Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat {Alice drew her feet back in some alarm}, `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.
The Gnat describes a whimsical creature called a Bread-and-Butterfly, which has wings made of slices of bread and butter, a crust for a body, and a lump of sugar as its head. It lives on weak tea with cream, creating an imaginative and humorous picture for Alice.
Alice questions what would happen if the Bread-and-Butterfly couldn't find its food, to which the Gnat responds that it would die, suggesting this occurs quite often. The conversation highlights the playful and absurd logic characteristic of Lewis Carroll's storytelling style.
