Stranica 180 [180]
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164 WHO STOLE suppose they are the jurors.” She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. However, “jury23 men would have done just as well. the twelve jurors. were all writing very busily on slates. ‘What are they doing?” Alice whispered to the Gryphon. “They can’t have anything to put down yet, before the trial’s heoun.” “Theyre putting down their names,’ the Gryphon whispered in reply, “for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.” “Stupid things!” Alice began in a loud indignant voice, but she stopped herself hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, “ Silence in the court!” and the King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who was talking. Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were
