is to be one, I think _I_ ought to invite the guests.
We gave you the opportunity of doing it, the Red Queen remarked: but
I daresay you ve not had many lessons in manners yet?
Manners are not taught in lessons, said Alice. Lessons teach you to
do sums, and things of that sort.
And you do Addition? the White Queen asked. What s one and one and
one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?
I don t know, said Alice. I lost count.
She can t do Addition, the Red Queen interrupted. Can you do
Subtraction? Take nine from eight.
Nine from eight I can t, you know, Alice replied very readily: but
She can t do Subtraction, said the White Queen. Can you do Division?
Divide a loaf by a knife what s the answer to that?
I suppose Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her.
Bread-and-butter, of course. Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone
from a dog: what remains?
Alice considered. The bone wouldn t remain, of course, if I took
it and the dog wouldn t remain; it would come to bite me and I m sure
_I_ shouldn t remain!
Then you think nothing would remain? said the Red Queen.
I think that s the answer.
Wrong, as usual, said the Red Queen: the dog s temper would remain.
But I don t see how
Why, look here! the Red Queen cried. The dog would lose its temper,
wouldn t it?
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