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'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 at all!' said the Hatter. 'You can say “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see”!'

'You can say,' added the March Hare, 'that “I like what I get” is the same thing as “I get what I like”!'

'You can say,' added the Dormouse in its sleep, 'that “I breathe when I sleep” is the same thing as “I sleep when I breathe”!'

'It is the same thing to you,' said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and they sat silent for a minute.

'What day of the month is it?' the Hatter asked. He took his watch out of his pocket. He was looking at it, shaking it and holding it to his ear.

Alice considered a little, and then said 'The fourth.'

'Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. 'Listen to me: you must not use the butter!' he looked angrily at the March Hare.

'It was the best butter,' the March Hare meekly replied.

'Yes, but there were some crumbs,' the Hatter grumbled: 'you used 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.

'It was the best butter, you know,' he said again.

Alice looked over his shoulder with some curiosity.

'What a funny watch!' she remarked. 'It tells the day of the month, and doesn't tell the time!'

'Why?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does your watch tell you what year it is?'

'Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: 'but that's because my year is very long.'

'But my year is also long,' said the Hatter.

'I don't quite understand you,' Alice said.

'The Dormouse is sleeping again,' said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose.

The Dormouse shook its head, and said, 'Of course, of course; it's just what I was going to say.'

'What about the riddle?' asked the Hatter.

'I can't guess,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer?'

'No idea,' said the Hatter.

'Nor I,' said the March Hare.

'What's the time?' asked Alice.

'It's always six o'clock now,' the Hatter answered. 'It's always tea-time, and we have no time to wash the dishes.'