# Fixture for `cargo run --example gen_fixtures`.
# Prose: Lewis Carroll, *Through the Looking-Glass* (public domain,
# Project Gutenberg ebook #12), header/footer stripped. Used only as
# filler text for load/perf testing the italic build pipeline.

# Base page titles; the generator appends a per-title counter for uniqueness.
titles:
  - "Looking-Glass House"
  - "The Garden of Live Flowers"
  - "Looking-Glass Insects"
  - "Tweedledum and Tweedledee"
  - "Wool and Water"
  - "Humpty Dumpty"
  - "The Lion and the Unicorn"
  - "It's My Own Invention"
  - "Queen Alice"
  - "Which Dreamed It?"
  - "The Red King's Dream"
  - "Jabberwocky Notes"

# Pool for frontmatter `tags:` and inline `#hashtags`.
tags:
  - chess
  - dream
  - mirror
  - garden
  - riddle
  - nonsense
  - queen
  - kitten
  - poetry
  - wonderland

date_range:
  start: 2020-01-01
  end: 2025-12-31

# ~200 paragraphs of real prose; a few carry embedded [[wikilinks]] / #hashtags.
blocks:
  - "Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale. See also [[Humpty Dumpty]]. #chess"
  - "I have not seen thy sunny face, Nor heard thy silver laughter; No thought of me shall find a place In thy young life's hereafter-- Enough that now thou wilt not fail To listen to my fairy-tale."
  - "A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing-- A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of oar rowing-- Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.'"
  - "Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, With bitter tidings laden, Shall summon to unwelcome bed A melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near."
  - "Without, the frost, the blinding snow, The storm-wind's moody madness-- Within, the firelight's ruddy glow, And childhood's nest of gladness. The magic words shall hold thee fast: Thou shalt not heed the raving blast."
  - "And though the shadow of a sigh May tremble through the story, For 'happy summer days' gone by, And vanish'd summer glory-- It shall not touch with breath of bale The pleasance of our fairy-tale."
  - "One thing was certain, that the _white_ kitten had had nothing to do with it:--it was the black kitten's fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it _couldn't_ have had any hand in the mischief."
  - "The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr--no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good."
  - "But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle."
  - "\"That's three faults, Kitty, and you've not been punished for any of them yet. You know I'm saving up all your punishments for Wednesday week--Suppose they had saved up all _my_ punishments!\" she went on, talking more to herself than the kitten. \"What _would_ they do at the end of a year? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came. Or--let me see--suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once! Well, I shouldn't mind _that_ much! I'd far rather go without them than eat them!"
  - "In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind. \"So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old room,\" thought Alice: \"warmer, in fact, because there'll be no one here to scold me away from the fire. Oh, what fun it'll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!\""
  - "Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest was as different as possible. For instance, the pictures on the wall next the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock on the chimney-piece (you know you can only see the back of it in the Looking-glass) had got the face of a little old man, and grinned at her."
  - "\"They don't keep this room so tidy as the other,\" Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little \"Oh!\" of surprise, she was down on her hands and knees watching them. The chessmen were walking about, two and two!"
  - "\"Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,\" Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), \"and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel--and here are two castles walking arm in arm--I don't think they can hear me,\" she went on, as she put her head closer down, \"and I'm nearly sure they can't see me. I feel somehow as if I were invisible--\""
  - "Here something began squeaking on the table behind Alice, and made her turn her head just in time to see one of the White Pawns roll over and begin kicking: she watched it with great curiosity to see what would happen next."
  - "\"It is the voice of my child!\" the White Queen cried out as she rushed past the King, so violently that she knocked him over among the cinders. \"My precious Lily! My imperial kitten!\" and she began scrambling wildly up the side of the fender."
  - "\"Imperial fiddlestick!\" said the King, rubbing his nose, which had been hurt by the fall. He had a right to be a _little_ annoyed with the Queen, for he was covered with ashes from head to foot."
