![]() ![]() It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height. Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. ‘Well, be off, then!’ said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest. ‘It matters a good deal to ME,’ said Alice hastily ‘but I’m not looking for eggs, as it happens and if I was, I shouldn’t want YOURS: I don’t like them raw.’ She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen. It was opened by another footman in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like a frog and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their heads. Then I fetched out the servant, telling her I would go upstairs myself for the box she was clamouring for.įor a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood-(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish)-and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles. At that I gripped my wife’s arm, and without ceremony ran her out into the road. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians’ Heat-Ray now that the college was cleared out of the way. A man stood with his back to me, talking to him. I found him in his bar, quite unaware of what was going on behind his house. I ran, for I perceived that in a moment everyone upon this side of the hill would be moving. Started off at once for the Spotted Dog, for I knew the landlord had a horse and dog cart. I started off at once for the Spotted Dog, for I knew the landlord had a horse and dog cart. ![]() seemed blood red, and threw an unfamiliar lurid light upon everything.the sun, shining through the smoke that drove up from the tops of the trees,.two others dismounted, and began running from house to house.Down the hill I saw a bevy of hussars ride under the railway bridge three galloped through the open gates of the Oriental College. ![]() The people were coming out of their houses, astonished.Īnd I started off at once for the Spotted Dog, for I knew the landlord had a horse and dog cart. You are safe here! I shouted above the sudden noise. « How are we to get to Leatherhead? » she said. The people were coming out of their houses, astonished. Leatherhead! I shouted above the sudden noise. Then I remembered her cousins at Leatherhead. « But where are we to go? » said my wife in terror. We can’t possibly stay here, I said and as I spoke the firing reopened for a moment upon the common. Captain, by God, look to yourself say the word don’t be a fool forget it all we are ready to turn to treat us decently, and we’re your men but we won’t be flogged. I believe I have broken a finger here against his cursed jaw ain’t those mincing knives down in the forecastle there, men? look to those handspikes, my hearties. This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, ‘You’re looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough and what does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl or a serpent?’ I don’t believe it,’ said the Pigeon ‘but if they do, why then they’re a kind of serpent, that’s all I can say.’ I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg! I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,’ said Alice, who was a very truthful child ‘but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know. ‘I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never ONE with such a neck as that! No, no! You’re a serpent and there’s no use denying it. A likely story indeed! said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. ![]()
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