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 "Don't I have to have an invitation card?" asked Alice.

"You have to go if you have one," the White Rabbit replied. "But otherwise you can do as you please. Come on."

Alice was very fond of croquet, and as the White Rabbit seemed to expect her to go with him, she followed him through the gate. When they were in the grounds Alice saw that what she had thought were gallows were really trees with their tops sawed off.

"What have they done to the poor trees?" she cried in amazement.

"Those are the famous Harvard elms," replied the White Rabbit. "The Queen lost her temper with them the other day, and or­dered their heads cut off, which accounts for their strange appearance."

"What a terrible person the Queen must be," said Alice. "Oh! and what are those?" she cried, pointing to the prison-like buildings.

"They are the Senior Dormitories," the White Rabbit replied.

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