. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . ence by say-ing to the White Queen, I invite you toAlices dinner-party this afternoon. The White Queen smiled feebly, and said And I invite you I didnt know I was to have a party atall, said Alice ; but if there is to be one, Ithink /ought to invite the guests. We gave you the opportunity of doingit, the Red Queen remarked : but I daresayyouve not had many lessons in manners Manners are not taught in lessons, said Alice. Lessons teach you to do sums, and things of that sort. Can you do Addition ? the White Queen asked. Whats one and on
. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . ence by say-ing to the White Queen, I invite you toAlices dinner-party this afternoon. The White Queen smiled feebly, and said And I invite you I didnt know I was to have a party atall, said Alice ; but if there is to be one, Ithink /ought to invite the guests. We gave you the opportunity of doingit, the Red Queen remarked : but I daresayyouve not had many lessons in manners Manners are not taught in lessons, said Alice. Lessons teach you to do sums, and things of that sort. Can you do Addition ? the White Queen asked. Whats one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one ? I dont know, said Alice. I lost count. She cant do Addition, the Red Queen interrupted. Can you do subtraction ? Take nine from eight. <£(JEEN ALICE. 187 Nine from eight I cant, you know,9Alice replied very readily : but— She cant do subtraction, said the WhiteQueen. Can you do Division ? Divide aloaf by a knife—whats the answer to that ? I suppose— Alice was beginning, but the. Red Queen answered for her. Bread-and-butter, of course. Try another Subtractionsum. Take a bone from a dog : what re-mains ? Alice considered. The bone wouldnt re-main, of course, if I took it—and the dog 182 THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. -wouldnt remain ; it would come to bite me—and Im sure /shouldnt remain ! Then you think nothing would remain ? *said the red Queen. I think thats the answer. Wrong, as usual, said the Red Queen the dogs temper would remain. But I dont see how— Why, look here! the Red Queen cried The dog would lose its temper, wouldnt it? Perhaps it would, Alice replied cau-tiously. Then if the dog went away, its temperwould remain ! the Queen exclaimed trium-phantly. Alice said, as gravely as she could, The}might go different ways. But she couldnthelp thinking to herself, What dreadfulnonsense we are talking! She cant do sums a bit / the Queenssaid together, with great emphasis. Can_}0# do sums? Alice sa
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