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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll · Audiobooks & Scary Stories

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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this reading, which comes from a
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  Speaker 1: work in the public domain, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: Down the Rabbit Hole. Alice was beginning to get very
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  Speaker 1: tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and
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  Speaker 1: of having nothing to do. Once or twice she had
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  Speaker 1: peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it
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  Speaker 1: had no pictures or conversations in it, And what is
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  Speaker 1: the use of a book, thought Alice without pictures or conversations.
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  Speaker 1: So she was considering in her own mind as well
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  Speaker 1: as she could, for the hot day made her feel
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  Speaker 1: very sleepy and stupid whether the pleasure of making a
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  Speaker 1: daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up
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  Speaker 1: and picking the daisies. When suddenly a white rabbit with
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  Speaker 1: pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so
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  Speaker 1: very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it so
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  Speaker 1: very much out of the way to hear the rabbits
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  Speaker 1: say to itself, Oh dear, oh dear, I shall be late.
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  Speaker 1: When she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her
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  Speaker 1: that she ought to have wondered at this, but at
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  Speaker 1: the time it all seemed quite natural. But when the
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  Speaker 1: rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket
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  Speaker 1: and looked at it, and then hurried on. Alice started
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  Speaker 1: to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that
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  Speaker 1: she had never before seen a rabbit with either a
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  Speaker 1: waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out of it, And,
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  Speaker 1: burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it,
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  Speaker 1: and fortunately was just in time to see it pop
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  Speaker 1: down a large rabbit hole under the hedge in another moment.
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  Speaker 1: Down went Alice after it, never once considering how in
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  Speaker 1: the world she was to get out again. The rabbit
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  Speaker 1: hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way
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  Speaker 1: and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had
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  Speaker 1: not a moment to think about stopping herself before she
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  Speaker 1: found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the
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  Speaker 1: well was very deep or she fell very slowly, for
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  Speaker 1: she had plenty of time as she went down to
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  Speaker 1: look about her and to wonder what was going to
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  Speaker 1: happen next. First, she tried to look down and make
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  Speaker 1: out what she was coming to, but it was too
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  Speaker 1: dark to see anything. Then she looked at the sides
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  Speaker 1: of the well and noticed that they were filled with
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  Speaker 1: cupboards and book shelves here and there she saw maps
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  Speaker 1: and picks hung upon pegs. She took down a jar
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  Speaker 1: from one of the shelves as she passed. It was
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  Speaker 1: labeled orange marmalade, but to her great disappointment, it was empty.
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  Speaker 1: She did not like to drop the jar for fear
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  Speaker 1: of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into
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  Speaker 1: one of the cupboards as she fell past it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thought Alice to herself, after such a fall as this,
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  Speaker 1: I shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs. How brave they'll
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  Speaker 1: all think me at home. Why I wouldn't say anything
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  Speaker 1: about it? Even if I fell off the top of
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  Speaker 1: the house, which was very likely true, Down down, down,
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  Speaker 1: would the fall never come to an end? I wonder
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  Speaker 1: how many miles I've fallen by this time, she said aloud,
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  Speaker 1: I must be getting somewhere near the center of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see. That would be four thousand miles down,
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  Speaker 1: I think for you see, Alice had learnt several things
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  Speaker 1: of this sword in her lessons in the schoolroom, and
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  Speaker 1: though this was not a very good opportunity for showing
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  Speaker 1: off her knowledge, as there was no one to lie
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  Speaker 1: to her, still it was good practice to say it
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  Speaker 1: over yes, that's about the right distance. But then I
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  Speaker 1: wonder what latitude or longitude I've got to Alice had
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  Speaker 1: no idea what latitude was or longitude either, but thought
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  Speaker 1: they were nice grand words to say. Presently, she began again,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth,
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  Speaker 1: how funny it'll seem to come out among the people
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  Speaker 1: that walk with their heads downward, the antipathies. I think
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  Speaker 1: she was rather glad there was no one listening this time,
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  Speaker 1: as it didn't sound at all the right word. But
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  Speaker 1: I shall have to ask them what the name of
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  Speaker 1: the country is, you know, please, ma'am? Is this New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand or Australia? And she tried to Curtsey as she spoke,
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  Speaker 1: fancy curtseying, as you're falling through the air, do you
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  Speaker 1: think you could manage it? And what an ignorant little girl,
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  Speaker 1: she'll think me for asking. No, it'll never do to ask.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I shall see it ridden up somewhere down, down down.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began
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  Speaker 1: talking again. Dinah missed me very much tonight. I should
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  Speaker 1: think Dinah was the cat. I hope they'll remember her
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  Speaker 1: saucer of milk at tea time. Dinah, my dear, I
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  Speaker 1: wish you were down here with me. There are no
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  Speaker 1: mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch
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  Speaker 1: a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But do cats eat bats? I wonder? And here Alice
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  Speaker 1: began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to
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  Speaker 1: herself in a dreamy sort of way, do cats eat bats?
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  Speaker 1: Do cats eat bats? And sometimes do bats eat cats?
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  Speaker 1: For you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt
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  Speaker 1: that she was dozing off and had just begun to
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  Speaker 1: dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah
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  Speaker 1: and saying to her very earnestly, now, Dinah, tell me
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Did you ever eat a bat? When suddenly, thump,
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  Speaker 1: thumb down, she came upon a heap of sticks and
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  Speaker 1: dry leaves, and the fall was over. Alice was not
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  Speaker 1: a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet.
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  Speaker 1: In a moment, she looked up, but it was all dark.
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  Speaker 1: Overhead before her was another long passage, and the white
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  Speaker 1: rabbit was still in sight. Hurrying down it. There was
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  Speaker 1: not a moment to be lost. Away went Alice like
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  Speaker 1: the wind, and was just in time to hear it say,
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  Speaker 1: as it turned a corner on my ears and whiskers,
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  Speaker 1: how late it's getting. She was close behind it when
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  Speaker 1: she turned the corner, but the rabbit was no longer
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  Speaker 1: to be seen. She found herself in a long, low hall,
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  Speaker 1: which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging
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  Speaker 1: from the roof. There were doors all round the hall,
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  Speaker 1: but they were all locked, and when Alice had been
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  Speaker 1: all the way down one side and up the other,
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  Speaker 1: trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering
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  Speaker 1: how she was ever to get out again. Suddenly she
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  Speaker 1: came upon a little three legged table, all made of
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  Speaker 1: solid glass. There was nothing on it except a tiny
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  Speaker 1: golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might
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  Speaker 1: belong to one of the doors of the hall, but
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  Speaker 1: alas either the locks were too large or the key
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  Speaker 1: was too small, but at any rate, it would not
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  Speaker 1: open any of them. However, on the second time round,
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  Speaker 1: she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before,
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  Speaker 1: and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high.
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  Speaker 1: She tried the little golden key in the lock, and
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  Speaker 1: to her great delight, it fitted. Alice opened the door
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  Speaker 1: and found that it led into a small passage, not
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  Speaker 1: much larger than a rat hole. She knelt down and
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  Speaker 1: looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.
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  Speaker 1: How she longed to get out of that dark hall
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  Speaker 1: and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and
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  Speaker 1: those cool fountains. But she could not even get her
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  Speaker 1: head through the doorway. And even if my head would
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  Speaker 1: go through, thought poor Alice, it would be of very
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  Speaker 1: little use without my shoulders. Oh how I wish I
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  Speaker 1: could shut up like a telescope. I think I could,
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  Speaker 1: if I only knew how to begin. For you see,
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  Speaker 1: so many out of the way things had happened lately
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  Speaker 1: that Alice had begun to think that very few things, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: were really impossible. There seemed to be no use in
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  Speaker 1: waiting by the little door, so she went back to
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  Speaker 1: the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or,
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  Speaker 1: at any rate, a book of rules for shutting people
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  Speaker 1: up like telescopes. This time she found a little bottle
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  Speaker 1: on it, which certainly was not here before, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: And round the neck of the bottle was a paper
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  Speaker 1: label with the words drink me, beautifully printed on it
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  Speaker 1: in large letters. It was all very well to say
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  Speaker 1: drink me, but the wise little Alice was not going
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  Speaker 1: to do that in a hurry. No, I'll look first,
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  Speaker 1: she said, and see whether it's marked poison or not,
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  Speaker 1: For she had read several nice little histories about children
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  Speaker 1: who had got burnt and eaten up by wild beasts
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  Speaker 1: and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember
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  Speaker 1: the simple rules their friends had taught them, such as
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  Speaker 1: that a red hot poker will burn you if you
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  Speaker 1: hold it too long, and that if you cut your
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  Speaker 1: finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds. And
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  Speaker 1: she had never forgotten that if you drink much from
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  Speaker 1: a bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree
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  Speaker 1: with you sooner or later. However, this bottle was not
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  Speaker 1: marked poison, so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding
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  Speaker 1: it very nice. It had, in fact a sort of
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  Speaker 1: mixed flavor of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast, turkey, toffee,
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  Speaker 1: and hot buttered toast. She very soon finished it off.
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  Speaker 1: Asterisk asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk asterisk, gasterus gastrous gasterusk
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  Speaker 1: gasterisk gasterus gasterisk, gastus gastrous, gastrous, gastrous, gastrous gastrous gasterisk.
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  Speaker 1: What a curious feeling, said Alice. I must be shutting
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  Speaker 1: up like a telescope. And so it was. Indeed, she
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  Speaker 1: was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened
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  Speaker 1: up at the thought that she was now the right
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  Speaker 1: size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however,
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  Speaker 1: she waited for a few minutes to see if she
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  Speaker 1: was going to shrink any further. She felt a little
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  Speaker 1: nervous about this, for it might end, you know, said
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  Speaker 1: Alice to herself, in my going out altogether like a candle.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder what I should be like then? And she
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  Speaker 1: tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is
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  Speaker 1: like after the candle is blown out, for she could
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  Speaker 1: not remember ever having seen such a thing. After a while,
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  Speaker 1: finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into
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  Speaker 1: the garden at once. But alas for poor Alice, when
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  Speaker 1: she got to the door, she found she had forgotten
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  Speaker 1: the little golden key, and when she went back to
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  Speaker 1: the table for it, she found she could not possibly
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  Speaker 1: reach it. She could see it quite plainly through the glass,
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  Speaker 1: and She tried her best to climb up one of
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  Speaker 1: the legs of the table, but it was too slippery,
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  Speaker 1: And when she had tired herself out with trying, the
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  Speaker 1: poor little thing sat down and cried. Come. There's no
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  Speaker 1: use in crying like that, said Alice to herself, rather sharply,
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  Speaker 1: I advise you to leave off this minute. She generally
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  Speaker 1: gave herself very good advice, though she very seldom followed it,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring
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  Speaker 1: tears into her eyes. And once she remembered trying to
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  Speaker 1: box her her own ears for having cheated herself in
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  Speaker 1: a game of croquet. She was playing against herself. For
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  Speaker 1: this curious child was very fond of pretending to be
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  Speaker 1: two people. But it's no use, now, thought poor Alice,
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  Speaker 1: to pretend to be two people. Why there's hardly enough
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  Speaker 1: of me left to make one respectable person. Soon her
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  Speaker 1: eye fell on a little glass box that was lying
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  Speaker 1: under the table. She opened it and found in it
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  Speaker 1: a very small cake, on which the words eat emmy
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  Speaker 1: were beautifully marked in currants. Well I'll eat it, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: And if it makes me grow larger, I can reach
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  Speaker 1: the key. And if it makes me grow smaller. I
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  Speaker 1: can creep under the door, so either way I'll get
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  Speaker 1: into the garden, and I don't care which happens. She
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  Speaker 1: ate a little bit and said anxiously to herself, which way,
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  Speaker 1: which way, holding her hand on the top of her
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  Speaker 1: head to feel which way it was growing, and she
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  Speaker 1: was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size.
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  Speaker 1: To be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake.
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  Speaker 1: But Alice had got so much in the way of
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  Speaker 1: expecting nothing but out of the way things to happen,
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  Speaker 1: that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to
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  Speaker 1: go on in the common way. So she set to
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  Speaker 1: work and very soon finished off the cake. Asterisk asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, gasterisk, gasterisk, gasterisk, gasterisk, asterisk, gasterisk, gasterisk, gasteris, gastus, gasterus, gasterus, gasterisk.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, The Pool of Tears. Curiouser and curiouser, cried Alice.
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  Speaker 1: She was so much surprised that for the moment she
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  Speaker 1: quite forgot how to speak good English. Now I'm opening
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  Speaker 1: out like the largest telescope that ever was goodbye feet,
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  Speaker 1: for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be almost out of sight. They were getting so
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  Speaker 1: far off. Oh my poor little feet. I wonder who
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  Speaker 1: will put on your shoes and stockings for you? Now, DearS,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I shan't be able. I shall be a
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  Speaker 1: great deal too far off to trouble myself about you.
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  Speaker 1: You must manage the best way you can. But I
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  Speaker 1: must be kind to them, thought Alice. Or perhaps they
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  Speaker 1: won't walk the way I want to go. Let me see,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: And she went on planning to herself how she would
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  Speaker 1: manage it. They must go by the carrier, she thought,
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  Speaker 1: And how funny it'll seem sending presents to one's own feet,
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  Speaker 1: And how odd the directions will look. Alice's right foot
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  Speaker 1: e s q hearth rug near the fender with Alice's love.
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  Speaker 1: Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking. Just then her head
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  Speaker 1: struck against the roof of the hall. In fact, she
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  Speaker 1: was now more than nine feet high, and she at
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  Speaker 1: once took up the little golden key and hurried off
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  Speaker 1: to the garden door. Poor Alice, it was as much
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  Speaker 1: as she could do lying down on one side to
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  Speaker 1: look through into the garden with one eye, but to
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  Speaker 1: get through was more hopeless than ever. She sat down
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  Speaker 1: and began to cry again. You ought to be ashamed
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  Speaker 1: of yourself, said Alice. A great girl like you, she
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  Speaker 1: might well say this to go on crying in this way,
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  Speaker 1: stop this moment, I tell you. But she went on
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  Speaker 1: all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was
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  Speaker 1: a large pool all round her, about four inches deep
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  Speaker 1: and reaching half down the hall. After a time, she
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  Speaker 1: heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and
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  Speaker 1: she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
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  Speaker 1: It was the white rabbit, returning splendidly dressed with a
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  Speaker 1: pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a
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  Speaker 1: large fan in the other. He came trotting along in
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  Speaker 1: a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the duchess, the duchess, Oh, won't she be savage if
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  Speaker 1: I've kept her waiting. Alice felt so desperate that she
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  Speaker 1: was ready to ask help of anyone. So when the
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  Speaker 1: rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice,
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  Speaker 1: if you please, sir. The rabbit started violently dropped the
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  Speaker 1: white kid gloves and the fan and scurried away into
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  Speaker 1: the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took
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  Speaker 1: up the fan and gloves, and as the hall was
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  Speaker 1: very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time. She
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  Speaker 1: went on talking, dear, dear, how queer everything is to day,
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  Speaker 1: and yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: if I've been changed in the night. Let me think,
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  Speaker 1: was I the same when I got up this morning?
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  Speaker 1: I almost think I can remember feeling a little different.
