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Through
the Looking-Glass
and what Alice
found there
Kapitel 4:
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lewis Carroll, Seite 7 ( von 7 )
"Let's fight till six, and then have dinner," said Tweedledum.
"Very well," the other said, rather sadly: "and
she can watch us
- only you'd better not come
very
close," he added: "I generally hit everything I can see - when I get
really excited."
"And I hit
every thing within reach," cried Tweedledum, "whether I can see it or
not!"
Alice laughed. "You must hit the
trees pretty
often, I should think," she said.
Tweedledum looked round him with a satisfied smile. "I don't
suppose," he said, "there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far
round, by the time we've finished!"
"And all about a rattle!" said Alice, still hoping to make them a
little ashamed
of fighting for such a trifle.
"I shouldn't have minded it so much," said Tweedledum, "if it
hadn't been a new one."
"I wish the monstrous crow would come!" thought Alice.
"There's only one sword, you know," Tweedledum said to his brother:
"but you can have the umbrella - it's quite as sharp. Only we must begin
quick. It's getting as dark as it can."
"And darker," said Tweedledee.
It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm
coming on. "What a thick black cloud that is!" she said. "And
how fast it comes! Why, I do believe it's got wings!"
"It's the crow!" Tweedledum cried out in a shrill voice of alarm: and
the two brothers took to their heels and were out of sight in a moment.
Alice ran a little way into the wood, and stopped under a large tree. "It
can never get at me here," she
thought: "it's far too large to squeeze itself in among the trees. But I
wish it wouldn't flap its wings so - it makes quite a hurricane in the wood -
here's somebody's shawl being blown away!"
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