`I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.
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`And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, – `and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!'
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`But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. `I'm a--I'm a--'
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`Well! WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon. `I can see you're trying to invent something!'
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`I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day.
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`A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. `I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never ONE with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!'
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