Alice stood looking after it, almost ready to cry with vexation at
having lost her dear little fellow-traveller so suddenly. However, I
know my name now. she said, that s _some_ comfort. Alice Alice I
won t forget it again. And now, which of these finger-posts ought I to
follow, I wonder?
It was not a very difficult question to answer, as there was only one
road through the wood, and the two finger-posts both pointed along it.
I ll settle it, Alice said to herself, when the road divides and
they point different ways.
But this did not seem likely to happen. She went on and on, a long way,
but wherever the road divided there were sure to be two finger-posts
pointing the same way, one marked TO TWEEDLEDUM S HOUSE and the other
TO THE HOUSE OF TWEEDLEDEE.
I do believe, said Alice at last, that they live in the same house!
I wonder I never thought of that before But I can t stay there long.
I ll just call and say how d you do? and ask them the way out of the
wood. If I could only get to the Eighth Square before it gets dark! So
she wandered on, talking to herself as she went, till, on turning a
sharp corner, she came upon two fat little men, so suddenly that she
could not help starting back, but in another moment she recovered
herself, feeling sure that they must be
CHAPTER IV.
Tweedledum And Tweedledee
They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other s
neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them
had DUM embroidered on his collar, and the other DEE. I suppose
they ve each got TWEEDLE round at the back of the collar, she said
to herself.
They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she was
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