"You know," he added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle-to get one's head cut off." Alice laughed aloud: but she managed to turn it into a cough, for fear of hurting his feelings. Alice said afterwards she had never seen such a fuss made about anything in all her life-the way those two bustled about-and the quantity of things they put on-and the trouble they gave her in tying strings and fastening buttons-"Really they'll be more like bundles of old clothes than anything else, by the time they're ready!" she said to herself, as she arranged a bolster round the neck of Tweedledee, "to keep his head from being cut off," as he said. Read this excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
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