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Through
the Looking-Glass
and what Alice
found there
Kapitel 3:
Looking-glass insects, Lewis Carroll, Seite 5 ( von 5 )
"What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet
voice it had!
"I wish I knew!" thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly,
"Nothing, just now."
"Think again," it said: "that won't do."
Alice thought, but nothing came of it. "Please, would you tell me what
you call
yourself?" she said timidly. "I think that might help a little."
"I'll tell you, if you'll come a little further on," the Fawn said.
"I can't remember here."
So they walked on together through the wood, Alice with her arms clasped
lovingly round the soft neck of the Fawn, till they came out into another open
field, and here the Fawn gave a sudden bound into the air, and shook itself
free from Alice's arms. "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of
delight, "and, dear me! you're a human child!" A sudden look of alarm
came into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it had darted away at
full speed.
Alice stood looking after it, almost ready to cry with vexation at having lost
her dear little fellow-traveller so suddenly. "However, I know my name
now," she said, "that's
some comfort.
Alice - Alice - I won't forget it again. And now, which of these finger-posts
ought I to follow, I wonder?"
It was not a very difficult question to answer, as there was only one road
through the wood, and the two finger-posts both pointed along it. "I'll
settle it," Alice said to herself, "when the road divides and they
point different ways."
But this did not seem likely to happen. She went on and on, a long way, but
wherever the road divided there were sure to be two finger-posts pointing the
same way, one marked 'TO TWEEDLEDUM'S HOUSE,' and the other 'TO THE HOUSE OF
TWEEDLEDEE.'
"I do believe," said Alice at last, "that they live in the same
house! I wonder I never thought of that before - But I can't stay there long.
I'll just call and say 'How d'ye do?' and ask them the way out of the wood. If
I could only get to the Eighth Square before it gets dark!" So she
wandered on, talking to herself as she went, till, on turning a sharp corner,
she came upon two fat little men, so suddenly that she could not help starting
back, but in another moment she recovered herself, feeling sure that they must
be ...
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