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Chapter 2
The Garden of Live Flowers

“I will see the garden better,” said Alice to herself, “if I get to the top of that hill.”

And she followed the path, but it always came back to the house.

“No!” Alice said, looking up at the house. “I don’t want to go in yet!”

She went to the hill again. This time she walked past a large flower-bed.

“O Tiger-lily,” said Alice to one flower, “I wish you could talk!⁶”

“We can talk,” said the Tiger-lily, “when there is someone to talk to⁷.”

Alice was so surprised that she could not speak for a minute. Then she asked, “And can all the flowers talk?”

“Yes, as well as you can,” said the Tiger-lily.

“Are you frightened thatnobody takes care of you⁸?”

“There’s the tree in the middle,” said the Rose, “what else is it good for?”

“But what can it do, if any danger comes?” Alice asked.

“It canbark⁹,” said the Rose.

“Didn’t you know that?” cried another Daisy.

“How can you talk so well?” Alice asked. “I visited many gardens, but flowers couldn’t talk.”

“Put your hand down, and feel the ground,” said the Tiger-lily. “Then you’ll know why.”

Alice did so. “It’s very hard,” she said.

“In most gardens,” the Tiger-lily said, “the flower-beds are too soft … so that the flowers are always asleep.”

This sounded like a very good reason. “I never thought of that before!” said Alice. “Are there any more people in the garden besides me?”

“There’s one other flower in the garden that can move like you,” said the Rose.