I do n't like the look of it at all , ' said the King : ` however , it may kiss my hand if it likes . ' ` I 'd rather not , ' the Cat remarked . ` Do n't be impertinent , ' said the King , ` and do n't look at me like that ! ' He got behind Alice as he spoke . ' A cat may look at a king , ' said Alice . ` I 've read that in some book , but I do n't remember where . ' ` Well , it must be removed , ' said the King very decidedly , and he called the Queen , who was passing at the moment , ` My dear ! I wish you would have this cat removed ! ' The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties , great or small . ` Off with his head ! ' she said , without even looking round . ` I 'll fetch the executioner myself , ' said the King eagerly , and he hurried off . Alice thought she might as well go back , and see how the game was going on , as she heard the Queen 's voice in the distance , screaming with passion . She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be executed for having missed their turns , and she did not like the look of things at all , as the game was in such confusion that she never knew whether it was her turn or not . So she went in search of her hedgehog . The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog , which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other : the only difficulty was , that her flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden , where Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree . By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back , the fight was over , and both the hedgehogs were out of sight : ` but it does n't matter much , ' thought Alice , ` as all the arches are gone from this side of the ground . ' So she tucked it away under her arm , that it might not escape again , and went back for a little more conversation with her friend . When she got back to the Cheshire Cat , she was surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round it : there was a dispute going on between the executioner , the King , and the Queen , who were all talking at once , while all the rest were quite silent , and looked very uncomfortable . The moment Alice appeared , she was appealed to by all three to settle the question , and they repeated their arguments to her , though , as they all spoke at once , she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly what they said .
The executioner 's argument was , that you could n't cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from : XXXXX he had never had to do such a thing before , and he was n't going to begin at HIS time of life .
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