Oldal 95 [95]
OCR
PIG AND PEPPER. (9 crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces. “ Please, then,” said Alice, “ how am I to get in?” “There might be some sense in your knocking, the Footman went on, without attending to her, “if we had the door between us. For instance, if you were zside, you might knock, and | could let you out, you know.” He was looking up into the sky all the time he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly unelvil. “But perhaps he can’t help it,’ she said to herself; “his eyes are so very nearly at the top of his head. But at any rate he might answer questions—How am I to get in?” she repeated, aloud. “<1 shall sit here,” the Footman remarked, “ till 1) t10-MOITOW At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out, straight at the Footmans head: it just grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.
