. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there. and a sudden gust of wind blew the Queensshawl across a little brook. The Queen spreadout her arms again, and went flying after it, andthis time she succeeded in catching it for got it! she cried in a triumphant tone. WOOL AND WATER. 101 Now you shall see me pin it on again, allby myself! Then I hope your finger is better now ?Alice said very politely, as she crossed the littlebrook after the Queen. Oh, much better ! cried the Queen, her voicerising into a squeak as she went on. Muchbe-etter! Be-etter! Be-e-e-etter ! Be-e-eh
. Through the looking glass : and what Alice found there. and a sudden gust of wind blew the Queensshawl across a little brook. The Queen spreadout her arms again, and went flying after it, andthis time she succeeded in catching it for got it! she cried in a triumphant tone. WOOL AND WATER. 101 Now you shall see me pin it on again, allby myself! Then I hope your finger is better now ?Alice said very politely, as she crossed the littlebrook after the Queen. Oh, much better ! cried the Queen, her voicerising into a squeak as she went on. Muchbe-etter! Be-etter! Be-e-e-etter ! Be-e-ehh ! Thelast word ended in a long bleat, so like a sheepthat Alice quite started. She looked at the Queen, who seemed tohave suddenly wrapped herself up in wool. Alicerubbed her eyes, and looked again. She couldntmake out what had happened at all. Was she in a shop ? And was that really was it really a sheep that was sitting on the other side of thecounter ? Rub as she would, she could makenothing more of it: she was in a little dark 102 WOOL AND WAT shop, leaning with her elbows on the counter,and opposite to her was an old Sheep, sitting inan arm-chair knitting, and every now and thenleaving off to look at her through a great pairof spectacles. What is it you want to buy V* the Sheep WOOL AND WATER. 103 said at last, looking up for a moment from herknitting. I dont quite know yet, Alice said verygently. I should like to look all round mefirst, if I might. You may look in front of you, and on bothsides, if you like, said the Sheep; but you cant look all round you unless youve got eyes at the back of your head. But these, as it happened, Alice had not got:so she contented herself with turning round,looking at the shelves as she came to them. The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things but the oddest part of it all was, that whenever she looked hard at anyshelf, to make out exactly what it had on it,that particular shelf was always quite empty:though the other
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