← It’ll be no use their putting their heads down and saying “Come up again, dear!” 🔊
← It’ll be no use their putting their heads down and saying “Come up again, dear!” 🔊
← --but, oh dear!’ cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, ‘I do wish they would put their heads down! I am so very tired of being all alone here!’ 🔊
← Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; 🔊
← ‘and besides, what would be the use of a procession,’ thought she, ‘if people had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn’t see it?’ 🔊
← ‘Are their heads off?’ shouted the Queen. 🔊
← She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and she did not like the look of things at all, 🔊
← and they repeated their arguments to her, though, as they all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly what they said. 🔊
← As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, 🔊
← Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates; ‘but it doesn’t matter a bit,’ she thought to herself. 🔊