  - "Alice was very anxious to be of use, and, as the poor little Lily was nearly screaming herself into a fit, she hastily picked up the Queen and set her on the table by the side of her noisy little daughter. See also [[Looking-Glass House]]. #dream"
  - "The Queen gasped, and sat down: the rapid journey through the air had quite taken away her breath and for a minute or two she could do nothing but hug the little Lily in silence. As soon as she had recovered her breath a little, she called out to the White King, who was sitting sulkily among the ashes, \"Mind the volcano!\""
  - "\"What volcano?\" said the King, looking up anxiously into the fire, as if he thought that was the most likely place to find one."
  - "\"Blew--me--up,\" panted the Queen, who was still a little out of breath. \"Mind you come up--the regular way--don't get blown up!\""
  - "Alice watched the White King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar, till at last she said, \"Why, you'll be hours and hours getting to the table, at that rate. I'd far better help you, hadn't I?\" But the King took no notice of the question: it was quite clear that he could neither hear her nor see her."
  - "So Alice picked him up very gently, and lifted him across more slowly than she had lifted the Queen, that she mightn't take his breath away: but, before she put him on the table, she thought she might as well dust him a little, he was so covered with ashes."
  - "She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor."
  - "\"Oh! _please_ don't make such faces, my dear!\" she cried out, quite forgetting that the King couldn't hear her. \"You make me laugh so that I can hardly hold you! And don't keep your mouth so wide open! All the ashes will get into it--there, now I think you're tidy enough!\" she added, as she smoothed his hair, and set him upon the table near the Queen."
  - "The King immediately fell flat on his back, and lay perfectly still: and Alice was a little alarmed at what she had done, and went round the room to see if she could find any water to throw over him. However, she could find nothing but a bottle of ink, and when she got back with it she found he had recovered, and he and the Queen were talking together in a frightened whisper--so low, that Alice could hardly hear what they said."
  - "The King was saying, \"I assure, you my dear, I turned cold to the very ends of my whiskers!\""
  - "Alice looked on with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum-book out of his pocket, and began writing. A sudden thought struck her, and she took hold of the end of the pencil, which came some way over his shoulder, and began writing for him."
  - "The poor King looked puzzled and unhappy, and struggled with the pencil for some time without saying anything; but Alice was too strong for him, and at last he panted out, \"My dear! I really _must_ get a thinner pencil. I can't manage this one a bit; it writes all manner of things that I don't intend--\""
  - "\"What manner of things?\" said the Queen, looking over the book (in which Alice had put \"_The White Knight is sliding down the poker. He balances very badly_\") \"That's not a memorandum of _your_ feelings!\""
  - "There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and while she sat watching the White King (for she was still a little anxious about him, and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, \"--for it's all in some language I don't know,\" she said to herself."
  - "sevot yhtils eht dna, gillirb sawT' ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg diD ,sevogorob eht erew ysmim llA .ebargtuo shtar emom eht dnA"
  - "She puzzled over this for some time, but at last a bright thought struck her. \"Why, it's a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again.\""
  - "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe."
  - "\"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!\" See also [[Queen Alice]]. #mirror"
  - "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought."
  - "And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!"
  - "One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back."
  - "\"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!\" He chortled in his joy."
  - "\"It seems very pretty,\" she said when she had finished it, \"but it's _rather_ hard to understand!\" (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) \"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas--only I don't exactly know what they are! However, _somebody_ killed _something_: that's clear, at any rate--\""
  - "\"I should see the garden far better,\" said Alice to herself, \"if I could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it--at least, no, it doesn't do that--\" (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), \"but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It's more like a corkscrew than a path! Well, _this_ turn goes to the hill, I suppose--no, it doesn't! This goes straight back to the house! Well then, I'll try it the other way.\""
  - "And so she did: wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, do what she would. Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself."
  - "\"It's no use talking about it,\" Alice said, looking up at the house and pretending it was arguing with her. \"I'm _not_ going in again yet. I know I should have to get through the Looking-glass again--back into the old room--and there'd be an end of all my adventures!\""
  - "So, resolutely turning her back upon the house, she set out once more down the path, determined to keep straight on till she got to the hill. For a few minutes all went on well, and she was just saying, \"I really _shall_ do it this time--\" when the path gave a sudden twist and shook itself (as she described it afterwards), and the next moment she found herself actually walking in at the door."
