` And yet I do n't know , ' the Gnat went on in a careless tone : ` only think how convenient it would be if you could manage to go home without it ! For instance , if the governess wanted to call you to your lessons , she would call out `` come here -- , '' and there she would have to leave off , because there would n't be any name for her to call , and of course you would n't have to go , you know . ' ` That would never do , I 'm sure , ' said Alice : ` the governess would never think of excusing me lessons for that . If she could n't remember my name , she 'd call me `` Miss ! '' as the servants do . ' ` Well , if she said `` Miss , '' and did n't say anything more , ' the Gnat remarked , ` of course you 'd miss your lessons . That 's a joke . I wish YOU had made it . ' ` Why do you wish I had made it ? ' Alice asked . ` It 's a very bad one . ' But the Gnat only sighed deeply , while two large tears came rolling down its cheeks . ` You should n't make jokes , ' Alice said , ` if it makes you so unhappy . ' Then came another of those melancholy little sighs , and this time the poor Gnat really seemed to have sighed itself away , for , when Alice looked up , there was nothing whatever to be seen on the twig , and , as she was getting quite chilly with sitting still so long , she got up and walked on . She very soon came to an open field , with a wood on the other side of it : it looked much darker than the last wood , and Alice felt a LITTLE timid about going into it . However , on second thoughts , she made up her mind to go on : ` for I certainly wo n't go BACK , ' she thought to herself , and this was the only way to the Eighth Square . ` This must be the wood , ' she said thoughtfully to herself , ` where things have no names . I wonder what 'll become of MY name when I go in ? I should n't like to lose it at all -- because they 'd have to give me another , and it would be almost certain to be an ugly one . But then the fun would be trying to find the creature that had got my old name !
That 's just like the advertisements , you know , when people lose dogs -- `` ANSWERS TO THE NAME OF ` DASH : ' HAD ON A BRASS COLLAR '' -- just fancy calling everything you met `` XXXXX , '' till one of them answered !
Alice Gnat Miss Square course field lessons names second twig