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Wonderland- Red Queen Teleporting

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  1. “While you’re refreshing yourself,” said the Queen, “I’ll just take the
  2. measurements.” And she took a ribbon out of her pocket, marked in
  3. inches, and began measuring the ground, and sticking little pegs in
  4. here and there.
  5.  
  6. “At the end of two yards,” she said, putting in a peg to mark the
  7. distance, “I shall give you your directions—have another biscuit?”
  8.  
  9. “No, thank you,” said Alice: “one’s _quite_ enough!”
  10.  
  11. “Thirst quenched, I hope?” said the Queen.
  12.  
  13. Alice did not know what to say to this, but luckily the Queen did not
  14. wait for an answer, but went on. “At the end of _three_ yards I shall
  15. repeat them—for fear of your forgetting them. At the end of _four_, I
  16. shall say good-bye. And at the end of _five_, I shall go!”
  17.  
  18. She had got all the pegs put in by this time, and Alice looked on with
  19. great interest as she returned to the tree, and then began slowly
  20. walking down the row.
  21.  
  22. At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, “A pawn goes two squares
  23. in its first move, you know. So you’ll go _very_ quickly through the
  24. Third Square—by railway, I should think—and you’ll find yourself in the
  25. Fourth Square in no time. Well, _that_ square belongs to Tweedledum and
  26. Tweedledee—the Fifth is mostly water—the Sixth belongs to Humpty
  27. Dumpty—But you make no remark?”
  28.  
  29. “I—I didn’t know I had to make one—just then,” Alice faltered out.
  30.  
  31. “You _should_ have said, ‘It’s extremely kind of you to tell me all
  32. this’—however, we’ll suppose it said—the Seventh Square is all
  33. forest—however, one of the Knights will show you the way—and in the
  34. Eighth Square we shall be Queens together, and it’s all feasting and
  35. fun!” Alice got up and curtseyed, and sat down again.
  36.  
  37. At the next peg the Queen turned again, and this time she said, “Speak
  38. in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing—turn out your
  39. toes as you walk—and remember who you are!” She did not wait for Alice
  40. to curtsey this time, but walked on quickly to the next peg, where she
  41. turned for a moment to say “good-bye,” and then hurried on to the last.
  42.  
  43. How it happened, Alice never knew, but exactly as she came to the last
  44. peg, she was gone. Whether she vanished into the air, or whether she
  45. ran quickly into the wood (“and she _can_ run very fast!” thought
  46. Alice), there was no way of guessing, but she was gone, and Alice began
  47. to remember that she was a Pawn, and that it would soon be time for her
  48. to move.
  49.  
  50. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter 2 - The Garden of Live Flowers
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