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  Speaker 1: But if I'm not the same, the next question is
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  Speaker 1: who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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  Speaker 1: And she began thinking over all the children she knew
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  Speaker 1: that were of the same age as herself, to see
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  Speaker 1: if she could have been changed for any of them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm not Ada, she said, for her hair
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  Speaker 1: goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in
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  Speaker 1: ringlets at all. And I'm sure I can't be Mabel,
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  Speaker 1: for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she knows such a very little. Besides she's she and
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  Speaker 1: I'm I Anne, Oh, Dear, how puzzling it all is.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try if I know all the things I used
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  Speaker 1: to know. Let me see, four times five is twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven
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  Speaker 1: is Oh dear, I shall never get to twenty at
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  Speaker 1: that rate. However, the multiplication table doesn't signify. Let's try geography.
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  Speaker 1: London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the
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  Speaker 1: capital of Rome and Rome. No, that's all wrong. I'm
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  Speaker 1: certain I must have been changed for Mabel. I'll try
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  Speaker 1: and say how doth the little and She crossed her
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  Speaker 1: hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons,
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  Speaker 1: and began to repeat it, But her voice sounded hoarse
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  Speaker 1: and strange, and the words did not come the same
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  Speaker 1: as they used to do. How doth the little crocodile
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  Speaker 1: improve his shining tail and pour the waters of the
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  Speaker 1: nile on every golden scale? How cheerfully he seems to grin,
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  Speaker 1: how neatly spread his claws and welcome little fishes in
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  Speaker 1: with gently smiling jaws. I'm sure those are not the
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  Speaker 1: right words, said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with
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  Speaker 1: tears again, she went on, I must be Mabel after all,
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  Speaker 1: and I shall have to go and live in that
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  Speaker 1: poky little house and have next to no toys to
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  Speaker 1: play with, and oh, ever, so many lessons to learn. No,
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  Speaker 1: I've made up my mind about it. If I'm Mabel,
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  Speaker 1: I'll stay down here. It'll be no use there putting
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  Speaker 1: their heads down and saying come up again, dear. I
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  Speaker 1: shall only look up and say who am I? Then
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  Speaker 1: tell me that first, and then if I like being
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  Speaker 1: that person, I'll come up. If not, I'll stay down
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  Speaker 1: here till I'm somebody else. But oh, dear, cried Alice,
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  Speaker 1: with a sudden burst of tears. I do wish they
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  Speaker 1: would put their heads down. I am so very tired
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  Speaker 1: of being all alone here. As she said this, she
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  Speaker 1: looked down at her hands and was surprised to see
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  Speaker 1: that she had put on one of the rabbit's little
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  Speaker 1: white kid gloves while she was talking. How can I
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  Speaker 1: have done that? She thought, I must be growing small again.
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  Speaker 1: She got up and went to the table to measure
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  Speaker 1: herself by it, and found that as nearly as she
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  Speaker 1: could guess, she was now about two feet high and
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  Speaker 1: was going on shrinking rapidly. She soon found out that
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the cause of this was the fan she was holding,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: shrinking away. Altogether. That was a narrow escape, said Alice,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: glad to find herself still in existence. And now for
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the garden. And she ran with all speed back to
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the little door. But alas the little door was shut again,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and the little golden key was lying on the glass
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: table as before. And things are worse than ever, thought
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the poor child. For I never was so small as
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: this before, never, And I declare it's too bad that
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: it is. As she said these words, her foot slipped,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and in another moment, splash, she was up to her
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: had somehow fallen into the sea, and in that case
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I can go back by railway, she said to herself.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Alice had been to the seaside once in her life,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: and had come to the general conclusion that wherever you
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: go to on the English coast, you find a number
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and behind them a railway station. However, she soon made
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: out that she was in the pool of tears, which
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: she had wept when she was nine feet high. I
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: wish I hadn't cried so much, said Alice, as she
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: swam about trying to find her way out. I shall
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: in my own tears. That will be a queer thing,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to be sure. However, everything is queer to day. Just
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: then she heard something splashing about in the pool a
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: little way off, and she swam nearer to make out
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: what it was. At first she thought it must be
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: she was now, and she soon made out that it
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Would it be of any use now, thought Alice to
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: speak to this mouse. Everything is so out of the
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: way down here that I should think very likely it
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: can talk at any rate. There's no harm in trying,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: so she began, O mouse, do you know the way
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: about here? O mouse? Alice thought this must be the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: right way of speaking to a mouse. She had never
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: in her brother's Latin grammar a mouse of a mouse
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to a mouse, A mouse, O mouse. The mouse looked
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: with one of its little eyes. But it said nothing.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Perhaps it doesn't understand English, thought Alice. I dare say
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: it's a French mouse. Come over with William the conqueror.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: For with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: very clear notion how long ago anything had happened. So
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: she began again, oh es ma chat, which was the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: first sentence in her French lesson book. The mouse gave
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a sudden leap out of the water and seemed to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: quiver all over with fright. Oh I beg your pardon,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: cried Alice, hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: animal's feelings. I quite forgot you didn't like cats. Not
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: like cats, cried the mouse in a shrill, passionate voice.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Would you like cats if you were me? Well? Perhaps not,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: said Alice in a soothing tone. Don't be angry about it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Alice went on, half to herself as she swam lazily
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: about in the pool. And she sits purring so nicely
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And she is such a nice soft thing to nurse,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and she's such a capital one for catching mice. Oh,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon, cried Alice again. For this time
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: it must be really offended. We won't talk about her
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: any more, if you'd rather not we indeed, cried the mouse,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: who was trembling down to the end of his tail.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: As if I would talk on such a subject. Our
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: family always hated cats, nasty, low, vulgar things. Don't let
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: me hear the name again. I won't, indeed, said Alice,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Are you are you fond of of dogs? The mouse
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly. There is
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: such a nice little dog near our house. I should
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: like to show you a little bright eyed terrier, you know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: with oh, such long curly brown hair. And it'll fetch
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: things when you throw them, and it'll sit up and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things. I
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: can't remember half of them. And it belongs to a farmer,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you know. And he says it's so useful, it's worth
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: a hundred pounds. He says it kills all the rats.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: And oh, dear, cried Alice in a sorrowful tone. I'm
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: afraid I've offended it again. For the mouse was swimming
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: away from her as hard as it could go, and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: make beeing quite a commotion in the pool as it went. So,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: she called softly after it, mouse, deer, do come back again,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you don't like them. When the mouse heard this, it
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: turned round and swam slowly back to her. Its face
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: was quite pale with passion, Alice thought, and it said,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: in a low trembling voice, let us get to the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: shore and then i'll tell you my history and you'll
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: understand why it is I hate cats and dogs. It
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: was high time to go, for the pool was getting
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: into it. There were a duck and a dodo, a
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: lorry and an eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: led the way and the whole party swam to the shore.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Chapter three, A caucus race and a long tail. They
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: were indeed a queer looking party that assembled on the bank,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: clinging close to them, and all dripping, wet, cross and uncomfortable.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: The first question, of course, was how to get dry again.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: They had a consultation about this, and after a few
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: with the lory, who at last turned sulky and would
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: only say, I am older than you and must know better.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: it was, And as the laury positively refused to tell
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: its age, there was no more to be said. At last,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: among them, called out, sit down, all of you and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: listen to me. I'll soon make you dry enough. They
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: all sat down at once in a large ring, with
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon, ahem,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: said the mouse, with an important air. Are you all ready?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: if you please. William, the conqueror, whose cause was favored
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: by the Pope, was soon submitted to buy the English,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: who wanted leaders and had been of late much accustomed
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: to usurpation, and conquest Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Murcia and Northumbria. Uugh, said the lory, with a shiver.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon, said the mouse, frowning, but very politely.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Did you speak not, I said the lory, hastily. I
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: thought you did, said the mouse. I proceed Edwin and Morcar,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the earls of Mercia and Northumbria declared for him, and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: even Stigand the patriotic Archbishop of Canterbury found it advisable.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Found what, said the duck? Found it? The mouse replied,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: rather crossly. Of course you know what it means. I
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: know what it means well enough. When I find a thing,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: said the duck, It's generally a frog or a worm.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: The question is what did the archbishop find? The mouse
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on. Found
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: it advisable to go with Edgar Athling to meet William
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and offer him the crown. William's conduct at first was moderate,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: but the insolence of his normans, how are you getting
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: on now, my dear, it continued, turning to Alice as
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: it spoke. As wet as ever, said Alice in a
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: melancholy tone. It doesn't seem to dry me at all
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: in that case, said the Dodo, solemnly, rising to its feet.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I moved at the meeting adjourn for the immediate adoption
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: of more energetic remedies. Speak English, said the eaglet. I
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: don't know the meaning of half those long words. And
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: what's more, I don't believe you do either, And the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile. Some
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of the other birds tittered audibly. What I was going
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: to say, said the Dodo, in an offended tone, was
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: that the best thing to get us dry would be
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a caucas race. What is a Caucus race? Said Alice,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: not that she wanted much to know. But the Dodo
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: had paused, as if it thought that somebody ought to speak,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and no one else seemed inclined to say anything. Why,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: said the Dodo, The best way to explain it is
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: to do it, And as you might like to try
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the thing yourself some winter day, I will tell you
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: how the Dodo managed it. First it marked out a
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: race course in a sort of circle. The exact shape
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, it said, And then all the party were
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: placed along the course. Here and there there was no one, two, three,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: and away. But they began running when they liked, and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: left off when they liked, so that it was not
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: easy to know when the race was over. However, when
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: they had been running half an hour or so and
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: race is over, and they all crowded round it, panting
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: and asking, but who has won? This question the Dodo
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: could not answer without a great deal of thought, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it sat for a long time with one finger pressed
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: upon its forehead, the position in which you usually see
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Shakespeare in the pictures of him, while the rest waited
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: in silence. At last, the Dodo said, everybody has won,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and all must have prizes. But who is to give
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the prizes? Quite a chorus of voices asked why she,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: of course, said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: out in a confused way, prizes, prizes. Alice had no
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: idea what to do, and in despair, she put her
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: hand in her pocket and pulled out a box of comfits,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: luckily the salt water had not got into it, and
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one a
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: piece all round. But she must have a prize herself,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: you know, said the mouse. Of course, the Dodo replied,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: very gravely. What else have you got in your pocket?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: He went on, turning to Alice, Only a thimble, said Alice. Sadly,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: hand it over here, said the Dodo. Then they all
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the thimble, saying, we beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: And as she could not think of anything to say,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: she simply bowed and took the thimble, looking as solemn
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: as she could. The next thing was to eat the comfits.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: This caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: ones choked and had to be patted on the back. However,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: it was over at last, and they sat down again
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: in a ring and begged the mouse to tell them
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: something more. You promised to tell me your history, you know,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: said Alice. And why it is you hate C and D?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: She added in a whisper, half afraid that it would
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: be offended again. Mine is a long and a sad tale,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: said the mouse, turning to Alice and sighing. It is
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a long tail, certainly, said Alice, looking down with wonder
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: at the mouse's tail. But why do you call it sad?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: And she kept on puzzling about it while the mouse
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: something like this. Fury said to a mouse that he
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: met in the house, let us both go to law.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I will prosecute you. Dot. Come, I'll take no denial.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: We must have a trial, for really this morning. I've
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: nothing to do, said the mouse to the cur Such
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: a trial, dear sir, with no jury or judge, would
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: be wasting our breath. I'll be judge, I'll be jury,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: said cunning old Fury. I'll try the whole cause and
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: condemn you to death. You are not attending, said the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: mouse to Alice severely. What are you thinking of? I
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: beg your pardon, said Alice, very humbly. You had got
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to the fifth bend. I think I had not, cried
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the mouse, sharply and very angrily, and not, said Alice,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. Oh,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: do let me help to undo. I shall do nothing
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of the sort, said the mouse, getting up and walking away.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: You insult me by talking such nonsense. I didn't mean it,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: pleaded poor Alice. But you're so easily offended, you know.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: The mouse only growled in reply. Please come back and
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: finish your story, Alice called after it, and the others
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: all joined in chorus, Yes, please do. But the mouse
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: only shook its head impatiently and walked a little quicker.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: What a pity it wouldn't stay, sighed the lorry, as
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: soon as it was quite out of sight, and an
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: old crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter, ah,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: my dear, let this be a lesson to you never
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: to lose your temper hold your tongue. Ma, said the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: young crab a little snappishly, You're enough to try the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: patience of an oyster. I wish I had our Dinah here,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I know I do, said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: She'd soon fetch it back. And who is Dinah? If
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I might venture to ask the question? Said the lory,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: about her pet. Dinah's our cat. And she's such a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: capital one for catching mice, you can't think. And oh,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I wish you could see her after the birds. Why
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of the birds hurried off at once. One old magpie
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, I really must
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: be getting home. The night air doesn't suit my throat.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And a canary called out in a trembling voice to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: its children, Come away, my DearS, it's high time you
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: were all in bed. On various pretexts, they all moved off,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and Alice was soon left alone. I wish I hadn't
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: mentioned Dinah, she said to herself in a melancholy tone.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Nobody seems to like her down here, and I'm sure
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: she's the best cat in the world. Oh my dear Dinah,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I wonder if I shall ever see you any more.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: felt very lonely and low spirited. In a little while, however,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the mouse
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: had changed his mind and was coming back to finish
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: his story. Chapter four, The Rabbits sends in a little bill.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: It was the white rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: lost something, And she heard it muttering to itself, the duchess,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the duchess, Oh my dear pause, oh my fur and whiskers.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets?
