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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Lewis Carroll
CHAPTER I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by
her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:
once or twice she had peeped into the book her
sister was reading, but it had no pictures or
conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,'
thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as
she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy
and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a
daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting
up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White
Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor
did Alice think it so very much out of the way to
hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I
shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards,
it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered
at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural);
but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its
waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried
on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her
mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with
either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of
it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the
field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see
it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never
once considering how in the world she was to get
out again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for
some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so
suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think
about stopping herself before she found herself
ALISA U ZEMLJI ČUDA
Luis Kerol
(na srpski preveo Luka Semenović)
Glava I
U ZEČJOJ JAMI
Alisi je već dosadilo da sjedi kraj sestre na obali i
ništa ne radi. Jedanput-dvaput je preko oka
pogledala u knjigu koju je sestra čitala, ali u njoj
nije bilo ni slika ni razgovora, "i kakva mi je to
knjiga", pomisli Alisa, "kad u njoj nema ni slika
ni razgovora?"
I zato je premišljala (što je bolje umjela, jer se na
ovoj vrućini osjećala vrlo pospano i glupo) da li
bi se isplatilo da ustane i nabere tratinčica pa od
njih isplete vjenčić, kad pored nje protrča jedan
Bijeli Zec ružičastih očiju.
U tome nije bilo ničeg posebno značajnog, a Alisi
se nije učinilo ni posebno neobičnim kad je čula
kako Zec govori sam sebi: "Oh jadan ti sam!
Jadan ti sam! Suviše ću odocniti!" (Kad je o tome
kasnije razmišljala, činilo joj se da se tome
trebalo začuditi, ali tog trena sve joj je izgledalo
potpuno prirodno.) No kad Zec iz svog džepa na
prsluku izvadi sat, pogleda u njega i onda pojuri,
Alisa skoči, jer joj sinu kroz glavu da nikad do
sada nije vidjela zeca koji ima džep na prsluku i
još iz njega vadi sat, pa goreći od znatiželje stušti
se preko polja za njim, i na sreću upravo dospije
da vidi kako on klisnu u jednu veliku zečju logu
ispod živice.
Istoga trena i Alisa se sjuri za njim i ne misleći ni
časa kako će se odatle izvući.
Loga se najprije pružala pravo, kao kakav tunel, a
onda naglo obrušavala. Tako naglo da Alisa
nemade ni časa vremena da porazmisli pa da se
zaustavi, nego poče da propada kroz neki vrlo
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falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very
slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down
to look about her and to wonder what was going to
happen next. First, she tried to look down and make
out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to
see anything; then she looked at the sides of the
well, and noticed that they were filled with
cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she
saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took
down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it
was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to
her great disappointment it was empty: she did not
like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so
managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she
fell past it.
'Well!' thought Alice to herself, 'after such a fall as
this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!
How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I
wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the
top of the house!' (Which was very likely true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to
an end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by
this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting
somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see:
that would be four thousand miles down, I think--'
(for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this
sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though
this was not a very good opportunity for showing
off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to
her, still it was good practice to say it over) '--yes,
that's about the right distance--but then I wonder
what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had
no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but
thought they were nice grand words to say.)
Presently she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall
right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to
come out among the people that walk with their
heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she
was rather glad there was no one listening, this
time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '--but I
dubok bunar.
Sad ili je bunar bio vrlo dubok ili je ona
propadala vrlo lagano, tek imala je dovoljno
vremena da uz put razgleda sve oko sebe i da se
pita šta li će se sad zbiti. Najprije pokuša da
pogleda dolje, ne bi li saznala gdje će dospjeti, ali
je bilo isuviše mračno da bi šta mogla vidjeti.
Onda osmotri zidove bunara i zapazi da su
načičkani ormarima i policama za knjige. Tu i
tamo primijeti zemljopisne karte i slike okačene o
klinove. S jedne od polica, onako u prolazu, skide
jednu teglu. Na njoj je pisalo "Marmelada od
naranče", ali na Alisino veliko razočarenje, tegla
bijaše prazna. Nije htjela da je baci, bojala se da
koga ne udari, već je ostavi u jedan ormar pored
kojeg je padala.
"Eh", pomisli Alisa, "poslije ovakvog padanja
tumbanje niz stepenice će za mene biti mačji
kašalj! Ala će me svi kod kuće smatrati junakom!
Ma ne bih pisnula ni kad bih pala s krova kuće!"
(To nije bilo daleko od istine.)
Dolje, dolje, dolje! Zar ovom padanju nikad neće
biti kraja? "Koliko li sam kilometara dosad
pala?", izusti naglas. "Mora da se približavam
središtu Zemlje. Čekaj, mislim da bi dotle moglo
biti oko šest i po hiljada kilometara..." (Kako
vidiš, Alisa je bila naučila nešto o tome na
časovima u školi, pa iako ovo nije bila neka bog
zna kako zgodna prilika da se podiči svojim
znanjem, budući da nije bilo nikog da je čuje –
ipak je bilo dobro da ponešto i ponovi.) "...da, to
bi otprilike bila prava razdaljina – ali na koju sam
geografsku širinu ili geografsku dužinu
dospjela?" (Alisa nije imala pojma ni šta je to
geografska širina ni geografska dužina, ali riječi
su joj se činile fine i učene.) Domalo opet poče:
"Ko zna da neću preletjeti pravo kroz Zemlju!
Kakva bi to bila smijurija, doći među ljude što
hodaju naglavačke! To su Antipati (Htjela je
kazati "antipodi". Ljudi koji žive na suprotnoj
strani Zemlje su naši antipodi.), čini mi se..." Bilo
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shall have to ask them what the name of the country
is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand
or Australia?' (and she tried to curtsey as she
spoke--fancy curtseying as you're falling through
the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And
what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for
asking! No, it'll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see
it written up somewhere.'
Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do,
so Alice soon began talking again. 'Dinah'll miss
me very much to-night, I should think!' (Dinah was
the cat.) 'I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk
at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down
here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm
afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that's very
like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I
wonder?' And here Alice began to get rather sleepy,
and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of
way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and
sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she
couldn't answer either question, it didn't much
matter which way she put it. She felt that she was
dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she
was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying
to her very earnestly, 'Now, Dinah, tell me the truth:
did you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, thump!
thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and
dry leaves, and the fall was over.
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to
her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all
dark overhead; before her was another long
passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight,
hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be
lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in
time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, 'Oh my ears
and whiskers, how late it's getting!' She was close
behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit
was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a
joj je milo što je ovog puta niko ne sluša, jer joj
ova riječ nikako nije zvučala kako treba. "Ali,
znaš, moraću ih pitati kako im se zemlja zove.
Molim vas, gospođo, da li je ovo Novi Zeland ili
Australija?" (i govoreći to, pokuša da se pokloni.
Zamisli da se klanjaš dok propadaš kroz vazduh!
Šta misliš, bi li to tebi pošlo za rukom?) "Ali
kakvom li će me neznalicom smatrati! Ne, bolje
da ne pitam. Možda će to biti negdje i napisano."
Dolje, dolje, dolje. Pošto nikakvog drugog posla
nije imala, Alisa ubrzo opet poče da razgovara
sama sa sobom. "Vjerujem da će Dajni noćas biti
nebično bez mene!" (Dajna je bila mačka.)
"Nadam se da će se sjetiti da joj popodne daju
njen tanjirić mlijeka. Dajna, mila moja, kamo
sreće da si i ti ovdje dolje sa mnom! Na žalost u
vazduhu nema miševa, ali mogla bi uloviti kojeg
šišmiša, a šišmiš je gotovo isto što i miš, znaš. Ali
ko zna jedu li mačke šišmiše?" Ovdje Alisu poče
poprilično da hvata san, te ona nastavi da govori
u sebi nekako pospano. "Jedu li mačke šišmiše?
Jedu li mačke šišmiše?," a ponekad "Jedu li
šišmiši mačke?", jer, znaš, pošto nije uspjela da
odgovori ni na jedno ovo pitanje, nije bilo ni
važno kako ga postavlja. Osjećala je da tone u san
i upravo je počela sanjati kako šeta sa Dajnom,
držeći je za šapu, i kako joj vrlo ozbiljno govori:
"Čuj, Dajna, pravo mi reci jesi li ikad smazala
kojeg šišmiša?", kad najednom, tupa-tup! Sletje
na hrpu suhog lišća i padanju bi kraj.
Kad vidje da joj nije ništa, Alisa za tili čas skoči
na noge. Podiže pogled, ali gore je svuda bio
mrak. Pred njom se pružao još jedan dugačak
hodnik i ona ugleda Bijelog Zeca kako niz njega
juri. Nije se smjelo dangubiti. Zato se Alisa poput
vjetra stušti za njim i upravo ga ču kako govori
skrećući za ugao: "Oh, ušiju mi i brkova, kako to
vrijeme leti!" Bila mu je sasvim za petama kad i
sama skrenu za ugao, ali sad Zeca nigdje, kao da
je u zemlju propao. Alisa se nađe u nekoj
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long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps
hanging from the roof. There were doors all round
the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice
had been all the way down one side and up the
other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the
middle, wondering how she was ever to get out
again.
Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table,
all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it
except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought
was that it might belong to one of the doors of the
hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the
key was too small, but at any rate it would not open
any of them. However, on the second time round,
she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed
before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen
inches high: she tried the little golden key in the
lock, and to her great delight it fitted!
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a
small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she
knelt down and looked along the passage into the
loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to
get out of that dark hall, and wander about among
those beds of bright flowers and those cool
fountains, but she could not even get her head
though the doorway; 'and even if my head would go
through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would be of very
little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I
could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I
only know how to begin.' For, you see, so many
out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that
Alice had begun to think that very few things
indeed were really impossible. There seemed to be
no use in waiting by the little door, so she went
back to the table, half hoping she might find
another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for
shutting people up like telescopes: this time she
found a little bottle on it, ('which certainly was not
here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of the
bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK
dugačkoj niskoj dvorani, osvijetljenoj nizom
lampi koje su visile sa stropa. Dvorana je imala
mnogo vrata, ali su sva bila zaključana. I pošto je
prvo prošla jednom stranom, pa se onda vratila
drugom, oprobavši svaka vrata, Alisa se tužno
zaputi sredinom dvorane pitajući se hoće li se
ikad moći odavde izvući.
Najednom ugleda tronožac sav od stakla. Na
njemu nije bilo ničeg do jednog majušnog zlatnog
ključa, i Alisina prva pomisao bijaše da ključić,
možda, otvara jedna od vrata u dvorani. Ali, o,
nesreće! Ili su brave bile prevelike ili je ključić
bio premalen, tek nijednu nije mogao otključati.
Međutim, kad još jednom obiđe dvoranu, ugleda
pri dnu zavjesu koju ranije nije zapazila, a iza nje
vratašca od četrdesetak santimetara. Pokuša da
stavi zlatni ključić u bravu, i na svoju veliku
radost vidje da otvara!
Alisa otvori vrata i spazi da vode u hodničić što
ne bješe mnogo veći od kakve mišje rupe.
Kleknu, baci pogled niz hodnik i ugleda najljepšu
baštu koju je ikad vidjela. Kako je žarko željela
da se izvuče iz ove mračne dvorane i prošeta
između nasada šarenog cvijeća i prohladnih
vodoskoka, ali kroz vrata čak ni glavu nije mogla
da promoli. "Pa kad bi mi glava i prošla", pomisli
jadna Alisa, "šta vrijedi kad ramena ne mogu. Oh,
kad bih se mogla sklopiti kao kakav teleskop!
Vjerujem da bih i mogla, samo kad bih znala
kako da počnem." (Vidiš, toliko se neobičnih
stvari u posljednje vrijeme dogodilo da je Alisa
počela vjerovati da je malo šta uistinu
nemoguće.) Izgledalo je da nema nikakve koristi
čekati pred ovim vratašcima, zato se Alisa vrati
stolu, ponadavši se da će možda na njemu naći
još kakav ključ ili bar kakvu knjigu sa uputstvima
kako se čovjek može sklopiti kao teleskop. Ovoga
puta na stoliću nađe jednu bočicu ("Ona ranije
sigurno nije bila tu", reče Alisa), a na njenom
grliću naljepnicu na kojoj su lijepo bile
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ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.
It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise
little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No,
I'll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked
"poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little
histories about children who had got burnt, and
eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things,
all because they would not remember the simple
rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a
red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long;
and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a
knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten
that, if you drink much from a bottle marked
'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you,
sooner or later.
However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so
Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice,
(it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-
tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and
hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
'What a curious feeling!' said Alice; 'I must be
shutting up like a telescope.'
And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches
high, and her face brightened up at the thought that
she was now the right size for going through the
little door into that lovely garden. First, however,
she waited for a few minutes to see if she was
going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous
about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice
to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle.
I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried
to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the
candle is blown out, for she could not remember
ever having seen such a thing.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened,
she decided on going into the garden at once; but,
alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she
found she had forgotten the little golden key, and
when she went back to the table for it, she found
she could not possibly reach it: she could see it
odštampane krupnim slovima riječi: "Pij me!"
Lako je bilo kazati "pij me", ali to mala mudra
Alisa nije hijela da uradi na brzinu. "Ne, prvo ću
pogledati da na njoj ne piše 'Otrov'". Jer, Alisa je
pročitala nekoliko lijepih pričica o djeci koja su
izgorjela, koju su pojele divlje zvijeri i sve tako o
nekim neprijatnostima, a sve samo zato što nisu
htjela da upamte najprostija pravila kojim su ih
učili njihovi prijatelji. Na primjer, usijani će te
žarač opeći ako ga predugo držiš u ruci; ako
nožem zarežeš prst vrlo duboko, sva je prilika da
će ti poteći krv; i nikad nije zaboravila, da je
gotovo sigurno da će ti kad-tad pozliti ako
podobro potegneš iz bočice na kojoj piše "Otrov".
Ali, na ovoj bočici nije pisalo "Otrov", zato se
Alisa usudi da napitak okuša i, pošto joj se učinio
vrlo prijatnim (imao je nekako u isto vrijeme i
ukus pite od trešanja, i šatoa, i ananasa, i pečene
ćurke, i karamela i vrućeg prepečenog hljeba
premazanog maslacem), ona ga na dušak iskapi.
"Kako se čudno osjećam!" uskliknu Alisa. "Mora
da se sklapam kao teleskop."
A tako je uistinu i bilo. Sad je bila visoka svega
dvadeset pet santimetara i sva se ozari pri pomisli
da je sad upravo tolika da će kroz vratašca moći
proći u onu divnu baštu. Ipak počeka još koji
trenutak da vidi neće li se još više smanjiti. Malo
se i zabrinu. "Jer moglo bi se desiti, znaš", reče
Alisa, "da potpuno nestanem, kao svijeća. Kako li
bih onda izgledala?" I pokuša da zamisli kako
izgleda plamen svijeće kad se ugasi, jer se nije
mogla sjetiti da je ikad tako nešto vidjela.
Poslije nekog vremena, pošto se ništa ne desi,
odluči da odmah pođe u baštu. Ali, sirota Alisa!
Kad dođe do vrata, sjeti se da je zaboravila zlatni
ključić, a kad se vrati da ga sa stola uzme, uvidje
da ga uopšte ne može dohvatiti. Lijepo ga je
mogla vidjeti kroz staklo, zato svim silama
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quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her
best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it
was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out
with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
'Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice
to herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off
this minute!' She generally gave herself very good
advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and
sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to
bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered
trying to box her own ears for having cheated
herself in a game of croquet she was playing
against herself, for this curious child was very fond
of pretending to be two people. 'But it's no use
now,' thought poor Alice, 'to pretend to be two
people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to
make one respectable person!'
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying
under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very
small cake, on which the words 'EAT ME' were
beautifully marked in currants. 'Well, I'll eat it,' said
Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach
the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can
creep under the door; so either way I'll get into the
garden, and I don't care which happens!'
She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself,
'Which way? Which way?', holding her hand on the
top of her head to feel which way it was growing,
and she was quite surprised to find that she
remained the same size: to be sure, this generally
happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so
much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-
the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull
and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the
cake.
CHAPTER II
The Pool of Tears
'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so "Sve čudnoje i čudnoje!", povika Alisa. (Bila je
pokuša da se nekako uspne uz jednu nogu stolića,
ali je noga bila isuviše skliska. I kad se izmori od
uzaludnog pentranja, jadna mala Alisa sjede i
zaplaka.
"De, nema ikakve koristi od tog tvog plača!" reče
Alisa sama sebi prilično strogo. "Savjetujem ti da
smjesta prestaneš!" Obično je davala sebi dobre
savjete (iako bi ih vrlo rijetko poslušala), a
ponekad bi izgrdila sebe tako oštro da bi joj i suze
navrle na oči. Sjećala se da je jedanput pokušala i
da samu sebe ošamari, zato što je varala u kroketu
kada je igrala protiv same sebe, jer je ova čudna
djevojčica mnogo voljela da zamišlja kao da u
njoj postoje dvije Alise. "Ali sad nemam nikakve
koristi od toga," pomisli Alisa, "da umišljam kao
da su u meni dvije osobe! Ta jedva me čestito ima
i za jednu!"
Domalo, pogled joj pade na jednu staklenu
kutijicu ispod stola. Otvori je i nađe u njoj jedan
majušni kolačić na kome su grožđicama bile
lijepo ispisane riječi "Pojedi me!" "Pa, poješću
te", reče Alisa, "i ako porastem, moći ću dohvatiti
ključ, a ako se smanjim, moći ću se provući ispod
vrata. Tako ću, u svakom slučaju dospjeti u baštu
i baš mi je svejedno kako ću ući."
Pojede komadić i zabrinuto se zapita:
"Smanjujem li se ili rastem?", pa stavi ruku na
tjeme ne bi li osjetila u kom pravcu se pomjera.
Vrlo se iznenadi kad uvidje da je ostala ista. U
stvari, tako se obično i dešava kad se jede kolač,
ali Alisa se toliko navikla da očekuje samo
neobične stvari pa joj se činilo neobično i glupo
da život poteče svojim uobičajenim tokom.
Zato prionu na posao i u tren oka smaza kolač.
Glava II
JEZERO SUZA
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much surprised, that for the moment she quite
forgot how to speak good English); 'now I'm
opening out like the largest telescope that ever was!
Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her
feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they
were getting so far off). 'Oh, my poor little feet, I
wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings
for you now, dears? I'm sure I shan't be able! I shall
be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about
you: you must manage the best way you can; --but I
must be kind to them,' thought Alice, 'or perhaps
they won't walk the way I want to go! Let me see:
I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.'
And she went on planning to herself how she would
manage it. 'They must go by the carrier,' she
thought; 'and how funny it'll seem, sending presents
to one's own feet! And how odd the directions will
look!
ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.
HEARTHRUG,
NEAR THE FENDER,
(WITH ALICE'S LOVE).
Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'
Just then her head struck against the roof of the
hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high,
and she at once took up the little golden key and
hurried off to the garden door.
Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying
down on one side, to look through into the garden
with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless
than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.
'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, 'a
great girl like you,' (she might well say this), 'to go
on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!'
But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of
tears, until there was a large pool all round her,
about four inches deep and reaching half down the
hall.
After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the
distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what
was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning,
toliko iznenađena da je na časak zaboravila kako
se pravilno govori.) "Sad se rasklapam kao
najveći teleskop na svijetu! Zbogom noge!" (jer
kad je pogledala u noge, učini joj se da ih i ne
vidi, toliko su se udaljavale). "Oh, jadne moje
nožice, ko li će vam sada obuvati cipele i čarape,
mile moje? Sigurna sam da ja to neću moći! Biću
isuviše daleko da bih se brinula o vama. Moraćete
se snalaziti kako znate i umijete... ali moram biti
ljubazna prema njima", pomisli Alisa, "inače bi se
moglo desiti da me ne htjednu nositi kuda ja
budem zaželjela! Pa, eto, svakog Božića darovaću
im po jedne nove cipele!"
I stade da razmišlja kako će to izvesti. "Moraću ih
poslati po nosaču", pomisli. "Kakva smijurija,
slati poklon svojim vlastitim nogama! A kako će
čudna biti adresa!
Poštovanoj Alisinoj desnoj nozi
Ćilimče
Kraj kamina
(S ljubavlju, Alisa)
Oh, kakve gluposti govorim!"
Upravo tada udari glavom o strop dvorane.
Zapravo, sada je bila visoka gotovo tri metra, te
odmah uze zlatni ključić i odhita do baštenskih
vrata.
Sirota Alisa! Sve što je mogla uraditi kad je legla
postrance, bilo je da jednim okom virka u baštu.
Ali da prođe kroz vrata, ta za to je sad bilo manje
nade nego ikada! Stoga sjede i gorko zaplaka.
"Treba da se sramiš", reče samoj sebi. "Tako
velika djevojčica (a to je bila istina) pa da toliko
cmizdri! Da si smjesta prestala, kažem ti!" Ali je i
dalje plakala, prolivajući bujice suza sve dok se
oko nje ne stvori poveliko jezero. Bilo je nešto
preko deset santimetara duboko i sezalo sve do
polovine dvorane.
Poslije nekog vremena začu iz daljine sitno
tapkanje i brzo obrisa oči da vidi ko to dolazi. To
se vraćao Bijeli Zec, divno odjeven, noseći u
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splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves
in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came
trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself
as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh!
won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice
felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of
any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she
began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir--'
The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid
gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the
darkness as hard as he could go.
Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall
was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time
she went on talking: 'Dear, dear! How queer
everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on
just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the
night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up
this morning? I almost think I can remember
feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the
next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's
the great puzzle!' And she began thinking over all
the children she knew that were of the same age as
herself, to see if she could have been changed for
any of them.
'I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, 'for her hair goes in
such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at
all; and I'm sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all
sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very
little! Besides, she's she, and I'm I, and--oh dear,
how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the things
I used to know. Let me see: four times five is
twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four
times seven is--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty
at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table
doesn't signify: let's try Geography. London is the
capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,
and Rome--no, that's all wrong, I'm certain! I must
have been changed for Mabel! I'll try and say "How
doth the little--"' and she crossed her hands on her
lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to
jednoj ruci par bijelih kožnih rukavica a u drugoj
veliku lepezu. Trupkao je žurno, mrmljajući: "Oh,
Vojvotkinja, Vojvotkinja! Oh, razbješnjeće se
bude li me morala čekati!" Alisa je bila toliko
očajna da je bila spremna da od koga mu drago
zatraži pomoć. I kad joj se Zec približi, ona
otpoče tihim, stidljivim glasom: "Molim vas,
gospodine!" Zec se žestoko trgnu, ispusti bijele
kožne rukavice i lepezu i nagari u tamu što je brže
mogao.
Alisa podiže rukavice i lepezu, pa se, pošto je u
dvorani bilo vrlo toplo, stade hladiti lepezom,
govoreći: "Ah! Ah! Kako je danas sve čudno! A
još juče je sve bilo kao i obično. Da se nisam
preko noći promijenila? Čekaj da promislim:
jesam li bila ista kad sam jutros ustala? Sve mi se
nekako čini kao da sam se osjećala malo
drukčijom. Ali ako nisam ista, pitanje je ko sam?
Ah, to je velika zagonetka!" I poče da premišlja o
svim djevojčicama koje je poznavala, a koje su
bile istih godina kao i ona, da vidi da se nije
prometnula u koju od njih.
"Sigurna sam da nisam Ada", reče, jer je njena
kosa sva u dugačkim kovrdžama, a moja uopšte
nije kovrdžava. A sigurna sam da ne mogu biti ni
Mejbl, jer ja mnogo štošta znam, a ona, oh! Ona
je takva neznalica! Uz to ona je ona, a ja sam ja –
oh, jadna ti sam, kako je to sve zapleteno!
Oprobaću da li znam sve ono što sam znala.
Čekaj da vidim: četiri puta pet je dvanaest, a
četiri puta šest je trinaest, a četiri puta sedam je –
oh, jadna ja! Ovako nikad neću stići do dvadeset!
Uostalom, tablica množenja nije ni važna. Da
pokušam sa geografijom. London je prijestonica
Pariza, a Pariz je prijestonica Rima, a Rim – ne,
sve je to pogrešno, uvjerena sam! Mora da sam se
premetnula u Mejbl! Da pokušam da recitujem
"Gle malenog...", i ona položi ruke na krilo kao
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repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange,
and the words did not come the same as they used
to do:--
'How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
'How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!'
'I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor
Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she
went on, 'I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have
to go and live in that poky little house, and have
next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many
lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about
it; if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use
their putting their heads down and saying "Come up
again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am
I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being
that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here
till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice,
with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they would
put their heads down! I am so very tired of being all
alone here!'
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and
was surprised to see that she had put on one of the
Rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was
talking. 'How can I have done that?' she thought. 'I
must be growing small again.' She got up and went
to the table to measure herself by it, and found that,
as nearly as she could guess, she was now about
two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly:
she soon found out that the cause of this was the
fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just
in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
'That was a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal
frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to
find herself still in existence; 'and now for the
garden!' and she ran with all speed back to the little
door: but, alas! the little door was shut again, and
da govori lekciju i poče da se preslišava, ali joj je
glas zvučao promuklo i čudno a riječi nisu bile
iste kao prije:
"Gle malenog krokodila,
gladi repinu sjajnu
i pršće vodom iz Nila
svaku krljušt zlatnu.
Kako lijepo pruža šape,
kako se veselo osmjehuje,
i u slatko nasmijane ralje
dobrodošlicom ribice dočekuje."
"Sigurna sam da ovo nisu prave riječi", reče jadna
Alisa i oči joj se iznova napuniše suzama. "Ipak
mora da sam Mejbl, moraću otići i živjeti u onoj
njenoj Bijednoj kućici; neću, tako reći, imati ni
igračaka da se igram i oh! Moraću učiti tolike
lekcije! Ne, što se toga tiče, odlučila sam! Ako
sam Mejbl, ostaću ovdje dolje! Zaludu će
provirivati i zvati: Vrati se gore, dušo! Ja ću samo
pogledati naviše i reći: "Ko sam ja? Prvo mi to
recite, pa ako mi se bude sviđala ta osoba, doći
ću. Ako ne bude, ostaću dolje sve dok ne
postanem neko drugi... – Ali jadna ja!", uzviknu
Alisa i brižnu plač. "Kamo puste sreće da provire!
Toliko mi je dojadila ova samoća!"
Rekavši to, spusti pogled na svoje ruke i začudi
se kad ugleda da je u priči navukla jednu Zekinu
bijelu kožnu rukavicu. "Kako sam mogla?",
pomisli. "Sigurno se opet smanjujem." Ustade i
ode do stola da se tu premjeri i vidje, koliko je
sama mogla da procijeni, da je visoka šezdesetak
santimetara i da se naglo smanjuje. Ubrzo shvati
da je uzrok tome lepeza koju je držala u ruci i
hitro je ispusti. Baš u pravi čas, inače bi je
potpuno nestalo.
"Za dlaku sam se izvukla!" reče Alisa, veoma
prestrašena ovom naglom promjenom, ali sretna
što je još u životu. "A sada u baštu!" i otrča što je
brže mogla pred vratašca. Ali kakva nesreća!
Vratašca su opet bila zaključana, a zlatni ključić
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the little golden key was lying on the glass table as
before, 'and things are worse than ever,' thought the
poor child, 'for I never was so small as this before,
never! And I declare it's too bad, that it is!'
As she said these words her foot slipped, and in
another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in
salt water. Her first idea was that she had somehow
fallen into the sea, 'and in that case I can go back by
railway,' she said to herself. (Alice had been to the
seaside once in her life, and had come to the
general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the
English coast you find a number of bathing
machines in the sea, some children digging in the
sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging
houses, and behind them a railway station.)
However, she soon made out that she was in the
pool of tears which she had wept when she was
nine feet high.
'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she
swam about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be
punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in
my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be
sure! However, everything is queer to-day.'
Just then she heard something splashing about in
the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to
make out what it was: at first she thought it must be
a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she
remembered how small she was now, and she soon
made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped
in like herself.
'Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, 'to
speak to this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-
way down here, that I should think very likely it
can talk: at any rate, there's no harm in trying.' So
she began: 'O Mouse, do you know the way out of
this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here,
O Mouse!' (Alice thought this must be the right
way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done
such a thing before, but she remembered having
seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse--of a
mouse--to a mouse--a mouse--O mouse!') The
je kao i ranije ležao na staklenom stoliću. "Sad je
gore nego ikad", pomisli siroto dijete, jer nikad
dosad nisam bila ovako mala, nikad! I moram
priznati da to ništa ne valja, baš ništa."
Kako ovo izusti, okliznu se i pljus! Nađe se sve
do grla u slanoj vodi. Najprije pomisli da je
nekako upala u more. "U tom slučaju mogu se
vratiti vozom", reče sama sebi. (Alisa je samo
jednom u životu bila na moru, i došla do
općenitog zaključka da, kud god makneš po
engleskoj obali, možeš u moru vidjeti izvjestan
broj kupača, djecu kako drvenim lopaticama
kopaju po pijesku, zatim red hotela, a iza njih
željezničku stanicu.) Međutim, domalo shvati da
je u jezeru suza što ih je prolila kad je bila visoka
tri metra.
"Kamo sreće da nisam toliko plakala!", reče Alisa
plivajući po jezeru i nastojeći da se nekako iz
njega iskobelja. "Sada će mi to prisjesti, udaviću
se u svojim vlastitim suzama! Zaista će to biti
čudno.Uostalom, danas je sve čudno!"
Upravo tada, malo podalje, začu nekakvo
pljuskanje po jezeru i otpliva u tom pravcu, da
vidi šta je to. U prvi mah pomisli da to mora da je
nekakav morski konj ili hipopotam (nilski konj),
ali se dosjeti da je sad vrlo malena i ubrzo shvati
da je to samo jedan miš koji se okliznuo i pao u
jezero baš kao i ona.
"Bi li imalo smisla", pomisli Alisa, "da se obratim
ovom mišu? Ovdje je sve tako neobično da je vrlo
vjerovatno da i miš umije da govori. Uostalom,
nikom neće naškoditi ako pokušam." Zato otpoče:
"O, Mišu, znaš li kako se može izaći iz ovog
jezera. Vrlo sam se umorila plivajući po njemu, o,
Mišu!" (Alisa je pomislila da je sigurno ovo pravi
način da se razgovara s jednini mišom. Nikada to
ranije nije činila, ali se sjećala da je u latinskoj
gramatici svoga brata vidjela "miš – miša – mišu
– miša – o, mišu!") Miš je pogleda prilično
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Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and
seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but
it said nothing.
'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought
Alice; 'I daresay it's a French mouse, come over
with William the Conqueror.' (For, with all her
knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear
notion how long ago anything had happened.) So
she began again: 'Ou est ma chatte?' which was the
first sentence in her French lesson-book. The
Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and
seemed to quiver all over with fright. 'Oh, I beg
your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had
hurt the poor animal's feelings. 'I quite forgot you
didn't like cats.'
