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🟡 Alice in Wonderland (Drama) (Full Audiobook) | Lewis Carroll · Fantasy Audiobooks

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  Speaker 1: Credits of Alice in Wonderland by Alice Gerstenberg. This is
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  Speaker 1: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Stage directions. Read by Michaela Curtis.
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  Speaker 3: Lewis Carroll. Read by Charlotte Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Alice.
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  Speaker 4: Read by Amanda Friday.
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  Speaker 5: The Red Queen, read by Shauna Kinnett.
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  Speaker 6: White Queen, read by Elizabeth Klatt.
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  Speaker 7: White Rabbit, read by Todd.
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  Speaker 8: Humpty Dumpty, read by Jeff Machado.
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  Speaker 9: Griffin, read by Brett Hirsch.
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  Speaker 10: The Mock Turtle, read by Ted DeLorme.
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  Speaker 11: Mad Hatter, read by Elliot Gage.
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  Speaker 12: The March Hare, read by Charlotte Duckett.
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  Speaker 1: Dormouse, read by Kimberly Krause.
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  Speaker 13: Frog, read by Larry Wilson.
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  Speaker 14: Duchess, read by Ellie Cat.
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  Speaker 15: Cheshire Cat, read by Sarah Parshall.
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  Speaker 3: Tweedledee, read by Charlotte Brown.
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  Speaker 16: Tweedledoom, read by Anastasia Saloja.
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  Speaker 10: The King of Hearts. Read by Ted DeLorme.
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  Speaker 14: The Queen of Hearts.
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  Speaker 4: Read by Eden Ray Hedrick.
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  Speaker 17: Knave by Glorious Job.
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  Speaker 18: Caterpillar by Ethel Booth.
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  Speaker 11: Two Spot. Read by Dave Harrell. Five Spot. Read by
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  Speaker 11: Dave Harrell. Seven of Spades. Read by Dave Harrell.
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  Speaker 1: End of credits.
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  Speaker 2: That's a funny game, Uncle. What did you do then?
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  Speaker 3: A red pawn took a white pawn. This way, you see, Alice?
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  Speaker 3: The chessboard is divided into 64 squares, red and white,
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  Speaker 3: and the white army tries to win, and the red
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  Speaker 3: army tries to win. It's like a battle.
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  Speaker 4: With soldiers?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Here are the kings and queens they are fighting for.
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  Speaker 3: That's the red queen, and here's the white queen.
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  Speaker 4: How funny they look.
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  Speaker 3: See the crowns on their heads and look at their
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  Speaker 3: big feet.
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  Speaker 4: It's a foot apiece, that's what it is. Do they
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  Speaker 4: hump along like this?
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  Speaker 3: Here, you're spoiling the game. You must keep them in
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  Speaker 3: their right squares.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be a queen.
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  Speaker 3: Here you are.
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  Speaker 2: He points to a small white pond.
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  Speaker 3: Here you are in your little stiff skirt.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do, Alice?
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  Speaker 3: And now you are going to move here.
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  Speaker 4: Let me move myself.
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  Speaker 3: When you travel all along the board this way and
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  Speaker 3: you haven't been taken by the enemy, you may be
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  Speaker 3: a queen.
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  Speaker 4: Why do people always play with kings and queens? Mother
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  Speaker 4: has them in her playing cards too.
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  Speaker 10: Look.
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  Speaker 2: Alice goes to the mantel and takes a pack of
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  Speaker 2: playing cards from the wretch.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the king of hearts and here's his wife. She's
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  Speaker 4: the queen of hearts. Isn't she cross-looking? Wants to bite
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  Speaker 4: one's head off.
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  Speaker 2: Carol moves upon.
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  Speaker 4: You're playing against yourself, aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: That's one way of keeping in practice, Alice. I have
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  Speaker 3: friends in the university who want to beat me.
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  Speaker 4: But if you play against yourself, I should think you'd
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  Speaker 4: want to cheat.
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  Speaker 3: Does a nice little girl like you cheat when she's
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  Speaker 3: playing against herself?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I never do. I'd scold myself hard. I always
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  Speaker 4: pretend I'm two people, too. It's lots of fun, isn't it? Sometimes,
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  Speaker 4: when I'm all alone, I walk up to the looking-glass
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  Speaker 4: and talk to the other Alice. She's so silly, that Alice.
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  Speaker 4: She can't do anything by herself. She just mucks me
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  Speaker 4: all the time. When I laugh, she laughs. When I
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  Speaker 4: point my finger at her, she points her finger at me.
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  Speaker 4: And when I stick my tongue out at her, she
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  Speaker 4: sticks her tongue out at me. Kitty has a twin, too,
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  Speaker 4: haven't you, darling?
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  Speaker 2: Alice goes to the mirror to show Kitty her twin.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have to write a book someday about Alice. Alice
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  Speaker 3: in Wonderland, child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming
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  Speaker 3: eyes of wonder. Or Alice through the looking-glass.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you wish sometimes you could go into Looking-glass House?
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  Speaker 2: See? Alice stands on an armchair and looks into the mirror.
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  Speaker 4: There's the room you can see through the glass. It's
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  Speaker 4: just the same as our living room here, only the
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  Speaker 4: things go the other way. I can see all of it.
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  Speaker 4: all but the bit just behind the fireplace. Oh, I
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  Speaker 4: do wish I could see that bit. I want so
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  Speaker 4: much to know if they've a fire there. You never
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  Speaker 4: can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes. Then smoke
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  Speaker 4: comes up in that room too, but that may be
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  Speaker 4: just to make it look as if they had a fire,
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  Speaker 4: just to pretend they had. The books are something like
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  Speaker 4: our books, only the words go the wrong way. Won't
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  Speaker 4: there ever be any way of our getting through, Uncle?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think Kitty would find looking-glass milk digestible?
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't sound awful good, does it? But I might
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  Speaker 4: leave her at home. She's been into an awful lot
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  Speaker 4: of mischief today. She found Sister's knitting and chased the
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  Speaker 4: ball all over the garden where Sister was playing croquet
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  Speaker 4: with the neighbours. And I ran and ran after the
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  Speaker 4: naughty little thing until I was all out of breath
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  Speaker 4: and so tired.
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  Speaker 6: I am tired.
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  Speaker 2: She yawns and makes herself comfortable in the armchair. Carol
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  Speaker 2: replaces the playing cards on the mantel and consults his watch.
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  Speaker 3: Take a nap, yes. You have time before tea.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to have mock turtle soup for supper. I
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  Speaker 4: heard Mama tell the cook not to pepper it too much.
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  Speaker 3: What a funny little rabbit it is, nibbling all the time.
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  Speaker 2: He leans gently over the back of her chair, and
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  Speaker 2: seeing that she is going to sleep, puts out the
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  Speaker 2: lamplight and leaves the room. A red glow from the
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  Speaker 2: fireplace illumines Alice. DREAM MUSIC A bluish light reveals the
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  Speaker 2: red chess queen and the white chess queen in the mirror.
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  Speaker 2: The red queen points to Alice and says in a
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  Speaker 2: mysterious voice.
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  Speaker 5: There she is. Let's call her over.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think she'll come?
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  Speaker 5: I'll call softly.
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  Speaker 19: Alice.
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  Speaker 18: Hissed.
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  Speaker 5: Alice. Alice.
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  Speaker 6: Hush, if she wakes and catches us. Alice, come through
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  Speaker 6: into Lookingglass House.
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  Speaker 2: Their hands beckon her. Alice rises and talks sleepily. The
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  Speaker 2: queens disappear. Alice climbs from the arm of the chair
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  Speaker 2: to the back of another and so on, up to
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  Speaker 2: the mantel edge, where she picks her way daintily between
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  Speaker 2: the vases.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how I can get through. I've tried before,
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  Speaker 4: but the glass was hard, and I was afraid of cutting...
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  Speaker 4: My fingers?
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  Speaker 2: She feels the glass and is amazed to find it
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  Speaker 2: like gauze.
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  Speaker 4: Why, it's soft like gauze. It's turning into a sort
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  Speaker 4: of mist. Why, it's easy to get through. Why, why,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going through.
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  Speaker 2: She disappears. Scene 2 Is scene 1 reversed? The portiers
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  Speaker 2: are black and red squares like a chessboard. A soft
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  Speaker 2: radiance follows the characters mysteriously. As the curtain rises, Alice
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  Speaker 2: comes through the looking glass, steps down, looks about in wonderment,
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  Speaker 2: and goes to see if there is a fire. The
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  Speaker 2: Red Queen rises out of the grate and faces her haughtily.
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  Speaker 4: Why, you're the Red Queen!
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  Speaker 5: Of course I am. Where do you come from and
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  Speaker 5: where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't
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  Speaker 5: twiddle your fingers.
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  Speaker 4: I only wanted to see what the looking-glass was like.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps I've lost my way.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you mean by your way. All
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  Speaker 5: the ways about here belong to me. Curtsy, while you're
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  Speaker 5: thinking what to say, it saves time.
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  Speaker 4: I'll try it when I go home. The next time
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little late for dinner.
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  Speaker 5: It's time for you to answer now. Open your mouth
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  Speaker 5: a little wider when you speak, and always say, Your Majesty.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose you don't want to lose your name?
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  Speaker 10: No, indeed.
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  Speaker 5: And yet I don't know. Only think how convenient it
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  Speaker 5: would be if you could manage to go home without it.
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  Speaker 5: For instance, if the governess wanted to call you to
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  Speaker 5: your lessons, she would call out, Come here! And there
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  Speaker 5: she would have to leave off, because there wouldn't be
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  Speaker 5: any name for her to call, and of course she
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't have to go, you know.
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  Speaker 4: That would never do, I'm sure. The governess would never
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  Speaker 4: think of excusing me from lessons for that. If she
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  Speaker 4: couldn't remember my name, she'd call me Miss, as the
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  Speaker 4: servants do.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if she said miss and didn't say anything more,
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  Speaker 5: of course you'd miss your lessons. I dare say you
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  Speaker 5: can't even read this book.
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  Speaker 4: It' s all in some language I don't know. Why, it's
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  Speaker 4: a looking-glass book, of course, and if I hold it
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  Speaker 4: up to a glass, the words will all go the
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  Speaker 4: right way again. Jabberwocky, t'was Brillig, and the slithy toes
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  Speaker 4: did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were
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  Speaker 4: the burrow-goves, and the moam-wraiths outgrabe. It seems very pretty,
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  Speaker 4: but it's rather hard to understand. Somehow it seems to
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  Speaker 4: fill my head with ideas, only I don't exactly know
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  Speaker 4: what they are.
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  Speaker 5: I dare say you don't know your geography, either. Look
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  Speaker 5: at the map.
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  Speaker 2: She takes a right-angle course to the portiers and points
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  Speaker 2: to them with her scepter.
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  Speaker 4: It' s marked out just like a big chessboard. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: mind being a pawn.' though of course I should like
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  Speaker 4: to be a red queen best.
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  Speaker 5: That's easily managed. When you get to the eighth square,
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  Speaker 5: you'll be a queen. It's a huge game of chess
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  Speaker 5: that's being played all over the world. Come on, we've
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  Speaker 5: got to run. Faster, don't try to talk.
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  Speaker 16: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: Faster, faster.
