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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ‧ 1865
“Write that down,” the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
A king tells the jury to write something down, and they zealously record three dates, add them together and convert the total into shillings and pence. The comedy lies in their mechanical obedience: dates are meaningless to add, yet they treat the sum as serious money.
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