Alice Through The Looking-Glass

Illustrated children's book by Lewis Carroll - online version

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"IT'S MY OWN INVENTION."               139
that Alice got behind a tree to be out of the way of the blows.
" I wonder, now what the Rules of Battle are," she said to herself, as she watched the fight, timidly peeping out from her hiding-place : "one
Rule seems to be, that if one Knight hits the other, he knocks him off his horse, and if he
misses, he tumbles off himself------and another Rule
seems to be that they hold their clubs with their
arms, as if they were Punch and Judy------What
a noise they make when they tumble I Just like