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  Speaker 14: Are we nearly there?
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  Speaker 5: Nearly there? Why, we passed it ten minutes ago.
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  Speaker 18: Faster.
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  Speaker 5: You may rest a little now.
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  Speaker 9: Why.
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  Speaker 4: I do believe we're in the same place. Everything's just
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  Speaker 4: as it was.
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  Speaker 5: Of course it is. What would you have it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, in our country, you'd generally get to somewhere else,
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  Speaker 4: if you ran very fast for a long time as
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  Speaker 4: we've been doing.
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  Speaker 5: A slow sort of country. Now here, you see, it
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  Speaker 5: takes all the running you can do to keep in
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  Speaker 5: the same place. If you want to get somewhere else,
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  Speaker 5: you must run at least twice as fast as that.
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  Speaker 4: I'd rather not try, please. I'm quite content to stay here,
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  Speaker 4: only I am so hot and thirsty.
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  Speaker 5: I know what you'd like.
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  Speaker 2: She takes a little box out of her pocket.
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  Speaker 5: Have a biscuit?
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  Speaker 2: Alice, not liking to refuse, curtsies as she takes the
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  Speaker 2: biscuit and chokes.
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  Speaker 5: While you're refreshing yourself, I'll just take the measurements.
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  Speaker 2: She takes a ribbon out of her pocket and measures
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  Speaker 2: the map with it.
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  Speaker 5: At the end of two yards I shall give you
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  Speaker 5: your directions. Have another biscuit?
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  Speaker 4: No, thank you. One's quite enough.
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  Speaker 5: Thirst quenched, I hope? At the end of three yards
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  Speaker 5: I shall repeat them, for fear of your forgetting them.
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  Speaker 5: At the end of four I shall say goodbye, and
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  Speaker 5: at the end of five I shall go. That square
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  Speaker 5: belongs to Humpty Dumpty, and that square to the griffin
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  Speaker 5: and mock turtle, and that square to the queen of hearts.
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  Speaker 4: But you make no remark? I— I didn't know I had
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  Speaker 4: to make one, just then.
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  Speaker 5: You should have said it's extremely kind of you to
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  Speaker 5: tell me all this however we'll suppose it said four
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  Speaker 5: good-bye five.
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  Speaker 2: Red queen vanishes in a gust of wind behind the
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  Speaker 2: portieres rabbit music white rabbit comes out of the fireplace
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  Speaker 2: and walks about the room hurriedly he wears a checked
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  Speaker 2: coat carries white kid gloves in one hand a fan
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  Speaker 2: in the other and takes out his watch to look
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  Speaker 2: at it anxiously.
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  Speaker 7: Oh the duchess the duchess oh won't she be savage
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  Speaker 7: if i've kept her waiting.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen a rabbit with a waistcoat and a
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  Speaker 4: watch and a waistcoat pocket if you please sir.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he drops fan and gloves in fright and dashes
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  Speaker 2: out by way of the portieres in a gust of
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  Speaker 2: wind alice picks up the fan and playfully puts on
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  Speaker 2: the gloves the portieres flap in a breeze and the
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  Speaker 2: shawl flies in Alice catches the shawl and looks about
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  Speaker 2: for the owner, then meets the White Queen.
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  Speaker 4: I' m very glad I happen to be in the way.
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  Speaker 2: The White Queen runs in wildly, both arms stretched out
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  Speaker 2: wide as if she were flying, and cries in a helpless,
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  Speaker 2: frightened way.' Bread and butter!
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  Speaker 6: Bread and butter!
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  Speaker 4: Am I addressing the White Queen?
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  Speaker 6: Well, yes, if you call that a-dressing. It isn't my
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  Speaker 6: notion of the thing at all.
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  Speaker 4: If Your Majesty will only tell me the right way
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  Speaker 4: to begin, I'll do it as well as I can.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't want it done at all. I've been
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  Speaker 6: addressing myself for the last two hours.
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  Speaker 4: Every single thing's crooked, and you're all over pins. May
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  Speaker 4: I put your shawl straight for you?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what's the matter with it. It's out
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  Speaker 6: of temper. I've pinned it here and I've pinned it there,
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  Speaker 6: but there's no pleasing it.
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  Speaker 4: It can't go straight, you know, if you pin it
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  Speaker 4: all on one side.' And dear me, what a state
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  Speaker 4: your hair is in!
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  Speaker 6: The brush has got entangled in it, and I lost
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  Speaker 6: the comb yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Alice takes out a brush and arranges the Queen's hair.
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  Speaker 4: You look better now. But really you should have a
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  Speaker 4: lady's maid.
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  Speaker 6: I' m sure I'll take you with pleasure. Toppins a week
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  Speaker 6: and jam every other day.'' I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Want you to hire me, and I don't care for jam.''
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  Speaker 4: It' s very good jam.' Well, I don't want any today,
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  Speaker 4: at any rate.
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  Speaker 6: You couldn't have it if you did want it. The
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  Speaker 6: rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
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  Speaker 4: It must come sometimes to jam today.
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  Speaker 11: No, it can't.
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  Speaker 6: It's jam every other day. Today isn't any other day,
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  Speaker 6: you know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand you. It's dreadfully confusing.
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  Speaker 6: That's the effect of living backwards. It always makes one
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  Speaker 6: a little giddy at first.
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  Speaker 4: Living backwards? I never heard of such a thing.
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  Speaker 6: But there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory
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  Speaker 6: works both ways.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure mine only works one way. I can't remember
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  Speaker 4: things before they happen.
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  Speaker 6: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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  Speaker 4: What sort of things do you remember best?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, things that happened the week after next. For instance, now.
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  Speaker 2: She sticks a large piece of plaster on her finger.
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  Speaker 6: There's the king's messenger. He's in prison being punished. And
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  Speaker 6: the trial doesn't even begin till next Wednesday. And, of course,
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  Speaker 6: the crime comes last of all.
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  Speaker 4: Suppose he never commits the crime?
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  Speaker 2: The white queen binds the plaster with ribbon.
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  Speaker 6: That would be all the better, wouldn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Of course it would be all the better. But it
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't be all the better, his being punished.
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  Speaker 6: You're wrong there, at any rate. Were you ever punished?
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  Speaker 4: Only for faults.
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  Speaker 6: And you were all the better for it, I know.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but then I had done the things I was
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  Speaker 4: punished for. That makes all the difference.
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  Speaker 6: But if you hadn't done them, that would have been
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  Speaker 6: better still. Better and better and better.
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  Speaker 4: There's a mistake somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: The White Queen screams like an engine whistle and shakes
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  Speaker 2: her hand.
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  Speaker 5: Ho!
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my finger's bleeding.
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  Speaker 9: Ho!
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  Speaker 14: What is the matter?
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  Speaker 4: Have you pricked your finger?
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  Speaker 6: I haven't pricked it yet, but I soon shall.
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  Speaker 4: When do you expect to do it?
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  Speaker 6: When I fasten my shawl again. The brooch will come
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  Speaker 6: undone directly.
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  Speaker 2: Brooch flies open and she clutches it wildly.
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  Speaker 8: Take care.
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  Speaker 4: You're holding it all crooked.
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  Speaker 2: The white queen pricks her finger and smiles.
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  Speaker 6: That accounts for the bleeding, you see. Now you understand
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  Speaker 6: the way things happen here.
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  Speaker 4: But why don't you scream now?
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  Speaker 6: Why, I've done all the screaming already. What would be
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  Speaker 6: the good of having it all over again? Oh, it's
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  Speaker 6: time to run if you want to stay in the
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  Speaker 6: same place.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, not so fast. I'm getting dizzy. Everything's black
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  Speaker 4: before my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: There is music. And the sound of rushing wind, and
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  Speaker 2: in the darkness the white queen cries, Faster!
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  Speaker 16: Faster!
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  Speaker 2: Alice gasps.
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  Speaker 5: I can't.
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  Speaker 14: Please stop.
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  Speaker 6: And the queen replies, Then you can't stay in the
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: same place. I'll have to drop you behind. Faster!
• 18:24
  Speaker 16: Faster!
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Goodbye!
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Scene 3.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: When the curtain rises, one sees nothing but old black
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: lanterns with orange lights, hanging presumably from the sky. The
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: scene lights up slowly, revealing Alice seated on two large cushions.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: She has been dropped behind by the White Queen and
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: is dazed to find herself in a strange hall with
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: many peculiar doors and knobs too high to reach.' Oh,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: my head!
• 18:55
  Speaker 16: Where am I?
• 18:57
  Speaker 18: Oh, dear!
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, dear!
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: She staggers up and to her amazement finds herself smaller
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: than the table.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I' ve never been smaller than any table before. I've always
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: been able to reach the knobs. What a curious feeling. Oh,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I'm shrinking! It's the fan!
• 19:15
  Speaker 16: The gloves!
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: She throws them away, feels her head, and measures herself
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: against the table and doors.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, saved in time!
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: But I never, never—' Oh, my fan and gloves. Where
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: are my.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, Mr.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Rabbit, please help me out.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I want to go home.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I want to go home.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, the Duchess. Oh, my fur and whiskers. She'll get
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: me executed as sure as ferrets are ferrets. Oh, you
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: have them.
• 19:47
  Speaker 16: I'm sorry.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: You dropped them, you know.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: The white rabbit picks up fan and gloves and patters off.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: She'll chop off your head.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: If you please, sir.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Where am I?
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Won't you please tell me how to get out? I
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: want to get out.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: The white rabbit looks at his watch.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Oh, my ears and whiskers. How late it's getting.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: A trapdoor gives way and Rabbit disappears. Alice dashes after
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: only in time to have the trapdoor bang in her face.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: It's a rabbit hole. I'm small enough to fit it too.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: If I shrink any more it might end in my
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: going out altogether like a candle. I wonder what I
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: would be like then. What does the flame of a
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: candle look like after the candle is blown out? I've
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: never seen such a thing.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall.
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: Don't stand chattering to yourself like that, but tell me
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: your name and your business.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: My name is Alice, but.
• 20:46
  Speaker 20: It's a stupid name enough. What does it mean?
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Must a name mean something?
• 20:53
  Speaker 20: Of course it must.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: My name means the shape I am, and a good
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: handsome shape it is too. With a name like yours,
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: you might be any shape, almost.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: You're Humpty Dumpty, just like an egg.
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: It's very provoking to be called an egg.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: Very.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I said you looked like an egg, sir. And some
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: eggs are very pretty.
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: Some people have no more sense than a baby.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Why do you sit here all alone?
• 21:23
  Speaker 20: Why, because there's nobody with me.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: Did you think I didn't know the answer to that?
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Ask another.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Don't you think you'd be safer down on the ground?
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: That wall's so very narrow.
• 21:35
  Speaker 20: What's tremendously easy riddles, you ask? Of course I don't
• 21:39
  Speaker 20: think so. Take a good look at me. I'm one
• 21:42
  Speaker 20: that has spoken to.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: A king, I am.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: And to show you I'm not proud, you may shake
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: hands with me.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: He leans forward to offer Alice's hand, but she is
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: too small to reach it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: However, this conversation is going on a little too fast.
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: Let's go back to the last remark.
• 22:00
  Speaker 20: But one.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I can't remember it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: In that case, we start fresh, and it's my turn
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: to choose a subject.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: You talk about it just as if it were a game.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: So here's a question for you.
