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<title>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</title>
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<h2 id="pgepubid00013"><a id="X_ALICES_EVIDENCE"></a>Alice's Evidence</h2>
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<p>"Here!" cried Alice. She jumped up in such a hurry that she
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tipped over the jury-box, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd
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below.</p>
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<p>"Oh, I <i>beg</i> your pardon!" she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay.</p>
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<p>"The trial cannot proceed," said the King, "until all the jurymen are back in their
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proper places—<i>all</i>," he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at
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Alice.</p>
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<p>"What do you know about this business?" the King said to Alice.</p>
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<p>"Nothing whatever," said Alice.</p>
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<p>The King then read from his book: "Rule forty-<a id="Page_46" class="pageno" title=
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"[Pg 46]"></a>two. <i>All persons more than a mile high to leave the court</i>."</p>
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<p>"<i>I'm</i> not a mile high," said Alice.</p>
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<p>"Nearly two miles high," said the Queen.</p>
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<p>"Well, I sha'n't go, at any rate," said Alice.</p>
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<p>The King turned pale and shut his note-book hastily. "Consider your verdict," he
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said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice.</p>
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<p>"There's more evidence to come yet, please Your Majesty," said the White Rabbit,
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jumping up in a great hurry. "This paper has just been picked up. It seems to be a
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letter written by the prisoner to—to somebody." He unfolded the paper as he spoke
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and added, "It isn't a letter, after all; it's a set of verses."</p>
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<p>"Please, Your Majesty," said the Knave, "I didn't write it and they can't prove that
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I did; there's no name signed at the end."</p>
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<p>"You <i>must</i> have meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed your name like
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an honest man," said the King. There was a general clapping of hands at this.<a id=
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"Page_47" class="pageno" title="[Pg 47]"></a></p>
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<p>"Read them," he added, turning to the White Rabbit.</p>
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<p>There was dead silence in the court whilst the White Rabbit read out the verses.</p>
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<p>"That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet," said the King.</p>
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<p>"<i>I</i> don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it," ventured Alice.</p>
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<p>"If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you
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know, as we needn't try to find any. Let the jury consider their verdict."</p>
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<p>"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first—verdict afterwards."</p>
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<p>"Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice loudly. "The idea of having the sentence
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first!"</p>
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<figure class="small">
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<img src="images/ii021_th.jpg" alt="Illo21" />
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<p>"Hold your tongue!" said the Queen, turning purple.</p>
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<p>"I won't!" said Alice.</p>
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<p>"Off with her head!" the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.</p>
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<p>"Who cares for <i>you</i>?" said Alice (she had grown to her full size by this
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time). "You're nothing but a pack of cards!"</p>
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<p>At this, the whole pack rose up in the air and came flying down upon her; she<a id=
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"Page_48" class="pageno" title="[Pg 48]"></a> gave a little scream, half of fright and
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half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with
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her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that
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had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.</p>
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<p>"Wake up, Alice dear!" said her sister. "Why, what a long sleep you've had!"</p>
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<p>"Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" said Alice. And she told her sister, as well as
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she could remember them, all these strange adventures of hers that you have just been
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reading about. Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might,
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what a wonderful dream it had been.</p>
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<figure class="small">
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<img src="images/i022_th.jpg" alt="Illo22" />
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