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Alice in Wonderland, Retold in Words of One Syllable - Mrs. J. C. Gorham · Mystery & Suspense Book Collection

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of Alice in Wonderland, retold in words of
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  Speaker 1: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by my Trunk in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Alice in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by J. C. Gorham.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, Down the rabbit Hole. Alice had sat on
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  Speaker 1: the bank by her sister till she was tired. Once
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  Speaker 1: or twice she had looked at the book her sister
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  Speaker 1: held in her hand, But there were no pictures in it.
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  Speaker 1: And what is the use of a book, thought Alice
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  Speaker 1: without pictures? She asked herself as well as she could,
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  Speaker 1: for the hot day made her feel quite dull. If
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  Speaker 1: it would be worth while to get up and pick
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  Speaker 1: some daisies to make a chain. Just then, a white
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  Speaker 1: rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. That was
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  Speaker 1: not such a strange thing, nor did Alice think it
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  Speaker 1: so much out of the way to hear the rabbit say,
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  Speaker 1: oh dear, oh dear, I shall be late. But when
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit took a watch out of its pocket and
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  Speaker 1: looked at it and then ran on. Alice started to
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  Speaker 1: her feet, for she knew that was the first time
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  Speaker 1: she had seen a rabbit with a watch. She jumped
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  Speaker 1: up and ran to get a look at it, and
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  Speaker 1: was just in time to see it pop down a
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  Speaker 1: large rabbit hole near the hedge. As fast as she
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  Speaker 1: could go, Alice went down the hole after it, and
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  Speaker 1: did not once stop to think how in the world
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  Speaker 1: she was to get out. The hole went straight on
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  Speaker 1: for some way and then turned down with a sharp bend,
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  Speaker 1: so sharp that Alice had no time to think to
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  Speaker 1: stop till she found herself falling in what seemed a
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  Speaker 1: deep well. She must not have moved fast, or the
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  Speaker 1: well must have been quite deep, for it took her
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  Speaker 1: a long time to go down, and as she went
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  Speaker 1: she had time to look at the strange things she passed. First,
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  Speaker 1: she tried to look down and make out what was there,
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  Speaker 1: but it was too dark to see. Then she looked
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  Speaker 1: at the sides of the well and saw they were
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  Speaker 1: piled with book shelves. Here and there she saw maps
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  Speaker 1: hung on pegs. She took down a jar from one
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  Speaker 1: of the shelves as she passed on. It was the
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  Speaker 1: word jam, but there was no jam in it, so
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  Speaker 1: she put it back on one of the shelves as
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  Speaker 1: she fell past it. Well, thought Alice to herself, after
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  Speaker 1: such a fall as this, I shall not mind a
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  Speaker 1: fall downstairs at all. How brave they all think me
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  Speaker 1: at home? Why I wouldn't say a thing if I
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  Speaker 1: fell off the top of the house, which I dare
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  Speaker 1: say was quite true? Down down, down? Would the fall
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  Speaker 1: never come to an end? I should like to know?
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  Speaker 2: She said?
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  Speaker 1: How far I have come by this time? Wouldn't it
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  Speaker 1: be strange if I should fall right through the earth
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  Speaker 1: and come out where folks walk with their feet up
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  Speaker 1: and their heads down? Down, down down. Dinah will miss
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  Speaker 1: me tonight, Alice went on, Dinah was the cat. I
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  Speaker 1: hope they'll think to give her her milk at tea time. Dinah,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, I wish you were down here with me.
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  Speaker 1: There were no mice in the air, but you might
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  Speaker 1: catch a bat, and that's much like a mouse, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But do cats eat bats? And here Alice must have
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  Speaker 1: gone to sleep, for she dreamed that she walked hand
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  Speaker 1: in hand with Dinah, and just as she asked her, now, Dinah,
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  Speaker 1: tell me the truth. Do you eat bats? All at once,
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  Speaker 1: thomb thomb, down. She came on a heap of sticks
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  Speaker 1: and dry leaf eaves, and the long fall was over.
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  Speaker 1: Alice was not a bit hurt, but at once jumped
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  Speaker 1: to her feet. She looked up, but all was dark.
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  Speaker 1: There at the end of a long hall in front
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  Speaker 1: of her, the white rabbit was still in sight. There
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  Speaker 1: was no time to be lost, so off Alice went
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  Speaker 1: like the wind, and were just in time to hear
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  Speaker 1: it say, oh, my Eves, how late it is. Then
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  Speaker 1: it was out of sight. She found she was in
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  Speaker 1: the long hall, with a low roof from which hung
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  Speaker 1: a row of lighted lamps. There were doors on all sides,
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  Speaker 1: but when Alice had been all around and tried each one,
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  Speaker 1: she found they were all locked. She walked back and
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  Speaker 1: forth and tried to think how she was to get out.
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  Speaker 1: At last she came to a stand made all of glass.
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  Speaker 1: On it was the tiny key of gold, and Alice's
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  Speaker 1: first thought was that this might be a key to
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  Speaker 1: one of the doors of the hall. But when she
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  Speaker 1: had tried the key in each lock, she found the
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  Speaker 1: lock were too large, or the key was too small.
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  Speaker 1: It did not fit one of them. But when she
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  Speaker 1: went round the hall once more. She came to a
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  Speaker 1: low curtain which she had not seen at first, and
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  Speaker 1: when she drew it back, she found a small door,
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  Speaker 1: not much more than a foot high. She tried the
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  Speaker 1: key in the lock, and to her great joy it fitted.
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  Speaker 1: Alice found that the door led to a hall the
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  Speaker 1: size of a rat hole. She knelt down and looked
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  Speaker 1: through it into a garden of gay flowers. How she
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  Speaker 1: longed to get out of that dark hall and nea
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  Speaker 1: those bright blooms, But she could not so much as
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  Speaker 1: to get her head through the door. And if my
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  Speaker 1: head would go through, thought Alice, it would be of
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  Speaker 1: no use, for the rest of me would still be
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  Speaker 1: too large to go through. Oh, how I wish I
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  Speaker 1: could shut up small. I think I could if I
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  Speaker 1: knew how to start. There seemed to be no use
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  Speaker 1: to wait by the small door, so she went back
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  Speaker 1: to the stand with the hope that she might find
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  Speaker 1: a key to one of the large doors, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: a book of rules that would teach her to grow small.
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  Speaker 1: This time she found a small bottle on it, which
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  Speaker 1: I am sure was not here just now, said Alice,
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  Speaker 1: And tied round the neck of the bottle was a
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  Speaker 1: tag with the words drink me printed on it. That
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  Speaker 1: was all right to say, drink me, but Alice was
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  Speaker 1: too wise to do that in haste. No, I look first,
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  Speaker 1: she said, and see if it's marked poison or not,
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  Speaker 1: For she had been taught if you drink much from
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  Speaker 1: a bottle marked poison, it is sure to make you sick.
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  Speaker 1: This had no such mark on it, so she dared
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  Speaker 1: to taste it, and as she found it nice, it
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  Speaker 1: had in fact a taste of pie, ice cream, roast,
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  Speaker 1: foul and hot toast. She soon drank it off. How
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  Speaker 1: strange I feel, said Alice. I'm sure I'm not so
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  Speaker 1: large as I was, And so it was. She was
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  Speaker 1: now not quite a foot high, and her face lighted
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  Speaker 1: up at the thought. But she was now the right
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  Speaker 1: size to go through the small door and get out
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  Speaker 1: to that lovely garden. Poor Alice. When she reached the door,
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  Speaker 1: she found that she had left the key on the stand,
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  Speaker 1: and when she went back for it, she found she
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  Speaker 1: could by no means reach it. She could see it
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  Speaker 1: through the glass, and she tried her best to climb
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  Speaker 1: one of the legs of the stand, but it were
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  Speaker 1: too slick, and when she was quite tired out, she
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  Speaker 1: sat down and cried. Come, there's no use to cry
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  Speaker 1: like that. Alice said to herself, as stern as she
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  Speaker 1: could speak, I tell you to leave off that Once.
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  Speaker 1: Soon her eyes fell on a small glass box that
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  Speaker 1: lay on the floor. She looked in it and found
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  Speaker 1: a tiny cake, on which were the words eat me
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  Speaker 1: marked in grapes. Well, I'll eat it, said Alice. And
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  Speaker 1: if it makes me grow tall, I can reach the key.
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  Speaker 1: And if it makes me shrink up, I can creep
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  Speaker 1: under the door. So I get out some way. So
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  Speaker 1: she set to work, and soon ate all the cake.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter one. Recording by my Trunk in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter two of Alice in Wonderland retold in words of
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  Speaker 3: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 3: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 3: please visit LibriVox dot org. Alice in Wonderland retold in
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  Speaker 3: words of one syllable by J. C. Gorham. Chapter two,
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  Speaker 3: the Pool of Tears. How strange, oh my, said Alice,
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  Speaker 3: How tall I am, and all at once too goodbye feet.
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  Speaker 3: When she looked down at her feet, they seemed so
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  Speaker 3: far off. She thought they would soon be out of sight.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my poor feet. Who will put on your shoes
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  Speaker 3: for you?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 3: DearS, I'm sure I shan't do it. I shall be
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  Speaker 3: a great deal too far off to take care of you.
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  Speaker 3: You must get on the best way you can. But
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  Speaker 3: I must be kind to them, thought Alice. Oh, they
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  Speaker 3: won't walk the way I want to go. Let me see.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give them a pair of new shoes each Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: She stopped to think how she would send them. They
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  Speaker 3: must go by the mail, she thought, And how funny
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  Speaker 3: it'll seem to send shoes to one's own feet. How
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  Speaker 3: odd the address will look Alice's right foot esquire hearth
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  Speaker 3: rug near the fire with Alice's love, Oh dear, there's
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  Speaker 3: no sense in all that. Just then her head struck
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  Speaker 3: the roof of the hall. In fact, she was now
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  Speaker 3: more than nine feet high, and she at once took
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  Speaker 3: up the small key and went back to the door.
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  Speaker 3: Poor Alice, it was a as much as she could do.
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  Speaker 3: When she lay down on one side to look through
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  Speaker 3: to the garden with one eye. But to get through
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  Speaker 3: was not to be hoped for. So she sat down
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  Speaker 3: and had a good cry. Shame on you, said, Alice
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  Speaker 3: a great big gul like you. She might well say
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  Speaker 3: this to cry in this way, stop at once, I
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  Speaker 3: tell you. But she went on all the same and
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  Speaker 3: shed tears till there was a large pool all round her,
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  Speaker 3: and which reached half way down the hall. At last
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  Speaker 3: she heard the sound of feet not far off. Then
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  Speaker 3: she dried her eyes in great haste to see who
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  Speaker 3: it was. It was the white rabbit that had come back,
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  Speaker 3: dressed in fine clothes, with a pair of white kid
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  Speaker 3: gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other.
