[Through The Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll]@TWC D-Link bookThrough The Looking-Glass CHAPTER VIII 3/16
That's the end of my move." "Thank you very much," said Alice.
"May I help you off with your helmet ?" It was evidently more than he could manage by himself; however, she managed to shake him out of it at last. "Now one can breathe more easily," said the Knight, putting back his shaggy hair with both hands, and turning his gentle face and large mild eyes to Alice.
She thought she had never seen such a strange-looking soldier in all her life. He was dressed in tin armour, which seemed to fit him very badly, and he had a queer-shaped little deal box fastened across his shoulder, upside-down, and with the lid hanging open.
Alice looked at it with great curiosity. "I see you're admiring my little box." the Knight said in a friendly tone.
"It's my own invention--to keep clothes and sandwiches in.
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