Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had read
about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that she knew
the name of nearly everything there. 🔊 ‘That’s the judge,’ she said to
herself, ‘because of his great wig.’ 🔊
The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the
wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,) 🔊 he did
not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming. 🔊
‘And that’s the jury-box,’ thought Alice, ‘and those twelve creatures,’
(she was obliged to say ‘creatures,’ you see, because some of them were
animals, and some were birds,) ‘I suppose they are the jurors.’ 🔊 She said
this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of
it: 🔊 for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her
age knew the meaning of it at all. 🔊 However, ‘jury-men’ would have done
The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. 🔊 ‘What are they
doing?’ Alice whispered to the Gryphon. ‘They can’t have anything to put