Page:Alice in Blunderland.pdf/44

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
THE IMMOVABLE TROLLEY
31

it, when we cut the ends off the cars, there were still other ends left? No matter how far we clipped 'em, it was the same. It's a curious scientific fact that you can't cut off the end of anything and leave it endless. We tried it with a lot of things—cars, lengths of hose, coils of wire, rope—everything we could think of—always with the same result.
"IT CAME TO ME LIKE A FLASH"
Ends were endless, but nothing else was. As a matter of fact they multiplied on us. One car that had two ends when we began was cut in the middle, and then was found to have four ends instead of two."

"That's so, isn't it!" cried Alice.