` You may look in front of you , and on both sides , if you like , ' said the Sheep : ` but you ca n't look ALL round you -- unless you 've got eyes at the back of your head . ' But these , as it happened , Alice had NOT got : so she contented herself with turning round , looking at the shelves as she came to them . The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things -- but the oddest part of it all was , that whenever she looked hard at any shelf , to make out exactly what it had on it , that particular shelf was always quite empty : though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold . ` Things flow about so here ! ' she said at last in a plaintive tone , after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursuing a large bright thing , that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like a work-box , and was always in the shelf next above the one she was looking at . ` And this one is the most provoking of all -- but I 'll tell you what -- ' she added , as a sudden thought struck her , ` I 'll follow it up to the very top shelf of all . It 'll puzzle it to go through the ceiling , I expect ! ' But even this plan failed : the ` thing ' went through the ceiling as quietly as possible , as if it were quite used to it . ` Are you a child or a teetotum ? ' the Sheep said , as she took up another pair of needles . ` You 'll make me giddy soon , if you go on turning round like that . ' She was now working with fourteen pairs at once , and Alice could n't help looking at her in great astonishment . ` How CAN she knit with so many ? ' the puzzled child thought to herself . ` She gets more and more like a porcupine every minute ! ' ` Can you row ? ' the Sheep asked , handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke . ` Yes , a little -- but not on land -- and not with needles -- ' Alice was beginning to say , when suddenly the needles turned into oars in her hands , and she found they were in a little boat , gliding along between banks : so there was nothing for it but to do her best . ` Feather ! ' cried the Sheep , as she took up another pair of needles .
This did n't sound like a remark that needed any answer , so XXXXX said nothing , but pulled away .
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