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28 ALICE S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND pointing to the tarts on the table. "Nothing can be clearer than that. Then again — 'before she had this fif — you never had fits^ my dear, I think?" he said to the Queen. "Never!" said the Queen, furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke. (The unfortu- nate little Bill had left off w^riting on his slate with one finger, as he found it made no mark; but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that was trickling down his face, as long as it lasted.) "Then the words don't fit you," said the King looking round the court with a smile. There was a dead silence. "It's a pun!" the King added in an angry tone, and everybody laughed. "Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.