it would be offended again.

'Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing.

'It IS a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad?' And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:--

         'Fury said to a

         mouse, That he

        met in the

       house,

     "Let us

      both go to

       law: I will

        prosecute

         YOU. --Come,

           I'll take no

           denial; We

          must have a

        trial: For

      really this

     morning I've

nothing

    to do."

     Said the

      mouse to the

       cur, "Such

        a trial,

         dear Sir,

            With

          no jury

        or judge,

       would be

      wasting

      our

      breath."

       "I'll be

        judge, I'll

         be jury,"

            Said

         cunning

          old Fury:

          "I'll

          try the

            whole

            cause,

              and

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