and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges that reached from brook to brook.
"I declare it's marked out just like a large chess-board!" Alice said at last. "There ought to be some men moving about somewhere—and so there are!" she added, in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. "It's a great, huge game of chess that's being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though, of course, I should like to be a Queen best."
She glanced rather shyly at the real Queen as she said this, but her companion only smiled pleasantly and said, "That's easily managed. You can be the White Queen's Pawn if