• 22:15
  Speaker 20: How old did you say you were?
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Seven years and six months. Wrong!
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: You never said a word about it. Now, if you'd
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: asked my advice, I'd have said leave off at seven, but.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I never ask advice about growing.
• 22:31
  Speaker 20: Too proud?
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: What a beautiful belt you've got on. At least, a
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: beautiful cravat, I should have said.
• 22:38
  Speaker 20: No, a belt, I mean.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: I beg your pardon, if only I knew which was
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: neck and which was waist.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: It is a most provoking thing when a person doesn't
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: know a cravat from a belt.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I know what's very ignorant of me.
• 22:55
  Speaker 21: It's a cravat, child, and a beautiful one, as you say.
• 22:58
  Speaker 21: There's glory for you.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I don't know what you mean by glory.
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: When I use a word, it means just what I
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: choose it to mean, neither more nor less.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: The question is whether you can make words mean different things.
• 23:15
  Speaker 20: The question is which is to be master.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 23:19
  Speaker 20: Impenetrability! That's what I say.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Would you tell me, please, what that means?
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: I meant by impenetrability that we've had enough of that subject,
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: and it would be just as well if you'd mention
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: what you meant to do next, as I suppose you
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: That's a great deal to make one word mean.
• 23:42
  Speaker 21: When I make a word do a lot of work
• 23:44
  Speaker 21: like that, I always pay it extra.
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: Oh!
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: Ah, you should see them come round me of a
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: Saturday night, for to get their wages, you know.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: Goodbye.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Goodbye? Till we meet again?
• 24:00
  Speaker 20: I shouldn't know you again if we did meet. You're
• 24:03
  Speaker 20: so exactly like other people.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: The face is what one goes by generally.
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: That's just what I complain of. Your face is the
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: same as everybody has. The two eyes, so, nose in
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: the middle, mouth under.
• 24:19
  Speaker 20: It's always the same.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: Now, if you had the two eyes on the same
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: side of the nose, for instance, or the mouth at
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: the top, that would be some help.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: It wouldn't look nice.
• 24:30
  Speaker 20: Wait till you've tried.
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: Goodbye.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: He disappears as he came.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, I forgot to ask him how to.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: She tries to open the doors. They are all locked.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: She begins to weep. She walks weeping to a high
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: glass table and sits down on its lower ledge. She
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: sits on a big golden key and picks it up
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: in surprise. She tries it on all the doors, but
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: it does not fit. She weeps and weeps, and Wonderland
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: grows dark to her in her despair. In the darkness,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: she cries, Oh, I'm slipping!
• 25:02
  Speaker 16: Oh, oh, it's a lake!
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, my tears!
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: I'm floating!
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: A mysterious light shows a drink-me sign around a bottle
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: on the top of the table. Alice floats up to it, panting,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: and holding on to the edge of the table, takes
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: up the bottle.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: It isn't marked poison.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: She sips at it. This is good.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Tastes like cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: hot butter toast, all together. Oh, oh, I'm letting out
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: like a telescope.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: A mysterious light shows her lengthening out. Music.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: But the lake is rising, too. Oh, oh, it's deep.
• 25:46
  Speaker 16: I'm drowning.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Help, help, I'm drowning. I'm drowning in my tears.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: Yeezker! Yeezker!
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: The griffon, a huge green creature with big glittering wings,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: appears where Humpty Dumpty had been and reaches glittering claws
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: over to grab and save Alice. Scene 4. It's symbolic
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: of a wet and rocky shore in a weird green light.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: The mock turtle is weeping dismally.
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: Yeezker! Yeezker! Yeezker!
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: The mock turtle answers with his weeping. The griffin drags
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Alice in.
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: Drop your tears into the sea with his.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: He sobs as if he had a bone in his throat.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: He sighs as if his heart were break. What is
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: his sorrow?
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: Oh, griffin, it's terrible.
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: It's all his fancy, that. Mock Turtle hasn't got no sorrow.'
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: This here young lady, she wants for to know your history,
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: she do.
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: I' ll tell her, dear. Sit down, both of you, and
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: don't speak a word till I've finished.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I don't see how you can ever finish if you
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: don't begin.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: Once I was a real turtle.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: A long silence is broken only by the exclamations of
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the griffon and the heavy sobbing of the mock turtle.
• 27:34
  Speaker 22: When we were little, we went to school in the sea.
• 27:39
  Speaker 22: The master was an old turtle. We used to call
• 27:44
  Speaker 22: him Tortoise.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Why did you call him tortoise, if he wasn't one?
• 27:50
  Speaker 22: We called him tortoise because he taught us. Really, you
• 27:57
  Speaker 22: are very dull.
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: a simple question. I'm an old fellow. I won't be
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: all day about it.
• 28:08
  Speaker 22: Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you
• 28:13
  Speaker 22: might believe it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: I never said I didn't.
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: You did?
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: Hold your tongue.
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: We are the best of educations. In fact, we went
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: to school every day.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: I've been to a day school too. You needn't be
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: so proud as all that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: With extras?
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, we learned French and music.
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: And washing?
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Certainly not.
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: Ah, then yours wasn't a really good school. Now at
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: ours we had at the end of the bill French,
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: music and washing.
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: Extra!
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: You couldn't have wanted it much, living at the bottom
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: of the sea.
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: I couldn't afford to learn it. I only took the
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: regular course.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: What was that?
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: Reeling and writhing, of course, to begin with, and then
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: the different branches of arithmetic, ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: I never heard of uglification. What is it?
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: Never heard of uglifying? You know what a beautify is,
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: I suppose?
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, it means to make anything.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Prettier.
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: Well then, you don't know what to uglify is. You
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: are a simpleton.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: What else had you to learn?
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: Well, there was mystery, mystery, ancient and modern, with theography,
• 29:59
  Speaker 10: Then drawling. The drawling master was an old conger eel.
• 30:05
  Speaker 10: It used to come once a week. What he taught
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: us was drawling, stretching, and fainting in coils.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: What was that like?
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: Well, I can't show it to you myself. I'm too stiff.
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: And the griffin never learned it.
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: Hadn't I? I went to the classical master, though. He
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: was an old crab, he was.
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: I never went to him. He taught laughing and grief,
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: they used to say.
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: So he did, so he did.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: And how many hours a day did you do lessons?
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: What a curious plan!
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: day to day.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday.
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: Of course it was.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: And how did you manage on the twelfth?
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: That's enough about lessons. Tell us something about the games now.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Mock Turtle sighs deeply, draws back one flapper across his eyes.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: He looks at Alice and tries to speak, but sobs
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: choke his voice. The griffon punches.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Him on the back.
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: Same as if he had a bone in his throat.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: The mock turtle with tears running down his cheeks.
• 31:49
  Speaker 22: You may not have lived much under the sea.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: I haven't.
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: And Perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: I once tasted... No, never!
• 32:03
  Speaker 10: So you can have no idea what a delightful thing
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: a lobster quadrille is.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: No, indeed. What sort of a dance is it?
• 32:16
  Speaker 9: Why, you first form into a line along the seashore.
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: Two lines? Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on. Then when
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: you've cleared all the jellyfish out of the.
• 32:31
  Speaker 9: Way—'' That generally takes some time.
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: You advance twice?
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: Each with a lobster as a partner.
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: Of course advance twice set to partners.
• 32:44
  Speaker 9: Change lobsters and retire in same order.'' Then, you know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: you throw the—' The lobsters.
• 32:54
  Speaker 10: As far out to sea as you can.
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: Swim after them.
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: Turn a somersault in the sea.
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: Change lobsters again.
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: Back to land again. And that's all the first figure.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: It must be a very pretty dance.
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: Would you like to see a little of it?
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: Very much indeed.
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: Come, let's try the first figure. We can do it
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: without the lobsters, you know. Which shall sing?
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: Oh, you sing. I've forgotten the words.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Creatures solemnly dance round and round Alice, treading on her toes,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: waving forepaws to mark time while Mock Turtle sings.
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: Will you.
• 33:42
  Speaker 22: Walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail.'
• 33:47
  Speaker 22: There' s a porpoise clear behind us, and he's treading on
• 33:54
  Speaker 22: my tail.' See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles
• 34:00
  Speaker 22: all advance.' They are waiting on the shingle. Will you
• 34:06
  Speaker 22: come and join the dance?' will you won't you will
• 34:13
  Speaker 22: you won't you will you join the dance will you
• 34:19
  Speaker 22: won't you will you won't you won't you join the
• 34:25
  Speaker 22: dance you can really have no notion how delightful it
• 34:32
  Speaker 22: will be when they take us up and throw us
• 34:38
  Speaker 22: with the lobsters out to sea but the snail replied
• 34:46
  Speaker 22: too far too far and gave a look askance said
• 34:52
  Speaker 22: he thanked the whiting kindly but he would not join
• 34:59
  Speaker 22: the dance would not could not would not could not
• 35:05
  Speaker 22: would not join the dance would not could not would
• 35:12
  Speaker 22: not could not could not join the dance.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: The creatures dance against alice pushing her back and forth
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: between them she protests and finally escapes they bump against
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: each other.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Thank you it's a very interesting dance to watch and
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: I do so like that curious song about the whiting.
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: Oh, as to the whiting, they— you' ve seen them, of course?
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, I've often seen them at din, checks herself hastily.
• 35:42
  Speaker 10: Well, I don't know where din may be, but if
• 35:46
  Speaker 10: you've seen them so often, of course, you know what
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: they're like.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I believe so. They have their tails in their mouths,
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: and they're all over crumbs.
• 35:56
  Speaker 10: You're wrong about the crumbs. Crumbs would all wash off
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: in the sea. But they have their tails in their mouths,
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: and the reason is.
• 36:06
  Speaker 20: Mock.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Turtle yawns and shuts his eyes.
• 36:13
  Speaker 22: Tell her about the reason and all that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: The reason is that they would go with the lobsters
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: to the depths. So they got thrown out to sea.
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: So they had to fall a long way. So they
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: got their tails fast in their mouths. So they couldn't
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: get them out again. That's all.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Thank you. It's very interesting. I never knew so much
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: about a whiting before.
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: I can tell you more than that, if you'd like.
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: Do you know why it's called a whiting?
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: I never thought about it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 18: Why?
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: It does the boots and shoes.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Does the boots and shoes?
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: Why, what are your shoes done with? I mean, what
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: makes them so shiny?
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: They're done with blacking, I believe.
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: Boots and shoes under the sea are done with whiting.
• 37:10
  Speaker 11: Now you know.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: And what are they made of?
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: Soles and eels, of course. Any shrimp could have told
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: you that.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: If I'd been the whiting, I'd have said to the porpoise,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Keep back, please. We don't want you with us.
• 37:25
  Speaker 10: They were obliged to have him with them. No wise
• 37:29
  Speaker 10: fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't it really?
• 37:34
  Speaker 10: Of course not. Why, if a fish came to me
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: and told me he was going on a journey, I
• 37:43
  Speaker 10: should say, with what porpoise?
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Don't you mean purposed?
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: I mean what I say.
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: Shall we try another figure of the lobster quadrille? Or
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: would you like the mock turtle to sing you a song?
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, a song, please, if the mock turtle would be
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: so kind.
