← ‘Why,’ said the Dodo, ‘the best way to explain it is to do it.’ (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.) 🔊
← ‘I--I’m a little girl,’ said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day. 🔊
← ‘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?’ 🔊
← The Hatter was the first to break the silence. ‘What day of the month is it?’ he said, turning to Alice: 🔊
← ‘It’s--it’s a very fine day!’ said a timid voice at her side. 🔊
← ‘I’ve been to a day-school, too,’ said Alice; ‘you needn’t be so proud as all that.’ 🔊
← ‘And how many hours a day did you do lessons?’ said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. 🔊
← ‘Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?’ ‘Of course it was,’ said the Mock Turtle. 🔊
← so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate. 🔊
← There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really clever thing the King had said that day. 🔊