You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch! But I'll make a memorandum about her, if you like--She's a dear good creature," he repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum-book.

"Do you spell "creature" with a double "e" ?" At this moment the Unicorn sauntered by them, with his hands in his pockets.

"I had the best of it this time ?" he said to the King, just glancing at him as he passed.
"A little--a little," the King replied, rather nervously.

"You shouldn't have run him through with your horn, you know." "It didn't hurt him," the Unicorn said carelessly, and he was going on, when his eye happened to fall upon Alice: he turned round rather instantly, and stood for some time looking at her with an air of the deepest disgust.
"What--is--this ?" he said at last.
"This is a child!" Haigha replied eagerly, coming in front of Alice to introduce her, and spreading out both his hands towards her in an Anglo-Saxon attitude.

"We only found it to-day.