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Where can I have dropped them? I wonder? Alice guessed
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: in a moment that it was looking for the fan
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: good naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: nowhere to be seen. Everything seemed to have changed since
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: her swim in the pool, and the great hall with
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the glass table and the little door had vanished completely.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Very soon, the rabbit noticed Alice as she went hunting about,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and called out to her in an angry tone, Why
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: mary Anne, what are you doing out here? Run home
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: this moment and fetch me a pair of gloves and
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a fan quick now. And Alice was so much frightened
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: that she ran off at once in the direction it
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: He took me for his housemaid, she said to herself
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: as she ran. How surprised he'll be when he finds
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: out who I am. But I'd better take him his
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: fan and gloves, that is, if I can find them.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: As she said this, she came upon a neat little house,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: on the door of which was a bright brass plate
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: with the name W Rabbit engraved upon it. She went
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: in without knocking, and hurried upstairs in great fear lest
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: she should meet the real Maryanne and be turned out
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of the house before she had found the fan and gloves.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: How queer it seems, Alice said to herself, to be
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: going messages for a rabbit, I suppose dine'll be sending
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: me on messages next, and she began fancying the sort
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: of thing that would happen. Miss Alice, come here directly
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: and get ready for your walk coming in a minute, nurse.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: But I've got to see that the mouse doesn't get out.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Only I don't think. Alice went on that they'd let
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: about like that. By this time she had found her
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: way into a tidy little room with a table in
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the window and on it, as she had hoped, a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: She took up the fan and a pair of the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: gloves and was just going to leave the room whenere
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I fell upon a little bottle that stood near the
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: looking glass. There was no label, this time with the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: words drink me, but nevertheless she uncorked it and put
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: it to her lips. I know something interesting is sure
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: to happen, she said to herself, whenever I eat or
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: drink anything. So I'll just see what this bottle. I
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: do hope it'll make me grow large again, for really,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I'm quite tired of being such a tiny little thing.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: It did so, indeed, and much sooner than she had expected.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Before she had drunk half the bottle. She found her
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: head pressing against the ceiling and had to stoop to
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: save her neck from being broken. She hastily put down
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the bottle, saying to herself, that's quite enough. I hope
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I shan't grow any more. As it is, I can't
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: get out at the door. I do wish I hadn't
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: drunk quite so much. Alas it was too late to
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: wish that. She went on growing and growing, and very
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: soon had to kneel down on the floor. In another minute,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: there was not even room for this, and she tried
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the effect of lying down with one elbow against the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: door and the other arm curled round her head. Still
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: she went on growing, and as a last resource, she
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: put one arm out of the window and one foot
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: up the chimney, and said to herself, now I can
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: do no more. Whatever happens, what will become of me.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: its full effect, and she grew no larger. Still, it
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: was very uncomfortable, and as there seemed to be no
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: sort of chance of her ever getting out of the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: room again, no wonder she felt unhappy. It was much
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: pleasanter at home, thought poor Alice, when one wasn't always
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: growing larger and smaller and being ordered about by mice
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: rabbit hole. And yet, and yet it's rather curious, you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: this sort of life. I do wonder what can have
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: happened to me? When I used to read fairy tales.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I fancied that kind of thing never happened. And now
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: here I am in the middle of one. There ought
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: to be a book written about me. That there ought,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And when I grow up, I'll write one. But I'm
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: grown up now, she added, in a sorrowful tone. At
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: least there's no room to grow up any more here.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: But then, thought Alice, shall I never get any older
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: than I am? Now that'll be a comfort one way,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: never to be an old woman, But then always to
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: have lessons to learn. Oh I shouldn't like that. Oh
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you foolish Alice, She answered herself. How can you learn
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: lessons in here? Why? There's hardly room for you, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: no room at all for any lesson books. And so
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: she went on, taking first one side and then the other,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: and making quite a conversation of it altogether. But after
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: a few minutes she heard a voice outside and stopped
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to listen mary Ann. Mary Ann said the voice, fetch
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: me my gloves this moment. Then came a little pattering
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: she shook the house quite forgetting that she was now
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: about a thousand times as large as the rabbit and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: had no reason to be afraid of it. Presently, the
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: rabbit came up to the door and tried to open it,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: But as the door opened inwards and Alice's elbow was
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: pressed hard against it, that attempt prove failure. Alice heard
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it say to itself. Then I'll go round and get
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: in at the window. That you won't, thought Alice, And
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: after waiting till she fancied, she heard the rabbit just
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: under the window. She suddenly spread out her hand and
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: made a snatch in the air. She did not get
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek in
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: a fall and a crash of broken glass, from which
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: into a cucumber frame. Or something of the sort. Next
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: came an angry voice the rabbits, Pat, Pat, where are you?
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: And then a voice she had never heard before. Sure, then,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I'm here digging for apples, your honor, digging for apples, indeed,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: said the rabbit angrily. Here, come and help me out
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: of this. Sounds of more broken glass. Now tell me, Pat,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: what's that in the window? Sure it's an arm, your honor,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: he prone bounced it aram, an arm, you goose? Who
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: ever saw one that size? Why it fills the whole window.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Sure it does, your honor, But it's an arm for
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: all that. Well, it's got no business there at any rate.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Go and take it away. There was a long silence
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: such as, sure I don't like it, your honor, at all,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: at all. Do as I tell you, you coward. And at
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: last she spread out her hand again and made another
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: snatch in the air. This time there were two little
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: shrieks and more sounds of broken glass. What a number
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: of cucumber frames there must be, thought Alice. I wonder
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: what they'll do next. As for pulling me out of
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the window, I only wish they could. I'm sure I
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: don't want to stay in here any longer. She waited
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: for some time without hearing anything more. At last came
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: a rumbling of little cart wheels and the sound of
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: a good many voices, all talking together. She made out
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: the words, where's the other ladder? Why? I hadn't to
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: bring but one? Bill's got the other? Bill, fetch it here,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: lad here? Put em up at this corner. No tie
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: em together? First, they don't reach half high enough yet.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Oh they'll do well enough. Don't be particular. Here, Bill,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: catch hold of this rope? Will the roof bear? Mind
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: that loose slate? Oh, it's coming down heads below A
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: loud crash? Now who did that? It was Bill? I
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: fancy who's to go down the chimney? Nay, I sha'n't
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: you do it? That? I won't. Then Bill's to go
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: down here. Bill, the master says you're to go down
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: the chimney. Oh, so Bill's got to come down the chimney,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: has he said Alice to herself. Shy. They seemed to
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: put everything upon Bill. I wouldn't be in Bill's place
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: for a good deal. This fireplace is narrow, to be sure,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: But I think I can kick a little. She drew
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: her foot as far down the chimney as she could
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and waited till she heard a little animal she couldn't
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: guess of what sort it was, scratching and scrambling about
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: in the chimney close above her. Then, saying to herself,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: this is Bill, she gave one sharp kick and waited
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: to see what would happen next. The first thing she
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: heard was a general chorus of there goes Bill, Then
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the rabbit's voice along, catch him, you buy the hedge.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Then silence, and then another confusion of voices. Hold up
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: his head, Brandy, Now don't choke him. How was it,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: old fellow? What happened to you? Tell us all about it? Last?
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Came a little feeble squeaking voice. That's Bill, thought Alice. Well,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I hardly know no more. Thank'ee. I'm better now, but
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I'm a deal too flustered to tell you. All I
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: know is something comes at me like a jack in
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the box, and up I goes like a sky rocket.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: So you did, old fellow, said the others. We must
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: burn the house down, said the rabbit's voice, and Alice
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: called out as loud as she could, if you do
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I'll set dine at you. There was a dead silence instantly,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: and Alice thought to herself, I wonder what they will
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: do next. If they had any sense, they'd take the
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: roof off. After a minute or two, they began moving
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: about again, and Alice heard the rabbit say A barrelful
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: will do to begin with? A barrelful of what? Thought Alice.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: But she had not long to doubt, for the next
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the window, and some of them hit her in the face.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I'll put a stop to this, she said to herself,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: and shouted out you'd better not do that again, which
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: produced another dead silence. Alice noticed with some surprise that
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: her head. If I eat one of these cakes, she thought,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: it's sure to make some change in my size, and
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: as it can't possibly make me larger, it must make
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: me smaller, I suppose. So she swallowed one of the
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: cakes and was delighted to find that she began shrinking
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: directly as soon as she was small enough to get
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: through the door. She ran out of the house and
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: The poor little lizard bill was in the middle, being
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: held up by two guinea pigs who were giving it
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: something out of a bottle. They all made a rush
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: at Alice the moment she appeared, but she ran off
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: in a thick wood. The first thing I've got to do,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: said Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the wood,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: is to grow to my right size again. And the
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I think that will be the best plan. It sounded
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: The only difficulty was that she had not the smallest
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: idea how to set about it. And while she was
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: just over her head made her look up in a
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: great hurry. An enormous puppy was looking down at her
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: with large round eyes and feebly stretching out one paw
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: trying to touch her. Poor little thing, said Alice in
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: a coaxing tone, and She tried hard to whistle to it,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: but she was terribly frightened all the time at the
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: thought that it might be hungry, in which case it
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: would be very likely to eat her up. In spite
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: of all her coaxing, hardly knowing what she did, she
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: picked up a little bit of stick and held it
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: out to the puppy, whereupon the puppy jumped into the
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: air off all its feet at once with a yelp
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: of delight, and rushed at the stick and made believe
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: to worry it. Then Alice dodged behind a great thistle
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: to keep herself from being run over, and the moment
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: rush at the stick and tumbled head over heels in
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: its hurry to get hold of it. Then Alice, thinking
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: it was very like having a game of play with
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: a cart horse and expecting every moment to be trampled
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: under its feet, ran round the thistle again. Then the
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: puppy began a series of short charges at the stick,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: running a very little way forwards each time, and a
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: at last it sat down a good way off, panting,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: with its tongue hanging out of its mouth and its
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: great eyes half shut. This seemed to Alice a good
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: opportunity for making her escape, so she set off at
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: once and ran till she was quite tired and out
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: of breath, until the puppies bark sounded quite faint in
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: the distance. And yet what a dear little puppy it was,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: and fanned herself with one of the leaves. I should
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: have liked teaching a tricks very much, if if I'd
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: only been the right size to do it. Oh dear,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Let me see how is it to be managed? I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: But the great question is what. The great question, certainly
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: was what. Alice looked all round her, at the flowers
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: and the blades of grass, but she did not see
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: anything that looked like the right thing to eat or
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: drink under the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: near her, about the same height as herself, and when
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: she had looked under it and on both sides of
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: it and behind it. It occurred to her that she
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: might as well look and see what was on the
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: top of it. She stretched herself up on tiptoe and
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar that was
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: or of anything else. Chapter five, Advice from a Caterpillar.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: The caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: time in silence. At last, the caterpillar took the hookah
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: out of its mouth and addressed her in a languid,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: sleepy voice. Who are you, said the caterpillar. This was
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I I hardly know, sir, just just at present. At
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: least I know who I was when I got up
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: this morning, but I think I must have been changed
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: several times since then. What do you mean by that,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar, sternly. Explain yourself. I can't explain myself,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid, sir, said Alice, because I'm not myself. You see,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: I don't see, said the caterpillar. I'm afraid I can't
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: put it more clearly, Alice replied very politely, for I
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: can't understand it myself to begin with, and being so
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: many different sizes in a day is very confusing, it isn't,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar. Well perhaps you haven't found it so yet,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: said Alice. But when you have to turn into a
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: chrysalis you will some day, you know, and then after
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: that into a butterfly. I should think you'll feel it
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: a little queer, won't you? Not a bit? Said the caterpillar.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Well perhaps your feelings may be different, said Alice. All
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I know is it would feel very queer to me. You,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar, contemptuous who are you? Which brought them
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: back again to the beginning of the conversation. Alice felt
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: a little irritated at the caterpillar's making such very short remarks,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, I
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: think you ought to tell me who you are first?
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Why said the caterpillar. Here was another puzzling question, and
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: as Alice could not think of any good reason, and
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: as the caterpillar seemed to be in a very unpleasant
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: state of mind. She turned away. Come back, the caterpillar
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: called after her. I've something important to say. This sounded promising, certainly.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Alice turned and came back again. Keep your temper, said
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: the caterpillar. Is that all, said Alice, swallowing down her
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: anger as well as she could. No, said the caterpillar.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: nothing else to do, and perhaps, after all, it might
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: tell her something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: away without speed, but at last it unfolded its arms,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: So you think you're changed, do you? I'm afraid I am, sir,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: said Alice. I can't remember things as I used and
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Can't remember what things, said the caterpillar. Well, I've tried
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: to say how doth the little busy be? But it
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: all came different. Alice replied, in a very melancholy voice. Repeat,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: you are old, father, William, said the caterpillar. Alice folded
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: her hands and began, You are old father, William, the
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: young man said, And your hair has become very white,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: And yet you incessantly stand on your head. Do you
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: think at your age it is right? In my youth,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: father William replied to his son, I feared it might
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: injure the brain, But now that I'm perfectly sure I
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: have none. Why I do it again and again? You
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: are old, said the youth, as I mentioned before, and
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: have grown most uncommonly fat. Yet you turned a back
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: somersault in at the door. Pray what is the reason
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: of that? In my youth, said the sage, as he
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: shook his gray locks, I kept all my limbs very
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: supple by the use of this ointment. One shilling the box,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: allow me to sell you a couple. You are old,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: said the youth, And your jaws are too weak for
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: anything tougher than suet. Yet you finished the goose with
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: the bones and the beak. Pray, how did you manage
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: to do it? In my youth, said his father, I
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: took to the law and argued each case with my wife,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: and the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: has lasted the rest of my life. You are old,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: said the youth. One would hardly suppose that your eye
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: was as steady as ever, Yet you balanced an eel
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: on the end of your nose. What made you so
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: awfully clever? I have answered three questions, and that is enough,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: said his father. Don't give yourself airs. Do you think
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: or I'll kick you down stairs. That is not said, right,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar. Not quite right, I'm afraid, said Alice timidly.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Some of the words have got altered. It is wrong
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: from beginning to end, said the caterpillar decidedly, and there
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: was silence for some minutes. The caterpillar was the first
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: to speak. What size do you want to be? It asked. Oh,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not particular as to size, Alice hastily replied, only
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: one doesn't like changing so often? You know, I don't know,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar. Alice said nothing. She had never been
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: that she was losing her temper. Are you content now,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar. Well, I should like to be a
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: little larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind, said Alice. Three
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: inches is such a wretched height to be. It is
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: a very good height, indeed, said the caterpillar, angrily, rearing
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: itself upright as it spoke, it was exactly three inches high.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: But I'm not used to it, pleaded poor Alice in
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: a piteous tone, And she thought of herself, I wish
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended. You'll get used
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: to it in time, said the caterpillar, and it put
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again. This time,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: a minute or two, the caterpillar took the hookah out
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: of its mouth and yawned once or twice and shook itself.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Then it got down off the mushroom and crawled away
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: in the grass, merely remarking as it went. One side
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: will make you grow taller, and the other side will
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: make you grow shorter. One side of what the other
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: side of what, thought Alice to herself. Of the mushroom,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud,
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  Speaker 1: and in another moment it was out of sight. Alice
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: to make out which were the two sides of it,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: And as it was perfectly round, she found this a
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: very difficult question. However, at last she stretched her arms
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: round it as far as they would go, and broke
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: off a bit of the edge with each hand. And
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: now which is which, she said to herself, and nibbled
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: a little of the right hand bit to try the effect.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: The next moment she felt a violent blow underneath her chin.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: It had struck her foot. She was a good deal
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: there was no time to be lost, as she was
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: shrinking rapidly, so she set to work at once to
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: so closely against her foot that there was hardly room
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: to open her mouth, but she did it at last,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: and managed to swallow a morsel of the left hand bit.
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  Speaker 1: Asterisk asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, gasterisk asterisk, gasterus, gasterus, gastusk, gasterus, gasterus, gasterisk, gasterus, gasterusk, gasterus, gasterus,
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  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gasterisk. Come my head's free, at last, said Alice,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: another moment when she found that her shoulders were nowhere
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: to be found. All she could see when she looked
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: down was an immense length of neck, which seemed to
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: rise like a stalk out of a sea of green
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: leaves that lay far below her. What can all that
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: green stuff be? Said Alice? And where have my shoulders
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it?