  - "\"Oh, it's too bad!\" she cried. \"I never saw such a house for getting in the way! Never!\""
  - "However, there was the hill full in sight, so there was nothing to be done but start again. This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies, and a willow-tree growing in the middle."
  - "\"O Tiger-lily,\" said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, \"I _wish_ you could talk!\""
  - "Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice--almost in a whisper. \"And can _all_ the flowers talk?\""
  - "\"It isn't manners for us to begin, you know,\" said the Rose, \"and I really was wondering when you'd speak! Said I to myself, 'Her face has got _some_ sense in it, though it's not a clever one!' Still, you're the right colour, and that goes a long way.\""
  - "\"I don't care about the colour,\" the Tiger-lily remarked. \"If only her petals curled up a little more, she'd be all right.\""
  - "Alice didn't like being criticised, so she began asking questions. \"Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?\""
  - "\"It says 'Bough-wough!'\" cried a Daisy: \"that's why its branches are called boughs!\" See also [[The Garden of Live Flowers]]. #garden"
  - "\"Didn't you know _that_?\" cried another Daisy, and here they all began shouting together, till the air seemed quite full of little shrill voices. \"Silence, every one of you!\" cried the Tiger-lily, waving itself passionately from side to side, and trembling with excitement. \"They know I can't get at them!\" it panted, bending its quivering head towards Alice, \"or they wouldn't dare to do it!\""
  - "\"Never mind!\" Alice said in a soothing tone, and stooping down to the daisies, who were just beginning again, she whispered, \"If you don't hold your tongues, I'll pick you!\""
  - "\"That's right!\" said the Tiger-lily. \"The daisies are worst of all. When one speaks, they all begin together, and it's enough to make one wither to hear the way they go on!\""
  - "\"How is it you can all talk so nicely?\" Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment. \"I've been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.\""
  - "\"Put your hand down, and feel the ground,\" said the Tiger-lily. \"Then you'll know why.\""
  - "Alice did so. \"It's very hard,\" she said, \"but I don't see what that has to do with it.\""
  - "\"In most gardens,\" the Tiger-lily said, \"they make the beds too soft--so that the flowers are always asleep.\""
  - "This sounded a very good reason, and Alice was quite pleased to know it. \"I never thought of that before!\" she said."
  - "\"It's _my_ opinion that you never think _at all_,\" the Rose said in a rather severe tone."
  - "\"I never saw anybody that looked stupider,\" a Violet said, so suddenly, that Alice quite jumped; for it hadn't spoken before."
  - "\"Hold _your_ tongue!\" cried the Tiger-lily. \"As if _you_ ever saw anybody! You keep your head under the leaves, and snore away there, till you know no more what's going on in the world, than if you were a bud!\""
  - "\"Are there any more people in the garden besides me?\" Alice said, not choosing to notice the Rose's last remark."
  - "\"There's one other flower in the garden that can move about like you,\" said the Rose. \"I wonder how you do it--\" (\"You're always wondering,\" said the Tiger-lily), \"but she's more bushy than you are.\""
  - "\"Is she like me?\" Alice asked eagerly, for the thought crossed her mind, \"There's another little girl in the garden, somewhere!\""
  - "\"Well, she has the same awkward shape as you,\" the Rose said, \"but she's redder--and her petals are shorter, I think.\""
  - "\"Her petals are done up close, almost like a dahlia,\" the Tiger-lily interrupted: \"not tumbled about anyhow, like yours.\""
  - "\"But that's not _your_ fault,\" the Rose added kindly: \"you're beginning to fade, you know--and then one can't help one's petals getting a little untidy.\" See also [[Humpty Dumpty]]. #riddle"
  - "Alice didn't like this idea at all: so, to change the subject, she asked \"Does she ever come out here?\""
  - "\"Why all round her head, of course,\" the Rose replied. \"I was wondering _you_ hadn't got some too. I thought it was the regular rule.\""
  - "\"She's coming!\" cried the Larkspur. \"I hear her footstep, thump, thump, thump, along the gravel-walk!\""
  - "Alice looked round eagerly, and found that it was the Red Queen. \"She's grown a good deal!\" was her first remark. She had indeed: when Alice first found her in the ashes, she had been only three inches high--and here she was, half a head taller than Alice herself!"