'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill,
passionate voice. 'Would you like cats if you were
me?'
'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone:
'don't be angry about it. And yet I wish I could
show you our cat Dinah: I think you'd take a fancy
to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear
quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she
swam lazily about in the pool, 'and she sits purring
so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing
her face--and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--
and she's such a capital one for catching mice--oh, I
beg your pardon!' cried Alice again, for this time
the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt
certain it must be really offended. 'We won't talk
about her any more if you'd rather not.'
'We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling
down to the end of his tail. 'As if I would talk on
such a subject! Our family always hated cats: nasty,
low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name
again!'
'I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to
change the subject of conversation. 'Are you--are
you fond--of--of dogs?' The Mouse did not answer,
so Alice went on eagerly: 'There is such a nice little
dog near our house I should like to show you! A
radoznalo i kao da joj jednim okcem namignu, ali
ništa ne reče.
"Možda ne razumije engleski", pomisli Alisa.
"Možda je to francuski miš koji je ovamo došao s
Viljemom Osvajačem" (jer uprkos svem svom
znanju istorije, Alisa nije imala baš sasvim jasnu
predstavu kad se je šta dogodilo). Zato opet poče:
"Ou est ma chatte?" (Gdje je moja mačka?), što je
bila prva lekcija u njenoj francuskoj čitanci. Miš
poskoči iz vode kao oparen, i izgledalo je kao da
sav cepti od straha. "Oh, oprosti!" brže-bolje
uzviknu Alisa, bojeći se da je povrijedila
osjećanja jadne životinjice. "Potpuno sam
smetnula s uma da ti ne voliš mačke."
"Ne volim mačke!", uzviknu miš piskavim,
ojađenim glasom. "Bi li ti voljela mačke da si na
mom mjestu?"
"Pa, možda i ne bih", reče Alisa blago. "Ne ljuti
se zbog toga. Pa ipak bih voljela kad bih ti mogla
pokazati našu mačku Dajnu. Vjerujem da bi
zavolio mačke samo kad bi je vidio. Ona je tako
drago, mirno stvorenje", nastavi Alisa više za
sebe, lagano plivajući po jezeru, "sjedi kraj vatre i
prede tako lijepo, liže šape i umiva lice – i toliko
je krasna i meka kad je pogladiš – a takav majstor
u lovu na miševe – Oh, oprosti!" opet će Alisa, jer
sad se miš sav nakostriješio, te je bila sigurna da
ga je stvarno povrijedila. "Ako ne želiš, nećemo
više o njoj razgovarati."
"Vidi, molim te!", uzviknu miš koji je drhtao sve
do posljednje dlake na repiću. "Kao da bih ja i
razgovarao o tako nečem! Naša porodica je
oduvijek mrzila mačke, ta odvratna, niska, prosta
stvorenja! Da mi to ime više nisi pomenula!"
"Neću, zaista!", reče Alisa žureći da promijeni
predmet razgovora. "Voliš li – voliš li – pse?" Miš
ne odgovori, zato Alisa živo nastavi: "U našem
komšiluku stanuje jedan tako lijep psić, voljela
bih da ti ga pokažem! Mali jazavičar blistavih
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little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such
long curly brown hair! And it'll fetch things when
you throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for its
dinner, and all sorts of things--I can't remember half
of them--and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and
he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds!
He says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice
in a sorrowful tone, 'I'm afraid I've offended it
again!' For the Mouse was swimming away from
her as hard as it could go, and making quite a
commotion in the pool as it went.
So she called softly after it, 'Mouse dear! Do come
back again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs
either, if you don't like them!' When the Mouse
heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to
her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice
thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, 'Let
us get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my history,
and you'll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting
quite crowded with the birds and animals that had
fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory
and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures.
Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the
shore.
CHAPTER III
A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
They were indeed a queer-looking party that
assembled on the bank--the birds with draggled
feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to
them, and all dripping wet, cross, and
uncomfortable.
The first question of course was, how to get dry
again: they had a consultation about this, and after a
few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find
herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had
očiju, znaš, i, oh, tako dugačke, kudrave smeđe
dlake! I umije da uhvati kad šta baciš, i da sjedi
na zadnjim šapama i moli da mu daš da jede, i
puno takvih stvari – ni pola ih se ne mogu sjetiti –
gospodar mu je jedan farmer, znaš, i on kaže da
mu je toliko koristan da vrijedi stotinu funti! Veli,
potamani sve pacove – oh, bože!", uzviknu Alisa
tužno. "Bojim se da sam ga opet uvrijedila!", jer
se miš odmicao od nje plivajući što je brže
mogao, te je uzburkao cijelo jezero.
Zato ga ona nježno zovnu: "Mišu mili! Vrati se,
pa nećemo razgovarati ni o mačkama ni o psima,
ako ih ne voliš!" Kad to miš ču, okrenu se i
lagano dopliva do nje. U licu je bio blijed kao
krpa (od srdžbe, pomisli Alisa), pa će tihim
drhtavim glasom: "Hajdemo na obalu, pa ću ti
onda ispričati svoju priču, iz koje ćeš razumjeti
zašto mrzim mačke i pse."
Bilo je krajnje vrijeme da se ide, jer je jezero bilo
prepuno ptica i životinja koje su u njega upale.
Bili su tu: jedna Patka i jedna ptica Dodo (Dodo –
ptica koja je nekad živjela na otoku Mauricijusu,
u Indijskom okeanu.), jedan Lori (Lori – mali
papagaj koji živi u Australiji.) i jedan Orlić i još
nekoliko neobičnih stvorenja. Alisa pođe
naprijed, i cijela družina otpliva na obalu.
Glava III
IZBORNA TRKA I JEDNA DUGA PRIČA
Na obali se iskupi zaista čudna družina: ptice
blatnjava perja, životinje slijepljena krzna i svi
mokri kao čep, ljuti i promrzli.
Naravno, prva briga im je bila kako da se osuše.
Dogovarali su se, i poslije nekoliko trenutaka
Alisi se činilo sasvim prirodno da s njima
prijateljski razgovara, kao da ih je poznavala
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known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a
long argument with the Lory, who at last turned
sulky, and would only say, 'I am older than you, and
must know better'; and this Alice would not allow
without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory
positively refused to tell its age, there was no more
to be said.
At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of
authority among them, called out, 'Sit down, all of
you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry
enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large ring,
with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes
anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would
catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are
you all ready? This is the driest thing I know.
Silence all round, if you please! "William the
Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope,
was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted
leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to
usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the
earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'
'Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.
'I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but
very politely: 'Did you speak?'
'Not I!' said the Lory hastily.
'I thought you did,' said the Mouse. '--I proceed.
"Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and
Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand,
the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it
advisable--"
''Found what?' said the Duck.
'Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of
course you know what "it" means.'
'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a
thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or a
worm. The question is, what did the archbishop
find?'
The Mouse did not notice this question, but
hurriedly went on, '"--found it advisable to go with
Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the
čitavog svog života. Istina, dugo je raspravljala sa
Lorijem, koji se na kraju nadurio i samo rekao:
"Stariji sam od tebe i moram znati više", a to
Alisa nije htjela da prizna prije nego što sazna
koliko mu je godina, a pošto je Lori konačno
odbio da joj otkrije svoje godine, tu nije imalo
više šta da se kaže.
Najzad Miš, koji je, izgleda, uživao najveći
autoritet među njima, uskliknu: “Sjedite svi i
saslušajte me! Ja ću vam kazati kako ćete se
osušiti!" Svi odjednom posjedaše u veliki krug, a
Miš osta u sredini. Alisa ga je zabrinuto
promatrala, osjećala je da će se grdno prehladiti
ukoliko se uskoro ne osuši.
"Hm!" reče Miš važno. "Jeste li svi spremni? Ovo
je najsuvlja stvar za koju znam. Tišina, molim!
Viljemu Osvajaču, koga je papa podržavao,
pokoriše se Englezi kojima su bile potrebne vođe,
i koji su u posljednje vrijeme bili navikli na
uzurpacije i osvajanja. Edvin i Morkar, grofovi
Meršije i Notambrije."
"Uf!", reče Lori, sav se tresući.
"Molim!", reče Miš mršteći se, ali vrlo učtivo.
"Jesi li nešto rekao?"
"Ja nisam!", odvrati Lori žurno.
"Učinilo mi se da jesi!", reče Miš. "Nastavljam.
Edvin i Morkar, grofovi Meršije i Notambrije,
izjasniše se za njega, pa čak i Stigand, rodoljubivi
nadbiskup od Kenteberija, nađe to za shodno ..."
"Nađe šta?", zapita Patka.
"Nađe to", odvrati Miš prilično ljutito. "Naravno
da znate šta to znači."
"Znam vrlo dobro šta to znači kad ja nešto
nađem", reče Patka. "Obično je to žaba ili crv.
Pitanje je šta je nadbiskup našao?"
Miš ne obrati pažnju na ovo pitanje nego žurno
nastavi. "...i nađe to za shodno da sa Edgarom
Atelingom dočeka Viljema i ponudi mu krunu.
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crown. William's conduct at first was moderate. But
the insolence of his Normans--" How are you
getting on now, my dear?' it continued, turning to
Alice as it spoke.
'As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone: 'it
doesn't seem to dry me at all.'
'In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its
feet, 'I move that the meeting adjourn, for the
immediate adoption of more energetic remedies--'
'Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the
meaning of half those long words, and, what's
more, I don't believe you do either!' And the Eaglet
bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the
other birds tittered audibly.
'What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an
offended tone, 'was, that the best thing to get us dry
would be a Caucus-race.'
'What is a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she
wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as
if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no
one else seemed inclined to say anything.
'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is
to do it.' (And, as you might like to try the thing
yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the
Dodo managed it.)
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle,
('the exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then
all the party were placed along the course, here and
there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but
they began running when they liked, and left off
when they liked, so that it was not easy to know
when the race was over. However, when they had
been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry
again, the Dodo suddenly called out 'The race is
over!' and they all crowded round it, panting, and
asking, 'But who has won?'
This question the Dodo could not answer without a
great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with
one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in
which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures
Viljemovo držanje je u početku bilo umjereno. Ali
bezobrazluci njegovih Normana ..." "Kako si,
draga moja?", nastavi Miš obrativši se Alisi.
"Još sam mokra", odvrati Alisa tužno. "Izgleda da
me ta tvoja priča uopšte ne suši."
"U tom slučaju", svečano reče Dodo ustajući na
noge, "predlažem da se sastanak odloži radi
urgentne aplikacije intenzivnijih medikamenata."
"Govori engleski!", dobaci Orlić. "Ja ne
razumijem ni pola tih dugačkih riječi i, što je još
gore, ne vjerujem da ih i ti razumiješ!" I Orlić
obori glavu da prikrije osmijeh. Neke od ptica se
glasno zakikotaše.
"Ono što sam htio da kažem", reče Dodo
povrijeđen, "jest da bi nas najbolje mogla osušiti
jedna izborna trka."
"Šta je to izborna trka?", zapita Alisa. Ne zato što
je posebno željela da to sazna, već je Dodo bio
zastao, kao da je smatrao da neko treba nešto da
kaže, a po svemu sudeći niko drugi nije bio
voljan išta da rekne.
"Pa", reče Dodo "najbolji način da se trka objasni
jeste da se učestvuje u njoj." (A pošto ćeš i ti
možda poželjeti jednog zimskog dana da je
isprobaš, kazaću ti kako je i šta je Dodo uradio.)
Najprije je označio stazu za trku. Bila je to neka
vrsta kruga ("Nije važno da li će krug biti
pravilan", reče), a onda je družinu rasporedio tu i
tamo po stazi. Nije bilo onog "jedan, dva, tri,
sad!", nego je svako počinjao da trči kad je htio i
prestajao kad je htio, tako da nije bilo lako
odrediti kad je trka bila završena. Međutim, pošto
su tako trčali nekih pola sata i osušili se, Dodo
najednom uzviknu: "Trka je završena!", i svi se
sjatiše oko njega, dršćući i raspitujući se: "Ali ko
je pobijedio?"
Na ovo pitanje Dodo nije umio odgovoriti prije
nego što dobro promisli, zato je zadugo sjedio
pritisnuvši prst na čelo (položaj koji obično
zauzima Šekspir na slikama), dok su ostali bez
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of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the
Dodo said, 'everybody has won, and all must have
prizes.'
'But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of
voices asked.
'Why, she, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to
Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once
crowded round her, calling out in a confused way,
'Prizes! Prizes!'
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put
her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of
comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it),
and handed them round as prizes. There was
exactly one a-piece all round. 'But she must have a
prize herself, you know,' said the Mouse.
'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What
else have you got in your pocket?' he went on,
turning to Alice.
'Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.
'Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.
Then they all crowded round her once more, while
the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying
'We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble';
and, when it had finished this short speech, they all
cheered.
Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they
all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh;
and, as she could not think of anything to say, she
simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as
solemn as she could. The next thing was to eat the
comfits: this caused some noise and confusion, as
the large birds complained that they could not taste
theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be
patted on the back. However, it was over at last,
and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the
Mouse to tell them something more.
'You promised to tell me your history, you know,'
said Alice, 'and why it is you hate--C and D,' she
added in a whisper, half afraid that it would be
offended again.
'Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse,
riječi čekali. Najzad Dodo izjavi: "Svako je
pobijedio i svi moraju dobiti nagrade."
"Ali ko će predati nagrade?", upitaše gotovo svi u
jedan glas.
"Pa, naravno, ona", odvrati Dodo upirući prstom
u Alisu. I čitava družina je najednom opkoli
izvikujući bez reda: "Nagrade! Nagrade!"
Alisa ni pojma nije imala šta da radi, i u očajanju
zavuče ruku u džep i izvuče kutiju bombona
(srećom, slana voda nije u nju bila prodrla) i
raspodijeli ih unaokolo kao nagrade. Tačno je
doteklo, i svako je dobio po jedan komad. "Ali i
ona mora dobiti nagradu", reče Miš.
"Naravno", odvrati Dodo vrlo ozbiljno. "Šta još
imaš u džepu?", nastavi, okrenuvši se Alisi.
"Samo naprstak", reče Alisa tužno.
"Daj ga ovamo", na to će Dodo.
Onda se još jednom postaviše ukrug oko nje, a
Dodo joj svečano predade naprstak govoreći:
"Molimo te da primiš ovaj elegantni naprstak", a
kad on završi ovaj kratki govor, svi zapljeskaše.
Alisi je sve ovo bilo smiješno, ali svi su izgledali
toliko ozbiljno da se nije usudila nasmijati se. I
pošto se ne sjeti ničega što bi mogla da kaže,
jednostavno se nakloni i primi naprstak što je
mogla svečanije. Sada dođe red na bombone. To
izazva malo buke i gužve, pošto su se velike ptice
žalile da nisu mogle ni da osjete ukus svoje
bombone, a male su se zagrcnule i morali su ih
udarati po leđima. Ali se najzad sve završi, i svi
opet posjedaše u krug i zamoliše Miša da im još
štogod ispriča.
"Znaš, obećao si mi ispričati svoju priču", reče
Alisa, "i zašto mrziš – M. i P.", dodade šapatom,
pribojavajući se da ga opet ne uvrijedi.
"Duga je i tužna!" reče Miš, okrenuvši se Alisi i
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turning to Alice, and sighing. uzdahnuvši.

'It is a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down "Repina ti i jest duga", reče Alisa pogledajući u
with wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you čudu Mišev rep, "ali zašto kažeš da je tužna?" I
call it sad?' And she kept on puzzling about it while dok je Miš pripovijedao, ona je neprestano lupala
the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale glavu oka toga, tako da joj se priča ovako nekako
was something like this:-- učini:
'Fury said to a mouse, Šarov reče mišu jednom
That he met in the house, kog u kući srete,
"Let us both go to law: "Na sud hajdmo,
I will prosecute you. tužiću te.
--Come, I'll take no denial; Hajdemo, vrdanja nećemo,
We must have a trial: Moramo se suditi,
For really this morning jer baš jutros
I've nothing to do." ništa nemam raditi."
Said the mouse to the cur, A miš cijukne:
"Such a trial, dear Sir, "Dragi gospodine,
With no jury or judge, takvo suđenje bez sudije il' porote
would be wasting our breath." bilo bi tako mi imena pusto traćenje vremena."
"I'll be judge, I'll be jury," "Ja ću biti porota, ja ću biti sudija"
said cunning old Fury: Reče Šarov, stara lija.
"I'll try the whole cause, "Ispitaću cijelu stvar,
and condemn you to death."' i trt-mrt, osudit te na smrt."
'You are not attending!' said the Mouse to Alice "Ti ne pratiš!", Miš će strogo Alisi. "Na šta
severely. 'What are you thinking of?' misliš?"
'I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly: 'you "Oprosti", reče Alisa vrlo snishodljivo. "Stigao si
had got to the fifth bend, I think?' do petog zavijutka, čini mi se?"
'I had not!' cried the Mouse, sharply and very "Kakav stvor!", povika Miš gnjevno.
angrily.
'A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself "Aha, čvor!", reče Alisa, uvijek spremna da
useful, and looking anxiously about her. 'Oh, do let svakom pritekne u pomoć, i ogleda se zabrinuto.
me help to undo it!' "Oh, dopusti da ti pomognem da ga razvežeš!"
'I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the Mouse, I ne pada mi na pamet", reče Miš polako ustajući i
getting up and walking away. 'You insult me by odlazeći. "Vrijeđaš me govoreći takve
talking such nonsense!' besmislice!"
'I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor Alice. 'But you're so "Nisam htjela!", branila se Alisa. "Ali ti se tako
easily offended, you know!' lako vrijeđaš, znaš!"
The Mouse only growled in reply. 'Please come U znak odgovora, Miš samo u svoja njedra nešto
back and finish your story!' Alice called after it; and promrmlja. "Molim te vrati se i završi priču!",
the others all joined in chorus, 'Yes, please do!' but uzviknu Alisa za njim. I drugi joj se uglas
the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and pridružiše. "Hajde, molim te!" Ali Miš samo
walked a little quicker. nestrpljivo odmahnu glavom i pođe malo brže.
'What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as "Šteta što nije ostao!", uzdahnu Lori čim se Miš
soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab izgubi iz vida. A jedna stara račica iskoristi
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took the opportunity of saying to her daughter 'Ah, priliku da kaže kćerki: "Ah, draga moja! Neka ti
my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose ovo bude pouka da nikad ne izgubiš glavu!"
your temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the "Prestani, mama!", obrecnu se mlada račica. "Ti
young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to bi i Ostrigu izbacila iz takta!"
try the patience of an oyster!'
'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said "Da je kojom srećom sad naša Dajna ovdje!",
Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular. 'She'd reče Alisa glasno, ne obraćajući se nikom
soon fetch it back!' posebno. "Za tili čas bi ona njega ulovila i
donijela!"
'And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the "A ko je Dajna, ako smijem upitati?" javi se Lori.
question?' said the Lory.
Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to Alisa odgovori živo, jer je uvijek bila spremna da
talk about her pet: 'Dinah's our cat. And she's such a razgovara o svojoj ljubimici. "Dajna je naša
capital one for catching mice you can't think! And mačka. A takva je silna lovica na miševe da to ne
oh, I wish you could see her after the birds! Why, možete ni zamisliti! I, oh, da vam je samo vidjeti
she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!' kako ganja ptice! Ma, slistiće ptičicu, samo što je
ugleda!"
This speech caused a remarkable sensation among Ove Alisine riječi uznemiriše družinu. Neke
the party. Some of the birds hurried off at once: one ptičice odmah odjuriše. Jedna stara svraka poče
old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, se brižljivo umotavati, primijetivši: "Odista
remarking, 'I really must be getting home; the moram kući. Noćni vazduh mi ne prija grlu!", a
night-air doesn't suit my throat!' and a Canary jedna kanarinka drhtavim glasom doviknu djeci:
called out in a trembling voice to its children, "Hajde, mili moji! Krajnje je vrijeme da se
'Come away, my dears! It's high time you were all legne!" Tako se pod različitim izgovorima svi
in bed!' On various pretexts they all moved off, and raziđoše, i Alisa ostade sama samcijata.
Alice was soon left alone.
'I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!' she said to "Kamo sreće da nisam ni pominjala Dajnu!", reče
herself in a melancholy tone. 'Nobody seems to like u sebi sjetno. "Izgleda da je ovdje niko živ ne
her, down here, and I'm sure she's the best cat in the voli, a uvjerena sam da je to najbolja mačka na
world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if I shall ever svijetu! Oh, draga moja Dajna! Ko zna hoću li te
see you any more!' And here poor Alice began to ikad više vidjeti!" I jadna Alisa opet brižnu u
cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited. plač, jer se osjećala vrlo usamljenom i
In a little while, however, she again heard a little obeshrabrenom. Ali domalo opet začu sitno
pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she tapkanje u daljini i živo podiže pogled, u nadi da
looked up eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had se Miš predomislio i da dolazi da završi priču.
changed his mind, and was coming back to finish
his story.

CHAPTER IV Glava IV
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill ZEC ŠALJE MALOG BILA
It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, Bio je to Bijeli Zec. Vraćao se lagano kaskajući i
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and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had
lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself
'The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh
my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as
sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have
dropped them, I wonder?' Alice guessed in a
moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair
of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly
began hunting about for them, but they were
nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to have
changed since her swim in the pool, and the great
hall, with the glass table and the little door, had
vanished completely.
Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went
hunting about, and called out to her in an angry
tone, 'Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out
here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair
of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!' And Alice was so
much frightened that she ran off at once in the
direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the
mistake it had made.
'He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself
as she ran. 'How surprised he'll be when he finds
out who I am! But I'd better take him his fan and
gloves--that is, if I can find them.' As she said this,
she came upon a neat little house, on the door of
which was a bright brass plate with the name 'W.
RABBIT' engraved upon it. She went in without
knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she
should meet the real Mary Ann, and be turned out
of the house before she had found the fan and
gloves.
'How queer it seems,' Alice said to herself, 'to be
going messages for a rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be
sending me on messages next!' And she began
fancying the sort of thing that would happen: '"Miss
Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for your
walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to
see that the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't
think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah stop in
the house if it began ordering people about like
u hodu se brižno ogledavao kao da nešto traži.
Alisa ču kako u sebi mrmori: "Vojvotkinja!
Vojvotkinja! O, drage moje šape! Oh, moje krzno
i brkovi! Narediće da me pogube. Sigurno je kao
što je sigurio da je lasica – lasica. Gdje li sam ih
samo mogao ispustiti?" Alisa odmah pogodi da to
on traži lepezu i bijele kožne rukavice i sasvim
dobronamjerno poče i sama da ih traži, ali ih
nigdje nije bilo. Kao da se sve promijenilo poslije
plivanja po jezeru, pa i velika dvorana sa
staklenim stolom i vratašcima potpuno bješe
iščezla.
Uskoro Zec primijeti Alisu kako nešto traži i
ljutito joj do viknu: "E, Meri En, šta ti ovdje
radiš? Trči smjesta kući i donesi mi rukavice i
lepezu! Brzo, ovog istog časa!" Alisa je bila
toliko prestrašena da odmah otrča u pravcu koji je
Zec pokazivao, i ne pokušavši da mu objasni da
je pogriješio.
"Misli da sam mu služavka", reče u sebi trčeći.
"Što će se iznenaditi kad vidi ko sam! Ali najbolje
da mu donesem lepezu i rukavice – to jest, ako ih
mognem naći." Rekavši to, ugleda jednu urednu
kućicu, a na njenim vratima sjajnu mesinganu
pločicu na kojoj je bilo ugravirano "B. Zec". Uđe
bez kucanja i pohita uz stepenice, u silnom strahu
da ne sretne pravu Meri En, i da je ne izbace iz
kuće prije no što joj uspije da pronađe lepezu i
rukavice.
"Kako je čudno", reče Alisa sama sebi, "morati
slušati jednog zeca!" Vjerujem da će sljedeći put i
Dajna tražiti da je poslušam!" I poče da zamišlja
kako bi to izgledalo. "Gospođice Alisa! Dolazite
odmah ovamo i spremajte se za šetnju!" "Odmah,
Dado! Ali moram da motrim na ovu mišju rupu
dok se Dajna ne vrati, i da pazim da miš ne
umakne." "Samo ne vjerujem", nastavi Alisa, "da
bi Dajni dopustili da i dalje ostane u kući kad bi
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that!'
By this time she had found her way into a tidy little
room with a table in the window, and on it (as she
had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny
white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of
the gloves, and was just going to leave the room,
when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near
the looking- glass. There was no label this time
with the words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she
uncorked it and put it to her lips. 'I know something
interesting is sure to happen,' she said to herself,
'whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see
what this bottle does. I do hope it'll make me grow
large again, for really I'm quite tired of being such a
tiny little thing!'
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had
expected: before she had drunk half the bottle, she
found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had
to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She
hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself 'That's
quite enough--I hope I shan't grow any more--As it
is, I can't get out at the door--I do wish I hadn't
drunk quite so much!'
Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on
growing, and growing, and very soon had to kneel
down on the floor: in another minute there was not
even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying
down with one elbow against the door, and the
other arm curled round her head. Still she went on
growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm
out of the window, and one foot up the chimney,
and said to herself 'Now I can do no more,
whatever happens. What will become of me?'
Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now
had its full effect, and she grew no larger: still it
was very uncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be
no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the
room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.
'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor
Alice, 'when one wasn't always growing larger and
smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
tako svima počela da naređuje!"
Dotle je već našla put do jedne uredne sobice u
kojoj je do prozora stajao sto i na njemu Alisa
ugleda (kao što se i nadala) lepezu i dva-tri para
majušnih bijelih kožnih rukavica. Dohvati lepezu
i jedan par rukavica i upravo htjede da izađe iz
sobe, kad joj pogled pade na jednu bočicu što je
stajala uz ogledalo. Ovoga puta na njoj nije bilo
naljepnice sa riječima "Pij me!", pa ipak je Alisa
otčepi i prinese ustima. "Znam da se uvijek nešto
zanimljivo dogodi", reče sama sebi, "kad god
pojedem ili popijem štogod, pa baš da vidim
kakvu moć ima ova bočica. Nadam se da ću
ponovo porasti, jer mi je zaista dojadilo da budem
ovako malena."
Tako je uistinu i bilo, i to prije no što se i nadala.
Nije ispila ni do pola, kad osjeti kako joj glava
upire u tavanicu tako da se morade sageti da ne bi
slomila vrat. Brzo spusti bočicu govoreći: "Ovo je
dovoljno – nadam se da neću više rasti. I ovako
ne mogu kroz vrata. Kamo sreće da nisam toliko
popila!"
Avaj! Prekasno je to zaželjela! I dalje je rasla i
rasla, i uskoro morade kleknuti na pod. Već
idućeg trenutka nije bilo mjesta čak ni za to, i ona
htjede da vidi kako će biti ako legne i jednim
laktom se odupre o vrata a drugu ruku savije oko
glave. Ipak je još uvijek rasla, i jedino što joj
preostade bijaše da proturi jednu ruku kroz prozor
a jednu nogu gurne u dimnjak. "E, sad više ništa
ne mogu, pa ma šta se desilo. Šta li će biti sa
mnom?"
Srećom, čarobni napitak je već bio postigao svoje
i Alisa prestade da raste. Pa ipak joj je bilo vrlo
neudobno i, pošto je izgledalo da se više nikad
neće moći iskobeljati iz ove sobe, nije ni čudo što
je uhvati očaj.
"Bilo je mnogo ljepše kod kuće", pomisli jadna
Alisa, "kad nisi morao stalno da rasteš i da se
smanjuješ, i kad ti nisu zapovijedali miševi i
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rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that
rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious,
you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what can
have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-
tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened,
and now here I am in the middle of one! There
ought to be a book written about me, that there
ought! And when I grow up, I'll write one--but I'm
grown up now,' she added in a sorrowful tone; 'at
least there's no room to grow up any more
here.''But then,' thought Alice, 'shall I never get any
older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one
way--never to be an old woman-- but then--always
to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't like
that!''Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself.
'How can you learn lessons in here? Why, there's
hardly room for you, and no room at all for any
lesson-books!'
And so she went on, taking first one side and then
the other, and making quite a conversation of it
altogether; but after a few minutes she heard a
voice outside, and stopped to listen.
'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. 'Fetch me
my gloves this moment!'
Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for
her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite
forgetting that she was now about a thousand times
as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be
afraid of it.
Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried
to open it; but, as the door opened inwards, and
Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it, that
attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself
'Then I'll go round and get in at the window.'
'That you won't' thought Alice, and, after waiting
till she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the
window, she suddenly spread out her hand, and
made a snatch in the air. She did not get hold of
anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and
a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded
zečevi. Zamalo pa da zažalim što sam i sišla u
ovu zečju logu – pa ipak – pa ipak – znaš,
prilično je zanimljiv ovakav život! Kad sam čitala
bajke, mislila sam da se tako nešto nikad ne
događa, a sada evo me usred bajke! Treba napisati
knjigu o meni, i te kako treba! A kad odrastem,
napisaću je ja. Ali, sad sam već odrasla", dodade
žalosno. "Bar ovdje nema više mjesta za rast."
"Znači li to, da nikad neću biti starija nego što
sam sada?", pomisli Alisa. "To je utješno, s jedne
strane – nikada ne biti starica. Ali, s druge –
uvijek morati učiti! To ne bih voljela!" "Eh, luda
Aliso!", sama sebi odgovori. "Kako možeš ovdje
učiti? Ta nema dovoljno mjesta ni za tebe, a
kamoli za knjige!"
I tako ona nastavi da vodi pravi pravcati razgovor,
preuzimajući prvo jednu pa zatim drugu stranu.
Ali poslije nekoliko trenutaka začu spolja jedan
glas i zastade da bi oslušnula.
"Meri En! Meri En!", javljao se glas. "Brzo mi
dodaj rukavice!"
Onda se začu sitno trupkanje uz stepenice. Alisa
je znala da to Zec dolazi da je traži i tako zadrhta
da se sva kuća zadrma. Potpuno je zaboravila da
je sad hiljadu puta veća od Zeca i da nema
razloga da ga se plaši.
U to Zec dođe do vrata i pokuša da ih otvori. Ali
pošto su se vrata otvarala unutra, a bila dobro
poduprta Alisinim laktom, to mu ne pođe za
rukom. Alisa ču kako veli sam sebi: "Onda ću
proći okolo i ući kroz prozor."
"E, to nećeš!", pomisli Alisa, i pošto pričeka sve
dotle dok joj se ne učini da čuje Zeca ispod
samog prozora, naglo ispruži ruku i zagrabi njom
po vazduhu. Ništa nije uhvatila, ali začu vrisak i
pad, i lomljavu razbijenog stakla, na osnovu čega
zaključi da je Zec vjerovatno upao u staklenik sa
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that it was just possible it had fallen into a
cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit's--'Pat! Pat!
