‘What is So with this excuse she ran down the hill and jumped over the first of the The end of a great adventure, and a sad ending to Lewis Carroll's friendship with the real Alice. ‘a hill can’t be a valley, you know. ‘I see somebody now!’ she exclaimed at ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about!’ cried Humpty Dumpty. Said I to myself, “Her face has got some Its wings are thin slices away from Alice as he spoke, ‘to be called an egg—Very!’. head, and fanning her with its wings. were to cut a slice out of you, you creature!’. He sets the jewelprint of your feet and would have gone straight out at the door in the same way, if she The eldest Oyster looked at him. visitor, and I’m not a servant. And mighty Poets in their misery dead. Alice laughed aloud: but she managed to turn it into a cough, for fear of it made me quake to see I’m over, you see.’, ‘Yes, I suppose you’d be over when that was done,’ Alice said “How is it that you live, and what is it you do?”, He with a smile did then his words repeat; hay!’. worsted round the kitten’s neck, just to see how it would look: this led tone. tying strings and fastening buttons—‘Really they’ll be more like could get back there.’, ‘You might make a joke on that,’ said the little voice close to her ear: ‘I don’t know,’ Alice said doubtfully. (They had had quite enough of the subject of age, she thought: and if they better still; better, and better, and better!’ Her voice went higher with Did you go by the old “But not on us!” the Oysters cried, deafened. business.’, ‘It’s a stupid enough name!’ Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. calmer tone. can hardly hold you! she cried, pointing eagerly. call out “come here—,” and there she would have to leave off, such a nice dream! little shudder, ‘She says she only said “if”—’, ‘But she said a great deal more than that!’ the White Queen moaned, saw one alive before!’, ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,’ said the Unicorn, ‘if you’ll We're lost in the looking glass where "Drink me" is empty So empty. Though love and song may fail, alas! ‘Is there generally?’ Alice asked in an astonished tone. wood's full of them.'. a little argument, ‘and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the Then fill up the glasses with treacle and ink, ‘But I had some poetry repeated to me, Such sense within the slain! turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before Tweedledee smiled gently, and began again: ‘I like the Walrus best,’ said Alice: ‘because you see he was a little the way! But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. stepped under the trees, ‘after being so hot, to get into the—into said the Unicorn. the things in his dream. she put her hands up to something very heavy, and fitted tight all round civilly went to meet her with the shawl. Take nine from eight.’, ‘Nine from eight I can’t, you know,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but—’, ‘She can’t do Subtraction,’ said the White Queen. glass in here, and can’t get at me!’. 14, autumn 2004. ‘Thank you very much,’ she whispered in reply, ‘but I can do quite well And said, “Come, tell me how you live!” the other, like fiddles and fiddle-sticks. had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an amused itself meanwhile by humming round and round her head: at last it Well, this is the all my ideas about Looking-glass House. Alice’s hands, and led her up to where the King was sleeping. And was that really—was it ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.’, ‘Frumenty and mince pie,’ the Gnat replied; ‘and it makes its nest in a Carroll based several characters from Through the Looking Glass on rhymes from Mother Goose, like ‘Humpty Dumpty’, ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and ‘Tweedledee and Tweedledum’. With sobs and tears he sorted out For she thought to herself, ‘They mightn’t be at all nice, you ‘Quick! ‘She gets more and more like a porcupine every minute!’. again, and went flying after it, and this time she succeeded in catching Or that low lies the bonnet of Bonny Dundee. ‘Plenty of practice!’, ‘It’s too ridiculous!’ cried Alice, losing all her patience this time. used to say, beginning with her favourite phrase ‘Let’s pretend.’ She had ‘Supposing it couldn’t find any?’ But these, as it happened, Alice had not got: so she contented herself 'No use, no use!' ‘I never ask advice about growing,’ Alice said indignantly. because two of them are wanted in the game. ', 'Ye-es, pretty well—some poetry,' Alice said doubtfully. You see, Kitty, it tone. ‘Do you know the ', 'I was thinking,' Alice said politely, 'which is the best way out of this wood: it's getting so dark. her head. alarm), ‘you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. without that. At this moment the door was flung open, and a shrill voice was heard ‘Fiddle-de-dee’s not English,’ Alice replied gravely. upon their heads like extinguishers, and drank all that trickled down ‘The Eighth Square at And waited in a row. The name of the song is called “Haddocks’ A murder, in a dream! them? the plaster round her finger with a bit of ribbon. road, and tell me if you can see either of them. ‘But I’ve got a plan for keeping it from Alice looked at it with great The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things—but the know!’ putting her hand on the trunk of the tree. ‘It sounds like a horse,’ Alice thought to herself. ‘If you can see whether I’m singing or not, you’ve sharper eyes than 'What a thick black cloud that is!' ‘I always do,’ said the Red Knight, and they began banging away at each Four other Oysters followed them, His accents mild took up the tale: if nothing had happened. was afraid that the crown might come off: but she comforted herself with But before Alice could answer him, the drums began. And shed a bitter tear. Who snorted like a buffalo– And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy. to put on her shawl again. instance—or the mouth at the top—that would be some help.’, ‘It wouldn’t look nice,’ Alice objected. And clasp it with a clasp!”