CHAPTER III: A Caucus-Race and a Long
Tale They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who
at last turned sulky, and would only say, ‘I am older than you, and must know better’; and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said. At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, ‘Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I’ll soon make you dry enough!’
They all
sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. ’Ahem!’ said the Mouse with an important air, ‘are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all
round, if you please! ‘William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria—‘‘
’Ugh!’ said the Lory, with a shiver.
’I beg your pardon!’ said the Mouse, frowning, but
very politely: ‘Did you speak?’
’Not I!’ said the Lory hastily.
’I thought you did,’ said the Mouse. ‘—I proceed.
‘Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria,
declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic
archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable—‘‘
’Found what?’ said the Duck.
’Found it,’ the Mouse replied rather crossly: ‘of course
you know what ‘it’ means.’
’I know what ‘it’ means well enough, when I find a
thing,’ said the Duck: ‘it’s generally a frog or a worm. The
question is, what did the archbishop find?’
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