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Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list,

feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like,

"-for they haven't got much evidence yet," she said to herself.

Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top

of his shrill little voice, the name "Alice!"

CHAPTER XII. Alice's Evidence

"Here!" cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment

how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped

up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the

edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of

the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding

her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset

the week before.