'
`A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. `Now, HERE, you see, it
takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place. If you
want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as
that!'
`I'd rather not try, please!' said Alice. `I'm quite content to
stay here -- only I AM so hot and thirsty!'
`I know what YOU'D like!' the Queen said good-naturedly, taking a
little box out of her pocket. `Have a biscuit?'
Alice thought it would not be civil to say `No,' though it wasn't
at all what she wanted. So she took it, and ate it as well as she
could: and it was VERY dry; and she thought she had never been so
nearly choked in all her life.
`While you're refreshing yourself,' said the Queen, `I'll just take
the measurements.' And she took a ribbon out of her pocket, marked
in inches, and began measuring the ground, and sticking little pegs
in here and there.
`At the end of two yards,' she said, putting in a peg to mark the
distance, `I shall give you your directions -- have another biscuit?'
`No, thank you,' said Alice,: `one's QUITE enough!'
`Thirst quenched, I hope?' said the Queen.
Alice did not know what to say to this, but luckily the Queen did
not wait for an answer, but went on.
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