human
She was laying eggs on my food-plant!
gpt
I wasn't! shrilled the Countess.
human
What do I want with her old nettle? Don't I know Croton capita turn when I see it? I was just resting, and she came and pushed me off--
gpt
She had already come and stuck her long tongue into a lily I had just occupied, continued the Princess.
human
And I saw the eggs after she left--
gpt
They were your own old flat eggs, said the Countess contemptuously.
human
You haven't mind enough to remember where you put them!
gpt
Oh, roses! sighed the Monarch,
human
I suppose I'll never have any peace. Always on the verge of civil war! Yesterday it was the clover-caterpillars complaining that the zebras were eating their food--