Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Chapter 3 - A Caucus Race and a Long Tale

In which a curious assembly of bedraggled birds and creatures, freshly emerged from a most inconvenient wetting, seek to dry themselves through a most curious and nonsensical race, presided over by the solemn Dodo and involving prizes of comfits and thimbles. Alice finds herself amidst their odd proceedings and disputes, growing acquainted with their peculiar manners and stories, while her thoughts stray to her absent feline companion, Dinah.