'
`The face is what one goes by, generally,' Alice remarked in a
thoughtful tone.
`That`s just what I complain of,' said Humpty Dumpty. `Your face
is that same as everybody has -- the two eyes, so -- ' (marking their
places in the air with this thumb) `nose in the middle, mouth under.
It's always the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side
of the nose, for instance -- or the mouth at the top -- that would be
SOME help.'
`It wouldn't look nice,' Alice objected. But Humpty Dumpty only
shut his eyes and said `Wait till you've tried.'
Alice waited a minute to see if he would speak again, but as he
never opened his eyes or took any further notice of her, she said
`Good-bye!' once more, and, getting no answer to this, she quietly
walked away: but she couldn't help saying to herself as she went, `Of
all the unsatisfactory -- ' (she repeated this aloud, as it was a
great comfort have such a long word to say) `of all the
unsatisfactory people I EVER met -- ' She never finished the
sentence, for at this moment a heavy crash shook the forest from end
to end.
CHAPTER VII
The Lion and the Unicorn
The next moment soldiers cam running through the wood, at first in
twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such
crowds that they seemed to fill the whole forest.
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