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A MAD TEA-PARTY. 109
This answer so confused poor Alice, that she
let the Dormouse go on for some time without
interrupting it.
“They were learning to draw,” the Dormouse
went on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it
was getting very sleepy; “and they drew all
manner of things—everything that begins with
an M ‘3
“Why with an M2” said Alice.
“Why not?” said the March Hare.
‘Alice was silent.
The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this
time, and was going off into a doze; but, on
being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again
begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the
moon, and’ memory, aud muchness—you know
you say things are ‘much of a muchness —did
you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a
muchness ?”
“Really, now you ask me,’ said Alice, very
much confused, "I dont think——”