'Now! Now!' cried the Queen. 'Faster! Faster!' And they
went so fast that at last they seemed to skim through the air,
hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly, just
as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found
herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy.

The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, 'You
may rest a little now.'

Alice looked round her in great surprise. 'Why, I do believe
we've been under this tree the whole time! Everything's just as
it was!'

'Of course it is,' said the Queen, 'what would you have it?'

'Well, in OUR country,' said Alice, still panting a little,
'you'd generally get to somewhere else--if you ran very fast
for a long time, as we've been doing.'

'A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. 'Now, HERE, you see,
it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place.
If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as
fast as that!'

'I'd rather not try, please!' said Alice. 'I'm quite content
to stay here--only I AM so hot and thirsty!'

'I know what YOU'D like!' the Queen said good-naturedly, taking
a little box out of her pocket. 'Have a biscuit?'