"But I don't want to go among mad people." Alice
remarked. "Then you keep moving around, I suppose?" said Alice. "And what does it live on?" |
However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out "The race is over!" and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking "But who has won?" It was all very well to say "Drink me," but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. "No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not" ... "I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! ..." "If I wasn't real," Alice said -- half laughing through her tears, it all
seemed so ridiculous -- "I shouldn't be able to cry." "If that there king was to wake," added Tweedledum, you'd go out -- bang! -- just like a candle!" "What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied. "There is another shore, you know, upon the other side." |
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