‘Would it be of any use, now,‘ thoughtAlice, ‘to speak to this mouse? Everything isso out-of-the-way down here, that I shouldthink very likely it can talk: at any rate,
there‘s no harm in trying.‘ So she began: ‘OMouse, do you know the way out of thispool? I am very tired of swimming abouthere, O Mouse!‘ (Alice thought this must bethe right way of speaking to a mouse: shehad never done such a thing before, butsheremembered having seen in her