What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts
What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts
'No, no' said the Queen. 'Sentence firstverdict afterwards.'
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
The horror of that moment, the King went on, I shall never, never forget You will, though, the Queen said, if you don't make a memorandum of it
'There's the King's Messenger. He's in prison now, being punished and the trial doesn't begin until next Wednesday and of course the crime comes last of all.' 'Suppose he never commits the crime' said Alice. 'That would be all the better, wouldn't it' the Queen said.
'It's very good jam,' said the Queen. 'Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate.' 'You couldn't have it if you did want it,' the Queen said. 'The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day.' 'It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day, 'Alice objected. 'No it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every other day to-day isn't any other day, you know.' 'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing.'
''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
A cat may look at a king, said Alice.
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