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1A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the birds with draggled
2feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. The first
3question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed
4quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she
5had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, "I am older than you, and must
6know better;" and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell
7its age, there was no more to be said. At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out,
8"Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!" They all sat down at once, in a large ring,
9with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if
10she did not get dry very soon. "Ahem!" said the Mouse with an important air, "are you all ready? This is the driest
11thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! 'William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon
12submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin
13and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--'" "Ugh!" said the Lory, with a shiver. "I beg your pardon!" said the
14Mouse, frowning, but very politely: "Did you speak?" "Not I!" said the Lory hastily. "I thought you did," said the
15Mouse. "--I proceed. 'Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the
16patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--'" "Found what?" said the Duck. "Found it," the Mouse replied
17rather crossly: "of course you know what 'it' means." "I know what 'it' means well enough, when I find a thing," said
18the Duck: "it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?" The Mouse did not notice
19this question, but hurriedly went on, "'--found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the
20crown. William's conduct at first was moderate. But the insolence of his Normans--' How are you getting on now, my
21dear?" it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke. "As wet as ever," said Alice in a melancholy tone: "it doesn't seem
22to dry me at all." "In that case," said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, "I move that the meeting adjourn, for the
23immediate adoption of more energetic remedies--" "Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half
24those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!" And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile:
25some of the other birds tittered audibly. "What I was going to say," said the Dodo in an offended tone, "was, that the
26best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race." "What is a Caucus-race?" said Alice; not that she wanted much to know,
27but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.
28"Why," said the Dodo, "the best way to explain it is to do it." (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some
29winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.) First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ("the
30exact shape doesn't matter," it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no
31"One, two, three, and away," but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not
32easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again,
33the Dodo suddenly called out "The race is over!" and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, "But who has won?"
34This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger
35pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest
36waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes." "But who is to give the
37prizes?" quite a chorus of voices asked. "Why, she, of course," said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and
38the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused way, "Prizes! Prizes!" Alice had no idea what to
39do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got
40into it), and handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one a-piece, all round. "But she must have a prize herself,
41you know," said the Mouse. "Of course," the Dodo replied very gravely. "What else have you got in your pocket?" he went
42on, turning to Alice. "Only a thimble," said Alice sadly. "Hand it over here," said the Dodo. Then they all crowded
43round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying "We beg your acceptance of this elegant
44thimble;" and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered. Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but
45they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply
46bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could. The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some
47noise and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had
48to be patted on the back. However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell
49them something more. "You promised to tell me your history, you know," said Alice, "and why it is you hate--C and D,"
50she added in a whisper, half afraid that it would be offended again. "Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse,
51turning to Alice, and sighing. "It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail;
52"but why do you call it sad?" And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the
53tale was something like this:-- "Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, 'Let us both go to law: I will
54prosecute you.--Come, I'll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I've nothing to do.' Said the
55mouse to the cur, 'Such a trial, dear sir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath.' 'I'll be judge, I'll be
56jury,' Said cunning old Fury: 'I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.'" "You are not attending!" said the
57Mouse to Alice severely. "What are you thinking of?" "I beg your pardon," said Alice very humbly: "you had got to the
58fifth bend, I think?" "I had not!" cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily. "A knot!" said Alice, always ready to make
59herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. "Oh, do let me help to undo it!" "I shall do nothing of the sort," said
60the Mouse, getting up and walking away. "You insult me by talking such nonsense!" "I didn't mean it!" pleaded poor
61Alice. "But you're so easily offended, you know!" The Mouse only growled in reply. "Please come back and finish your
62story!" Alice called after it; and the others all joined in chorus, "Yes, please do!" but the Mouse only shook its head
63impatiently, and walked a little quicker. "What a pity it wouldn't stay!" sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out
64of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter "Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never
65to lose your temper!" "Hold your tongue, Ma!" said the young Crab, a little snappishly. "You're enough to try the
66patience of an oyster!" "I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!" said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.
67"She'd soon fetch it back!" "And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?" said the Lory. Alice replied
68eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet: "Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for catching
69mice you can't think! And oh, I wish you could see her after the birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at
70it!" This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie
71began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, "I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn't suit my
72throat!" and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, "Come away, my dears! It's high time you were all
73in bed!" On various pretexts they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone. "I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!" she
74said to herself in a melancholy tone. "Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I'm sure she's the best cat in the
75world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if I shall ever see you any more!" And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she
76felt very lonely and low-spirited. In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the
77distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish his
78story.
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