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Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had

read about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that

she knew the name of nearly everything there. "That's the judge,"

she said to herself, "because of his great wig."

The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown

over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he

did it,) he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly

not becoming.

"And that's the jury-box," thought Alice, "and those twelve

creatures," (she was obliged to say "creatures," you see, because

some of them were animals, and some were birds,) "I suppose they

are the jurors." She said this last word two or three times over

to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and

rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the

meaning of it at all. However, "jury-men" would have done just as

well.