Where are you?' And then a voice she had never
heard before, 'Sure then I'm here! Digging for
apples, yer honour!'
'Digging for apples, indeed!' said the Rabbit
angrily. 'Here! Come and help me out of this!'
(Sounds of more broken glass.)
'Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'
'Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' (He pronounced it
'arrum.')
'An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size?
Why, it fills the whole window!'
'Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all
that.'
'Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and
take it away!'
There was a long silence after this, and Alice could
only hear whispers now and then; such as, 'Sure, I
don't like it, yer honour, at all, at all!' 'Do as I tell
you, you coward!' and at last she spread out her
hand again, and made another snatch in the air. This
time there were two little shrieks, and more sounds
of broken glass. 'What a number of cucumber-
frames there must be!' thought Alice. 'I wonder
what they'll do next! As for pulling me out of the
window, I only wish they could! I'm sure I don't
want to stay in here any longer!'
She waited for some time without hearing anything
more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels,
and the sound of a good many voices all talking
together: she made out the words: 'Where's the
other ladder?--Why, I hadn't to bring but one; Bill's
got the other--Bill! fetch it here, lad!--Here, put 'em
up at this corner--No, tie 'em together first--they
don't reach half high enough yet--Oh! they'll do
well enough; don't be particular-- Here, Bill! catch
hold of this rope--Will the roof bear?--Mind that
loose slate--Oh, it's coming down! Heads below!' (a
krastavcima, ili tako nešto.
Onda do nje dopre jedan ljutit glas – Zečev: "Pat!
Pat! Gdje si?" A tada glas koji nikad dosad nije
čula: "Ma, gdje bih bio, tu sam! Okopavam
jabuke, vaša milosti!"
"Okopavaš jabuke, je li?", reče Zec gnjevno.
"Ovamo! Dolazi i pomozi mi da se izvučem
odavde!" (Opet lomljava razbijena stakla.)
"Čuj, Pat, šta je ono na prozoru?"
"Pa, ruka, vaša milosti!"
"Ruka, tikvane jedan! Ko je ikad vidio toliku
ručetinu? Zakrilila je čitav prozor!"
"Tako je, vaša milosti. Pa ipak je ruka."
"Ali tu njoj i tako i tako nije mjesto. Idi i ukloni
je."
Poslije toga nastade dug tajac i Alisa je samo s
vremena na vrijeme mogla čuti šapat kao:
"Sigurno, ne sviđa mi se to, vaša milosti, nikako,
nikako!" "Učini kao što ti kažem, kukavico!", i
ona najzad opet proturi ruku i opet zagrabi po
vazduhu. Ovoga puta se začuše dva nejaka vriska
i ponovna lomljava razbijena stakla. "Koliko li tu
mora da ima staklenika s krastavcima!", pomisli
Alisa. "Da mi je znati šta li će sad uraditi! A što se
tiče onog da me izvuku s prozora, kamo sreće da
to mognu! Sigurna sam da i ne želim da ovdje
duže ostanem!"
Neko vrijeme je čekala. Ništa se nije čulo.
Najzad, doprije do nje tandrkanje malih kolica i
mnogobrojni glasovi što su u isti mah govorili.
Alisa razabra riječi: "Gdje su druge ljestve? – Pa
trebalo je da ja donesem samo jedne. Druge su
kod Bila – Bile! Donesi ih ovamo, momče! –
Evo, prisloni ih uz ovo ćoše! – Ne, prvo ih
zajedno sveži – ne sežu ni do polovine! – Eto, sad
će biti dosta dobro. Ne budi prznica! Ovamo,
Bile! Uhvati ovo uže! – Hoće li krov izdržati? –
Pazi na taj rasklimani crijep! – Oh, pada! Sagnite
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loud crash)--'Now, who did that?--It was Bill, I
fancy--Who's to go down the chimney?--Nay, I
shan't! you do it!--That I won't, then!--Bill's to go
down--Here, Bill! the master says you're to go
down the chimney!'
'Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has
he?' said Alice to herself. 'Shy, they seem to put
everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be in Bill's place
for a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure;
but I think I can kick a little!'
She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she
could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she
couldn't guess of what sort it was) scratching and
scrambling about in the chimney close above her:
then, saying to herself 'This is Bill,' she gave one
sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen
next.
The first thing she heard was a general chorus of
'There goes Bill!' then the Rabbit's voice
along--'Catch him, you by the hedge!' then silence,
and then another confusion of voices--'Hold up his
head--Brandy now--Don't choke him--How was it,
old fellow? What happened to you? Tell us all
about it!'
Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, ('That's
Bill,' thought Alice,) 'Well, I hardly know--No
more, thank ye; I'm better now--but I'm a deal too
flustered to tell you--all I know is, something
comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes
like a sky-rocket!'
'So you did, old fellow!' said the others.
'We must burn the house down!' said the Rabbit's
voice; and Alice called out as loud as she could, 'If
you do. I'll set Dinah at you!'
There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice
thought to herself, 'I wonder what they will do next!
If they had any sense, they'd take the roof off.' After
a minute or two, they began moving about again,
and Alice heard the Rabbit say, 'A barrowful will
do, to begin with.'
glave! (snažan prasak) – E, ko je to uradio? – Čini
mi se Bil – Ko će se spustiti niz dimnjak? – Ne, ja
neću! Ti ćeš! – To ja neću! – Bil će poći dolje –
Hej, Bile! Gospodar veli da se ti moraš spustiti
niz dimnjak!"
"Oh! Znači, Bil se mora spustiti niz dimnjak, je
li?", reče Alisa. "Oho, izgleda sve navalili na Bila.
Ne bih baš bila u Bilovoj koži. Istina, ovaj
dimnjak je uzan, ali ja mislim, da ću se moći
malo ritnuti!"
Alisa povuče nogu niz dimnjak koliko god je
mogla i čekaše sve dok ne začu kako neka
životinjica (nije mogla pogoditi koja) grebe i puže
niz dimnjak tačno iznad nje, a onda rekavši sebi:
"To je Bil!", oštro se ritnu i čekaše da vidi šta će
se sad zbiti.
Prvo što začu bijaše opšta graja. "Odletje Bil!"
Onda se javi sam Zec – "Uhvatite ga vi, tamo
pokraj živice!". Onda tišina, pa opet žamor
glasova – "Pridržite mu glavu – Daj rakiju –
Pazite da se ne zagrcne – Kako to bi, stari
draškane? Šta ti se desilo? Ispričaj nam sve!"
Najzad se javi sitan, slabašan, piskav glasić. ("To
je Bil", pomisli Alisa.) "Pa jedva da i znam –
Neću više, hvala vam. Sad mi je bolje – ali sam
isuviše ošamućen da bih vam umio ispričati – sve
što znam jest da je put mene krenulo nešto kao
onaj čovječuljak iz kutije, i da sam uzletio kao
raketa!"
"I jesi, druškane!" rekoše ostali.
"Moramo zapaliti kuću!", javi se Zečev glas. A
Alisa grmnu iz sve snage: "Ako to uradite,
poslaću Dajnu na vas!"
Najednom nastade grobna tišina, i Alisa pomisli:
"Da mi je znati šta li će sad uraditi? Ako su imalo
mudri, skinuće krov." Poslije časak-dva opet se
uzmuvaše i Alisa ču kako Zec kaže: "Za početak
će biti dovoljna jedna kolica."
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'A barrowful of what?' thought Alice; but she had
not long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of
little pebbles came rattling in at the window, and
some of them hit her in the face. 'I'll put a stop to
this,' she said to herself, and shouted out, 'You'd
better not do that again!' which produced another
dead silence.
Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles
were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the
floor, and a bright idea came into her head. 'If I eat
one of these cakes,' she thought, 'it's sure to make
some change in my size; and as it can't possibly
make me larger, it must make me smaller, I
suppose.'
So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was
delighted to find that she began shrinking directly.
As soon as she was small enough to get through the
door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a
crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.
The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle,
being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving
it something out of a bottle. They all made a rush at
Alice the moment she appeared; but she ran off as
hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a
thick wood.
'The first thing I've got to do,' said Alice to herself,
as she wandered about in the wood, 'is to grow to
my right size again; and the second thing is to find
my way into that lovely garden. I think that will be
the best plan.'
It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very
neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was,
that she had not the smallest idea how to set about
it; and while she was peering about anxiously
among the trees, a little sharp bark just over her
head made her look up in a great hurry.
An enormous puppy was looking down at her with
large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw,
trying to touch her. 'Poor little thing!' said Alice, in
a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it;
but she was terribly frightened all the time at the
"Kolica čega?", premišljaše Alisa. Ali nije morala
dugo nagađati, jer već sljedećeg trena pljusak
sitnog šljunka poče da dobuje po prozora i
nekoliko kamenčića zgodiše je u lice. "Staću ja u
kraj tome", reče u sebi i povika: "Bolje vam je da
to više ne radite!" Poslije toga opet zavlada
grobna tišina.
Prilično iznenađena, Alisa primijeti da se
kamenčići, koji su bili rasuti po podu, pretvaraju
svi odreda u kolačiće, i jedna joj sjajna misao
sinu u glavi. "Ako pojedem jedan od ovih
kolačića", premišljaše, "sigurno će nastupiti neka
promjena u mojoj veličini. A pošto po svoj prilici
ne mogu biti veća, valjda ću postati manja."
Zato pojede jedan kolač i sva oduševljena zapazi
da se istog trena poče smanjivati. Čim se toliko
smanjila da je mogla proći kroz vrata, strelimice
istrča iz kuće i ugleda mnoštvo životinjica i ptica
kako napolju čekaju. Jadni mali gušter, Bil, bijaše
u sredini. Pridržavala su ga dva zamorčeta i
davala mu da pije nešto iz boce. Čim se Alisa
pojavi, svi jurnuše na nju. Ali ona potrča što je
brže mogla i uskoro se nađe pod okriljem guste
šume.
"Prvo što moram da uradim", reče Alisa
tumarajući po šumi, "jest da se opet vratim na
svoju pravu mjeru. A drugo, da pronađem put do
one divne bašte. Mislim da je ovo najbolji plan."
Bez sumnje bio je to izvrstan plan, zgodan i
jednostavan. Teškoća je bila samo u tome što ni
pojma nije imala kako da ga ostvari. I dok je
brižno zavirivala među drveće, sitan, oštar lavež,
taman poviše njene glave – natjera je da žurno
podigne pogled.
Neki krupni psić gledao je u nju svojim velikim,
okruglastim očima i uzaludno pružao šapu,
nastojeći da je dotakne. "Jadničak moj lijepi!",
javi mu se Alisa umiljato i pokuša da mu što jače
zvizne, ali sve vrijeme užasno ju je plašila
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thought that it might be hungry, in which case it
would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her
coaxing.
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little
bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon
the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once,
with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and
made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind
a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over;
and the moment she appeared on the other side, the
puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled
head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then
Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of
play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment
to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle
again; then the puppy began a series of short
charges at the stick, running a very little way
forwards each time and a long way back, and
barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down
a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging
out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for
making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran
till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the
puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
'And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said Alice,
as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and
fanned herself with one of the leaves: 'I should have
liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I'd only
been the right size to do it! Oh dear! I'd nearly
forgotten that I've got to grow up again! Let me
see--how is it to be managed? I suppose I ought to
eat or drink something or other; but the great
question is, what?'
The great question certainly was, what? Alice
looked all round her at the flowers and the blades of
grass, but she did not see anything that looked like
the right thing to eat or drink under the
circumstances. There was a large mushroom
growing near her, about the same height as herself;
and when she had looked under it, and on both
pomisao da je pas možda gladan, pa bi se u tom
slučaju moglo bogme desiti i da je pojede, uprkos
svem njenom umiljavanju.
I ne znajući zapravo šta radi, Alisa dohvati jedan
štapić i pruži ga psiću. Istog časa psić poskoči
uvis sa sve četiri, radosno zakevta i jurnu prema
štapiću, kao da će ga raskomadati. Tada se Alisa
skloni iza stabljike jednog velikog čička da je
pseto ne bi pregazilo. Ali čim se pojavi sa druge
strane, psić se ponovo zaletje na štap i u jurnjavi
ga dohvati, prevrnu se preko glave. Onda Alisa
pomisli kako je ova igra nalik na igru sa kakvim
snažnim konjem, i očekujući svakog časa da je
psić obori pod noge i zgazi, ona opet optrča oko
čička. Psić je nasrtao na štapić, ali je svaki put
trčao malčice naprijed, a uzmicao mnogo više
nazad, i cijelo vrijeme promuklo lajao dok najzad
ne sjede na popriličnoj razdaljini, zadihan,
isplažena jezika i poluzatvorenih krupnih očiju.
Alisi se učini da je ovo pogodna prilika da
umakne. Zato smjesta krenu i trčala je sve dok ne
ostade bez daha. Pseći lavež je sad jedva čujno
dopirao do nje iz daljine.
"Pa ipak, što je to bio divan psić!", reče Alisa i
osloni se na maslačak da se odmori, mašući se
jednim njegovim listom. "Baš bih voljela da ga
naučim kojekakvim vještinama, samo – samo kad
bih bila toliko velika da to mogu! Oh, jadna ja!
Zamalo ne zaboravih da opet moram da
porastem! Čekaj – kako li ću to postići?
Vjerovatno treba da pojedem ili popijem štogod.
Ali veliko je pitanje šta."
Veliko pitanje i jeste bilo: šta? Alisa pregleda
cvijeće i vlati trave, ali ne vidje ništa što bi u ovoj
prilici moglo izgledati baš ono pravo što treba
pojesti ili popiti. U blizini je rasla jedna velika
pečurka, otprilike njene visine. Alisa zaviri pod
pečurku, pogleda na jednu pa na drugu stranu,
zaviri i iza pečurke i dosjeti se da bi mogla
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sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she
might as well look and see what was on the top of
it.
She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over
the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes
immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that
was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly
smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest
notice of her or of anything else.
CHAPTER V
Advice from a Caterpillar
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for
some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the
hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a
languid, sleepy voice.
'Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a
conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I--I hardly
know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I was
when I got up this morning, but I think I must have
been changed several times since then.'
'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar
sternly. 'Explain yourself!'
'I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice,
'because I'm not myself, you see.'
'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.
'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied
very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to
begin with; and being so many different sizes in a
day is very confusing.'
'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said
Alice; 'but when you have to turn into a chrysalis--
you will some day, you know--and then after that
into a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a little
queer, won't you?'
'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.
'Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said
Alice; 'all I know is, it would feel very queer to me.'
pogledati i ima li šta na njoj.
Prope se na prste i pogleda iznad pečurkinog ruba
i tog istog časa oči joj se susretoše sa očima jedne
velike plave gusjenice koja je skrštenih ruku
sjedjela na samom vrhu pečurke i mirno pušila na
dugu nargilu ne obraćajući ni najmanje pažnje
Alisi niti ičem drugom.
Glava V
GUSJENIČIN SAVJET
Gusjenica i Alisa su se neko vrijeme šutke
promatrale. Naposljetku Gusjenica izvadi nargilu
iz usta i obrati joj se otegnutim, sanjivim glasom:
"Ko si ti?", zapita Gusjenica.
Ovakvo započinjanje razgovora nije djelovalo baš
ohrabrujuće. Alisa odgovori prilično stidljivo: "Ja
– ja – jedva to sad i znam, gospođo – ali bar znam
ko sam bila kad sam jutros ustala, no čini mi se
da sam se otada već nekoliko puta promijenila."
"Šta hoćeš time da kažeš?", zapita Gusjenica
strogo. "Budi jasnija!"
"Nažalost, ne mogu biti jasnija, gospođo," reče
Alisa, "jer kao što vidite ja nisam ja."
"Ja to ne vidim", reče Gusjenica.
"Bojim se da to ne mogu izraziti jasnije", odvrati
Alisa vrlo učtivo, jer, prvo i prvo, ni ja sama to ne
razumijem. Moraš se zbuniti kad u jednom
jedinom danu promijeniš toliko veličina."
"Ne moraš" reče Gusjenica.
"Pa možda vi to još niste osjetili", reče Alisa. "Ali
kad se preobratite u čauru – a tako će, znate,
morati da bude jednog dana – a poslije toga u
leptira, vjerujem da ćete se osjećati malo čudno,
zar ne?"
"Nimalo", reče Gusjenica.
"Pa možda vi drukčije osjećate", reče Alisa. "Ali
ja znam da bi meni bilo vrlo čudno."
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'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 'Who are
you?'
Which brought them back again to the beginning of
the conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the
Caterpillar's making such very short remarks, and
she drew herself up and said, very gravely, 'I think,
you ought to tell me who you are, first.'
'Why?' said the Caterpillar.
Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice
could not think of any good reason, and as the
Caterpillar seemed to be in a very unpleasant state
of mind, she turned away.
'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her. 'I've
something important to say!'
This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and
came back again.
'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.
'Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger
as well as she could.
'No,' said the Caterpillar.
Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had
nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell
her something worth hearing. For some minutes it
puffed away without speaking, but at last it
unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth
again, and said, 'So you think you're changed, do
you?'
'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember
things as I used--and I don't keep the same size for
ten minutes together!'
'Can't remember what things?' said the Caterpillar.
'Well, I've tried to say "How doth the little busy
bee," but it all came different!' Alice replied in a
very melancholy voice.
'Repeat, "you are old, Father William,"' said the
Caterpillar.
Alice folded her hands, and began:--
'You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
'And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head—
Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son,
"Tebi!" reče Gusjenica prezrivo. "A ko si ti?"
I to ih opet vrati na početak razgovora. Alisa se
ljutnu što Gusjenica stavlja tako kratke
primjedbe, protegnu se što je više mogla u visinu
i reče vrlo ozbiljno: "Mislim da vi prvo treba
meni da kažete ko ste".
"Zašto?", Gusjenica će.
I ovo pitanje zbuni Alisu. I kako se nije mogla
dosjetiti nikakvog zgodnog razloga, i kako je
Gusjenica po svemu sudeći bila vrlo zle volje,
ona se okrenu i pođe.
"Vrati se!", viknu Gusjenica za njom. "Imam
nešto važno da ti kažem!"
Izgledalo je da ovo uistinu nešto obećava. Alisa
se okrenu i vrati.
"Nauči da se savlađuješ!", dobaci joj Gusjenica.
"Je li to sve?", reče Alisa prigušujući svoj gnjev
što je bolje umjela.
"Nije", reče Gusjenica.
Alisa pomisli da bi mogla i popričekati, jer i tako
i tako nema šta da radi a, najposlije, možda će joj
i kazati nešto što vrijedi čuti. Nekoliko časaka
Gusjenica je odbijala dimove bez riječi, ali najzad
raskrsti ruke, ponovo izvadi iz usta nargilu i reče:
"I tako ti misliš da si se promijenila, je li?"
"Nažalost, jesam, gospođo", reče Alisa. "Ne
pamtim kao što sam pamtila – i ni deset minuta
ne mogu da zadržim istu veličinu!"
"Šta ne pamtiš?", zapita Gusjenica.
"Pa, eto, probala sam da recitujem 'Gle, malene
pčelice' ali ispalo je drukčije!", odgovori Alisa
vrlo tužno.
"Recituj 'Star si, oče Viljeme'", reče Gusjenica.
Alisa skrsti ruke i otpoče:
"Star si, oče Viljeme", sin se javi,
"I kosa ti je sva sijeda
Pa ipak stalno dubiš na glavi,
zar u tvojim godinama to tebi treba?"
"Kad mlad sam bio", otac je odgovor imao

'I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.'
'You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door—
Pray, what is the reason of that?'
'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey
locks,
'I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box-
- Allow me to sell you a couple?'
'You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too
weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the
beak—
Pray how did you manage to do it?'
'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.'
'You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly
suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose—
What made you so awfully clever?'
'I have answered three questions, and that is
enough,'
Said his father; 'don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!'
'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.
'Not quite right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; "Sve se bojim da i nisam baš sasvim dobro", reče
'some of the words have got altered.'
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spreman,
"Da ću povrijediti mozak, plaših se jadan,
Al' sada, kad siguran sam da ga nemam,
Dubim na glavi iz dana u dan."
"Star si", opet će mladić, "kao što već rekoh,
I ugojio si se baš dosta,
A da se prevrćeš preko glave maločas te zatekoh,
Reci, kako tako gibak osta?"
"Kad mladić bijah", reče mudrac, zabaciv
kovrdže sijede,
Očuvah gipkost, znaš,
Zahvaljujući masti ovoj baš – jedan šiling dođe
za kutiju.
A šta veliš – da ti prodam koju?"
"Star si", reče mladić, " i zubi su ti isuviše slabi,
tugo moja.
Da bi mogli pregrist šta tvrđe od loja,
Pa ipak gusku sa kostima smaza bez po muke,
Zar nije čudno da ti to tako ide od ruke?"
"Kad mlad sam bio", reče otac, "volio sam pravo
I svaku stvar sa ženom sam raspravlj'o.
To, vidiš, očvrsnu vilice moje
I ta snaga, eto sve dosada traje."
"Star si", sin će opet, " i teško bi se vjerovalo sad
Da ti je oko oštro k'o nekad.
Pa ipak si navrh nosa jegulju držao
Kako si tu silnu vještinu stekao?"
"Odgovorih na pitanja tri, više me ne gnjavi,
Važan se ne pravi!
Zar cijeli dan da slušam besmislice?
Gubi se dok nisi sletio niz stepenice!
"To nisi dobro odrecitovala!", reče Gusjenica.
Alisa bojažljivo. "Neke su se riječi izmijenile."
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'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the
Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for
some minutes.
The Caterpillar was the first to speak.
'What size do you want to be?' it asked.
'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily
replied; 'only one doesn't like changing so often,
you know.'
'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar.
Alice said nothing: she had never been so much
contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she
was losing her temper.
'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.
'Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you
wouldn't mind,' said Alice: 'three inches is such a
wretched height to be.'
'It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar
angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was
exactly three inches high).
'But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a
piteous tone. And she thought of herself, 'I wish the
creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!'
'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar;
and it put the hookah into its mouth and began
smoking again.
This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to
speak again. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took
the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or
twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the
mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely
remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow
taller, and the other side will make you grow
shorter.
''One side of what? The other side of what?' thought
Alice to herself.
'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if
she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it
was out of sight.
Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the
mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which
were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly
"Ne valja od početka do konca", reče Gusjenica
odlučno, i nekoliko časaka vladaše tišina.
Prva progovori Gusjenica.
"Kolika želiš da budeš?", zapita.
"Nisam probirljiva u pogledu veličine", odvrati
Alisa žurno, "samo nikom nije drago da se
mijenja tako često, znate."
"Ne znam", odgovori Gusjenica.
Alisa ne odgovori. Još nikad dosad nije joj neko
toliko protivrječio, i osjeti da gubi strpljenje.
"Jesi li sadašnjom visinom zadovoljna?" zapita
Gusjenica.
"Pa voljela bih da sam malko veća, gospođo, ako
nemate ništa protiv", reče Alisa. "Visina od osam
santimetara je tako bijedna!"
"To je divna visina!", odbrusi Gusjenica
uspravljajući se. (Imala je tačno osam
santimetara.)
"Ali ja nisam navikla na nju", pravdala se jadna
Alisa žalosno. I pomisli: "Samo kad se ne bi svi
vrijeđali tako lako!"
"Vremenom ćeš se naviknuti", odsiječe Gusjenica
i stavi nargilu u usta i nastavi da puši.
Alisa je sad strpljivo čekala da se Gusjenica
umilostivi pa da progovori. Koji časak kasnije
Gusjenica izvadi iz usta nargilu, jedanput-dvaput
zijevnu i strese se. Onda siđe sa pečurke i otpuza
u travu dobacivši onako usput: "Ako jedeš s jedne
strane, postaćeš viša, a s druge, manja!"
"S jedne strane čega? S druge strane čega!"
premišljaše Alisa.
"Pečurke", reče Gusjenica baš kao da je to pitanje
Alisa glasno izrekla. I već sljedećeg trena se
izgubi.
Jedan časak Alisa je zamišljeno gledala u
pečurku, nastojeći da odgonetne koje su to dvije
njene strane. Ali pošto je pečurka bila potpuno
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round, she found this a very difficult question.
However, at last she stretched her arms round it as
far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge
with each hand.
'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and
nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect:
the next moment she felt a violent blow underneath
her chin: it had struck her foot!
She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden
change, but she felt that there was no time to be
lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to
work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin
was pressed so closely against her foot, that there
was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it
at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the
lefthand bit.
'Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone
of delight, which changed into alarm in another
moment, when she found that her shoulders were
nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she
looked down, was an immense length of neck,
which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of
green leaves that lay far below her.
'What can all that green stuff be?' said Alice. 'And
where have my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor
hands, how is it I can't see you?' She was moving
them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to
follow, except a little shaking among the distant
green leaves.
As there seemed to be no chance of getting her
hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down
to them, and was delighted to find that her neck
would bend about easily in any direction, like a
serpent. She had just succeeded in curving it down
into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in
among the leaves, which she found to be nothing
but the tops of the trees under which she had been
wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back
in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face,
and was beating her violently with its wings.
'Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.
okrugla, bilo je to vrlo teško. Naposljetku ispruži
ruke, obgrli pečurku koliko god je to mogla, i
svakom rukom sa njenog ruba odlomi po jedno
parče.
"E, sad koje je koja?", upita se i gricnu malo od
parčeta iz desne ruke da vidi šta će biti. Već
idućeg trena osjeti odozdo žestok udarac u bradu.
To bradom bijaše udarila o nogu!
Prestravi se od ove nagle promjene, ali osjeti da
nema vremena na pretek, jer se tako brzo
smanjivala. Zato se brže bolje prihvati drugog
parčeta. Ali noga joj je toliko bila pritisla bradu,
da jednostavno nije mogla otvoriti usta. Najzad
joj to pođe za rukom i ona uspije da proguta
mrvicu od parčeta iz lijeve ruke.
"Evo, glava mi je najzad slobodna", reče Alisa s
radošću koja se već idućeg trena pretvori u užas,
jer nikako nije mogla da vidi svoja vlastita
ramena. Jedino što je mogla vidjeti kad je spustila
pogled, bio je strašno dugačak vrat. Izgledalo je
da se poput kakve stabljike uzdiže iz mora
zelenog lišća što se steralo daleko ispod nje.
"Kakvo li je ovo zelenilo?", zapita se Alisa. "I
gdje su mi se djenula ramena? Oh, jadne moje
ruke, kako to da ne mogu ni vas da vidim?"
Mahala je rukama, ali se ništa ne dogodi. Samo
daleko zeleno lišće malo zatreperi.
I pošto ne bijaše nikakve nade da će moći podići
ruke do glave, Alisa pokuša da do njih spusti
glavu, i sa oduševljenjem zapazi da joj se vrat
lako pomiče u svim pravcima, kao kakva zmija. I
baš kad joj pođe za rukom da ga svega ispresavija
u jedan divan cik-cak, i kad htjede da zaroni
među lišće – a shvatila je da to lišće nije ništa
drugo do lišće na krošnjama drveća ispod kojeg je
hodala – kad je neko oštro pištanje natjera da se
žurno povuče. Jedna velika golubica joj se bila
zaletjela u lice i snažno je udarala krilima.
"Zmijo!" vrisnu Golubica.
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'I'm not a serpent!' said Alice indignantly. 'Let me
alone!'
'Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a
more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob,
'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit
them!'
'I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,'
said Alice.
'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks,
and I've tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without
attending to her; 'but those serpents! There's no
pleasing them!'
Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought
there was no use in saying anything more till the
Pigeon had finished.
'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,'
said the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for
serpents night and day! Why, I haven't had a wink
of sleep these three weeks!'
'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice,
who was beginning to see its meaning.
'And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,'
continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek,
'and just as I was thinking I should be free of them
at last, they must needs come wriggling down from
the sky! Ugh, Serpent!'
'But I'm not a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. 'I'm a--
I'm a--'
'Well! what are you?' said the Pigeon. 'I can see
you're trying to invent something!'
'I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as
she remembered the number of changes she had
gone through that day.
'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of
the deepest contempt. 'I've seen a good many little
girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as
that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use
denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that
you never tasted an egg!'
'I have tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a
very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as
"Ja nisam zmija!", odvrati Alisa srdito. "Pusti me
na miru!"
"Kažem ti, zmijo!", ponovi Golubica, ali mnogo
blaže i samo što ne zajeca. "Sve sam pokušala, ali
njima, izgleda ništa ne valja!"
"Nemam ni pojma o čemu ti to govoriš", reče
Alisa.
"Probala sam među žilama drveća, probala na
obalama i probala u živicama", nastavi Golubica i
ne slušajući je. "Ah, te zmije! Ne možeš im
ugoditi!"
Alisa se sve više i više snebivala, ali je uviđala da
nema nikakvog smisla da išta govori sve dok
Golubica ne završi.
"Kao da nemam dosta muke dok snesem jaja",
reče Golubica, "već moram i dan i noć biti na
oprezu zbog zmija! Eto, ove tri nedjelje nisam ni
oka sklopila!"
"Vrlo mi je žao što ti ne daju mira", reče Alisa
koja je počela da shvata šta Golubica hoće da
kaže.
"I baš kad sam se smjestila na najvišem drvetu u
šumi", nastavi Golubica, podižući glas do piska,
"i baš kad sam mislila da ću ih se najzad
osloboditi, morala si se dovijugati s neba! Uf,
zmijo!"
"Ali ja nisam zmija, kažem ti!", reče Alisa. "Ja
sam – ja sam..."
"Hajde, šta si?", reče Golubica. "Vidim da hoćeš
da smutiš nešto!"
"Ja sam – ja sam djevojčica", reče Alisa prilično
neuvjerljivo, jer se sjeti koliko se puta danas
promijenila.
"Bogami, lijepa priča!", reče Golubica sa
najdubljim prezirom. "U životu sam vidjela puno
djevojčica, ali nikada nijednu sa tolikim vratom!
Ne, ne! Ti si zmija! I nema nikakvog smisla da
poričeš. Sigurno ćeš mi sada kazati kako nikad
nisi okusila nijedno jaje!"
"Jaja sam jela, naravno", reče Alisa koja je bila
vrlo istinoljubivo dijete. "Ali djevojčice jedu jaja
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much as serpents do, you know.'
'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do,
why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can
say.'
This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was
quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the
Pigeon the opportunity of adding, 'You're looking
for eggs, I know that well enough; and what does it
matter to me whether you're a little girl or a
serpent?'
'It matters a good deal to me,' said Alice hastily;
'but I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I
was, I shouldn't want yours: I don't like them raw.'
