Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Chapter 3 - A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

The chapter opens with a bedraggled and damp collection of creatures gathering on the riverbank. They are all cross and uncomfortable, desperately trying to find a way to dry off. As the conversation goes on, Alice finds herself chatting with the animals as if they were old friends. The authority among the group, a mouse, calls for everyone to sit down and listen as it promises to dry them off. With great authority, the mouse begins to recite a history lesson about William the Conqueror, but the Lory shivers at the dry recitation. 
 
The Dodo then proposes a caucus race to dry everyone off. The race is chaotic and the creatures run until they are dry, then the Dodo declares the race over. The creatures gather round to ask who has won, and the Dodo decides they are all winners. Alice puts her foot in it by telling everyone about her cat, and the chapter ends with her once again by herself.