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[picking the rushes] ‘The prettiest are always further!’ She said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off…

Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying…one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I dare say you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’

‘Have you pricked your finger?’
‘I haven’t pricked it yet,’ the Queen said, ‘but I soon shall…’
…’But why don’t you scream now?’ Alice asked…
‘Why, I’ve done all the screaming already,’ said the Queen

‘The rule is, Jane tomorrow and jam yesterday— but never jam today.’

‘I’ll settle it…when the road divides and they point in different ways.’
But this did not seem likely to happen. She went on and on, a long way, but, whenever the road divides, there were sure to be two finger-posts pointing the same way, on marked ‘TO TWEEDLEDUMS HOUSE’ and the other ‘TO THE HPUSE OF TWEEDLEDEE’

‘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.