Dormouse.

'Behead that Dormouse!

'Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. 'Wake up, Dormouse!'

'One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly.

Dormouse, who was sitting next to her.

'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out.

'So they were,' said the Dormouse 'VERY ill.'

Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him!

last remark. 'Of course they were', said the Dormouse

'Fifteenth,' said the March Hare. 'Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse.

'Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time.

'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked.

'Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said ' the Hatter went on, looking anxiously round to see if he would deny it too but the Dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep.

Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very cautiously

'Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' thought Alice 'only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind.'

The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. 'I wasn't asleep,' he said in a hoarse, feeble voice

'But they were IN the well,' Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to notice this

'Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the Dormouse 'not in that ridiculous fashion.'

He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him the March Hare moved into the

Dormouse crossed the court, she said to one of the officers of the court, 'Bring me the

'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose.

This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it.

The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then said, 'It was a treacle well.'

The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without opening its eyes, 'Of course, of course just what I was going to remark myself.'

For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the Dormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down again, the cook had disappeared.

looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.

Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep 'Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle ' and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop.

Alice did not quite know what to say to this so she helped herself to some tea and bread and butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her question.

Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went 'Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, 'If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself.'

'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that I breathe when I sleep is the same thing as I sleep when I breathe !'

'Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began in a great hurry 'and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie and they lived at the bottom of a well '

'They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy 'and they drew all manner of things everything that begins with an M '

The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into a doze but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and went on '

This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear she got up in great disgust, and walked off the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she

There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head.