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: No accounting for tastes. Sing her turtle soup, would you,
• 38:10
  Speaker 9: old fellow?
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: The mock turtle sighs deeply and, sometimes choked with sobs, sings.
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: Beautiful soup, so rich and green, waiting in a hot terrain. Oh,
• 38:32
  Speaker 10: for such dainties would not stoop. Soup of the evening,
• 38:42
  Speaker 10: beautiful soup. Soup of the evening, beautiful soup. Beautiful soup,
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: beautiful soup, soup.
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  Speaker 22: Of the evening beautiful beautiful soup.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: The white rabbit enters stretching out a red and white
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: checked sash with which he separates Alice from the creatures. Check.
• 39:30
  Speaker 22: They won't let her stay in our square.
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: The queen is coming this way.
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: She'll chop our heads off. Come on, come on, let's fly.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: The mock turtle and griffin grab Alice and fly into
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: the air. Curtain. The curtain rises to reveal small silhouettes
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: of the griffin, mock turtle, and Alice in an orange-colored
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: moon far away in the sky. Down below, the white
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: rabbit is shouting to them.
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: You'll be safe in the March Hare's garden!
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Curtain End of Act 1.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Act 2 of Alice in Wonderland SCENE The March Hare's Garden,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: showing part of the Duchess's house. On a small platform
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: there is a tea-table, set with many cups, continuing into
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: the wings to give the impression of limitless length. The
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: March Hare, Hatter, and Dormouse are crowded at one end.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Alice sits on the ground where she has been dropped
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: from the sky. Finding herself not bruised, she rises and
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: approaches the table.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: No room.
• 40:52
  Speaker 11: No room.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: There's plenty of room.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: She sits in a large armchair at one end of
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: the table.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: I don't know who you are.
• 41:00
  Speaker 12: I am the March Hare, that's the Hatter, and this
• 41:03
  Speaker 12: is the Dormouse. Have some wine.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: I don't see any wine.
• 41:08
  Speaker 12: There isn't any.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it.
• 41:12
  Speaker 12: It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without
• 41:14
  Speaker 12: being invited.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: I didn't know it was your table. It's made for
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: a great many more than three.
• 41:21
  Speaker 11: Your hair wants cutting.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: You should learn not to make personal remarks. It's very rude.
• 41:27
  Speaker 11: Why, is a raven like a writing desk?
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: Come, we shall have some fun now. I'm glad you've
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: begun asking riddles. I believe I can guess that.
• 41:39
  Speaker 12: So you mean you think you can find out the
• 41:40
  Speaker 12: answer to it?
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Exactly so.
• 41:44
  Speaker 12: Then you should say what you mean.
• 41:45
  Speaker 16: I do.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: At least, at least I mean what I say. That's
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: the same thing, you know.
• 41:52
  Speaker 11: Not the same thing a bit. Why, you might just
• 41:55
  Speaker 11: as well say that I see what I eat is
• 41:58
  Speaker 11: the same thing as I eat what I see.
• 42:04
  Speaker 12: You might as well say that I like what I
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: get is the same as I get what I like.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: You might just as well say that I breathe when
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I sleep is the same thing as I sleep when
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I breathe.
• 42:15
  Speaker 11: It is the same thing with you.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Takes out his watch, looks at it uneasily, shakes it,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: holds it to his ear.
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: What day of the month is it?
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: The fourth.
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: Two days wrong. I told you butter wouldn't suit the works.
• 42:32
  Speaker 12: It was the best butter.
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well.
• 42:38
  Speaker 11: You shouldn't have put it in with the bread knife.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: The March Hare takes the watch, looks at it gloomily,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: dips it into his cup of tea and looks at
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: it again, but doesn't know what else to say.
• 42:51
  Speaker 12: It was the best butter, you know.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: What a funny watch. It tells the day of the
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: month and doesn't tell what o'clock it is.
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: Why should it? Does your watch tell you what year
• 43:02
  Speaker 11: it is?
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Of course not, but that's because it stays the same
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: year for such a long time together.
• 43:09
  Speaker 11: Which is just the case with mine.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: I don't quite understand you. What you said had no
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: The Hatter pours some hot tea onto the Dormouse's nose.
• 43:23
  Speaker 11: The Dormouse is asleep again?
• 43:26
  Speaker 18: Of course, of course.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Just what I was going to remark myself.
• 43:31
  Speaker 11: Have you guessed the riddle yet?
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: No, I give it up.
• 43:36
  Speaker 16: What's the answer?
• 43:38
  Speaker 11: I haven't the slightest idea.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Nor I. I think you might do something better with
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: the time than wasting it and asking riddles that have
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: no answers.
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: If you knew time as well as I do, you
• 43:51
  Speaker 11: wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: I don't know what you mean.
• 43:59
  Speaker 11: Of course you don't. I dare say you never even
• 44:03
  Speaker 11: spoke to time.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: Perhaps not. but I know I have to beat time
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: when I learn music.
• 44:09
  Speaker 11: Ah, that accounts for it. He won't stand beating. Now,
• 44:14
  Speaker 11: if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd
• 44:17
  Speaker 11: do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance,
• 44:22
  Speaker 11: suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time
• 44:25
  Speaker 11: to begin lessons. You'd only have to whisper a hint
• 44:28
  Speaker 11: to time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling,
• 44:32
  Speaker 11: half past one. Time for dinner.
• 44:37
  Speaker 12: I only wish it was.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: That would be grand, certainly, but then I shouldn't be
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: hungry for it, you know.
• 44:44
  Speaker 11: Not at first, perhaps, but you could keep it to
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: half-past one as long as you like.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Is that the way you manage?
• 44:54
  Speaker 11: Not I. We quarreled last March, just before he went mad.
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: You know, it was at the great concert given by
• 45:01
  Speaker 11: the Queen of Hearts, and I had... To sing. Twinkle, twinkle,
• 45:07
  Speaker 11: little bat. How I wonder what you're at. You know
• 45:16
  Speaker 11: the song, perhaps?
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: I've heard something like it.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.
• 45:24
  Speaker 11: Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse. When the queen
• 45:27
  Speaker 11: bawled out, He's murdering the time. Off with his head.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: How dreadfully savage!
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: And ever since that, he won't do a thing I ask.
• 45:41
  Speaker 11: It's always six o'clock now.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: Is that the reason so many tea things are put
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: out here?
• 45:47
  Speaker 11: Yes, that's it. It's always tea time, and we've no
• 45:52
  Speaker 11: time to wash the things between wiles.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Then you keep moving round, I suppose.
• 46:00
  Speaker 11: Exactly. So as the things get used up.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: But when you come to the beginning again?
• 46:08
  Speaker 12: Suppose we change the subject. I vote the young lady
• 46:11
  Speaker 12: tells us a story.
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I don't know one.
• 46:14
  Speaker 12: Then the Dormouse shall. Wake up, Dormouse.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: They pinch him on both sides at once. The Dormouse
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: opens his eyes slowly and says in a hoarse, feeble voice,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: I wasn't asleep.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I heard every word you fellows were saying.
• 46:31
  Speaker 12: Tell us a story.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, please do.
• 46:35
  Speaker 11: And be quick about it, or you'll be asleep again
• 46:39
  Speaker 11: before it's done.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Once upon a time, there were three little sisters, and
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: their names were Elsie, Lacey, and Tilly, and they lived
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of a well.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: What did they live on?
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: They lived on treacle.
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: They couldn't have done that, you know. They'd have been ill.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: So they were very ill.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: But why did they live at the bottom of a well?
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Have some more tea.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: I've had nothing yet, so I can't take more.
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: You mean you can't take less. It's very easy to
• 47:14
  Speaker 11: take more than nothing.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Nobody asked your opinion.
• 47:20
  Speaker 11: Who's making personal remarks?
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: No.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Alice helps herself to tea and bread and butter.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: Why did they live at the bottom of a well?
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: The Dormouse takes a minute or two to think.
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: Hmm.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: It was a treacle well.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: There is no such thing.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Shush!
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: for yourself.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: No, please, go on. I won't interrupt you again. I
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: dare say there may be one.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: One indeed. And so these three little sisters, they were
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: learning to draw, you know.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: What did they draw?
• 48:01
  Speaker 11: I want a clean cup. Let's all move one place on.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Hatcher moves on, Dormouse takes his place, March Hare takes
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Dormouse's place, and Alice unwittingly takes March Hare's place.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: I'm worse off than I was before. You've upset the
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: milk jug into your plate.
• 48:20
  Speaker 12: It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without
• 48:22
  Speaker 12: being invited.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: Where did they draw the treacle from?
• 48:27
  Speaker 11: You can draw water out of a water well. So
• 48:32
  Speaker 11: I should think you could draw a treacle out of
• 48:35
  Speaker 11: a treacle well. Eh, stupid?
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: But they were in the well.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Of course they were well in. They were learning to
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: draw and they drew all manner of things. Everything that
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: begins with an M.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: Why with an M?
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: Why not?
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Alice is silent and confused. Hatcher pinches Dormouse to wake
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: him up. The Dormouse wakes up with a little shriek
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: and continues.
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: Eek!
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: That begins with an M, such as mousetraps, and the moon,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: and memory, and muchness. You know you say things are
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: much of a muchness. Did you ever see such a
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: thing as a drawing of a muchness?
• 49:20
  Speaker 11: Did you?
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: Really, now you ask me. I don't think.
• 49:24
  Speaker 11: Then you shouldn't talk. No.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Alice rises and walks away.
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: You are very rude. It's the stupidest tea party I
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: ever was at in all my life.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: The white rabbit enters carrying a huge envelope with a
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: seal and crown on it.
• 49:40
  Speaker 11: No room.
• 49:41
  Speaker 7: No room.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Rabbit pays no attention to them but goes to the
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: house and raps loudly. A footman in livery with a
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: round face and large eyes like a frog and powdered
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: hair opens the door.
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: For the Duchess, an invitation from the Queen to play croquet.
• 49:58
  Speaker 13: From the Queen, an invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: White rabbit bows and goes out.
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: No room?
• 50:07
  Speaker 11: No room.
• 50:08
  Speaker 16: No room.
• 50:09
  Speaker 11: No room.
• 50:10
  Speaker 16: No room.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: The frog disappears into the room but leaves the door open.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: There is a terrible din and many saucepans fly out.
• 50:18
  Speaker 12: She's at it again.
• 50:20
  Speaker 11: It's perfectly disgusting.
• 50:24
  Speaker 12: Let's move on.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: The platform moves off with the table, chairs, march hair, hatter,
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: and doormouse. Meanwhile, the frog has come out again and
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: is sitting near the closed door, staring stupidly at the sky.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Alice goes to the door timidly and knocks.
• 50:39
  Speaker 13: There's no sort of use in knocking. And that for
• 50:44
  Speaker 13: two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of
• 50:48
  Speaker 13: the door as you are. Secondly, because they're making such
• 50:53
  Speaker 13: a noise inside, no one can possibly hear you.
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: Please then, how am I to get in?
• 51:01
  Speaker 13: There might be some sense in your knocking if we
• 51:04
  Speaker 13: had the door between us. For instance, if you were inside,
• 51:10
  Speaker 13: you might knock and I could let you out, you know.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: How am I to get in?
