'
`No, I shouldn't,' said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at
last: `a hill CAN'T be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense --
'
The Red Queen shook her head, `You may call it "nonsense" if you
like,' she said, ` but I'VE heard nonsense, compared with which that
would be as sensible as a dictionary!'
Alice curtseyed again, as she was afraid from the Queen's tone that
she was a LITTLE offended: and they walked on in silence till they
got to the top of the little hill.
For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all
directions over the country -- and a most curious country it was.
There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it
from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares
by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.
`I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice
said at last. `There ought to be some men moving about somewhere --
and so there are!' She added in a tone of delight, and her heart
began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. `It's a great
huge game of chess that's being played -- all over the world -- if
this IS the world at all, you know.
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