. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . nted a better one thanthat—like a sugar-loaf. When I used tcwear it, if I fell off of the horse, it alwaystouched the ground directly. So I had a verylittle way to fall, you see—But there was thedanger of falling into it, to be sure. Thathappened to me once—and the worst of iiwas, before I could get out again, the otherWhite Knight came and put it on. Hethought it was his own helmet. The Knight looked so solemn about it thatAlice did not dare to laugh. Im afraidyou must have hurt him, she said in atrembling voice, being on the top of h
. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . nted a better one thanthat—like a sugar-loaf. When I used tcwear it, if I fell off of the horse, it alwaystouched the ground directly. So I had a verylittle way to fall, you see—But there was thedanger of falling into it, to be sure. Thathappened to me once—and the worst of iiwas, before I could get out again, the otherWhite Knight came and put it on. Hethought it was his own helmet. The Knight looked so solemn about it thatAlice did not dare to laugh. Im afraidyou must have hurt him, she said in atrembling voice, being on the top of hishead. 441 had to kick him, of course, the Knightsaid, very seriously. And then he took thehelmet offagain—but it took hours and hoursto get me out. I was as fast as—as light-ning, you know* •• ITS MY o WN INVENTION:* 65 But thats a different kind of fastness,Alice objected. The Knight shook his head. It was allkinds of fastness with me, I can assure you!he said. He raised his hands in some excite-ment as he said this, and instantly rolled. out of the saddle, and fell headlong into adeep ditch. Alice ran to the side of the ditch to lookfor him. She was rather startled by the fall,as for some time he had kept on very well,and she was afraid that he really was hurtthis time. However, though she could see x i—Through the T66 THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. nothing but the soles of his feet, she wasmuch relieved to hear that he was talkingon in his usual tone. All kinds of fastness,he repeated: bijt it was careless of him toput another mans helmet on- -wiih the manir it, too. *; How can you go on talking so quietly,head downwards? Alice asked, as shedragged him out by the feet, and laid him ina heap on the bank. The Knight looked surprised at the ques-tion. What does it matter where ray bodyhappens to be ? he said. My mind goeson working1 all the same. In fact, the morehead downwards I ana, the more I keep in-venting new things. Now the cleverest thing ol the sort thatI
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