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This is a little bit of the beautiful garden I told you about. You see Alice had managed at last to get quite small, so that she could go through the little door. I suppose she was about as tall as a mouse, if it stood on its hind-legs: so of course this was a "very" tiny rose-tree: and these are "very" tiny gardeners.
What funny little men they are! But "are" they men, do you think? I think they must be live cards, with just a head, and arms, and legs, so as to "look" like little men. And what "are" they doing with that red paint, I wonder? Well, you see, this is what they told Alice The Queen of Hearts wanted to have a "red" rose-tree just in that corner: and these poor little gardeners had made a great mistake, and had put in a "white" one instead: and they were so frightened about it, because the Queen was "sure" to be angry, and then she would order all their heads to be cut off!