“If everybody minded their own business,”said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, “the worldwould go round a deal faster than it does.”“Which would notbe an advantage,” saidAlice, who felt very glad to get an opportunityof showing off a little of her knowledge. “Justthink of what work it would make with the dayand night ! You see the earth takes twenty-fourhours to turn round on its axis——”

in a game of croquet she was playing againstherself, for this curious child was very fond ofpretending to be two people.

“it ’ll never do to come upon them thissize : why, I should frighten them out of theirwits !” So she began nibbling at the right-handbit again, and did not venture to go near thehouse till she had brought herself down to nineinches high.

In Memory’s mystic band,Like pilgrim’s withered wreath of flowersPlucked in a far-off land.