← ‘And that’s the jury-box,’ thought Alice, ‘and those twelve creatures,’ (she was obliged to say ‘creatures,’ you see, because some of them were animals, and some were birds,) ‘I suppose they are the jurors.’ 🔊
← The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. 🔊
← Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down ‘stupid things!’ on their slates, 🔊
← One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. 🔊
← She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; 🔊