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: I can't see you? She was moving them about as
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: little shaking among the distant green leaves. As there seemed
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: to be no chance of getting her hands up to
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: her head, she tried to get her head down to them,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: and was delighted to find that her neck would bend
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: about easily in any direction like a serpent. She had
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: and was going to dive in among the leaves, which
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: she found to be nothing but the tops of the
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharpest
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: made her draw back in a hurry. A large pigeon
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: had flown into her face and was beating her violently
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: with its wings. Serpent, screamed the pigeon. I'm not a serpent,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: said Alice, indignantly. Let me alone, serpent, I say again,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: repeated the pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: added with a kind of sob. I've tried every way
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: and nothing seems to suit them. I haven't the least
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: idea what you're talking about, said Alice. I've tried the
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and i've tried hedges.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: The pigeon went on without attending to her. But those serpents,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: there's no pleasing them. Alice was more and more puzzled,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: but she thought there was no use in saying anything
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: more till the pigeon had finished. As if it wasn't
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: trouble enough hatching the eggs, said the pigeon. But I
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: must be on the lookout for serpents night and day.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: Why I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I'm very sorry you've been annoyed, said Alice, who was
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: beginning to see its meaning. And just as I'd taken
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: the highest tree in the wood, continued the pigeon, raising
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: its voice to a shriek. And just as I was
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: thinking I should be free of them at last, they
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: must needs come wriggling down from the sky, Hugh, serpent.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: But I'm not a serpent. I tell you, said Alice.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a Well what are you, said the pigeon.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: I can see you're trying to invent something. I I'm
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: a little girl, said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: the number of changes she had gone through that day.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: A likely story, indeed, said the pigeon, in a tone
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: of the deepest contempt. I've seen a good many little
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: girls in my time, but never one with such a
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: neck as that. No, no, you're a serpent, and there's
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: next that you never tasted an egg. I have tasted eggs, certainly,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: said Alice, who was a very truthful child. But little
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents, do you know?
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: I don't believe it, said the pigeon. But if they do,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: why then they're a kind of serpent. That's all I
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: can say. This was such a new idea to Alice
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: that she was quite silent for a minute or two,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: which gave the pigeon the opportunity of adding, you're looking
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: for eggs. I know that well enough. And what does
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: it matter to me whether you're a little girl or
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: a serpent. It matters a good deal to me, said
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Alice hastily. But I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: and if I was, I shouldn't want yours. I don't
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: like them. Raw Well, be off, then, said the pigeon
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: the branches, and every now and then she had to
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: stop and untwist it. After a while, she remembered that
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: down to her usual height. It was so long since
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: she had been anything near the right size that it
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: felt quite strange at first, but she got used to
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: it in a few minutes and began talking to herself
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: as usual. Come, there's half my plan done. Now. How
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: puzzling all these changes are. I'm never sure what I'm
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: going to be from one minute to another. However, I've
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: got back to my right size. The next thing is
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: to get into that beautiful garden. How is that to
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: be done? I wonder? As she said this, she came
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: suddenly upon an open place with a little house in
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: at about four feet high. Whoever lives there, thought Alice.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: It'll never do to come upon them this size. Why
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: I should frighten them out of their wits. So she
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: began nibbling at the right hand bit again, and did
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: not venture to go near the house till she had
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: brought herself down to nine inches high. Chapter six Pig
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: and Pepper. For a minute or two she stood looking
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: at the house and wondering what to do next, when
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: She considered him to be a footman because he was
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: in livery, Otherwise, judging by his face only, she would
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: have called him a fish, and rapped loud at the
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: door with his knuckles. It was opened by another footman
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: in livery, with a round face and large eyes like
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: a frog. And both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: that curled all over their heads. She felt very curious
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: to know what it was all about, and crept a
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: little way out of the wood to listen. The fish
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: to the other, saying, in a solemn tone, for the
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Duchess an invitation from the Queen to play croquet. The
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: frog footman repeated in the same solemn tone, only changing
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: the order of the words a little, from the Queen,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: an invitation for the duchess to play croquet. Then they
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together. Alice
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: laughed so much at this that she had to run
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: back into the wood for fear of their hearing her.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: And when she next peeped out, the fish footman was gone,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: and the other was sitting on the ground near the door,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: staring stupidly up into the sky. Alice went timidly up
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: to the door and knocked. There's no sort of use
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: in knocking, said the footman, and that for two reasons. First,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: because I'm on the same side of the door as
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: you are. Secondly, because they're making such a noise inside
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: no one could possibly hear you. And certainly there was
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: a most extraordinary noise going on within a constant howling
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces. Please, then,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: said Alice, how am I to get in? There might
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: be some sense in your knocking? The footman went on
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: without attending to her. If we had the door between us,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: for instance, if you were inside, you might knock and
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: I could let you out. You know, he was looking
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: up into the sky all the time he was speaking,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: and this, Alice thought decidedly uncivil. But perhaps he can't
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: help it. She said to herself. His eyes are so
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: very nearly at the top of his head. But at
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: any rate he might answer questions. How am I to
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: get in? She repeated aloud, I shall sit here? The
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: footman remarked, till tomorrow. At this moment, the door of
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: straight at the footman's head. It just grazed his nose
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Or next day maybe. The footman continued in the same tone,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: exactly as if nothing had happened. How am I to
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: get in? Asked Alice again, in a louder tone, Are
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: you to get in at all, said the footman. That's
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: the first question, you know. It was no doubt. Only
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: Alice did not like to be told. So it's really dreadful,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: she muttered to herself. The way all the creatures argue,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: it's enough to drive one crazy. The footman seemed to
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: think this a good opportunity for repeating his remark with variations.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: I shall sit here, he said, on and off for
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: days and days. But what am I to do, Alice?
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Anything you like, said the footman, and began whistling. Oh,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: there's no use in talking to him, said Alice desperately.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: He's perfectly idiotic, And she opened the door and went in.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: The door led right into a large kitchen which was
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: full of smoke from one end to the other. The
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Duchess was sitting on a three legged stool in the middle,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: nursing a baby. The cook was leaning over the fire,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: stirring a large caldron which seemed to be full of soup.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: There's certainly too much pepper in that soup, Alice said
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: to herself, as well as she could for sneezing. There
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: was certainly too much of it in the air. Even
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: the Duchess sneezed occasionally, and as for the baby, it
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: was sneezing and howling alternately, without a moment's pause. The
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze were
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: the cook and a large cat, which was sitting on
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: the hearth and grinning from ear to ear. Please, would
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: you tell me, said Alice, a little timidly, for she
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: was not quite sure whether it was good manners for
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: her to speak. First. Cat grins like that. It's a
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Cheshire cat, said the Duchess, and that's why pig. She
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: quite jumped, But she saw in another moment that it
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: was addressed to the baby and not to her, so
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: she took courage and went on again. I didn't know
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: that Cheshire cats always grinned. In fact, I didn't know
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: that cats could grin. They all can, said the Duchess,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: and most of em do. I don't know of any
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: that do, Alice said, very politely, feeling quite pleased to
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: have got into a conversation. You don't know much, said
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: the Duchess, and that's a fact. Alice did not at
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: all like the tone of this remark, and thought it
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: would be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: While she was trying to fix on one, the cook
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: took the caldron of soup off the fire and at
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: once set to work throwing everything within her reach at
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: the Duchess and the baby. The fire irons came first,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: then followed a shower of sauce, bands, plates, and dishes.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: The duchess took no notice of them even when they
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: hit her, and the baby was howling so much already
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: heard it or not. Oh, please, mind what you're doing,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Oh there goes his precious nose, as an unusually large
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: saucepan flew close by it and very nearly carried it off.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: If everybody minded their own business, the duchess said, in
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: a horse growl, the world would go round a deal
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: faster than it does, which would not be an advantage,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: of showing off a little of her knowledge. Just think
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: of what work it would make with the day and
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: night you see, the earth takes twenty four hours to
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: turn round on its axis. Talking of axes, said the duchess.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Chop off her head. Alice glanced rather anxiously at the
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: cook to see if she meant to take the hint,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: but the cook was busily stirring the soup and seemed
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: not to be listening, so she went on again. Twenty
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: four hours, I or is it twelve? I Oh, don't
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: bother me, said the Duchess. I never could abide figures,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: And with that she began nursing her child again, singing
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: a sort of lullaby to it as she did so,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: and giving it a violent shake at the end of
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: every line. Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: him when he sneezes. He only does it to annoy
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: because he knows it teases chorus, in which the cook
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: and the baby joined Wow, Wow Wow. While the duchess
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: the baby violently up and down, and the poor little
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: thing howled, so that Alice could hardly hear the words,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: I speak severely to my boy, I beat him when
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: he sneezes, for he can thoroughly enjoy the pepper when
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: he pleases. Chorus wow, wow, wow. Here, you may nurse
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: it a bit if you like, the duchess said to Alice,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: flinging the baby at her as she said, I must
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: and she hurried out of the room. The cook threw
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: a frying pan after her as she went out, but
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: it just missed her. Alice caught the baby with some difficulty,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: as it was a queer shaped little creature and held
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: out its arms and legs in all directions, just like
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: a starfish, thought Alice. The poor little thing was snorting
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: like a steam engine when she caught it, and kept
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: altogether for the first minute or two, it was as
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: much as she could do to hold it. As soon
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: as she had made out the proper way of nursing it,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: which was to twist it up into a sort of knot,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: and then keep tight hold of its right ear and
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: left foot so as to prevent its undoing itself, she
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: carried it out into the open air. If I don't
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: take this child away with me, thought Alice, they're sure
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: to kill it in a day or two, wouldn't it
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: be murder to leave it behind. She said the last
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: words out loud, and the little thing grunted in reply.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: It had left off sneezing by this time. Don't grunt,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: said Alice. That's not at all a proper way of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: expressing yourself. The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: anxiously into its face to see what was the matter
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: with it. There could be no doubt that it had
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: a very turn up nose, much more like a snout
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: than a real nose. Also, its eyes were getting extremely
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: small for a baby. Altogether, Alice did not like the
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: look of the thing at all, But perhaps it was
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: only sobbing, she thought, and looked into its eyes again
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: to see if there were any tears. No, there were
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: no tears. If you're going to turn into a pig,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: my dear, said Alice, seriously, I'll have nothing more to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: do with you. Mind now. The poor little thing sobbed
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: again or grunted, it was impossible to say which, and
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: they went on for some while in silence. Alice was
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: just beginning to think to herself, now what am I
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: to do with this creature when I get it home?
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: When it grunted again, so violently that she looked down
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: into its face in some alarm. This time, there could
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: be no mistake about it. It was neither more nor
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: less than a pig, and she felt that it would
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: be quite absurd for her to carry it further. So
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: to see it trot away quietly into the wood. If
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: it had grown up, she said to herself, it would
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: have made a dreadfully ugly child. But it makes rather
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: a handsome pig, I think, And she began thinking over
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: other children she knew who might do very well as pigs,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: and was just saying to herself, if one only knew
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: the right way to change them. When she was a
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: little startled by seeing the Cheshire cat sitting on a
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: bough of a tree a few yards off. The cat
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good natured,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: she thought. Still, it had very long claws and a
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: be treated with respect. Cheshire Puss, she began rather timidly,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: as she did not at all know whether it would
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: like the name. However, it only grinned a little wider
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: come it's pleased so far, thought Alice. And if you
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: went on, would you tell me please which way I
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: ought to go from here? That depends a good deal
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  Speaker 1: on where you want to get to, said the cat.
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  Speaker 1: I don't much care where, said Alice. Then it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter which way you go, said the cat, so long
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: as I get somewhere. Alice added, as an explanation, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're sure to do that, said the cat, if you
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: only walk long enough. Alice felt that this could not
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  Speaker 1: be denied, so she tried another question. What sort of
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: people live about here? In that direction, the cat said,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: waving its right poor round lives a hatter, and in
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: that direction, waving the other paw, lives a march hare.
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  Speaker 1: Visit either you like? They're both mad. But I don't
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: want to go among mad people. Alice remarked. Oh you
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: can't help that, said the cat. We're all mad here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm mad. You're mad. How do you know I'm mad?
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  Speaker 1: Said Alice. You must be, said the cat, or you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have come here. Alice didn't think that proved it
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  Speaker 1: at all, However, she went on, and how do you
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  Speaker 1: know that you're mad? To begin with? Said the cat.
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  Speaker 1: A dog's not mad? You grant that. I suppose so,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice. Well, then the cat went on. You see
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  Speaker 1: a dog growls when it's angry and wags its tail
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  Speaker 1: when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and
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  Speaker 1: wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad. I
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: call it purring, not growling, said Alice. Call it what
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  Speaker 1: you like, said the cat. Do you play croquet with
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: the Queen to day? I should like it very much,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice. But I haven't been invited yet. You'll see
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: me there, said the cat, and vanished. Alice was not
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  Speaker 1: much surprised at this, she was getting so used to
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: queer things happening. While she was looking at the place
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: where it had been, it suddenly appeared again by the
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: by What became of the baby? Said the cat. I'd
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: nearly forgotten to ask. It turned into a pig, Alice
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  Speaker 1: quietly said, just as if it had come back in
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: a natural way. I thought it would, said the cat,
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  Speaker 1: and vanished again. Alice waited a little half expecting to
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: see it again, but it did not appear, and after
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: a minute or two she walked on in the direction
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: in which the march Hare was said to live. I've
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: seen hatters before, she said to herself, the march Hare
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: will be much the most interesting. And perhaps, as this
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: is May, it won't be raving mad, at least not
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: so mad as it was in March. As she said this,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: she looked up and there was the cat again, sitting
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: on a branch of a tree. Did you say, pig
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: or fig? Said the cat. I said, pig, replied Alice.
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  Speaker 1: And I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: suddenly you make one quite giddy. All right, said the cat,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: And this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: end of the tail and ending with the grin, which
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: remained some time after the rest of it had gone. Well.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: I've often seen a cat without a grin, thought Alice.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: But a grin without a cat, it's the most curious
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: thing I ever saw in my life. She had not
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: gone much farther before she came in sight of the
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: house of the march Hare. She thought it must be
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: the right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: and the roof was thatched with fur. It was so
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: large a house that she did not like to go
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: nearer till she had nibbled some more of the left
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: hand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: feet high. Even then, she walked up towards it rather timidly,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: saying to herself, suppose it should be raving mad? After all,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: I almost wish I'd gone to see the hatter instead.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: Chapter seven, A mad tea party. There was a table
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: set out under a tree in front of the house,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: and the march Hare and the Hatter were having tea
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: at it. A dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: and the other two were using it as a cushion,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: resting their elbows on it and talking over its head.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: Very uncomfortable for the dormouse, thought Alice. Only as it's asleep,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: I suppose it doesn't mind. The table was a large one,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: but the three were all crowded together at one corner
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: of it. No room, no room, they cried out when
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: they saw Alice coming. There's plenty of room, said Alice indignantly,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: and she sat down in a large armchair at one
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: end of the table. Have some wine, the march hare said,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the table,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: but there was nothing on it but tea. I don't
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: see any wine, she remarked. There isn't any, said the
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: march Hare. Then it wasn't very civil of you to
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: offer it, said Alice angrily. It wasn't very civil of
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: you to sit down without being invited, said the march Hare.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't know it was your table, said Alice. It's
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: laid for a great many more than three. Your hair
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: wants cutting, said the hatter. He had been looking at
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: his first speech. You should learn not to make personal remarks,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Alice said, with some severity. It's very rude. The hatter
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: opened his eyes very wide on hearing this, but all
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: he said was why is a raven like a writing desk? Come?
