it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it
a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself
‘It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.’ 🔊
‘How are you getting on?’ said the Cat, as soon as there was mouth
enough for it to speak with. 🔊
Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. 🔊 ‘It’s no use
speaking to it,’ she thought, ‘till its ears have come, or at least one
of them.’ 🔊 In another minute the whole head appeared, and then Alice put
down her flamingo, and began an account of the game, feeling very glad
she had someone to listen to her. 🔊 The Cat seemed to think that there was
enough of it now in sight, and no more of it appeared. 🔊
‘I don’t think they play at all fairly,’ Alice began, in rather a
complaining tone, ‘and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear
oneself speak-- 🔊and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular;
at least, if there are, nobody attends to them-- 🔊and you’ve no idea how
confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the
arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the
ground-- 🔊and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only