"How is bread made?" "I know that!" Alice cried eagerly. "You take some flour "Where do you pick the flower?" the White Queen asked. "In a garden or in the hedges?" "Well, it isn't picked at all," Alice explained: "it's ground — " "How many acres of ground?" said the White Queen. "You mustn't leave out so many things."

The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter IX (p. 254), The Modern Library. 1936