← ‘So they were,’ said the Dormouse; ‘very ill.’ 🔊
← 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 Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then said, ‘It was a treacle-well.’ 🔊
← He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: 🔊
← ‘But they were in the well,’ Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark. 🔊
← ‘Of course they were’, said the Dormouse; ‘--well in.’ 🔊
← the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot. 🔊
← ‘You’ve no right to grow here,’ said the Dormouse. 🔊
← and, just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to one of the officers of the court, ‘Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!’ 🔊