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  Speaker 3: He trotted on in great haste and talked to himself
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  Speaker 3: as he came. Oh, the duchess, the duchess, Oh, won't
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  Speaker 3: she be in a fine rage if I've made her wait?
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  Speaker 3: Alice felt so bad and in so need of help
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  Speaker 3: from some one, that when the rabbit came near, she said,
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  Speaker 3: in a low, timid voice, if you please, sir. The
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  Speaker 3: rabbit started as if shot, dropped the white kid gloves
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  Speaker 3: and the fan, and ran off into the dark as
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  Speaker 3: fast as his two hind feet could take him. Alice
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  Speaker 3: took up the fan and gloves, and as the hall
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  Speaker 3: was quite hot, she fanned herself all the time. She
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  Speaker 3: went on talking, dear, dear, how queer all things are
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  Speaker 3: to day? Could I have been changed in the night?
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  Speaker 3: Let me think? Was I the same when I got
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  Speaker 3: up to day? Seems to me I didn't feel quite
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  Speaker 3: the same. But if I'm not the same, then who
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  Speaker 3: in the world am I? Then she thought of all
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  Speaker 3: the girls she knew that were of her age, to
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  Speaker 3: see if she could have been changed for one of them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm not Ada, she said, for her hair
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  Speaker 3: is in such long curls, and mine doesn't call at all.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm sure I can't be Mabel, for I know
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  Speaker 3: all sorts of things, and she, oh, she knows such
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  Speaker 3: a little. Then she she's she, and I'm I, And oh, dear,
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  Speaker 3: how strange it all is. I'll try if I know
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  Speaker 3: all the things I used to know. Let me see,
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  Speaker 3: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen,
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  Speaker 3: and four time seven is Oh, dear, that is not right.
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  Speaker 3: I must have been changed for Mabel. I'll try if
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  Speaker 3: I know. How doth the little And she placed her
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  Speaker 3: hands on her lap as if she were at school,
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  Speaker 3: and tried to say it, But her voice was hoarse
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  Speaker 3: and strange, and the words did not come. The same
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  Speaker 3: as they used to do. I'm sure those are not
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  Speaker 3: the right words, said poor Alice, and her eyes filled
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  Speaker 3: with tears as she went on, I must be Mabel
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  Speaker 3: after all, and I shall have to go and live
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  Speaker 3: in that poky house and have next to no toys
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  Speaker 3: to play with, and oh, such hard things to learn. No,
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  Speaker 3: I've made up my mind. If I'm Mabel, I'll stay
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  Speaker 3: down here. It'll be no use for them to put
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  Speaker 3: their heads down and say come on up, dear. I
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  Speaker 3: shall look up and say who am I? Then tell
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  Speaker 3: me that fast, and then if I like it, I'll
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  Speaker 3: come up. If not, I'll stay down here till I'm
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  Speaker 3: some one else. But oh, dear, cried Alice, with a
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  Speaker 3: fresh burst of tears. I do wish they would put
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  Speaker 3: their heads down. I am so tired of this place.
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  Speaker 3: As she said this, she looked down at her hands
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  Speaker 3: and saw that she had put on one of the
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  Speaker 3: rabbit's white kid gloves while she was talking. How can
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  Speaker 3: I have done that? She thought? I must have grown
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  Speaker 3: small once more. She got up and went to the
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  Speaker 3: glass stand to test her height by that and found
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  Speaker 3: that as well as she could guess, she was now
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  Speaker 3: not more than two feet high and still shrinking quite fast.
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  Speaker 3: She soon found out that the cause of this was
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  Speaker 3: the fan she held, and she dropped it at once,
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  Speaker 3: or she might have shrunk the size of a gnat.
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  Speaker 3: Alice was at first in a sad fright at the
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  Speaker 3: quick change, but glad that it was no worse now
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  Speaker 3: for the gods, and she ran with all her speed
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  Speaker 3: back to the small door. But oh dear, the door
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  Speaker 3: was shut, and the key lay on the glass stand.
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  Speaker 3: And things are worse than ever, thought the poor child.
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  Speaker 3: For I never was so small as this.
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 3: It's too bad that it is. As she said these words,
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  Speaker 3: her foot slipped, and splash, she was up to her
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  Speaker 3: chin in salt water. At first she thought she must
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  Speaker 3: be in the sea, but she soon made out that
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  Speaker 3: she was in the pool of tears, which she had
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  Speaker 3: wept when she was nine feet high. I wish I
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  Speaker 3: hadn't cried so much, said Alice, as she swam round
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  Speaker 3: and tried to find her way out. I shall now
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  Speaker 3: be drowned in my own tears. That will be a
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  Speaker 3: queer thing, to be sure. But all things are queer
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  Speaker 3: to day. Just then she heard a splash in the
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  Speaker 3: pool a little way off, and she swam near to
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  Speaker 3: make out what it was. At first she thought it
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  Speaker 3: must be a wail, but when she thought how small
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  Speaker 3: she was now, she soon made out that it was
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  Speaker 3: a mouse that had slipped in the pond. Would it
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  Speaker 3: be of any use now to speak to this mouse?
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  Speaker 3: All things are so out of way down here. I
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  Speaker 3: should think maybe it can talk. At least there's no
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  Speaker 3: harm to try. So she said, Oh mouse, do you
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  Speaker 3: know the way out of this pool? I have swum
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  Speaker 3: here till I'm quite tired. Oh mouse. The mouse looked
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  Speaker 3: at her and seemed to her to wink with one
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  Speaker 3: of its small eyes, but it did not speak. It
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  Speaker 3: may be a French mouse, thought Alice. So she said, Oho,
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  Speaker 3: eh ma shat, where is my cat? Which was all
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  Speaker 3: the French she could think of. Just then the mouse
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  Speaker 3: gave a quick leap out of the water and seemed
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  Speaker 3: in a great fright. Oh I beg your pardon, cried Alice.
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  Speaker 3: I quite forgot you didn't like cats. Not like cats,
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  Speaker 3: cried the mouse in a shrill, harsh voice. Would you
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  Speaker 3: like cats if you were me? Well, I guess not,
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  Speaker 3: said Alice. But please don't get mad. And yet I
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  Speaker 3: wish I could show you our cat, Dina. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: you'd like cats if you could see her. She is
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  Speaker 3: such a dear thing, Alice went on, half to herself,
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  Speaker 3: as she swam round in the pool. And she sits
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  Speaker 3: and purs by the fire and licks her paws and
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  Speaker 3: washes her face. And she is such a nice soft
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  Speaker 3: thing to nurse, and she's a fine one to catch mice. Oh, oh, dear,
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  Speaker 3: cried Alice. For this time the mouse was in a
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  Speaker 3: great fright, and each chair stood on end. We won't
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  Speaker 3: talk of her if you don't like it, we talk,
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  Speaker 3: cried the mouse, who shook down to the end of
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  Speaker 3: his tail. As if I would talk of such low,
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  Speaker 3: mean things as cats. All rats hate them. Don't let
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  Speaker 3: me hear the name again, I won't, said Alice, in
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  Speaker 3: great haste to change the theme. A A are you
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  Speaker 3: fond of dogs? The mouse did not speak, so Alice
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  Speaker 3: went on, there is such a nice dog near our house.
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  Speaker 3: I should like to show you a tiny, bright eyed dog,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with oh such long curly brown hair. And
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  Speaker 3: it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit
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  Speaker 3: up and beg for its meat and do all sorts
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  Speaker 3: of things. I can't tell you half of them, and
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  Speaker 3: it kills all the rats. And oh, dear, cried Alice
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  Speaker 3: in a sad tone, I've made it mad again. For
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  Speaker 3: the mouse swam off from her as fast as it
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  Speaker 3: could go, and made quite a stir in the pool
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  Speaker 3: as it went. So she called it in a soft,
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  Speaker 3: kind voice, Mouse, dear, do come back, and we won't
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  Speaker 3: talk of cats or dogs if you don't like them.
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  Speaker 3: When the mouse heard this, it turned round and swam
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  Speaker 3: back to her. Its face was quite pale with rage.
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  Speaker 3: Alice thought, and it said, in a low, weak voice,
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  Speaker 3: let us get to the shore, and then I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you why it is I hate cats and dogs. It
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  Speaker 3: was high time to go, for the pool was by
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  Speaker 3: this time I'm quite crowded with the birds and the
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  Speaker 3: beasts that had slipped into it. Alice led the way,
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  Speaker 3: and they all swam to the shore. End of chapter two.
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  Speaker 3: Recording by Shelby Lyon.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter three of Alice in Wonderland retold in words of
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  Speaker 5: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 5: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 5: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Chris molland Alice
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  Speaker 5: in Wonderland, retold in words of one syllable by J. C. Gorham,
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  Speaker 5: Chapter three, a race. They were a queer looking crowd
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  Speaker 5: as they stood or sat on the bank. The wings
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  Speaker 5: and tails of the birds drooped to the earth, the
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  Speaker 5: fur of the beasts clung close to them, and all
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  Speaker 5: were as wet and cross as could be. The first thought,
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  Speaker 5: of course, was how to get dry. Theyt'll long talk
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  Speaker 5: about this, and Alice joined with them as if she
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  Speaker 5: had known them all her life. But it was hard
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  Speaker 5: to tell what was best. What I want to say
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  Speaker 5: at last, spoke of the Dodo, is that the best
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  Speaker 5: thing to get us dry would be a race. What
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  Speaker 5: kind of race? Asked Alice, not that she much wanted
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  Speaker 5: to know. But the Dodo had paused, as if it
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  Speaker 5: thought that some one ought to speak, and no one
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  Speaker 5: else would say a word. Why, said the Dodo, The
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  Speaker 5: best way to make it plain is to do it.
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  Speaker 5: And as you might like to try the same thing
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  Speaker 5: on a cold day, I'll tell you how the Dodo
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  Speaker 5: did it. First it marked out a race course in
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  Speaker 5: a sort of ring, and didn't much care for the shape.
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  Speaker 5: And then all the crowd was placed on the course
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  Speaker 5: here and there there was no one, two, three, and
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  Speaker 5: here we go. But they ran when they liked and
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  Speaker 5: left off when they liked, so that no one could
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  Speaker 5: tell when the race was ended. When they had been
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  Speaker 5: running half an hour or so and were all quite dry,
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  Speaker 5: the dodo called out, who race is over? And they
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  Speaker 5: all crowded round it and asked, but who has won.
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  Speaker 6: This?
