. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . running 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 never seemed to passanything. I wonder if all the things movealong with us? thought poor puzzled Alice. And the Queen seemed to guess herthoughts, for she cried, Faster! Don
. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . running 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 never seemed to passanything. I wonder if all the things movealong with us? thought poor puzzled Alice. And the Queen seemed to guess herthoughts, for she cried, Faster! Dont tryto 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 ofbreath : and still the Queen cried Faster!Faster ! and dragged her along. Are we THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLO WERS, 49 nearly there ? Alice managed to pant outat last. Nearly there ? the Queen repeated. Why, we passed it ten minutes ago! Fas-ter!1 And they ran on for a time in silence,with the wind whistling in Alices ears9. and almost blowing her hair off her head,she fancied. 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, tillsuddenly, just as Alice was getting quite 50 THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. exhausted, they stopped, and she found her-self sitting on the ground, breathless andgiddy. The Queen propped her up against a tree,and said kindly, You may rest a little now. Alice looked round her in great , I do believe weve been under thistree the whole time! Everythings just as itwas! Of course it is, said the Queen : whatwould you have it ? Well, in our country, said Alice, stillpanting a little, youd generally get tosomewhere else—if you ran-very fast for along time, as weve been doing. A slow sort of country ! said the Queen. Now, here you see, it takes all the runningyou can do, to keep in the same place. Ifyou want to get
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