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: We shall have some fun now, thought Alice. I'm glad
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: they've begun asking riddlesduck. I believe I can guess that,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: She added aloud. Do you mean that you think you
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: can find out the answer to it, said the march Hare.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Exactly so, said Alice. Then you should say what you mean.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: The march Hare went on, I do. Alice hastily replied,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: at least at least I mean what I say. That's
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: the same thing you know not the same thing a bit,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: said the hatter. You might just as well say that
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: I see what I eat is the same thing as
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: I eat what I see. You might just as well say,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: added the march Hare. That I like what I get
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: is the same thing as I I get what I like.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: You might just as well say, added the dormouse, who
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: seemed to be talking in his sleep, that I breathe
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: when I sleep is the same thing as I sleep.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: When I breathe, It is the same thing with you,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: said the hatter. And here the conversation dropped, and the
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: party sat silent for a minute while Alice thought over
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: all she could remember about ravens and writing desks, which
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: wasn't much. The hatter was the first to break the silence.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: What day of the month is it? He said, turning
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: to Alice. He had taken his watch out of his
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: pocket and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: now and then and holding it to his ear. Alice
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: considered a little and then said the fourth two days wrong,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: sighed the hatter. I told you butter wouldn't suit the works,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: he added, looking angrily at the march Hare. It was
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: the best butter. The march hare meekly replied yes, but
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: some crumbs must have got in as well. The hatter grumbled,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't have put it in with the breadknife. The
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: march hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Then he dipped it into his cup of tea and
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: looked at it again. But he could think of nothing
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: better to say than his first remark. It was the
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: best butter, you know. Alice had been looking over his
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: shoulder with some curiosity. What a funny watch, she remarked.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: It tells the day of the month and doesn't tell
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: what a clock it is. Why should it, muttered the hatter.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: Does your watch tell you what ear it is? Of
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: course not, Alice replied very readily. But that's because it
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: stays the same year for such a long time together,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: which is just the case with mine, said the hatter.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The hatter's remark seemed to have
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: certainly English. I don't quite understand you, she said, as
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: politely as she could. The dormouse is asleep again, said
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: the hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: its nose. The dormouse shook its head impatiently and said,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: without opening its eyes. Of course, of course, just what
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: I was going to remark myself. Have you guessed the
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: riddle yet, the hatter said, turning to Alice again, No,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: I give it up. Alice replied, what's the answer. I
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: haven't the slightest idea, said the hatter, Nor I said
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: the march hare. Alice sighed wearily. I think you might
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: do something better with the time, she said, than waste
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: it in asking riddles that have no answers. If you
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: knew time as well as I do, said the hatter,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him. I don't
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: know what you mean, said Alice. Of course you don't,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: the hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. I dare say
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: you never even spoke to time. Perhaps not, Alice cautiously replied,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: But I know I have to beat time when I
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: learn music. Ah, that accounts for it, said the hatter.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: He won't stand beating now. If you only kept on
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: in the morning, just time to begin lessons. You'd only
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: have to whisper a hint to time, and round goes
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: the clock in a twinkling half past one time for dinner.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: I only wish it was the march Hare said to
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: itself in a whisper. That would be grand, certainly, said
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: Alice thoughtfully. But then I shouldn't be hungry for it,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: you know, not at first, perhaps, said the hatter. But
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: you could keep it to half past one as long
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: as you liked. Is that the way you manage? Alice asked.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: The hatter shook his head mournfully. Not I, he replied.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: We quarreled last March, just before he went mad, you know,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: pointing with his tea spoon at the march Hare. It
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: and I had to sing Twinkle Twinkle, little bat. How
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: I wonder what you're at, you know the Perhaps I've
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: heard something like it, said Alice. It goes on, you know,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: the hatter continued, In this way, up above the world,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: you fly like a tea tray in the sky, Twinkle twinkle.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: Here the dormouse shook itself and began singing in its sleep,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: Twinkle Twinkle, twinkle twinkle, and went on so long that
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: they had to pinch it to make it stop. Well,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: I'd hardly finish the first verse, said the hatter, when
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: the Queen jumped up and bawled out. He's murdering the
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: time off with his head. How dreadfully savage, exclaimed Alice.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: And ever since that, the hatter went on in a
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: mournful tone. He won't do a thing I ask. It's
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: always six o'clock. Now. A bright idea came into Alice's head.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: Is that the reasons so many tea things are put
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: out here? She asked? Yes, that's it, said the hatter
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: with a sigh. It's always tea time, and we've no
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: time to wash the things between whiles. Then you keep
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: moving round, I suppose, said Alice. Exactly so, said the hatter,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: as the things get used up. But what happens when
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: you come to the beginning again? Alice ventured to ask,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: suppose we change the subject? The march hare interrupted, yawning,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: tells us a story. I'm afraid I don't know one,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal. Then the dormouse,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: shall they both cried, Wake up, dormouse, and they pinched
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: it on both sides at once. The dormouse slowly opened
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: his eyes. I wasn't asleep, he said, in a hoarse,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: feeble voice. I heard every word you fellows were saying.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: Tell us a story, said the march hare. Yes, please do,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: pleaded Alice. And be quick about it, added the hatter,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: or you'll be asleep again before it's done. Once upon
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: a time there were three little sisters. The dormouse began
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: in a great hurry, and their names were Elsie, Lacy,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: and Tilly, and they lived at the bottom of a well.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: What did they live on, said Alice, who always took
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. They
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: lived on treacle, said the dormouse, After thinking a minute
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: or two. They couldn't have done that, you know, Alice
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: gently remarked. They'd have been ill. So they were, said
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: the dormouse, very ill. Alice tried to fancy to herself
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: what such an extraordinary way of living would be like,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: but it puzzled her too much, so she went on,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: but why did they live at the bottom of a well?
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: Take some more tea? The march hare said to Alice
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: very earnestly, I've had nothing yet. Alice replied in an
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: offended tone, So I can't take more. You mean you
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: can't take less, said the hatter. It's very easy to
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: take more than nothing. Nobody asked your opinion, said Alice.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: Who's making personal remarks now, the hatter asked, triumphantly. Alice
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: did not quite know what to say to this, so
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: she helped herself to some tea and bread and butter,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: and then turned to the dormouse and repeated her question,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: why did they live at the bottom of a well?
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: The dormouse again took a minute or two to think
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: about it, and then said it was a treacle. Well,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: there's no such thing. Alice was beginning very angrily, but
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: the hatter and the march hare went s H s H,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: and the dormouse sulkily remarked, if you can't be civil,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: you'd better finish the story for yourself. No, please go on,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: Alice said, very humbly, I won't interrupt again. I dare
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: say there may be one one indeed, said the dormouse indignantly. However,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: he consented to go on, And so these three little sisters,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: they were learning to draw. You know what did they draw?
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: Said Alice, quite forgetting her promise. Treacle, said the dormouse,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: without considering it all this time, I want a clean cup,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: interrupted the hatter. Let's all move one place. On. He
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: moved on as he spoke, and the dormouse followed him.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: The march hare moved into the dormouse's place, and Alice,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: rather unwillingly, took the place of the march hare. The
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: hatter was the only one who got any advantage from
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: the change, and Alice was a good deal worse off
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: than before, as the march hare had just upset the
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: milk jug into his plate. Alice did not wish to
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: offend the dormouse again, so she began very cautiously. But
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: I don't understand where did they draw the treacle from.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: You can draw water out of a water well, said
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: the hatter, So I should think you could draw a
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: treacle out of a treacle? Well, stupid, But they were
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: in the well, Alice said to the dormouse, not choosing
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: to notice this last remark. Of course they were, said
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: the dormouse. Well in this answer so confused poor Alice
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: that she let the dormouse go on for some time
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: without interrupting it. They were learning to draw. The dormouse
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: went on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it was
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: getting very sleepy, and they drew all manner of things,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: everything that begins with an M. Why with an M?
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: Said Alice? Why not, said the march hare. Alice was silent.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: The dormouse had closed its eyes by this time and
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: was going off into a doze, but on being pinched
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: by the hatter, it woke up again with a little
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: shriek and went on that begins with an M, such
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: as mouse traps and the moon, and memory and muchness.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: You know, you say things are much of a muchness?
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Did you ever see such a thing as a drawing
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: of a muchness? Really? Now you ask me, said Alice,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: very much confused. I don't think. Then you shouldn't talk,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: said the hatter. This piece of rudeness was more than
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: Alice could bear. She got up in great disgust and
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: walked off. The dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: the others took the least notice of her going, though
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: would call after her. The last time she saw them,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: they were trying to put the dormouse into the teapot.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: At any rate, I'll never go there again, said Alice,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: as she picked her way through the wood. It's the
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: stupidest tea party I ever was at in all my life.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: Just as she said this, she noticed that one of
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: the trees had a door leading right into it. That's
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: very curious, she thought, But everything's curious to day. I
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: think I may as well go in at once. And
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: in she went once more. She found herself in the
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: long hall and close to the little glass table. Now
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: I'll manage better this time, she said to herself, and
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: began by taking the little golden key and unlocking the
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: door that led into the garden. Then she went to
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: work nibbling at the mushroom. She had kept a piece
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: of it in her pocket till she was about a
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: foot high. Then she walked down the little passage, and
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: then she found herself at last in the beautiful garden,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: among the bright flower beds and the cool fountains. Chapter eight,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: The Queen's Croquet Ground. A large rose tree stood near
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  Speaker 1: the entrance of the garden. The roses growing on it
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  Speaker 1: were white but there were three gardeners at it, busily
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  Speaker 1: painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing,
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  Speaker 1: and she went nearer to watch them, And just as
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  Speaker 1: she came up to them, she heard one of them say,
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  Speaker 1: look out, now, Five, don't go splashing paint over me
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  Speaker 1: like that. I couldn't help it, said five, in a
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  Speaker 1: sulky tone. Seven jogged my elbow, on which seven looked
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  Speaker 1: up and said, that's right. Five, always lay the blame
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  Speaker 1: on others. You'd better not talk, said five. I heard
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  Speaker 1: the queen say only yesterday you deserve to be beheaded? What?
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  Speaker 1: Four said the one who had spoken first. That's none
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  Speaker 1: of your business, Two said seven. Yes, it is his business,
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  Speaker 1: said five, and I'll tell him it was for bringing
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  Speaker 1: the cook tulip roots instead of onions. Seven flung down
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  Speaker 1: on his brush and had just begun, well, of all
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  Speaker 1: the unjust things? When is I chanced to fall upon
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  Speaker 1: Alice as she stood watching them, and he checked himself.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly the others looked round also, and all of them
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  Speaker 1: bowed low. Would you tell me, said Alice a little timidly,
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  Speaker 1: why you are painting those roses? Five? And seven said nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but looked at two two began in a low voice.
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  Speaker 1: Why the fact is, you see, miss, this here ought
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  Speaker 1: to have been a red rose tree, and we put
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  Speaker 1: a white one in by mistake. And if the Queen
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  Speaker 1: was to find it out, we should all have our
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  Speaker 1: heads cut off, you know. So you see, miss, we're
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  Speaker 1: doing our best afore she comes too. At this moment,
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  Speaker 1: five who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called
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  Speaker 1: out the Queen. The queen, and the three gardeners instantly
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  Speaker 1: threw themselves flat upon their faces. There was a sound
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  Speaker 1: of many footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to see
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  Speaker 1: the queen. First came ten soldiers carrying clubs. These were
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  Speaker 1: all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with
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  Speaker 1: their hands and feet at the corners. Next the ten courtiers.
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  Speaker 1: These were ornamented all over with diamonds and walked two
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  Speaker 1: and two as the soldiers did. After these came the
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  Speaker 1: royal children. There were ten of them, and the little
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  Speaker 1: deers came jumping merrily along hand in hand in couples.
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  Speaker 1: They were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests,
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  Speaker 1: mostly kings and queens, and among them Alice recognized the
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  Speaker 1: white rabbit. It was talking in a hurried, nervous manner,
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  Speaker 1: smiling at everything that was said, and went by without
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  Speaker 1: noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the
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  Speaker 1: King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion. And last of
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  Speaker 1: all this grand procession came the King and Queen of Hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie
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  Speaker 1: down on her face like the three gardeners, but she
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  Speaker 1: could not remember ever having heard of such a rule
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  Speaker 1: at processions, And besides, what would be the use of
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  Speaker 1: a procession, thought she if people had all to lie
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  Speaker 1: down upon their faces so that they couldn't see it.
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  Speaker 1: So she stood still where she was and waited. When
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  Speaker 1: the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and
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  Speaker 1: looked at her, and the Queen said severely, who is this?
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  Speaker 1: She said it to the Knave of Hearts, who only
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  Speaker 1: bowed and smiled in reply. Idiot, said the Queen, tossing
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  Speaker 1: her head impatiently, and turning to Alice, she went on,
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  Speaker 1: what's your name? Child? My name is Alice, so please,
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  Speaker 1: your majesty, said Alice very politely, But she added to herself,
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  Speaker 1: why they're only a pack of cards. After all, I
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  Speaker 1: needn't be afraid of them. And who are these? Said
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  Speaker 1: the Queen, pointing to the three gardeners who were lying
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  Speaker 1: round the rose tree. For you see, as they were
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  Speaker 1: lying on their faces and the pattern on their backs
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  Speaker 1: was the same as the rest of the pack, she
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  Speaker 1: could not tell whether they were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers,
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  Speaker 1: or three of her own children. How should I know,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice, surprised at her own courage. It's no business
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  Speaker 1: of mine. The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after
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  Speaker 1: glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast,
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  Speaker 1: screamed off with her head off. Nonsense, said Alice, very
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  Speaker 1: loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent. The King
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  Speaker 1: laid his hand upon her arm and timidly said, consider,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, she is only a child. The Queen turned
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  Speaker 1: angrily away from him and said to the knave, turned
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  Speaker 1: them over. The knave did so very carefully with one foot.
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  Speaker 1: Get up, said the Queen in a shrill, loud voice,
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  Speaker 1: and the three gardeners instantly jumped up and began bowing
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  Speaker 1: to the King. The Queen, the royal children and everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Leave off that, screamed the Queen. You make me giddy,
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  Speaker 1: and then turning to the rose tree, she went on,
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  Speaker 1: what have you been doing here? May it please your majesty?
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  Speaker 1: Said too, in a very humble tone, going down on
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  Speaker 1: one knee as he spoke. We were trying, I see,
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  Speaker 1: said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the roses,
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  Speaker 1: off with their heads, and the procession moved on. Three
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  Speaker 1: of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners
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  Speaker 1: who ran to Alice for protection. You shan't be beheaded,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: said Alice, and she put them into a large flower
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  Speaker 1: pot that stood near The three soldiers wandered about for
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: a minute or two looking for them, and then quietly
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  Speaker 1: marched off. After the others are their heads off, shouted
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  Speaker 1: the Queen. Their heads are gone, If it please your majesty,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: The soldiers shouted in reply. That's right, shouted the queen.
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  Speaker 1: Can you play croquet? The soldiers were silent and looked
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: at Alice as the question was evidently meant for her. Yes,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: shouted Alice. Come on, then roared the queen, and Alice
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: joined the procession, wondering very much what would happen next.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a very fine, said a timid voice at
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: her side. She was walking by the white rabbit, who
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  Speaker 1: was peeping anxiously into her face. Very said Alice, where's
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: the duchess. Hush, hush, said the rabbit in a low,
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  Speaker 1: hurried tone. He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke,
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  Speaker 1: and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close
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  Speaker 1: to her ear, and whispered, she's under sentence of execution.
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  Speaker 1: What for, said Alice? Did you say what a pity?
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: The rabbit asked, No, I didn't, said Alice. I don't
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: think it's at all a pity. I said, what for?
