` It can never get at me HERE , ' she thought : ` it 's far too large to squeeze itself in among the trees . But I wish it would n't flap its wings so -- it makes quite a hurricane in the wood -- here 's somebody 's shawl being blown away ! ' CHAPTER V. Wool and Water She caught the shawl as she spoke , and looked about for the owner : in another moment the White Queen came running wildly through the wood , with both arms stretched out wide , as if she were flying , and Alice very civilly went to meet her with the shawl . ` I 'm very glad I happened to be in the way , ' Alice said , as she helped her to put on her shawl again . The White Queen only looked at her in a helpless frightened sort of way , and kept repeating something in a whisper to herself that sounded like ` bread-and-butter , bread-and-butter , ' and Alice felt that if there was to be any conversation at all , she must manage it herself . So she began rather timidly : ` Am I addressing the White Queen ? ' ` Well , yes , if you call that a-dressing , ' The Queen said . ` It is n't MY notion of the thing , at all . ' Alice thought it would never do to have an argument at the very beginning of their conversation , so she smiled and said , ` If your Majesty will only tell me the right way to begin , I 'll do it as well as I can . ' ` But I do n't want it done at all ! ' groaned the poor Queen . ` I 've been a-dressing myself for the last two hours . ' It would have been all the better , as it seemed to Alice , if she had got some one else to dress her , she was so dreadfully untidy . ` Every single thing 's crooked , ' Alice thought to herself , ` and she 's all over pins ! -- may I put your shawl straight for you ? ' she added aloud . ' I do n't know what 's the matter with it ! ' the Queen said , in a melancholy voice . ` It 's out of temper , I think . I 've pinned it here , and I 've pinned it there , but there 's no pleasing it ! '
` It CA N'T go straight , you know , if you pin it all on one side , ' Alice said , as she gently put it XXXXX for her ; ` and , dear me , what a state your hair is in ! '
Alice Queen a-dressing argument flap hours hurricane right shawl wood