This offended Alice a little , so there was no more conversation for a minute or two , while the boat glided gently on , sometimes among beds of weeds -LRB- which made the oars stick fast in the water , worse then ever -RRB- , and sometimes under trees , but always with the same tall river-banks frowning over their heads . ` Oh , please ! There are some scented rushes ! ' Alice cried in a sudden transport of delight . ` There really are -- and SUCH beauties ! ' ` You need n't say `` please '' to ME about 'em , ' the Sheep said , without looking up from her knitting : ' I did n't put 'em there , and I 'm not going to take 'em away . ' ` No , but I meant -- please , may we wait and pick some ? ' Alice pleaded . ` If you do n't mind stopping the boat for a minute . ' ` How am I to stop it ? ' said the Sheep . ` If you leave off rowing , it 'll stop of itself . ' So the boat was left to drift down the stream as it would , till it glided gently in among the waving rushes . And then the little sleeves were carefully rolled up , and the little arms were plunged in elbow-deep to get the rushes a good long way down before breaking them off -- and for a while Alice forgot all about the Sheep and the knitting , as she bent over the side of the boat , with just the ends of her tangled hair dipping into the water -- while with bright eager eyes she caught at one bunch after another of the darling scented rushes . ' I only hope the boat wo n't tipple over ! ' she said to herself . ` Oh , WHAT a lovely one ! Only I could n't quite reach it . ' ` And it certainly DID seem a little provoking -LRB- ` almost as if it happened on purpose , ' she thought -RRB- that , though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by , there was always a more lovely one that she could n't reach . ` The prettiest are always further ! '
she said at last , with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off , as , with flushed cheeks and dripping XXXXX and hands , she scrambled back into her place , and began to arrange her new-found treasures .
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