(_Latest Anglo-Teutonic Version, as repeated to the Caterpillar of
State by Alice, in Blunderland, from vague and mixed reminiscences of
Southey, Lewis Carroll, and the Reports of the Debates in the British
Parliament and the German Reichstag, concerning the Home-Rule Bill and
the Army Bill respectively._)
"I'm afraid I am changed, Sir." said ALICE; "I can't remember things
as I used--and I don't keep to the same author for ten minutes
together!"
"Can't remember _what_ things?" said the Caterpillar of State.
"Well, I've tried to sing '_Rule, Britannia_', but it all came
different, and got mixed up with '_The Watch on the Rhine_!'" ALICE
replied, in a very melancholy voice.
"Repeat '_You are old, Father William_,'" said the Caterpillar of
State.