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- Of course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the
- country she was going to travel through. “It’s something very like
- learning geography,” thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of
- being able to see a little further. “Principal rivers—there _are_ none.
- Principal mountains—I’m on the only one, but I don’t think it’s got any
- name. 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.
- 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. “And what enormous flowers they must be!” was her next
- idea. “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. “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. 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!’”
- “I think I’ll go down the other way,” she said after a pause: “and
- perhaps I may visit the elephants later on. Besides, I do so want to
- get into the Third Square!”
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter 3 - Looking-Glass Insects
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