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’Of course not,’ said the Mock Turtle: ‘why, if a fish
came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I should
say ‘With what porpoise?‘‘
’Don’t you mean ‘purpose’?’ said Alice.
’I mean what I say,’ the Mock Turtle replied in an
offended tone. And the Gryphon added ‘Come, let’s hear
some of your adventures.’
’I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this
morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going
back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’
’Explain all that,’ said the Mock Turtle.
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The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another
hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent
opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other:
the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across
to the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it
trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.
By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it
back, the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out
of sight: ‘but it doesn’t matter much,’ thought Alice, ‘as all
the arches are gone from this side of the ground.’ So she
tucked it away under her arm, that it might not escape
again, and went back for a little more conversation with
her friend.
When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was
surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round it:
there was a dispute going on between the executioner, the

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(page 4)

’I didn’t know it was your table,’ said Alice; ‘it’s laid for
a great many more than three.’
’Your hair wants cutting,’ said the Hatter. He had been
looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and
this was his first speech.
’You should learn not to make personal remarks,’ Alice
said with some severity; ‘it’s very rude.’
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this;
but all he said was, ‘Why is a raven like a writing-desk?’
’Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice.
‘I’m glad they’ve begun asking riddles.—I believe I can
guess that,’ she added aloud.
’Do you mean that you think you can find out the
answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
’Exactly so,’ said Alice.
’Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare
went on.
’I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least—at least I mean
what I say—that’s the same thing, you know.’
’Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘You might
just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I
eat what I see’!’
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’You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare,
‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I
like’!’

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The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all
round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she
did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat
or drink under the circumstances. There was a large
mushroom growing near her, about the same height as
herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both
sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might
as well look and see what was on the top of it.
She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the
edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met
those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with
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its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking
not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.