'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone,
as it settled down again into its nest. Alice crouched
down among the trees as well as she could, for her
neck kept getting entangled among the branches,
and every now and then she had to stop and untwist
it. After a while she remembered that she still held
the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to
work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at
the other, and growing sometimes taller and
sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in
bringing herself down to her usual height.
It was so long since she had been anything near the
right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she
got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to
herself, as usual. 'Come, there's half my plan done
now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never
sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to
another! However, I've got back to my right size:
the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden--
how is that to be done, I wonder?' As she said this,
she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little
house in it about four feet high. 'Whoever lives
there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon
them this size: why, I should frighten them out of
their wits!' So she began nibbling at the righthand
bit again, and did not venture to go near the house
till she had brought herself down to nine inches
high.
koliko i zmije, znaš."
"Ne vjerujem u to", reče Golubica. "Al' ako jedu,
onda su i one neka vrsta zmija, to je jedino što
mogu da kažem."
Bilo je to toliko novo za Alisu da je časak dva
šutjela. Na to Golubica dodade: "Tražiš jaja, vrlo
dobro to znam. I svejedno mi je jesi li djevojčica
ili zmija."
"Meni nipošto nije svejedno", reče Alisa žurno.
"Ali ja slučajno ne tražim jaja. A i da tražim, ne
bih uzimala tvoja. Ne volim prijesna jaja."
"Onda, gubi se odavde!", reče Golubica
mrzovoljno i opet se namjesti u gnijezdu. Alisa se
šćućuri između drveća kako je najbolje znala i
umjela, jer joj se vrat zaplitao među granje i svaki
čas je morala zastajati da ga otpetljava. Poslije
nekog vremena dosjeti se da u rukama još uvijek
drži komadićke pečurke i vrlo oprezno prionu na
posao, grickajući prvo jedan pa onda drugi, i pri
tom je čas rasla a čas se smanjivala, sve dok joj
ne pođe za rukom da dođe do svoje uobičajene
visine.
Već toliko dugo nije bila ni blizu svoje prave
veličine, da joj se u prvi mah to učini čudno. Ali
za nekoliko časaka se naviknu i kao i obično poče
da razgovara sama sa sobom. "Eto, pola mog
plana je sad ispunjeno! Ala me zbunjuju sve ove
promjene! Nikad nisam sigurna kakva li ću već
sljedećeg trenutka biti! Uostalom, došla sam do
svoje prave veličine. Sad treba da odem u onu
lijepu baštu – da mi je znati kako li ću to izvesti?"
Rekavši to, izbi na neku čistinu i na njoj ugleda
kućicu visoku nešto više od jednog metra. "Živio
ko mu drago u njoj, ne bi valjalo da se pred njim
ovolika pojavim. Ta izludio bi od straha!" Zato
opet poče da gricka komadić iz desne ruke, dok
se ne smanji do visine od kojih dvadesetak
santimetara.
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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
noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their
heads. She felt very curious to know what it was all
about, and crept a little way out of the wood to
listen.
The Fish-Footman began by producing from under
his arm a great letter, 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 croquet.' 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.
'There's no sort of use in knocking,' said the
Footman, 'and that for two reasons. First, because
I'm on the same side of the door as you are;
secondly, because they're making such a noise
inside, no one could possibly hear you.' And
certainly there was a most extraordinary noise
going on within--a constant howling and sneezing,
Glava VI
PRASE I BIBER
Časak-dva stajala je gledajući kuću i ne znajući
šta da radi, kad najednom iz šume istrča jedan
livrejisani sluga (smatrala ga je slugom zato što je
bio u livreji, inače sudeći po licu, prije bi se reklo
da je riba) i poče snažno udarati šakama u vrata.
Otvori mu ih drugi livrejisan sluga, okruglog lica
i krupnih očiju kao u žabe. Alisa zapazi da je kod
obojice kosa napuderisana i sva u uvojcima. Bila
je vrlo radoznala da sazna šta se to zbiva, pa se iz
šume malo prikrade da oslušne.
Sluga-Riba izvadi ispod miške jedno veliko
pismo, gotovo iste veličine kao i on sam, i
predade ga drugom slugi, govoreći svečanim
glasom: "Za Vojvotkinju. Poziv od Kraljice na
igru kroketa." Sluga-Žabac ponovi istim
svečanim tonom, izmijenivši samo malo red
riječi: "Od Kraljice. Poziv za Vojvotkinju na igru
kroketa."
Onda se jedan drugom duboko pokloniše i uvojci
im se spletoše.
Alisa se na to toliko stade smijati da morade
otrčati natrag u šumu, jer se poboja da bi je mogli
čuti. A kad ponovo izviri, Sluga-Riba bijaše već
otišao, a Sluga-Žabac je sjedio kod vrata i blesavo
zurio u nebo.
Alisa bojažljivo priđe vratima i zakuca.
"Nema nikakve svrhe da kucaš", reče Sluga, "i to
iz dva razloga. Prvo zato što sam na istoj strani
vrata na kojoj si i ti, a drugo, što ovi unutra toliko
galame da je sva prilika da te niko ne može ni
čuti." I zaista, unutra se tako strašno larmalo –
neko je neprestano urlao i kihao, i čas po čas čula
se nekakva silna lomljava, kao da se kakav tanjir
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and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or
kettle had been broken to pieces.
'Please, then,' said Alice, 'how am I to get in?'
'There might be some sense in your knocking,' the
Footman went on without attending to her, 'if we
had the door between us. For instance, if you were
inside, you might knock, and I could let you out,
you know.' He was looking up into the sky all the
time he was speaking, and this Alice thought
decidedly uncivil. 'But perhaps he can't help it,' she
said to herself; 'his eyes are so very nearly at the
top of his head. But at any rate he might answer
questions.--How am I to get in?' she repeated,
aloud.
'I shall sit here,' the Footman remarked, 'till
tomorrow--'
At this moment the door of the house opened, and a
large plate came skimming out, straight at the
Footman's head: it just grazed his nose, and broke
to pieces against one of the trees behind him.
'--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the
same tone, exactly as if nothing had happened.
'How am I to get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder
tone.
'Are you to get in at all?' said the Footman. 'That's
the first question, you know.'
It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told
so. 'It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the
way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one
crazy!'
The Footman seemed to think this a good
opportunity for repeating his remark, with
variations. 'I shall sit here,' he said, 'on and off, for
days and days.'
'But what am I to do?' said Alice.
'Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began
whistling.
'Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice
desperately: 'he's perfectly idiotic!' And she opened
the door and went in.
The door led right into a large kitchen, which was
full of smoke from one end to the other: the
ili lonac razbijaju u paramparčad.
"A kako ću onda, moliću, ući?", zapita Alisa.
"Imalo bi nekakvog smisla da kucaš", nastavi
Sluga i ne slušajući je "da su vrata između nas.
Na primjer, da si unutra, mogla bi kucati i ja bih
te mogao, razumiješ, ispustiti napolje." I dok je to
govorio, sve vrijeme je gledao u nebo, što je Alisa
smatrala zaista neučtivim. "Ali možda i ne može
drukčije", reče u sebi. "Oči samo što mu nisu na
vrh glave. Ali mogao bi bar odgovarati na
pitanja." "Kako mogu ući?", ponovi glasno.
"Sjediću ovdje", reče Sluga, "do sutra..."
Tog trenutka vrata na kući se otvoriše i jedan
veliki tanjir poletje pravo Slugi na glavu. Ali mu
samo okrznu nos i sasu se u komade kad udari o
jedno stablo iza njega.
"...ili do prekosutra, možda", nastavi Sluga istim
glasom kao da se ama baš ništa nije ni dogodilo.
"Kako ću ući?", opet će Alisa, još glasnije.
"A hoćeš li uopšte ući?", Sluga će na to. "To je
pitanje broj jedan, razumiješ."
Tako je, besumnje, i bilo. Samo Alisa nije voljela
da joj se to na takav način kaže. "Zaista je
strašno", promrmlja Alisa u sebi, "kako se sva ova
stvorenja vole da prepiru. Da čovjek izludi!"
Slugi se učini da je ovo zgodna prilika da ponovi
ono što je već rekao, samo drukčije. "Ovdje ću
sjedjeti", reče, "neprestano, danima i danima."
"Ali šta ja da radim?", zapita Alisa.
"Što god ti drago", reče Sluga i poče fićukati.
"Oh, kao da opet ima nekakvog smisla
razgovarati s njim!", reče Alisa sva očajna. "Prava
je budala!" I ona otvori vrata i uđe.
Vrata su vodila pravo u prostranu kuhinju koja je
bila puna dima. Na sred kuhinje, na jednom
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Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the tronošcu, sjedjela je Vojvotkinja i u krilu držala
middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over djetence. Kuharica nadnesena nad vatru, miješala
the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to je nešto u velikom loncu koji je, kako se Alisi
be full of soup. učini, bio pun čorbe.
'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' "Vjerovatno su čorbu isuviše zabiberili!", reče
Alice said to herself, as well as she could for Alisa sama sebi, i to na jedvite jade, jer je
sneezing. neprestano morala da kiše.
There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even Vazduh je doista bio zasićen mirisom bibera. Čak
the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the bi i Vojvotkinja ponekad kihnula. A djetence je
baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately kihalo i urlalo, naizmjenično, bez ikakve stanke.
without a moment's pause. The only things in the Kihale nisu jedino kuharica i velika mačka koja je
kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a sjedjela na ognjištu, usta iskešenih od uha do uha.
large cat which was sitting on the hearth and
grinning from ear to ear.
'Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little "Molim vas hoćete li mi reći", javi se Alisa
timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was pomalo bojažljivo, jer nije bila baš sigurna da li je
good manners for her to speak first, 'why your cat lijepo da ona prva započinje razgovor, "zašto se
grins like that?' vaša mačka tako kesi?"
'It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, 'and that's "Zato što je to Češirska mačka", reče Vojvotkinja.
why. Pig!' "Prase!"
She said the last word with such sudden violence Vojvotkinja izgovori ovu posljednju riječ sa tako
that Alice quite jumped; but she saw in another iznenadnom žestinom da Alisa prosto poskoči. Ali
moment that it was addressed to the baby, and not odmah shvati da je upućena djetetu a ne njoj, zato
to her, so she took courage, and went on again:-- se odvaži i nastavi:
'I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in "Nisam znala da se Češirske mačke uvijek kese.
fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.' Zapravo, nisam ni znala da se mačke umiju
kesiti."
'They all can,' said the Duchess; 'and most of 'em "Sve one umiju", reče Vojvotkinja, "i većina njih
do.' se i kesi."
'I don't know of any that do,' Alice said very "Ja nijednu takvu ne poznajem", reče Alisa veoma
politely, feeling quite pleased to have got into a učtivo i bijaše joj milo što se upustila u razgovor.
conversation.
'You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's "Činjenica je da ti ne znaš mnogo", reče
a fact.' Vojvotkinja.
Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and Alisi se baš ne svidje ton kojim je izgovorena ova
thought it would be as well to introduce some other primjedba, i pomisli da bi bilo dobro da
subject of conversation. While she was trying to fix zapodjene razgovor o čemu drugom. I dok je
on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the nastojala da iznađe štogod, kuharica smaknu sa
fire, and at once set to work throwing everything vatre lonac sa čorbom i istog časa poče da na
within her reach at the Duchess and the baby --the Vojvotkinju i dijete frljaca sve što joj je dolazilo
fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of pod ruku. Prvo poletješe mašice; onda uslijedi
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saucepans, plates, and dishes. The Duchess took no
notice of them even when they hit her; and the baby
was howling so much already, that it was quite
impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.
'Oh, please mind what you're doing!' cried Alice,
jumping up and down in an agony of terror. 'Oh,
there goes his precious nose'; as an unusually large
saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it
off.
'If everybody minded their own business,' the
Duchess said in a hoarse growl, 'the world would
go round a deal faster than it does.'
'Which would not be an advantage,' said Alice, who
felt very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a
little of her knowledge. 'Just think of what work it
would make with the day and night! You see the
earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its
axis--'
'Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, 'chop off her
head!'
Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if
she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily
stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so
she went on again: 'Twenty-four hours, I think; or is
it twelve? I--'
'Oh, don't bother me,' said the Duchess; 'I never
could abide figures!' And with that she began
nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to
it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the
end of every line:
'Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.'
CHORUS
(In which the cook and the baby joined):--
'Wow! wow! wow!'
While the Duchess sang the second verse of the
song, she kept tossing the baby violently up and
down, and the poor little thing howled so, that Alice
could hardly hear the words:--
pljusak tava, tanjira i zdjela. Vojvotkinja nije na
njih obraćala nikakvu pažnju, čak ni onda kad bi
je šta od toga pogodilo. A dijete se već i onako
toliko dernjalo da nikako nisi mogao znati kad ga
je šta zaboljelo a kad nije.
"Oh, molim vas pazite šta radite!" povika Alisa
sva prestravljena, poskakujući s mjesta na mjesto.
"Oh, ode mu krasni nosić!", zavapi Alisa kad
jedna ogromna tava sunu pored djetinjeg nosa i
zamalo što mu ga ne otkide.
"Kad bi svako gledao svoja posla", javi se
Vojvotkinja promuklim mumljanjem, "svijet bi se
mnogo brže okretao".
"Što ne bi bilo baš dobro", reče Alisa, koja se
obradova što joj se pružila prilika da malo pokaže
svoje znanje. "Zamislite šta bi bilo sa danom i
noći! Znate, Zemlji je potrebno dvadeset i četiri
sata da se obrne oko svoje osi..."
"Kad pomenu os", reče Vojvotkinja, "odsijecite
joj glavu!"
Alisa prilično zabrinuto pogleda kuharicu, da vidi
hoće li izvršiti taj nalog, ali je kuharica bila
zabavljena miješanjem čorbe i nije, izgleda, ni
slušala. Zato se Alisa usudi da nastavi: "...mislim,
dvadeset i četiri sata. Ili dvanaest? Ja..."
"Oh, ne gnjavi me!", reče Vojvotkinja. "Nikad
nisam podnosila brojke!" I opet poče da ljuljuška
dijete i da mu pri tom pjeva nešto što je ličilo na
uspavanku, ali svaki put kad bi došla na kraj
stiha, snažno bi ga prodrmusala.
"Sa sinčićem u maženju ne pretjeraj,
I tuci ga kada kiše
Jer to čini iz inata, vjeruj,
zna da to mrziš ponajviše."
Hor
(vojvotkinji se pridružiše kuharica i dijete)
"Uau! Uau!Uau!"
I dok je pjevala drugu strofu pjesme, Vojvotkinja
je tako snažno bacakala dijete gore-dolje, da je
jadno toliko urlalo, te je Alisa jedva mogla i da
razabere riječi.
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'I speak severely to my boy,
I beat him when he sneezes;
For he can thoroughly enjoy
The pepper when he pleases!'
CHORUS
'Wow! wow! wow!'
'Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the
Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her as
she spoke. 'I must go and get ready to play croquet
with the Queen,' and she hurried out of the room.
The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went
out, but it just missed her.
Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it
was a queer- shaped little creature, and held out its
arms and legs in all directions, 'just like a star-fish,'
thought Alice. The poor little thing was snorting
like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept
doubling itself up and straightening itself out again,
so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was
as much as she could do to hold it.
As soon as she had made out the proper way of
nursing it, (which was to twist it up into a sort of
knot, and then keep tight hold of its right ear and
left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she
carried it out into the open air. 'If I don't take this
child away with me,' thought Alice, 'they're sure to
kill it in a day or two: wouldn't it be murder to
leave it behind?' She said the last words out loud,
and the little thing grunted in reply (it had left off
sneezing by this time). 'Don't grunt,' said Alice;
'that's not at all a proper way of expressing
yourself.'
The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very
anxiously into its face to see what was the matter
with it. There could be no doubt that it had a very
turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real
nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for
a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the
thing at all. 'But perhaps it was only sobbing,' she
thought, and looked into its eyes again, to see if
there were any tears.
"Sa sinčićem stroga sam ja,
I tučem ga kada kiše,
Jer kad hoće, baš mu prija,
Kada biber zamiriše!"
Hor
"Uau! Uau! Uau!"
"Evo! Možeš ga i ti malo proljuljati ako hoćeš!",
reče Vojvotkinja Alisi bacivši joj dijete. "Ja
moram otići da se spremim za kroket sa
Kraljicom." I odhita iz kuhinje. Kuharica zafrljaci
za njom jednu tavu, ali je u dlaku promaši.
Alisa jedva uhvati dijete, pošto to bijaše
stvorenjce čudnog oblika. Ruke i noge su mu se
granale u svim pravcima, "baš kao kod morske
zvijezde", pomisli Alisa. Kad ga uhvati, jadni
mališan je frktao kao lokomotiva, neprestano se
skupljao i opružao, tako da ga je prvih časak-dva
jedva držala.
Ali čim pronađe pogodan način da ga prihvati
morala ga je smotati nešto kao u čvor i onda ga
čvrsto držati za desno uho i lijevu nogu, da se ne
bi odmotao. Iznese ga na vazduh. "Ako ovo dijete
ne povedem sa sobom", pomisli Alisa "ovi će mu
sigurno za dan-dva glave doći. Zar ne bi bio
zločin ostaviti ga?" Posljednje riječi izgovori
glasno i mališan kao u odgovor zagrokta. (Već je
bio prestao da kiše.) "Ne grokći!", opomenu ga
Alisa. "To nije pristojno."
Dijete opet zagrokta i Alisa ga vrlo zabrinuto
pogleda u lice da vidi šta mu je. Nije bilo sumnje,
nos mu je bio veoma prćast i više je ličio na
njušku nego na nos. I oči su mu bile isuviše sitne
za dijete. Sve u svemu, Alisi se nimalo nije
dopadao njegov izgled. "Ali možda je to on samo
jecao?", pomisli Alisa i pogleda mu u oči da vidi
ima li suza.
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No, there were no tears. 'If you're going to turn into
a pig, my dear,' said Alice, seriously, 'I'll have
nothing more to do with you. Mind now!' The poor
little thing sobbed again (or grunted, it was
impossible to say which), and they went on for
some while in silence.
Alice was just beginning to think to herself, 'Now,
what am I to do with this creature when I get it
home?' when it grunted again, so violently, that she
looked down into its face in some alarm. This time
there could be no mistake about it: it was neither
more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would
be quite absurd for her to carry it further.
So she set the little creature down, and felt quite
relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If
it had grown up,' she said to herself, 'it would have
made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a
handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking
over other children she knew, who might do very
well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one
only knew the right way to change them--' when
she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat
sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked
good- natured, she thought: still it had very long
claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it
ought to be treated with respect.
'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did
not at all know whether it would like the name:
however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's
pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on.
'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go
from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get
to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where--' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the
Cat.
'--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an
explanation.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only
Ne, suza nije bilo. "Ako ćeš se pretvoriti u prasca,
dragi moj", reče Alisa ozbiljno, "onda ja s tobom
više nemam nikakva posla. Pazi!" Mališan opet
zajeca (ili zagrokta, nije se moglo odrediti da li je
bilo jedno ili drugo), i neko vrijeme nastaviše put
šutke.
Alisa je upravo počela razmišljati: "A šta li ću s
njim kad dođem kući?", kad ono opet zagrokta
tako snažno da mu ona, malo preplašeno, pogleda
u lice. Sad više nije bilo nikakve sumnje. Bilo je
pravo pravcato prase i Alisi se učini da bi bila
najveća glupost i dalje ga prtiti.
Zato spusti to malo stvorenje na zemlju i laknu joj
kad vidje kako ono mirno otkaska u šumu. "Kad
bi odraslo", reče sama sebi "od njega bi postalo
strašno ružno dijete. Ali čini mi se da je ovako,
kao prase, sasvim ljupko." I poče da razmišlja o
nekoj djeci koju je poznavala i koja bi mirne duše
mogla da budu prasci i upravo je u sebi govorila:
"Kad bi samo kogod znao kako da ih pretvori...",
ali iznenada zastade ugledavši Češirsku mačku
kako sjedi na grani jednog obližnjeg drveta.
Mačka se samo iskesi kad ugleda Alisu. "Izgleda
dobroćudno", pomisli Alisa. "Ipak ima vrlo
dugačke pandže i silesiju zuba", zato shvati da se
prema njoj mora ophoditi s poštovanjem.
"Češirska maco!", otpoče prilično bojažljivo,
pošto nije znala da li će joj se to ime svidjeti.
Međutim Mačka se samo još više iskesi. "Oho,
izgleda da je sad zadovoljna", pomisli Alisa i
nastavi: "Molim te, hoćeš li mi reći kojim putem
da krenem pa da izađem odavde?"
"To u mnogome zavisi od toga kuda želiš da
pođeš", reče Mačka.
"Nije ni mnogo važno kuda", reče Alisa.
"Onda je svejedno kojim ćeš putem krenuti", na
to će Mačka.
"Samo da negdje stignem", dodade Alisa kao
objašnjenje.
"Oh, sigurno ćeš stići", reče Mačka, "samo ako
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walk long enough.'
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried
another question. 'What sort of people live about
here?'
'In that direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw
round, 'lives a Hatter: and in that direction,' waving
the other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you
like: they're both mad.'
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice
remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad
here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have
come here.'
Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she
went on 'And how do you know that you're mad?'
'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You
grant that?'
'I suppose so,' said Alice.
'Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls
when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased.
Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail
when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'
'I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice.
'Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play
croquet with the Queen to-day?'
'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't
been invited yet.'
'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.
Alice was not much surprised at this, she was
getting so used to queer things happening. While
she was looking at the place where it had been, it
suddenly appeared again.
'By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the
Cat. 'I'd nearly forgotten to ask.'
'It turned into a pig,' Alice quietly said, just as if it
had come back in a natural way.
'I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished
again.
Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again,
zadugo hodaš."
Alisa priznade da se ovo ne može opovrgnuti i
zato postavi još jedno pitanje. "Ko živi u
okolini?"
"U ovom pravcu", reče Mačka zamahnuvši
desnom šapom, "stanuje Šeširdžija, a u onom
pravcu", zamahnuvši drugom šapom, "stanuje
Martovski Kunić. Posjeti kojeg ti god drago.
Obojica su ludi."
"Ali ja ne želim da idem među luđake", primijeti
Alisa.
"Oh, nema ti druge", reče Mačka. "Svi smo mi
ovdje ludi. Ja sam luda. Ti si luda."
"Otkud znaš da sam ja luda?" zapita Alisa.
"Mora da jesi", reče Mačka, "inače ne bi došla
ovamo."
Za Alisu to uopšte nije bio dokaz. Ipak nastavi.
"A kako znaš da si ti luda?"
"Da postavimo stvar ovako", reče Mačka. "Pas
nije lud. S tim se slažeš?"
"Mislim da je tako."
"Evo dakle", nastavi Mačka. "Vidiš, pas reži kad
je ljut a maše repom kad mu je šta drago. A ja
režim kad mi je šta drago a mašem repom kad
sam ljuta. Zato sam luda."
"Ja to kod tebe zovem predenjem, a ne režanjem",
reče Alisa.
"Zovi ti to kako ti drago", reče Mačka. "Igraš li
danas kroket s Kraljicom?"
"Vrlo bih rado", reče Alisa, "ali još nisam
pozvana."
"Tamo ćeš me vidjeti", reče Mačka i nestade je.
Alisa se i ne sačudi mnogo, bila je već toliko
navikla da se događaju čudne stvari. I dok je još
bila zagledana u ono mjesto na kojem je stajala
Mačka, ona se opet pojavi.
"Uzgred rečeno, šta je bilo s djetetom?", zapita
Mačka. "Umalo ne zaboravih da te upitam."
"Postalo je prasac," reče Alisa mirno kao da se
Mačka vratila na najprirodniji način.
"Tako sam i mislila", reče Mačka i opet je
nestade.
Alisa malo popričeka, očekujući da će je možda
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but it did not appear, and after a minute or two she
walked on in the direction in which the March Hare
was said to live. 'I've seen hatters before,' she said
to herself; 'the March Hare will be much the most
interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be
raving mad--at least not so mad as it was in March.'
As she said this, she looked up, and there was the
Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree.
'Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.
'I said pig,' replied Alice; 'and I wish you wouldn't
keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you
make one quite giddy.'
'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished
quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and
ending with the grin, which remained some time
after the rest of it had gone.
'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought
Alice; 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious
thing I ever saw in my life!'
She had not gone much farther before she came in
sight of the house of the March Hare: she thought it
must be the right house, because the chimneys were
shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur.
It was so large a house, that she did not like to go
nearer till she had nibbled some more of the
lefthand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to
about two feet high: even then she walked up
towards it rather timidly, saying to herself 'Suppose
it should be raving mad after all! I almost wish I'd
gone to see the Hatter instead!'
CHAPTER VII
A Mad Tea-Party
There was a table set out under a tree in front of the
house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were
having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between
them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as
a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking
over its head. 'Very uncomfortable for the
Dormouse,' thought Alice; 'only, as it's asleep, I
opet vidjeti, ali se Mačka više ne pojavi, i poslije
časak-dva Alisa se zaputi tamo gdje joj je rečeno
da živi Martovski Kunić. "Šeširdžije sam viđala i
ranije", reče Alisa u sebi. "Martovski Kunić će
biti mnogo zanimljiviji i možda, s obzirom da je
maj, neće biti suviše lud – bar neće onoliko
koliko u martu." Kad to reče, pogleda uvis i opet
ugleda Mačku kako sjedi na grani jednog drveta.
"Da li si kazala prasac il kvasac?", zapita Mačka.
"Kazala sam prasac", odvrati Alisa. "Ali ne sviđa
mi se to što se stalno čas pojavljuješ, čas nestaješ.
Da se čovjeku zanesvijesti."
"Pa dobro", reče Mačka. I ovoga puta je nestajala
polagano. Počela je od vrha repa i završila
smiješkom, i on je ostao za neko vrijeme na grani
i kad joj je sve ostalo iščezlo.
"Eh, često sam viđala mačku bez smiješka, ali
smiješak bez mačke! E, nikad u životu ništa
čudnije nisam vidjela!"
Nije išla dugo kad ugleda kuću Martovskog
Kunića. Pomislila je da to mora da bude njegova
kuća, jer su joj dimnjaci bili u obliku ušiju a krov
natkriven krznom. Kuća je bila toliko velika da
Alisa ne htjede da joj priđe prije nego što gricne
još malo pečurke i poraste do visine od
šezdesetak santimetara. Pa i tad joj je prilazila
prilično bojažljivo, govoreći: "Šta ako ipak bude
potpuno lud! Bolje bi mi bilo da sam otišla u
posjetu Šeširdžiji!
Glava VII
LUDA ČAJANKA
Pred kućom ispod jednog drveta bio je postavljen
sto za kojim su sjedjeli Martovski Kunić i
Seširdžija i pili čaj. Između njih je sjedio Puh i
čvrsto spavao, a njih dvojica su se nalaktili na
njega i razgovarali preko njegove glave. "Baš
nezgodno za Puha", pomisli Alisa, "samo pošto
spava, vjerovatno mu to ne smeta."
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suppose it doesn't mind.'
The table was a large one, but the three were all
crowded together at one corner of it: 'No room! No
room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming.
'There's plenty of room!' said Alice indignantly, and
she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the
table.
'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an
encouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was
nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she
remarked.
'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.
'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said
Alice angrily.
'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without
being invited,' said the March Hare.
'I didn't know it was your table,' said Alice; 'it's laid
for a great many more than three.'
'Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had
been looking at Alice for some time with great
curiosity, and this was his first speech.
'You should learn not to make personal remarks,'
Alice said with some severity; 'it's very rude.'
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing
this; but all he said was, 'Why is a raven like a
writing-desk?'
'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought
Alice. 'I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.--I
believe I can guess that,' she added aloud.
'Do you mean that you think you can find out the
answer to it?' said the March Hare.
'Exactly so,' said Alice.
'Then you should say what you mean,' the March
Hare went on.
'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean
what I say--that's the same thing, you know.'
'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'You
might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the
same thing as "I eat what I see"!'
'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare,
Sto je bio velik, ali su se sva trojica stisla u jedan
ugao. "Nema mjesta! Nema mjesta!", povikaše
kad ugledaše Alisu kako im prilazi. "Ima puno
mjesta!", ljutite će na to Alisa, i sjede u prostranu
naslonjaču na jednom kraju stola.
"Posluži se malo vinom!", reče Martovski Kunić
ljubazno.
Alisa pređe pogledom po stolu, ali na njemu je
bilo samo čaja. "Ne vidim nikakvo vino",
primijeti.
"Pa i nema ga", reče Martovski Kunić.
"Onda nije baš učtivo od vas što ga nudite", reče
Alisa ljutito.
"Nije bilo učtivo ni od tebe što si sjela bez
poziva", reče Martovski Kunić.
"Nisam znala da je to vaš sto", odvrati Alisa.
"Postavljen je za mnogo više osoba, a ne samo za
troje."
"Treba da se podšišaš!", reče Šeširdžija. Neko
vrijeme je vrlo radoznalo gledao u Alisu i ovo su
bile njegove prve riječi.
"Nije potrebno da stavljaš svoje lične primjedbe",
Alisa će prilično strogo. "To je vrlo neuljudno."
Čuvši ovo, Šeširdžija izbeči oči. Ali samo reče:
"Dašto mi ti dašto, zašto je gavran sličan pisaćem
stolu?"
"Oho, biće zabavno!", pomisli Alisa. "Drago mi
je što su počeli postavljati zagonetke." I dodade
naglas: "Vjerujem da ću pogoditi!"
"Hoćeš da kažeš da misliš da znaš odgovor?",
priupita Martovski Kunić.
"Upravo to", reče Alisa.
"Onda moraš reći šta misliš", nastavi Martovski
Kunić.
"To i radim", žurno odvrati Alisa. "Bar – bar
mislim ono što kažem – to je ista stvar, znaš."
"Nipošto nije ista!" reče Šeširdžija. "Onda bi isto
tako mogla reći da je 'Ja vidim ono što jedem' isto
što i 'Ja jedem ono što vidim!'"
"Onda bi isto tako mogla reći", dodade Martovski
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'that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get
what I like"!'
'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse,
who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I
breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep
when I breathe"!'
'It is the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and
here the conversation dropped, and the party sat
silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she
could remember about ravens and writing-desks,
which wasn't much.
The Hatter was the first to break the silence. 'What
day of the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he
had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was
looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and
then, and holding it to his ear. Alice considered a
little, and then said 'The fourth.''Two days wrong!'
sighed the Hatter. 'I told you butter wouldn't suit the
works!' he added looking angrily at the March
Hare.
'It was the best butter,' the March Hare meekly
replied.
'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the
Hatter grumbled: 'you shouldn't have put it in with
the bread-knife.'
The March Hare took the watch and looked at it
gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and
looked at it again: but he could think of nothing
better to say than his first remark, 'It was the best
butter, you know.'
Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some
curiosity. 'What a funny watch!' she remarked. 'It
tells the day of the month, and doesn't tell what
o'clock it is!'
'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does your
watch tell you what year it is?'
'Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: 'but that's
because it stays the same year for such a long time
together.'
'Which is just the case with mine,' said the Hatter.
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark
seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it
Kunić, "da je 'Ja volim ono što dobijem' isto što i
'Ja dobijem ono što volim!,"
"Mogla bi isto tako reći", dodade Puh koji je,
izgleda, govorio u snu, "da je 'Ja dišem kad
spavam' isto što i 'Ja spavam kad dišem!'"
"Kod tebe i jest isto", dobaci Šeširdžija i ovdje se
razgovor prekide. Društvo je jedan časak sjedjelo
šutke dok je Alisa u glavi premetala sve što je
znala o gavranovima i pisaćim stolovima – ali
toga nije bilo mnogo.
Tišinu prvi prekide Šeširdžija. "Koji je danas
datum?", upisa obrativši se Alisi. Izvadio je sat iz
džepa i uznemireno ga gledao, svaki čas ga je
drmusao i prinosio uhu. Alisa malo razmisli i
reče: "Četvrti!" "Griješi za dva dana!", uzdahnu
Šeširdžija. "Rekao sam ti da maslac neće prijati
mehanizmu!" dodade ljutito pogledavši
Martovskog Kunića.
"Bio je to najbolji maslac", odgovori Martovski
Kunić ponizno.
"Da, ali je mogla i koja mrvica upasti", gunđao je
Šeširdžija. "Nisi ga smio stavljati nožem kojim se
reže hljeb."
Martovski Kunić uze sat i potišteno ga pogleda.
Onda ga zamoči u šolju s čajem i opet ga pogleda.
I pošto se ničeg pametnijeg ne sjeti, ponovi ono
što je već rekao: "Znaš, bio je to najbolji maslac."
Alisa je sa izvjesnom radoznalošću gledala preko
njegovog ramena. "Ala je to smiješan sat!",
dobaci. "Pokazuje koji je datum a ne pokazuje
koliko je sati."
"A i što bi?", progunđa Šeširdžija. "Pokazuje li
tvoj sat koja je godina?"
"Naravno da ne pokazuje", Alisa s pika odgovori.
"Ali to je zato što godina toliko dugo traje."
"Tako je i sa mojim", reče Šeširdžija.
Alisa se strašno zbuni. Činilo joj se da
Šeširdžijina primjedba nema nikakvog smisla, pa
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was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand ipak je sasvim sigurno bila kazana pravilnim
you,' she said, as politely as she could. engleskim jezikom. "Ne razumijem baš sasvim",
reče što je mogla učtivije.
'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and "Puh je opet zaspao", reče Šeširdžija i izli mu na
he poured a little hot tea upon its nose. nos malo toplog čaja.
The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, Puh zlovoljno zatrese glavom i reče i ne
without opening its eyes, 'Of course, of course; just otvarajući očiju: "Naravno, naravno. Upravo sam
what I was going to remark myself.' to i ja htio da kažem."
'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, "Jesi li odgonetnula zagonetku?", upita Šeširdžija
turning to Alice again. Alisu.
'No, I give it up,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer?' "Nisam, predajem se", odvrati Alisa. "Kako glasi
odgovor?"
'I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter. "Nemam pojma o pojmu", reče Šeširdžija.
'Nor I,' said the March Hare. "Ni ja", reče Martovski Kunić.
Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do Alisa umorno uzdahnu. "Čini mi se da biste mogli
something better with the time,' she said, 'than pametnije iskoristiti vrijeme, i ne dozvoliti da
waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.' vam ono uludo prolazi postavljajući zagonetke
koje nemaju odgovora."
'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, "Da poznaješ Vrijeme onako kako ga ja
'you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.' poznajem", reče Šeširdžija, "ne bi za njega kazala
da je ono nego on".
'I don't know what you mean,' said Alice. "Ne znam šta hoćeš time da kažeš", odgovori
Alisa.
'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his "Naravno da ne znaš!", reče Šeširdžija i prezrivo
head contemptuously. 'I dare say you never even zatrese glavom. "Smio bih se zakleti da nisi nikad
spoke to Time!' ni progovorila s Vremenom."
'Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: 'but I know I "Možda i nisam", obazrivo će Alisa, "ali znam da
have to beat time when I learn music.' moram odbrojavati, to jest udarati vrijeme kad
sviram klavir."
'Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. 'He won't "Ah! Odatle mi dođi!", reče Šeširdžija. "Vrijeme
stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms ne podnosi da ga ko udara. A da si u dobrim
with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with odnosima s njim, sa satom bi bilo kako je tebi po
the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock volji. Recimo: devet sati ujutro je upravo vrijeme
in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd kad se mora u školu. Trebalo bi samo da mu
only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes namigneš, i kazaljka bi se za tili čas okrenula!
the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for Jedan i po, vrijeme ručku!"
dinner!'
('I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in ("Kad bi kojom srećom bilo tako!" prošapta
a whisper.) Martovski Kunić za sebe.)
'That would be grand, certainly,' said Alice "To bi zaista bilo odlično", reče Alisa zamišljeno.
thoughtfully: 'but then--I shouldn't be hungry for it, "Ali, znaš – tada sigurno ne bih još bila gladna."
you know.'
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'Not at first, perhaps,' said the Hatter: 'but you could

"U početku možda i ne bi", reče Šeširdžija. "Ali
keep it to half-past one as long as you liked.' mogla bi ga na jedan i po držati koliko ti drago."
'Is that the way you manage?' Alice asked. "Da li ti tako radiš?", zapita Alisa.
The Hatter shook his head mournfully. 'Not I!' he Šeširdžija tužno odmahnu glavom. "Ne!",
replied. 'We quarrelled last March--just before he odgovori. "Posvađali smo se prošlog marta.
went mad, you know--' (pointing with his tea spoon Upravo prije no što je on poludio, znaš"
at the March Hare,) '--it was at the great concert (pokazujući kašičicom na Martovskog Kunića).
given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing "Bilo je to na velikom koncertu koji je priredila
Kraljica Herc, i ja sam morao otpjevati:
"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! "Svjetlucaj, svjetlucaj, šišmišu maleni!
How I wonder what you're at!" Kud se spremaš, bi li rek'o meni?"
You know the song, perhaps?' "Možda znaš tu pjesmicu?"
'I've heard something like it,' said Alice. "Pa nešto slično sam čula", reče Alisa.
'It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, 'in this "Znaš dalje ide ovako", nastavi Šeširdžija:
way:--
"Up above the world you fly, "Visoko iznad svijeta hodiš,
Like a tea-tray in the sky. K'o čajni tanjirić po nebu brodiš.
Twinkle, twinkle--"' Svjetlucaj, svjetlucaj..."
Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing Sad se Puh strese i poče pjevati u snu:
in its sleep 'Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--' "Svjetlucaj, svjetlucaj, svjetlucaj..." i ponavljaše
and went on so long that they had to pinch it to to toliko dugo da su ga morali uštinuti da bi
make it stop. prestao.
'Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse,' said the "I, eto, čestito i ne završih prvu strofu", reče
Hatter, 'when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, Šeširdžija, "kad Kraljica đipi i dreknu: "Samo
"He's murdering the time! Off with his head!"' ubija vrijeme! Odsijecite mu glavu!"
'How dreadfully savage!' exclaimed Alice. "Kakvo divljaštvo!", uskliknu Alisa.
'And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a "I otada", nastavi Šeširdžija plačnim glasom,
mournful tone, 'he won't do a thing I ask! It's "neće da mi učini ništa što ga molim! Sad je
always six o'clock now.' uvijek šest sati."
A bright idea came into Alice's head. 'Is that the Alisi puče pred očima. "Da li je zato na stolu
reason so many tea-things are put out here?' she postavljen toliki pribor za čaj?", zapita.
asked.
'Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: 'it's "Da, zato", reče Šeširdžija uzdahnuvši. "Uvijek je
always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the vrijeme za čaj, pa ne stignemo ni da operemo
things between whiles.' posuđe između obroka."
'Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said "I onda se premještate?" zapita Alisa.
Alice.
'Exactly so,' said the Hatter: 'as the things get used "Upravo tako", odgovori Šeširdžija. "Pribor se
up.' zaprlja."
'But what happens when you come to the beginning "Al, šta bude kad opet stignete na početak?",
again?' Alice ventured to ask. odvaži se Alisa da upita.
'Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare "Kako bi bilo da promijenimo predmet
interrupted, yawning. 'I'm getting tired of this. I rzgovora?" upade Martovski Kunić zijevajući.
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vote the young lady tells us a story.' "Ovo mi je već dosadilo. Glasam za to da nam
mlada gospođica ispriča jednu priču."
'I'm afraid I don't know one,' said Alice, rather "Nažalost, nijednu ne znam", reče Alisa pomalo
alarmed at the proposal. zaplašena ovim prijedlogom.
'Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. 'Wake "Onda će Puh!", povikaše obojica. "Puhu, probudi
up, Dormouse!' And they pinched it on both sides at se!" I u isto vrijeme ga sa obje strane uštinuše.
once.
The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. 'I wasn't Puh polagano otvori oči. "Nisam spavao", reče
asleep,' he said in a hoarse, feeble voice: 'I heard promuklim slabašnim glasom. "Čuo sam sve što
every word you fellows were saying.' ste razgovarali."
'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare. "Ispričaj nam jednu priču!", reče Martovski
Kunić.
'Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice. "Hajde, ispričaj!", molila je Alisa.
'And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, 'or you'll "I to brzo!" dodade Šeširdžija, Jer ćeš opet zaspati
be asleep again before it's done.' prije no što je dovršiš."
'Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the "Nekad davno živjele tri sestrice", poče Puh
Dormouse began in a great hurry; 'and their names žurno. "Zvale su se: Elzi, Lesi i Tili i živjele su na
were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the dnu jednog bunara..."
bottom of a well--'
'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always "A od čega su živjele?", zapita Alisa koju su
took a great interest in questions of eating and uvijek mnogo zanimala pitanja jela i pića.
drinking.
'They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after "Živjele su od pekmeza", reče Puh pošto je časak-
thinking a minute or two. dva razmišljao.
'They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice "To ne bi bilo moguće, znaš", prigovori Alisa
gently remarked; 'they'd have been ill.' blago. "Razboljele bi se."
'So they were,' said the Dormouse; 'very ill.' "Pa i jesu", na to će Puh. "Bile su vrlo bolesne."
Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an Alisa pokuša da zamisli kako bi to izgledalo
extraordinary ways of living would be like, but it živjeti na tako čudan način, ali je to toliko zbuni,
puzzled her too much, so she went on: 'But why did pa nastavi: "Ali zašto su živjele na dnu bunara?"
they live at the bottom of a well?'
'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, "Uzmi još čaja!", obrati se vrlo ozbiljno
very earnestly. Martovski Kunić Alisi.
'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended "Pa nisam ga nikako ni pila", odvrati Alisa
tone, 'so I can't take more.' uvrijeđeno. "Kako onda mogu uzeti još?"
'You mean you can't take less,' said the Hatter: 'it's "Hoćeš da kažeš da ne možeš uzeti manje", reče
very easy to take more than nothing.' Šeširdžija. "Mnogo je lakše uzeti još nego ništa."
'Nobody asked your opinion,' said Alice. "Tebe niko ništa nije pitao", odbrusi Alisa.
'Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter "Ko sad stavlja lične primjedbe?", upita
asked triumphantly. Šeširdžija pobjedonosno.
Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she Alisa nije znala šta da mu na to odgovori. Zato
helped herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, uze malo čaja i hljeba sa maslacem, okrenu se
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and then turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her
question. 'Why did they live at the bottom of a
well?'
The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think
about it, and then said, 'It was a treacle-well.'
'There's no such thing!' Alice was beginning very
angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went
'Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, 'If
you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for
yourself.'
'No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; 'I won't
interrupt again. I dare say there may be one.'
'One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly.
However, he consented to go on. 'And so these
three little sisters--they were learning to draw, you
know--'
'What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting
her promise.
'Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at
all this time.
'I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all
move one place on.'
He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse
followed him: the March Hare moved into the
Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly
took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was
the only one who got any advantage from the
change: and Alice was a good deal worse off than
before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-
jug into his plate.
Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again,
so she began very cautiously: 'But I don't
understand. Where did they draw the treacle from?'
'You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the
Hatter; 'so I should think you could draw treacle out
of a treacle-well--eh, stupid?'
'But they were in the well,' Alice said to the
Dormouse, not choosing to notice this last remark.
'Of course they were', said the Dormouse; '--well
in.' This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let
the Dormouse go on for some time without
Puhu i ponovi pitanje. "Zašto su živjele na dnu
bunara?"
Puh je opet časak-dva razmišljao i onda odgovori:
"Bio je to bunar sa prekmezom."
"Tako nešto ne postoji!", poče Alisa veoma
ljutito, ali Šeširdžija i Martovski Kunić zagrajaše
"Pst! Pst!", i Puh mrzovoljno primijeti: "Ako ne
umiješ da budeš pristojna, a ti priču dopričaj
sama!"
"Molim te, nastavi!", reče Alisa. "Neću te više
prekidati. Možda i postoji jedan takav bunar."
"Baš jedan!", reče Puh prezrivo. Pa ipak pristade
da nastavi: "I tako te tri sestrice – učile su, znate,
da crtaju, da izvlače..."
"Šta su izvlačile?" zapita Alisa potpuno
zaboravljajući na svoje obećanje.
"Pekmez", reče Puh ovog puta bez razmišljanja.
"Meni treba čista šolja", upade Šeširdžija,
"pomaknimo se svi za jedno mjesto."
Govoreći to, već se bio pomaknuo, a za njim se
pomaknu Puh. Martovski Kunić pređe na Puhovo
mjesto a Alisa malo nerado preuze mjesto
Martovskog Kunića. Jedino je Šeširdžija imao
koristi od ovog premještanja. Alisa prođe najgore,
jer je Martovski Kunić na svoj tanjirić bio
prevrnuo lončić s mlijekom.
Alisa nije željela da ponovno uvrijedi Puha, zato
otpoče veoma obazrivo: "Ali ja ne razumijem.
Odakle su izvlačile pekmez?"
"Iz bunara u kome se nalazi voda izvlačiš vodu",
reče Šeširdžija, "prema tome, rekao bih da samo
pekmez možeš izvlačiti iz bunara u kome je
pekmez – zar nije tako, ej, ti, luda glavo!"
"Ali one su bile u bunaru", reče Alisa Puhu i ne
obazirući se na Šeširdžijinu upadicu.
"Naravno da su bile – i to duboko", reče Puh.
Ovaj odgovor toliko zbuni jadnu Alisu da je
pustila Puha da neko vrijeme pripovijeda, ne
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interrupting it.
'They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went
on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it was getting
very sleepy; 'and they drew all manner of things--
everything that begins with an M--'
'Why with an M?' said Alice.
'Why not?' said the March Hare.
Alice was silent.
The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and
was going off into a doze; but, on being pinched by
the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and
went on: '--that begins with an M, such as mouse-
traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness--
you know you say things are "much of a
muchness"--did you ever see such a thing as a
drawing of a muchness?'
'Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much
confused, 'I don't think--'
'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could
bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off;
the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of
the others took the least notice of her going, though
she looked back once or twice, half hoping that
they would call after her: the last time she saw
them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the
teapot.
'At any rate I'll never go there again!' said Alice as
she picked her way through the wood. 'It's the
stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!'
Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the
trees had a door leading right into it. 'That's very
curious!' she thought. 'But everything's curious
today. I think I may as well go in at once.' And in
she went.
Once more she found herself in the long hall, and
close to the little glass table. 'Now, I'll manage
better this time,' she said to herself, and began by
taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door
that led into the garden. Then she went to work
nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it
in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then
prekidajući ga.
"Učile su da crtaju", nastavi Puh, zijevajući i
trljajući oči, jer mu se baš spavalo. "Crtale su
svašta – sve što počinje sa M..."
"Zašto sa M?" zapita Alisa.
"A zašto ne?", reče Martovski Kunić.
Alisa je šutjela.
Puh je već bio zatvorio oči i zaveo se u san. Ali
kad ga Šeširdžija uštinu, probudi se i tiho jauknu,
pa nastavi: "...koje počinju sa M – kao što su:
mišolovka, mjesec, memorija, mnoštvo – znaš, to
je kad ima nečeg mnogo – jesi li ikad vidjela da
neko crta mnoštvo?"
"Pa ako me baš pitaš", reče Alisa sva zbunjena,
"ja ne mislim..."
"Onda ne treba ni da govoriš", reče Šeširdžija.
Ovaj prostakluk Alisa nije mogla podnijeti.
Ustade ozlojeđena i pođe. Puh istog trena zaspa, a
nijedan od one dvojice ne obrati ni najmanju
pažnju na to što ona odlazi, iako se jedanput-
dvaput osvrnula, ponadavši se da će je možda
zovnuti da se vrati. Kad se posljednji put osvrnu,
vidje kako Martovski Kunić i Šeširdžija
pokušavaju da uguraju Puha u čajnik.
"E, tamo ja više ni po koju cijenu ne idem!", reče
Alisa birajući put kroz šumu. "To je najgluplja
čajanka na kojoj sam ikad bila."
Samo što to izreče, kad najednom drvetu ugleda
vrata koja su vodila pravo u njegovu utrobu.
"Vrlo čudno!", pomisli Alisa. "Ali danas je sve
čudno. Pa mogla bih odmah i da uđem". I uđe.
Opet se nađe u onoj istoj dugačkoj dvorani, i to
baš pokraj staklenog stolića. "E, sad ću biti
pametnija", reče u sebi te uze zlatni ključić i poče
da otključava vrata koja su vodila u baštu. Onda
stade da gricka pečurku (jedan komadić joj je bio
u džepu), dok se ne smanji na trideset
santimetara. Zatim pođe malim prolazom i najzad
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she walked down the little passage: and then--she se obrete u onoj lijepoj bašti, među šarenim
found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among nasadima cvijeća i prohladnim vodoskocima.
the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.
CHAPTER VIII
The Queen's Croquet-Ground
A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the
garden: the roses growing on it were white, but
there were three gardeners at it, busily painting
them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing,
and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she
came up to them she heard one of them say, 'Look
out now, Five! Don't go splashing paint over me
like that!'
'I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; 'Seven
jogged my elbow.'
On which Seven looked up and said, 'That's right,
Five! Always lay the blame on others!'
You'd better not talk!' said Five. 'I heard the Queen
say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'
'What for?' said the one who had spoken first.
'That's none of your business, Two!' said Seven.
'Yes, it is his business!' said Five, 'and I'll tell him--
it was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of
onions.'
Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun
'Well, of all the unjust things--' when his eye
chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching
them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others
looked round also, and all of them bowed low.
'Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, 'why
you are painting those roses?'
Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two.
Two began in a low voice, 'Why the fact is, you see,
Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree,
and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the
Queen was to find it out, we should all have our
heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're
doing our best, afore she comes, to--' At this
moment Five, who had been anxiously looking
Glava VIII
KRALJIČINO IGRALIŠTE KROKETA
Kraj ulaza u baštu rasla je velika ruža. Cvjetovi
su joj bili bijeli, ali trojica baštovana marljivo su
ih bojili u crveno. Alisi se to učini vrlo čudno i
priđe da bolje vidi i baš u tom času začu kako
jedan od njih reče: "Pripazider ti, Petice! Ne pršći
boju po meni!"
"Šta ja tu mogu", obrecnu se na njega Petica.
"Sedmica me je gurnuo u lakat."
Na to Sedmica podiže glavu i reče: "Neka ti bude,
Petice! Samo ti svaljuj krivicu na druge!"
"Tebi je bolje da šutiš!" reče Petica. "Čuo sam
kako baš juče Kraljica kaže da ti treba odsijeći
glavu!"
"Zašto?" javi se onaj što je prvi progovorio.
"To se tebe ne tiče, Dvico!" reče Sedmica.
"Kako da ga se ne tiče!", Petica će. "A kazaću mu
i zašto. Zato što je umjesto luka kuharici donio
lukovice tulipana."
Sedmica baci četku i upravo započe: "Ama od
svih nepravdi...", kad mu pogled slučajno pade na
Alisu koja je stajala i promatrala ih, i on
najednom ušutje. I druga dvojica se okrenuše i svi
joj se duboko pokloniše.
"Hoćete li mi reći", zapita Alisa pomalo stidljivo,
"zašto premazujete ove ruže?"
Petica i Sedmica ništa ne rekoše već pogledaše
Dvicu. Dvica otpoče tiho: "Pa, stvar je u tome,
razumijete, gospođice, ovo ovdje je trebalo da
bude crvena ruža, ali smo mi greškom zasadili
bijelu. I ako to Kraljica sazna, svima će nam
odsijeći glave. Tako, razumijete, gospođice,
činimo što najbolje možemo da prije nego što ona
dođe..." U tom času Petica, koji je brižno motrio
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across the garden, called out 'The Queen! The
Queen!' and the three gardeners instantly threw
themselves flat upon their faces. There was a sound
of many footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to
see the Queen.
First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were
all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat,
with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten
courtiers; these were ornamented all over with
diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers
did. After these came the royal children; there were
ten of them, and the little dears came jumping
merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were
all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests,
mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice
recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a
hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that
was said, and went by without noticing her. Then
followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's
crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all
this grand procession, came THE KING AND
QUEEN OF HEARTS.
Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to
lie down on her face like the three gardeners, but
she could not remember ever having heard of such
a rule at processions; 'and besides, what would be
the use of a procession,' thought she, 'if people had
all to lie down upon their faces, so that they
couldn't see it?'
So she stood still where she was, and waited.
When the procession came opposite to Alice, they
all stopped and looked at her, and the Queen said
severely 'Who is this?' She said it to the Knave of
Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply.
'Idiot!' said the Queen, tossing her head
impatiently; and, turning to Alice, she went on,
'What's your name, child?'
'My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,' said
Alice very politely; but she added, to herself, 'Why,
they're only a pack of cards, after all. I needn't be
na baštu povika: "Kraljica! Kraljica!", i sva
trojica baštovana popadaše na zemlju ničice. Začu
se bat mnogobrojnih koraka i Alisa se osvrnu, jer
je jedva čekala da vidi Kraljicu.
Najprije naiđoše desetorica vojnika noseći oznake
maka. Svi su bili istog oblika kao i trojica
baštovana, duguljasti i pljosnati, a ruke i noge su
im bile na uglovima. Za njima su išla desetorica
dvorjana. Bili su iskićeni karo dijamantima i
stupali dvojica po dvojica, kao vojnici. Poslije
njih išla su kraljevska djeca. Bilo ih je desetoro.
Mališani su se vodili za ruke, dvoje po dvoje, i
veselo skakutati. Svi su bili iskićeni crvenim
hercovima. Za njima nastupahu gosti, uglavnom
kraljevi i kraljice, i među njima Alisa prepoznade
Bijelog Zeca. Razgovarao je brzo i žustro,
osmjehujući se na sve što bi ko rekao, i prošao je
mimo Alise i ne primijetivši je. Za njima je
koračao Pub-Herc, noseći na grimiznom
somotskom jastuku kraljevsku krunu. I na kraju
ove veličanstvene povorke nalazili su se KRALJ i
KRALJICA HERC.
Alisa nije tačno znala da li i ona treba da padne
ničice kao ona trojica baštovana, nije se mogla
sjetiti da je kad čula da tako treba postupiti kad
prolazi povorka. "A i čemu bi služila povorka",
pomisli, "jer ako bi svako morao da padne ničice,
onda je niko ne bi ni vidio?"
Zato je ostala mirno na svom mjestu i čekala.
Kad povorka dođe do Alise, svi zastadoše i
pogledaše je, a Kraljica strogo zapita: "Ko je
ovo?" Pitanje je bilo upućeno Pub-Hercu koji se
na to samo pokloni i nasmiješi.
"Budala!", reče Kraljica, nestrpljivo zabaci glavu
i okrenuvši se Alisi, nastavi: "Kako ti je ime,
dijete?"
"Neka blagoizvoli vaše veličanstvo, ime mi je
Alisa", reče Alisa vrlo učtivo, ali u sebi dodade:
"Pa svi su oni ipak samo špil karata. Ne treba da
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afraid of them!'
'And who are these?' said the Queen, pointing to the
three gardeners who were lying round the rosetree;
for, you see, as they were lying on their faces, and
the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest
of the pack, she could not tell whether they were
gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her
own children.
'How should I know?' said Alice, surprised at her
own courage. 'It's no business of mine.'
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after
glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast,
screamed 'Off with her head! Off--'
'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly,
and the Queen was silent.
The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly
said 'Consider, my dear: she is only a child!'
The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said
to the Knave 'Turn them over!'
The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
'Get up!' said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and
the three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began
bowing to the King, the Queen, the royal children,
and everybody else.
'Leave off that!' screamed the Queen. 'You make me
giddy.' And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went
on, 'What have you been doing here?'
'May it please your Majesty,' said Two, in a very
humble tone, going down on one knee as he spoke,
'we were trying--'
'I see!' said the Queen, who had meanwhile been
examining the roses. 'Off with their heads!' and the
procession moved on, three of the soldiers
remaining behind to execute the unfortunate
gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.
'You shan't be beheaded!' said Alice, and she put
them into a large flower-pot that stood near. The
three soldiers wandered about for a minute or two,
looking for them, and then quietly marched off after
the others.
'Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen.
ih se plašim!"
"A ko su ovi?", zapita Kraljica pokazujući na
trojicu baštovana koj su ležali unaokolo ruže jer,
vidiš, pošto su ležali ničice, a šara na leđima im
bila ista kao kod svih drugih karata, Kraljica nije
mogla znati da li su to baštovani, vojnici, dvorjani
ili troje njene vlastite djece.
"Kako ja to mogu znati?", reče Alisa i sama
iznenađena svojom hrabrošću. To nije moja
briga."
Kraljica pocrvenje od bijesa i gledajući je jedan
časak netremice, kao kakva divlja zvijer,
podvrisnu: "Odsijecite joj glavu! Od..."
"Gluposti", reče Alisa vrlo glasno i odlučno, i
Kraljica umuknu.
Kralj položi ruku na Kraljičinu mišicu i plašljivo
reče: "Razmisli, draga moja: ona je još dijete!"
Kraljica se ljutito okrenu od njega i naredi Pub-
Hercu: "Okreni ih!"
Pub-Herc to učini vrlo pažljivo, jednom nogom.
"Dižite se!", reče Kraljica oštro i glasno i trojica
baštovana istog trena đipiše na noge i počeše da
se klanjaju Kralju, Kraljici, kraljevskoj djeci i
svim ostalim.
"Dosta"!, vrisnu Kraljica. "Uhvatiće me
nesvjestica od vas." I okrenuvši se prema ruži,
nastavi: "Šta ste radili ovdje?"
"Neka blagoizvoli vaše veličanstvo", reče Dvica
vrlo ponizno spustivši se na jedno koljeno,
"nastojali smo..."
"Već vidim!", reče Kraljica koja je u
međuvremenu razgledala ruže. "Odsijecite im
glave!", i povorka krenu, samo zaostaše trojica
vojnika da pogube nesretne baštovane koji
potrčaše prema Alisi, ne bi li ih zaštitila.
"Neće biti pogubljeni!", reče Alisa i sakri ih u
jednu veliku sakciju za cvijeće, što je stajala u
blizini. Trojica vojnika su se koji časak muvali
unaokolo tražeći ih, a onda mirno krenuše za
ostalim.
"Jesu li im odrubljene glave?", dreknu Kraljica.
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'Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!' the
soldiers shouted in reply.
'That's right!' shouted the Queen. 'Can you play
croquet?'
The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the
question was evidently meant for her.
'Yes!' shouted Alice.
'Come on, then!' roared the Queen, and Alice joined
the procession, wondering very much what would
happen next.
'It's--it's a very fine day!' said a timid voice at her
side. She was walking by the White Rabbit, who
was peeping anxiously into her face.
'Very,' said Alice: '--where's the Duchess?'
'Hush! Hush!' said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone.
He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke,
and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth
close to her ear, and whispered 'She's under
sentence of execution.'
'What for?' said Alice.
'Did you say "What a pity!"?' the Rabbit asked.
'No, I didn't,' said Alice: 'I don't think it's at all a
pity. I said "What for?"'
'She boxed the Queen's ears--' the Rabbit began.
Alice gave a little scream of laughter. 'Oh, hush!'
the Rabbit whispered in a frightened tone. 'The
Queen will hear you! You see, she came rather late,
and the Queen said--'
'Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice
of thunder, and people began running about in all
directions, tumbling up against each other;
however, they got settled down in a minute or two,
and the game began. Alice thought she had never
seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it
was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live
hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the
soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand
on their hands and feet, to make the arches.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in
managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its
body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her
arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just
"Glave im nema, neka blagoizvoli vaše
veličanstvo", povikaše vojnici.
"Tako i treba!" uviknu Kraljica. "Umiješ li igrati
kroket?"
Sva trojica vojnika su šutjeli i pogledali Alisu,
postoje pitanje očigledno bilo namijenjeno njoj.
"Umijem", reče Alisa.
"Onda dolazi!", grmnu Kraljica i Alisa se pridruži
povorci, radoznala da vidi šta li će sad biti.
"Dan je vrlo – vrlo lijep!", javi se neki plašljiv
glas pored nje. Išla je pokraj Bijelog Zeca koji joj
je zabrinuto zavirivao u lice.
"Vrlo lijep", reče Alisa. "Gdje je Vojvotkinja?"
"Pst! Pst!", Zec izusti tiho i žurno, zabrinuto se
osvrnu preko ramena, onda se prope na vrh prstiju
i šapnu joj na uho: "Pod smrtnom je presudom!"
"Zbog čega?"
"Jesi li kazala, 'šteta'?", priupita Zec.
"Ne, nisam", reče Alisa. "Ne mislim da je ikakva
šteta. Kazala sam: 'Zbog čega'?"
"Ošamarila je Kraljicu", otpoče Zec. Alisa se
zakikota. "Oh, tiše!", prošapta Zec prestravljeno.
"Čuče te Kraljica" Vidiš, prilično je bila okasnila,
i Kraljica reče..."
"Svi na svoja mjesta!" grmnu Kraljica i svi se
uštrcaše, kud koji, sudarajući se jedan s drugim.
Ipak se za koji čas smjestiše i igra započe. Alisa
pomisli da nikad u životu nije vidjela čudnijeg
igrališta za kroket. Čitavo je bilo u grebenima i
jarcima. Umjesto lopti – živi ježevi, umjesto
štapova – živi flaminzi, a vojnici su morali da se
potpuno presaviju i stoje na rukama i nogama, da
bi svojim tijelima pravili lukove.
