Through The Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING: that's clear, at any rate—'

'If only her petals curled up a little more, she'd be all right.'

You can be the White Queen's Pawn,

'ought to know which way she's going,

a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.'

Alice didn't know how to begin a conversation with people she had just been dancing with.

AM real!' said Alice and began to cry.

'Why, I've done all the screaming already,' said the Queen. 'What would be the good of having it all over again?'

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one CAN'T believe impossible things.'

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

'ONE can't, perhaps,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'but TWO can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven.'

'A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master—that's all.'

'Well, "TOVES" are something like badgers—they're something like lizards—and they're something like corkscrews.'

'Well, "OUTGRABING" is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you'll hear it done, maybe—down in the wood yonder—and when you've once heard it you'll be QUITE content.

'I shouldn't know you again if we DID meet,' Humpty Dumpty replied in a discontented tone, giving her one of his fingers to shake; 'you're so exactly like other people.'

Alice was glad to see that it revived him a good deal. 'There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint,' he remarked to her, as he munched away.

a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.

At this moment the Unicorn sauntered by them, with his hands in his pockets.

'Well, now that we HAVE seen each other,' said the Unicorn, 'if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?'

'You see,' he went on after a pause, 'it's as well to be provided for EVERYTHING.

'To guard against the bites of sharks,'

Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk QUITE close to the horse.

Alice could think of nothing better to say than 'Indeed?'

'Not very nice ALONE,' he interrupted, quite eagerly: 'but you've no idea what a difference it makes mixing it with other things—such as gunpowder and sealing-wax. And here I must leave you.' They had just come to the end of the wood.

'Always speak the truth—think before you speak—and write it down afterwards.'

'Wrong, as usual,' said the Red Queen: 'the dog's temper would remain.'

'She's all right again now,' said the Red Queen. 'Do you know Languages? What's the French for fiddle-de-dee?' 'Fiddle-de-dee's not English,' Alice replied gravely.

But the Red Queen looked sulky, and growled 'Pudding—Alice; Alice—Pudding. Remove the pudding!' and the waiters took it away so quickly that Alice couldn't return its bow.