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all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; 🔊

so either way Ill get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!’ She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, ‘Which way? Which way?’, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, 🔊

she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. 🔊

Hold your tongue, Ma!’ said the young Crab, a little snappishly. ‘You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!’ 🔊

After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, 🔊

so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it. 🔊

As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, (which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air. 🔊

he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear. 🔊

Hold your tongue!’ added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again. 🔊

Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple. ‘I won’t!’ said Alice. 🔊

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