Horses don't like to eat it afterwards.
Always remember this.
When the head had explained a little more it went away, and we turned the handle of the chaff-cutting machine, and nobody got hurt, though the head HAD said we should cut our fingers off if we touched it.
And then we sat down on the floor, which is dirty with the nice clean dirt that is more than half chopped hay, and those there was room for hung their legs down out of the top door, and we looked down at the farmyard, which is very slushy when you get down into it, but most interesting.
Then Alice said-- 'Now we're all here, and the boys are tired enough to sit still for a minute, I want to have a council.' We said what about?
And she said, 'I'll tell you.' H.O., don't wriggle so; sit on my frock if the straws tickle your legs.' You see he wears socks, and so he can never be quite as comfortable as anyone else.
'Promise not to laugh' Alice said, getting very red, and looking at Dora, who got red too.
We did, and then she said: 'Dora and I have talked this over, and Daisy too, and we have written it down because it is easier than saying it.

Shall I read it?
or will you, Dora ?' Dora said it didn't matter; Alice might.

So Alice read it, and though she gabbled a bit we all heard it.

I copied it afterwards.

This is what she read: NEW SOCIETY FOR BEING GOOD IN 'I, Dora Bastable, and Alice Bastable, my sister, being of sound mind and body, when we were shut up with bread and water on that jungle day, we thought a great deal about our naughty sins, and we made our minds up to be good for ever after.