← There was no ‘One, two, three, and away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. 🔊
← However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out ‘The race is over!’ and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, ‘But who has won?’ 🔊
← ‘He took me for his housemaid,’ she said to herself as she ran. 🔊
← then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game. 🔊
← ‘If I’d been the whiting,’ said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, ‘I’d have said to the porpoise, “Keep back, please: we don’t want you with us!”’ 🔊
← ‘What trial is it?’ Alice panted as she ran; 🔊
← and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, 🔊
← So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been. 🔊