takes all the running _you_ can do, to keep in the same place. If you
want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as
that!
I d rather not try, please! said Alice. I m quite content to stay
here only I _am_ so hot and thirsty!
I know what _you d_ like! the Queen said good-naturedly, taking a
little box out of her pocket. Have a biscuit?
Alice thought it would not be civil to say No, though it wasn t at
all what she wanted. So she took it, and ate it as well as she could:
and it was _very_ dry; and she thought she had never been so nearly
choked in all her life.
While you re refreshing yourself, said the Queen, I ll just take the
measurements. And she took a ribbon out of her pocket, marked in
inches, and began measuring the ground, and sticking little pegs in
here and there.
At the end of two yards, she said, putting in a peg to mark the
distance, I shall give you your directions have another biscuit?
No, thank you, said Alice: one s _quite_ enough!
Thirst quenched, I hope? said the Queen.
Alice did not know what to say to this, but luckily the Queen did not
wait for an answer, but went on. At the end of _three_ yards I shall
repeat them for fear of your forgetting them. At the end of _four_, I
shall say good-bye. And at the end of _five_, I shall go!
She had got all the pegs put in by this time, and Alice looked on with
great interest as she returned to the tree, and then began slowly
walking down the row.
At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, A pawn goes two squares
in its first move, you know. So you ll go _very_ quickly through the
Third Square by railway, I should think and you ll find yourself in the
Fourth Square in no time. Well, _that_ square belongs to Tweedledum and
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