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suppose they are the jurors.” She said this
last word two or three times over to herself,
being rather proud of it: for she thought, and
rightly too, that very few little girls of her age
knew the meaning of it at all. However, “jury¬
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men would have done just as well.
the twelve jurors. were all writing very
busily on slates. ‘What are they doing?” Alice
whispered to the Gryphon. “They can’t have
anything to put down yet, before the trial’s
heoun.”
“Theyre putting down their names,’ the
Gryphon whispered in reply, “for fear they
should forget them before the end of the trial.”
“Stupid things!” Alice began in a loud
indignant voice, but she stopped herself hastily,
for the White Rabbit cried out, “ Silence in the
court!” and the King put on his spectacles and
looked anxiously round, to make out who was
talking.
Alice could see, as well as if she were look¬
ing over their shoulders, that all the jurors were