122 ALICE S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND lief. "Call the next witness." And he added, in an under- tone to the Queen, "Really, my dear, you must cross- examine the next witness. It quite makes my forehead ache!" Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like, " — for they haven't got much evidence yd-/," she said to herself. Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name "Alice!" Chapter XII Alice's Evidence
- 'Here!" cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the
moment how large she had grown in the last few min- utes, 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 quick- ly as she could, for the accident of the gold-fish kept run- ning 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 grave voice, "until all the jurymen are back in their pro-
