Author: Kurama

‘I’m not a visitor, and I’m not a servant. There ought to be one marked “Queen,” you know –’   Just then the door opened a little way, and a creature with a long beak   put its head out for a moment and said ‘No admittance till   ‘No admittance till the week after […]

she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those queer Anglo-Saxon Messengers.   However, there was the great dish still lying at her feet, on which she had tried to cut the plum-cake,   ‘So I wasn’t dreaming, after all,’ she said to herself, ‘unless – unless we’re all part of […]

The White Queen gave a deep sigh, and laid her head on Alice’s shoulder. ‘I am so sleepy!’ she moaned. ‘She’s tired, poor thing!’   said the Red Queen. ‘Smooth her hair – lend her your nightcap – and sing her a soothing lullaby.’   ‘I haven’t got a nightcap with me,’ said Alice, as […]

‘Nothing!’ Alice said impatiently. ‘I’ve been knocking at it!’ ‘I’ve been knocking at it!’   ‘Shouldn’t do that – shouldn’t do that –’ the Frog muttered. ‘Wexes it, you know.’   Then he went up and gave the door a kick with one of his great feet.   ‘You let it alone,’ he panted out, […]

After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence,   and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was no one to be seen, and her first thought was that   she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those queer Anglo-Saxon Messengers. […]

Here she checked herself in some alarm, at hearing something that sounded to her   like the puffing of a large steam-engine in the wood near them, though she feared   it was more likely to be a wild beast. ‘Are there any lions or tigers about here?’ she asked timidly.   ‘It’s only the […]

‘Hush-a-by lady, in Alice’s lap! Till the feast’s ready, we’ve time for a nap;   When the feast’s over, we’ll go to the ball – Red Queen, and White Queen, and Alice, and all!     By day. Kyiv can often feel. Far from the front line. Far from the front line.   But at […]

So she brushed away her tears, and went on as cheerfully as she could, ‘At any rate   I’d better be getting out of the wood, for really it’s coming on very dark.   Do you think it’s going to rain?’ Tweedledum spread a large umbrella over himself and his brother,   and looked up […]

‘Kitty, can you play chess? Now, don’t smile, my dear, I’m asking it seriously. Because, when we were playing just now,   you watched just as if you understood it: and when I said “Check!” you purred!   Well, it was a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn’t been […]

They placed themselves close to where Hatta, the other Messenger, was standing watching the fight,   with a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.   ‘He’s only just out of prison, and he hadn’t finished his tea when he was sent in,’ Haigha whispered to Alice:   […]