← And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them. 🔊
← ‘and things are worse than ever,’ thought the poor child, ‘for I never was so small as this before, never! 🔊
← and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, ‘Come away, my dears! It’s high time you were all in bed!’ 🔊
← And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line: 🔊
← ‘If I don’t take this child away with me,’ thought Alice, ‘they’re sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn’t it be murder to leave it behind?’ 🔊
← ‘If it had grown up,’ she said to herself, ‘it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.’ 🔊
← And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, 🔊
← for, you see, as they were lying on their faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of the pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her own children. 🔊
← ‘Get up!’ said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the Queen, the royal children, and everybody else. 🔊
← ‘That’s different from what I used to say when I was a child,’ said the Gryphon. 🔊