“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the
flurry of the moment how large she had grown
in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in
such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box
with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jury¬
men on to the heads of the crowd below, and
there they lay sprawling about, reminding her
very much of a globe of gold-fish she had
accidentally upset the week before.
“Oh, I beg your pardon!” she exclaimed in
a tone of great dismay, and began picking them
up again as quickly as she could, for the acci¬