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  Speaker 5: The dodo could not at first tell, but sat for
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  Speaker 5: a long time with one claw pressed to its head
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  Speaker 5: while the rest waited, but did not speak. At last,
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  Speaker 5: the Dodo said, all have one, and each must have
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  Speaker 5: a prize. But who is to give them? All asked
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  Speaker 5: at once Why she, of course, said the dodo, as
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  Speaker 5: it pointed to Alice with one long claw, and the
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  Speaker 5: whole party at once crowded round her as they called
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  Speaker 5: out a prize, a prize. Alice did not know what
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  Speaker 5: to do, but she pulled from her pocket a box
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  Speaker 5: of little cakes, by a strange good luck, they did
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  Speaker 5: not get wet while she was in the pool, and
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  Speaker 5: handed them round his prizes. There was one a piece
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  Speaker 5: all around. But she must have a prize, you know,
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  Speaker 5: said the mouse. Of course, the Dodo said what else
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  Speaker 5: have you got? He went on. As he turned to
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  Speaker 5: Alice a thimble, said Alice, looking quite sad, hann'd it here.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Then they all crowded round her once more, while the
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  Speaker 5: Dodo handed the thimble back to Alice and said, we
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  Speaker 5: beg that you accept this fine thimble. And when it
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: had made the short speech, they all cheered. Alice thought
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  Speaker 5: the whole thing quite foolish, but they all looked so
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  Speaker 5: grave that she did not dare to laugh, And as
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  Speaker 5: she could not think what to say, she bowed and
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  Speaker 5: took the thimble while she looked as staid as she could.
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  Speaker 5: The next thing was to eat the cakes. This caused
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  Speaker 5: some noise, as the large birds said that they could
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  Speaker 5: not taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had
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  Speaker 5: to be patted on the back. It was over at last,
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  Speaker 5: and they sat down in a ring and begged the
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  Speaker 5: mouse to tell them a tale. You said you would
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  Speaker 5: tell us why you hate cats and dogs, said Alice.
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  Speaker 5: Mine is a long and sad tale, said the mouse,
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  Speaker 5: as it turned to Alice with a sigh. It is
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  Speaker 5: a long tail, I'm sure, said Alice, looking down at
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  Speaker 5: the mouse's tail, But why do you call it sad?
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  Speaker 5: I shall not tell you said the mouse, as it
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  Speaker 5: got up and walked off. Please come back and tell
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  Speaker 5: us your tale, called Alice, and all joined in, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: please do. But the mouse shook its head and walked
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  Speaker 5: on and was soon out of sight. I wish I
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  Speaker 5: had our Dinah here, I know I do, said Alice.
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  Speaker 5: She'd soon fetch it back.
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  Speaker 7: And who is dine?
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  Speaker 5: If I may dare ask such a thing, said one
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  Speaker 5: of the birds. Alice was glad to talk of her pet.
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  Speaker 5: Dinah's our cat, and she's such a fine one to
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  Speaker 5: catch mice, you can't think. And oh, I wish you
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  Speaker 5: could see her chasse a bird, while she'll eat a
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  Speaker 5: bird as soon as look at it. This speech caused
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  Speaker 5: a great stir in the party. Some of the birds
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: rushed off at once. One old j wrapped itself up
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  Speaker 5: with care and said, I must get home. The noughtia
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  Speaker 5: doesn't suit my throat, and a wren called out to
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  Speaker 5: her brood. Come my DearS, it's high time you were
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  Speaker 5: all in bed. Soon they all moved off, and Alice
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  Speaker 5: was left alone. I wish I hadn't told them mac Dinah,
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  Speaker 5: she said to herself. No one seems to like her
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  Speaker 5: down here, and I'm sure she's the best cat in
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  Speaker 5: the world. Oh, my dear Dinah, shall I ever see
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  Speaker 5: you any more? And hear Poor Alice burst into tears,
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  Speaker 5: for she felt very sad and lonely. In a short time,
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: she heard the patter of feet, and she looked up
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  Speaker 5: with the hope that the mouse had changed its mind
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  Speaker 5: and come back to tell his long sad tale. End
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  Speaker 5: of chapter three. Recording by Chris Mourned.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Chapter four of Alice in Wonderland retold in words of
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  Speaker 1: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Mike Trong in Houston, Texas.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Alice in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by J. C. Gorham.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter four, the rabbit sends in a bill. It was
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the white rabbit who trotted back again. It looked from
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: side to side as it went, as if it had
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: lost something, and Alice heard it say to itself, the duchess,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the duchess, oh, my dear, pause should get my head
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: cut off? As sure as rats are rats, where can
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I have lost them? Alice guessed at once that he
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: was in search of the fan and a pair of
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: white kid gloves, and like the good girl that she was,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: she set out to hunt for them, but they were
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: not to be found. All things seems to have changed
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: since her swim in the pool. The great hall, with
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the glass stand, and the little door all were gone.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Soon the rabbit saw Alice and called out to her, Why, Anne,
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  Speaker 1: what are you out here for? Run home at once
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  Speaker 1: and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan
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  Speaker 1: quick now. And Alice was in such a fright that
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  Speaker 1: she ran off and did not wait to tell it
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  Speaker 1: who she was. He took me for his housemaid, She
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: said to herself as she ran, What will he think
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: when he finds out who I am? But I must
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: take him his fan and gloves, that is, if I
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  Speaker 1: can find them. As she said this, she came to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a small, neat house, on the door of which was
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a bright brass plate with the name W Rabbit on it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: She ran upstairs in great fear lest she should meet
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  Speaker 1: Anne and be turned out of the house before she
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: had found the fan and gloves. How queer it seems
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: that I should do things for a rabbit. I guess
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  Speaker 1: Dinah will send me to wait for her next. By
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: this time she had made her way to a tidy
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  Speaker 1: room with a table near the wall, and on it,
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  Speaker 1: as she had hoped, a fan and two or three
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  Speaker 1: pairs of small white kid gloves. She took up the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: fan and a pair of gloves and turned to leave
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the room when her eye fell upon a small bottle
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that stood near There was no tag this time with
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the words drink me, but Alice put it to her lips.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I know I'm sure to change in some way if
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I eat or drink anything, so I just see what
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  Speaker 1: this does. I do hope I'll make me grow large again,
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  Speaker 1: for I'm quite tired of this size, Alice said to herself.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: It did as she had wished for in a short time,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: her head pressed the roof so hard she couldn't stand
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  Speaker 1: up straight. She put the bottle down in haste and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: said that as much as I need, I hope I
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: shouldn't grow any more. As it is, I cannot get
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: out at the door. I do wish I hadn't drunk
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  Speaker 1: so much, but it was too late to wish that.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: She grew and grew till she had to kneel down
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  Speaker 1: on the floor. Next there was not room for this,
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  Speaker 1: and she had to lie down.
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  Speaker 4: Still.
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  Speaker 1: She grew and grew and grew, till she had to
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  Speaker 1: put one arm out the window and one foot up
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  Speaker 1: the chimney, and said to herself, now I can do
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  Speaker 1: no more. Let come what may. There seemed no sort
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  Speaker 1: of chance that she could ever get out of the room.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I wish I was at home, thought poor Alice, where
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  Speaker 1: I would not change so much, and where I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to do things for mice and rabbits. I wish
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't gone down that rabbit hole. And yet, and
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  Speaker 1: yet it's queer, you know, this sort of life. When
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  Speaker 1: I used to read fairy tales, I thought they were
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  Speaker 1: just made up by someone. And now here I am
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  Speaker 1: in one myself. When I grow up, I will write
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  Speaker 1: a book about these strange things. But I am grown
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  Speaker 1: up now, she added in a sad tone. At least
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  Speaker 1: there's no room to grow any more. Here. She heard
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  Speaker 1: a voice outside and stopped to listen. Anne Anne said
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  Speaker 1: the voice, fetch me my gloves quick. Then came the
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  Speaker 1: sound of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit, and that it had come to look for her.
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  Speaker 1: She quaked with fear till she shook the house. Poor thing.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't think that she was now more than ten
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  Speaker 1: times as large as the rabbit, and that she had
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  Speaker 1: no cause to be afraid of it. Soon the rabbit
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  Speaker 1: came to the door and tried to come in, but
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  Speaker 1: Alice's arm pressed it so hard the door would not move.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Alice heard it say, then I go round and get
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  Speaker 1: in at the window that you thought, Alice. Then she
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: waited till she heard the rabbit quite near the window.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Then spread out her hand and made a snatch in
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  Speaker 1: the air. She did not get hold of it, but
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  Speaker 1: she heard her shriek and a fall. Next came an
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  Speaker 1: angry voice the rabbits, Pat, Pat, where are you? And
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: then a voice which was new to her. Sure, then,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here digging for apples, your honor, digging for apples, indeed,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: said the rabbit. Here, come and help me out o this.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window. Sure
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: it's in arm, yo, honor, an arm, you goose? Who
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  Speaker 1: ever saw one that size? Why it feels the whole window?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Sure it does, your honor, But it's an arm for
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: all that well, it has no right there go and
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  Speaker 1: take it out. For a long time they seemed to
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  Speaker 1: stand still. But now and then Alice would hear a
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  Speaker 1: few words in a low voice, such as, sure, I
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  Speaker 1: don't like it your honor at all at all? Dos
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  Speaker 1: as I tell you, you coward? And at last she spread
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  Speaker 1: out her hand and made a snatch in the air.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: This time there were two little streaks. I should like
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  Speaker 1: to know what they'll do next. As to their threats
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  Speaker 1: to pull me out, I only wish they could. I'm
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: sure I don't want to stay in here. She waited
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: for some time, but all was still. At last came
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the noise of small cart wheels and the sound of voices,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: from which she made out the words, here's the other ladder.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Why I hadn't to bring but one Bill's got the other? Bill,
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  Speaker 1: fetch it ere lad here? Put them up at this place. No,
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  Speaker 1: tie them first. They don't reach half as high as
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: they should. Yet, Oh they'll do here, Bill, catch hold
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  Speaker 1: of this rope. Would the roof bear mind that loose slate?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: He had comes? Look out a loud crash. Now who
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  Speaker 1: did that?
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  Speaker 6: It was?
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  Speaker 1: Bill? I guess who's to go down the chimney? Nay,
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  Speaker 1: I shan'n't you do it? An that I won't. Then
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  Speaker 1: Bill's got to go down here, Bill, you got to
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  Speaker 1: go down the chimney. Oh so Bill's got to come down?
