← and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she’s such a capital one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!’ cried Alice again, 🔊
← “Coming in a minute, nurse! But I’ve got to see that the mouse doesn’t get out.” 🔊
← the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; 🔊
← And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line: 🔊
← ‘Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!’ the Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke. 🔊
← 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. 🔊