The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.
Il poverino quando Alice lo prese, ronfava come una macchina a vapore e continuava a contorcersi e a divincolarsi così che, per qualche istante, ella dubitò di non poterlo neanche reggere.