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| 2 | flamingo
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| 4 | The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her
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| 5 | flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away,
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| 6 | comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down,
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| 7 | but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened
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| 8 | out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it
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| 9 | WOULD twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a
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| 10 | puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing:
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| 11 | and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again,
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| 12 | it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled
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| 13 | itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this,
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| 14 | there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she
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| 15 | wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers
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| 16 | were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the
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| 17 | ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very
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| 18 | difficult game indeed.
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| 20 | Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. `It's no
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| 21 | use speaking to it,' she thought, `till its ears have come, or at
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| 22 | least one of them.' In another minute the whole head appeared,
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| 23 | and then Alice put down her flamingo, and began an account of the
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| 24 | game, feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her. The
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| 25 | Cat seemed to think that there was enough of it now in sight, and
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| 26 | no more of it appeared.
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| 28 | The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog,
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| 29 | which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one
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| 30 | of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her
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| 31 | flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where
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| 32 | Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up
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| 33 | into a tree.
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| 35 | By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back,
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| 36 | the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight:
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| 37 | `but it doesn't matter much,' thought Alice, `as all the arches
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| 38 | are gone from the side of the ground.' So she tucked it away
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| 39 | under her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back for
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| 40 | a little more conversation with her friend.
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| 42 | `I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your
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| 43 | waist,' the Duchess said after a pause: `the reason is, that I'm
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| 44 | doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the
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| 45 | experiment?'
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| 46 | 5 documents retrieved.
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