. '

"?' the Sheep cried angrily, tak

ve said it very often-and very lo

sticking some of the needles into her hai

often?' Alice asked at last,

he Sheep: 'you're

ided gently on, sometimes among beds of weeds (which made the oars stick fast in the water, worse then

!' Alice cried in a sudden transport of de

said, without looking up from her knitting: 'I didn'

d pick some?' Alice pleaded. 'If you do

he Sheep. 'If you leave off r

rms were plunged in elbow-deep to get the rushes a good long way down before breaking them off-and for a while Alice forgot all about the Sheep and the knitting, as she bent over

'And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she mana

f the rushes in growing so far off, as, with flushed cheeks and dripping hair and ha

at she picked them? Even real scented rushes, you know, last only a very little while-and these, being dream-rushes, melted away alm

e explained it afterwards), and the consequence was that the handle of it caught her under the chin, and, in spite of a seri

the while, just as if nothing had happened. 'That was a nice crab you caught!' she remark

to the dark water. 'I wish it hadn't let go-I should so like to see a little crab to t

ny crabs here

e Sheep: 'plenty of choice, only make up

frightened-for the oars, and the boat, and the river, had vanishe

gg, please,' she said timi

or one-Twopence for t

ne?' Alice said in a surpris

hem both, if you buy

t the money down on the counter. For she thought to

gs into people's hands-that would never do-you must get it for yourself.' And so sa

the end. 'The egg seems to get further away the more I walk towards it. Let me see, is this a chair? Why, it's got branches, I dec

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as everything turned into a tree the moment she came