Food and Excess Morbidity

"She's kept none for herself, anyhow," said the Lion. "Do you like plum cake, Monster?"

"I suppose I should eat or drink something or other, but the great question is, what?"

"Or-let me see- suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner, then. I should have to go without fifty dinners all at once. Well, i shouldnt mind that much! I'd far rather go without them than eat them!"

"There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint."

She had heard stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasent things, because they would not remember... that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife it usually bleeds.

"It isn't etiquette to cut anyone you've been introduced to."

"You know," he added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can happen in a battle, to get one's head cut off."

"Give your evidence," said the King, "and don't be nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot."