`You make me laugh so
that I can hardly hold you! And don't keep your mouth so wide open!
All the ashes will get into it -- there, now I think you're tidy
enough!' she added, as she smoothed his hair, and set him upon the
table near the Queen.
The King immediately fell flat on his back, and lay perfectly
still: and Alice was a little alarmed at what she had done, and went
round the room to see if she could find any water to throw over him.
However, she could find nothing but a bottle of ink, and when she got
back with it she found he had recovered, and he and the Queen were
talking together in a frightened whisper -- so low, that Alice could
hardly hear what they said.
The King was saying, `I assure, you my dear, I turned cold to the
very ends of my whiskers!'
To which the Queen replied, `You haven't got any whiskers.'
`The horror of that moment,' the King went on, `I shall never,
NEVER forget!'
`You will, though,' the Queen said, `if you don't make a memorandum
of it.'
Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous
memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden
thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which
came some way over his shoulder, and began writing for him.
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