Алиса в Стране чудес / Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

The pool was overcrowded with the birds and animals. Everybody swam to the shore.

The Mouse said, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle.

'Ahem!' said the Mouse, 'are you all ready? Silence, if you please!'

And it began to talk about William the Conqueror[4].

'Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.

'I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: 'Did you speak?'

'Not I!' said the Lory hastily.

'I proceed,' said the Mouse. 'Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, found it-'

'Found WHAT?' said the Duck.

'Found IT,' the Mouse replied: 'of course you know what “it” means.'

'I know what “it” means well enough, when I find a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did those gentlemen find?'

The Mouse did not notice this question.

'How are you, my dear?' it asked Alice.

'I'm wet,' said Alice.

How to get dry? They had a long talk about this, but it was hard to tell what was best.