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THE MOCK TURTLES STORY. 131 that makes people hot-tempered,’ she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vimegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter— and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so 29 stingy about it, you know She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. “You're thimking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.” “Perhaps it hasn’t one,’ Alice ventured to remark. “Tut, tut, child!” said the Duchess. “Every thing’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke. Alice did not much like her keeping so close