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: She boxed the Queen's ears. The rabbit began. Alice gave
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: a little scream of laughter. Oh hush, the rabbit whispered,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: in a frightened tone. The queen will hear you. You see,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: she came rather late, And the queen said, get to
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  Speaker 1: your places, shouted the queen in a voice of thunder,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: and people began unning about in all directions, tumbling up
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: against each other. However, they got settled down in a
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  Speaker 1: minute or two, and the game began. Alice thought she
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: had never seen such a curious croquet ground. In her life,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: it was all ridges and furrows. The balls were live hedgehogs,
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  Speaker 1: the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet
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  Speaker 1: to make the arches. The chief difficulty Alice found at
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: first was in managing her flamingo. She succeeded in getting
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: its body tucked away comfortably enough under her arm, with
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: its legs hanging down, But generally, just as she had
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  Speaker 1: got its neck nicely straightened out and was going to
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  Speaker 1: give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would
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  Speaker 1: twist itself round and look up in her face with
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: out laughing. And when she had got its head down
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  Speaker 1: and was going to begin again, it was very provoking
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself and was
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: in the act of crawling away. Besides all this, there
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  Speaker 1: was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and as the
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: doubled up soldiers were always getting up and walking off
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  Speaker 1: to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to
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  Speaker 1: the conclusion that it was a very difficult game. Indeed,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: the players all played at once without waiting for turns,
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  Speaker 1: quarreling all the while and fighting for the hedgehogs. And
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: in a very short time the Queen was in a
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  Speaker 1: furious passion and went stamping about and shouting off with
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  Speaker 1: his head or off with her head about once in
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: a minute. Alice began to feel very uneasy. To be sure,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: she had not as yet had any dispute with the queen,
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  Speaker 1: but she knew that it might happen any minute, and
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  Speaker 1: then thought she what would become of me? They're dreadfully
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: fond of beheading people here. The great wonder is that
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: there's any one left alive. She was looking about for
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: some way of escape and wondering whether she could get
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: in the air. It puzzled her very much at first,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: but after watching it a minute or two, she made
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: it out to be a grin, and she said to herself,
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  Speaker 1: it's the chesher cat. Now I shall have somebody to
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  Speaker 1: talk to. How are you getting on? Said the cat,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as there was mouth enough for it to
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  Speaker 1: speak with. Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded.
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  Speaker 1: It's no use speaking to it, she thought, till its
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  Speaker 1: ears have come, or at least one of them. In
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: another minute, the whole had appeared, and then Alice put
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  Speaker 1: down her flamingo and began an account of the game,
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  Speaker 1: feeling very glad she had some one to listen to her.
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  Speaker 1: The cat seemed to think that there was enough of
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: it now in sight, and no more of it appeared.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think they play it all fairly, Alice began,
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  Speaker 1: in rather a complaining tone. And they all quarrel so dreadfully.
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  Speaker 1: One can't hear one's self speak. And they don't seem
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  Speaker 1: to have any rules in particular at least if there are,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: nobody attends to them. And you've no idea how confusing
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: it is all the things being alive. For instance, there's
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: the arch I've got to go through next, walking about
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: at the other end of the ground. And I should
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: have croquaded the queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: away when it saw mine coming. How do you like
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: the queen, said the cat in a low voice. Not
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: at all, said Alice. She's so extremely Just then she
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: noticed that the queen was close behind her, listening so
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: she went on likely to win, that it's hardly worth
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: while finishing the game. The queen smiled and passed on.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you talking to, said the king, going up
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: to Alice and looking at the cat's head with great curiosity.
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  Speaker 1: It's a friend of mine, a cheshire cat, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: Allow me to introduce it. I don't like the look
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  Speaker 1: of it at all, said the king. However, it may
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  Speaker 1: kiss my hand if it likes I'd rather not. The
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  Speaker 1: cat remarked. Don't be impertinent, said the king, and don't
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  Speaker 1: look at me like that. He got behind Alice as
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: he spoke. A cat may look at a king, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: I've read that in some book, but I don't remember where. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it must be removed, said the king, very decidedly, and
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: he called the Queen, who was passing at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, I wish you would have this cat removed.
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  Speaker 1: The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties,
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  Speaker 1: great or small. Off with his head, she said, without
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: even looking round. I'll fetch the executioner myself, said the
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: king eagerly, and he hurried off. Alice thought she might
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: as well go back and see how the game was
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: going on as she heard the queen's voice in the distance,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: screaming with passion. She had already heard her sentence three
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: of the players to be executed for having missed their turns,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: and she did not like the look of things at all,
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: as the game was in such confusion that she never
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: knew whether it was her turn or not, so she
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  Speaker 1: went in search of her hedgehog. The hedgehog was engaged
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other.
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  Speaker 1: The only difficulty was that her flamingo was gone across
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  Speaker 1: to the other side of the garden, where Alice could
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  Speaker 1: see it trying in a helpless sort of way to
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: fly up into a tree. By the time she had
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: over and both the hedgehogs were out of sight. But
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter much, thought Alice, as all the arches
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: are gone from this side of the ground, so she
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: tucked it away under her arm that it might not
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: escape again, and went back for a little more conversation
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: with her friend. When she got back to the cheshire
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: cat she was surprised to find quite a large crowd
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: collected round it. There was a dispute going on between
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: and looked very uncomfortable. The moment Alice appeared, she was
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: appealed to buy all three to settle the question, and
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: they repeated their arguments to her, though as they all
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: spoke at once, she found it very hard, indeed to
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: make out exactly what they said. The executioner's argument was
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: that you couldn't cut off ahead unless there was a
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: body to cut it off from. That he had never
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: going to begin at his time of life. The King's
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: argument was that anything that had a head could be beheaded,
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: and that you weren't to talk nonsense. The Queen's argument
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: was that if something wasn't done about it in less
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: than no time, she'd have everybody executed all round. It
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: was this last remark that had made the whole party
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: look so grave and anxious. Alice could think of nothing
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: else to say. But it belongs to the Duchess. You'd
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: better ask her about it. She's in prison. The queen
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: said to the executioner, fetch her here, and the executioner
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: went off like an arrow. The cats had began fading
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: away the moment he was gone, and by the time
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely disappeared.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: So the King and the executioner ran wildly up and
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: down looking for it, while the rest of the party
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: went back to the game. Chapter nine, The mock Turtle's Story.
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  Speaker 1: You can't think how glad I am to see you again,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: you dear old thing, said the Duchess as she tucked
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: her arm affectionately into Alice's and they walked off together.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: Alice was very glad to find her in such a
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: pleasant temper, and thought to herself that, perhap, Phaps, it
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: was only the pepper that had made her so savage
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: when they met in the kitchen. When I'm a duchess,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: she said to herself, not in a very hopeful tone,
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: though I won't have any pepper in my kitchen at all.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: Soup does very well without. Maybe it's always pepper that
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: makes people hot tempered, she went on, very much pleased
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: at having found out a new kind of rule, and
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: vinegar that makes them sour, and camomile that makes them
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: bitter an and barley sugar, and such things that make
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: children sweet tempered. I only wish people knew that, then
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't be so stingy about it. You know. She
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: a little startled when she heard her voice close to
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: her ear. You're thinking about something, my dear, and that
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: now what the moral of that is, but I shall
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: remember it in a bit. Perhaps it hasn't one, Alice
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: ventured to remark. Tut tut, child said the Duchess, everything's
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: got a moral, if only you can find it, and
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: Alice did not much like keeping so close to her,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: first because the Duchess was very ugly, and secondly because
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: she was exactly the right height to rest her chin
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However,
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: she did not like to be rude, so she bore
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: it as well as she could. The game's going on
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: rather better now, she said, by way of keeping up
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: the conversation. A little tis so, said the Duchess. And
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: the moral of that is, Oh tis love. Tis love
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: that makes the world go round, somebody said, Alice whispered,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: that it's done by everybody minding their own business. Ah well,
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: it means much the same thing, said the Duchess, digging
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: And the moral of that is take care of the sense,
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: and the sounds will take care of themselves. How fond
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: she is of finding morals and things, Alice thought to herself,
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: I dare say, you're wondering why I don't put my
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: arm round your waist, The Duchess said, after a pause,
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: The reason is that I'm doubtful about the temper of
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment he might bite?
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious to have
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: the experiment tried. Very true, said the Duchess. Flamingoes and
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: mustard both bite. And the moral of that is birds
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: of a feather flocked together. Only mustard isn't a bird,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: Alice remarked. Right as usual, said the Duchess. What a
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  Speaker 1: clear way you have of putting things. It's a mineral,
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  Speaker 1: I think, said Alice. Of course it is, said the Duchess,
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  Speaker 1: who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said.
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  Speaker 1: There's a large mustard mine near here, and the moral
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: of that is the more there is of mine, the
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: less there is of yours. Oh, I know, exclaimed Alice,
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: who had not attended to this last remark. It's a vegetable.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: It doesn't look like one, but it is. I quite
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  Speaker 1: agree with you, said the Duchess. And the moral of
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: that is be what you would seem to be, or
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like it, put more. Simply, never imagine yourself
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  Speaker 1: not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others,
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  Speaker 1: That what you were or might have been was not
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  Speaker 1: otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to
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  Speaker 1: them to be otherwise. I think I should understand that better,
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  Speaker 1: Alice said, very politely, if I had it written down,
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  Speaker 1: But I can't quite follow it as you say it.
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  Speaker 1: That's nothing to what I could say if I chose.
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  Speaker 1: The Duchess replied, in a pleased tone. Pray, don't trouble
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  Speaker 1: yourself to say it any longer than that, said Alice. Oh,
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: don't talk about trouble, said the Duchess. I make you
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: a present of everything I've said as yet a cheap
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  Speaker 1: sort of present, thought Alice. I'm glad they don't give
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: birthday presents like that, but she did not venture to
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: say it out loud. Thinking again, the Duchess asked, with
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: another dig of her sharp little chin. I've a right
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: to think, said Alice, sharply, for she was beginning to
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: feel a little worried. Just about as much right, said
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: the Duchess, as pigs have to fly and the m
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: but here. To Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: away even in the middle of her favorite word of moral,
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: and the arm that was linked into hers began to tremble.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen in front
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.
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  Speaker 1: A fine day, your majesty, the Duchess began, in a low,
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  Speaker 1: weak voice. Now I give you fair warning, shouted the Queen,
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: stamping on the ground as she spoke. Either you or
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: your head must be off, and that in about half
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: no time. Take your choice. The duchess took her choice
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  Speaker 1: and was gone in a moment. Let's go on with
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: the game, the Queen said to Alice, and Alice was
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: her back to the croquet ground. The other guests had
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: taken advantage of the queen's absence and were resting in
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: the shade. However, the mo moment they saw her, they
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: hurried back to the game, the queen merely remarking that
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: a moment's delay would cost them their lives. All the
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: time they were playing, the Queen never left off quarreling
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: with the other players and shouting off with his head
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: or off with her head. Those whom she sentenced were
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: to leave off being arches to do this, so that
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: by the end of half an hour or so there
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: were no arches left, and all the players except the King,
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: the Queen, and Alice were in custody and under sentence
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: of execution. Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: and said to Alice, have you seen the mock turtle yet? No,
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: said Alice, I don't even know what a mock turtle is.
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  Speaker 1: It's the thing mock turtle soup is made from, said
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: the Queen. I never saw one or heard of one,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: said Alice. Come on, then, said the Queen, and he
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: shall tell you his history. As they walked off together,
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: Alice heard the king say, in a low voice to
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: the company, generally you are all pardoned. Come. That's a
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: good thing, she said to herself, for she had felt
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: They very soon came upon a griffin lying fast asleep
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  Speaker 1: in the sun. If you don't know what a griffin is,
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: look at the picture. Up, lazy thing, said the Queen,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: and take this young lady to see the mock turtle
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  Speaker 1: and to hear his history. I must go back and
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  Speaker 1: see after some executions I have ordered. And she walked off,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: leaving Alice alone with the griffin. Alice did not quite
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: like the look of the creature, but on the whole
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: she thought it would be quite as safe to stay
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: with it as to go after that savage queen. So
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: she waited. The griffin sat up and rubbed its eyes.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: Then it watched the queen till she was out of sight.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: Then it chuckled. What fun, said the griffin, half to itself,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: half to Alice. What is the fun, said Alice, Why,
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: she said the griffin. It's all her fancy that they
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: never executes nobody, you know. Come on, everybody says, come
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: on here, thought Alice, as she went slowly after it.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: I never was so ordered about in all my life. Never.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: They had not gone far before they saw the mock
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: little ledge of rock. And as they came nearer, Alice
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: could hear him sighing as if his heart would break.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: She pitied him deeply. What is his sorrow, she asked
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: the griffin, and the griffin answered, very nearly in the
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: same words as before, it's all his fancy that he
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: hasn't got no sorrow, you know. Come on. So they
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: went up to the mock turtle, who looked at them
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: with large eyes full of tears, but said nothing. This here,
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: young lady, said the griffin. She wants for to know
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: your history. She do, I'll tell it her, said the
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: mock turtle in a deep, hollow tone. Sit down, both
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: of you, and don't speak a word till I've finished.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: So they sat down and nobody spoke for some minutes.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: Alice thought to herself, I don't see how he can
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: ever finish if he doesn't begin, But she waited patiently.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: Once said the mock turtle at last, with a deep sigh,
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: I was a real turtle. These words were followed by
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: of h J C kara h from the griffin and
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: the constant heavy sobbing of the mock turtle. Alice was
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: very nearly getting up and saying thank you, sir for
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: your interesting story, but she could not help thinking there
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: must be more to come, so she sat still and
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: said nothing. When we were little, the mock turtle went on,
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: And then we went to school in the sea. The
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: master was an old turtle. We used to call him tortoise.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you call him tortoise if he wasn't one,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: Alice asked. We called him tortoise because he taught us,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: said the mock turtle angrily. Really you are very dull.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: a simple question, added the griffin. And then they both
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: to sink into the earth. At last, the griffin said
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: to the mock turtle, drive on, old fellow, don't be
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: all day about it. And he went on in these words, Yes,
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: believe it. I never said I didn't, interrupted Alice. You did,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: said the mock turtle. Hold your tongue, added the griffin.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: Before Alice could speak again, the mock turtle went on,
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: we had the best of educations. In fact, we went
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: to school every day. I've been to a day school too,
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: said Alice. You needn't be so proud as all that
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: with extras, asked the mock turtle, a little anxiously. Yes,
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: said Alice. We learned French and music and washing, said
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: the mock turtle. Certainly not, said Alice indignantly. Ah, then
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: yours wasn't a really good school, said the mock turtle,
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: in a tone of great relief. Now at ours they
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: had at the end of the bill, French, music and
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: washing extra. You couldn't have wanted it much, said Alice.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: Living at the bottom of the sea. I couldn't afford
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: to learn it, said the mock turtle, with a sigh.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: I only took the regular course. What was that, inquired Alice,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: reeling and writhing. Of course, to begin with, the mock
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: turtle replied, and then the different branches of arithmetic, ambition, distraction, uglification,
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: and derision. I never heard of uglification, Alice ventured to say,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: what is it? The griffin lifted up both its paws
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: in surprise. What never heard of uglifying? It exclaimed? You
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: know what to beautify is? I suppose, yes, said Alice, doubtfully.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: It means to make anything prettier. Well, then the griffin
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: went on, if you don't know what to uglify is,
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: you are a simpleton. Alice did not feel encouraged to
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: ask any more questions about it, so she turned to
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: the mock turtle and said, what else had you to learn? Well?
