all the time.'

Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as well
as she could, that she had lost her way.

'I don't know what you mean by YOUR way,' said the Queen: 'all
the ways about here belong to ME--but why did you come out here
at all?' she added in a kinder tone. 'Curtsey while you're
thinking what to say, it saves time.'

Alice wondered a little at this, but she was too much in awe of
the Queen to disbelieve it. 'I'll try it when I go home,' she
thought to herself, 'the next time I'm a little late for dinner.'

'It's time for you to answer now,' the Queen said, looking at
her watch: 'open your mouth a LITTLE wider when you speak, and
always say "your Majesty."'

'I only wanted to see what the garden was like, your Majesty--'

'That's right,' said the Queen, patting her on the head, which
Alice didn't like at all, 'though, when you say "garden,"--I'VE
seen gardens, compared with which this would be a wilderness.'

Alice didn't dare to argue the point, but went on: '--and I
thought I'd try and find my way to the top of that hill--'

'When you say "hill,"' the Queen interrupted, '_I_ could show
you hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.'