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  Speaker 1: Has he? Said Alice to herself. Why they seemed to
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  Speaker 1: put all the work on Bill. I wouldn't be in
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  Speaker 1: Bill's place for a good deal. This fireplace is small,
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  Speaker 1: to be sure, but I think I can kick some.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: She drew her foot as far down as she could
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and waited till she heard a small beast come scratch
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  Speaker 1: scratch down the chimney, quite close to her. Then she
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  Speaker 1: said to herself, and this is Bill. Gave on sharp
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  Speaker 1: kick and waited to see what would happen next. The
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  Speaker 1: first thing she heard was there goes Bill. Then the
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  Speaker 1: rabbit's voice catch him, you by the hedge? Then all
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  Speaker 1: was still. Then the voices hold up his head? Why
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: now don't choke him? How is it, old fella? What
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: sent you up so fast? Tell us all about it?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Last came a weak voice. That's Bill, thought Alice. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know no more. Thank you. I'm not so
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  Speaker 1: weak now, but I am a deal too shocked to
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  Speaker 1: tell you. All I know is a thing comes at me.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Like a jack in the box, and up I goes
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  Speaker 1: like a rocket. So you did, old fella, said the others.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We must burn the house down, said the rabbit's voice,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and Alice called out as loud as she could. If
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you do, I'll set Dinah at you. At once all
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: was still as death, and Alice thought, what will they
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  Speaker 1: do next? If they had any sense, they take the
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  Speaker 1: roof off. Then she heard the rabbits say one load
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  Speaker 1: will do to start with a load of what? Thought Alice.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: But she had not long to doubt, for soon a
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: shower of small stones came in at the window, and
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  Speaker 1: some of them hit her in the face. I put
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  Speaker 1: a stop to this, she said to herself, and shouted
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  Speaker 1: out you stop that. At once again all was still
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: as death. Alice saw that the stones all changed to
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: small cakes as they lay on the floor, and a
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: bright thought came to her. If I eat one of
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: these cakes, she said, it is sure to make some
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: change in my size, and as it cannot make me larger,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I hope it will change me to the size I
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: used to be. So she ate one of the cakes
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and was glad to see that she shrank quite fast.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: She was soon so small that she could get through
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the door. So she ran out of the house and
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: found quite a crowd of beasts and birds in the yard.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: The poor Lizabel was in the midst of the group,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: held up by two guinea pigs who gave it something
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  Speaker 1: to drink out of a bottle. They all made a
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: rush at Alice as soon as she came out, but
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: she ran off as hard as she could and was
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  Speaker 1: soon save in a thick wood. The first thing I've
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: got to do, said Alice to herself, as she walked
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: round in the wood, is to grow to my right
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: size again. And the next thing is to find my
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: way to that lovely garden. I think that will be
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  Speaker 1: the best plan. It was a fine scheme, no doubt,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and well planned, but the hard thing was that she
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: did not in the least know how she should start
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: to work it out. And while she peered round through
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the trees, a sharp bark just over her head made
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: her look up in great haste. A great puppy looked
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: down at her with large round eyes. Stretch out one
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: paw and try to touch her poor thing, said Alice
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: in a kind tone, and try hard to show it
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: that she wished to be its friend, but she was
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: in a sore fright lest it should eat her up.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Alice could not think what to do next, so she
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: picked up a bit of stick and held it out
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: to the puppy. It jumped from the tree with a
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: yelp of joy, as if to play with it. Then
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Alice dodged round a large plant that stood near, but
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the puppy soon found her and made a rush at
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the stick again, but tumbled head over heels in its
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: haste to get hold of it. Alice felt that it
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: was quite like a game with a cart horse, and
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: looked at each turn to be crushed neath its great feet.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: At last, to her joy, it seemed to grow tired
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: of the sport and ran a good way off and
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: sat down, with its tongue out of its mouth and
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: its big eyes half shut. This seemed to Alice a
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: good time to get out of its sight, so she
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: set out at once and ran till she was quite
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: tired and out of breath, until the puppy's bark sounded
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: quite faint. And yet what a dear puppy it was,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: said Alice, as she stopped to rest and fanned herself
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  Speaker 1: with a leaf. I should have liked so much to
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: teach it tricks. If I bend the right size to
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: do it. Oh, dear, I got to grow up again.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Let me see how am I to do it. I
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: guess I ought to eat or drink something, but I
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: don't know what. Alice looked round her at the blades
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: of grass, the blooms, the leaves, but could not see
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: a thing that looked like the right thing to eat
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: or drink to make her grow. There was a large
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: mushroom near her, about the same height as she was,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and when she had looked all around it, she thought
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: she might as well look and see what was on
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: top of it. She stretched up as tall as she could,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and her eyes met those of a large blue caterpillar
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: that set on the top with its arms folded, smoking
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a queer pipe with a long stem that bent and
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: curved round it like a hoop. N of Chapter four
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: recording by Mike Tron in Houston, Texas.
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: Chapter five of Alice in Wonderland retold in words of
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  Speaker 8: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 8: dot com. Alice in Wonderland retold in words of one
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  Speaker 8: syllable by J. C. Gorham. Chapter five, A caterpillar tells
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  Speaker 8: Alice what to do. The caterpillar looked at Alice, and
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  Speaker 8: she stared at it, but did not speak. At last,
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  Speaker 8: it took the pipe from its mouth and said, who
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  Speaker 8: are you? Alice said, I'm not sure, sir, who I am.
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  Speaker 8: Just now. I know who I was when I left home,
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  Speaker 8: but I think I have been changed two or three
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  Speaker 8: times since then. What do you mean by that, asked
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  Speaker 8: the caterpillar. I fear I can't tell you, for I'm
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  Speaker 8: sure I don't know myself. But to change so many times,
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  Speaker 8: all in one day makes one's head swim, it doesn't,
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  Speaker 8: said the caterpillar. Well maybe you haven't found it so yet,
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  Speaker 8: said Alice. But when you have to change, you will
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  Speaker 8: some day.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 8: I should think you'd feel it queer, won't you?
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  Speaker 2: Not a bit?
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  Speaker 8: Said the caterpillar. Well you may not feel as I do,
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  Speaker 8: said Alice. All I know is it feels queer to
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  Speaker 8: me to change so much. You, said the caterpillar, with
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  Speaker 8: its nose.
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  Speaker 2: In the air.
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  Speaker 8: Who are you, which brought them back to the point
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  Speaker 8: from which they started. Alice was not pleased at this,
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  Speaker 8: so she said, in a stern a voice as she could,
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  Speaker 8: I think you ought to tell me who you are first? Why,
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  Speaker 8: said the caterpillar. As Alice could not think what to
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  Speaker 8: say to this, and as it did not seem to
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  Speaker 8: want to talk, she turned away. Come back, said the caterpillar.
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  Speaker 8: I have something to say to you. Alice turned and
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  Speaker 8: came back. Keep your temper, said the caterpillar. Is that all,
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  Speaker 8: asked Alice, while she hid her anger as well as
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  Speaker 8: she could. No, said the caterpillar. Alice waited what seemed
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  Speaker 8: to her a long time while it sat and smoked,
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  Speaker 8: but did not speak. At last, it took the pipe
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  Speaker 8: from its mouth and said, so you think you're changed,
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  Speaker 8: do you? I fear I am, sir, said Alice. I
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  Speaker 8: don't know things as I once did, and I don't
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  Speaker 8: keep the same size, but a short while at a time.
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  Speaker 8: What things is it? You don't know? Well? I've tried
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  Speaker 8: to say the things I knew at school, but the
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  Speaker 8: words all came wrong. Let me hear you say you
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  Speaker 8: are old, father William the caterpillar. Alice folded her hands
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  Speaker 8: and began. You are old, father William, the young man said,
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  Speaker 8: and your hair has become very white, and yet you
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  Speaker 8: stand all the time on your head. Do you think
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  Speaker 8: at your age? It is right? In my youth? Father
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  Speaker 8: William then said to his son, I feared it might
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  Speaker 8: injure the brain, But now that I know full well
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  Speaker 8: I have none. Why I do it again? And again?
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  Speaker 8: You are old, said the youth. Shall I tell you
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  Speaker 8: once more? And are now quite as large as a ton?
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  Speaker 8: Yet you turned the back Somerset in at the door.
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  Speaker 8: Pray tell me now, how was that done? In my youth?
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  Speaker 8: Said this age, as he shook his gray locks. I
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  Speaker 8: kept all my limbs very supple by the use of
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  Speaker 8: this ointment one shilling the box. Allow me to sell
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  Speaker 8: you a couple. You are old, said the youth, And
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  Speaker 8: your jaws are too weak for anything tougher than suet.
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  Speaker 8: Yet you ate up the goose with the bones and
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  Speaker 8: the beak. Pray, how did you manage to do it?
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  Speaker 8: In my youth, said his father. I took to the
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  Speaker 8: law and argued each case with my wife, and the
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  Speaker 8: very great strength which it gave to my jaw has
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  Speaker 8: lasted the rest of my life. You are old, said
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  Speaker 8: the youth. One would hardly suppose that your eye was
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  Speaker 8: as steady as ever. Yet you balance an eel on
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  Speaker 8: the end of your nose. What makes you always so clever?
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  Speaker 8: I have replied to three questions, and that is enough,
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  Speaker 8: said the father. Don't give yourself airs. Do you think
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  Speaker 8: I can listen all days to such stuff? Be off,
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  Speaker 8: or I'll kick you downstairs. That is not said, right,
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  Speaker 8: said the caterpillar. Not quite right, I fear, said Alice.
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  Speaker 8: Some of the words are changed. It is wrong from
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  Speaker 8: first to last, said the caterpillar, then did not speak
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  Speaker 8: for some time. At last it said, what size do
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  Speaker 8: you want to be?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: I don't care so much as your size, But one
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  Speaker 8: doesn't like to change so much. You know, I don't
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  Speaker 8: know it, said Alice, was too much vexed to speak,
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  Speaker 8: for she had never in all her life been talked
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  Speaker 8: to in that rude way. Do you like your size now,
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  Speaker 8: asked the caterpillar. Well, I'm not quite so large as
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  Speaker 8: I would like to be, said Alice. Three inches is
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  Speaker 8: such a wretched height to be. It is a good height, indeed,
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  Speaker 8: said the caterpillar, and reared itself straight as it spoke.
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  Speaker 8: It was just three inches high. But I'm not used
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  Speaker 8: to it, pleaded poor Alice. And she thought, I wish
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  Speaker 8: that things wouldn't be so easy to get mad. You'll
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  Speaker 8: get used to it in time, the caterpillar said, and
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  Speaker 8: put the pipe to its mouth, and Alice waited till
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  Speaker 8: it she choose to speak. At last, it took the
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  Speaker 8: pipe from its mouth, yawned once or twice, then got
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  Speaker 8: down from its perch and crawled off in the grass.
