. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . tlebrooks. *j* •!* * * Tickets, please! said the Guard, puttinghis head in at the window. In a momenteverybody was holding out a ticket : theywere about the same size as the people, andquite seemed to fill the carriage. Now then ! Show your ticket, child ! the Guard went on, looking angrily at a great many voices all said together( like the chorus of a song, thought Alice), Dont keep him waiting, child ! Why, histime is worth a thousand pounds a minute! Im afraid I havent got one, Alice saidin a frightened tone : there wasnt
. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . tlebrooks. *j* •!* * * Tickets, please! said the Guard, puttinghis head in at the window. In a momenteverybody was holding out a ticket : theywere about the same size as the people, andquite seemed to fill the carriage. Now then ! Show your ticket, child ! the Guard went on, looking angrily at a great many voices all said together( like the chorus of a song, thought Alice), Dont keep him waiting, child ! Why, histime is worth a thousand pounds a minute! Im afraid I havent got one, Alice saidin a frightened tone : there wasnt a ticket-office where I came from. And again thechorus of voices went on : There wasntroom for one where she came from. Theland there is worth a thousand pounds aninch ! Dont make excuses, said the Guard : you should have bought one from theengine-driver. And once more the chorus LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS. 57 of voices went on with The man that drivesthe engine. Why, the smoke alone is wortha thousand pounds a puff! Alice thought to herself, Then theres no. use in speaking. The voices didnt join inthis time, as she hadnt spoken, but, to hergreat surprise, they all thought in chorus (Ihope you understand what thinking in chorusmeans — for I must confess that / dont), 58 THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. 11 Better say nothing at all. Language isworth a thousand pounds a word! I shall dream about a thousand poundsto-night, I know I shall! thought Alice. All this time the Guard was looking ather, first through a telescope, then througha microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, Youre traveling thewrong way, and shut up the window andwent away. So young a child, said the gentlemansitting opposite to her, (he was dressed inwhite paper,) ought to know which wayshes going, even if she doesnt know her own name! A Goat, that was sitting next to the gen-tleman in white, shut his eyes and said in aloud voice, She ought to know her way tothe ticket-office, even if she doesnt kn
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