In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage. ‘Tickets, please!’ said the Guard, putting his head in at the window. So with this excuse she ran down the hill and jumped over the first of the six little brooks.
Besides, I do so want to get into the Third Square!’ ‘I think I’ll go down the other way,’ she said after a pause: ‘and perhaps I may visit the elephants later on. I shall say-“Oh, I like it well enough-“’ (here came the favourite little toss of the head), ‘“only it was so dusty and hot, and the elephants did tease so!”’ ‘It’ll never do to go down among them without a good long branch to brush them away-and what fun it’ll be when they ask me how I like my walk. ‘Something like cottages with the roofs taken off, and stalks put to them-and what quantities of honey they must make! I think I’ll go down and-no, I won’t just yet,’ she went on, checking herself just as she was beginning to run down the hill, and trying to find some excuse for turning shy so suddenly. ‘And what enormous flowers they must be!’ was her next idea. However, this was anything but a regular bee: in fact it was an elephant-as Alice soon found out, though the idea quite took her breath away at first. Principal towns-why, what are those creatures, making honey down there? They can’t be bees-nobody ever saw bees a mile off, you know-’ and for some time she stood silent, watching one of them that was bustling about among the flowers, poking its proboscis into them, ‘just as if it was a regular bee,’ thought Alice. Principal mountains-I’m on the only one, but I don’t think it’s got any name. ‘It’s something very like learning geography,’ thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of being able to see a little further. Of course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the country she was going to travel through.
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