Stranica 129 [129]
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THE QUEENS CROQUET-GROUND. 113 “ You'd better not talk!” said Five. “I heard the Queen say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded !” “What for?” said the one who had spoken first. “'That’s none of your business, Two!” said Seven. “ Yes, it is his business!” said Five, “and I: tell him—it was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.” Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun " Well, of all the unjust things—” when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and all of them bowed low. Q
