“‘Then you keep moving round, I suppose?’ said Alice.
“‘Exactly so,’ said the Hatter: ‘as the things get used up.’
“‘But what happens when you come to the beginning again?’ Alice ventured to ask.
“‘Suppose we change the subject,’ the March Hare interrupted, yawning. ‘I’m getting tired of this.’”
A. A. W., p. 99: “‘And how many hours a day did you do lessons?’ said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
“‘Ten hours the first day,’ said the Mock Turtle, ‘nine the next, and so on.’
“‘What a curious plan!’ exclaimed Alice.
“‘That’s the reason they’re called lessons,’ the Gryphon remarked, ‘because they lessen from day to day.’
“This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little before she made her next remark. ‘Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday.’