• 51:16
  Speaker 13: I shall sit here till tomorrow.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: The door opens and a large plate skims out straight
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: at the frog's head. It grazes his nose and breaks
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: into pieces. The frog acts as if nothing had happened.
• 51:29
  Speaker 13: Or next day, maybe.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: How am I to get in?
• 51:35
  Speaker 13: Are you to get in at all? That's the first question,
• 51:39
  Speaker 13: you know.
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: It's really dreadful the way all you creatures argue. It's
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: enough to drive one crazy.
• 51:45
  Speaker 13: I shall sit here, on and off, for days and days.
• 51:50
  Speaker 16: But what am I to do?
• 51:52
  Speaker 13: Anything you like.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: He begins to whistle.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: Where's the servant whose business it is to answer the door?
• 51:59
  Speaker 13: Which door?
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: This door, of course.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: The frog looks at the door and rubs his thumb
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: on it to see if the paint will come off.
• 52:07
  Speaker 13: To answer the door? What's it been asking for?
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know what you mean.
• 52:13
  Speaker 13: I speaks English, doesn't I? Or are you deaf? What
• 52:19
  Speaker 13: did it ask you?
• 52:21
  Speaker 18: Nothing.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: I've been knocking at it.
• 52:24
  Speaker 13: Shouldn't do that. Shouldn't do that. Vexes it, you know.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: He kicks the door.
• 52:29
  Speaker 13: You let it alone, and it'll let you alone, you know.
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, there's no use talking to you.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: She starts to open the door just as the duchess
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: comes out carrying a pig in baby's clothes. She sneezes.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Frog sneezes and Alice sneezes.
• 52:48
  Speaker 14: If everybody minded her own business.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: It's pepper.
• 52:54
  Speaker 14: Of course. My cook puts it in the soup.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: There's certainly too much pepper in the soup.
• 52:59
  Speaker 14: Sneeze then and get rid of it.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Duchess begins to sing to the babies. giving it a
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: violent shake at the end of every line of the lullaby.
• 53:08
  Speaker 14: Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when
• 53:12
  Speaker 14: he sneezes.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Frog and Alice sneeze.
• 53:16
  Speaker 10: Achoo!
• 53:17
  Speaker 14: He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Duchess sneezes. Frog sneezes. Alice sneezes.
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: Achoo!
• 53:29
  Speaker 9: Achoo!
• 53:30
  Speaker 14: I speak severely to my boy. I beat him when
• 53:33
  Speaker 14: he sneezes.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Frog sneezes. Alice sneezes. Achoo!
• 53:39
  Speaker 14: For he can thoroughly enjoy the pepper when he pleases.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Duchess sneezes. Frog sneezes. Alice sneezes. Duchess gasps and gives
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: a tremendous sneeze.
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: Achoo! Achoo!
• 53:55
  Speaker 16: Achoo!
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: Oh dear.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: She jumps aside as kettles and pots come flying out
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: of the door. The Duchess pays no attention.
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: What a cook to have!
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: she calls inside.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, please mind what you're doing!
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Another pan comes out and almost hits the baby.
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, there goes his precious nose!
• 54:16
  Speaker 14: If everybody minded her own business, the world would go
• 54:18
  Speaker 14: round a deal faster than it does.
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: Which would not be an advantage. Just think what work
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: it would make with the day and night!' You see,
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: the earth takes 24 hours to turn round on its axis.
• 54:30
  Speaker 14: Talking of axis, chop off her head.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: The head of a grinning Cheshire cat appears in a
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: tree above a wall. Oh, what's that?
• 54:39
  Speaker 14: Cat, of course.
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: Why does it grin like that?
• 54:43
  Speaker 14: It's a Cheshire cat, and that's why.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: To baby. Pig.
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned. In fact,
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that cats could grin.
• 54:54
  Speaker 14: They all can, and most of them do.
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: I don't know of any that do.'' You don't know much,
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: and that's a fact.
• 55:02
  Speaker 14: Here, you may nurse it a bit, if you like.''
• 55:05
  Speaker 14: Slings the.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Baby at Alice.
• 55:06
  Speaker 14: I must go and get ready to play croquet with
• 55:09
  Speaker 14: the queen.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: She goes into the house.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: If I don't take this child away with me, they're
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: sure to kill it in a day or two. Cheshire Puss,
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: would you tell me, please, which way I ought to
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: walk from here?
• 55:21
  Speaker 15: That depends a good deal on where you want to
• 55:25
  Speaker 15: get to.
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: I don't much care where.
• 55:27
  Speaker 15: Then it doesn't matter which way you walk.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: So long as I get somewhere.
• 55:34
  Speaker 15: Oh, you're sure to do that, if you only walk
• 55:38
  Speaker 15: long enough.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: Please, will you tell me what sort of people live
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: about here?
• 55:43
  Speaker 15: All mad people.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: But I don't want to go among mad people.
• 55:47
  Speaker 15: Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad,
• 55:52
  Speaker 15: he's mad, he's dreaming now. And what do you think
• 55:55
  Speaker 15: he's dreaming about?
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Alice goes to the frog to scrutinize his face.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: Nobody could guess that.
• 56:03
  Speaker 15: Why, about you. And if he left off dreaming about you,
• 56:07
  Speaker 15: where do you suppose you'd be?
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: Where I am now, of course.
• 56:12
  Speaker 18: Not you.
• 56:14
  Speaker 15: You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing
• 56:17
  Speaker 15: in his dream. And you're mad, too.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: How do you know I'm mad?
• 56:23
  Speaker 15: You must be, or you wouldn't have come here.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: How do you know that you're mad?
• 56:29
  Speaker 15: To begin with, a dog's not mad. You grant that.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: I suppose so.
• 56:36
  Speaker 15: Well then, you see a dog growls when it's angry
• 56:40
  Speaker 15: and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl
• 56:44
  Speaker 15: when I'm pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore,
• 56:48
  Speaker 15: I'm mad.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: I call it purring.
• 56:51
  Speaker 15: Not growling call it what you like do you play
• 56:54
  Speaker 15: croquet with the queen to-day i shall.
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: Like it very much but i haven't been invited yet.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: You'll see me there vanishes alice to the squirming baby.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: Oh dear it's heavy and so ugly don't grunt oh
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: oh it's a pig please mr.
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  Speaker 2: Footman take it frog rises with dignity whistles and disappears
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: into the house A kettle comes bounding out. Alice puts
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: pig down and it crawls off. The cat appears again.
• 57:27
  Speaker 15: By the by, what became of the baby?
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: It turned into a pig.
• 57:32
  Speaker 15: I thought it would.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Vanishes. Frog comes out of the house with hedgehogs and flamingos.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Cat reappears.
• 57:40
  Speaker 15: Did you say pig or fig?
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: I said pig. And I wish you wouldn't keep appearing
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: and vanishing so suddenly. You make one quite giddy.
• 57:50
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: It vanishes slowly. Frog puts flamingos down and reenters the house.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: While Alice is examining the flamingos curiously, Tweedledum and Tweedledee,
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: each with an arm around the other's neck, sidestep in
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: and stand looking at Alice. Alice turns, sees them, starts
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: in surprise, and involuntarily whispers.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: Tweedledee!'' Doom!
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: If you think we're waxworks, you ought to pay!
• 58:20
  Speaker 16: Contrary wise, if you think we're alive, you ought to speak.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: The first thing in the visit to say is how
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: do you do, and shake hands.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: The brothers give each other a hug, then hold out
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: the two hands that are free to shake hands with her.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Alice does not like shaking hands with either of them first,
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: for fear of hurting the other one's feelings. She takes
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: hold of both hands at once, and they all dance
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: around in a ring, quite naturally to music. Here we
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: go around the mulberry bush.
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: Would you tell me which road leads out of.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: What shall I repeat to her?
• 58:53
  Speaker 16: The virus and the cup and tea is the longest.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Gives his brother an affectionate hug.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: The sun was shining.
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: If it's very long, would you please tell me first
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: which road?
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: The moon was shining sulkily. This?
• 59:10
  Speaker 16: Was wet, as wet could be.
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, oysters, come and walk with us, the walrus did beseech.
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  Speaker 16: A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk along the briny beach.
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: The eldest oyster winked his eye and shook his heavy head.
• 59:27
  Speaker 16: Meaning to say, he did not choose to leave the
• 59:30
  Speaker 16: oyster bed.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: But four young oysters hurried up, and yet another four.
• 59:36
  Speaker 16: And thick and fast they came at last, and more,
• 59:40
  Speaker 16: and more, and more.
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: The walrus and the carpenter walked a mile or so.
• 59:47
  Speaker 16: And then they rested on a rock, conveniently low.
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: And all the little oysters stood waiting in a row.
• 59:56
  Speaker 16: A loaf of bread, the walrus said, is what we
• 59:59
  Speaker 16: chiefly need.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Now if you're ready, oysters, dear, we can begin to feed.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 16: But not on us, the oysters cried, turning a little blue.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: The night is fine, the walrus said. Do you admire
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: the view?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 16: The carpenter said nothing but cut us another slice. I
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 16: wish you were not quite so deep, I've had to
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 16: ask you twice.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: It seems a shame, the walrus said, to play such
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: a trick, after we've brought them so far and made
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: them trot so quick.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 16: Oh, oyster, said the carpenter, you've had a pleasant run.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: Shall we be trotting home again?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 16: But answer came there none.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: This was scarcely odd because.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 16: They'd eaten every.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: Did you see that?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Dee interrupts in a passion, pointing to a white rattle
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: on the ground.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: It's only a rattle.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: Dumb stamps wildly and tears his hair.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 16: I knew it was! It's spoiled, of course. My nice
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 16: new rattle.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: To Dee.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 16: You agree to have a battle?
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: He collects saucepans and pots. Dee picks up a saucepan.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: I suppose so. Let's fight till dinner.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: They go out hand in hand. Alice hears music.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: I wonder what is going to happen next.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: She backs down stage respectfully as the king and queen
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: of hearts enter, followed by the knave of hearts carrying
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: the king's crown on a crimson velvet cushion, and the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: white rabbit and others. When they come opposite to Alice,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: they stop and look at her. The duchess comes out
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: of her house.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 14: Who is this?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: The knave bows three times, smiles, and giggles.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: Idiot. What's your name, child? My name is Alice, so
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: please your majesty.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 12: Off with her head!
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 9: Off!
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 10: Nonsense! Consider, my dear, she is only a child.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 16: Can you play croquet?
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 16: Come on, then. Get to your places.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: Where are the mallets?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 9: Here.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: The frog appears with the flamingos and hedgehogs.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 12: Off with his head!
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: No one pays her any attention.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 10: What fun!
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: What is the fun?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 17: Why, she, it's all her fancy, that. They never execute anyone.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: What does one do?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 16: Get to your places!
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: She takes a flamingo, uses its neck as a mallet,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: and the hedgehog as a ball. The frog doubles himself
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: into an arch. The king does the same with the followers,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: and the knave offers himself as an arch for Alice.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Even though Alice does not notice him, he holds the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: arch position. The queen shouts at intervals.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 16: Off with his head!
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: Off with her head! Where are the chess queens?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: Under sentence of execution.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 16: What for?
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 7: Did you say, what a pity?
