Alice thought it would not be civil to say 'No,' though it
wasn't at all what she wanted. So she took it, and ate it as
well as she could: and it was VERY dry; and she thought she had
never been so nearly choked in all her life.

'While you're refreshing yourself,' said the Queen, 'I'll just
take the measurements.' And she took a ribbon out of her pocket,
marked in inches, and began measuring the ground, and sticking
little pegs in here and there.

'At the end of two yards,' she said, putting in a peg to mark
the distance, 'I shall give you your directions--have another
biscuit?'

'No, thank you,' said Alice: 'one's QUITE enough!'

'Thirst quenched, I hope?' said the Queen.

Alice did not know what to say to this, but luckily the Queen
did not wait for an answer, but went on. 'At the end of THREE
yards I shall repeat them--for fear of your forgetting them.
At the end of FOUR, I shall say good-bye. And at the end of
FIVE, I shall go!'

She had got all the pegs put in by this time, and Alice looked
on with great interest as she returned to the tree, and then
began slowly walking down the row.

At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, 'A pawn goes two