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Through
the Looking-Glass
and what Alice
found there
Kapitel 7:
The lion and the unicorn, Lewis Carroll, Seite 5 ( von 5 )
"It's very provoking!" she said, in reply to the Lion (she was
getting quite used to being called 'the Monster'). "I've cut several
slices already, but they always join on again!"
"You don't know how to manage Looking-glass cakes," the Unicorn
remarked. "Hand it round first, and cut if afterwards."
This sounded nonsense, but Alice very obediently got up, and carried the dish
round, and the cake divided itself into three pieces as she did so. "Now cut it
up," said the Lion, as she returned to her place with the empty dish.
"I say, this isn't fair!" cried the Unicorn, as Alice sat with the
knife in her hand, very much puzzled how to begin. "The Monster has given
the Lion twice as much as me!"
"She's kept none for herself, anyhow," said the Lion. "Do you
like plum-cake, Monster?"
But before Alice could answer him, the drums began.
Where the noise came from, she couldn't make out: the air seemed full of it,
and it rang through and through her head till she felt quite deafened. She
started to her feet and sprang across the little brook in her terror,
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and had just time to see the Lion and the Unicorn rise to their feet, with
angry looks at being interrupted in their feast, before she dropped to her
knees, and put her hands over her ears, vainly trying to shut out the dreadful
uproar.
"If that
doesn't 'drum them
out of town,'" she thought to herself, "nothing ever will!"
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