`And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, `or you'll be asleep
again before it's done.'

`Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the
Dormouse began in a great hurry; `and their names were Elsie,
Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well--'

`What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great
interest in questions of eating and drinking.

`They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a
minute or two.

`They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice gently
remarked; `they'd have been ill.'

`So they were,' said the Dormouse; `VERY ill.'

Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary ways
of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went
on: `But why did they live at the bottom of a well?'

`Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very
earnestly.

`I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, `so
I can't take more.'

`You mean you can't take LESS,' said the Hatter: `it's very