`However, I
know my name now.' she said, `that's SOME comfort. Alice -- Alice --
I won't forget it again. And now, which of these finger-posts ought
I to follow, I wonder?'
It was not a very difficult question to answer, as there was only
one road through the wood, and the two finger-posts both pointed
along it. `I'll settle it,' Alice said to herself, `when the road
divides and they point different ways.'
But this did not seem likely to happen. She went on and on, a long
way, but wherever the road divided there were sure to be two
finger-posts pointing the same way, one marked `TO TWEEDLEDUM'S
HOUSE' and the other `TO THE HOUSE OF TWEEDLEDEE.'
`I do believe,' said Alice at last, `that they live in the same
house! I wonder I never thought of that before -- But I can't stay
there long. I'll just call and say "how d'you do?" and ask them the
way out of the wood. If I could only get the Eighth Square before it
gets dark!' So she wandered on, talking to herself as she went,
till, on turning a sharp corner, she came upon two fat little men, so
suddenly that she could not help starting back, but in another moment
she recovered herself, feeling sure that they must be
CHAPTER IV
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE
They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other's
neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them
had `DUM' embroidered on his collar, and the other `DEE.
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