When Alice meets the dormouse the mad hatter and the March hare have the dormouse tell a story. Well throughout the story Alice keeps interrupting the dormouse with questions on the illogical parts in his story. When the March Hare didn't want Alice to join they're tea time he didn't think that was enough room. Due to the closeness they were sitting together. The raven is nothing like a desk. If the person who asked this question would of thoroughly read the chapter they would have known that they didn't know either. The reason the roses were painted is because the queen wanted red roses. So the workers were trying to save themselves from being beheaded.