← There are no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s very like a mouse, you know. 🔊
← There are no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s very like a mouse, you know. 🔊
← ‘Would it be of any use, now,’ thought Alice, ‘to speak to this mouse? 🔊
← (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: 🔊
← ‘I thought you did,’ said the Mouse. ‘--I proceed. 🔊
← ‘But she must have a prize herself, you know,’ said the Mouse. 🔊
← And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:-- 🔊
← ‘You are not attending!’ said the Mouse to Alice severely. ‘What are you thinking of?’ 🔊
← ‘I shall do nothing of the sort,’ said the Mouse, getting up and walking away. 🔊
← “Coming in a minute, nurse! But I’ve got to see that the mouse doesn’t get out.” 🔊