Alisi je najteže spočetka bilo to što nikako nije
znala da drži svog flaminga. Pošlo joj je za rukom
da mu tijelo zgodno namjesti pod mišku – noge
su mu slobodno visile – ali kad god bi mu lijepo
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as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and
was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its
head, it would twist itself round and look up in her
face, with such a puzzled expression that she could
not help bursting out laughing: and when she had
got its head down, and was going to begin again, it
was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had
unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away:
besides all this, there was generally a ridge or
furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the
hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were
always getting up and walking off to other parts of
the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that
it was a very difficult game indeed.
The players all played at once without waiting for
turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the
hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was
in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and
shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!'
about once in a minute.
Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had
not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she
knew that it might happen any minute, 'and then,'
thought she, 'what would become of me? They're
dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great
wonder is, that there's any one left alive!'
She was looking about for some way of escape, and
wondering whether she could get away without
being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance
in the air: it puzzled her very much at first, but,
after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to
be a grin, and she said to herself 'It's the Cheshire
Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.'
'How are you getting on?' said the Cat, as soon as
there was mouth enough for it to speak with. Alice
waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. 'It's
no use speaking to it,' she thought, 'till its ears have
come, or at least one of them.' In another minute the
whole head appeared, and then Alice put down her
flamingo, and began an account of the game,
feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her.
ispravila vrat i njegovom glavom htjela da udari
ježa, on bi se izvio i tako zbunjeno je pogledao u
lice da Alisa nije mogla a da ne prasne u smijeh.
A kad bi mu spustila glavu i spremala se da igru
ponovo otpočne, naljutila bi se kad bi vidjela
kako se jež otklupčao i hoće da odgamiže. Uz to,
kad god bi htiela da pogodi ježa, redovno bi se
pred njom ispriječio bilo kakav greben, bilo jarak,
a presamićeni vojnici svaki čas su se dizali i
odlazili na drugi kraj igrališta, te Alisa ubrzo dođe
do zaključka da je ovo jedna doista teška igra.
Svi igrači su igrali u isti mah, ne čekajući na red,
sve vrijeme se svađali i otimali o ježeve, i
Kraljica se uskoro toliko razgoropadi da je počela
da udara nogama o tle i svakog časa je uzvikivala:
"Odsijecite mu glavu!" ili "Odsijecite joj glavu!"
Alisa se veoma uznemiri. Istina, dosada se nije
sporječkala s Kraljicom, ali znala je da bi do toga
moglo da dođe svakog časa. I pomisli: "Šta bi
onda bilo sa mnom? Ovdje strašno vole da
odsijecaju glave. Pravo je čudo što je još iko živ!"
Obazirala se oko sebe i gledala da nekako
umakne, pitajući se da li će moći šmugnuti a da je
niko ne opazi, kad u vazduhu ugleda neki čudan
prizor. Ispočetka nije znala šta bi to moglo biti, ali
poslije nekoliko časaka uvidje da je to mačji
smiješak i reče sama sebi: "Pa to je Češirska
mačka. Sad ću bar imati s kim da razgovaram."
"Kako ti ide?", zapita Mačka čim joj se ukaza
toliki dio usta da je mogla da progovori. Alisa
pričeka da se Mački pojave oči, a onda klimnu
glavom. "Nema smisla da joj se obraćam prije no
što joj se ukažu oba uha, ili bar jedno!" Već
sljedećeg trenutka pomoli se cijela Mačkina glava
i Alisa spusti svog flaminga na zemlju i poče da
joj pripovijeda o igri, sretna što ima nekoga da je
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The Cat seemed to think that there was enough of it
now in sight, and no more of it appeared.
'I don't think they play at all fairly,' Alice began, in
rather a complaining tone, 'and they all quarrel so
dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak--and they
don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least,
if there are, nobody attends to them--and you've no
idea how confusing it is all the things being alive;
for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through
next walking about at the other end of the ground--
and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog
just now, only it ran away when it saw mine
coming!'
'How do you like the Queen?' said the Cat in a low
voice.
'Not at all,' said Alice: 'she's so extremely--' Just
then she noticed that the Queen was close behind
her, listening: so she went on, '--likely to win, that
it's hardly worth while finishing the game.'
The Queen smiled and passed on.
'Who are you talking to?' said the King, going up to
Alice, and looking at the Cat's head with great
curiosity.
'It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said Alice:
'allow me to introduce it.'
'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King:
'however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look
at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. 'I've read that
in some book, but I don't remember where.'
'Well, it must be removed,' said the King very
decidedly, and he called the Queen, who was
passing at the moment, 'My dear! I wish you would
have this cat removed!'
The Queen had only one way of settling all
difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she
said, without even looking round.
'I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the King
eagerly, and he hurried off.
sluša. Mačka je, izgleda, smatrala da je pokazala
dovoljan dio sebe, i na tome osta.
"Čini mi se da ne igraju pošteno", požali se Alisa.
"I tako se strašno svađaju da samoga sebe ne
čuješ. I... kao da nemaju nikakvih, određenih
pravila. U najmanju ruku, i ako ih imaju, niko ih
se ne pridržava... i ne možeš ni zamisliti kako je
nezgodno što je sve živo. Na primjer, odjednom
opazim da luk, ispod kojeg treba da protjeram
loptu, šeta na drugom kraju igrališta. Ili, upravo
treba da pogodim Kraljičinog ježa, a on pobjegne
čim vidi da moj jež dolazi!"
"Kako ti se sviđa Kraljica?", Mačka će tiho.
"Nikako", reče Alisa. "Sasvim je..." Upravo tada
spazi za svojim leđima Kraljicu kako prisluškuje.
Zato nastavi: "... vjerovatno da će pobijediti, te se
takoreći ne isplati ni igrati do kraja."
Kraljica s osmjehnu i prođe.
"S kim to razgovaraš?", zapita Kralj prilazeći
Alisi i sa velikom radoznalošću gledajući u
Mačkinu glavu.
"To je jedna moja prijateljica – Češirska mačka",
reče Alisa. "Dozvolite da vam je predstavim."
"Ne sviđa mi se baš nimalo njen izgled", reče
Kralj. "Al, može da me poljubi u ruku ako želi."
"Pa radije ne bih!" primijeti Mačka.
"Ne budi drska", reče Kralj, "i ne gledaj me
tako!" I dok je još bio u riječi, prođe Alisi iza
leđa.
"Mačka smije gledati kralja", reče Alisa, "to sam
pročitala u nekoj knjizi, samo ne znam kojoj."
"E, treba je ukloniti odavde", reče Kralj vrlo
odlučno i obrati se Kraljici koja je upravo
prolazila: "Draga moja! Želim da se ova mačka
ukloni!"
Kraljica je imala samo jedan način za sređivanje
svih teškoća, veliki li malih. "Neka joj se odsiječe
glava!", reče i ne osvrnuvši se čak.
"Odoh sam po Dželata!", reče Kralj spremno i
odhita.
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Alice thought she might as well go back, and see
how the game was going on, as she heard the
Queen's voice in the distance, screaming with
passion. She had already heard her sentence three
of the players to be executed for having missed
their turns, and she did not like the look of things at
all, as the game was in such confusion that she
never knew whether it was her turn or not. So she
went in search of her hedgehog.
The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another
hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent
opportunity for croqueting one of them with the
other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was
gone across to the other side of the garden, where
Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to
fly up into a tree.
By the time she had caught the flamingo and
brought it back, the fight was over, and both the
hedgehogs were out of sight: 'but it doesn't matter
much,' thought Alice, 'as all the arches are gone
from this side of the ground.' So she tucked it away
under her arm, that it might not escape again, and
went back for a little more conversation with her
friend.
When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was
surprised to find quite a large crowd collected
round it: there was a dispute going on between the
executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all
talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent,
and looked very uncomfortable.
The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to
by all three to settle the question, and they repeated
their arguments to her, though, as they all spoke at
once, she found it very hard indeed to make out
exactly what they said.
The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't
cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off
from: that he had never had to do such a thing
before, and he wasn't going to begin at his time of
life.
The King's argument was, that anything that had a
Alisa pomisli da bi bilo dobro da se i ona vrati, da
vidi kako napreduje igra, jer je u daljini začula
Kraljičinu dreku. Već je čula kako je tri igrača
osudila na smrt zato što su propustili svoj red. A
ništa joj se ovdje nije sviđalo. Igralo se tako
zbrkano da nikad nije znala da li je na nju došao
red ili nije. Zato pođe da potraži svog ježa.
Njen jež se borio s jednim drugim ježom, i Alisi
se učini da je to sjajna prilika da jednog od njih
pogodi drugim. Nevolja je bila samo u tome što
se njen flamingo odšetao na drugi kraj bašte i
Alisa ga ugleda kako bezuspješno pokušava da
uzleti na jedno drvo.
I dok je njoj pošlo za rukom da uhvati flaminga i
donese ga natrag, bitka je već bila okončana i
ježevima ne bijaše ni traga ni glasa. "Uostalom,
nije ni važno!", pomisli Alisa, "jer svi lukovi su
otišli sa ove strane igrališta." Zato stavi flaminga
pod mišku da joj opet ne utekne i ode da još malo
porazgovara sa svojom prijateljicom.
Kad stiže do Češirske mačke, iznenadi se kad oko
nje zateče okupljenu čitavu gomilu. Svađali su se
Dželat, Kralj i Kraljica i sve je troje govorilo
uglas, dok su ostali šutjeli i po svemu sudeći
osjećali se vrlo nelagodno.
Čim se Alisa pojavi, sve troje je zamoliše da ona
stvar presudi i ponavljahu joj svoje tvrdnje. Ali
pošto su svi govorili u jedan glas, bilo joj je
uistinu vrlo teško da shvati o čemu je riječ.
Dželat je tvrdio da se ne može odsjeći nekom
glava ako taj nema tijelo sa kojeg bi se glava
odsjekla. Da tako nešto nikad nije radio pa ni sad
pod starost neće da radi.
Kralj je tvrdio da se svakom ko ima glavu, glava
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head could be beheaded, and that you weren't to
talk nonsense.
The Queen's argument was, that if something wasn't
done about it in less than no time she'd have
everybody executed, all round. (It was this last
remark that had made the whole party look so grave
and anxious.)
Alice could think of nothing else to say but 'It
belongs to the Duchess: you'd better ask her about
it.'
'She's in prison,' the Queen said to the executioner:
'fetch her here.' And the executioner went off like
an arrow.
The Cat's head began fading away the moment he
was gone, and, by the time he had come back with
the Duchess, it had entirely disappeared; so the
King and the executioner ran wildly up and down
looking for it, while the rest of the party went back
to the game.
CHAPTER IX
The Mock Turtle's Story
'You can't think how glad I am to see you again,
you dear old thing!' said the Duchess, as she tucked
her arm affectionately into Alice's, and they walked
off together.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant
temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was
only the pepper that had made her so savage when
they met in the kitchen. 'When I'm a Duchess,' she
said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though),
'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup
does very well without--Maybe it's always pepper
that makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very
much pleased at having found out a new kind of
rule, 'and vinegar that makes them sour--and
camomile that makes them bitter--and--and barley-
sugar and such things that make children sweet-
tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they
može i odsjeći i da Dželat ne trabunja tu koješta.
Kraljica je tvrdila da će, ukoliko se nešto istog
časa u tom pogledu ne učini, svima odreda glave
odletjeti. (Zbog toga je čitavo društvo i izgledalo
ozbiljno i zabrinuto.)
Alisa se nije mogla dosjetiti da išta drugo kaže
osim: "Mačka je Vojvotkinjina. Najbolje da nju
pitate o tome!"
"Ona je u tamnici", reče Kraljica Dželatu.
"Dovedi je ovamo!" I Dželat kao strijela odletje.
Čim on ode, Mačkina glava poče polako da se
gubi, i kad se Dželat vrati s Vojvotkinjom, glave
više ne bijaše. Stoga se Kralj i Dželat bjesomučno
uštrcaše da je traže, a ostala družina vrati se igri.
Glava IX
PRIČA LAŽNE KORNJAČE
"Ne možeš ni zamisliti koliko mi je drago što te
opet vidim, mila moja!", reče Vojvotkinja, pa
ljubazno uze Alisu pod ruku i pođe s njom.
Alisa se obradova što je vidi ovako dobro
raspoloženu i pomisli da je možda samo zbog
bibera bila onako goropadna kad su se ono sreli u
kuhinji. "Kad ja budem vojvotkinja", reče sama
sebi (iako se tome nije baš nadala), u mojoj
kuhinji uopšte neće biti bibera. Čorba je dobra i
bez njega. Možda ljudi uvijek baš od bibera i
postaju ljuti", nastavi zadovoljna što je pronašla
nekakvo novo pravilo, "od sirćeta – kiseli, od
kamilice – gorki, a – a od šećera i sličnih stvari
djeca su slatka. Eh, kad bi to ljudi samo znali,
onda, znaš, ne bi u slatkišima toliko škrtarili."
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wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know--'
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time,
and was a little startled when she heard her voice
close to her ear. 'You're thinking about something,
my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't
tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I
shall remember it in a bit.'
'Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.
'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got
a moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed
herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
Alice did not much like keeping so close to her:
first, because the Duchess was very ugly; and
secondly, because she was exactly the right height
to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an
uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not
like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
'The game's going on rather better now,' she said,
by way of keeping up the conversation a little.
''Tis so,' said the Duchess: 'and the moral of that
is--"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go
round!"'
'Somebody said,' Alice whispered, 'that it's done by
everybody minding their own business!'
'Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the
Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice's
shoulder as she added, 'and the moral of that
is--"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take
care of themselves."'
'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice
thought to herself.
'I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my
arm round your waist,' the Duchess said after a
pause: 'the reason is, that I'm doubtful about the
temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the
experiment?'
'He might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling
at all anxious to have the experiment tried.
'Very true,' said the Duchess: 'flamingoes and
mustard both bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds
of a feather flock together."'
'Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
Bila je već i zaboravila na Vojvotkinju i trgnu se
kad joj začu glas na samom uhu: "Razmišljaš o
nečem, draga moja, i zbog toga si prestala da
razgovaraš, ne bih ti baš trenutno umjela reći
kakva se pouka može iz tog izvući, ali ću se za tili
čas sjetiti."
"Možda je i nema", Alisa se usudi da primijeti.
"De, de, dijete!", reče Vojvotkinja. "Sve ima
pouku, ukoliko je samo umiješ pronaći." I
govoreći to, još čvršće se pribi uz Alisu.
Alisi nije bilo baš po volji što joj se tako
približila. Prvo, zato što je Vojvotkinja bila vrlo
ružna, a drugo, što je upravo bila toliko visoka da
se mogla osloniti bradom na Alisino rame, a
brada joj je bila neprijatno oštra. Ali nije željela
da ispadne gruba i trpjela je to što je bolje mogla.
"Izgleda da igra sad teče mnogo bolje", reče.
"Tako je", reče Vojvotkinja, "a pouka koja se iz
tog može izvući jest: Oh, ljubav, ljubav svijet
pokreće!"
"Neko je rekao", prošaputa Alisa, "da se svijet
okreće ako svako gleda svoja posla!"
"Pa to je gotovo jedno te isto" na to će
Vojvotkinja i svojom šiljatom bradicom još dublje
zaroni u Alisino rame, dodavši: "A pouka koja se
iz toga može izvući jest – Vodi računa o smislu, a
glas će sam voditi računa o sebi."
"Ala voli da iznalazi pouke u svemu!", pomisli
Alisa u sebi.
"Vjerovatno se čudiš što te ne obujmim oko
pasa", reče Vojvotkinja poslije izvjesne stanke.
"Razlog je što nisam sigurna u ćud tvog flaminga.
Da pokušam?"
"Mogao bi vas ugristi", odgovori Alisa obazrivo
nimalo ne želeći da to Bojvotkinja i učini.
"Sasvim tačno", reče Vojvotkinja. "I flaminzi i
gorušica grizu. A pouka koja se iz tog može
izvući jest: Svaka ptica svoje jatu leti."
"Samo što gorušica nije ptica", primijeti Alisa.
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'Right, as usual,' said the Duchess: 'what a clear
way you have of putting things!'
'It's a mineral, I think,' said Alice.
'Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed
ready to agree to everything that Alice said; 'there's
a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of
that is--"The more there is of mine, the less there is
of yours."'
'Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had not
attended to this last remark, 'it's a vegetable. It
doesn't look like one, but it is.'
'I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; 'and the
moral of that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--
or if you'd like it put more simply--"Never imagine
yourself not to be otherwise than what it might
appear to others that what you were or might have
been was not otherwise than what you had been
would have appeared to them to be otherwise."'
'I think I should understand that better,' Alice said
very politely, 'if I had it written down: but I can't
quite follow it as you say it.'
'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the
Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.
'Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than
that,' said Alice.
'Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. 'I
make you a present of everything I've said as yet.'
'A cheap sort of present!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad
they don't give birthday presents like that!' But she
did not venture to say it out loud.
'Thinking again?' the Duchess asked, with another
dig of her sharp little chin.
'I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was
beginning to feel a little worried.
'Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, 'as pigs
have to fly; and the m--'
But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's
voice died away, even in the middle of her favourite
word 'moral,' and the arm that was linked into hers
began to tremble. Alice looked up, and there stood
the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded,
"U pravu si kao i uvijek", reče Vojvotkinja. "Vrlo
jasno postavljaš stvari!"
"Ja mislim da je gorušica mineral", reče Alisa.
"Naravno da jest", reče Vojvotkinja, spremna da
se složi sa svim što Alisa kaže. "Nedaleko odavde
nalazi se veliki rudnik gorušice. A pouka koja se
iz tog može izvući jest: Što više nečeg meni,
manje tebi!"
"Oh, znam!" uskliknu Alisa koja nije ni slušala
šta Vojvotkinja govori. "Gorušica je povrće. Ne
izgleda tako, ali jest."
"Potpuno se s tobom slažem", reče Vojvotkinja. I
pouka koja se iz toga može izvući, jest: Budi
onakav kakav bi htio da izgledaš, ili još
jednostavnije: nikad ne zamišljaj da nisi drukčija
od onoga kako izgledaš drugima, da ono što jesi
ili što bi mogla biti nije drukčije nego što bi im
ono što si bila izgledalo drukčije."
"Vjerujem da bih to bolje razumjela", reče Alisa
vrlo učtivo, "kad bi bilo napisano. Ovako, dok
govorite, ne mogu da vas baš najbolje pratim."
"To nije ništa prema onom što bih ja mogla kazati
da hoću", reče Vojvotkinja zadovoljno.
"Molim vas, ne mučite se da biste to još opširnije
kazali!", reče Alisa.
"Oh, ne govori mi o mučenju!", reče Vojvotkinja.
"Poklanjam ti sve što sam dosad rekla!"
"Jeftin poklon!", pomisli Alisa. "Sva sreća da se
za rođendan ne dobijaju takvi pokloni!" Ali se ne
odvaži da to glasno kaže.
"Opet razmišljaš?", reče Vojvotkinja i iznova joj u
rame zabode svoju šiljatu bradicu.
"Imam pravo da razmišljam", odgovori Alisa
nabusito, jer joj je sve ovo već počelo pomalo i da
dosađuje.
"Upravo toliko", reče Vojvotkinja, "koliko prasci
imaju pravo da lete, i pou..."
Ali ovdje, na veliko Alisino čudo, Vojkvotkinjin
glas se prelomi, čak usred njene omiljene riječi
"pouka" i ruka koja joj je bila oslonjena na
Alisinu ruku, poče da podrhtava. Alisa podiže oči
i ugleda Kraljicu kako stoji pred njima, skrštenih
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frowning like a thunderstorm.
'A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a
low, weak voice.
'Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen,
stamping on the ground as she spoke; 'either you or
your head must be off, and that in about half no
time! Take your choice!'
The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a
moment.
'Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to Alice;
and Alice was too much frightened to say a word,
but slowly followed her back to the croquet-ground.
The other guests had taken advantage of the
Queen's absence, and were resting in the shade:
however, the moment they saw her, they hurried
back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that
a moment's delay would cost them their lives.
All the time they were playing the Queen never left
off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting
'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those
whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the
soldiers, who of course had to leave off being
arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour
or so there were no arches left, and all the players,
except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in
custody and under sentence of execution.
Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and
said to Alice, 'Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'
'No,' said Alice. 'I don't even know what a Mock
Turtle is.'
'It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said
the Queen.
'I never saw one, or heard of one,' said Alice.
'Come on, then,' said the Queen, 'and he shall tell
you his history,'
As they walked off together, Alice heard the King
say in a low voice, to the company generally, 'You
are all pardoned.' 'Come, that's a good thing!' she
said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the
number of executions the Queen had ordered.
They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast
asleep in the sun. (If you don't know what a
ruku, a iz očiju kao da joj varnice frcaju.
"Krasan dan, vaše veličanstvo!" poče Vojvotkinja
tihim, slabašnim glasom.
"Čuješ, lijepo te opominjem", uviknu Kraljica
udarajući nogom o tle, "ili ti odavde ili tvoja
glava! I to ovog istog trena! Pa biraj!"
Vojvotkinja odabra i za tili čas se izgubi.
"Nastavimo igru!", reče Kraljica Alisi. A Alisa je
bila toliko prestravljena da ne umjede ni riječi
prosloviti, nego polako pođe za njom do igrališta.
Ostali gosti su iskoristili Kraljičino odsustvo i u
hladovini se odmarali. Ali čim je ugledaše,
požuriše da nastave igru, a Kraljica samo dobaci
da ih jedan čas skanjivanja može života stajati.
I za sve vrijeme igre Kraljica nije prestajala da se
svađa sa drugim igračima i da uzvikuje:
"Odsijecite mu glavu" ili "Odscijecite joj glavu!"
Osuđenike su vojnici odvodili u zatvor i zato,
naravno, nisu mogli da budu lukovi, tako da u
roku od kojih pola sata na igralištu nije bilo više
ni jednog luka, a svi igrači, izuzev Kralja,
Kraljice i Alise, bijahu u zatvoru, osuđeni na
smrt.
Onda Kraljica, sva zadihana, prekide igru i reče
Alisi: "Jesi li vidjela Lažnu Kornjaču?"
"Nisam, čak ne znam ni šta je to", odvrati Alisa.
"To je ono od čega se pravi lažna čorba", reče
Kraljica.
"Niti sam je kad vidjela niti čula za nju!" Alisa će.
"Hajde onda ovamo, pa će ti ona ispričati svoju
istoriju."
I dok se sa Kraljicom udaljavala, Alisa ču kako
Kralj tiho kaže družim: "Svi ste pomilovani!" "E,
tako valja!", reče Alisa u sebi, jer je bila vrlo
nesretna zbog tolikih smrtnih presuda što ih je
Kraljica izrekla ;
Uskoro naiđoše na jednog Grifona (Mitološka
životinja, pola lav, pola orao (glava i krila su mu
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Gryphon is, look at the picture.) 'Up, lazy thing!'
said the Queen, 'and take this young lady to see the
Mock Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back
and see after some executions I have ordered'; and
she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the
Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the
creature, but on the whole she thought it would be
quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage
Queen: so she waited.
The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it
watched the Queen till she was out of sight: then it
chuckled. 'What fun!' said the Gryphon, half to
itself, half to Alice.
'What is the fun?' said Alice.
'Why, she,' said the Gryphon. 'It's all her fancy, that:
they never executes nobody, you know. Come on!'
'Everybody says "come on!" here,' thought Alice, as
she went slowly after it: 'I never was so ordered
about in all my life, never!'
They had not gone far before they saw the Mock
Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a
little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice
could hear him sighing as if his heart would break.
She pitied him deeply.
'What is his sorrow?' she asked the Gryphon, and
the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same
words as before, 'It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got
no sorrow, you know. Come on!'
So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at
them with large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.
'This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants
for to know your history, she do.'
'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep,
hollow tone: 'sit down, both of you, and don't speak
a word till I've finished.'
So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some
minutes. Alice thought to herself, 'I don't see how
he can even finish, if he doesn't begin.' But she
waited patiently.
'Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep "Nekad davno", otpoče najzad Lažna Kornjača,
orlovski.) koji je u dubokom snu ležao na suncu.
"Ustaj, lijenštino!" prodera se Kraljica, "i odvedi
ovu mladu damu do Lažne Kornjače da čuje
njenu istoriju. Ja se moram vratiti da nadgledani
neke smrtne kazne koje sam izrekla", i ode
ostavljajući Alisu samu sa Grifonom. Alisi se nije
nimalo sviđao Grifonov izgled, ali pomisli kako
ostati s njim nije ništa opasnije nego poći za
onom goropadnom Kraljicom i zato čekaše da on
ustane.
Grifon sjede i protrlja oči; onda gledaše za
Kraljicom sve dok se ona ne izgubi iz vida. Onda
se zakikota. "Jest smiješno", reče Grifon govoreći
upola sebi a upola Alisi.
"Šta je smiješno?", zapita Alisa.
"Pa, ona!", reče Grifon. "Sve su to njene
izmišljotine, znaš, nikada nikog ne pogube.
Hajde!"
"Ovdje svako samo kaže: Hajde!", pomisli Alisa,
polako idući za njim. "Još nikad mi u životu nisu
toliko naređivali, nikad!"
Nisu išli dugo kad u daljini ugledaše Lažnu
Kornjaču kako tužna i usamljena sjedi na izbočini
jedne stijene i kad joj priđoše, Alisa ču kako
uzdiše kao da joj srce hoće da prepukne. Sažali se
na nju.
"Zašto je tako tužna?", upita Grifona, a Grifon
odgovori gotovo istim riječima kao i ono
maloprije: "Sve su to njene izmišljotine. Ni zbog
čega nije tužna, znaš. Hajde!"
I priđoše Lažnoj Kornjači koja ih pogleda svojim
krupnim očima punim suza, ali ništa ne reče.
"Ova ovdje mlada dama", reče Grifon, "željela bi
da čuje tvoju istoriju."
"Ispričaću joj je", reče Kornjača dubokim muklim
glasom. "Sjedite oboje i da ni riječi niste
proslovili sve dok ja ne završim."
Oni sjedoše i nekoliko časaka niko i ne progovori.
Alisa pomisli u sebi: "Ne vidim kako će ikad
završiti ako ne počinje." Ali je strpljivo čekala.
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sigh, 'I was a real Turtle.' duboko uzdahnuvši, "ja sam bila prava kornjača."
These words were followed by a very long silence, Poslije ovih riječi zavlada duga tišina koju je
broken only by an occasional exclamation of prekidao samo Grifonov povremeni usklik:
'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and the constant "hjkrr!" i Kornjačini neprestani bolni jecaji. Alisa
heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very zamalo što ne ustade da kaže: "Hvala vam
nearly getting up and saying, 'Thank you, sir, for gospođo, na vašoj zanimljivoj priči", ali je bila
your interesting story,' but she could not help uvjerena da još nešto mora doći i zato je mirno
thinking there must be more to come, so she sat still sjedjela u šutjela.
and said nothing.
'When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at "Kad smo bili mali", nastavi Lažna Kornjača
last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now najzad mirnije, iako bi tu i tamo još uvijek
and then, 'we went to school in the sea. The master zajecala, "išli smo u školu koja je bila u moru.
was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Učitelj nam je bio jedna stara kornjača – obično
smo ga zvali 'kornjuči'."
'Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' "A zašto ste ga zvali 'kornjuči'?", priupita Alisa.
Alice asked.
'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said "Zvali smo ga 'kornjuči' zato što je bio tu da nas
the Mock Turtle angrily: 'really you are very dull!' uči", odbrusi Lažna Kornjača. "Stvarno si vrlo
blesava!"
'You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking "Treba da se sramiš što postavljaš pitanja prosta
such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and kao pasulj!" dodade Grifon, i oboje su sjedjeli bez
then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, riječi i promatrali jadnu Alisu koja je mislila da će
who felt ready to sink into the earth. At last the u zemlju propasti. Najzad Grifon reče Lažnoj
Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, 'Drive on, old Kornjači: "Nastavi, starino! Nećeš se valjda čitav
fellow! Don't be all day about it!' and he went on in bogovetni dan majati oko toga!" I Kornjača
these words: nastavi ovim riječima:
'Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you "Da, išli smo u školu u moru, iako ti to možda ne
mayn't believe it--' vjeruješ."
'I never said I didn't!' interrupted Alice. "Ja nisam rekla da ne vjerujem!" prekide je Alisa.
'You did,' said the Mock Turtle. "Jesi!" reče Lažna Kornjača.
'Hold your tongue!' added the Gryphon, before "Zaveži!" dodade Grifon prije no što je Alisa
Alice could speak again. mogla išta i da kaže.
The Mock Turtle went on. Lažnja Kornjača nastavi:
'We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to "Stekli smo najbolje obrazovanje – u stvari, išli
school every day--' smo u školu svaki dan..."
'I've been to a day-school, too,' said Alice; 'you "I ja sam išla u školu svaki dan", reče Alisa. "Ne
needn't be so proud as all that.' moraš se time toliko hvalisati."
'With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a little "I imali ste vanredne časove?" zapita Kornjača
anxiously. malo zabrinuto.
'Yes,' said Alice, 'we learned French and music.' "Da, učili smo francuski i muziku."
'And washing?' said the Mock Turtle. "I pranje?", upita Kornjača.
'Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly. "To, naravno, nismo!", odgovori Alisa prezrivo.
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'Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said
the Mock Turtle in a tone of great relief. 'Now at
ours they had at the end of the bill, "French, music,
and washing--extra."'
'You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice;
'living at the bottom of the sea.'
'I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle
with a sigh. 'I only took the regular course.'
'What was that?' inquired Alice.
'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the
Mock Turtle replied; 'and then the different
branches of Arithmetic-- Ambition, Distraction,
Uglification, and Derision.'
'I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to
say. 'What is it?'
The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise.
'What! Never heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. 'You
know what to beautify is, I suppose?'
'Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: 'it means--to--make--
anything--prettier.'
'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't
know what to uglify is, you are a simpleton.'
Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more
questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle,
and said 'What else had you to learn?'
'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied,
counting off the subjects on his flappers, '--Mystery,
ancient and modern, with Seaography: then
Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old conger-
eel, that used to come once a week: He taught us
Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'
'What was that like?' said Alice.
'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle
said: 'I'm too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'
'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: 'I went to the
Classics master, though. He was an old crab, he
was.'
'I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a
sigh: 'he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to
"Ah! Onda tvoja škola nije bila bog zna šta!",
reče Kornjača s velikim olakšanjem. "U našoj
školi na kraju popisa svih predmeta stajalo je:
francuski, muzika i pranje – neobavezno."
"Ono vam baš nije bilo ni toliko potrebno kad ste
živjeli na dnu mora."
"Ja nisam sebi mogla priuštiti da i to učim", reče
Kornjača uzdahnuvši. "Pohađala sam samo
obavezne predmete."