  - "\"It's the fresh air that does it,\" said the Rose: \"wonderfully fine air it is, out here.\""
  - "\"I think I'll go and meet her,\" said Alice, for, though the flowers were interesting enough, she felt that it would be far grander to have a talk with a real Queen."
  - "\"You can't possibly do that,\" said the Rose: \"_I_ should advise you to walk the other way.\""
  - "This sounded nonsense to Alice, so she said nothing, but set off at once towards the Red Queen. To her surprise, she lost sight of her in a moment, and found herself walking in at the front-door again."
  - "A little provoked, she drew back, and after looking everywhere for the queen (whom she spied out at last, a long way off), she thought she would try the plan, this time, of walking in the opposite direction."
  - "It succeeded beautifully. She had not been walking a minute before she found herself face to face with the Red Queen, and full in sight of the hill she had been so long aiming at."
  - "\"Where do you come from?\" said the Red Queen. \"And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.\""
  - "Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as well as she could, that she had lost her way."
  - "\"I don't know what you mean by _your_ way,\" said the Queen: \"all the ways about here belong to _me_--but why did you come out here at all?\" she added in a kinder tone. \"Curtsey while you're thinking what to say, it saves time.\""
  - "Alice wondered a little at this, but she was too much in awe of the Queen to disbelieve it. \"I'll try it when I go home,\" she thought to herself, \"the next time I'm a little late for dinner.\""
  - "\"It's time for you to answer now,\" the Queen said, looking at her watch: \"open your mouth a _little_ wider when you speak, and always say 'your Majesty.'\""
  - "\"That's right,\" said the Queen, patting her on the head, which Alice didn't like at all, \"though, when you say 'garden,'--_I've_ seen gardens, compared with which this would be a wilderness.\""
  - "Alice didn't dare to argue the point, but went on: \"--and I thought I'd try and find my way to the top of that hill--\" See also [[Looking-Glass House]]. #nonsense"
  - "\"When you say 'hill,'\" the Queen interrupted, \"_I_ could show you hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.\""
  - "\"No, I shouldn't,\" said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last: \"a hill _can't_ be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense--\""
  - "The Red Queen shook her head, \"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like,\" she said, \"but _I've_ heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!\""
  - "Alice curtseyed again, as she was afraid from the Queen's tone that she was a _little_ offended: and they walked on in silence till they got to the top of the little hill."
  - "For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country--and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook."
  - "\"I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!\" Alice said at last. \"There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!\" She added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. \"It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this _is_ the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I _wish_ I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should _like_ to be a Queen, best.\""
  - "She glanced rather shyly at the real Queen as she said this, but her companion only smiled pleasantly, and said, \"That's easily managed. You can be the White Queen's Pawn, if you like, as Lily's too young to play; and you're in the Second Square to begin with: when you get to the Eighth Square you'll be a Queen--\" Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run."
  - "Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying \"Faster! Faster!\" but Alice felt she _could not_ go faster, though she had not breath left to say so."
  - "The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. \"I wonder if all the things move along with us?\" thought poor puzzled Alice. And the Queen seemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, \"Faster! Don't try to talk!\""
  - "Not that Alice had any idea of doing _that_. She felt as if she would never be able to talk again, she was getting so much out of breath: and still the Queen cried \"Faster! Faster!\" and dragged her along. \"Are we nearly there?\" Alice managed to pant out at last."
  - "\"Nearly there!\" the Queen repeated. \"Why, we passed it ten minutes ago! Faster!\" And they ran on for a time in silence, with the wind whistling in Alice's ears, and almost blowing her hair off her head, she fancied."
  - "\"Now! Now!\" cried the Queen. \"Faster! Faster!\" And they went so fast that at last they seemed to skim through the air, hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy."
