← Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: 🔊
← (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: 🔊
← ‘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.) 🔊
← She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen. 🔊
← ‘Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ 🔊
← ‘It turned into a pig,’ Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back in a natural way. 🔊
← ‘Is that the way you manage?’ Alice asked. 🔊
← ‘It goes on, you know,’ the Hatter continued, ‘in this way:-- 🔊
← ‘The game’s going on rather better now,’ she said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little. 🔊
← She soon got it out again, and put it right; ‘not that it signifies much,’ she said to herself; ‘I should think it would be quite as much use in the trial one way up as the other.’ 🔊