Voorbeeld: Boek

62 Tweedledum and Tweedledee ‘You know,’ he added very gravely, ‘it’s one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle— to get one’s head cut off.’ Alice laughed loud: but she managed to turn it into a cough, for fear of hurting his feelings. ‘Do I look very pale?’ said Tweedledum, coming up to have his helmet tied on. (He called it a helmet, though it cer- tainly looked much more like a saucepan.) ‘Well— yes— a little ,’Alice replied gently. ‘I’m very brave generally,’ he went on in a low voice: ‘only to-day I happen to have a headache.’ ‘And I’ve got a toothache!’ said Tweedledee, who had overheard the remark. ‘I’m far worse off than you!’ ‘Then you’d better not fight to-day,’ said Alice, thinking it a good opportunity to make peace. ‘We must have a bit of a fight, but I don’t care about going on long,’ said Tweedledum. ‘What’s the time now?’ Tweedledee looked at his watch, and said ‘Half-past four.’ ‘Let’s fight till six, and then have dinner,’ said Tweedle- dum. ‘Very well,’ the other said, rather sadly: ‘and she can watch us— only you’d better not come very close,’ he