Through the Looking-Glass

esn't do that-' (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), 'but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It's more l

ing back to the house, do what she would. Indeed, once, when she turned a corner

s arguing with her. 'I'm not going in again yet. I know I should have to get through the

o the hill. For a few minutes all went on well, and she was just saying, 'I really shall do it this time-' when the path gave a su

. 'I never saw such a house f

be done but start again. This time she came upon a large flower-bed

rself to one that was waving gracefully a

iger-lily: 'when there's

take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she

aid the Tiger-lily. 'An

ering when you'd speak! Said I to myself, "Her face has got some sense in it, thoug

r-lily remarked. 'If only her petals curl

ng questions. 'Aren't you sometimes frightened at bei

middle,' said the Rose: '

do, if any danger

ed a Daisy: 'that's why its

hrill voices. 'Silence, every one of you!' cried the Tiger-lily, waving itself passionately from side to side, and trembling with

down to the daisies, who were just beginning again, she

ment, and several of the

st of all. When one speaks, they all begin together, and

to get it into a better temper by a compliment. 'I've been

the ground,' said the Tiger-

,' she said, 'but I don't see

id, 'they make the beds too soft-so

lice was quite pleased to know it. 'I

ver think at all,' the Rose

,' a Violet said, so suddenly, that Alice

y! You keep your head under the leaves, and snore away there, till y

den besides me?' Alice said, not choo

ou,' said the Rose. 'I wonder how you do it-' ('You're always wond

the thought crossed her mind, 'There's an

s you,' the Rose said, 'but she's redde

ke a dahlia,' the Tiger-lily interrupted

: 'you're beginning to fade, you know-and then one

: so, to change the subject, she a

soon,' said the Rose. 'She

he thorns?' Alice aske

e replied. 'I was wondering you hadn't got s

. 'I hear her footstep, thump, thu

al!' was her first remark. She had indeed: when Alice first found her in the ashes, she

it,' said the Rose: 'wonderf

h the flowers were interesting enough, she felt that i

said the Rose: 'I should adv

once towards the Red Queen. To her surprise, she lost sight of her

e queen (whom she spied out at last, a long way off), she thought she

before she found herself face to face with the Red Queen,

'And where are you going? Look up, speak nicel

ions, and explained, as well as sh

out here belong to me-but why did you come out here at all?' she added in

the Queen to disbelieve it. 'I'll try it when I go home,' she

looking at her watch: 'open your mouth a little w

e what the garden wa

Alice didn't like at all, 'though, when you say "garden,"-I'v

but went on: '-and I thought I'd try a

pted, 'I could show you hills, in compar

o contradicting her at last: 'a hill can't b

if you like,' she said, 'but I've heard nonsense, compar

s tone that she was a little offended: and they walked o

country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the

delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played-all over the world-if this is the world a

ily managed. You can be the White Queen's Pawn, if you like, as Lily's too young to play; and you're in the Second Square to

they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still

t all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. 'I wonder if all the things move along with us?'

alk again, she was getting so much out of breath: and still the Queen cried 'Faster! F

Faster!' And they ran on for a time in silence, with the wind whistlin

m through the air, hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly, just as Alice was gett

inst a tree, and said kindly

hy, I do believe we've been under this tree

aid the Queen, 'what

little, 'you'd generally get to somewhere else-if yo

es all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want

Alice. 'I'm quite content to stay

aid good-naturedly, taking a little b

t she wanted. So she took it, and ate it as well as she could: and it was ve

easurements.' And she took a ribbon out of her pocket, marked in inches,

in a peg to mark the distance, 'I shall giv

said Alice: 'on

ed, I hope?' s

r, but went on. 'At the end of three yards I shall repeat them-for fear of your forgett

ice looked on with great interest as she returned to

y through the Third Square-by railway, I should think-and you'll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, that sq

to make one-just then

Seventh Square is all forest-however, one of the Knights will show you the way-and in the Eighth Square w

or a thing-turn out your toes as you walk-and remember who you are!' She did not wait for Alice to curtsey this time,

e air, or whether she ran quickly into the wood ('and she can run very fast!' thought Alice), there was no way of gues