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CHAPTER II.


THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS.


"I should see the garden far better," said Alice to herself, "if I could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it——at least, no, it doesn't do that——" (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), "but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It's more like a corkscrew than a path! Well, this turn goes to the hill, I suppose——no, it doesn't! This goes straight back to the house! Well then, I'll try it the other way."

And so she did: wandering up and down,