. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there. fastthat it was all she could do to keep up withher: and still the Queen kept crying Faster!Faster! but Alice felt she could not go faster,though she had no breath left to say so. The most curious part of the thing was, thatthe trees and the other things round them neverchanged their places at all: however fast theywent, they never seemed to pass anything. Iwonder if all the things move along with us ?thought poor puzzled Alice. And the Queenseemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, Faster ! Dont try to talk ! Not that Alice had any
. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there. fastthat it was all she could do to keep up withher: and still the Queen kept crying Faster!Faster! but Alice felt she could not go faster,though she had no breath left to say so. The most curious part of the thing was, thatthe trees and the other things round them neverchanged their places at all: however fast theywent, they never seemed to pass anything. Iwonder if all the things move along with us ?thought poor puzzled Alice. And the Queenseemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, Faster ! Dont try to talk ! Not that Alice had any idea of doing felt as if she would never be able to talkagain, she was getting so much out of breath:and still the Queen cried Faster! Faster!and dragged her along. Are we nearly there %Alice managed to pant out at last. Nearly there! the Queen repeated. Why,we passed it ten minutes ago ! Faster! Andthey ran on for a time in silence, with the LIVE FLOWERS. 41 wind whistling in Alices ears, and almost blow-ing her hair off her head, she wsmmm?-^^^ Now! Now ! cried the Queen. Faster !Faster! And they went so fast that at lastthey seemed to skim through the air, hardlytouching the ground with their feet, till sud-denly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted,they stopped, and she found herself sitting onthe ground, breathless and giddy. The Queen propped her up against a tree,and said kindly, You may rest a little now, 42 THE GARDEN OF Alice looked round her in great surprise. Why, I do believe we ve been under this treethe whole time ! Everythings just as it was ! Of course it is, said the Queen: whatwould you have it 1 Well, in our country, said Alice, stillpanting a little, youd generally get to some-where else if you ran very fast for a long time, as weve been doing. A slow sort of country! said the , here, you see, it takes all the runningyou can do, to keep in the same place. Ifyou want to get somewhere else, you must runat least twice as fast
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