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CHAPTER VII
THE LION AND THE UNICORN
The next moment soldiers came
running through the wood, at
first in twos and threes, then ten and
twenty together, and at last in such
crowds that they seemed to fill the
whole forest. Alice got behind a tree,
for fear of being run over, and watched
them go by.
She thought that in all her life she had never seen soldiers so uncertain on their feet: they were always tripping over something or other, and whenever one went down, several more always fell over him, so that the ground was soon covered with little heaps of men.
Then came the horses. Having four
