The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. ‘Where shall I begin, please your Majesty’ he asked. ‘Begin at the beginning’, the King said gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end. Then stop.’
Chapter 9 - Two World Wars.
'The Zulu wars were to take an awful toll on Aberdeen’s Gordon Highlanders and in years to come, the young men of the regiment were to be sacrificed on the poppy strewn plains of Europe not just the once but twice more.
Miss Christie, as her pupils referred to her, seldom shared her feelings with her Dunnottar Primary class. But her charges still recall her tears each year when, on the anniversary of the death of a brother who perished amongst the dense blue clay of Flanders fields, the entire class would be asked to recite John McCrae’s poignant poem ‘In Flanders Fields.’