Before the next day three other servants were deaddeadand others had runrunaway in terror .
" What you runrunfor ? " she askedask, with dancing mischief in her eyes .
No , I 'm runningrunon too fast : I bestowbestowmy own attributes over-liberally on him .
So she was consideringconsiderin her own mind ( as well as she could , for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid ) , whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies , when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ranrunclose by her .
After this he pressedpressme earnestly , and in the most affectionate manner , not to play the young man , nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature , and the station of life I was born in , seemed to have provided against ; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread ; that he would do well for me , and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me ; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world , it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it ; and that he should have nothing to answer for , having thus discharged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt ; in a word , that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed , so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away ; and to close all , he toldtellme I had my elder brother for an example , to whom he had used the same earnest persuasionspersuasionto keep him from going into the Low Country wars , but could not prevail , his young desires prompting him to runruninto the army , where he was killedkill; and though he saidsayhe would not cease to pray for me , yet he would venture to say to me , that if I did take this foolish step , God would not bless me , and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery .
* Washington , who , after uselessly admonishingadmonishthe European general of the danger into which he was heedlessly runningrun, savedsavethe remnants of the British army , on this occasion , by his decision and courage .
I was in the utmost astonishment , and roaredroarso loud , that they all ranrunback in a fright ; and some of them , as I was afterwards toldtell, were hurthurtwith the fallsfallthey got by leapingleapfrom my sides upon the ground .
At last he seemed to see a ray of hope : his sister was comingcome, and he gotgetup and ranruntoward her in his heavy shoes .
Then some one ranrunto our master ’s house and camecomeback with a gun ; presently there was a loud bangbangand a dreadful shriekshriek, and then all was stillstill; the black horse moved no more .
( when she thoughtthinkit over afterwards , it occurredoccurto her that she ought to have wondered at this , but at the time it all seemed quite natural ) ; but when the Rabbit actually TOOKtakeA WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET , and lookedlookat it , and then hurriedhurryon , Alice startedstartto her feet , for it flashedflashacross her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket , or a watch to take out of it , and burning with curiosity , she ranrunacross the field after it , and fortunately was just in time to seeseeit poppopdown a large rabbit-hole under the hedge .
On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be -- as here they are -- mistily engagedengagein one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause , trippingtripone another up on slippery precedents , gropinggropeknee-deep in technicalities , runningruntheir goat-hair and horsehair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretencepretenceof equity with serious faces , as players might .
But the creatures ranrunoff a second time , before I could seize them ; whereupon there was a great shoutshoutin a very shrill accent , and after it ceasedceaseI heardhearone of them crycryaloud _ Tolgo phonac _ ; when in an instant I feltfeelabove a hundred arrows dischargeddischargeon my left hand , which , prickedprickme like so many needles ; and besides , they shotshootanother flightflightinto the air , as we do bombs in Europe , whereof many , I suppose , fell on my body , ( though I felt them not ) , and some on my face , which I immediately coveredcoverwith my left hand .
While I was still vainly tryingtryto establish order , I heardheara frightful yellingyellon the other side of the courtyard , and at once ranruntowards the criescry, in dreaddreadof finding some new outbreak of the pillage in that direction .
Then Jack Lawton 's yellow boots dodgeddodgeout the ball and all the other boots and legs ranrunafter .
The old horse snortedsnortand lookedlookeagerly after them , and we young colts wantedwantto be galloping with them , but they were soon awayawayinto the fields lower down ; here it seemed as if they had come to a stand ; the dogs leftleaveoff barkingbark, and ranrunabout every way with their noses to the ground .