Chapter 12
Alice’s Evidence“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the
moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she
jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with
the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of
the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her
very much of a globe of gold-fish she had accidentally upset the
week before.
“Oh, I beg your pardon!” she exclaimed in a tone of great
dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could,
for the accident of the gold-fish kept running in her head, and she
had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and
put back into the jury-box, or they would die.
“The trial cannot proceed,” said the King, in a very gra
