#david hall

Ringed pipefish (Doryrhamphus dactyliophorus) pair, male carrying fertilized eggs attached to a specialized patch of skin on its abdomen, Ambon, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean.

Illustration: from storyboard by David Hall (1939) for unproduced early version of "Alice in Wonderland" movie by Walt Disney Productions.

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It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. “No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked poison or not”; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and many other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that, if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.