# An excerpt from Alice in Wonderland

How doth the little--"' and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:--

> 'How doth the little crocodile

> Improve his shining tail,

> And pour the waters of the Nile

> On every golden scale!

> 'How cheerfully he seems to grin,

> How neatly spread his claws,

> And welcome little fishes in

> With gently smiling jaws!'