← and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, 🔊
← ‘But it’s no use now,’ thought poor Alice, ‘to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!’ Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: 🔊
← Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. 🔊
← By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box-- Allow me to sell you a couple?’ 🔊
← ‘She boxed the Queen’s ears--’ the Rabbit began. 🔊
← ‘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 carried the pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once. 🔊
← and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, 🔊
← and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die. 🔊
← Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move. 🔊