They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank-- 🔊the
birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close
to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. 🔊
The first question of course was, how to get dry again: 🔊 they had a
consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural
to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had
known them all her life. 🔊 Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the
Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, ‘I am older than
you, and must know better’; 🔊 and this Alice would not allow without
knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its