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The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne, with a great crowd assembled about them—all sorts of little birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards.
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When the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet.
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She came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high.
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Round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words “Drink Me” beautifully printed on it in large letters.
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“Now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!”
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The Rabbit skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.
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She was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.
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The Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.
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They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank.
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They all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble.
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She tried the effect of lying down with one elbow against the door, and the other arm curled round her head.
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She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass.
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The first thing she heard was a general chorus of “There goes Bill!”
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An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes.
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The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence.
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A young man in rural costume stares at an old fat man who is standing on his head.
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Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door.
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Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak.
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Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose.
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The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter.
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The Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby.
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It was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further.
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She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
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This time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin.
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The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this.
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
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The last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.
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The roses were white, but there were three gardeners busily painting them red.
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The Queen turned crimson with fury, and screamed “Off with her head!”
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The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
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When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round it.
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She was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin.
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They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun.
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“When we were little,” the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, “we went to school in the sea.”
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So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and then treading on her toes.
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Her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying.
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The White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet.
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“I’m a poor man, your Majesty,” the Hatter began, in a trembling voice.
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“I’d rather finish my tea,” said the Hatter, with an anxious look at the Queen.
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She jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt.
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“Why, there they are!” said the King triumphantly, pointing to the tarts on the table.
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At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her.