← Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King’s crown on a crimson velvet cushion; 🔊
← She said it to the Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply. 🔊
← The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave ‘Turn them over!’ 🔊
← The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot. 🔊
← the Knave was standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard him; 🔊
← The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!’ 🔊
← ‘Please your Majesty,’ said the Knave, ‘I didn’t write it, and they can’t prove I did: there’s no name signed at the end.’ 🔊
← ‘I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. “--said I could not swim--” you can’t swim, can you?’ he added, turning to the Knave. 🔊
← The Knave shook his head sadly. ‘Do I look like it?’ he said. (Which he certainly did not, being made entirely of cardboard.) 🔊