Just Keep Reading (Notes): Tweedledum And Tweedledee
He said if she thought they were statures, she should probably pay, because that how those things work. You pay to look at wax figures in wax museums.
Dee added in that if she thought they were alive she should talk to them.
Alice apologized to them and she heard a song in her head. It was so prominent she almost said it aloud.
"Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel,
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel."
Dum knew what she was thinking and immediately told her that it wasn't true.
Dee said that if it was that way, then it would be that way. But its not, so it's not. Logic.
Alice asked them the best way out of the wood.
They looked happy and excited at the question.
She pointed to dum for the answer and he responded "nohow".
She moved on the Dee and he said that she's not holing a conversation well. The first thing you should do is ask how the other person is. The brothers held out their hands for a shake and she crossed her arms to shake both at once. once they were holding hands they began dancing with her to the music that came out of nowhere. The tree was making music, with its limbs acting as stringed instruments. The song was Mulberry Bush. After dancing four times around the circle, the boys were out of breath.
She asked if they were tired, and they said that they were not. They asked if she liked poetry and when she said some, they started to recite the walrus and the carpenter.
This story comes from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871).
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