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“ Then you may sit down , ” the King replied . Here the other guinea - pig cheered , and was suppressed . “ Come , that finished the guinea - pigs ! ” thought Alice . “ Now we shall get on better . ” “ I’d rather finish my tea , ” said the Hatter , with an anxious look at the Queen , who was reading the list of singers . “ You may go , ” said the King , and the Hatter hurriedly left the court , without even waiting to put his shoes on . “ — and just take his head off outside , ” the Queen added to one of the officers : but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get to the door . “ Call the next witness ! ” said the King . The next witness was the Duchess’s cook . She carried the pepper - box in her hand , and Alice guessed who it was , even before she got into the court , by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once . “ Give your evidence , ” said the King . “ Shan’t , ” said the cook . The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit , who said in a low voice , “ Your Majesty must cross - examine this witness . ” “ Well , if I must , I must , ” the King said , with a melancholy air , and , after folding his arms and frowning at the cook till his eyes were nearly out of sight , he said in a deep voice , “ What are tarts made of ? ” “ Pepper , mostly , ” said the cook . “ Treacle , ” said a sleepy voice behind her . “ Collar that Dormouse , ” the Queen shrieked out . “ Behead that Dormouse ! Turn that Dormouse out of court ! Suppress him ! Pinch him ! Off with his whiskers ! ” For some minutes the whole court was in confusion , getting the Dormouse turned out , and , by the time they had settled down again , the cook had disappeared . “ Never mind ! ” said the King , with an air of great relief . “ Call the next witness . ” And he added in an undertone to the Queen , “ Really , my dear , you must cross - examine the next witness . It quite makes my forehead ache ! ” Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list , feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like , “ — for they haven’t got much evidence yet , ” she said to herself . Imagine her surprise , when the White Rabbit read out , at the top of his shrill little voice , the name “ Alice ! ” CHAPTER XII . Alice’s Evidence “ 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 jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below , and there they lay sprawling about , reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish 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 accident of the goldfish kept running in her head , and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury - box , or they would die .
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