← ‘I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried hedges,’ the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 🔊
← ‘And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,’ continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, 🔊
← and was just saying to herself, ‘if one only knew the right way to change them--’ when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. 🔊
← As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree. 🔊
← There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: 🔊
← Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door leading right into it. 🔊
← Two began in a low voice, ‘Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. 🔊
← ‘And who are these?’ said the Queen, pointing to the three gardeners who were lying round the rose-tree; 🔊
← And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, ‘What have you been doing here?’ 🔊
← the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree. 🔊