Alice in Wonderland
Chapter 8
Why were the gardeners painting red roses?
Why were the gardeners painting red roses?
In Chapter Eight, Alice enters the garden and finds three gardeners, shaped like playing cards, hurriedly painting the white roses of a rose tree. Alice asks why they are painting the roses red, and one of the gardeners (the Two) admits to her that the tree was supposed to be a red rose tree. If the Queen learned about the error, she would cut off their heads.
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