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  Speaker 8: As it went, it said, one side will make you tall,
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  Speaker 8: and one side will make you small. One side of
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  Speaker 8: what Alice thought to herself of the mushroom, said the caterpillar,
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  Speaker 8: just as if it had heard her speak. Soon it
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  Speaker 8: was out of sight. Alice stood and looked at the
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  Speaker 8: mushroom a long time and tried to make out which
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  Speaker 8: were the two sides of it as it was round.
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  Speaker 8: She found this a hard thing to do. At last,
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  Speaker 8: she stretched her arms round it as far as they
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  Speaker 8: would go, and broke off a bit of the edge
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  Speaker 8: with each hand. And now which is which, she said
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  Speaker 8: to herself, and ate a small piece of the right
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  Speaker 8: hand bit to try what it would do. The next
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  Speaker 8: moment she felt her chin strike her foot with a
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  Speaker 8: hard blow. She was in a sore fright at this
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  Speaker 8: quick change, but she felt that there was no time
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  Speaker 8: to be lost, as she was shrinking so fast, so
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  Speaker 8: she set to work at once to eat some from
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  Speaker 8: the left hand.
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  Speaker 2: Bit.
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  Speaker 8: Come, my head's free at last, said Alice, with great joy,
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  Speaker 8: which changed to fear when she found that her waist
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  Speaker 8: and hands were nowhere to be seen. All she could
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  Speaker 8: see when she looked down was a vast length of neck,
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  Speaker 8: which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a
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  Speaker 8: sea of green leaves that lay far below her. What
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  Speaker 8: can all that green stuff be, said Alice? And where
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  Speaker 8: has my waist got to? And oh, my poor hands,
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  Speaker 8: how is it I can't see you? She moved them
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  Speaker 8: as she spoke. The green leaves shook as if to
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  Speaker 8: let her know her hands were there, but she could
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  Speaker 8: not see them. As there seemed to be no chance
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  Speaker 8: to get her hands up to her head. She tried
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  Speaker 8: to get her head down to them, and was pleased
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  Speaker 8: to find that her neck would bend about like a
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  Speaker 8: snake just as she had curved it down and meant
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  Speaker 8: to dive in the sea of green, which she found
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  Speaker 8: was the tops of the trees, neath which she had
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  Speaker 8: been walking. A sharp hiss made her drawback in haste.
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  Speaker 8: Arch bird had flown into her face and struck her
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  Speaker 8: with its wings. Snake snake, screamed the bird. I'm not
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  Speaker 8: a snake, said Alice. Let me alone, snake, I say, snake,
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  Speaker 8: cried the bird, then added with a kind of sob.
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  Speaker 8: I've tried always, but I cannot suit them. I don't
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  Speaker 8: know what you mean, said Alice. The bird seemed not
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  Speaker 8: to hear her, but went on, I've tried the roots
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  Speaker 8: of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've tried a hedge.
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  Speaker 8: But those snakes, there's no way to please them, As
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  Speaker 8: if it were not hard work to hatch the eggs.
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  Speaker 8: But I must watch for snakes day and night. Why
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  Speaker 8: I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks.
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  Speaker 8: It's too bad for you to be so much put out,
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  Speaker 8: said Alice, who began to see what it meant. And
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  Speaker 8: just as I had built my nest in this high tree,
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  Speaker 8: the bird went on, raising its voice to a shriek.
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  Speaker 8: And just as I thought I should be free of
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  Speaker 8: them at last, they must needs fall down from the sky. Uugh, snake,
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  Speaker 8: But I'm not a snake. I tell you, said Alice.
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  Speaker 8: I'm a I'm a well what are you? I can
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  Speaker 8: see you will not tell me the truth. I I'm
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  Speaker 8: a little girl, said Alice. So she was not sure
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  Speaker 8: what she was when she thought of all the changes
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  Speaker 8: she had gone through that day. I've seen girls in
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  Speaker 8: my time, but none with such a neck as that,
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  Speaker 8: said the bird. No, no, you're a snake. There's no
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  Speaker 8: use to say you're not. I guess you'll say next
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  Speaker 8: that you don't eat eggs. Of course I eat eggs,
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  Speaker 8: said Alice. But girls eat eggs quite as much as snakes,
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  Speaker 8: do you know? I don't know, said the bird. But
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  Speaker 8: if they do, why then they're a kind of snake.
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  Speaker 8: That's all I can say. This was such a new
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  Speaker 8: thing to Alice that at first she did not speak,
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  Speaker 8: which gave the bird a chance to add, you want eggs, now,
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  Speaker 8: I know that quite well. But I don't want eggs,
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  Speaker 8: and if I did, I should want yours. I don't
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  Speaker 8: like them. Rang well, be off, then, said the bird,
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  Speaker 8: as it sat down in its nest. Alice scratched down
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  Speaker 8: through the trees as well as she could, for her
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  Speaker 8: neck would twist round the boughs. And now and then
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  Speaker 8: she had to stop to get it off. At last,
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  Speaker 8: she thought of the mushroom in her hands, and set
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  Speaker 8: to work with great care to take a small bite,
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  Speaker 8: first from the right hand, then from the left, till
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  Speaker 8: at length she brought herself down to the right size.
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  Speaker 8: It was so long since she had been this height
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  Speaker 8: that it felt quite strange at first, but she soon
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  Speaker 8: got used to it. Come, there's half my plan done now,
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  Speaker 8: she said, How strange all these things are. I'm not
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  Speaker 8: sure one hour what I shall be the next. I'm
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  Speaker 8: glad I'm back to my right side. The next thing
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  Speaker 8: is to get into that garden. How is that to
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  Speaker 8: be done? I should like to know. As she said this,
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  Speaker 8: she saw in front of her a small house not
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  Speaker 8: more than four feet high. Who lives there? Thought Alice,
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  Speaker 8: it'll not do at all to come upon them this size.
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  Speaker 8: Why I should scare them out of their wits. So
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  Speaker 8: she ate some of the right hand bits again, and
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  Speaker 8: did not dare to go near the house till she
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  Speaker 8: had brought herself down to nine inches high. End of
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  Speaker 8: chapter five.
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  Speaker 6: Chapter six of Alice in Wonderland retold in words of
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  Speaker 6: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 6: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 6: please visit LibriVox dot org. Read by Judy Derby Alice
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  Speaker 6: in Wonderland, retold in words of one syllable by J. C. Gorham,
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  Speaker 6: Chapter six, Pig and Pepper. For a while, Alice stood
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  Speaker 6: and looked at the house and tried to think what
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  Speaker 6: to do next. When a footman ran out of the wood.
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  Speaker 6: From the way he was dressed, she took him to
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  Speaker 6: be a footman, though if she had judged by his face,
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  Speaker 6: she would have called him a fish, and knocked at
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  Speaker 6: the door with his fist. A footman with a round
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  Speaker 6: face and large eyes came to the door. Alice wanted
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  Speaker 6: to know what it all meant, so she crept a
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  Speaker 6: short way out of the wood to hear what they said.
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  Speaker 6: The fish footman took from under his arm a great
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  Speaker 6: letter and handed it to the other, and said, in
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  Speaker 6: a grave tone for the Duchess, from the Queen. The
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  Speaker 6: frog footman said in the same grave tone from the
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  Speaker 6: Queen for the Duchess. Then they both bowed so low
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  Speaker 6: that their heads touched each other. All this made Alice
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  Speaker 6: laugh so much that she had to run back to
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  Speaker 6: the wood for fear they would hear her. And when
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  Speaker 6: she next peeped out, the fish footman was gone, and
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  Speaker 6: the other sat on the ground near the door and
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  Speaker 6: stared up at the sky. Alice went up to the
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  Speaker 6: door and knocked. There's no sort of use for you
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  Speaker 6: to knock, said the footman. I'm on the same side
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  Speaker 6: of the door that you are, and there is so
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  Speaker 6: much noise in the room that no one could hear you.
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  Speaker 6: There was indeed a great noise in the house, a
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  Speaker 6: howling and sneezing, with now and then a great crash,
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  Speaker 6: as if a dish or a pot had been broken
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  Speaker 6: to pieces. Please, then, said Alice, how am I to
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  Speaker 6: get in? There might be some sense in your knocking?
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  Speaker 6: The footman went on, if we were not both on
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  Speaker 6: the same side of the door, if you were in
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  Speaker 6: the room, you might knock and I could let you out.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 6: He looked up at the sky all the time he
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  Speaker 6: was speaking, which Alice thought was quite rude. But perhaps
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  Speaker 6: he can't help it, she thought. His eyes are so
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  Speaker 6: near the top of his head still he might tell
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  Speaker 6: me what I ask him. How am I to get in?
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  Speaker 6: She asked, I shall sit here, the footman said, till tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Just then the door of the house flew open, and
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  Speaker 6: a large plate skimmed out straight at his head. It
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  Speaker 6: just grazed his nose and broke on one of the
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  Speaker 6: trees near him, or next day maybe, He went on
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  Speaker 6: in the same tone as if he had not seen
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  Speaker 6: the plate. How am I to get in? Alice asked,
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  Speaker 6: as loud as she could speak. Are you to get
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  Speaker 6: in at all? He said, that's the first thing, you know.
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  Speaker 6: It was no doubt, but Alice didn't like to be told.
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  Speaker 6: So the footman seemed to think this a good time
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  Speaker 6: to say again. I shall sit here on and off
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  Speaker 6: for days and days. But what am I to do?
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  Speaker 6: Said Alice? Do what you like?
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  Speaker 2: He said.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, there's no use to try to talk to him,
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  Speaker 6: said Alice, he has no sense at all. And she
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  Speaker 6: opened the door and went in. The door led right
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  Speaker 6: into a large room that was full of smoke from
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  Speaker 6: end to end. The duchess sat on a stool and
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  Speaker 6: held a child in her arms. The cook stood near
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  Speaker 6: the fire and stirred a large pot which seemed to
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  Speaker 6: be full of soup. There's too much pepper in that soup,
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  Speaker 6: Alice said, to herself as well as she could. For sneezing,
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  Speaker 6: there was too much of it in the air. For
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  Speaker 6: the Duchess sneezed now and then, And as for the child,
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  Speaker 6: it sneezed and howled all the time. A large cat
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  Speaker 6: sat on the hearth, grinning from ear to ear. Please
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  Speaker 6: would you tell me, said Alice, not quite sure that
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  Speaker 6: it was right for her to speak. First, Why your
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  Speaker 6: cat grins like that? It's a Cheshire cat, said the Duchess,
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  Speaker 6: and that's why peg. She said, the last word so
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  Speaker 6: loud that Alice jumped. But she soon saw that the
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  Speaker 6: Duchess spoke to the child and not to her, so
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  Speaker 6: she went on, I didn't know that Cheshire cats grinned.
