Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Chapter 3 - A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

The chapter opens with a bedraggled and damp collection of creatures gathering on the riverbank. They are all cross and uncomfortable, desperately trying to find a way to dry off. As the conversation goes on, Alice finds herself chatting with the animals as if they were old friends. The authority among the group, a mouse, calls for everyone to sit down and listen as it promises to dry them off. With great authority, the mouse begins to recite a history lesson about William the Conqueror, but ...