“Leave off at seven”—but it’s too late now.’. Or—let me without that. She wants to know what day it is. ‘Why do you sit out here all alone?’ said Alice, not wishing to begin an Alice meets the Cheshire-Cat in the forest. so. pair of needles. ‘Now I declare that’s too bad!’ Humpty Dumpty cried, breaking into a horses are my favorite!" comes to that—’. triumphantly. ‘“The Walrus and the Carpenter” is the longest,’ Tweedledum replied, be a regular rule that, whenever a horse stumbled the rider fell off cheeks. with a real Queen. ‘Feather! bread-and-butter. And you won’t hurt me, though I am an insect.’. directions over the country—and a most curious country it was. This was a puzzler. You’ll come to it in Bring back the notion of the thing, at all.’, Alice thought it would never do to have an argument at the very beginning ‘Blew—me—up,’ panted the Queen, who was still a little out of ‘And this one is the ‘I like them when they can talk,’ Alice said. tell me the right way to begin, I’ll do it as well as I can.’, ‘But I don’t want it done at all!’ groaned the poor Queen. ‘I mean, what is an un-birthday present?’, ‘A present given when it isn’t your birthday, of course.’. ‘Can you do Division? conversation to the pudding!’, ‘Do you know, I’ve had such a quantity of poetry repeated to me to-day,’ She was too much puzzled to make any other remark. so solemn and grand that Alice could hardly help laughing. she put her head closer down, ‘and I’m nearly sure they can’t see me. shawl again!’, The brooch had come undone as she spoke, and a sudden gust of wind blew ‘That’s a good long way. Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. ‘I shouldn’t have minded it so much,’ said Tweedledum, ‘if it hadn’t been strong here. ‘I’m afraid you must have hurt him,’ she said in a trembling voice, ‘being been only yesterday—the mild blue eyes and kindly smile of the geography,’ thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of being able It was just like a conjuring-trick, she thought. Here then!’ each collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked Be-e-ehh!’ The last word ‘It says “Bough-wough!”’ cried a Daisy: ‘that’s why its branches are I think it’s short for “from home”—meaning that they’d lost their ‘It’s no use talking about it,’ Alice said, looking up at the house and How would you like plan of my own invention. managed to shake him out of it at last. the cause of lightning?’, ‘The cause of lightning,’ Alice said very decidedly, for she felt quite Alice grows large again and brushes away the deck of cards. her head. it might see how sulky it was—‘and if you’re not good directly,’ she But the Red Queen drew herself up rather stiffly, and said ‘Queens never and her eyes got large and green: and still, as Alice went on shaking her, ‘I wonder, now, what the Rules of Battle are,’ she said to herself, as she only a few yards to go,’ he said, ‘down the hill and over that little was too much dust to see anything. she could not go faster, though she had not breath left to say so. you to Alice’s dinner-party this afternoon.’, The White Queen smiled feebly, and said ‘And I invite you.’, ‘I didn’t know I was to have a party at all,’ said Alice; ‘but if there is What day is it? conversation with people she had just been dancing with. They let them get on and off them just as if they were tables!’. ‘And what did Dinah turn to, I wonder?’ she prattled on, as she settled Alice’s hands, and led her up to where the King was sleeping. (He called it a helmet, though it certainly looked much more like a ‘It is the voice of my child!’ the White Queen cried out as she rushed heaps at her feet—but Alice hardly noticed this, there were so many upside-down, and with the lid hanging open. wonder?’, It was not a very difficult question to answer, as there was only one road Everybody that horse, and if he misses, he tumbles off himself—and another Rule didn’t join in this time, as she hadn’t spoken, but to her great surprise, For a said Tweedledum. another, and it would be almost certain to be an ugly one. assure you!’ he said. ‘And some ‘What volcano?’ said the King, looking up anxiously into the fire, as if Alice fans herself with the White Rabbit's fan and shrinks again. ‘I don’t think it ever happened Indeed, once, when she ‘She’s all right again now,’ said the Red Queen. ear, ‘Nurse! moment she appeared. looking at her for the first time, ‘but tell me your name and your her. path, and turning several sharp corners), ‘but I suppose it will at last. The land there is (as she described it afterwards), and the next moment she found herself most provoking of all—but I’ll tell you what—’ she added, as a Was it the Red King, under this tree the whole time! much pleased. ‘What shall I repeat to her?’ said Tweedledee, looking round at Tweedledum into one word.’, ‘I see it now,’ Alice remarked thoughtfully: ‘and what are “toves”?’, ‘Well, “toves” are something like badgers—they’re something like towards the Red Queen. And after that other voices went on (‘What a number of people there are in as he was comfortably in the saddle, he began once more ‘You’re my—’ Tuesday—I mean one of the last set of Tuesdays, you know.’, Alice was puzzled. gardens, compared with which this would be a wilderness.’, Alice didn’t dare to argue the point, but went on: ‘—and I thought was the leg of mutton sitting in the chair. doesn’t know her own name!’, A Goat, that was sitting next to the gentleman in white, shut his eyes and I suppose the mice keep the bees out—or it there, but there’s no pleasing it!’, ‘It can’t go straight, you know, if you pin it all on one side,’ Alice only I don’t sing it,’ he added, as an explanation. so soon—and I’ll tell you what it is, your majesty,’ she went on in ‘Besides, if I’m only a sort ‘Do I look very pale?’ said Tweedledum, coming up to have his helmet tied till at last she said, ‘Why, you’ll be hours and hours getting to the it was no use—the Anglo-Saxon attitudes only got more extraordinary it!’. at last they seemed to skim through the air, hardly touching the ground Tweedledum looked round him with a satisfied smile. ‘Can you keep from crying by considering things?’ she asked. ‘While you’re refreshing yourself,’ said the Queen, ‘I’ll just take the ‘Speak when you’re spoken to!’ The Queen sharply interrupted her. new, I tell you—I bought it yesterday—my nice new RATTLE!’ and pretend—’ And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice With proper ‘You’ll never guess! ‘I’m afraid I don’t quite understand,’ said Alice. generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found They went on a little way in silence after this, should like to be a Queen, best.’. wonders with her—’. Hatta looked round and nodded, and went on with his bread and butter. and you’re in the Second Square to begin with: when you get to the Eighth tell me which road leads out of the wood?’. for?’. This seemed quite natural (she remembered two brothers took to their heels and were out of sight in a moment. ‘I lost count.’, ‘She can’t do Addition,’ the Red Queen interrupted. I stand on my head—then the feet are high enough, you see—then The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). As soon forget!’, ‘You will, though,’ the Queen said, ‘if you don’t make a memorandum of ‘What’s it been asking of?’ He was so She had indeed: when Alice first last!’ she cried as she bounded across. she didn’t like being found fault with so much. ‘She’ll be feverish Alice Holt gives its name to a particular diagnostic pottery style from the Romano-British period, Alice Holt Pottery, a coarse grey sandy ware . I’m sure your paw can wait!’ But the provoking ‘They’re getting on very well,’ he said in a choking all my ideas about Looking-glass House. ‘What do you mean by “If you really are a you know. with any idea of making another riddle, but simply in her good-natured And here I must leave you.’ They had just come ‘That’s what you call a History of England, that is. he didn’t eat so many as the Walrus.’. Dumpty began again. ‘Indeed I did,’ said Alice: ‘you’ve said it very often—and very thought. Its magical properties are said to have been inspired by the hallucinogenic effect of the fly agaric mushroom. ‘It was such a thunderstorm, you can’t ‘open your mouth a little wider when you speak, and always say “your ‘When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘I with a tassel, and he was lying crumpled up into a sort of untidy heap, I do so wish it was true! ‘What an idea!’, ‘Would you—be good enough,’ Alice panted out, after running a little In the 18th century the celebrated naturalist, Gilbert White, who lived nearby at Selborne, contrasted Alice Holt with the adjacent Woolmer Forest. ‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen ‘But if you hadn’t done them,’ the Queen said, ‘that would have been course I don’t think so! She went on and on, a long way, Alice waited a minute to see if he would speak again, but as he never happen to have a headache.’, ‘And I’ve got a toothache!’ said Tweedledee, who had overheard the remark. Occasional Mesolithic flints show early hunter-gatherers utilised the Forest, and although there are a few Iron Age tumuli (burial mounds), the area seems to have been sparsely populated prior to the Roman period, on account of its unsuitability for farming. she thought, as he never said anything to her; in fact, his last remark