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"I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

Alice couldn't help smiling as she took out her memorandum-book and worked the sum for him:

365
  1
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364
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Humpty Dumpty took the book, and looked at it carefully. "That seems to be done right—" he began.

"You're holding it upside down!" Alice interrupted.

"To be sure I was!" Humpty Dumpty said, gayly, as she turned it round for him. "I thought it looked a little queer. As I was saying, that seems to be done right—though I haven't time to look it over thoroughly just now—and that shows that there are three hundred and sixty-four days