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: There was mystery, the mock turtle replied, counting off the
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: subjects on his flappers. Mystery ancient and modern, with seography,
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: then drawling. The drawing master was an old kangerreal that
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: used to come once a week. He taught us drawling,
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: stretching and fainting in coils. What was that like? Said Alice? Well,
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: I can't show it you myself. The mock turtle said,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: I'm too stiff, and the griffin never learned. It hadn't time,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: said the griffin, I went to the classics master, though
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: he was an old crab he was, I never went
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: to him. The mock turtle said, with a sigh, He
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: taught laughing in grief, they used to say, so he did,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: so he did, said the griffin, sighing in his turn.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: And both creatures hid their faces in their paws. And
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: how many hours a day did you do lessons? Said Alice,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: first day, said the mock turtle, nine the next, and
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: so on. What a curious plan, exclaimed Alice. That's the
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: reason there called lessons, the griffin remarked, because they lessened
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: from day to day. This was quite a new idea
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: to Alice, and she thought it over a little before
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: she made her next remark. Then the eleventh day must
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: have been a holiday, of course, it was, said the
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: mock turtle. And how did you manage on the twelfth?
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: Alice went on eagerly. That's enough about lessons, the griffin interrupted,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: in a very decided tone. Tell her something about the games. Now.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: Chapter ten, the lobster quadrille. The mock turtle sighed deeply
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: and drew the back of one flapper across his eyes.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: He looked at Alice and tried to speak, but for
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: a minute or two, sobs choked his voice, Same as
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: if he had a bone in his throat, said the griffin,
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: and it set to work shaking him and punching him
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: in the back. At last, the mock turtle recovered his voice, and,
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: with tears running down his cheeks, he went on again.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: You may not have lived much under the sea. I haven't,
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: said Alice. And perhaps you were never even introduced to
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: a lobster. Alice began to say I once tasted, but
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: checked herself hastily and said, no, never. So you can
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: have no idea what a delightful thing a lobster quadrille is. No, indeed,
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: said Alice, What sort of a dance is it? Why,
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: said the griffin. You first form into a line along
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: the sea shore, two lines, cried the mock turtle. Seals turtles,
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: salmon and so on. Then when you've cleared all the
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: jelly fish out of the way, that generally takes some time,
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: interrupted the griffin. You advanced twice each with a lobster
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: as a partner, cried the griffin. Of course, the mock
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: turtle said, advance twice, set to partners, change lobsters, and
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: retire in same order, continued the griffin. Then you know,
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: the mock turtle went, on, you throw the the lobsters,
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: shouted the griffin, with a bound into the air. As
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: far out to sea as you can swim after them,
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: screamed the griffin. Turn a somersault in the sea, cried
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: the mock turtle, cappering wildly about change lobsters again, yelled
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: the griffin at the top of its voice. Back to
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: land again. And that's all, the first figure, said the
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: mock turtle, suddenly dropping his voice, and the two creatures,
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: who had been jumping about like mad things all this time,
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: sat down again, very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: It must be a very pretty dance, said Alice, timidly.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: Would you like to see a little of it, said
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: the mock turtle. Very much indeed, said Alice. Come let's
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: try the first first figure, said the mock turtle to
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: the griffin. We can do without lobsters, you know, which
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: shall sing? Oh? You sing? Said the griffin, I've forgotten
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: the words. So they began sullenly dancing round and round
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: Alice every now and then, treading on her toes when
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: they passed too close, and waving their forepaws to mark
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: the time, while the mock turtle sang this very slowly
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: and sadly, will you walk a little faster? Set a
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: whiting to a snail. There's a porpoise close behind us,
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: lobsters and the turtles all advance. They are waiting on
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: the shingle. Will you come and join the dance? Will you?
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: Won't you? Will you? Won't you? Will you join the dance?
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: Will you? Won't you? Will you? Won't you? Won't you
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: join the dance? You can really have no notion how
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: delightful it will be when they take us up and
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: throw us with the lobsters out to sea. But the
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: snail replied, too far, too far, and gave a look
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: askance said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not,
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: could not would not join the dance. Would not could not,
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: would not, could not could not join the dance. What
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: matters it how far we go? His scaly friend replied,
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: there is another shore, you know, upon the other side,
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: the further off from England. The nearer is to France.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: Then turn, not, pale, beloved snail, but come and join
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: the dance. Will you won't you? Will you? Won't you?
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: Will you join the dance? Will you won't you? Will you?
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: Won't you? Won't you join the dance? Thank you? It's
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: a very interesting dance to watch, said Alice, feeling very
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: glad that it was over at last. And I do
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: so like that curious song about the whiting. Oh as
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: to the whiting, said the mock turtle. They you've seen them,
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: of course, yes, said Alice. I've often seen them at dinn.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: She checked herself hastily. I don't know where din may be,
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: said the mock turtle. But if you've seen them so often,
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: of course you know what they're like. I believe so,
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: Alice replied thoughtfully. They have their tails in their mouths,
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: and they're all over crumbs. You're wrong about the crumbs,
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: said the mock turtle. Crumbs would all wash off in
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: the sea. But they have their tails in their mouths,
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: and the reason is, hear the mock turtle yawned and
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: shut his eyes. Tell her about the reason and all
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: that he said to the griffin. The reason is, said
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: the griffin, that they would go with the lobsters to
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: the dance. So they got thrown out to sea, so
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: they had to fall a long way, so they got
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: their tails fast in their mouths so they couldn't get
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: them out again. That's all, thank you, said Alice. It's
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: very interesting. I never knew so much about a whiting before.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: I can tell you more than that, if you like,
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: said the griffin. Do you know why it's called a whiting?
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: I never thought about it, said Alice. Why it does
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: the boots and shoes? The gryffin replied, very solemnly. Alice
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: was thoroughly puzzled. Does the boots and shoes? She repeated,
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: in a wondering tone. Why what are your shoes done with?
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: Said the griffin, I mean, what makes them so shiny?
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: Alice looked down at them and considered a little before
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: she gave her answer. They're done with blacking, I believe
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: boots and shoes under the sea. The gryffin went on,
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: in a deep voice. Are done with a whiting, now
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: you know. And what are they made of, Alice asked,
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: in a tone of great curiosity, Sols and eels, of course,
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: the gryffin replied, rather impatiently. Any shrimp could have told
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: you that. If I'd been the whiting, said Alice, whose
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: thoughts were still running on the song, I'd have said
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: to the porpoise, keep back, please, we don't want you
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: with us. They were obliged to have him with them.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: The mock turtle said, no, wise, fish would go anywhere
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: without a porpoise, wouldn't it, really, said Alice in a
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: tone of great surprise. Of course not, said the mock turtle.
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: Why if a fish came to me and told me
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: he was going a journey, I should say with what, porpoise?
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: Don't you mean purpose? Said Alice. I mean what I say,
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: the mock turtle replied in an offended tone, and the
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: griffin added, come, let's hear some of your adventures. I
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: could tell you my adventures beginning from this morning, said Alice,
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: a little timidly. But it's no use going back to yesterday,
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: because I was a different person. Then explain all that,
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  Speaker 1: said the mock turtle. No, no, the adventures first, said
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: the griffin in an impatient tone. Explanations take such a
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: dreadful time. So Alice began telling them her adventures from
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: the time when she first saw the white rabbit. She
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: was a little nervous about it, just at first. The
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: two creatures got so close to her, one on each side,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: and opened their eyes and mouths so very wide, But
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: she gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: perfectly quiet till she got to the part about her
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  Speaker 1: repeating you are old father William to the caterpillar, and
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: the words all coming different. And then the mock turtle
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: drew a long breath and said, that's very curious. It's
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: all about as curious as it can be, said the Griffin.
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  Speaker 1: It all came different, the mock turtle repeated, thoughtfully, I
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: should like to hear her try and repeat something. Now,
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: tell her to begin. He looked at the griffin as
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice.
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: Stand up and repeat tis the voice of the sluggard,
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: said the griffin. How the creatures order one about and
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: make one repeat lessons, thought Alice. I might as well
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: be at school at once. However, she got up and
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: began to repeat it, but her head was so full
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: of the lobster quadrille that she hardly knew what she
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: was saying, and the words came very queer. Indeed, tis
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: the voice of the lobster. I heard him declare, you
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: have baked me too, brown, I must sugar my hair
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: as a duck with its eyelids. So he with his nose,
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: Later editions continued as follows. When the sands are all dry,
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: he is gay as a lark and will talk in
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: contemptuous tones of the shark. But when the tide rises
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: and sharks are around, his voice has a timid and
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: tremulous sound. That's different from what I used to say
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: when I was a child, said the griffin. Well I
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: never heard it before, said the mock turtle. But it
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: sounds uncommon nonsense. Alice said nothing. She had sat down
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: with her face in her hands, wondering if anything would
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: ever happen in a natural way again. I should like
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: to have it explained, said the mock turtle. She can't
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: explain it, said the gryffin, hastily go on with the
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: next verse. But about his toes, the mock turtle persisted,
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: How could he turn them out with his nose? You know,
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: it's the first position in dancing, Alice said, but was
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing and longed to change
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: the subject. Go on with the next verse, the griffin repeated, impatiently.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: It begins, I passed by his garden. Alice did not
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: I passed by his garden and marked with one eye
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: how the owl and the panther were sharing a pie.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: Later editions continued as follows. The panther took pie crust
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: and gravy and meat, while the owl had the dish
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: as its share of the treat. When the pie was
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: all finished, the owl, as a boon, was kindly permitted
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: to pocket the spoon, while the panther received knife and fork.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: With a growl and concluded the banquet. What is the
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: use of repeating all that stuff, the mock turtle interrupted,
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: If you don't explain it as you go on, it's
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: by far the most confusing thing I ever heard. Yes,
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: I think you'd better leave off, said the griffin, and
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: Alice was only too glad to do so. Shall we
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: try another figure of the lobster quadrille? The gryffin went on,
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: or would you like the mock turtle to sing you
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: a song? Oh, a song? Please? If the mock turtle
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: would be so kind? Alice replied so eagerly that the
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: griffin said, in a rather offended tone, h M, no
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: accounting for tastes, sing her turtle soup, will you, old fellow?
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: The mock turtle sighed deeply and began, in a voice
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this beautiful soup, so
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: rich and green, waiting in a hot tureen. Who for
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: such dainties would not stoop soup of the evening, beautiful soup,
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: Soup of the evening, beautiful soup bo, beautiful sue doop bo,
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: beautiful sue doop sue boop of the e e even
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: beautiful beautiful soup, beautiful soup. Who cares for fish, game
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: or any other dish, Who would not give all else
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: for two pennyworth only of beautiful soup, penniworth only of
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: beautiful soup, bo, beautiful sue doop bo beautiful, Sue doop,
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: sue loop of the e e evening, beautiful, beauty full
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: soup chorus again cried the griffin, and the mock turtle
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: had just begun to repeat it when a cry of
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: the trial's beginning was heard in the distance. Come on,
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: cried the griffin, and taking Alice by the hand, it
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: hurried off without waiting for the end of the song.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: What trial is it? Alice panted as she ran, but
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: the griffin only answered, come on, and ran the faster,
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: while more and more faintly came carried on the breeze
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: that followed them the melancholy words sue doop of the
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: e e evening, beautiful, beautiful soup. Chapter eleven, Who Stole
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: the Tarts? The King and Queen of Hearts were seated
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: on their throne when they arrived, with a great crowd
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: assembled about them, all sorts of little birds and beasts,
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: as well as the whole pack of cards. The Knave
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: was standing before them in chains, with a soldier on
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: each side to guard him, and near the king was
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: the white Rabbit with a trumpet in one hand and
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: a scroll of parchment in the other. In the very
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: middle of the court was a table with a large
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: dish of tarts upon it. They looked so good that
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: it made Alice quite hungry to look at them. I
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: wish they'd get the trial done, she thought, and hand
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: round the refreshments. But there seemed to be no chance
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: of this, so she began looking at everything about her
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: to pass away the time. Alice had never been in
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: a court of justice before, but she had read about
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: them in books, and she was quite pleased to find
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: that she knew the name of nearly everything there. That's
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: the judge, she said to herself, because of his great whig.
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: The judge, by the way, was the king. And as
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: he wore his crown over the wig, look at the
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: frontispist if you want to see how he did it.
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: He did not look at all comfortable, and it was
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: certainly not becoming. And that's the jury, box, thought Alice.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: And those twelve creatures, she was obliged to say, creatures,
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: you see, because some of them were animals and some
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: were birds. I suppose they are the jurors. She said
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: this last word two or three times over to herself,
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: being rather proud of it, for she thought, and rightly too,
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: that very few little girls of her age knew the
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: meaning of it at all. However, jurymen would have done
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: just as well. The twelve jurors were all writing very
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: busily on slates. What are they doing, Alice whispered to
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: the griffin. They can't have anything to put down yet,
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: before the trial's begun. They're putting down their names, The
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: griffin whispered in reply, for fear they should forget them
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: before the end of the trial. Stupid things, Alice began
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily for
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: the white rabbit cried out silence in the court, and
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: the king put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: to make out who was talking. Alice could see, as
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: all the jurors were writing down stupid things on their slates,
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: and she could even make out that one of them
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: didn't know how to spell stupid, and that he had
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: to ask his neighbor to tell him a nice muddle.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: Their slates would be in before the trials, over thought Alice,
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: one of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This,
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: the court and got behind him, and very soon found
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: quickly that the poor little juror it was Bill the Lizard,
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: could not make out at all what had become of it. So,
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: write with one finger for the rest of the day.
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: And this was of very little use, as it left
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: no mark on the slate. Harold read the accusation, said
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: the King. On this, the white rabbit blew three blasts
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: on the trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scroll and read,
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: as follows, the Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: all on a summer day. The Knave of Hearts, he
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: stole those tarts and took them quite away. Consider your verdict,
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: the king said to the jury. Not yet, not yet,
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: The rabbit hastily interrupted, there's a great deal to come
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: before that. Call the first witness, said the king, and
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: the white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet and
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: called out first witness. The first witness was the hatter.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: He came in with a tea cup in one hand
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: and a piece of bread and butter in the other.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: I beg pardon your majesty, He began for bringing these in.
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: But I hadn't quite finished my tea when I was
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: sent for. You ought to have finished, said the king.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: When did you begin? The hatter looked at the march Hare,
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: who had followed him into the court arm in arm
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: with the dormouse. Fourteenth of March, I think it was,
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: he said, Fifteenth, said the march Hare. Sixteenth, added the dormouse.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: Write that down, the king said to the jury, and
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates,
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: and then added them up and reduced the answer to
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: shillings and pence. Take off your hat, the king said
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: to the hatter. It isn't mine, said the hatter. Stolen,
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: the king exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: a memorandum of the fact. I keep them to sell.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: The hatter added, as an explanation, I've none of my own.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: I'm a hatter. Here. The Queen put on her spectacles
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: and began staring at the hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: Give your evidence, said the king, and don't be nervous,
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: or I'll have you executed on the spot. This did
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: not seem to encourage the witness at all. He kept
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: shifting from one foot to the the other, looking uneasily
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: at the Queen, and in his confusion, he bit a
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: large piece out of his tea cup instead of the
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: bread and butter. Just at this moment, Alice felt a
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: very curious sensation, which puzzled her a good deal until
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: she made out what it was. She was beginning to
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: grow larger again, and she thought at first she would
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: get up and leave the court, but on second thoughts,
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: she decided to remain where she was as long as
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: there was room for her. I wish you wouldn't squeeze,
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: so said the dormouse, who was sitting next to her.
