← (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) 🔊
← And then a voice she had never heard before, ‘Sure then I’m here! Digging for apples, yer honour!’ 🔊
← ‘Digging for apples, indeed!’ said the Rabbit angrily. 🔊
← ‘Ah, well! It means much the same thing,’ said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, ‘and the moral of that is--“Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.”’ 🔊
← ‘Thinking again?’ the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin. 🔊