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Chapter VI 
Pig and Pepper 



For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do 
next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood - (she 
considered him to be a footman because he was in livery; otherwise, judging by 
his face only, she would have called 
him a fish) - and rapped loudly at 
the door with his knuckles. It was 
opened by another footman in livery, 
with a round face and large eyes like 
a frog; and both footmen, Alice no- 
ticed, had powdered hair that curled 
all over their heads. She felt very curi- 
ous to know what it was all about and 
crept a little way out of the wood to 
listen. 

The Fish-Footman began by pro- 
ducing from under his arm a great let- 
ter, nearly as large as himself, and this 
he handed over to the other, saying, in 
a solemn tone, 'For the Duchess. An 
invitation from the Queen to play cro- 
quet.' The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the 
order of the words a little, 'From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to play 
croquet.' 

Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together. 

Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of 
their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and 
the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky. 

Alice went timidly up to the door and knocked.