yourself?" she said timidly. "I think that might help a little."

"I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further

on," the Fawn said. "I can't remember here."

So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they

5-Through the Looking-Glass

came out into another open field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself free from Alice's arms. "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of delight, "and, dear me! you're a human child!" A sudden look of alarm came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at full speed.

Alice stood looking after it, almost ready to cry with vexation at having lost her dear little fellow-traveller so suddenly. "How. ever, I know my name now," she said, "that's some comfort. Alice Alice—I won't forget it again. And now, which of these finger-posts ought I to follow, I wonder?"

It was not a very difficult question to answer, as there was only one road through the wood, and the two finger-posts both pointed along it. "I'll settle it," Alice said to herself, "when the road divides and they point different ways."

But this did not seem likely to happen. She went on and on, a long way, but whereever the road divided there were sure to be two finger-posts pointing the same way, one marked TO TWEEDLEDUM'S HOUSE, and the other TO THE HOUSE OF TWEEDLEDEE.'

"I do believe," said Alice at last, "that they live in the same house! I wonder I never though of that before—But I can't stay there long. I'll just call and say How d'ye do?' and ask them the way out of the wood. If I could only get to the Eighth Square before it gets dark!" So she wandered on, talking to herself as she went, till, on turning a sharp corner, she came upon two fat little men, so suddenly that she could not help starting back, but in another moment she recovered herself, feeling sure that they must be

CHAPTER IV.

TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE.

They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other's neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had DUM' embroidered on his collar, and the other 'DEE.' "I suppose they've each got 'TWEEDLE' round at the back of the collar," she said to herself.

They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she was just looking round to see if the word ' TWEEDLE' was written at the back of each collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked ĎUM.'

"If you think we're wax-works," he said, "you ought to pay, you know. Wax-works

weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"

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Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE' "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak."

"I'm sure I'm very sorry," was all Alice could say; for the words of the old song kept ringing through her head like the ticking of a clock, and she could hardly help saying them out loud: