. Through the looking glass, and what Alice found there. bunches of carrots, and fire-irons,and many other things. IT S MY OWN INVENTION. 165 I hope you Ve got your hair well fastenedon ? he continued, as they set off. Only in the usual way, Alice said, smiling. Thats hardly enough, he said, anxiously. You see the wind is so very strong here. Itsas strong as soup. Have you invented a plan for keeping thehair from being blown of ? Alice enquired. Not yet, said the Knight. But Ive gota plan for keeping it from falling off. I should like to hear it, very much. First you take an upright stick, sai
. Through the looking glass, and what Alice found there. bunches of carrots, and fire-irons,and many other things. IT S MY OWN INVENTION. 165 I hope you Ve got your hair well fastenedon ? he continued, as they set off. Only in the usual way, Alice said, smiling. Thats hardly enough, he said, anxiously. You see the wind is so very strong here. Itsas strong as soup. Have you invented a plan for keeping thehair from being blown of ? Alice enquired. Not yet, said the Knight. But Ive gota plan for keeping it from falling off. I should like to hear it, very much. First you take an upright stick, said theKnight. Then you make your hair creep upit, like a fruit-tree. Now the reason hair foilsoff is because it hangs down—things neverfall upwards, you know. Its a plan of myown invention. You may try it if you like. It didnt sound a comfortable plan, Alicethought, and for a few minutes she walked onin silence, puzzling over the idea, and every nowand then stopping to help the poor Knight, whocertainly was not a good rider. 166 IT S MY OWN Whenever the horse stopped (which it didvery often), he fell off in front; and, when-ever it went on again (which it generally didrather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwisehe kept on pretty well, except that he had ahabit of now and then foiling off sideways ; and,as he generally did this on the side on which IT S MY OWN INVENTION. 167 Alice was walking, she soon found that it was thebest plan not to walk quite close to the horse. Im afraid youve not had much practice inriding, she ventured to say, as she was helpinghim up from his fifth tumble. The Knight looked very much surprised, and alittle offended at the remark. What makes yousay that ? he asked, as he scrambled back into thesaddle, keeping hold of Alices hair with one hand,to save himself from falling over on the other side. Because people dont fall off quite so often,when they ve had much practice. Ive had plenty of practice, the Knight saidvery gravely: plenty of
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