'
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's
logic.'
`I was thinking,' Alice said very politely, `which is the best way
out of this wood: it's getting so dark. Would you tell me, please?'
But the little men only looked at each other and grinned.
They looked so exactly like a couple of great schoolboys, that
Alice couldn't help pointing her finger at Tweedledum, and saying
`First Boy!'
`Nohow!' Tweedledum cried out briskly, and shut his mouth up again
with a snap.
`Next Boy!' said Alice, passing on to Tweedledee, though she felt
quite certain he would only shout out "Contrariwise!' and so he did.
`You've been wrong!' cried Tweedledum. `The first thing in a visit
is to say "How d'ye do?" and shake hands!' And here the two brothers
gave each other a hug, and then they held out the two hands that were
free, to shake hands with her.
Alice did not like shaking hands with either of them first, for
fear of hurting the other one's feelings; so, as the best way out of
the difficulty, she took hold of both hands at once: the next moment
they were dancing found in a ring.
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