Stranica 129 [129]
THE QUEENS CROQUET-GROUND. 113
“ You'd better not talk!” said Five. “I heard
the Queen say only yesterday you deserved to be
beheaded !”
“What for?”
said the one who
had spoken first.
“'That’s none
of your business,
Two!” said Seven.
“ Yes, it is his
business!” said
Five, “and I:
tell him—it was
for bringing the
cook tulip-roots in¬
stead of onions.”
Seven flung
down his brush, and had just begun " Well, of
all the unjust things—” when his eye chanced
to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them,
and he checked himself suddenly: the others
looked round also, and all of them bowed low.
Q