← First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; 🔊
← I wonder what I should be like then?’ And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. 🔊
← and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried. 🔊
← I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. 🔊
← I’ll try and say “How doth the little--“’ and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, 🔊
← ‘Why,’ said the Dodo, ‘the best way to explain it is to do it.’ (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.) 🔊
← And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made. 🔊
← Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it; 🔊
← ‘And now which is which?’ she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: 🔊
← the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot. 🔊