<!-- EXPECTED REULTS: The text wraps around the image. --> <!-- Margins around floating elements very buggy in Navigato- r 4.x --> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;chars- et=iso-8859-1"> <title>DHTML for the WWW | Wrapping Text Around an Eleme- nt</title> <style media="screen" type="text/css"><!-- img { float: right;} --></style> </head> <body> <h2>CHAPTER VII<br> A Mad Tea-Party</h2> <p class="copy">There was a table set out under a tree i- n front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatt- er were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting betw- een them, fast asleep, and the other two were using i- t as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talki- ng over its head. 'Very uncomfortable for the Dormous- e,' thought Alice; 'only, as it's asleep, I suppose i- t doesn't mind.'</p> <img src="alice25.gif" width="288" height="219" border="0"> <p class="paragraphtwo">The table was a large one, but t- he three were all crowded together at one corner of i- t: 'No room! No room!' they cried out when they saw A- lice coming. 'There's <i>plenty</i> of room!' said Al- ice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chai- r at one end of the table.</p> <p>'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouragi- ng tone.</p> <p>Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothi- ng on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarke- d.</p> <p>'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.</p> <p>'Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said - Alice angrily.</p> <p>'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without bein- g invited,' said the March Hare.</p> <p>'I didn't know it was <i>your</i> table,' said Alice;- 'it's laid for a great many more than three.'</p> <p>'Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had be- en looking at Alice for some time with great curiosit- y, and this was his first speech.</p> <p>'You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alic- e said with some severity; 'it's very rude.'</p> <p>The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this;- but all he <i>said</i> was, 'Why is a raven like a w- riting-desk?'</p> <p>'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. 'I- 'm glad they've begun asking riddles.--I believe I ca- n guess that,' she added aloud.</p> <p>'Do you mean that you think you can find out the answ- er to it?' said the March Hare.</p> <p>'Exactly so,' said Alice.</p> <p>'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare w- ent on.</p> <p>'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I - mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know.'</p- > <p>'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'You mig- ht just as well say that "I see what I eat"- is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!'<- /p> <p>'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, '- that "I like what I get" is the same thing - as "I get what I like"!'</p> <p>'You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who- seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I bre- athe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I - sleep when I breathe"!'</p> <p>'It <i>is</i> the same thing with you,' said the Hatt- er, and here the conversation dropped, and the party - sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all- she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, w- hich wasn't much.</p> <p>The Hatter was the first to break the silence. 'What - day of the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: h- e had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was look- ing at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, an- d holding it to his ear.</p> <p>Alice considered a little, and then said 'The fourth.- '</p> <p>'Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. 'I told you butt- er wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily- at the March Hare.</p> <p>'It was the <i>best</i> butter,' the March Hare meekl- y replied.</p> <p>'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the - Hatter grumbled: 'you shouldn't have put it in with t- he bread-knife.'</p> <p>The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomi- ly: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked- at it again: but he could think of nothing better to- say than his first remark, 'It was the <i>best</i> b- utter, you know.'</p> <p>Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some cu- riosity. 'What a funny watch!' she remarked. 'It tell- s the day of the month, and doesn't tell what o'clock- it is!'</p> <p>'Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. 'Does <i>your</- i> watch tell you what year it is?'</p> <p>'Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: 'but tha- t's because it stays the same year for such a long ti- me together.'</p> <p>'Which is just the case with <i>mine</i>,' said the H- atter.</p> <p>Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark se- emed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was- certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' s- he said, as politely as she could.</p> <p>'The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and - he poured a little hot tea upon its nose.</p> <p>The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, wi- thout opening its eyes, 'Of course, of course; just w- hat I was going to remark myself.'</p> <p>'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, t- urning to Alice again.</p> <p>'No, I give it up,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer- ?'</p> <p>'I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter.</p> <p>'Nor I,' said the March Hare.</p> <p>Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something- better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in a- sking riddles that have no answers.'</p> <p>'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, - 'you wouldn't talk about wasting <i>it</i>. It's <i>h- im</i>.'</p> <p>'I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.</p> <p>'Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his h- ead contemptuously. 'I dare say you never even spoke - to Time!'</p> <p>'Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: 'but I know - I have to beat time when I learn music.'</p> </body> </html>