← ‘I’ll fetch the executioner myself,’ said the King eagerly, and he hurried off. 🔊
← there was a dispute going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable. 🔊
← The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: 🔊
← ‘She’s in prison,’ the Queen said to the executioner: ‘fetch her here.’ And the executioner went off like an arrow. 🔊
← ‘She’s in prison,’ the Queen said to the executioner: ‘fetch her here.’ And the executioner went off like an arrow. 🔊
← so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game. 🔊