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A MAD TEA-PARTY. 107
bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dor¬
mouse, and repeated her guestion. " Why did
they live at the bottom of a well?"
The Dormouse again took a minute or two
‘to think about it, and then said, “It was a
— treacle-well.”
| “Theres no such thing!" Alice was begin¬
ning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March
Hare went “Sh! sh!” and the Dormouse sulkily
remarked, “If you can't be civil, you’d better
finish the story for yourself.”
“No, please go on!” Alice said very humbly ;
“I won't interrupt you again. I dare say there
may be one.”
“One, indeed!” said the Dormouse indig¬
nantly. However, he consented to go on. “ And
so these three little sisters—they were learning
to draw, you know——”
“What did they draw?” said Alice, quite
forgetting her promise.
“Treacle,” said the Dormouse, without consi¬
dering at all this time.