He chortled in his joy . 'T was brillig , and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves , And the mome raths outgrabe . ` It seems very pretty , ' she said when she had finished it , ` but it 's RATHER hard to understand ! ' -LRB- You see she did n't like to confess , even to herself , that she could n't make it out at all . -RRB- ` Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas -- only I do n't exactly know what they are ! However , SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING : that 's clear , at any rate -- ' ` But oh ! ' thought Alice , suddenly jumping up , ` if I do n't make haste I shall have to go back through the Looking-glass , before I 've seen what the rest of the house is like ! Let 's have a look at the garden first ! ' She was out of the room in a moment , and ran down stairs -- or , at least , it was n't exactly running , but a new invention of hers for getting down stairs quickly and easily , as Alice said to herself . She just kept the tips of her fingers on the hand-rail , and floated gently down without even touching the stairs with her feet ; then she floated on through the hall , and would have gone straight out at the door in the same way , if she had n't caught hold of the door-post . She was getting a little giddy with so much floating in the air , and was rather glad to find herself walking again in the natural way . CHAPTER II . The Garden of Live Flowers ' I should see the garden far better , ' said Alice to herself , ` if I could get to the top of that hill : and here 's a path that leads straight to it -- at least , no , it does n't do that -- ' -LRB- after going a few yards along the path , and turning several sharp corners -RRB- , ` but I suppose it will at last . But how curiously it twists ! It 's more like a corkscrew than a path ! Well , THIS turn goes to the hill , I suppose -- no , it does n't ! This goes straight back to the house ! Well then , I 'll try it the other way . ' And so she did : wandering up and down , and trying turn after turn , but always coming back to the house , do what she would . Indeed , once , when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual , she ran against it before she could stop herself .
` It 's no use talking about it , ' XXXXX said , looking up at the house and pretending it was arguing with her .
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