. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . a diction- i »ary Alice curtseyed again, as she was afraidfrom the Queens tone that she was a littleoffended and they walked on in silence tillthey got to the top of the hill. For some minutes Alice stood withoutspeaking, looking out in all directions overthe country—and a most curious country itwas. There were a number of tiny littlebrooks running straight across it from sideto side, and the ground between was dividedup into squares by a number of little greenhedges, that reached from brook to brook. I declare its marked out just like
. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . a diction- i »ary Alice curtseyed again, as she was afraidfrom the Queens tone that she was a littleoffended and they walked on in silence tillthey got to the top of the hill. For some minutes Alice stood withoutspeaking, looking out in all directions overthe country—and a most curious country itwas. There were a number of tiny littlebrooks running straight across it from sideto side, and the ground between was dividedup into squares by a number of little greenhedges, that reached from brook to brook. I declare its marked out just like a largechess-board ! Alice said at last. Thereought to be some men moving about some-where—and so there are! she added in a THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLO WERS. 47 tone of delight, and her heart began to beatquick with excitement as she went on. Itsa great huge game of chess thats beingplayed—all over the world—if this is theworld at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is !How I wish I was one of them! I wouldntmind being a Pawn, if only I might join—•. though of course I should like to be a Qmeen,best. She glanced rather shyly at the real Queenas she said this, but her companion onlysmiled pleasantly, and said, Thats easilymanaged. You can be the White QueensPawn, if you like, as Lilys too young to 48 THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, play ; and youre in the Second Square tobegin with : when you get to the EighthSquare youll be a Queen- Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began torun. Alice never could quite make out, in think-ing it over afterwards, how it was that theybegan : all she remembers is, that they wererunning hand in hand, and the Queen wentso fast that it was all she could do to keepup with her : and still the Queen kept crying Faster! Faster! but Alice felt she coiMnot go faster, though she had no breath leftto say so. The most curious part of the thing was,that the trees and other things round themnever changed their places at all: howeverfast they went, they
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