sometimes in the winter we take as many as five nights together for
warmth, you know.
Are five nights warmer than one night, then? Alice ventured to ask.
Five times as warm, of course.
But they should be five times as _cold_, by the same rule
Just so! cried the Red Queen. Five times as warm, _and_ five times
as cold just as I m five times as rich as you are, _and_ five times as
clever!
Alice sighed and gave it up. It s exactly like a riddle with no
answer! she thought.
Humpty Dumpty saw it too, the White Queen went on in a low voice,
more as if she were talking to herself. He came to the door with a
corkscrew in his hand
What did he want? said the Red Queen.
He said he _would_ come in, the White Queen went on, because he was
looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn t such a
thing in the house, that morning.
Is there generally? Alice asked in an astonished tone.
Well, only on Thursdays, said the Queen.
I know what he came for, said Alice: he wanted to punish the fish,
because
Here the White Queen began again. It was _such_ a thunderstorm, you
can t think! ( She _never_ could, you know, said the Red Queen.) And
part of the roof came off, and ever so much thunder got in and it went
rolling round the room in great lumps and knocking over the tables and
things till I was so frightened, I couldn t remember my own name!
Alice thought to herself, I never should _try_ to remember my name in
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