!
OATEEriLLAR.
under which she had been
had flown
large pigeon
" Serpent
!
"
" Serpent,
I
when hurry
a
:
a a
and was
wings.
its
screamed the Pigeon.
not a serpent
"Let me alone
in
her face,
into
beating her violently with
m
wandering,
made her draw back
sharp hiss
"I
71
I
said Alice indignantly.
"
" !
!
say again
repeated the Pigeon,
''
but in a more subdued tone, and added with a
"I've tried every way, and nothing
kind of sob,
seems to suit them
"I haven't the
" !
least idea
what you're talking
about," said Alice.
"I've tried the roots of
trees,
and
I've
tried
banks, and I've tried hedges," the Pigeon went on,
without attending to her There's no pleasing Alice
till
"As
them
was no
those
serpents
" !
was more and more
thought there
more
" but
;
use
in
puzzled,
but she
saying
anything
the Pigeon had finished. if
it
wasn't
trouble
the eggs," said the Pigeon
;
"
enough but
I
hatching
must be on