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tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it
made Alice quite hungry to look at them—" Il
wish they’d get the trial done,” she thought,
“and hand round the refreshments!” But there
seemed to be "He chance of this, so she began
looking at everything about her, to pass away
Alice had never been in a court of justice
before, but she had read about them in books,
and she was quite pleased to find that she knew
the name of nearly everything there. ‘“That’s
the judge,” she said to herself, “because of his
The judge, by the way, was the King; and
as he wore his crown over the wig, (look at
the frontispiece 1f you want to see how he did
it,) he did not look at all comfortable, and it
was certainly not becoming.
“And that's the jury-box,” thought Alice,
“and those twelve creatures,” (she was obliged
to say " creatures, you see, because some of
them were animals, and some were birds,) "I