How it happened, Alice never knew, but exactly as she came to the
last peg, she was gone. Whether she vanished into the air, or
whether she ran quickly into the wood (`and she CAN run very fast!'
thought Alice), there was no way of guessing, but she was gone, and
Alice began to remember that she was a Pawn, and that it would soon
be time for her to move.
CHAPTER III
Looking-Glass Insects
Of course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the
country she was going to travel through. `It's something very like
learning geography,' thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes
of being able to see a little further. `Principal rivers -- there ARE
none. Principal mountains -- I'm on the only one, but I don't think
it's got any name. Principal towns -- why, what ARE those creatures,
making honey down there? They can't be bees -- nobody ever saw bees a
mile off, you know - - ' and for some time she stood silent, watching
one of them that was bustling about among the flowers, poking its
proboscis into them, `just as if it was a regular bee,' thought
Alice.
However, this was anything but a regular bee: in fact it was an
elephant -- as Alice soon found out, though the idea quite took her
breath away at first.
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