There was a pause in the fight just then, and the Lion and the Unicorn sat down, panting, while the King called out 'Ten minutes allowed for refreshments!' Haigha and Hatta set to work at once, carrying rough trays of white and brown bread.
At this moment the Unicorn sauntered by them, with his hands in his pockets.
'It didn't hurt him,' the Unicorn said carelessly, and he was going on, when his eye happened to fall upon Alice: he turned round rather instantly, and stood for some time looking at her with an air of the deepest disgust.
'I always thought they were fabulous monsters!' said the Unicorn. 'Is it alive?'
The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said 'Talk, child.'
'Well, now that we HAVE seen each other,' said the Unicorn,
'Come, fetch out the plum-cake, old man!' the Unicorn went on, turning from her to the King.
'It's a fabulous monster!' the Unicorn cried out, before Alice could reply.
'And sit down, both of you,' (to the King and the Unicorn): 'fair play with the cake, you know!'
'What a fight we might have for the crown, NOW!' the Unicorn said, looking slyly up at the crown, which the poor King was nearly shaking off his head, he trembled so much.
'You don't know how to manage Looking-glass cakes,' the Unicorn remarked.
'I say, this isn't fair!' cried the Unicorn, as Alice sat with the knife in her hand, very much puzzled how to begin.
and had just time to see the Lion and the Unicorn rise to their feet, with angry looks at being interrupted in their feast, before she dropped to her knees, and put her hands over her ears, vainly trying to shut out the dreadful uproar.
