THat happened to me once -- and the worst of it was, before I
could get out again, the other White Knight came and put it on. He
thought it was his own helmet.'
The knight looked so solemn about it that Alice did not dare to
laugh. `I'm afraid you must have hurt him,' she said in a trembling
voice, `being on the top of his head.'
`I had to kick him, of course,' the Knight said, very seriously.
`And then he took the helmet off again -- but it took hours and hours
to get me out. I was as fast as -- as lightning, you know.'
`But that's a different kind of fastness,' Alice objected.
The Knight shook his head. `It was all kinds of fastness with me,
I can assure you!' he said. He raised his hands in some excitement
as he said this, and instantly rolled out of the saddle, and fell
headlong into a deep ditch.
Alice ran to the side of the ditch to look for him. She was rather
startled by the fall, as for some time he had kept on very well, and
she was afraid that he really WAS hurt this time. However, though she
could see nothing but the soles of his feet, she was much relieved to
hear that he was talking on in his usual tone. `All kinds of
fastness,' he repeated: `but it was careless of him to put another
man's helmet on -- with the man in it, too.
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