Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Chapter 2 Page 6

twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome — no, that’s all wrong, I’m certain! I must have been changed for Mabel! I’ll try and say “How doth the little — ”’ and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do: —

‘How doth the little crocodile

Improve his shining tail,

And pour the waters of the Nile

On every golden scale!