  - "The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, \"You may rest a little now.\""
  - "Alice looked round her in great surprise. \"Why, I do believe we've been under this tree the whole time! Everything's just as it was!\""
  - "\"Well, in _our_ country,\" said Alice, still panting a little, \"you'd generally get to somewhere else--if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.\""
  - "\"A slow sort of country!\" said the Queen. \"Now, _here_, you see, it takes all the running _you_ can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!\""
  - "\"I'd rather not try, please!\" said Alice. \"I'm quite content to stay here--only I _am_ so hot and thirsty!\" See also [[Queen Alice]]. #chess"
  - "\"I know what _you'd_ like!\" the Queen said good-naturedly, taking a little box out of her pocket. \"Have a biscuit?\""
  - "Alice thought it would not be civil to say \"No,\" though it wasn't at all what she wanted. So she took it, and ate it as well as she could: and it was _very_ dry; and she thought she had never been so nearly choked in all her life."
  - "\"While you're refreshing yourself,\" said the Queen, \"I'll just take the measurements.\" And she took a ribbon out of her pocket, marked in inches, and began measuring the ground, and sticking little pegs in here and there."
  - "\"At the end of two yards,\" she said, putting in a peg to mark the distance, \"I shall give you your directions--have another biscuit?\""
  - "Alice did not know what to say to this, but luckily the Queen did not wait for an answer, but went on. \"At the end of _three_ yards I shall repeat them--for fear of your forgetting them. At the end of _four_, I shall say good-bye. And at the end of _five_, I shall go!\""
  - "She had got all the pegs put in by this time, and Alice looked on with great interest as she returned to the tree, and then began slowly walking down the row."
  - "At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, \"A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know. So you'll go _very_ quickly through the Third Square--by railway, I should think--and you'll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, _that_ square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee--the Fifth is mostly water--the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty--But you make no remark?\""
  - "\"You _should_ have said, 'It's extremely kind of you to tell me all this'--however, we'll suppose it said--the Seventh Square is all forest--however, one of the Knights will show you the way--and in the Eighth Square we shall be Queens together, and it's all feasting and fun!\" Alice got up and curtseyed, and sat down again."
  - "At the next peg the Queen turned again, and this time she said, \"Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing--turn out your toes as you walk--and remember who you are!\" She did not wait for Alice to curtsey this time, but walked on quickly to the next peg, where she turned for a moment to say \"good-bye,\" and then hurried on to the last."
  - "How it happened, Alice never knew, but exactly as she came to the last peg, she was gone. Whether she vanished into the air, or whether she ran quickly into the wood (\"and she _can_ run very fast!\" thought Alice), there was no way of guessing, but she was gone, and Alice began to remember that she was a Pawn, and that it would soon be time for her to move."
  - "\"I think I'll go down the other way,\" she said after a pause: \"and perhaps I may visit the elephants later on. Besides, I do so want to get into the Third Square!\""
  - "So with this excuse she ran down the hill and jumped over the first of the six little brooks."
  - "\"Tickets, please!\" said the Guard, putting his head in at the window. In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage."
  - "\"Now then! Show your ticket, child!\" the Guard went on, looking angrily at Alice. And a great many voices all said together (\"like the chorus of a song,\" thought Alice), \"Don't keep him waiting, child! Why, his time is worth a thousand pounds a minute!\""
  - "\"I'm afraid I haven't got one,\" Alice said in a frightened tone: \"there wasn't a ticket-office where I came from.\" And again the chorus of voices went on. \"There wasn't room for one where she came from. The land there is worth a thousand pounds an inch!\""
  - "\"Don't make excuses,\" said the Guard: \"you should have bought one from the engine-driver.\" And once more the chorus of voices went on with \"The man that drives the engine. Why, the smoke alone is worth a thousand pounds a puff!\""
  - "Alice thought to herself, \"Then there's no use in speaking.\" The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all _thought_ in chorus (I hope you understand what _thinking in chorus_ means--for I must confess that _I_ don't), \"Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!\" See also [[The Garden of Live Flowers]]. #dream"
  - "All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, \"You're travelling the wrong way,\" and shut up the window and went away."