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  Speaker 6: In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin. They
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  Speaker 6: all can, said.
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  Speaker 5: The Duchess, and most of em do.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know of any that do, Alice said, quite
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  Speaker 6: pleased to have some one to talk with. You don't
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  Speaker 6: know much, said the Duchess, and that's a fact. Alice
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  Speaker 6: did not at all like the tone in which this
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  Speaker 6: was said, and thought it would be as well to
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  Speaker 6: speak of something else. While she tried to think of
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  Speaker 6: what to say, the cook took the pot from the fire,
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  Speaker 6: and at once set to work throwing things of the
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  Speaker 6: duchess and the child. The tongs came first, then pots, pans, plates,
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  Speaker 6: and cups flew thick and fast through the air. The
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  Speaker 6: duchess did not seem to see them even when they
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  Speaker 6: hit her, and the child had howled so loud all
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  Speaker 6: the while that one could not tell if the blows
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  Speaker 6: hearted or not. Oh please, mind what you do, cried Alice,
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  Speaker 6: as she jumped up and down in great fear lest
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  Speaker 6: she should be struck. Hold your tongue, said the duchess.
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  Speaker 6: Then she began a sort of song to the child,
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  Speaker 6: giving it a hard shake at the end of each line.
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  Speaker 6: At the end of the song, she threw the child
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  Speaker 6: at Alice and said, here, you may nurse it a
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  Speaker 6: bit if you like. I must go and get ready
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  Speaker 6: to play croquet with the Queen, and she left the
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  Speaker 6: room in great haste. The cook threw a pan after
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  Speaker 6: her as she went, but it just missed her. Alice
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  Speaker 6: caught the child, which held out its arms and legs
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  Speaker 6: on all sides, just like a starfish. Alice thought. The
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  Speaker 6: poor thing snorted like a steam engine when she caught it,
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  Speaker 6: and turned about so much. It was as much as
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  Speaker 6: she could do at first to hold it. As soon
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  Speaker 6: as she found out the right way to nurse it,
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  Speaker 6: which was to twist it up in a sword. If
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  Speaker 6: not then keep tight hold of its right ear and
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  Speaker 6: left foot, she took it out in the fresh air.
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  Speaker 6: If I don't take this child with me, thought Alice,
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  Speaker 6: they're sure to kill it in a day or two.
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  Speaker 6: Wouldn't it be wrong to leave it here? She said
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  Speaker 6: the last words out loud, and the child grunted. It
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  Speaker 6: had left off sneezing by this time. Don't grunt, said Alice.
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  Speaker 6: That is not at all the right way to do.
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  Speaker 6: The child grunted again, and Alice looked at its face
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  Speaker 6: to see what was wrong with it. There could be
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  Speaker 6: no doubt that it had a turn up nose, much
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  Speaker 6: more like a snout than a child's nose. Its eyes
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  Speaker 6: were quite small too. In fact, she did not like
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  Speaker 6: the look of the thing at all. Perhaps that was
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  Speaker 6: not a grunt but a sob And she looked to
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  Speaker 6: see if there were tears in its eyes. No, there
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: were no tears. If you're going to turn into a pig,
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: my dear, said Alice, I'll have no more to do
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: with you my now, the poor thing sobbed once more
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: or grunted. Alice couldn't say which.
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: What am I to do with this thing when I
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: get it home? Thought Alice. Just then it grunted so
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: loud that she looked down at its face with some fear.
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: This time there could be no doubt about it. It
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: was a pig. So she set it down and felt
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: glad to see it trot off into the wood. As
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: she turned to walk on, she saw the cheshire cat
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: on the bough of a tree a few yards off.
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: The cat grinned when it saw Alice. It looked like
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: a good cat, she thought. Still, it had long claws
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: and large teeth, so she felt she ought to be
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: kind to it. Puss said Alice, would you please tell
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: me which way I ought to walk from here? That
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: depends a good deal on where you want to go, too,
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: said the cat. I don't much care where, said Alice.
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: Then you need not care which way you walk, said
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: the cat, so long as I get somewhere. Alice added, Oh,
• 58:04
  Speaker 6: you're sure to do that if you don't stop, said
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: the cat. Alice knew that this was true, so she
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: asked what sort of people live near here. In that way,
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: said the cat, with a wave of its right, paw
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: lives a hatter, And in that way, with a wave
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: of its left, paw lives a march hare go to
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: see the one you like. They're both mad. But I
• 58:28
  Speaker 6: don't want to go where mad folks live, said Alice.
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: Oh you can't help that, said the cat. We're all
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. How do you know
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: I'm mad, asked Alice. You must be, said the cat,
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: or you wouldn't have come here. Alice didn't think that
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: proved it at all, but she went on, and how
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: do you know that you are mad? First, said the cat.
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: A dog's not mad, you grand fat? Yes, well, then,
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: un the cat went on, you know, a dog growls
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: when it's angry and wags its tail when it's pleased.
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: Now I growl when I'm pleased and wag my tail
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: when I'm angry. So you see I'm mad, I say,
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: the cat purrs. I do not call it a growl,
• 59:17
  Speaker 6: said Alice. Call it what you like, said the cat.
• 59:21
  Speaker 6: Do you play croquet with the queen to day? I
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: should like it, but I haven't been asked yet, said Alice.
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: You'll see me there, said the cat, then faded out
• 59:31
  Speaker 6: of sight. Alice did not think this so queer, as
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: she was now used to strange things. While she still
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: looked at the place where it had been, it came
• 59:40
  Speaker 6: back again all at once. By the bye, What became
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: of the child?
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: It asked?
• 59:46
  Speaker 6: It turned into a pig, Alice said, I thought it would,
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: said the cat, then once more faded out of sight.
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: Alice waited awhile to see if it would come back,
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: then walked on in the way in which the march
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: Hare was said to live. I've seen hatters, she said
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: to herself, so I'll go to see the march Hare.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 6: As she said that, she looked up, and there sat
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: the cat on a branch of a tree. Did you say,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: pig or fig, asked the cat. I said, pig, And
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: I wish you wouldn't come and go all at once
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: like you do. You make one quite giddy, all right,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: said the cat, And this time it faded out in
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: such a way that its tail went first, And the
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: last thing Alice saw was the grin, which stayed some
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: time after the rest of it had gone. Well, I've
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: seen a cat without a grin, thought Alice. But a
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: grin without a cat. It's the strangest thing I ever
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: saw in all my life. She soon came in sight
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: of the house of the march Hare. She thought it
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 6: must be the right place, as the chimneys were shaped
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: like ears, and the roof was thatched with fur. It
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: was so large a house that she did not like
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 6: to go too near while she was so small. So
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: she ate a small piece from the left hand bit
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: of mushroom and raised herself to two feet high. Then
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 6: she walked up to the house, though with some fear,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: lest it should be mad, as the cat had said.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 6: End of chapter six.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 7: Chapter seven of Alice in Wonderland retold in words of
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 7: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 7: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 7: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Anna Vince Alice
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 7: in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by J. C. Gorham.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 7: Chapter seven a mad tea party. There was a table
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 7: set out in the shade of the trees in front
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 7: of the house, and the march Hare and the hatter
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 7: were at tea. A dormouse sat between them. But it
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 7: seemed to have gone to sleep. The table was a
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 7: long one, but the three were all crowded at one
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 7: corner of it. No room, no room, they cried out
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 7: as soon as they saw Alice. There's plenty of room,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 7: she said, and sat down in a large arm chair
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 7: at one end of the table. Have some wine, the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 7: march Hare said, in a kind tone. Alice looked all
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 7: round the table, but there was not a thing on
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 7: it but tea. I don't see the wine, she said.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 7: There isn't any, said the march Hare. Then it wasn't
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 7: polite of you to ask me to have wine, said Alice.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 7: It wasn't polite of you to sit down when Narn
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 7: had asked you to have a seat, said the march Hare.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 7: I didn't know it was your table, said Alice. It's
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 7: laid for more than three Your hair wants cutting, said
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 7: the hatter. He had looked hard at Alice some time,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 7: and this was his first speech. You should learn not
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 7: to speak to a guest like that, said Alice.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 8: It is very rude.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 7: The hatter stretched his eyes quite wide at this, but
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 7: all he said was, why is a raven like a disk?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Come?
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  Speaker 7: We shall have some fun now, thought Alice. I think
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 7: I can guess that, she added out loud. Do you
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 7: mean that you think you can find out the answer
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 7: to it, asked the march Hare. I do, said Alice.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 7: Then you should see what you mean. The march Hare
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 7: went on, I do, Alice said, at least at least
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 7: I mean what I say. That's the same thing you know,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: not the same thing a bit, said the hatter. Why
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 7: you might just as well say, I see what I
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: eat is the same thing as I eat what I see.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 7: You might just as well see, added the march Hare,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 7: that I like what I get. It's the same thing
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 7: as I get what I like. You might just as
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 7: well say, did the dormouse, who seemed to be talking
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: in his sleep, that I breave when I sleep. It's
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 7: the same thing as I sleep. When I breave, it
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 7: is the same with you, said the hatter. No one
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 7: spoke for some time, while Alice tried to think of
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 7: all she knew of ravens and desks, which wasn't much.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 7: The hatter was the first to speak. What day of
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 7: the month is it? He said, turning to Alice. He
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 7: had his watch in his hand, looked at it and
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 7: shook it. Now and then while he held it to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 7: his ear, Alice thought, awhile and said the fourth two
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 7: days wrong, sighed the hatter. I told you butter wouldn't
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 7: suit this watch, he added, with a scowl as he
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 7: looked at the march hare. It was the best butter.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 7: The march hare said, yes, but some crumbs must have
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 7: got in. The hatter growled, you shouldn't have put it
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 7: in with the bread knife. The march hare took the
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 7: watch and looked at it, then dipped it into his
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 7: cup of tea and looked at it again. But all
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 7: he could think to say was it was the best butter.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 7: You know, Oh what a funny watch, said Alice. It
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 7: tells the day of the month and doesn't tell what
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 7: o'clock it is. Why should it, growled the hatter. Does
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 7: your watch tell what year it is? Of course not,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 7: said Alice. But there's no need that it should, since
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 7: it stays the same year such a long time, which
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 7: is just the case with mine, said the hatter, which
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 7: seemed to Alice to have no sense in it at all.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: I don't quite know what you mean, she said. The
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 7: dormouse has gone to sleep once more, said the hatter,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 7: and he poured some hot tea on the tip of
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 7: its nose. The dormouse shook its head and said, with
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 7: its eyes still closed, of course, of course, just what
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 7: I wanted to say myself. Have you guessed the riddle yet,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 7: the hatter asked, turning to Alice, No, I give it up,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 7: she said, what's the answer? I do not know with all,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: said the hatter, Norrah, said the march hare. Alice sighed,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 7: I think you might do better with the time than
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 7: to waste it by asking riddles that have no answers.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 7: If you knew time as well as I do, you
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 7: wouldn't say waste it. It's him. I don't know what
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 7: you mean, Alice said. Of course you don't, said the hatter,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 7: with a toss of his head. I daresay you never
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 7: even spoke to time. Maybe not, she said, but I
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 7: know I have to beat time when I learned to sing.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 7: Oh that's it, said the hatter. He won't stand beating now.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 7: If you kept on good terms with him, he would
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 7: do anything you liked with the clock. Say it was
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 7: nine o'clock, just time to go to school. You'd have
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 7: to give but a hint to time, and round goes
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 7: the clock. Half past one time for lunch. I wish
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 7: it was March, hare said to itself. That would be grand,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 7: I'm sure, said Alice. But then I shouldn't be hungry
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: for it, you know, not at first perhaps, But you
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 7: could keep it to half past one as long as
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 7: you liked, said the hatter. Is that the way you do?