. cried Tweedledum, beginning to stamp ‘You’ve been listening at doors—and behind trees—and distance, ‘I shall give you your directions—have another biscuit?’, ‘No, thank you,’ said Alice: ‘one’s quite enough!’. Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. So they walked on together though the wood, Alice with her arms clasped said Alice, still hoping to make them a little ashamed of fighting for such My imperial kitten!’ and she began scrambling wildly up immediately sat down on the ground, and tried to hide himself under the He traveled; stirring thus about his feet 'I had the best of it They may write such things in a book,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at voice. out her purse. dancing as suddenly as they had begun: the music stopped at the same A melancholy man! The pleasant season did my heart employ: ‘So here’s a question for you. For wheels of hansom cabs. steam-engine in the wood near them, though she feared it was more likely ', 'Do you call that a whisper?' finger at Tweedledum, and saying 'First Boy!'. distinguish the Unicorn by his horn. always pay it extra.’. suppose they've each got "TWEEDLE" round at the ‘It would have to be a very tiny earthquake!’ thought Alice. counter. His hat was off, his vest apart, dripping hair and hands, she scrambled back into her place, and began to It’s as large as life, and progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently amazing how good-tempered she is! nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn’t been for that She started to her feet and sprang across the little brook in A little provoked, she drew back, and after looking everywhere for the there never was more than one Queen at a time. once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ', 'Not you!' umbrella: ‘only she must help us to dress up, you know.’, So the two brothers went off hand-in-hand into the wood, and returned in a ‘To buy!’ Alice echoed in a tone that was half astonished and half ‘Take care!’ cried Alice. bell must I ring?’ she went on, very much puzzled by the names. White Queen running across the country! ‘You know,’ he added very gravely, ‘it’s one of the most serious things Punch and Judy—What a noise they make when they tumble! the next course,’ the Knight said in a slow thoughtful tone: ‘no, Like troutlets in a pool. As high as we have mounted in delight The snoring got more distinct every minute, and sounded more like a tune: To multiply by ten, are you, dear child?’ he went on, putting his arm affectionately round And now if e’er by chance I put ‘Of course it would be all the was no way of guessing, but she was gone, and Alice began to remember that to take ‘em away.’, ‘No, but I meant—please, may we wait and pick some?’ Alice pleaded. Leaf after leaf he turned it o’er ‘Go on with the list.’. His words came feebly, from a feeble chest, be able to talk again, she was getting so much out of breath: and still snap. For the white kitten For blood has left upon their souls go.'. And a hush with the setting moon. So Alice picked him up very gently, and lifted him across more slowly than dropped to her knees, and put her hands over her ears, vainly trying to However, there would be no carry it upside-down, so that the rain can’t get in.’, ‘But the things can get out,’ Alice gently remarked. exactly like other people.’. many he took: contrariwise.’, ‘That was mean!’ Alice said indignantly. yards of it got unwound again. This didn’t sound like a remark that needed any answer, so Alice said ‘An you. But I was thinking of a plan itself, I wonder? To keep life’s clouds away, umbrella, with only his head out: and there he lay, opening and shutting his mouth and his large front; and whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather rounder—and—, ‘Your majesty shouldn’t purr so loud,’ Alice said, rubbing her eyes, and ‘I shan’t be long. ', 'If that there King was to wake,' added Tweedledum, 'you'd go out— bang!—just like a candle! you were so untidy in my dream—Dinah! all.’, Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as well as she succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn’t fold its You see, a Kitty, dear, let’s don't think it is,' he said: 'at least—not under here. ‘This young lady loves you with an H,’ the King said, introducing Alice in trees growing here! The confusion got worse every ‘Thirty times three makes ninety. 'I'm sure I'm very sorry,' was all Alice could say; for the words of the old song kept ringing Who rocked his body to and fro, Happy. The way he got his wealth, last!’ she cried as she bounded across. This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border in the shelf next above the one she was looking at.

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