  - "\"So young a child,\" said the gentleman sitting opposite to her (he was dressed in white paper), \"ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!\""
  - "A Goat, that was sitting next to the gentleman in white, shut his eyes and said in a loud voice, \"She ought to know her way to the ticket-office, even if she doesn't know her alphabet!\""
  - "There was a Beetle sitting next to the Goat (it was a very queer carriage-full of passengers altogether), and, as the rule seemed to be that they should all speak in turn, _he_ went on with \"She'll have to go back from here as luggage!\""
  - "Alice couldn't see who was sitting beyond the Beetle, but a hoarse voice spoke next. \"Change engines--\" it said, and was obliged to leave off."
  - "\"It sounds like a horse,\" Alice thought to herself. And an extremely small voice, close to her ear, said, \"You might make a joke on that--something about 'horse' and 'hoarse,' you know.\""
  - "Then a very gentle voice in the distance said, \"She must be labelled 'Lass, with care,' you know--\""
  - "And after that other voices went on (\"What a number of people there are in the carriage!\" thought Alice), saying, \"She must go by post, as she's got a head on her--\" \"She must be sent as a message by the telegraph--\" \"She must draw the train herself the rest of the way--\" and so on."
  - "But the gentleman dressed in white paper leaned forwards and whispered in her ear, \"Never mind what they all say, my dear, but take a return-ticket every time the train stops.\""
  - "\"Indeed I shan't!\" Alice said rather impatiently. \"I don't belong to this railway journey at all--I was in a wood just now--and I wish I could get back there.\""
  - "\"You might make a joke on _that_,\" said the little voice close to her ear: \"something about 'you _would_ if you could,' you know.\""
  - "\"Don't tease so,\" said Alice, looking about in vain to see where the voice came from; \"if you're so anxious to have a joke made, why don't you make one yourself?\""
  - "The little voice sighed deeply: it was _very_ unhappy, evidently, and Alice would have said something pitying to comfort it, \"If it would only sigh like other people!\" she thought. But this was such a wonderfully small sigh, that she wouldn't have heard it at all, if it hadn't come _quite_ close to her ear. The consequence of this was that it tickled her ear very much, and quite took off her thoughts from the unhappiness of the poor little creature."
  - "\"I know you are a friend,\" the little voice went on; \"a dear friend, and an old friend. And you won't hurt me, though I _am_ an insect.\""
  - "\"What kind of insect?\" Alice inquired a little anxiously. What she really wanted to know was, whether it could sting or not, but she thought this wouldn't be quite a civil question to ask."
  - "\"What, then you don't--\" the little voice began, when it was drowned by a shrill scream from the engine, and everybody jumped up in alarm, Alice among the rest."
  - "The Horse, who had put his head out of the window, quietly drew it in and said, \"It's only a brook we have to jump over.\" Everybody seemed satisfied with this, though Alice felt a little nervous at the idea of trains jumping at all. \"However, it'll take us into the Fourth Square, that's some comfort!\" she said to herself. In another moment she felt the carriage rise straight up into the air, and in her fright she caught at the thing nearest to her hand, which happened to be the Goat's beard. See also [[Humpty Dumpty]]. #mirror"
  - "But the beard seemed to melt away as she touched it, and she found herself sitting quietly under a tree--while the Gnat (for that was the insect she had been talking to) was balancing itself on a twig just over her head, and fanning her with its wings."
  - "It certainly was a _very_ large Gnat: \"about the size of a chicken,\" Alice thought. Still, she couldn't feel nervous with it, after they had been talking together so long."
  - "\"--then you don't like all insects?\" the Gnat went on, as quietly as if nothing had happened."
  - "\"I like them when they can talk,\" Alice said. \"None of them ever talk, where _I_ come from.\""
  - "\"What sort of insects do you rejoice in, where _you_ come from?\" the Gnat inquired."
  - "\"I don't _rejoice_ in insects at all,\" Alice explained, \"because I'm rather afraid of them--at least the large kinds. But I can tell you the names of some of them.\""
  - "\"What's the use of their having names,\" the Gnat said, \"if they won't answer to them?\""
  - "\"No use to _them_,\" said Alice; \"but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?\""
  - "\"I can't say,\" the Gnat replied. \"Further on, in the wood down there, they've got no names--however, go on with your list of insects: you're wasting time.\""
  - "\"Well, there's the Horse-fly,\" Alice began, counting off the names on her fingers."
  - "\"All right,\" said the Gnat: \"half way up that bush, you'll see a Rocking-horse-fly, if you look. It's made entirely of wood, and gets about by swinging itself from branch to branch.\""
  - "Alice looked up at the Rocking-horse-fly with great interest, and made up her mind that it must have been just repainted, it looked so bright and sticky; and then she went on."
  - "\"Look on the branch above your head,\" said the Gnat, \"and there you'll find a snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum-pudding, its wings of holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.\""
  - "\"Frumenty and mince pie,\" the Gnat replied; \"and it makes its nest in a Christmas box.\""
  - "\"And then there's the Butterfly,\" Alice went on, after she had taken a good look at the insect with its head on fire, and had thought to herself, \"I wonder if that's the reason insects are so fond of flying into candles--because they want to turn into Snap-dragon-flies!\""
  - "\"Crawling at your feet,\" said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), \"you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.\""
  - "A new difficulty came into Alice's head. \"Supposing it couldn't find any?\" she suggested. See also [[Looking-Glass House]]. #garden"
  - "After this, Alice was silent for a minute or two, pondering. The Gnat amused itself meanwhile by humming round and round her head: at last it settled again and remarked, \"I suppose you don't want to lose your name?\""
  - "\"And yet I don't know,\" the Gnat went on in a careless tone: \"only think how convenient it would be if you could manage to go home without it! For instance, if the governess wanted to call you to your lessons, she would call out 'come here--,' and there she would have to leave off, because there wouldn't be any name for her to call, and of course you wouldn't have to go, you know.\""
  - "\"That would never do, I'm sure,\" said Alice: \"the governess would never think of excusing me lessons for that. If she couldn't remember my name, she'd call me 'Miss!' as the servants do.\""
  - "\"Well, if she said 'Miss,' and didn't say anything more,\" the Gnat remarked, \"of course you'd miss your lessons. That's a joke. I wish _you_ had made it.\""
  - "But the Gnat only sighed deeply, while two large tears came rolling down its cheeks."
  - "Then came another of those melancholy little sighs, and this time the poor Gnat really seemed to have sighed itself away, for, when Alice looked up, there was nothing whatever to be seen on the twig, and, as she was getting quite chilly with sitting still so long, she got up and walked on."
  - "She very soon came to an open field, with a wood on the other side of it: it looked much darker than the last wood, and Alice felt a _little_ timid about going into it. However, on second thoughts, she made up her mind to go on: \"for I certainly won't go _back_,\" she thought to herself, and this was the only way to the Eighth Square."
  - "\"This must be the wood,\" she said thoughtfully to herself, \"where things have no names. I wonder what'll become of _my_ name when I go in? I shouldn't like to lose it at all--because they'd have to give me another, and it would be almost certain to be an ugly one. But then the fun would be trying to find the creature that had got my old name! That's just like the advertisements, you know, when people lose dogs--'_answers to the name of \"Dash:\" had on a brass collar_'--just fancy calling everything you met 'Alice,' till one of them answered! Only they wouldn't answer at all, if they were wise.\""
  - "She was rambling on in this way when she reached the wood: it looked very cool and shady. \"Well, at any rate it's a great comfort,\" she said as she stepped under the trees, \"after being so hot, to get into the--into _what_?\" she went on, rather surprised at not being able to think of the word. \"I mean to get under the--under the--under _this_, you know!\" putting her hand on the trunk of the tree. \"What _does_ it call itself, I wonder? I do believe it's got no name--why, to be sure it hasn't!\""
  - "She stood silent for a minute, thinking: then she suddenly began again. \"Then it really _has_ happened, after all! And now, who am I? I _will_ remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!\" But being determined didn't help much, and all she could say, after a great deal of puzzling, was, \"L, I _know_ it begins with L!\""
  - "Just then a Fawn came wandering by: it looked at Alice with its large gentle eyes, but didn't seem at all frightened. \"Here then! Here then!\" Alice said, as she held out her hand and tried to stroke it; but it only started back a little, and then stood looking at her again."
  - "\"What do you call yourself?\" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"
  - "\"I wish I knew!\" thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, \"Nothing, just now.\""
  - "Alice thought, but nothing came of it. \"Please, would you tell me what _you_ call yourself?\" she said timidly. \"I think that might help a little.\""
  - "\"I'll tell you, if you'll move a little further on,\" the Fawn said. \"I can't remember here.\""
  - "So they walked on together though the wood, Alice with her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they 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. \"However, 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?\" See also [[Queen Alice]]. #riddle"
  - "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 wherever 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 thought of that before--But I can't stay there long. I'll just call and say 'how d'you 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."
  - "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 \"DUM.\""
  - "\"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!\""
  - "\"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:--"
  - "\"Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle."
  - "Just then flew down a monstrous crow, As black as a tar-barrel; Which frightened both the heroes so, They quite forgot their quarrel.\""
  - "\"Contrariwise,\" continued Tweedledee, \"if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.\""
  - "\"I was thinking,\" Alice said very politely, \"which is the best way out of this wood: it's getting so dark. Would you tell me, please?\""
  - "They looked so exactly like a couple of great schoolboys, that Alice couldn't help pointing her finger at Tweedledum, and saying \"First Boy!\""
  - "\"Next Boy!\" said Alice, passing on to Tweedledee, though she felt quite certain he would only shout out \"Contrariwise!\" and so he did."
  - "\"You've been wrong!\" cried Tweedledum. \"The first thing in a visit is to say 'How d'ye do?' and shake hands!\" And here the two brothers gave each other a hug, and then they held out the two hands that were free, to shake hands with her."
  - "Alice did not like shaking hands with either of them first, for fear of hurting the other one's feelings; so, as the best way out of the difficulty, she took hold of both hands at once: the next moment they were dancing round in a ring. This seemed quite natural (she remembered afterwards), and she was not even surprised to hear music playing: it seemed to come from the tree under which they were dancing, and it was done (as well as she could make it out) by the branches rubbing one across the other, like fiddles and fiddle-sticks."
  - "\"But it certainly _was_ funny,\" (Alice said afterwards, when she was telling her sister the history of all this,) \"to find myself singing '_Here we go round the mulberry bush_.' I don't know when I began it, but somehow I felt as if I'd been singing it a long long time!\" See also [[The Garden of Live Flowers]]. #nonsense"
  - "The other two dancers were fat, and very soon out of breath. \"Four times round is enough for one dance,\" Tweedledum panted out, and they left off dancing as suddenly as they had begun: the music stopped at the same moment."
  - "Then they let go of Alice's hands, and stood looking at her for a minute: there was a rather awkward pause, as Alice didn't know how to begin a conversation with people she had just been dancing with. \"It would never do to say 'How d'ye do?' _now_,\" she said to herself: \"we seem to have got beyond that, somehow!\""
  - "\"Ye-es, pretty well--_some_ poetry,\" Alice said doubtfully. \"Would you tell me which road leads out of the wood?\""
  - "\"What shall I repeat to her?\" said Tweedledee, looking round at Tweedledum with great solemn eyes, and not noticing Alice's question."
  - "\"'_The Walrus and the Carpenter_' is the longest,\" Tweedledum replied, giving his brother an affectionate hug."
  - "Here Alice ventured to interrupt him. \"If it's _very_ long,\" she said, as politely as she could, \"would you please tell me first which road--\""
  - "\"The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night."
  - "The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done-- 'It's very rude of him,' she said, 'To come and spoil the fun!'"
  - "The sea was wet as wet could be, The sands were dry as dry. You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying over head-- There were no birds to fly."
  - "The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand; They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand: 'If this were only cleared away,' They said, 'it _would_ be grand!'"
  - "'If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose,' the Walrus said, 'That they could get it clear?' 'I doubt it,' said the Carpenter, And shed a bitter tear."
  - "'O Oysters, come and walk with us!' The Walrus did beseech. 'A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each.'"