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 7: Asked Alice. The hatter shook his head and sighed, not I,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 7: he said time, and I fell out last March. It
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 7: was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 7: and they had to sing Twinkle Twinkle, Little bat. How
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 7: I wonder what you're at. You know the song? Perhaps
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 7: I've heard something like it, said Alice. It goes on,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 7: you know, the hatter said, in this way, up above
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 7: the world, you fly like a tea tray in the sky.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 7: Twinkle twinkle. Here the dormouse shook itself and sang in
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 7: its sleep twinkle twinkle, twinkle twinkle, and went on so
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 7: long that they had to pinch it to make it stop. Well,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 7: I sang the first verse. The hatter went on. The
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 7: queen bawled out, see how he murders the time off
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 7: with his head, And ever since that he won't do
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 7: a thing, I ask. It is always six o'clock. Now,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 7: a bright thought came into Alice's head. Is that why
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 7: so many tea things are put out here?
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 5: She asked?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 7: Yes, that's it, said the hatter with a sigh. It's
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 7: always tea time, and we've no time to wash the things.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 7: Then you keep moving round, I guess, said Alice. Just so,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 7: said the hatter, as the things get used up. But
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 7: when you come to the place where you started, what
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 7: do you do? Then Alice stared to ask, I'm tired
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 7: of this, yawned the march hare. I vought you tell
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 7: us a teale I fear I don't know one, said Alice.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 7: I want a clean cup, spoke up the hatter. He
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 7: moved on as he spoke, and the dormouse moved into
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 7: his place. The march hare moved into the dormouse's place,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 7: and Alice, none too well pleased, took the place of
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 7: the march hare. The hatter was the only one to
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 7: get any good from the change, and Alice was a
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 7: good deal worse off, as the march hare had upset
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 7: the milk jug into his plate. Now for your story,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 7: the march hare said to Alice, I'm sure I don't know,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 7: Alice began. I I don't think. Then you shouldn't talk,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 7: said the hatter. This was more than Alice could stand,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 7: so she got up and walked off, And though she
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 7: looked back once or twice and half hoped they would
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 7: call after her, they didn't seem to know that she
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 7: was gone. The last time she saw them, they were
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 7: trying to put the poor dormouse head first into the
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 7: tea pot. Well I'll not go there again, said Alice
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 7: as she picked her way through the wood. It's the
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 7: dullest tea party I was ever at in all my life.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 7: As Alice said this, she saw that one of the
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 7: trees had a door that led right into it. That's strange,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 7: she thought, But I haven't seen the thing to day.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 7: That isn't strange. I think I may as well go
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 7: in at once. And in she went once more. She
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 7: found herself in a long hall and close to the
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 7: little glass stand. She took up the little key and
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 7: unlocked the door that led to the garden. Then she
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 7: set to work to eat some of the mushroom, which
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 7: she still had with her. When she was about a
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 7: foot high, she went through the door and walked down
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 7: the little hall. Then she found herself at last in
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 7: the lovely garden, where she had seen the bright blooms
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 7: and the cool fountains. End of chapter seven.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: Chapter eight of Alice in Wonderland retold in words of
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  Speaker 2: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 2: please visit LibriVox dot org. Read by Ruhie Huck. Alice
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by J. C. Gorham.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: Chapter eight, The Queen's croquet ground. A large rose tree
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: stood near the garden gate. The blooms on it were white,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: but three men who seemed to be in great haste
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: were painting them red. Alice thought this is a strange
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: thing to do, so she went nearer to watch them.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: Just as he came up to them, she heard one
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: of them say, look out, now, five, don't splash paint
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: on me like that. I couldn't help it, said five.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Six knock my arm, on which six looked up and
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: said that's right. Five. Don't fail to lay the blame
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: on some one else. You needn't talk, said five. I
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: heard the queen, say your head must come off. What for,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: asked the one who spoke first, What is that to you?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: Two said six? It is much to him, and I'll
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: tell him, said five. He brought the cooked tu lip
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: roots for onions. Six flung down the brush and said, well,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: of all the wrong things. Just then his eyes chanced
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: to fall on Alice, who stood and watched them, And
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: he checked himself at once. Five and two looked around also,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: and all of them bowed low. Would you tell me, please,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: said Alice, why you paint those roses? Five and six
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: did not speak, but looked at two, who said, in
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: a low voice, why the fact is you see? Miss?
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: This here ought to have been a red rose tree,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: and by mistake a white one was put in, And
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: if the Queen was to find it out, we should
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, miss,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: we are hard at work to get it painted so
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: that she may not Just then five words stood and
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: watched the gate for some time, called out the queen.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: The queen and the three men at once threw themselves
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: flat up on their faces. Alice heard the tramp of
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: feet and looked round, glad if at last she could
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: see the Queen. First came ten soldiers with clubs. These
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: were all shaped like the three men at the rose Tree,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: long and flat like guards, with their hands and feet
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: at the corners. Next came ten men who were trimmed
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: with diamonds and walked two and two like the soldiers.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: The ten children of the King and Queen came next,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: and the little deers came with a skip in a jump,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: hand in hand by twos. They were trimmed with hearts.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Next came the guests, most of whom were kings and queens.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: Alice saw the white rabbit with them. He did not
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: seem at ease, though he smiled at all that was said.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: He didn't see Alice as he went by. Then came
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: the nave of Hearts with the king's crown on a
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: red velvet cushion, and last of all came the King
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: and Queen of Hearts. At first, Alice thought it might
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: be right for her to lie down on her face
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: like the three men at the rose Tree. But what
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: would be the use of such a fine show, she thought,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: if all had to lie down so that they couldn't
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: see it. So she stood where she was and waited.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: When they came to where she stood. They all stopped
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: and looked at her, and the Queen said, in a
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: stern voice, who is this? She spoke to the nave
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: of hearts, who bowed and smiled but did not speak. Fool,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: said the Queen with a toss of her head, and
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: she turned to Alice and asked, what's your name? Child?
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: My name is Alice, so please your majesty, said Alice.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: But she thought to herself, why they're a mere pack
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: of guards. I need have no fears of them. And
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: who are these? Asked the queen, as she pointed to
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: the men who still lay round the rose tree. For
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: you see, as they all lay on their faces and
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: their backs were the same as the rest of the bag,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: she could not tell who they were. How should I know,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: said Alice, and thought it straight that she'd speak to
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: a queen in that way. The Queen turned red with rage,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: glared at her for a moment like a wild beast,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: then screamed off with her head off. Nonsense, said Alice
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: in a loud, firm voice, and the queen said no more.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: The King laid his hand on the Queen's arm and said, think,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: my dear, she's but a child. The Queen turned from
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: him with a scowl and said to the knave, turn
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: them over. The knave did so with one foot. Get up,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: said the queen in a shrill, loud voice, and the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: three men jumped up at once and bowed to the king.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: What have you been doing here? May it please your majesty,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: said too, and went down on one knee as he spoke.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: We were trying, I see, said the queen, who in
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: the meantime had seen that some of the roses were
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: painted red and some were still white. Off with their
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: heads and the crowd moved on, while three of the
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: soldiers stayed to cut off the heads of the poor
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: men who ran to Alice for help. They shan't hurt you,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: she said, and she hid them in a large flower
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: pot that stood near The three soldiers walked round and
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: round a short while, then marched off. Are their heads off?
