Alice in Wonderland
Chapter 8
Why were the gardeners painting red roses?
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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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