← Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: 🔊
← However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more. 🔊
← And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:-- 🔊
← The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle. 🔊
← ‘Come back!’ the Caterpillar called after her. ‘I’ve something important to say!’ 🔊
← Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing. 🔊
← ‘I can see you’re trying to invent something!’ 🔊
← ‘I think you might do something better with the time,’ she said, ‘than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.’ 🔊
← You know the song, perhaps?’ ‘I’ve heard something like it,’ said Alice. 🔊
← ‘You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. 🔊