Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be,

Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.”’

And hundreds of voices joined in the chorus:

‘Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can,

And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran:

Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea —

And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three!’

Then followed a confused noise of cheering, and Alice thought to herself, ‘Thirty times three makes ninety. I wonder if any one’s counting?’ In a minute there was silence again, and the same shrill voice sang another verse;