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 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 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 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 '