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 16: No, I didn't.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's at all a pity. I said,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: what for?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: They boxed the queen's ears.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: Alice gives a little scream of laughter.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 9: Oh, hush.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: The queen will hear you. You see, they came rather late.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 7: And the queen said, Oh dear, the queen hears me.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: He hurries away. Alice notices the knave who is still
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: pretending to be an arch.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: How can you go on thinking so quietly with your
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: head downwards?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 17: What does it matter where my body happens to be?
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 17: My mind goes on working just the same. The fact
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 17: of it is, the more head downwards I am, the
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 17: more I keep on inventing new things.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 10: Did you happen to meet any soldiers, my dear, as
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 10: you came through the wood?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, I did.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: Several thousand, I should think.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 10: Four thousand two hundred and seven. That's the exact number.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 10: They couldn't send all the horses, you know, because two
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 10: of them are wanted in the game, and I haven't
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 10: sent the two messengers either.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: What's the war about?
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 10: The Red Chess King has the whole army against us,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 10: but he can't kill a man who has thirteen hearts.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: The Duchess, Queen, Frog, and followers go out. The knave
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: and the five-spot, seven-spot, and nine-spot of hearts stand behind
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: the king.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 10: Just look along the road and tell me if you
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 10: can see either of my messengers.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: I see nobody on the road.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 10: I only wish I had such eyes to be able
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 10: to see nobody,' and at that distance too.' Why, it's
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 10: as much as I can do to see real people
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 10: by this light.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: I see somebody now, but he's coming so very slowly,'
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: and what curious attitudes he goes into, 'skipping up and
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: down and wriggling like an eel.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 10: Not at all.' Those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.' He only does
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 10: them when he's happy. I must have two messengers, you know,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 10: to come and go. One to come and one to go.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: I beg your pardon?
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 10: It isn't respectable to beg.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: I only meant that I didn't understand. Why one to
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: come and one to go?
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 10: Don't I tell you? I must have two to fetch
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 10: and carry, one to fetch and one to carry.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: The march hare enters, pants her breath, waves his hands about,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: and makes fearful faces at the king.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 10: You alarm me. I feel faint. Give me a ham sandwich.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 10: Another sandwich!
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 12: There's nothing but hay left now.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 10: Hay, then, there's nothing like eating hay when you're faint.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: I should think throwing cold water over you would be better.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 10: I didn't say there was nothing better. I said there
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 10: was nothing like it. Who did you pass on the road? Nobody.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 10: Quite right. This young lady saw him, too. So, of course,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 10: nobody walks slower than you.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 12: I do my best. I'm sure nobody walks faster than
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 12: I do.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 10: He can't do that, or else he'd have been here first. However,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 10: now you've got your breath, you may tell us what's
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 10: happened in the town.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 12: I'll whisper it.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: Much to Alice's surprise, he shouts into the king's ear.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: They're at it again.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 10: Do you call that a whisper? If you do such
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 10: a thing again, I'll have you buttered. It went through
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 10: and through my head like an earthquake.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: The king and the march hare go out, followed by
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: the five, seven, and nine spots. The duchess runs in
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: and tucks her arm affectionately into Alice's.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 14: You can't think how glad I am to see you again,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 14: you dear old thing.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 9: Oh!
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 14: You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 14: forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 14: the moral of that is, but I shall remember in
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 14: a bit.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: Perhaps it hasn't one.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: Tut, tut, child.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 14: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: Squeezes closely, digs her chin into Alice's shoulder, and roughly
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: drags Alice along for a walk.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: The game's going on rather better now.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 14: Tis so, and the moral of that is, Oh, tis love,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 14: tis love, that makes the world go round.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: Somebody said that it's done by everybody minding their own business.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 14: Ah, well, it means much the same thing, and the
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 14: moral of that is, take care of the scents, and
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 14: the sounds will take care of themselves.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: How fond you are of finding morals in things.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 14: I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 14: arm round your waist. The reason is that I'm doubtful
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 14: about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: He might bite.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 14: Very true. Flamingos and mustard both bite, and the moral
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 14: of that is, birds of a feather flock together.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 4: Only mustard isn't a bird.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 14: Right as usual. What a clear way you have of
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 14: putting things.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: It's a mineral, I think.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 14: Of course it is. There's a large mustard mine near here,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 14: and the moral of that is, the more there is
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 14: of mine, the less there is of yours.' Oh, I know.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 4: It's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it is.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 14: I quite agree with you. And the moral of that is,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 14: be what you would seem to be. Or if you
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 14: like it put more simply, never imagine yourself to be
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 14: otherwise than what it might appear to others that what
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 14: you were or might have been was not otherwise than
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 14: what you had been would have appeared to them to
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 14: be otherwise.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: I think I should understand that better if I had
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: it written down, but I can't quite follow it as
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: you say it.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 14: That's nothing to what I could say if I chose.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 14: Oh, don't talk about trouble. I make you a present
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 14: of everything I've said as yet. Hmm, thinking again.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: I've put a right to think.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 14: Just about as much right as pigs have to fly.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 14: And the moral... The arm of.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: The Duchess begins to tremble and her voice dies down.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: The Queen of Hearts stands before them with folded arms
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: and frowning like a thunderstorm.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 14: A fine day, your majesty.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: Now, I give you fair warning. Either you or your
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: head must be off, and that in about half no time.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 12: Take your choice.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: The Duchess goes meekly into the house.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: Let's go on with the game.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: She goes off and shouts at intervals, Off with his head!
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: Off with her head!
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 15: How are you getting on?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 4: It's no use speaking to you till your ears have come.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 4: I don't think they play at all fairly. and they
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: all quarrel so and they don't seem to have any
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: rules in particular and you've no idea how confusing it
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 4: is with all the things alive there's the archer got
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: to go through next walking about at the other end
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: of the ground and i should have croqueted the queen's
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: hedgehog just now only it ran away.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: When it saw mine coming music begins.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 4: How do you like the queen not at all she's
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: so extremely.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: The king queen and the entire court enters the queen
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: is near to alice The music stops and all look
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: at Alice questioningly. Alice tries to propitiate the Queen. Likely
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: to win, music continues.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: That it's hardly worth while finishing the game.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: Queen smiles and passes on.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 10: Who are you talking to?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: It's a friend of mine, a Cheshire Cat. Allow me
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: to introduce it.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 10: I don't like the look of it at all. However,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 10: it may kiss my hand if it likes.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 15: I'd rather not.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 10: Don't be impertinent, and don't look at me like that.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: A cat may look at a king. I've read that
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 4: in some book, but I don't remember where.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 10: Well, it must be removed. My dear, I wish you
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 10: would have this cat removed.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 6: Off with his head!
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 17: But you can't cut off a head unless there's a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 17: body to cut it off from.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 10: Anything that has a head can be beheaded.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 16: If something isn't.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: Done about it in less than no time, I'll have
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 4: everybody executed all round. It belongs to the Duchess. You'd
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: better ask her about it.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 16: It's a lie.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 15: You'd better ask me. Do it if you can.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: It grins away. The Duchess and Frog escape into the house.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 5: Cut it off!
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 10: It's gone! It's gone!
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: It's gone!
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 18: It's gone!
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 16: It's gone! It's gone!
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: It's gone.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 9: Where?
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 11: Where?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 22: Where?
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 18: Where?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 15: Cut it off.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: Cut them all off.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: No, no.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 16: No.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 9: No, no, no.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 14: No.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: Save me.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 16: Save me.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: The knave shouts to Alice and gives her a tart
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: for safety.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 17: Take a tart.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: The queen sees Alice stand out a moment from the others.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 12: Cut hers off!
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 9: Cut hers off!
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: The others are glad to distract the queen's attention from themselves.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 16: Cut hers off!
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 17: Cut hers off!
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 14: Cut hers off!
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: Alice cries in fear and takes a quick bite at
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: the tart. If there is a trapdoor on the stage,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: Alice disappears down it, leaving the crowd circling around the hole,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: screaming and amazed. If the stage has no trapdoor, a
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: bridge is built across the footlights with a stair leading
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: down into the orchestra pit. When the crowd is chasing Alice,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: she jumps over the footlights onto the bridge as the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: curtain is falling, dividing her from the crowd as she
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: appeals to the audience.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 16: Save me! Save me!
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: Who will save me?
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: And runs down the stairs and disappears.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Curtain End of Act 2.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: ACT III OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Alice Gernstenberg This
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  Speaker 2: SCENE 1 It's a garden of high, very conventional and
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  Speaker 2: artificial-looking flowers. On a large mushroom sits the caterpillar smoking
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  Speaker 2: a hookah. Alice is whirling about, trying to get her
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  Speaker 2: equilibrium after her fall. She goes to the mushroom timidly and,
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  Speaker 2: conscious of her size, for her chin reaches the top
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  Speaker 2: of the mushroom, she gazes at the caterpillar wonderingly. He
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  Speaker 2: looks at her lazily and speaks in a languid voice.
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  Speaker 18: Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: I hardly know, sir, just at present. The queen frightened
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  Speaker 4: me so, and I've had an awfully funny fall down
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  Speaker 4: a tunnel, or a sort of well. At least I
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  Speaker 4: know who I was when I got up this morning.
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  Speaker 4: But I think I must have been changed several times
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  Speaker 4: since then.
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  Speaker 18: What do you mean by that? Explain yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir. Because I'm not myself,
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  Speaker 4: you see. Being so many different sizes in a day
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  Speaker 4: is very confusing.'' You?
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  Speaker 18: Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: I think you ought to tell me who you are first.
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  Speaker 18: Why?
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  Speaker 2: As Alice turns away.
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  Speaker 9: Come back.
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  Speaker 18: I've something important to say.
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  Speaker 2: Alice comes back.
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  Speaker 18: Keep your temper.
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  Speaker 4: Is that all?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: He puffs at the hookah in silence, finally takes it
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  Speaker 2: out of his mouth and unfolds his arms.
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  Speaker 18: So you think you will change it, do you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I am, sir. I don't keep the same size.
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  Speaker 18: What size do you want to be?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. At least I've never been so small
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  Speaker 4: as a caterpillar.
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  Speaker 2: The caterpillar rears angrily.
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  Speaker 23: It is a very good height indeed.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm not used to it. I wish you wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: all be so easily offended.
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  Speaker 18: You'll get used to it in time.
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  Speaker 4: Are you too big, or am I too small?
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  Speaker 2: She compares her height wonderingly with the tall flowers. The
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  Speaker 2: caterpillar looks at her sleepily, yawns, shakes himself, slides down
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  Speaker 2: from the mushroom, and crawls slowly away.
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  Speaker 18: One side will make you grow taller, and the other
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  Speaker 18: side will make you grow shorter.
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  Speaker 4: One side of what? The other side of what?
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  Speaker 18: Of the mushroom.
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  Speaker 2: Alice hesitates, then embraces mushroom and picks bit from each side.
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  Speaker 2: Three gardeners representing spades enter carrying brushes and red paint cans.
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  Speaker 7: Look out now, Five. Don't go splashing paint over me
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  Speaker 7: like that.
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  Speaker 19: I couldn't help it. Seven jogged my elbow. That's right, Five.
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  Speaker 19: Always lay the blame on others. You better not talk.
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  Speaker 19: I heard the Queen say only yesterday you deserve to
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  Speaker 19: be beheaded. What for? That's none of your business, too. Yes,
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  Speaker 19: it is his business, and I'll tell him. It was
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  Speaker 19: for bringing the cooked tulip roots instead of onions. Well,
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  Speaker 19: of all the unjust things.
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  Speaker 2: Sees Alice. Others look around, all bow.
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  Speaker 4: Could you please tell me what side to eat?
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  Speaker 2: Five and Seven look at Two.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: He paints a white rose red.
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  Speaker 7: You ought to have been red. We put you in
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  Speaker 7: by mistake. And if the Queen was to find it out,
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  Speaker 7: we should all have our heads cut off.
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  Speaker 2: A thumping is heard offstage and the music grows louder
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  Speaker 2: and louder.
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  Speaker 16: What's that?
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  Speaker 19: The White Chess Queen. Don't let her see what we
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  Speaker 19: are doing. She'll tell on us.
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  Speaker 13: Run out and stop her from coming here.
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  Speaker 2: Five Spot says to Alice as she runs to the right.
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  Speaker 10: No, no, the other way.
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  Speaker 4: But she's off there.
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  Speaker 7: You can only meet her by walking the other way.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, what nonsense.
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  Speaker 10: Go your way!
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  Speaker 2: Alice re-enters in dismay and dashes out to the left.
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  Speaker 4: She's running away from me!
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  Speaker 2: The white queen backs in from right and Alice backs
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  Speaker 2: in from left. They meet. The gardeners cry, The queen!
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  Speaker 2: and throw themselves flat upon the ground. Their backs are
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  Speaker 2: like the backs of the rest of the pack. Music stops.
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  Speaker 2: Alice looks at the queen curiously.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there you are. Why, I'm just the size I
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  Speaker 4: was when I saw you last.
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  Speaker 6: Of course you are. And who are these? I can't
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  Speaker 6: tell them by their backs.
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  Speaker 2: She turns them over with her foot.
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  Speaker 20: Turn over?
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  Speaker 6: Ah, I thought so.
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  Speaker 9: Get up.
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  Speaker 6: What have you been doing here?
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  Speaker 7: May it please your majesty, we were trying.
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  Speaker 2: The white queen examines Rose.
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  Speaker 6: I see. Be gone, or I'll send the horses after
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  Speaker 6: you and tell the queen of hearts.
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  Speaker 2: Gardeners rush off. The red queen enters. Alice has gone
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  Speaker 2: to the mushroom again to look at its sides, and there,
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  Speaker 2: to her amazement, finds a gold crown and scepter, which
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  Speaker 2: she immediately appropriates. Music The queens watch Alice superciliously. Alice
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  Speaker 2: puts on her crown, proudly exclaiming in great elation, Queen Alice,
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  Speaker 2: and walks downstage, bowing right and left, to the homage
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  Speaker 2: of her imaginary subjects. She repeats as if scarcely daring
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  Speaker 2: to believe it true, Queen Alice. Music stops.
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  Speaker 5: Ridiculous!
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  Speaker 4: Is this the eighth square?
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  Speaker 5: You can't be a queen, you know, till you've passed
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  Speaker 5: the proper examination.
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  Speaker 6: The sooner we begin it, the better.
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  Speaker 4: Please, would you tell me?
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  Speaker 5: Speak when you're spoken to.
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  Speaker 4: But if everybody obeyed that rule, and if you only
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  Speaker 4: spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person
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  Speaker 4: always waited for you to begin— You see, nobody would
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  Speaker 4: ever say anything, so that— Preposterous! I only said if.
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  Speaker 5: She says she only said if.
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  Speaker 2: The White Queen moans and wrings her hands.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, but she said a great deal more than that. Ah, yes,
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  Speaker 6: so much more than that.
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  Speaker 5: So you did, you know. Always speak the truth, think
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  Speaker 5: before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure I didn't mean.
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  Speaker 5: That's just what I complained of. You should have meant.
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  Speaker 5: What do you suppose is the use of a child
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  Speaker 5: without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning.
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  Speaker 5: And a child's more important than a joke, I hope.
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  Speaker 5: You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
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  Speaker 4: I don't deny things with my hands.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody said you did. I said you couldn't if you tried.
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  Speaker 6: She's in that state of mind that she wants to
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  Speaker 6: deny something, only she doesn't know what to deny.
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  Speaker 5: A nasty, vicious temper. I invite you to Alice's dinner-party
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  Speaker 5: this afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: And I invite you.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know I was to have a party at all.
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  Speaker 4: But if there is to be one, I think I
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  Speaker 4: ought to invite the guests.
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  Speaker 5: We gave you the opportunity of doing it, but I
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  Speaker 5: dare say you've not had many lessons in manners yet.
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  Speaker 4: Manners are not taught in lessons. Lessons teach you to
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  Speaker 4: do sums and things of that sort.
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  Speaker 6: Can you do addition?
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  Speaker 6: .
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I lost count.
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  Speaker 5: She can't do addition. Can you do subtraction? Take nine
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  Speaker 5: from eight.
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  Speaker 4: Nine from eight I can't, you know, but.
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  Speaker 6: She can't do subtraction. Can you do division? Divide a
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  Speaker 6: loaf by a knife. What's the answer to that?
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  Speaker 2: I suppose the Red Queen answers for her.
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  Speaker 5: Bread and butter, of course. Try another subtraction, some. Take
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  Speaker 5: a bone from a dog. What remains?
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  Speaker 4: The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it.
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  Speaker 4: And the dog wouldn't remain. It would come to bite me.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sure I shouldn't remain.
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  Speaker 5: Then you think nothing would remain?
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the answer.
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  Speaker 5: Wrong as usual, the dog's temper would remain.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't see how.
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  Speaker 5: Why, look here. The dog would lose its temper, wouldn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps it would.
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  Speaker 5: Then if the dog went away, its temper would remain.
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  Speaker 4: They might go different ways. What dreadful nonsense we are talking.
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  Speaker 6: She can't do sums a bit.
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  Speaker 4: Can you do sums?
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  Speaker 6: I can do addition if you give me time. But
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  Speaker 6: I can't do subtraction under any circumstances.
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  Speaker 5: Of course you know your ABC.
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  Speaker 4: To be sure I do.
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  Speaker 6: So do I. We'll often say it over together, dear.
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  Speaker 6: And I'll tell you a secret. I can read words
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  Speaker 6: of one letter. Isn't that grand? However, don't be discouraged.
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  Speaker 6: You'll come to it in time.
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  Speaker 5: Can you answer useful questions? How is bread made?
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  Speaker 16: I know that.
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  Speaker 4: You take some flour.
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  Speaker 6: Where do you pick the flour? In a garden or
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  Speaker 6: in the hedges?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it isn't picked at all. It's ground.
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  Speaker 6: How many acres of ground? You mustn't leave out so
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  Speaker 6: many things.
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  Speaker 5: Fan her head. She'll be feverish after so much thinking.
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  Speaker 2: They fan her with bunches of leaves which blow her
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  Speaker 2: hair wildly.
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  Speaker 16: Please, please.
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  Speaker 5: She's all right again now. Do you know languages? What's
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  Speaker 5: the French for fiddle-dee-dee?
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  Speaker 4: Fiddle-dee-dee is not English.
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  Speaker 5: Whoever said it was?
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  Speaker 4: If you tell me what language fiddle-dee-dee is, I'll tell
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  Speaker 4: you the French for it.
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  Speaker 5: Queens never make bargains.
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  Speaker 4: I wish queens never asked questions.
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  Speaker 6: Don't let us quarrel. What is the cause of lightning?
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  Speaker 4: The cause of lightning is the thunder. No, no, I
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  Speaker 4: meant the other way.
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  Speaker 5: It's too late to correct it when you've once said
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  Speaker 5: a thing that fixes it and you must take the consequences.
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  Speaker 6: We had such a thunderstorm next Tuesday, you can't think.
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  Speaker 5: She never could, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Part of the roof came off and ever so much
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  Speaker 6: thunder got in and it went rolling round the room
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  Speaker 6: in great lumps and knocking over the tables and things
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  Speaker 6: till I was so frightened I couldn't remember my own name.
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  Speaker 4: I never should try to remember my name in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of an accident. Where would be the use of it?
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  Speaker 5: You must excuse her. She means well, but she can't
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  Speaker 5: help saying foolish things as a general rule. She never
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  Speaker 5: was really well brought up, but it's amazing how good-tempered
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  Speaker 5: she is. Pat her on the head and see how
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  Speaker 5: pleased she'll be. A little kindness in putting her hair
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  Speaker 5: in papers would do wonders with her.
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  Speaker 2: The White Queen gives a deep sigh and leans her
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  Speaker 2: head on Alice's shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I am so sleepy.
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  Speaker 5: She's tired, poor thing. Smooth her hair, lend her your nightcap,
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  Speaker 5: and sing her a soothing lullaby.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't got a nightcap with me, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: know any soothing lullabies.
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  Speaker 5: I must do it myself, then.
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  Speaker 23: Hush-a-bye, lady in Alice's lap. till the feast's ready we've
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  Speaker 23: time for a nap when the feast's over we'll go
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  Speaker 23: to the ball red queen and white queen and alice
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  Speaker 23: and all and now you know the words.
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  Speaker 2: She puts her head on alice's other shoulder.
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  Speaker 5: Just sing it through to me i'm getting sleepy too.
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  Speaker 2: Both queens fall fast asleep and snore loudly.
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  Speaker 16: What am i to do.
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  Speaker 4: Take care of two queens asleep at once. Do wake up,
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  Speaker 4: you heavy things.
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  Speaker 2: All lights go out, leaving a mysterious glow on Alice
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  Speaker 2: and the queens. The white rabbit blows trumpet offstage.
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  Speaker 7: The trial's beginning.
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  Speaker 4: What trial is it?
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  Speaker 7: Who stole the tarts?
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  Speaker 4: I ate a tart.
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  Speaker 7: You've got to be tried.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be tried.
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  Speaker 7: You've got to be tried.
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  Speaker 4: I won't be tried.
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  Speaker 9: I won't. I won't.
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  Speaker 3: Scene 2.
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  Speaker 2: It's a courtroom suggesting playing cards. The jurymen are all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of creatures. The king and queen of hearts are
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  Speaker 2: seated on the throne. The knave is before them in chains.
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  Speaker 2: The white rabbit has a trumpet in one hand and
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  Speaker 2: a scroll of parchment in the other. In the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the court stands a table with a large dish
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  Speaker 2: of tarts upon it. The white rabbit blows three blasts
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  Speaker 2: on his trumpet.
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  Speaker 6: PADAM!
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  Speaker 19: PADAM!
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  Speaker 11: PADAM!
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  Speaker 10: SILENCE IN THE COURT!
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  Speaker 2: Alice watches jurymen riding busily on their slates. What are
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  Speaker 2: they doing?
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  Speaker 4: They can't have anything to put down yet, before the
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  Speaker 4: trial's begun.
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  Speaker 17: They're putting down their names for fear they should forget
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  Speaker 17: them before the end of the trial.
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  Speaker 4: STUPID THINGS!
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  Speaker 19: SILENCE IN THE COURT!
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  Speaker 2: The jurors write in chorus.
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  Speaker 13: Stupid things. How do you spell stupid?
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  Speaker 4: A nice muddle their slates will be in before the
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  Speaker 4: trial's over.
