← ‘Oh, I beg your pardon!’ cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal’s feelings. 🔊
← It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: 🔊
← the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. 🔊
← She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn’t guess of what sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: 🔊
← As soon as she was small enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside. 🔊
← ‘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.’ 🔊