← An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. 🔊
← Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; 🔊
← whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; 🔊
← and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; 🔊
← then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, 🔊
← so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance. 🔊
← ‘And yet what a dear little puppy it was!’ said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: 🔊