'
`And _I_ hit everything within reach,' cried Tweedledum, `whether I
can see it or not!'
Alice laughed. `You must hit the TREES pretty often, I should
think,' she said.
Tweedledum looked round him with a satisfied smile. I don't
suppose,' he said, `there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far
round, by the time we've finished!'
`And all about a rattle!' said Alice, still hoping to make them a
LITTLE ashamed of fighting for such a trifle.
`I shouldn't have minded it so much,' said Tweedledum, `if it
hadn't been a new one.'
`I wish the monstrous crow would come!' though Alice.
`There's only one sword, you know,' Tweedledum said to his brother:
`but you can have the umbrella -- it's quite as sharp. Only we must
begin quick. It's getting as dark as it can.'
`And darker.' said Tweedledee.
It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a
thunderstorm coming on. `What a thick black cloud that is!' she
said. `And how fast it comes! Why, I do believe it's got wings!'
`It's the crow!' Tweedledum cried out in a shrill voice of alarm:
and the two brothers took to their heels and were out of sight in a
moment.
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