I'm getting
sleepy, too.' In another moment both Queens were fast asleep, and
snoring loud.
`What AM I to do? exclaimed Alice, looking about in great
perplexity, as first one round head, and then the other, rolled down
from her shoulder, and lay like a heavy lump in her lap. `I don't
thing it EVER happened before, that any one had to take care of two
Queens asleep at once! No, not in all the History of England -- it
couldn't, you know, because there never was more than one Queen at a
time. Do wake up, you heavy things!' she went on in an impatient
tone; but there was no answer but a gentle snoring.
The snoring got more distinct every minute, and sounded more like a
tune: at last she could even make out the words, and she listened so
eagerly that, when the two great heads vanished from her lap, she
hardly missed them.
She was standing before an arched doorway over which were the words
QUEEN ALICE in large letters, and on each side of the arch there was
a bell-handle; one was marked `Visitors' Bell,' and the other
`Servants' Bell.'
`I'll wait till the song's over,' thought Alice, `and then I'll
ring -- the -- WHICH bell must I ring?' she went on, very much
puzzled by the names.
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