"No room! No room!" they cried out as soon as they saw
Al-ice. "There's plen-ty of room," she said, and sat down in a large
arm-chair at one end of the table.
"Have some wine," the March Hare said in a kind tone.
Al-ice looked all round the ta-ble, but there was not a thing on it but
tea. "I don't see the wine," she said.
"There isn't an-y," said the March Hare.
"Then it wasn't po-lite of you to ask me to have wine," said Al-ice.
"It wasn't po-lite of you to sit down when no one had asked you to have
a seat," said the March Hare.
"I didn't know it was your ta-ble," said Al-ice; "it's laid for more
than three."
"Your hair wants cut-ting," said the Hat-ter. He had looked hard at
Al-ice for some time, and this was his first speech.
"You should learn not to speak to a guest like that," said Al-ice; "it
is ve-ry rude."
The Hat-ter stretched his eyes quite wide at this; but all he said was,
"Why is a rav-en like a desk?"
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"Come, we shall have some fun now," thought Al-ice. "I think I can guess
that," she added out loud.
"Do you mean that you think you can find out the an-swer to it?" asked
the March Hare.
"I do," said Al-ice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Al-ice said; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the
same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hat-ter. "Why, you might just as
well say, 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
"You might just as well say," added the March Hare, that 'I like what I
get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!"
"You might just as well say," added the Dor-mouse, who seemed to be
talk-ing in his sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing
as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"
"It is the same with you," said the Hat-ter.
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