made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she
‘I wish I hadn’t cried so much!’ said Alice, as she swam about, trying
to find her way out. 🔊 ‘I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by
being drowned in my own tears! 🔊 That will be a queer thing, to be sure! 🔊
However, everything is queer to-day.’ 🔊
Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way
off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: 🔊 at first she thought
it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small
she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had
‘Would it be of any use, now,’ thought Alice, ‘to speak to this mouse? 🔊
Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very
likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying.’ 🔊 So she
began: ‘O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired
of swimming about here, O Mouse!’ 🔊 (Alice thought this must be the right
way of speaking to a mouse: 🔊 she had never done such a thing before, but
she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, ‘A mouse--of