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  Speaker 16: There's a pencil squeaking. Cut it down.
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  Speaker 2: The jurors in chorus as they write.
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  Speaker 11: Squeaking.
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  Speaker 2: The king wears a crown over his wig, puts on
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  Speaker 2: his spectacles as he says.
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  Speaker 10: Harold, read the accusation.
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  Speaker 2: The White Rabbit blows three blasts on his trumpet, unrolls
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  Speaker 2: a parchment scroll, and reads to the music.
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  Speaker 21: Ba-dum!
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  Speaker 9: Ba-dum!
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  Speaker 10: Ba-dum!
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  Speaker 7: The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on
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  Speaker 7: a summer day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts.
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  Speaker 7: and took them quite away.
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  Speaker 10: Consider your verdict.
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  Speaker 7: Not yet, not yet. There's a great deal to come
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  Speaker 7: before that.
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  Speaker 10: Call the first witness.
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  Speaker 7: First witness.
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  Speaker 2: The hatter comes in with a teacup in one hand
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  Speaker 2: and a piece of bread and butter in the other.
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  Speaker 11: I beg your pardon, your majesty, for bringing these in.
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  Speaker 11: But I hadn't quite finished my tea when I was
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  Speaker 11: sent for.
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  Speaker 10: You ought to have finished. When did you begin?
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  Speaker 2: The Hatter looks at the March Hare, who follows him
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  Speaker 2: arm in arm with the Dwarf Mouse.
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  Speaker 11: Fourteenth of March. I think it was... Fifteenth.
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  Speaker 16: Sixteenth.
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  Speaker 10: Write that down.
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  Speaker 11: Fourteen.
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  Speaker 13: Fifteen.
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  Speaker 11: Sixteen. Forty-five.
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  Speaker 13: Reduce that to shillings.
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  Speaker 10: Take off your hat.
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  Speaker 11: It isn't mine.
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  Speaker 18: Stolen.
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  Speaker 22: Stolen.
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  Speaker 11: I keep them to sell. I've none of my own.
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  Speaker 11: I'm a hatter.
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  Speaker 2: The Queen of Hearts puts on her spectacles and stares
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  Speaker 2: at the hatter, who fidgets uncomfortably.
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  Speaker 10: Give your evidence, and don't be nervous, or I'll have
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  Speaker 10: you executed on the spot.
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  Speaker 2: The hatter continues to shift nervously from one foot to
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  Speaker 2: the other, looks uneasily at the queen, trembles so that
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  Speaker 2: he shakes off both his shoes, and in his confusion
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  Speaker 2: bites a large piece out of his teacup instead of
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  Speaker 2: the bread and butter.
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  Speaker 11: I am a poor man, your majesty, and I hadn't
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  Speaker 11: but just begun my tea, not above a week or so,
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  Speaker 11: and what with the bread and butter getting so thin,
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  Speaker 11: and the twinkling of the tea.
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  Speaker 10: The twinkling of what?
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  Speaker 11: It began with the tea.
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  Speaker 10: Of course twinkling begins with a tea. Do you take
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  Speaker 10: me for a dunce? Go on.
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  Speaker 11: I'm a poor man, and most things twinkled after that.
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  Speaker 11: Only the March Hare said— I didn't.
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  Speaker 22: You did.
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  Speaker 12: I deny it.
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  Speaker 10: He denies it. Leave out that part.
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  Speaker 16: But what did the Dormouse say?
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  Speaker 11: That I can't remember.
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  Speaker 10: You must remember, or I'll have you executed.
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  Speaker 2: The Hatter drops teacup and bread and butter and goes
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  Speaker 2: down on one knee.
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  Speaker 11: I'm a poor man, Your Majesty.
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  Speaker 10: If that's all you know about it, you may stand down.
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  Speaker 11: I can't go no lower. I'm on the floor as
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  Speaker 11: it is.
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  Speaker 10: Then you may sit down.
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  Speaker 11: I'd rather finish my tea.
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  Speaker 10: You may go.
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  Speaker 2: The hatter goes out hurriedly, leaving one of his shoes behind.
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  Speaker 2: The queen nonchalantly says to an officer.
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  Speaker 16: And just take his head off outside.
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  Speaker 2: But the hatter was out of sight before the officer
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  Speaker 2: could get to the door.
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  Speaker 10: Call the next witness.
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  Speaker 7: Next witness!
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  Speaker 2: The duchess enters with a pepper pot, which she shakes about.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody begins to sneeze. March Hare sneezes and rushes out.
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  Speaker 10: Give your evidence.
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  Speaker 14: Shirt, but.
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  Speaker 7: Your Majesty must cross-examine this witness.
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  Speaker 10: Well, if I must, I must. What does your cook
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  Speaker 10: say tarts are made of?
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  Speaker 14: Pepper.
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  Speaker 2: The Duchess shakes the pot and the court sneezes.
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  Speaker 9: Trico!
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  Speaker 2: The Duchess shakes the pot at him. He sneezes for
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  Speaker 2: the first time.
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  Speaker 16: Call the Dormouse! Behead the Dormouse!
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  Speaker 6: Turn that Dormouse out of court!
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  Speaker 16: Suppress him!
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  Speaker 6: Pinch him!
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  Speaker 16: Off with his whiskers!
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  Speaker 2: The whole court is in confusion, turning the Dormouse out.
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  Speaker 2: And while it is settling down again, the Duchess disappears.
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  Speaker 7: The Duchess!
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  Speaker 20: She's gone! She's gone!
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  Speaker 10: Never mind.
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  Speaker 2: In a low tone to the Queen.
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  Speaker 24: Really, my dear, you must cross-examine the next witness.' It
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  Speaker 24: quite makes my forehead ache.' Call the next witness.
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  Speaker 2: The white rabbit fumbles with the parchment' and then cries
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  Speaker 2: in a shrill little voice.' Alice!
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 10: What do you know about this business?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing whatever,' the king says to the jury.
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  Speaker 10: That' s very important.
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  Speaker 7: Unimportant, Your Majesty means, of course.
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  Speaker 10: Unimportant, of course, I meant. Important, unimportant, unimportant, important. Consider
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  Speaker 10: your verdict.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the jury write important, and some write unimportant.
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  Speaker 7: There's more evidence to come yet, please, Your Majesty. This
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  Speaker 7: paper has just been picked up. What's in it?
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  Speaker 2: The white rabbit fumbles with a huge envelope.
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  Speaker 7: I haven't opened it yet, but it seems to be
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  Speaker 7: a letter, written by the prisoner to... to somebody.
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  Speaker 10: It must have been that, unless it was written to nobody,
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  Speaker 10: which isn't usual, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Who is it directed to?
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  Speaker 7: It isn't directed at all. In fact, there's nothing written
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  Speaker 7: on the outside.
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  Speaker 2: Takes out a tiny piece of paper.
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  Speaker 7: It isn't a letter at all. It's a set of verses.
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  Speaker 14: Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?
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  Speaker 2: The jury brightens up. The white rabbit looks at the
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: knave's hand. The knave hides his hand and the chains rattle.
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  Speaker 6: No, they're not.
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  Speaker 7: And that's the queerest thing about it.
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  Speaker 2: The jury looks puzzled.
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  Speaker 10: He must have imitated somebody else's hand.
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  Speaker 17: Please, your majesty, I didn't write it, and they can't
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  Speaker 17: prove I did. There's no name signed at the end.
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  Speaker 10: If you didn't sign it, that only makes the matter worse.
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  Speaker 10: You must have meant some mischief, or else you'd have
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  Speaker 10: signed your name like an honest man.
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  Speaker 2: At this there is a general clapping of hands.
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  Speaker 12: That proves his guilt.
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  Speaker 2: It proves nothing of the sort.
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  Speaker 4: Why, you don't even know what they're about.
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  Speaker 10: Read them.
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  Speaker 2: The white rabbit puts on his monocle.
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  Speaker 7: Where shall I begin, please, your majesty?
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  Speaker 10: Begin at the beginning and go on till you come
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  Speaker 10: to the end. Then stop.
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  Speaker 7: They told me you had been to her and mentioned
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  Speaker 7: me to him. She gave me a good character, but
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  Speaker 7: said I could not swim. i gave her one they
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  Speaker 7: gave him two you gave us three or more they
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  Speaker 7: all returned from him to you though they were mine
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  Speaker 7: before my notion was that you had been before she
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  Speaker 7: had this fit an obstacle that came between him and
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  Speaker 7: ourselves and it don't let him know she liked him
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  Speaker 7: best for this must ever be a secret kept from
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  Speaker 7: all the rest between yourself and.
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  Speaker 10: Me That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet.
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  Speaker 10: So now let the jury— If any.
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  Speaker 4: Of them can explain it, I'll give him six pence.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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  Speaker 20: She doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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  Speaker 10: If there's no meaning in it, that saves a world
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  Speaker 10: of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any.
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  Speaker 10: And yet I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Spreads out the verses on his knee and studies them.
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  Speaker 10: I seem to see some meaning after all said i
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  Speaker 10: could not swim you can't swim can you.
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  Speaker 2: The knave shakes his head sadly and points to his suit.
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  Speaker 17: Do I look like it?
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  Speaker 10: All right, so far. We know it to be true.
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  Speaker 10: That's the jury, of course. I gave her one, they
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  Speaker 10: gave him two. Why, that must be what he did
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  Speaker 10: with the tart, you know.
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  Speaker 4: But it goes on. They all returned from him to you.
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  Speaker 2: The king triumphantly points to the tarts.
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  Speaker 10: Why, there they are. Nothing can be clearer than that.
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  Speaker 10: Then again, before she had this fit, you never had fits,
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  Speaker 10: my dear, I think.
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  Speaker 9: Never.
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  Speaker 10: Then the words don't fit you.
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  Speaker 2: There is dead silence while the king looks around the
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 2: court with a smile.
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  Speaker 10: It's a pun.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody laughs. Music.
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  Speaker 10: Let the jury consider their verdict. No, no.
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  Speaker 16: Sentence first.
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  Speaker 4: Verdict afterwards. Stuff and nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: The queen says furiously.
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  Speaker 4: Hold your tongue!
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  Speaker 10: I won't!
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  Speaker 16: Off with her head!
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  Speaker 4: Who cares for you?
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  Speaker 9: Cut it off!
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  Speaker 4: You're nothing but a pack of cards!
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  Speaker 2: As the lights go out and the curtain falls, all
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  Speaker 2: the characters hold their positions as if petrified. Curtain Scene
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  Speaker 2: 3 The curtain rises to show Alice still asleep in
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  Speaker 2: the armchair. the fire in the grate suffusing her with
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: its glow.
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  Speaker 3: Wake up, Alice. It's time for tea.
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  Speaker 2: Offstage, the characters repeat their most characteristic lines. Off with
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: her head. Consider your verdict. Oh, my fur and whiskers.
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  Speaker 2: The duchess sneezes. The cat cries. As if the characters
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: were fading away into the pack of real playing cards
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: which shower through the.
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  Speaker 14: Mirror all over Alice.
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  Speaker 2: There is music. Alice wakes. rises and looks about in
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: surprise and wonderment.
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  Speaker 4: Why, it was a dream!
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  Speaker 1: Carton End of Act 3 by Alice Gerstenberg