. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . he Gnat re-plied ; and it makes its nest in a Christmas-box. And then theres the Butterfly, Alicewent on, after she had taken a good look atthe insect with its head on fire, and hadthought to herself, I wonder if thats thereason insects are so fond of flying intocandles--because they want to turn intoSnap-dragon-flies! Crawling at your feet, said the Gnat(Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), you may observe a wings are thin slices of bread-and-butter,its body is a crust, and its head is a lump ofsugar. And
. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there . he Gnat re-plied ; and it makes its nest in a Christmas-box. And then theres the Butterfly, Alicewent on, after she had taken a good look atthe insect with its head on fire, and hadthought to herself, I wonder if thats thereason insects are so fond of flying intocandles--because they want to turn intoSnap-dragon-flies! Crawling at your feet, said the Gnat(Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), you may observe a wings are thin slices of bread-and-butter,its body is a crust, and its head is a lump ofsugar. And what does it live on ? Weak tea with cream in it. A new difficulty came into Alices head. Supposing it couldnt find any ? she sug-gested. Then it would die, of course. LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS. But that must happen very often, Aliceremarked thoughtfully. <*j •/ It always happens, said the Gnat. After this, Alice was silent for a minute ortwo, pondering. The Gnat amused itselfmeanwhile by humming round and roundher head: at last it settled again and re-. marked, I suppose you dont want to loseyour name ? No, indeed, Alice said, a little anxiously. And yet I dont know, the Gnat wenton in a careless tone: only think howconvenient it would be if you could manageto go home without it! For instance, if 66 THRO UGff THE LOOKING- GLA 55. the governess wanted to call you to your lessons, she would call out Come here , and there she would have to leave off, be-cause there wouldnt be any name for herto call, and of course you wouldnt have togo, you know. That would never do, Im sure, saidAlice: the governess would never think ofexcusing me lessons for that. If she couldntremember my name, shed call me Miss! asthe servants do. Well, if she said Miss, and didnt sayanything more, the Gnat remarked, ofcourse youd miss your lessons. Thats ajoke. I wish you had made it. Why do you wish / had made it ? Aliceasked. Its a very bad one. But the Gnat only sighed deeply, whiletwo large tears came r
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