'
The White Queen smiled feebly, and said `And I invite YOU.'
`I didn't know I was to have a party at all,' said Alice; `but if
there is to be one, I think _I_ ought to invite the guests.'
`We gave you the opportunity of doing it,' the Red Queen remarked:
`but I daresay you've not had many lessons in manners yet?'
`Manners are not taught in lessons,' said Alice. `Lessons teach
you to do sums, and things of that sort.'
`And you do Addition?' the White Queen asked. `What's one and one
and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?'
`I don't know,' said Alice. `I lost count.'
`She can't do Addition,' the Red Queen interrupted. `Can you do
Subtraction? Take nine from eight.'
`Nine from eight I can't, you know,' Alice replied very readily:
`but -- '
`She can't do Subtraction,' said the White Queen. `Can you do
Division? Divide a loaf by a knife -- what's the answer to that?'
`I suppose -- ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for
her. `Bread-and-butter, of course. Try another Subtraction sum.
Take a bone from a dog: what remains?'
Alice considered. `The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took
it -- and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me -- and
I'm sure I shouldn't remain!'
`Then you think nothing would remain?' said the Red Queen.
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