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"Oh, I beg your pardon!" she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay,

and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the

accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a

vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put

back into the jury-box, or they would die.

"The trial cannot proceed," said the King in a very grave voice,

"until all the jurymen are back in their proper places-all," he

repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said

so.

Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had

put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was

waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to

move. She soon got it out again, and put it right; "not that it

signifies much," she said to herself; "I should think it would be

quite as much use in the trial one way up as the other."