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‘I’m a Fawn!’ it cried out in a voice of delight. ‘And, dear me! You’re a human child!’ A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed.

[Fawn to Alice forgetting names] ‘I’ll tell you, if you’re come a little further on,’ the Fawn said. ‘I can’t remember here.’

‘It’s useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?’

‘I think I’ll go down and—no, I won’t go just yet,’ she went on, checking herself just as she was beginning to run down the hill, and trying to find some excuse for turning shy so suddenly.

Alice began to remember that she was a Pawn, and that it would soon be time for her to move.

[about poem] ‘Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!’

‘I really must get a thinner pencil. I can’t manage this one a bit: it writes all manner of things that I don’t intend—‘
‘That’s not a memorandum of your feelings!’

‘The horror of that moment…I shall never, never forget!’
‘You will, though…if you don’t make a memorandum of it.’

and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child life, and the happy summer days.

Lastly, she pictured to herself how the same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood, and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago;