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24 THE POOL “T shall be punished for it now, | suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.” Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had shpped in lke hersell. “Would it be of any use, now, thought Alice, "to speak to this mouse? Everything is . so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, theres 7 no harm in trying.’ So she began: ‘‘O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thine before, but, she remembered having seen in her brothers Latin Grammar, “A mouse—
