Oldal 194 [194]
178 ALICES EVIDENCE.
“The trial cannot proceed,’ said the King in
a very grave voice, “until all the jurymen are .
back in their proper places—all,” he repeated
with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he
said so.
Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that,
in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head
downwards, and the poor littl thing was
waving its tail about in a melancholy way,
being quite unable to move. She soon got it
out again, and put it right; “not that it signifies
much,” she said to herself; “I should think it
would be quite as much use in the tral one
way up as the other.”
As soon as the jury had a little recovered
from the shock of being upset, and their slates
and pencils had been found and handed back
to them, they set to work very diligently to
write out a history of the accident, all except
the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to
do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing
up into the roof of the court.