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106 A MAD TEA-PARTY.
“They lived on treacle,’ said the Dormouse,
after thinking a minute or two.
“They couldnt have done that, you know,”
Alice gently remarked; “they'd have been ill.”
" So they were," said the Dormouse ; “very ill.”
Alice tried a little to fancy to herself what
such an extraordinary way of living would be
like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went.
on: “But why did they live at the bottom of
a well?”
‘“Tuke some more tea,’ the March Hare said
to Alice, very earnestly.
“T’ve had nothing yet,’ Alice replied in an
offended tone, ‘‘so I can't take more.”
“You mean you cant take less,” said the
Hatter: “its very easy to take more than
nothing.”
‘Nobody asked your opinion,” said Alice.
“Who’s making personal remarks now?” the
Hatter asked triumphantly.
Alice did not quite know what to say to
this: so she helped herself to some tea and