added; "I generally hit everything I can see—when I get really excited."
"And I hit everything within reach," cried Tweedledum, "whether I can see it or not!"
Alice laughed. "You must hit the trees pretty often, I should think," she said.
Tweedledum looked round him with a satisfied smile. "I don't suppose," he said, "there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far round, by the time we've finished!"
"And all about a rattle!" said Alice, still hoping to make them a little ashamed of fighting for such a trifle.
"I shouldn't have minded it so much," said Tweedledum, "if it hadn't been a new one."
"I wish the monstrous crow would come!" thought Alice.
"There's only one sword, you know," Tweedledum said to his brother; "but you can have the um-
