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(Im Inneren des Festsaals)

‘Do you know, I’ve had such a quantity of poetry

Repeated to me to-day,’

Alice began, [...] ‘and it’s a very curious thing,

I think - every poem was

about fishes in some way.

Do you know why they’re so fond of fishes,

all about here?’

She spoke to the Red Queen,

Whose answer was a little wide of the mark.

‘As to fishes,’ she said [...],

‘Her White Majesty knows a lovely riddle - all in poetry -

All about fishes. Shall she repeat it?’

[...] ‘Please do,’ Alice said very politely.

The White Queen laughed with delight,

And stroked Alice’s cheek.

Then she began: