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Chapter XII 
Alice's Evidence 



'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting 
in the flurry of the moment how large 
she had grown in the last few minutes, 
and she jumped up in such a hurry that 
she tipped over the jury-box with the 
edge of her skirt, upsetting all the ju- 
rymen on to the heads of the crowd 
below, and there they lay sprawling 
about, reminding her very much of 
a globe of goldfish she had acciden- 
tally upset the week before. 

'Oh, I beg your pardon!' she ex- 
claimed in a tone of great dismay 
and began picking them up again as 
quickly as she could, for the accident 
of the goldfish kept running in her 
head and she had a vague sort of idea 
that they must be collected at once 
and put back into the jury-box or they would die. 

'The trial cannot proceed,' said the King in a very grave voice, 'until all the 
jurymen are back in their proper places - all,' he repeated with great emphasis, 
looking hard at Alice as he said do. 

Alice looked at the jury-box and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard 
in head downwards and the poor little thing was waving its tail about in a melan- 
choly way, being quite unable to move. She soon got it out again and put it right; 
'not that it signifies much,' she said to herself, T should think it would be quite as 
much use in the trial one way up as the other.'