"Koji su to bili?", raspitivala se Alisa.
"U početku, razumije se, okretanje i uvijanje",
odgovori Kornjača, "a onda različite grane
aritmetike – ambicija, odupiranje, poružancija i
rugancija."
"Nikad nisam čula sa poružanciju", usudi se Alisa
da kaže. "Šta je to?"
Grifon podiže obje svoje šape u čudu. "Šta. Nikad
nisi čula sa poružnjavanje!", uskliknu,
pretpostavljam da znaš šta znači poljepšavanje?"
"Da", reče Alisa nesigurno. "To znači... učiniti...
da nešto... bude ljepše."
"Pa, eto", nastavi Grifon, "ako ne znaš šta znači
poružnjavati, mora da si neka glupača."
Alisa nije imala hrabrosti da postavi još koje
pitanje u vezi s tim, zato se okrenu Kornjači i
zapita: "Šta ste još morali učiti?"
"Pa, eto, bila je tu misterija", odgovori Kornjača
brojeći predmete na svoje peraje, "misterija starog
i novog vijeka, sa oceanografijom; onda
protezanje – učitelj protezanja bila je jedna stara
morska jegulja koja je dolazila jedanput
nedjeljno. Ona nas je učila protezanju, pružanju i
sklupčavanju."
"Šta je to?", zapita Alisa.
"Pa ne mogu ti to pokazati", odgovori Kornjača.
"Isuviše sam kruta. A Grifon to nikad nije ni
učio."
"Nisam imao vremena", reče Grifon. "Pa ipak
sam odlazio kod učitelja klasike. Bio je to jedan
stari rak."
"Ja njemu nikad nisam išla", reče Kornjača
uzdahnuvši. "Govorili su da podučava Smijeh i
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say.' Plač."
'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in "Tako je, tako je!", reče Grifon uzdišući i sam. I
his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their oboje zagnjuriše lice u šape.
paws.
'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' "A koliko ste po rasporedu imali dnevno sati?",
said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. zapita Alisa jedva čekajući da promijeni predmet
razgovora.
'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine "Prvi dan deset sati", reče Kornjača, "a drugi
the next, and so on.' devet, i tako redom."
'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. "Kakav čudan raspored", uskliknu Alisa.
'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the "Zato se i zove raspored sati", primijeti Grifon,
Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day "što se po jedan sat svaki dan skrati."
to day.'
This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought Za Alisu je ovo bilo nešto sasvim novo i malo
it over a little before she made her next remark. promisli prije nego što reče: "Onda ste
'Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?' jedanaestog dana morali imati praznik?"
'Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle. "Naravno!", reče Lažna Kornjača.
'And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice "A šta je bilo dvanaestog?", nastavi Alisa
went on eagerly. radoznalo.
'That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon "Dosta priče o školi", upade Grifon vrlo odlučno.
interrupted in a very decided tone: 'tell her "Ispričaj joj sad štogod o igrama!"
something about the games now.'

CHAPTER X
The Lobster Quadrille
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back
of one flapper across his eyes. He looked at Alice,
and tried to speak, but for a minute or two sobs
choked his voice. 'Same as if he had a bone in his
throat,' said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking
him and punching him in the back. At last the Mock
Turtle recovered his voice, and, with tears running
down his cheeks, he went on again:--
'You may not have lived much under the sea--' ('I
haven't,' said Alice)-- 'and perhaps you were never
even introduced to a lobster--' (Alice began to say 'I
once tasted--' but checked herself hastily, and said
'No, never') '--so you can have no idea what a
delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!'
'No, indeed,' said Alice. 'What sort of a dance is it?'
Glava X
KADRIL JASTOGA
Lažna Kornjača duboko uzdahnu i nadlanicom
pređe preko očiju. Pogleda Alisu i pokuša da
progovori, ali jedan časak dva jecaja su gušila
njen glas. "Kao da joj je kost zapala u grlo", reče
Grifon i stade je drmati i udarati po leđima.
Najzad se Kornjači povrati glas i dok su joj suze
lile niz obraze, nastavi:
"Ti možda nisi živjela dugo pod morem... ("I
nisam", reče Alisa.) I možda se nisi upoznala ni s
jednim jastogom – (Alisa htjede da kaže:
"Jedanput sam ga probala", ali se brzo predomisli
i reče: "Nisam nikad".), pa onda ne možeš ni
zamisliti kakav je divan kadril jastoga."
"Pa i ne mogu", reče Alisa. "Kako izgleda taj
ples?"
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'Why,' said the Gryphon, 'you first form into a line
along the sea-shore--'
'Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle. 'Seals, turtles,
salmon, and so on; then, when you've cleared all
the jelly-fish out of the way--'
'That generally takes some time,' interrupted the
Gryphon.
'--you advance twice--'
'Each with a lobster as a partner!' cried the
Gryphon.
'Of course,' the Mock Turtle said: 'advance twice,
set to partners--'
'--change lobsters, and retire in same order,'
continued the Gryphon.
'Then, you know,' the Mock Turtle went on, 'you
throw the--'
'The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound
into the air.
'--as far out to sea as you can--'
'Swim after them!' screamed the Gryphon.
'Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the Mock
Turtle, capering wildly about.
'Change lobster's again!' yelled the Gryphon at the
top of its voice.
'Back to land again, and that's all the first figure,'
said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice;
and the two creatures, who had been jumping about
like mad things all this time, sat down again very
sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice.
'It must be a very pretty dance,' said Alice timidly.
'Would you like to see a little of it?' said the Mock
Turtle.
'Very much indeed,' said Alice.
'Come, let's try the first figure!' said the Mock
Turtle to the Gryphon. 'We can do without lobsters,
you know. Which shall sing?'
'Oh, you sing,' said the Gryphon. 'I've forgotten the
words.'
So they began solemnly dancing round and round
Alice, every now and then treading on her toes
when they passed too close, and waving their
forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle
"Pa, evo!", reče Grifon. "Najprije svi stanu u
jedan red duž obale..."
"U dva reda", uzviknu Kornjača. "Tuljani,
kornjače i tako dalje. I kada sa puta uklone
meduze..."
"A to obično zahtijeva prilično vremena", upade
Grifon.
"... naprave dva koraka naprijed..."
"A svako za partnera ima po jednog jastoga...",
uzvikne Grifon.
"Naravno", reče Lažna Kornjača. "Naprave dva
koraka, svi u parovima..."
"Izmijene jastoge i vrate se u istom poretku",
produži Grifon.
"A onda, znaš", nastavi Lažna Kornjača, "baciš..."
"Jastoga!", uzviknu Grifon i poskoči uvis.
"... što možeš dalje u more..."
"Zaplivaš za njim!", podvrisne Grifon.
"Prebaciš se preko glave u moru!", poviče Lažna
Kornjača skačući bjesomučno.
"Opet promijeniš jastoga!", drekne Grifon.
"Opet se vratiš na obalu i – to je sve prva figura",
reče Lažna Kornjača utišavši najednom glas. I
ovo dvoje što su kao kakvi luđaci skakali
unaokolo, opet posjedaše vrlo tužno i mirno i
pogledaše Alisu.
"To mora da je vrlo lijepa igra", reča Alisa
bojažljivo.
"Hoćeš da je malko pogledaš?", zapita Lažna
Kornjača.
"Vrlo rado", reče Alisa.
"Hajde da probamo prvu figuru!" reče Kornjača
Grifonu. "Možemo i bez jastoga, znaš. Ko će
pjevati?"
"TI pjevaj!", reče Grifon. "Ja sam zaboravio
riječi."
I tako počeše dostojanstveno da igraju oko Alise,
samo kad god bi joj se sasvim približili, uvijek bi
joj nagazili na noge! Mahali su prednjim šapama
da označe takt a Lažna Kornjača je pjevala,
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sang this, very slowly and sadly:--
'"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a
snail.
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's
treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all
advance!
They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and
join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you
join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you
join the dance?
"You can really have no notion how delightful it
will be
When they take us up and throw us, with the
lobsters, out to sea!"
But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a
look askance—
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would
not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, would
not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, could
not join the dance.
'"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend
replied.
"There is another shore, you know, upon the other
side.
The further off from England the nearer is to
France—
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and
join the dance.
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you
join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you
join the dance?"'
'Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to watch,'
veoma tiho i tužno:
Bjelica će pužu: "De požuri malo, šta je?
Jedan trilj iza nas baš na rep mi staje.
Gle jastoga i kornjača, hrle na obalu!
Čekaju na pijesku – hoćeš i ti, pužu, pridružit se
balu?
Hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš li se pridružiti
balu?
Hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš, nećeš, nećeš li se pridružiti
balu?
Ni slutiti ti ne možeš svu krasotu, pužu mili,
Kad nas budu s jastozima na pučinu odbacili!"
"Predaleko, predaleko to je za me!" i Bjelici
odajući punu hvalu
Puž odluči da se neće pridružiti balu.
Ne bi htio, ne bi mog'o, ne bi mog'o, ne bi htio
pridružit se balu.
Ne bi htio, ne bi mog'o, ne bi mog'o, ne bi htio
pridružit se balu.
"A šta mari predaleko što je? Man' se, pužu, toga,
mani!
Znaš, i druga obala na drugoj je strani!
Što dalje od Engleske, bliže si francuskom žalu,
Stog, ne blijedi, dragi pužu, nego hajde pridruži
se balu.
Hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš, nećeš, hoćeš li se pridružiti
balu?
Hoćeš, nećeš, nećeš, nećeš li se pridružiti balu?"
"Hvala vam, bilo je vrlo zanimljivo promatrati tu
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said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last:
'and I do so like that curious song about the
whiting!'
'Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, 'they--
you've seen them, of course?'
'Yes,' said Alice, 'I've often seen them at dinn--' she
checked herself hastily.
'I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock
Turtle, 'but if you've seen them so often, of course
you know what they're like.'
'I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. 'They have
their tails in their mouths--and they're all over
crumbs.'
'You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock
Turtle: 'crumbs would all wash off in the sea. But
they have their tails in their mouths; and the reason
is--' here the Mock Turtle yawned and shut his
eyes.--'Tell her about the reason and all that,' he
said to the Gryphon.
'The reason is,' said the Gryphon, 'that they would
go with the lobsters to the dance. So they got
thrown out to sea. So they had to fall a long way.
So they got their tails fast in their mouths. So they
couldn't get them out again. That's all.'
'Thank you,' said Alice, 'it's very interesting. I never
knew so much about a whiting before.'
'I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the
Gryphon. 'Do you know why it's called a whiting?'
'I never thought about it,' said Alice.
'Why?''It does the boots and shoes.' the Gryphon
replied very solemnly.
Alice was thoroughly puzzled. 'Does the boots and
shoes!' she repeated in a wondering tone.
'Why, what are your shoes done with?' said the
Gryphon. 'I mean, what makes them so shiny?'
Alice looked down at them, and considered a little
before she gave her answer. 'They're done with
blacking, I believe.'
'Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went "E, vidiš, na dnu mora čizme i cipele", nastavi
on in a deep voice, 'are done with a whiting. Now Grifon dubokim glasom, "ne čiste se crnilom
you know.' nego bjelilom. Sad znaš."
igru", reče Alisa, sva srećna što se igra najzad
završila. "I vrlo mi se sviđa ta čudna pjesma o ribi
bjelici!"
"Oh, što se tiče riba bjelica", reče Lažna
Kornjača, "Ti – ti si ih već vidjela, naravno?"
"Jesam", reče Alisa, "često sam ih viđala u
tanj...", ali se brzo ugrize za jezik.
"Ja ne znam gdje ti je taj Tanj", reče Kornjača,
"ali ako si ih često viđala, onda, razumije se, znaš
kako izgledaju."
"Čini mi se da znam", odgovori Alisa
premišljajući. "Repovi su im zataknuti u usta – i
uvaljane su u mrvice."
"To o mrvicama nemaš pravo", reče Lažna
Kornjača, "jer bi mrvice spralo more. Ali su im
repovi zataknuti u usta. A razlog tome..." ovdje
Kornjača zijevnu i sklopi oči. "Kaži joj razlog i
sve ostalo", reče ona Grifonu.
"Razlog je", reče Grifon, "što su htiele da plešu sa
jastozima. Zato su morale biti bačene u more.
Zato su morale pasti daleko. Zato su čvrsto
zatakle repove u usta. Zato ih poslije nisu mogle
izvaditi. To je sve."
"Hvala vam!", reče Alisa, "Veoma je zanimljivo.
Nikad dosad nisam toliko znala o bjelicama."
"Ako hoćeš, mogu ti ja ispričati još i više!" reče
Grifon. "Znaš li zašto se zovu bjelice?"
"Nikad o tom nisam razmišljala", reče Alisa.
"Zašto?"
"Čiste čizme i cipele!", odgovori Grifon vrlo
svečanim glasom.
Alisa se potpuno zbuni. "Čiste čizme i cipele?!,
ponovi začuđeno.
"Pa, eto, čime ti sve cipele čistiš?", zapita Grifon.
"Mislim, kako su tako uglancane?"
Alisa ih pogleda i malo razmisli prije no što
odgovori: "Mislim da su premazane crnilom."
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'And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a tone
of great curiosity.
'Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied
rather impatiently: 'any shrimp could have told you
that.'
'If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts
were still running on the song, 'I'd have said to the
porpoise, "Keep back, please: we don't want you
with us!"'
'They were obliged to have him with them,' the
Mock Turtle said: 'no wise fish would go anywhere
without a porpoise.'
'Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great
surprise.
'Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: 'why, if a fish
came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I
should say "With what porpoise?"'
'Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.
'I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an
offended tone. And the Gryphon added 'Come, let's
hear some of your adventures.'
'I could tell you my adventures--beginning from
this morning,' said Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no
use going back to yesterday, because I was a
different person then.'
'Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.
'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in
an impatient tone: 'explanations take such a
dreadful time.'
So Alice began telling them her adventures from
the time when she first saw the White Rabbit. She
was a little nervous about it just at first, the two
creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and
opened their eyes and mouths so very wide, but she
gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were
perfectly quiet till she got to the part about her
repeating 'You are old, Father William,' to the
Caterpillar, and the words all coming different, and
then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said
'That's very curious.'
'It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the
Gryphon.
"A od čega su napravljene?", upita Alisa
radoznalo.
"Od tabinja i jegulja, naravno", odgovori Grifon
prilično nestrpljivo. "Svaka bi ti i najobičnija
školjka umjela na to odgovoriti."
"Da sam ja bila namjesto ribice", reče Alisa po
čijoj se glavi još vrzmala pjesma, "rekla bih trilju:
Odmakni se, moliću. Ne želimo tvoje društvo!"
"Morale su biti s njim u društvu", odvrati Lažna
Kornjača. "Nijedna pametna riba nikud ne ide bez
trilja."
"Zaista?", zapita Alisa veoma iznenađena.
"Naravno", reče Lažnja Kornjača. "Eto, kad bi
neka riba sad došla k meni i rekla da ide na put, ja
bih je upitala: 'Sa kojim triljem'?"
"Misliš, ciljem,?" zapita Alisa.
"Mislim ono što kažem", odvrati Kornjača
uvrijeđeno. A Grifon dodade: "Hajde, ti nam
ispričaj koji svoj doživljaj!"
"Mogla bih vam ispričati svoje doživljaje – tek
odjutros", reče Alisa bojažljivo. "Ne bi imalo
smisla vraćati se na juče, pošto sam onda bila
sasvim druga osoba."
"Objasni to!", reče Kornjača.
"Nemoj, nemoj! Prvo ispričaj doživljaj!", reče
Grifon nestrpljivo. "Objašnjenja se uvijek strašno
otegnu."
Tako im Alisa poče da prepričava svoje zgode i
nezgode od onoga časa kad je prvi put ugledala
Bijelog Zeca. U početku se malko plašila, jer su
joj se oboje bili toliko približili, jedno s jedne,
drugo s druge strane, izbečivši oči i razjapivši
usta. Ali što je dalje odmicala, postajala je sve
odvažnija. Slušali su je potpuno mirno sve dok ne
prispje do onog mjesta kad je Gusjenici počela da
recituje "Star si, oče Viljeme", a sve riječi ispale
drukčije. Onda Kornjača duboko uzdahnu i reče:
"Vrlo čudno!"
"Čudno da ne može biti čudnije!, reče Grifon.

'It all came different!' the Mock Turtle repeated
thoughtfully. 'I should like to hear her try and repeat
something now. Tell her to begin.' He looked at the
Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of
authority over Alice.
'Stand up and repeat "'Tis the voice of the
sluggard,"' said the Gryphon.
'How the creatures order one about, and make one
repeat lessons!' thought Alice; 'I might as well be at
school at once.' However, she got up, and began to
repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster
Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was
saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
''Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my
hair."
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his
toes.'
'That's different from what I used to say when I was
a child,' said the Gryphon.
'Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle;
'but it sounds uncommon nonsense.'
Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face
in her hands, wondering if anything would ever
happen in a natural way again.
'I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock
Turtle.
'She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go
on with the next verse.'
'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted.
'How could he turn them out with his nose, you
know?'
'It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but
was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and
longed to change the subject.
'Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated
impatiently: 'it begins "I passed by his garden."'
Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it Alisa ne smjede da ga ne posluša, iako je bila
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"Sve je ispalo drukčije!", ponovi Kornjača
zamišljeno. "Voljela bih kad bi šta izrecitovala
sada. Reci joj da počne!" Gledala je u Grifona
kao da je vjerovala da on posjeduje nekakvu moć
na Alisom.
"Ustani i recituj: 'To je ljenjivčev glas'", reče
Grifon.
"Ala ovi naređuju i tjeraju me da ponavljam
lekcije!", pomisli Alisa. "Mirne duše sam mogla
onda biti i u školi!" Ipak ustade i poče da recituje,
ali po glavi joj se neprestano motao samo
Jastogov kadril, te takoreći nije ni znala šta
govori, pa pjesma uistinu ispade vrlo čudno.
To jastogov je glas. Čuh ga kako osu:
"Prepržili ste me, sad moram pošećeriti kosu!"
Baš kao patak kapkom očnim, i on nosom tako
Namješta pojas i dugmad i okreće stopala lako.
"To je drukčije od onoga što sam ja recitovao kad
sam bio mali", reče Grifon.
"Istina, ja tu pjesmu nikad nisam ni čula", reče
Kornjača, "ali mi zvuči vrlo besmisleno."
Alisa ništa ne reče. Sjedjela je lica zagnjurenog u
ruke i pitala se da li će se ikad više išta zbivati na
prirodan način.
"Voljela bih kad bi mi se to objasnilo" javi se
Kornjača.
"Ona to ne umije objasniti", žurno reče Grifon.
"Prelazi na drugu strofu."
"Ali ono sa stopalima?", Kornjača je bila uporna.
"Kako ih je mogao" okrenuti nosom?"
"Pa to je prva figura u plesu", reče Alisa, ali je
bila zbog svega toga strašno zbunjena i jedva je
čekala da se o nečem drugom počne razgovarati.
"Prelazi na drugu strofu!" ponovi Grifon.
"Počinje riječima: Prolazeć kraj njegove bašte"
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would all come wrong, and she went on in a sigurna da će sve ispasti naopako, i nastavi
trembling voice:-- drhtavim glasom:
'I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--'
'What is the use of repeating all that stuff,' the
Mock Turtle interrupted, 'if you don't explain it as
you go on? It's by far the most confusing thing I
ever heard!'
'Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the
Gryphon: and Alice was only too glad to do so.
'Shall we try another figure of the Lobster
Quadrille?' the Gryphon went on. 'Or would you
like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?'
'Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so
kind,' Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon
said, in a rather offended tone, 'Hm! No accounting
for tastes! Sing her "Turtle Soup," will you, old
fellow?'
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a
voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this:--
'Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
'Beautiful Soup!
Who cares for fish,
Game, or any other dish?
Who would not give all else for two
pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!'
'Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock
Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of
"Prolazeć kraj njegove bašte, tako mi istine
cijele,
Ugledah kako Sova i Panter burek dijele.
"Kakvo li ima smisla ponavljati sve te
besmislice", prekide je Lažna Kornjača, "ukoliko
usput ne objašnjavaš. To je najluđa stvar koju sam
ikad čula."
"I ja mislim da je najbolje da prekineš", reče
Grifon i Alisa to jedva dočeka.
"Hoćemo li isprobati još jednu figuru Jastogovog
kadrila?", nastavi Grifon. "Ili bi više voljela da ti
Kornjača otjpeva koju, pjesmu?"
"Oh, pjesmu, ako bi Kornjača bila toliko
ljubazna", odgovori Alisa tako živo da Grifon,
pomalo uvrijeđen, reče: "Hm! O ukusima se ne
raspravlja! Otpjevaj joj 'Kornjačinu čorbu', hoćeš
li, starino?"
Kornjača duboko uzdahnu i zapjeva glasom koji
su kadikad gušili jecaji:
"Krasna čorba, zelena i masna
U zdjeli čeka topla i slasna!
Ko te tako divnu, čorbo, ne bi prob'o
Čorbo večerice, krasna čorbice!
Čorbo večerice, krasna čorbice!
Kraa-aasna čoo-oorbice!
Kraa-aasna čoo-oorbice!
Čoo-oorbo vee-eečerice
Krasna, krasna čorbice!
Krasna čorbo!
Ko za ribu mari,
Divljač ili druge stvari?
Ko se ne bi odrekao i najveće gozbe,
Da bi mog'o kušat makar malo čorbe?
Makar malo čorbe?
Kra-aasna čoo-oorbo!
Kra-aasna čoo-oorbo!
Čoo-oorbo vee-eečerice!
Krasna, kraa-aasna ČORBICE!"
"Opet hor!", uviknu Grifon i samo što Kornjača
poče da ponavlja zadnje stihove, kad u daljini
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'The trial's beginning!' was heard in the distance.
'Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by
the hand, it hurried off, without waiting for the end
of the song.
'What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the
Gryphon only answered 'Come on!' and ran the
faster, while more and more faintly came, carried
on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy
words:--
'Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!'
CHAPTER XI
Who Stole the Tarts?
The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their
throne when they arrived, with a great crowd
assembled about them--all sorts of little birds and
beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the
Knave was standing before them, in chains, with a
soldier on each side to guard him; and near the
King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one
hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other. In the
very middle of the court was a table, with a large
dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it
made Alice quite hungry to look at them--'I wish
they'd get the trial done,' she thought, 'and hand
round the refreshments!' But there seemed to be no
chance of this, so she began looking at everything
about her, to pass away the time.
Alice had never been in a court of justice before,
but she had read about them in books, and she was
quite pleased to find that she knew the name of
nearly everything there. 'That's the judge,' she said
to herself, 'because of his great wig.'
The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he
wore his crown over the wig, (look at the
frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,) he
did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly
not becoming.
'And that's the jury-box,' thought Alice, 'and those
odjeknu: "Počinje suđenje!"
"Hajdemo!", uzviknu Grifon i uzevši Alisu za
ruku pohrli i ne sačekavši kraj pjesme.
"Kakvo je to suđenje?", zapita Alisa sva zadihana
od silne trke, ali Grifon samo reče: "Hajdemo!", i
potrča još brže. Sve tiše i tiše odzvanjale su sad
sjetne riječi što ih je do njih donosio lahor:
"Čorbo vee-eečerice,
Krasna, krasna čorbice!"
Glava XI
KO JE UKRAO KOLAČE
Kad Alisa i Grifon stigoše, Kralj i Kraljica su već
sjedjeli na prijestolju, a oko njih se natisla čitava
gomila – sve vrste ptičica i zvjerki kao i cijeli špil
karata. Pred njima je stajao Pub-Herc u lancima
okovan, a sa svake strane čuvao ga je po jedan
vojnik. Blizu Kralja stajao je Bijeli Zec. U jednoj
ruci držao je trubu a u drugoj svitak pergamenta.
Nasred sudnice nalazio se sto a na njemu velika
zdjela kolača. Izgledali su tako ukusni da Alisi,
samo što ih pogleda, pođe voda na usta. "Da se
hoće suđenje što prije završiti, pa da nas posluže
kolačima!" Ali bila je sva prilika da od toga ništa
nema, i da bi joj prošlo vrijeme, poče da se
obazire oko sebe.
Alisa još nikad nije bila u sudu, ali je o sudovima
čitala u knjigama, i vrlo se obradova kad vidje da
zna maltene sve kako se tu šta zove. "Ono je
sudija", reče u sebi, jer na glavi ima veliku
periku.
Uzgred rečeno, sudija je bio sam Kralj. I pošto je
krunu stavio preko perike, kao da se osjećao vrlo
nelagodno, a ruku na srce, nije mu dobro ni
pristajalo.
"A ono je pregrada sa klupama za porotnike",
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twelve creatures,' (she was obliged to say
'creatures,' you see, because some of them were
animals, and some were birds,) 'I suppose they are
the jurors.' She said this last word two or three
times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for
she thought, and rightly too, that very few little
girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all.
However, 'jury-men' would have done just as well.
The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on
slates. 'What are they doing?' Alice whispered to
the Gryphon. 'They can't have anything to put down
yet, before the trial's begun.'
'They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon
whispered in reply, 'for fear they should forget them
before the end of the trial.'
'Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant
voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit
cried out, 'Silence in the court!' and the King put on
his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make
out who was talking. Alice could see, as well as if
she were looking over their shoulders, that all the
jurors were writing down 'stupid things!' on their
slates, and she could even make out that one of
them didn't know how to spell 'stupid,' and that he
had to ask his neighbour to tell him. 'A nice muddle
their slates'll be in before the trial's over!' thought
Alice.
One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This
of course, Alice could not stand, and she went
round the court and got behind him, and very soon
found an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so
quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the
Lizard) could not make out at all what had become
of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was
obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the
day; and this was of very little use, as it left no
mark on the slate.
'Herald, read the accusation!' said the King.
On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the
trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scroll,
pomisli Alisa, "a onih dvanaest stvorenja (znaš,
morala je kazati "stvorenja", pošto su neka od
njih bila životinje a neka ptice) mislim da su
porotnici." Ovu posljednju riječ ponovi u sebi
dva-tri puta. Bila je na nju vrlo ponosna, jer je
pomislila, i to s pravom, da vrlo malo djevojčica
njenih godina zna šta ta riječ uopšte i znači.
Međutim, sasvim dobro bi bilo da je rekla i
"sudski prisuditelji".
Svih dvanaest porotnika su vrlo marljivo pisali
nešto po tablicama. "Šta to oni rade?", Alisa tiho
zapita Grifona. "Nemaju šta da zapisuju kad
suđenje još nije ni počelo."
"Zapisuju svoja imena!", odgovori šapatom
Grifon. "Boje se da ih ne zaborave prije no što se
suđenje završi."
"Glupani", otpoče Alisa glasno i ljutito, ali naglo
ušutje jer Bijeli Zec uzviknu: "Tišina u sudnici!",
a Kralj nataknu naočare i srdito se osvrnu da vidi
ko to govori. Baš kao da im je virila preko
ramena, Alisa pogodi da svi porotnici na
tablicama pišu "Glupani!", i čak pogodi da jedan
od njih ne zna kako da tu riječ napiše, pa morade
priupitati svog susjeda. "Te njihove tablice će do
kraja suđenja postati prave papazjanije!", pomisli
Alisa.
Pisaljka jednog porotnika je škripala. Alisa to,
naravno, nije mogla da podnese, zato pređe na
drugu stranu sudnice, stade mu iza leđa i domalo
ugrabi priliku da mu je otme. Uradila je to toliko
vješto, da jadni mali porotnik (bio je to gušter
Bil) nije uopšte znao šta mu se zbilo sa pisaljkom.
Pošto je sve unaokolo uzaludno pretražio, bio je
prinuđen da cijelo vrijeme piše prstom. Ali od
toga je bilo slabe koristi, jer prst na tablici nije
ostavljao baš nikakvog traga.
"Glasniče, pročitaj optužbu!", naredi Kralj.
Na to Bijeli Zec tri puta zatrubi, onda razvi
pergamentski svitak i poče da čita:
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and read as follows:--

'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, "Kraljica-Herc napravi kolače
All on a summer day: Jednog ljetnog dana – nek znano je svima,
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, Pub-Herc ukrade te kolače
And took them quite away!' I odmagli s njima!"
'Consider your verdict,' the King said to the jury. "Razmislite o presudi!", obrati se Kralj
porotnicima.
'Not yet, not yet!' the Rabbit hastily interrupted. "Još je rano, još je rano!", žurno upade Zec. "Ima
'There's a great deal to come before that!' još mnogo šta prije toga!"
'Call the first witness,' said the King; and the White "Pozovite prvog svjedoka!", reče Kralj a Bijeli
Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called Zec tri puta zatrubi i uzviknu: "Prvi svjedok!"
out, 'First witness!'
The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a Prvi svjedok je bio Šeširdžija. Ušao je držeći u
teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter jednoj ruci šolju za čaj, a u drugoj parče hljeba sa
in the other. 'I beg pardon, your Majesty,' he began, maslacem. "Oprostite, vaše veličanstvo", otpoče,
'for bringing these in: but I hadn't quite finished my "što unosim ovo. Ali pozvali su me prije no što
tea when I was sent for.' sam uspio da popijem čaj."
'You ought to have finished,' said the King. 'When "Trebalo je da ga popiješ", reče Kralj. "Kad si
did you begin?' počeo?"
The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had Šeširdžija pogleda Martovskog Kunića koji je u
followed him into the court, arm-in-arm with the sudnicu ušao odmah iza njega, ruku pod ruku sa
Dormouse. 'Fourteenth of March, I think it was,' he Puhom. "Mislim da je bio četrnaesti mart!", reče.
said.
'Fifteenth,' said the March Hare. "Petnaesti", reče Martovski Kunić.
'Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse. "Šesnaesti", dodake Puh.
'Write that down,' the King said to the jury, and the "Zapišite to!", reče Kralj porotnicima, i porotnici
jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their brže-bolje zabilježiše na svoje tablice sva tri
slates, and then added them up, and reduced the datuma, a onda ih sabraše i rezultat pretvoriše u
answer to shillings and pence. šilinge i penije.
'Take off your hat,' the King said to the Hatter. "Skini šešir!", reče Kralj Šeširdžiji.
'It isn't mine,' said the Hatter. "Nije moj!", odvrati Šeširdžija.
'Stolen!' the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, "Ukradeni", uskliknu Kralj okrenuvši se
who instantly made a memorandum of the fact. porotnicima koji istog časa to zapisaše.
'I keep them to sell,' the Hatter added as an "Ja šešire prodajem", objasni Šeširdžija. "Nijedan
explanation; 'I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.' nije moj. Ja sam Šeširdžija." Tog časa Kraljica
Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began nataknu na nos naočare i poče netremice da bulji
staring at the Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted. u Šeširdžiju koji problijedje i uzvrpolji se.
'Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be "Podnesi iskaz!", reče Kralj. "I ne vrpolji se,
nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot.' inače ću narediti da ti se na licu mjesta odsiječe
glava."
This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: Izgleda da ovo baš nimalo ne ohrabri svjedoka.
he kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking Neprestano se premještao s noge na nogu,
uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit a pogledajući zabrinuto Kraljicu i u zabuni umjesto
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large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread- hljeba odgrize poveliko parče šolje.
and-butter.
Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious Upravo tog trena Alisu prože neko čudno
sensation, which puzzled her a good deal until she osjećanje koje je strašno smete dok ne uvidje o
made out what it was: she was beginning to grow čemu se radi. Opet je počela da raste i u prvi mah
larger again, and she thought at first she would get pomisli da se digne i napusti sudnicu. Ali se
up and leave the court; but on second thoughts she predomisli i odluči da ostane tu gdje je, sve dok
decided to remain where she was as long as there bude imala mjesta.
was room for her.
'I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.' said the "Ne guraj se toliko!", reče Puh koji je sjedio uz
Dormouse, who was sitting next to her. 'I can nju. "Jedva dišem."
hardly breathe.'
'I can't help it,' said Alice very meekly: 'I'm "Ja tu ništa ne mogu", reče Alisa smjerno.
growing.' "Rastem."
'You've no right to grow here,' said the Dormouse. "Nemaš nikakvog prava da rasteš ovdje", reče
Puh.
'Don't talk nonsense,' said Alice more boldly: 'you "Ne govori koješta!", reče Alisa smjelije. "Znaš
know you're growing too.' da i ti rasteš."
'Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the "Da, ali ja rastem umjereno", na to će Puh. "A ne
Dormouse: 'not in that ridiculous fashion.' And he na tako smiješan način." I on ljutito ustade i pređe
got up very sulkily and crossed over to the other na drugu stranu sudnice.
side of the court.
All this time the Queen had never left off staring at Za sve to vrijeme Kraljica nije skidala očiju sa
the Hatter, and, just as the Dormouse crossed the Šeširdžije, i baš kad je Puh prelazio preko
court, she said to one of the officers of the court, sudnice, reče jednom od dvorjana: "Donesi mi
'Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!' popis pjevača na posljednjem koncertu!", na što
on which the wretched Hatter trembled so, that he jadni Seširdžija toliko poče da se trese da mu
shook both his shoes off. spadoše s nogu obje cipele.
'Give your evidence,' the King repeated angrily, 'or "Podnesi iskaz!", ponovi Kralj ljutito. "Inače ću
I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or narediti da te pogube, drhtao ga ne drhtao!"
not.'
'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' the Hatter began, in "Ja sam jedan bijedni siromašak, vaše
a trembling voice, '--and I hadn't begun my tea--not veličanstvo" otpoče Šeširdžija drhtavim glasom,
above a week or so--and what with the bread-and- "i nisam još bio ni sjeo za čaj... nema tome više
butter getting so thin--and the twinkling of the tea--'
od jedne sedmice ili tako nešto... a o hljebu i
maslacu da i ne pričam, postali su takva tanjež... i
svjetlucanje čaja..."
'The twinkling of the what?' said the King. "Svjetlucanje?", zapita Kralj.
'It began with the tea,' the Hatter replied. "Počelo je sa s...", odgovori Šeširdžija.
'Of course twinkling begins with a T!' said the King "Naravno da svjetlucanje počinje sa S", reče kralj
sharply. 'Do you take me for a dunce? Go on!' oštro. "Misliš da sam budala? Nastavi!"
'I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, 'and most "Ja sam bijedni siromašak", nastavi Šeširdžija, "i
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things twinkled after that--only the March Hare
said--'
'I didn't!' the March Hare interrupted in a great
hurry.
'You did!' said the Hatter.
'I deny it!' said the March Hare.
'He denies it,' said the King: 'leave out that part.'
'Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--' the Hatter
went on, looking anxiously round to see if he would
deny it too: but the Dormouse denied nothing,
being fast asleep.
'After that,' continued the Hatter, 'I cut some more
bread- and-butter--'
'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury
asked.
'That I can't remember,' said the Hatter.
'You must remember,' remarked the King, 'or I'll
have you executed.'
The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-
and-butter, and went down on one knee.
'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' he began.
'You're a very poor speaker,' said the King.
Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was
immediately suppressed by the officers of the court.
(As that is rather a hard word, I will just explain to
you how it was done. They had a large canvas bag,
which tied up at the mouth with strings: into this
they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat
upon it.)
'I'm glad I've seen that done,' thought Alice. 'I've so
often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials,
"There was some attempts at applause, which was
immediately suppressed by the officers of the
court," and I never understood what it meant till
now.'
'If that's all you know about it, you may stand
down,' continued the King.
'I can't go no lower,' said the Hatter: 'I'm on the
floor, as it is.'
'Then you may sit down,' the King replied.
Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was
mnogo štošta je svjetlucalo poslije toga – jedino
je Martovski Kunić rekao..."
"Nisam", upade žurno Martovski Kunić.
"Jesi!", reče Šeširdžija.
"Poričem!", reče Martovski Kunić.
"On poriče!", reče Kralj. "Ispusti taj dio."
"Pa, eto, u svakom slučaju Puh je rekao", produži
Šeširdžija, zabrinuto se osvrnuvši da vidi hoće li i
Puh poricati. Ali Puh ništa nije poricao pošto je
spavao dubokim snom.
"Poslije toga", reče Šeširdžija, "odrezao sam još
malo hljeba."
"Ali šta je Puh rekao?", zapita jedan od porotnika.
"Toga se ne mogu sjetiti", reče Šeširdžija.
"Moraš se sjetiti!", primijeti Kralj. "Inače češ biti
pogubljen."
Jadnom šeširdžiji ispade iz ruku šolja za čaj i
hljeb sa maslacem i on se spusti na jedno koljeno.
"Ja sam bijedni siromašak, vaše veličanstvo",
otpoče.
"Ti si siromašan u govoru!", reče Kralj.
Na ovom mjestu jedno zamorče zapljeska, ali
istog časa sudski policajci zavedoše red. (Pošto je
to prilično nerazumljiv izraz, odmah ću ti ga
objasniti. Policajci su imali jednu veliku vreću od
grubog platna koja se pri otvoru vezivala
konopcem. U nju su naglavačke ugurali zamorče,
vreću zavezali i sjeli na nju.)
"Baš mi je drago što sam vidjela kako se to radi",
pomisli Alisa. "Toliko puta sam čitala u novinama
povodom izvještaja sa suđenja: "Bilo je pokušaja
pljeskanja, ali je sudska policija odmah zavela
red, a nikad dosada nisam znala šta to znači."
"Ako je to sve što znaš o toj stvari, možeš sići",
nastavi Kralj.
"Kako mogu sići", reče Šeširdžija, "kad sam već
na podu."
"Onda možeš sjesti!", odvrati Kralj.
U tom času i drugo zamorče poče da plješće, ali
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suppressed.
'Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!' thought
Alice. 'Now we shall get on better.'
'I'd rather finish my tea,' said the Hatter, with an
anxious look at the Queen, who was reading the list
of singers.
'You may go,' said the King, and the Hatter
hurriedly left the court, without even waiting to put
his shoes on.
'--and just take his head off outside,' the Queen
added to one of the officers: but the Hatter was out
of sight before the officer could get to the door.
'Call the next witness!' said the King.
The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She
carried the pepper-box in her hand, and Alice
guessed who it was, even before she got into the
court, by the way the people near the door began
sneezing all at once.
'Give your evidence,' said the King.
'Shan't,' said the cook.
The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit,
who said in a low voice, 'Your Majesty must cross-
examine this witness.'
'Well, if I must, I must,' the King said, with a
melancholy air, and, after folding his arms and
frowning at the cook till his eyes were nearly out of
sight, he said in a deep voice, 'What are tarts made
of?'
'Pepper, mostly,' said the cook.
'Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.
'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out.
'Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of
court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his
whiskers!'
For some minutes the whole court was in
confusion, getting the Dormouse turned out, and,
by the time they had settled down again, the cook
had disappeared.
'Never mind!' said the King, with an air of great
relief. 'Call the next witness.' And he added in an
undertone to the Queen, 'Really, my dear, you must
sudska policija i ovaj put zavede red.
"Zamorčići su sad obrali bostan!" pomisli Alisa.
"Sad će ići brže."
"Rado bih dovršio svoj čaj", reče Šeširdžija,
zabrinuto pogledajući Kraljicu koja je čitala popis
pjevača.
"Možeš ići!", reče Kralj i Šeširdžija izletje iz
sudnice ne stigavši čak ni da obuje cipele.
"A napolju mu odsijecite glavu!", dobaci Kraljica
jednom sudskom policajcu. Ali prije no što je
policajac i dospio do vrata, Šeširdžiji ne bijaše ni
traga ni glasa.
"Pozovite sljedećeg svjedoka!", reče Kralj.
Sljedeći svjedok je bila Vojvotkinjina kuharica. U
ruci je držala bibernicu, ali čak i prije no što je
ušla u sudnicu, Alisa je pogodila ko je sljedeći
svjedok po tome što su svi oni koji su stajali kod
vrata, počeli odmah da kišu.
"Podnesi iskaz!", reče Kralj.
"Neću!", odvrati kuharica.
Kralj zabrinuto pogleda u Bijelog Zeca koji mu
šapnu: "Ovom svjedoku vaše veličanstvo mora
postavljati unakrsna pitanja."
"Pa ako se mora, mora!", reče Kralj žalosno, pa
skrstivši ruke gledaše u kuharicu toliko smrknuto,
da mu se obrve gotovo sasvim sastaviše. "Od
čega se prave kolači?"
"Uglavnom od bibera", odgovori kuharica.
"Od mekmeza!", javi se neki sanjiv glas iza nje.
"Ščepajte tog Puha!", podvrisnu Kraljica.
"Odsijecite tom Puhu glavu! Izbacite tog Puha iz
sudnice! Ugušite ga! Uštinite ga! Iščupajte mu
brkove!"
I dok su izbacivali Puha, u sudnici se nekoliko
časaka nije znalo ni ko pije ni ko plaća, a kad se
sve opet stiša, kuharice više nije bilo.
"Nije ni važno!", reče Kralj s velikim olakšanjem.
"Pozovite idućeg svjedoka!" I poluglasno dodade
Kraljici: "Zaista, draga, idućem svjedoku ćeš ti
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cross-examine the next witness. It quite makes my
forehead ache!'
Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over
the list, feeling very curious to see what the next
witness would be like, '--for they haven't got much
evidence yet,' she said to herself. Imagine her
surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top
of his shrill little voice, the name 'Alice!'
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 jurymen 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 accidentally upset the week
before.
'Oh, I beg your pardon!' she exclaimed 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 melancholy 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; 'I should think it
would be quite as much use in the trial one way up
as the other.'
As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the
morati da postavljaš unakrsna pitanja. Mene već
boli glava!"
Alisa je promatrala Bijelog Zeca kako premeće
po spisku, radoznala da sazna ko će biti sljedeći
svjedok. "Jer još uvijek nisu prikupili dovoljno
dokaza", reče u sebi. Možeš zamisliti koliko se
iznenadi kad svojim piskavim glasićem Bijeli Zec
iz petnih žila podviknu: "Alisa!"
Glava XII
ALISIN ISKAZ
"Ovdje!", poviče Alisa i, onako zbunjena,
potpuno zaboravi koliko je porasla za ovih
nekoliko posljednjih časaka i skoči tako žustro da
krajem suknje preturi porotničku pregradu, te svi
porotnici popadaše sa klupa na glave onima što su
sjedjeli u sudnici i stadoše se koprcati, što Alisu
uvelike podsjeti na staklenu kuglu sa zlatnim
ribicama koju je prošle nedjelje slučajno
prevrnula.
"Oh, oprostite, molim vas!", uzviknu sva
prestravljena i brže-bolje stade da ih kupi, jer joj
se po glavi motao slučaj sa zlatnim ribicama i
nekako joj se činilo da porotnike mora što prije
pokupiti i vratiti ih na klupe, inače im nema
života.
"Suđenje se ne može nastaviti", reče Kralj vrlo
važnim glasom, "sve dok se svi porotnici ne vrate
na svoja prava mjesta – svi!", ponovi
naglašavajući i pri tom strogo gledajući u Alisu.
Alisa baci pogled na porotničke klupe i spazi da
je u žurbi Guštera okrenula naglavačke, i jadničak
je tužno mahao repom ne mogavši ni da mrdne.
Ona ga brzo izvuče i postavi kako treba. "Kao da
to opet nešto puno znači", reče u sebi. "Sigurna
sam da će od njega biti ista korist, bio ga okrenut
ovako il' onako."
Čim se porotnici malo oporaviše od straha poslije
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shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils
had been found and handed back to them, they set
to work very diligently to write out a history of the
accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too
much overcome to do anything but sit with its
mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
'What do you know about this business?' the King
said to Alice.
'Nothing,' said Alice.
'Nothing whatever?' persisted the King.
'Nothing whatever,' said Alice.
'That's very important,' the King said, turning to the "Ovo je važno", reče Kralj obrativši se
jury. They were just beginning to write this down
on their slates, when the White Rabbit interrupted:
'Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course,' he
said in a very respectful tone, but frowning and
making faces at him as he spoke.
'Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily
said, and went on to himself in an undertone,
'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--'
as if he were trying which word sounded best.
Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and
some 'unimportant.' Alice could see this, as she was
near enough to look over their slates; 'but it doesn't da je mogla priviriti u njihove tablice. "Ali to
matter a bit,' she thought to herself.
At this moment the King, who had been for some
time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out
'Silence!' and read out from his book, 'Rule Forty-
two. All persons more than a mile hight to leave the
court.'
Everybody looked at Alice.
'I'm not a mile high,' said Alice.
'You are,' said the King.
'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen.
'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: 'besides, "Ali ja neću otići ni u kom slučaju", reče Alisa.
that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.'
'It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.
'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice.
The King turned pale, and shut his note-book Kralj problijedje i hitro zaklopi svoju knjigu.
prevrtanja i čim im pronađoše i opet predadoše
tablice i pisaljke, oni marljivo prionuše na posao
da napisu izvještaj o ovoj nezgodi, svi osim
Guštera, koji je, kako izgleda, bio toliko uzbuđen
da nije bio ni za šta, nego je sjedio otvorenih usta
zureći u strop sudnice.
"Šta ti znaš o ovoj stvari?", upita Kralj Alisu.
"Ništa", reče Alisa.
"Baš ništa?", Kralj je bio uporan.
"Baš ništa", odvrati Alisa.
porotnicima. Oni su upravo htjeli da ovo
pribilježe na svoje tablice, kad upade Bijeli Zec:
"Nevažno, to je, razumije se, mislilo vaše
veličanstvo!" reče sa velikim poštovanjem, ali
pritom se na Kralja mrštio i kreveljio.
"Nevažno, naravno, to sam mislio, reče Kralj
žurno i poluglasno stade u sebi da ponavlja:
"Važno – nevažno – nevažno – važno", kao da je
isprobavao šta bolje zvuči.
Neki porotnici zapisaše "važno", a neki
"nevažno". Alisa to zapazi jer je bila toliko blizu
uopšte ne mijenja stvar!", pomisli u sebi.
U tom trenutku Kralj, koji je neko vrijeme nešto
marljivo zapisivao u svoju bilježnicu, uzviknu:
"Tišina!" i pročita iz knjige: "Paragraf četrdeset i
drugi: 'Sve osobe koje su više od jednog i po
kilometra moraju napustiti sudnicu.'"
Svi pogledaše u Alisu.
"Ja nisam visoka jedan i po kilometar", reče
Alisa.
"Jesi!", odvrati Kralj.
"Viša si od tri kilometra!", dodade Kraljica.
"Uostalom, to nije stalni paragraf. Tek sad ste ga
izmislili."
"To je najstariji paragraf u knjizi", reče Kralj.
"Onda treba da bude pod brojem jedan", reče
Alisa.
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hastily. 'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury,
in a low, trembling voice.
'There's more evidence to come yet, please your
Majesty,' said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a
great hurry; 'this paper has just been picked up.'
'What's in it?' said the Queen.
'I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, 'but
it seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to--to
somebody.'
'It must have been that,' said the King, 'unless it was
written to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.'
'Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen.
'It isn't directed at all,' said the White Rabbit; 'in
fact, there's nothing written on the outside.' He
unfolded the paper as he spoke, and added 'It isn't a
letter, after all: it's a set of verses.'
'Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked
another of they jurymen.
'No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, 'and that's
the queerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked
puzzled.)
'He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said
the King. (The jury all brightened up again.)
'Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't write
it, and they can't prove I did: there's no name signed
at the end.'
'If you didn't sign it,' said the King, 'that only makes
the matter worse. You must have meant some
mischief, or else you'd have signed your name like
an honest man.'
There was a general clapping of hands at this: it
was the first really clever thing the King had said
that day.
'That proves his guilt,' said the Queen.
'It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. 'Why, you
don't even know what they're about!'
'Read them,' said the King.
The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.
'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he
asked.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and
"Razmotrite presudu!", reče poroti tihim,
drhtavim glasom.
"Postoji još jedno svjedočanstvo, vaše
veličanstvo!", reče Bijeli Zec žurno priskočivši
"Upravo je pronađena ova cedulja."
"Šta piše na njoj?", upita kraljica.
"Nisam je još otvorio", reče Bijeli Zec, "ali mi se
čini da bi moglo biti pismo koje je – nekome –
nekome napisao optuženi."
"A i kako bi moglo biti drukčije", reče Kralj,
"ukoliko nije napisano nikome, a to baš nije
uobičajeno."
"Kome je upućeno?", zapita jedan porotnik.
"Nije ni upućeno", reče Bijeli Zec. "U stvari
spolja ništa ne piše." I govoreći to, razmota
cedulju i dodade: "Ipak nije pismo. Tu su neki
stihovi."
"Jesu li napisani optuženikovim rukopisom?",
zapita drugi porotnik.
"Ne nisu", reče Bijeli Zec, "i to je pri tom
najčudnije." (Svi porotnici se zbunjeno zgledaše.)
"Mora da je oponašao nečiji tuđi rukopis", reče
Kralj. (Porotnici se opet razvedriše.)
"Molim vaše veličanstvo", reče Pub-Herc, ja to
nisam pisao i oni ne mogu dokazati da jesam. Na
kraju nema nikakvog potpisa."
"Ako ga nisi potpisao", reče Kralj, "utoliko gore.
Mora da ti je u glavi bila nekakva ujdurma, inače
bi se potpisao kao svaki pošten čovjek."
Tad svi zapljeskaše. To je zaista bila prva
pametna stvar što ju je Kralj danas izrekao.
"To dokazuje njegovu krivicu!", reče Kraljica.
"To ništa ne dokazuje!", reče Alisa. "hajde, ne
znate čak ni kakvi su stihovi!"
"Pročitaj ih!", reče Kralj.
Bijeli Zec nataknu naočare.
"Odakle da počnem, moliću vaše veličanstvo?",
zapita.
"Počni od početka!", reče Kralj važno, "i čitaj dok
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go on till you come to the end: then stop.'
These were the verses the White Rabbit read:--
'They told me you had been to her,
And mentioned me to him:
She gave me a good character,
But said I could not swim.
He sent them word I had not gone
(We know it to be true):
If she should push the matter on,
What would become of you?
I gave her one, they gave him two,
You gave us three or more;
They all returned from him to you,
Though they were mine before.
If I or she should chance to be
Involved in this affair,
He trusts to you to set them free,
Exactly as we were.
My notion was that you had been
(Before she had this fit)
An obstacle that came between
Him, and ourselves, and it.
Don't let him know she liked them best,
For this must ever be
A secret, kept from all the rest,
Between yourself and me.'
'That's the most important piece of evidence we've
heard yet,' said the King, rubbing his hands; 'so
now let the jury--'
'If any one of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she
had grown so large in the last few minutes that she
wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting him,) 'I'll give him
sixpence. _I_ don't believe there's an atom of
meaning in it.'
The jury all wrote down on their slates, 'She doesn't
believe there's an atom of meaning in it,' but none
of them attempted to explain the paper.
'If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, 'that
saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't
try to find any. And yet I don't know,' he went on,
spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at
them with one eye; 'I seem to see some meaning in
them, after all. "-said I could not swim--" you can't
swim, can you?' he added, turning to the Knave.
ne dođeš do kraja. Onda stani."
Ovo su stihovi koje je pročitao Bijeli Zec:
Rekoše mi da si bio kod nje
I izručio mu pozdrave moje,
O meni je imala lijepo mišljenje,
Al' da ne umijem plivati, kazala je.
Da nisam otišao, glas im šalje,
A da ne laže, znamo.
Ako bi tjerala stvar dalje,
Šta li bi bilo s tebe samo?
Dao sam joj jedan, dva su njemu dali,
Ti nam dade tri ili još koji,
Od njeg su sve tebi vratili,
Iako su prije bili moji.
Ako ćemo ja il' ona biti
Upleteni u ovu stvar,
Uzda se da ćeš ih osloboditi
Baš kao što si i nas.
Mislio sam da si bio
Do ispada njenog posljednjega
Kamen smutnje što se postavio
Između onog, nas i njega.
Ne reci mu da ih je voljela ljubavlju bezmjernom
Jer to zauvijek mora ostati
Između mene i tebe tajnom,
Za koju niko ne smije znati.
"Ovo je najvažniji iskaz što smo ga dosad čuli",
reče Kralj trljajući ruke, "i sad neka porotnici..."
"Ako ih ijedan od njih umjedne objasniti", reče
Alisa, (za posljednjih nekoliko minuta toliko je
porasla da se baš nimalo nije bojala da ga
prekine) "daću mu marjaš. Ne vjerujem da i
trunke smisla ima u svemu tome."
Porotnici pribilježiše na svoje tablice: "Ona ne
vjeruje da i trunke smisla ima u svemu tome", ali
nijedan od njih i ne pokuša da stihove objasni.
"Ako u njima nema smisla", reče Kralj, "onda
nam je, znate, kudikamo lakše, jer se ne moramo
truditi da ga na silu iznalazimo. Pa ipak, ne
znam", nastavi – razastrijevši stihove na koljeno i
jednim okom virkajući u njih, "čini mi se da ja u
njima ipak vidim neki smisao." "Al' da ne umijem
plivati, kazala je. – Ti ne umiješ plivati, zar ne?",
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The Knave shook his head sadly.
'Do I look like it?' he said. (Which he certainly did
not, being made entirely of cardboard.)
'All right, so far,' said the King, and he went on
muttering over the verses to himself:
'"We know it to be true--" that's the jury, of course--
"I gave her one, they gave him two--" why, that
must be what he did with the tarts, you know--'
'But, it goes on "they all returned from him to you,"'
said Alice.
'Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly,
pointing to the tarts on the table. 'Nothing can be
clearer than that. Then again--"before she had this
fit--" you never had fits, my dear, I think?' he said
to the Queen.
'Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an
inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke. (The
unfortunate little Bill had left off writing on his
slate with one finger, as he found it made no mark;
but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that
was trickling down his face, as long as it lasted.)
'Then the words don't fit you,' said the King,
looking round the court with a smile. There was a
dead silence.
'It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and
everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their
verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time
that day.
'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first--verdict
afterwards.'
'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of
having the sentence first!'
'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
'I won't!' said Alice.
'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of
her voice. Nobody moved.
'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to
her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a
pack of cards!'
At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and
dodade obrativši se Pub-Hercu.
Pub tužno odmahnu glavom.
"Zar izgleda kao da umijem?", reče. (A zaista i
nije izgledalo, jer je sav bio od kartona.)
"Do sada je u redu", reče Kralj i nastavi
mrmljajući stihove u sebi:
"'A da ne laže, znamo' – to se, naravno, odnosi na
porotu." "'Dao sam joj jedan, dva su njemu dali' –
pa, eto, to mora da je uradio s kolačima, znate..."
"Ali dalje ide: 'Od njega su sve tebi vratili'" reče
Alisa.
"Pa eno ih!", Kralj će pobjedonosno pokazujući
kolače na stolu. "Sve je jasno kao dan." Onda
opet: "'Do ispada njenog posljednjega' – ja mislim
da ti, draga, nikad nisi pravila ispade?", reče
Kraljici.
"Nikad!", odgovori Kraljica bijesno i pritom baci
na Guštera tintarnicu. (Nesretni mali Bil se već
bio okanio pisanja jednim prstom, jer je uvidio da
na tablici ne ostavlja nikakav trag. Ali sad opet
brže-bolje poče da piše, zamačući prst u tintu koja
mu je curila niz lice, i to je radio dokle god je
tinte trajalo.)
"Onda ispada da se ove riječi ne odnose na tebe",
reče Kralj gledajući sa osmijehom po sudnici.
Zavlada grobna tišina.
"To je igra riječi!", reče Kralj uvrijeđeno i svi se
nasmijaše. "Neka porota pređe na suđenje!" reče
Kralj – možda već po dvadeseti put danas.
"Ne, ne!", na to će Kraljica. "Prvo osuda pa onda
suđenje!"
"Hajde ne lupetaj!", reče Alisa glasno. "Kako
osuda može doći prije suđenja!"
"Zaveži!", reče Kraljica pocrvenjevši.
"Neću!", odvrati Alisa.
"Odsijecite joj glavu!", uviknu Kraljica iz sveg
glasa. Niko ne mrdnu.
"Ko još vas šta zarezuje!", reče Alisa. (Već je bila
dostigla svoju pravu visinu.) "Vi ste samo špil
karata!"
Na to se čitav špil vinu u vazduh i poletje pravo
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came flying down upon her: she gave a little
scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to
beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank,
with her head in the lap of her sister, who was
gently brushing away some dead leaves that had
fluttered down from the trees upon her face.
'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a
long sleep you've had!'
'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and
she told her sister, as well as she could remember
them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you
have just been reading about; and when she had
finished, her sister kissed her, and said, 'It was a
curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to
your tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran
off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what
a wonderful dream it had been.
But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her
head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and
thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful
Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a
fashion, and this was her dream:--
First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once
again the tiny hands were clasped upon her knee,
and the bright eager eyes were looking up into
hers--she could hear the very tones of her voice,
and see that queer little toss of her head to keep
back the wandering hair that would always get into
her eyes--and still as she listened, or seemed to
listen, the whole place around her became alive the
strange creatures of her little sister's dream.
The long grass rustled at her feet as the White
Rabbit hurried by--the frightened Mouse splashed
his way through the neighbouring pool--she could
hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and
his friends shared their never-ending meal, and the
shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her
unfortunate guests to execution--once more the pig-
baby was sneezing on the Duchess's knee, while
plates and dishes crashed around it--once more the
shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's
na nju. Alisa vrisnu, što od straha, što od gnjeva i
pokuša da ih rastjera. Tog trena se prenu i vidje
kako leži na obali, s glavom na sestrinom krilu, a
ona joj nježno sa lica uklanja ono nekoliko svelih
listova što su dolepršali sa drveća.
"Probudi se, Alisa mila!", dozva je sestra. "Da
znaš kako si dugo spavala!"
"Oh, sanjala sam tako čudan san!", reče Alisa i
što je bolje umjela ispriča sestri sve one čudesne
zgode i nezgode o kojima ste upravo u knjizi
čitali. A kad je završila, sestra je poljubi i reče:
"San je doista bio čudesan, dušo, a sad požuri da
popiješ čaj, već je kasno." I Alisa ustade i potrča,
i trčeći što je brže mogla, razmišljaše o tome kako
je to uistinu bio divan san.
A sestra je mirno sjedjela ondje gdje je Alisa i
ostavila, podnimljena posmatrala zalazak sunca i
razmišljala o maloj Alisi i njenim čudesnim
zgodama sve dok i sama ne poče da pomalo
sniva. Evo šta:
U svom snu najprije ugleda malu Alisu, njene
majušne ruke sklopljene na koljenima i sjajne,
žive oči zagledane u njene... čula je čak i zvuk
njenog glasa i vidjela kako čudno zabacuje glavu
da odagna nestašnu kosu što joj je uvijek padala
na oči. I dok je osluškivala, ili joj se samo
pričinjalo da osluškuje, sav prostor oko nje oživje
i ispuni se neobičnim bićima iz sna njene sestrice.
Visoka trava zašušta joj pored nogu kad Bijeli
Zec kroz nju protrča... prestrašeni Miš je pljuskao
po obližnjem jezeru... čula je zveket šolja iz kojih
su Martovski Kunić i njegovi prijatelji pili čaj
sjedeći za užinom kojoj nikad nije bilo kraja,
piskavi glas Kraljičin kako naređuje da se njenim
nesretnim gostima poodsijecaju glave – još
jednom je prasence kihalo na Vojvotkinjinom
krilu, dok su oko njega letjeli tanjiri i zdjele i
razbijali se u paramparčad – još jednom su
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slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed Grifonov urlik, škripa Gušterove pisaljke po
guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the distant tablici i cviljenje prigušene zamorčadi ispunjavali
sobs of the miserable Mock Turtle. vazduh i preplitali se sa dalekim jecajima
nesretne Lažne Kornjače.
So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed Sjedjela je tako zatvorenih očiju i pomalo
herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had vjerovala da je i sama u Zemlji čuda, iako svjesna
but to open them again, and all would change to da treba samo da otvori oči pa da se sve preobrati
dull reality--the grass would be only rustling in the u svakidašnju stvarnost – trava će šuštati samo na
wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the vjetru, jezero romoriti od trski što se u njemu
reeds--the rattling teacups would change to tinkling povijaju – zveket šolja pretvoriće se u zveckanje
sheep-bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice praporaca na stadu, Kraljičini piskavi krici u glas
of the shepherd boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the pastira... a kihanje djeteta, Grifonov urlik i svi ti
shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer drugi čudni zvuči pretvoriće se (znala je to) u
noises, would change (she knew) to the confused nerazumljivu buku uskomešanog seoskog
clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing of dvorišta – dok će mukanje krava u daljini
the cattle in the distance would take the place of the zamijeniti bolne jecaje Lažne Kornjače.
Mock Turtle's heavy sobs.
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little Najzad zamisli kako će ta ista njena sestrica
sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a postati jednom odrasla žena i u svim svojim
grown woman; and how she would keep, through zrelim godinama sačuvati bezazlenost i toplinu
all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of djetinjeg srca. Kako će okupljati oko sebe drugu
her childhood: and how she would gather about her dječicu i dok im bude pripovijedala mnoge čudne
other little children, and make their eyes bright and priče, možda čak i svoj davnašnji san o Zemlji
eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with čuda, kako će njihove oči zasjati i oživjeti. Kako
the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she će saosjećati sa svim njihovim malim jadima i
would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a uživati u svim njihovim malim radostima,
pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her sjećajući se svog vlastitog djetinjstva i sretnih
own child-life, and the happy summer days. dana ljeta.