← ‘Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,’ the Hatter grumbled: ‘you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.’ 🔊
← Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her question. 🔊
← The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. 🔊
← and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter. 🔊
← ‘--and I hadn’t begun my tea--not above a week or so--and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin--and the twinkling of the tea--’ 🔊
← ‘After that,’ continued the Hatter, ‘I cut some more bread-and-butter--’ 🔊
← The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee. 🔊