`What an idea!'
`Would you -- be good enough,' Alice panted out, after running a
little further, `to stop a minute -- just to get -- one's breath
again?'
`I'm GOOD enough,' the King said, `only I'm not strong enough. You
see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to
stop a Bandersnatch!'
Alice had no more breath for talking, so the trotted on in silence,
till they came in sight of a great crowd, in the middle of which the
Lion and Unicorn were fighting. They were in such a cloud of dust,
that at first Alice could not make out which was which: but she soon
managed to distinguish the Unicorn by his horn.
They placed themselves close to where Hatta, the other messenger,
was standing watching the fight, with a cup of tea in one hand and a
piece of bread-and-butter in the other.
`He's only just out of prison, and he hadn't finished his tea when
he was sent in,' Haigha whispered to Alice: `and they only give them
oyster-shells in there -- so you see he's very hungry and thirsty.
How are you, dear child?' he went on, putting his arm affectionately
round Hatta's neck.
Hatta looked round and nodded, and went on with his bread and
butter.
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