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I brought you, on purpose, round, through the richest overture, and farrago of tweedledum and tweedledee, I could find in Florence; and here is a tune of four notes, on a shepherd's pipe, played by the picture of nobody; and yet you like it! You know what music is, then. Here is another little tune, by the same player, and sweeter. I let you hear the simplest first.
It is the last of these that all the scientific men of England have so long been fighting for. And a very good thing it is in its way, and I hope they may get as much as they want of it. But compared to the importance of science in education, education in science is a matter of very small national moment. The difference between the two is by no means a case of tweedledum and tweedledee.
'At any rate I'd better be getting out of the wood, for really it's coming on very dark. Do you think it's going to rain? Tweedledum spread a large umbrella over himself and his brother, and looked up into it. 'No, I don't think it is, he said: 'at least not under HERE. Nohow. 'But it may rain OUTSIDE? 'It may if it chooses, said Tweedledee: 'we've no objection. Contrariwise.
But the squint spied a friend, ran to her, and there was a great deal of whispering and sniggering. Presently the pair came sauntering up and sat down; and after some artificial humming and hawing the newcomer began to talk, in a loud and fussy manner, about certain acquaintances of hers called Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Both the fat girl and the squint "split" with laughter.
He had a tall red night-cap on, with a tassel, and he was lying crumpled up into a sort of untidy heap, and snoring loud 'fit to snore his head off! as Tweedledum remarked. 'I'm afraid he'll catch cold with lying on the damp grass, said Alice, who was a very thoughtful little girl. 'He's dreaming now, said Tweedledee: 'and what do you think he's dreaming about?
Alice said afterwards she had never seen such a fuss made about anything in all her life the way those two bustled about and the quantity of things they put on and the trouble they gave her in tying strings and fastening buttons 'Really they'll be more like bundles of old clothes than anything else, by the time they're ready! she said to herself, as she arranged a bolster round the neck of Tweedledee, 'to keep his head from being cut off, as he said.
You politicians despise the little distinctions "twixt tweedledum and tweedledee," I fancy. Of the poetic sort, Dacier's uncle certainly did. For himself he confessed to not having thought much on them. 'But how divine is utterance! she said. 'As we to the brutes, poets are to us. He listened somewhat with the head of the hanged.
You'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise. 'Well, it no use YOUR talking about waking him, said Tweedledum, 'when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real. 'I AM real! said Alice and began to cry. 'You won't make yourself a bit realler by crying, Tweedledee remarked: 'there's nothing to cry about.
'If that there King was to wake, added Tweedledum, 'you'd go out bang! just like a candle! 'I shouldn't! Alice exclaimed indignantly. 'Besides, if I'M only a sort of thing in his dream, what are YOU, I should like to know? 'Ditto' said Tweedledum. 'Ditto, ditto' cried Tweedledee. He shouted this so loud that Alice couldn't help saying, 'Hush!
'Nohow! Tweedledum cried out briskly, and shut his mouth up again with a snap. 'Next Boy! said Alice, passing on to Tweedledee, though she felt quite certain he would only shout out 'Contrariwise! and so he did. 'You've been wrong! cried Tweedledum.
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