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: I can hardly breathe. I can't help it, said Alice,
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: very meekly. I'm growing. You've no right to grow here,
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: said the dormouse. Don't talk nonsense, said Alice more boldly.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: You know you're growing too, Yes, but I grow at
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: a reasonable pace, said the dormouse, not in that ridiculous fashion,
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: and he got up, very sulkily and crossed over to
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: the other side of the court. All this time, the
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: Queen had never left off staring at the hatter and
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: just as the dormouse crossed the court, she said to
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: one of the officers of the court, bring me the
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: list of the singers in the last concert, on which
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: the wretched hatter trembled so that he shook both his
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: shoes off. Give your evidence, the king repeated, angrily, or
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or not. I'm
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: a poor man, your majesty, the hatter began, in a
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: trembling voice. And I hadn't begun my tea, not above
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: a week or so. And what with the bread and
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: butter getting so thin, and the twinkling of the tea,
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: the twinkling of the what said the king, It began
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: with the tea, The hatter replied, Of course, twinkling begins
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: with a tea, said the King, sharply, do you take
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: me for a dunce? Go on, I'm a poor man,
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: the hatter went on, and most things twinkled after that,
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: Only the march hare said I didn't. The march hare
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: interrupted in a great hurry. You did, said the hatter.
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: I deny it, said the march hare. He denies it,
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: said the King. Leave out that part well. At any rate,
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: the dormouse said. The hatter went on looking anxiously round
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: to see if he would deny it too, but the
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep. After that continued the hatter.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: I cut some more bread and butter. But what did
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: the dormouse say. One of the jury asked that I
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: can't remember, said the hatter. You must remember, remark the king,
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: or I'll have you executed. The miserable hatter dropped his
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: tea cup and bread and butter and went down on
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: one knee. I'm a poor man, your majesty, he began.
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: You're a very poor speaker, said the king. Here one
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: of the guinea pigs cheered and was immediately suppressed by
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: the officers of the court. As that is rather a
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: hard word, I will just explain to you how it
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: was done. They had a large canvas bag which tied
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: up at the mouth with strings. Into this they slipped
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: the guinea pig head first, and then sat upon it.
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: I'm glad I've seen that done, thought Alice, I've so
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: often read in the newspapers. At the end of trials.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: There was some attempt at applause, which was immediately suppressed
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: by the officers of the court, and I never understood
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: what it meant till now. If that's all you know
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: about it, you may stand down, continued the king. I
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: can't go no lower, said the hatter. I'm on the
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: floor as it is. Then you may sit down, the
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: king replied. Here the other guinea pig cheered and was suppressed.
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: Come that finished, the guinea pigs thought, Alice, Now we
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: shall get on better. I'd rather finish my tea, said
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: the hatter, with an anxious look at the Queen, who
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: was reading the list of singers. You may go, said
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: the king, and the hatter hurriedly left the court, without
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: even waiting to put his shoes on, and just take
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: his head off outside, the queen added to one of
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: the officers, but the hatter was out of sight before
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: the officer could get to the door. Call the next witness,
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: said the king. The next witness was the duchess's cook.
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: She carried the pepper box in her hand, and Alice
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: guessed who it was even before she got into the court.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: By the way, the people near the door began sneezing
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: all at once. Give your evidence, said the king. Shan't,
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: said the cook. The king looked anxiously at the white rabbit,
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: who said, in a low voice, your Majesty must cross
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: examine this witness. Well, if I must, I must, the
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: King said with a melancholy air, and after folding his
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: arms and frowning at the cook till his eyes were
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: nearly out of sight, he said, in a deep voice,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: what are tarts made of pepper? Mostly, said the cook.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: Treacle said a sleepy voice behind her collar that dormouse.
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: The Queen shrieked out, behead that dormouse. Turn that dormouse
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: out of court, suppress him, pinch him off with his whiskers.
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: For some minutes, the whole court was in confusion getting
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: the dormouse turned out, and by the time they had
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: settled down again, the cook had disappeared. Never mind, said
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: the King, with an air of great relief. Call the
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: next witness, and he added, in an undertone to the Queen, Really,
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: my dear, you must cross examine the next witness. It
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 1: quite makes my forehead ache. Alice watched the white rabbit
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: as he fumbled over the list, feeling very curious to
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: see what the next witness would be like, for they
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 1: haven't got much evidence yet. She said to herself. Imagine
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: her surprise when the white rabbit read out, at the
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: top of his shrill little voice, the name Alice. Chapter twelve,
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: Alice's evidence here, cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: of the moment how large she had grown in the
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: last few minutes. And she jumped up in such a
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: hurry that she tipped over the jury box with the
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jury men on
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: to the heads of the crowd below. And there they
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: of goldfish she had accidentally upset the win before. Oh,
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon, she exclaimed, in a tone of
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: as she could, for the accident of the goldfish kept
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: running in her head, and she had a vague sort
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: of idea that they must be collected at once and
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: put back into the jury box, or they would die.
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: The trial cannot proceed, said the King in a very
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: grave voice until all the jurymen are back in their
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: proper places, all, he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: at Alice as he said so. Alice looked at the
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: jury box and saw that in her haste she had
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: put the lizard in head downwards, and the poor little
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  Speaker 1: thing was waving its tail about in a melancholy way,
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  Speaker 1: being quite unable to move. She soon got it out
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  Speaker 1: again and put it right. Not that it signifies much,
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  Speaker 1: she said to herself, I should think it would be
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  Speaker 1: quite as much use in the trial one way up
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  Speaker 1: as the other. As soon as the jury had a
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  Speaker 1: little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their
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  Speaker 1: slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them,
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  Speaker 1: they set to work very diligently to write out a
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  Speaker 1: history of the accident, all except the lizard, who seemed
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  Speaker 1: too much overcome to do anything but sit with its
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  Speaker 1: mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
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  Speaker 1: What do you know about this business, the King said
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  Speaker 1: to Alice. Nothing, said Alice, Nothing whatever, persisted the King.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing whatever, said Alice. That's very important, the king said,
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  Speaker 1: turning to the jury. They were just beginning to write
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  Speaker 1: this down on their slates when the white rabbit interrupted, unimportant,
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  Speaker 1: Your majesty means, of course, he said, in a very
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  Speaker 1: respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him as
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  Speaker 1: he spoke. Unimportant, of course, I meant, the King hastily said,
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  Speaker 1: and went on to himself in an undertone important, unimportant, unimportant, important,
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  Speaker 1: as if he were trying which words sounded best. Some
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  Speaker 1: of the jury wrote it down important and some unimportant.
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  Speaker 1: Alice could see this, as she was near enough to
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  Speaker 1: look over their slates. But it doesn't matter a bit,
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  Speaker 1: she thought to herself. At this moment, the King, who
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  Speaker 1: had been for some time busily writing in his note book,
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  Speaker 1: cackled out silence and read out from his book Rule
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  Speaker 1: forty two, all persons more than a mile high to
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  Speaker 1: leave the court. Everybody looked at Alice. I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: mile high, said Alice. You are, said the king. Nearly
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  Speaker 1: two miles high, added the queen. Well, I shan't go
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  Speaker 1: at any rate, said Alice. Besides, that's not a regular rule.
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  Speaker 1: You invented it just now. It's the oldest rule in
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: the book, said the King. Then it ought to be
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  Speaker 1: number one, said Alice. The King turned pale and shut
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  Speaker 1: his note book. Hastily, consider your verdict, he said to
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  Speaker 1: the jury in a low trembling voice. There's more evidence
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  Speaker 1: to come yet, Please, your majesty, said the white rabbit,
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  Speaker 1: jumping up in a great hurry. This paper has just
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  Speaker 1: been picked up. What's in it? Said the Queen. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't opened it yet, said the White Rabbit. But it
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  Speaker 1: seems to be a letter written by the prisoner to
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  Speaker 1: to somebody. It must have been that, said the King,
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  Speaker 1: unless it was written to nobody, which isn't usual. You
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  Speaker 1: know who is it directed to, said one of the jurymen.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't directed at all, said the white Rabbit. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing written on the outside. He unfolded the paper
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  Speaker 1: as he spoke and added, it isn't a letter, after all.
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  Speaker 1: It's a set of verses. Are they in the prisoner's handwriting,
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  Speaker 1: asked another of the jurymen. No they're not, said the
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  Speaker 1: White Rabbit. And that's the queerest thing about it. The
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  Speaker 1: jury all looked puzzled. He must have imitated somebody else's hand,
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  Speaker 1: said the King. The jury all brightened up again. Please,
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  Speaker 1: your majesty, said the knave. I didn't write it, and
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  Speaker 1: they can't prove I did. There's no name signed at
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  Speaker 1: the end. If you didn't sign it, said the King.
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  Speaker 1: That only makes the matter worse. You must have meant
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  Speaker 1: some mischief, or else you'd have signed your name like
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  Speaker 1: an honest man. There was a general clapping of hands
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  Speaker 1: at this. It was the first really clever thing the
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  Speaker 1: King had said that day that proves his guilt, said
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  Speaker 1: the queen. It proves nothing of the sort, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: Why you don't even know what they're about? Read them,
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  Speaker 1: said the king. The white Rabbit put on his spectacles.
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  Speaker 1: Where shall I begin? Please, your majesty, he asked, Begin
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning, the King said, gravely, and go on
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  Speaker 1: till you come to the end. Then stop. These were
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  Speaker 1: the verses the White Rabbit read. They told me you
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  Speaker 1: had been to her and mentioned me to him. She
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  Speaker 1: gave me a good character, but said I could not swim.
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  Speaker 1: He sent them word I had not gone. We know
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  Speaker 1: it to be true. If she should push the matter on,
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  Speaker 1: what would become of you? I gave her one, They
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  Speaker 1: gave him two. You gave us three or more. They
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  Speaker 1: all returned from him to you, though they were mine before.
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  Speaker 1: If I or she should chance to be involved in
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  Speaker 1: this affair, he trusts to you to set them free
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  Speaker 1: exactly as we were. My notion was that you had
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  Speaker 1: been before. She had this fit an obstacle that came
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  Speaker 1: between him and ourselves in it don't let him know
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  Speaker 1: she liked them best, for this must ever be a
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  Speaker 1: secret kept from all the rest, between yourself and me.
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  Speaker 1: That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,
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  Speaker 1: said the King, rubbing his hands. So now let the jury,
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  Speaker 1: if any one of them can explain it, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: She had grown so large in the last few minutes
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  Speaker 1: that she wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting him. I'll
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: give him sixpence. I don't believe there's an atom of
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: meaning in it, the jury all wrote down on their slates.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: But none of them attempted to explain the paper. If
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: there's no meaning in it, said the king. That saves
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  Speaker 1: a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try
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  Speaker 1: to find any And yet I don't know. He went on,
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  Speaker 1: spreading out the verses on his knee and looking at
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: them with one eye. I seemed to see some meaning
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  Speaker 1: in them, after all, said I could not swim. You
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  Speaker 1: can't swim, can you, he added, turning to the knave.
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  Speaker 1: The knave shook his head. Sadly, Do I look like it,
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  Speaker 1: he said, which he certainly did not, being made entirely
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  Speaker 1: of cardboard. All right, so far, said the King, and
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: he went on muttering over the verses to himself. We
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: know it to be true. That's the jury. Of course,
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: I gave her one. They gave him two. Why that
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: must be what he did with the tarts, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But it goes on. They all returned from him to you,
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: said Alice. Why there they are, said the King, triumphantly,
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  Speaker 1: pointing to the tarts on the table. Nothing can be
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: clearer than that. Then again, before she had this fit,
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  Speaker 1: you never had fits, my dear, I think, he said
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  Speaker 1: to the queen. Never, said the queen, furiously, throwing an
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: inkstand at the lizard as she spoke. The unfortunate little
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: bill had left off writing on his slate with one finger,
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: as he found it made no mark. But he now
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: hastily began again, using the ink that was trickling down
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: his face as long as it lasted. Then the words
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: don't fit you, said the King, looking round the court
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: with a smile. There was a dead silence. It's a pan,
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed.
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: Let the jury consider their verdict, the King said, for
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: about the twentieth time, that day. No, no, said the queen.
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  Speaker 1: Sentence first, verdict afterwards, stuff and nonsense, said Alice loudly.
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: The idea of having the sentence first, hold your tongue,
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: said the queen, turning purple. I won't, said Alice. Off
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  Speaker 1: with her head, the queen shouted at the top of
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: her voice. Nobody moved. Who cares for you? Said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: She had grown to her full size by this time.
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: You're nothing but a pack of cards. At this the
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: whole pack rose up into the air and came flying
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: down upon her. She gave a little scream, half of
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off,
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: and found herself lying on the bank with her head
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: trees upon her face. Wake up, Alice, dear, said her sister.
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  Speaker 1: Why what a long sleep you've had. Oh, I've had
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: such a curious dream, said Alice, And she told her
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: sister as well as she could remember them, all these
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: strange adventures of hers that you have just been reading about.
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 1: And when she had finished, her sister kissed her and
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: said it was a curious dream dear, certainly, But now
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: run into your tea. It's getting late. So Alice got
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: she might, what a wonderful dream it had been. But
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: her head on her hand, watching the setting sun and
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful adventures, till
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: she too began dreaming, after a fashion, and this was
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: her dream. First she dreamed of little Alice herself, And
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: once again the tiny hands were clasped upon her knee,
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: and the bright, eager eyes were looking up into hers.
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: She could hear the very tones of her voice, and
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: see the queer little toss of her head to keep
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: back the wandering hair that would always get into her eyes.
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: And still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: whole place around her became alive with the strange creatures
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 1: of her little sister's dream. The long grass rustled at
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: her feet as the white rabbit, hurried by the frightened mouse,
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: splashed his way through the neighboring pool. She could hear
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: the rattle of the teacups as the march hare and
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: his friends shared their never ending meal. And the shrill
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution.
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: Once more, the pig baby was sneezing on the Duchess's knee,
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: while plates and dishes crashed around it. Once more, the
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: shriek of the griffin, the squeaking of the lizard's slate pencil,
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: and the choking of the suppressed guinea pigs filled the air,
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable mock turtle.
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: So she sat on with closed eyes and half believed
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: herself in wonderland, though she knew she had but to
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: open them again, and all would change to dull reality.
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: The grass would be only rustling in the wind, and
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds. The
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep bells, and the
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy,
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: and the sneeze of the baby. The shriek of the griffin,
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: and all the other queer noises would change, she knew,
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: to the confused clamor of the busy farm yard, while
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: the lowing of the cattle and the distance would take
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: the place of the mock turtle's heavy sobs. Lastly, she
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: pictured to herself how the same little sister of hers would,
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: in the after time be herself a grown woman, and
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: how she would keep through all her riper years the
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: simple and loving heart of her childhood. And how she
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: would gather about her other little children and make their
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: eyes bright and eager with many a strange tail, perhaps
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 1: even with the dream of wonderland of long ago, And
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: how she would feel with all their simple sorrows and
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: find a pleasure in all their simple joys. Remembering her
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: own child life in the happy summer days,