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: Shouted the queen. Their heads are gone, if it please
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: your majesty. The soldiers shouted back. That's right, shouted the queen.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: Can you play croquet? She asked Alice, Yes, shouted Alice.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: Come on, then roared the Queen, and Alice went on
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: with them. It's a fine day, said a weak voice
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: at her side. It was the white rabbit who peeped
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: up into her face. Yes, said Alice, where's the duchess. Hush, hush,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: said the rabbit in a low tone. He looked back
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: as he spoke, then raised up on tiptoe, put his
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: mouth close to her ear, and whispered, she's to have
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: her head cut off. What for, asked Alice. Did you
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: say what a pity? The rabbit asked, No, I didn't,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: said Alice. I don't think it's at all a pity.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: I said, what for? She bugs the queen ear. As
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: the rabbit began, Alice gave a little scream of joy.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: Oh hush, the rabbit whispered, in a great fright. The
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: queen will hear you. You see, she came late, and
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: the queen said, each one to his place, shouted the
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: queen in a loud voice. The people ran this way
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: and that in great haste, and soon each one had
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: found his place, and the game began. Alice thought she
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: had never seen such a strained croquet ground in all
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: her life. It was all ridges, The balls were live hedgehogs,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: mallets were live birds. And the soldiers bent down and
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: stood on their hands and feet to make the arches.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: At first, Alice found it hard to use a live
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: bird for a mallet. It was a large bird with
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: a long neck and long legs. She tucked it under
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: her arm with its legs down. But just as she
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: got its neck straight and thought how she could give
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: the ball a good blow with its head, the bird
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: would twist its neck round and give us such a
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: queer look that she could not help laughing. And by
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: the time she had got its head down again, she
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: found that the hedgehog had crawled off. Then too, there
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: were always a ridge or a hole in the way
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: of where she wanted to send her ball, and she
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: couldn't find an arch in its place, for the men
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: would get up and walk off when it pleased them.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: Alice soon made up her mind that it was a
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: very hard game to play. The queen was soon in
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: a great rage and stamped about, shouting off with his
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: head or off with her head with each breath. Alice
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: felt quite ill at ease. To be sure, she had
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: not as yet had cause to feel the wrath of
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: the queen, but she knew not how soon it might
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: be her turn. And then she thought, what shall I do.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: As she was looking round for some way to get
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: off without being seen, she saw a great thing in
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: the air, which she at last made out to be
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: a grain, and she said to herself, it's the cat.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: Now I shall have some one to talk to. How
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: do you do? Said the cat, as soon as its
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: old mouth came out. Alice waited till she saw the eyes,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: then nodded, it's no use to speak to it till
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: its ears have come, or at least one of them.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: In a short time, the whole head came in view.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: Then she put down her bird and told him of
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: the game, glad that she had some one that was
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: pleased to hear her talk. I don't think they are
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: at all fair in the game, said Alice with a scowl.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: And they all talk so loud that one can't hear
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: one's self speak. And they don't have rules to play by,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: at least if they have, they don't mind them. And
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: you don't know how bad it is to use live
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: things to play with. The arch I have to go
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: through next walked off just now to the far end
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: of the ground, and I should have struck the queen's hedgehog,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: but it ran off when it saw that mine was near.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: How do you like, the queen asked the cat in
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: a low voice. Not at all, said Alice. She's so
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: just then she saw that the Queen was behind her
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: and heard what she said, So she went on sure
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: to win. That it's not worth while to go on
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: with the game. The queen smiled and passed on. Who
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: are you talking to, said the king, as he came
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: up to Alice and stared at the cat's head as
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: if it were a strange sight. It's a friend of mine,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: a chest child cat, said Alice. I don't like the
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: look of it at all, said the king. It may
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: kiss my and if it likes I don't want to,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: said the cat. Don't be rude, and don't look at
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: me like that, said the king. A cat may look
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: like a king, said Alice. I've read that in some book,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: but I can't tell where. Well, it must get off
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: from here, said the king in a firm voice, and
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: he called to the queen, who was near, My dear,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: I wish you would see that this cat leaves here
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: at once. The queen had but one cure for all ills,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: great or small. Off with his head, she said, and
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: did not so much as look round. I will fetch
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: the soldier myself, said the king, and rushed off. Alice
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: thought she might as well go back and see how
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: the game went on. She heard the queen's voice in
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: the distance as she screamed with rage, off with his head.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: He has missed his turn. Alice did not like the
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: look of things at all, for the game was so
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: mixed she could not tell when her turn came, so
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: she went off to find her hedgehog. She came up
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: with two hedgehogs in a fierce fight, and thought now
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: was a good time to strike one of them, But
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: her mallet was gone to the other side of the ground,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: and she saw it in a weak sort of way
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: as it tried to fly up into a tree. By
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: the time she had caught the bird and brought it back,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: the fight was over and both hedgehogs were out of sight.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: I don't care much, thought Alice, for there is not
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: an arch on this side the ground. So she went
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: back to have some more talk with her friend. When
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: she reached the place, she found quite a crowd round
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: the cat, the king and the queen, and the soldier
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: who had come with the axe to cut off the
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: cat's head were all talking at once, while all the
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: rest stood with closed lips and looked quite grave. As
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: soon as they saw Alice, they wanted her to say
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: which one was right, but as all three spoke at once,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: she found it hard to make out what they said.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: The soldiers said that you couldn't cut off her head
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: unless there was a body to cut it off from
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: that he had never had to do such a thing,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: and he wouldn't begin it now at this time of life.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: The King said that all heads could be cut off,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: and that you weren't to talk nonsense. The queen said,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: if something wasn't done in less than no time, heads
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: should come off all round. It was this last threat
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: that had made the whole crowd look so grave. As
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: Alice came up. Alice could think of nothing else to
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: say but ask the Duchess. It is her cat. Fetch
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: her heirs, the queen said to the soldier, and he
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: went off like an arrow. The cat's head started to
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: fade out of sight as soon as he was gone,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: and by the time he had come back with the Duchess,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: it could not be seen at all. So the king
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: and the man ran up and down, looking for it
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: while the rest went back to the game. End of
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: chapter eight.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 4: Chapter nine of Alice in wonder retold in words of
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 4: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 4: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Bruce Stflinger. Alice
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 4: in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by J. C.
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  Speaker 4: Gorm Chapter nine, the mock Turtle. You can't think how
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 4: glad I am to see you once more, you dear
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: old thing, said the Duchess as she took Alice's arm
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: and they walked off side by side. Alice was glad
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 4: to see her in such a fine mood, and thought
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 4: to herself that the Duchess might not be so bad
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 4: as she had seemed to be when they first met.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 4: Then Alice fell into a long train of thought of
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 4: what she would do if she were duchess. She quite
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 4: lost sight of the Duchess by her side, and was
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: startled when she heard her voice close to her ear.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 4: You have something on your mind, my dear, and that
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: what the moral of that is, but I shall think
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 4: of it in a bit. Are you sure it has one,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 4: asked Alice. Tut tut child, said the duchess. All things
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 4: have a moral, if you can but find it, and
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 4: she squeezed up close to Alice's side as she spoke.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 4: Alice didn't much like to have the Duchess keep so close,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: but she didn't like to be rude, so she bore
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 4: it as well as she could. The game is not
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 4: so bad, now, Alice said, thinking she ought to fill
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 4: in the time with talk of some kind. Tis so,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 4: said the Duchess. And the moral of that is, oh
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 4: tis love. Tis love that makes the world go round.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 4: Someone said, it's done by each one minding his own work,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 4: said Alice. Ah, well, it means much the same thing,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 4: said the Duchess. Then added, and the moral of that
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 4: is take care of the sense, and the sounds will
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: take care of themselves. How she likes to find morals
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 4: and things, said Alice. Why don't you talk more and
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 4: not think so long? Asked the Duchess. I've a right
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 4: to think, said Alice, in a sharp tone, for she
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 4: was tired and vexed. Just as much right, said the Duchess,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: As pigs have to fly and the but here the
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: voice of the Duchess died out in the midst of
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 4: her pet word moral, and Alice felt the arm that
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 4: was linked to her shake as of with fright. Alice
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 4: looked up and there stood the queen in front of them,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 4: with her arms folded and a dark frown on her face.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: A fine day, your majesty, the duchess began in a
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 4: weak voice. Now I warn you in time, shouted the queen,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: with a stamp on the ground as she spoke, either
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 4: you or your head must be off, and that in
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: about half no time. Take your choice. The duchess took
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 4: her choice and was gone in a moment. Let's go
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 4: on with the game, the queen said to Alice, and
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 4: Alice was in too great a fright to speak, but
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: went with her back to the croquete ground. The guests
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 4: had all sat down in the shade while the queen
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: was away, but as soon as they saw her they
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: rushed back to the game, while the Queen said if
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 4: they were not in their places at once, it would
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: cost them their lives. All the time the game went on,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: the Queen kept shouting off with his head or off
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 4: with her head, so that by the end of half
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 4: an hour there was no one left on the grounds
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 4: but the King, the Queen, and Alice. Then the Queen
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 4: left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 4: have you seen them mock turtle yet? No, said Alice.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 4: I don't know what a mock turtle is. It is
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 4: the thing mock turtle soup is made from. The Queen said,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: I've never even heard of one. Alice said, come on then,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 4: and he shall tell you his story, said the Queen.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 4: As they walked off, Alice heard the King say, in
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: a low tone, to those whom the Queen had doomed
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 4: to death, you may all go free. Come. That's a
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 4: good thing, thought Alice, for she felt very sad that
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 4: all those men must have their heads cut off. They
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 4: soon came to where the griffin lay fast asleep in
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 4: the sun. Up dull things, said the Queen, and take
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 4: the young lady to see the mock turtle. I must
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 4: go back now, and she walked away and left Alice
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 4: with the griffin. Alice was by no means pleased with
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: its looks, but she thought she would be quite as
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 4: safe with it as she would be with the Queen.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 4: So she waited. The griffin sat up and rubbed his eyes,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 4: then watched the queen till she was out of sight.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 4: Then it laughed, What fun, it said, half to itself,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: half to Alice. What is the fun? She asked why
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 4: she it said, it's all a whim of hers. They
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 4: never cut off those heads, you know. Come on soon.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 4: They saw the mock turtle sitting sad and lone on
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 4: a ledge of rock, and as they came near, Alice
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 4: could hear him sigh as if his heart would break.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 4: What makes him so sad? Alice asked, It's all a
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 4: whim of his, said the griffin. He hasn't got no grief,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 4: So they went up to the mock turtle, who looked
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 4: at them with large eyes full of tears, but did
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 4: not speak. This here, young lady, said the griffin. She
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 4: wants for to know about your past life. She do,
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell it to her, said the mock turtle. Turtle,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 4: in a deep sad tone, Sit down, both of you,
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 4: and don't speak a word till I get through. So
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 4: they sat down and no one spoke for some time.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 4: Once said the mock turtle, at last, with a deep sigh,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 4: I was a real turtle. When we were young, we
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 4: went to school in the sea. We were taught by
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 4: an old turtle. We used to call him tortoise. Why
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 4: did you call him tortoise if he wasn't one, Alice asked.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 4: He taught us, that's why, said the mock turtle. You
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 4: are quite dull not to know that. Shame on you
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 4: to ask such a simple thing, added the griffin. Then
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 4: they both sat and looked at poor Alice, who felt
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 4: as if she could sink into the earth. At last,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: the griffin said to the mock turtle, drive on, old fellow,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 4: don't be all day about it. And he went on
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 4: in these words, Yes, we went to school in the sea,
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  Speaker 4: though you mayn't think it's true. I didn't say I did, not,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: said Alice. You did, said the mock turtle. Hold your tongue,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 4: added the griffin. The mock turtle went on, we were
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 4: well taught. In fact, we went to school each day.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 4: I've been to a day's school too, said Alice. You
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 4: needn't be so proud as all that were you taught, washing,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 4: asked the mock turtle. Of course not, said Alice. Ah,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 4: then yours wasn't a good school, said the mock turtle.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 4: Now at hours they had at the end of the bill,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 4: French music and washing extra. You couldn't have needed it
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 4: much in the sea, said Alice. I didn't learn it,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 4: said the mock turtle, with a sigh. I just took
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 4: the first course. What was that, asked Alice, really and writhing?
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 4: Of course at first, the mock turtle said. An old
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  Speaker 4: eel used to come once a week. He taught us
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 4: to draw, to stretch, and to faint in coils. What
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 4: was that like, Alice asked, Well, I can't show you myself.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 4: He said, I'm too stiff. And the griffin didn't learn it.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 4: How many hours a day did you do lessons, asked Alice.
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  Speaker 4: Ten hours the first day, said the mock turtle, nine
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 4: the next, and so on. What a strange plan, said Alice.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 4: That's why they're called lessons, said the griffin. They lessen
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 4: from day to day. This was such a new thing
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 4: to Alice that she sat still for a good while
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 4: and didn't speak. Then there would be a day when
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 4: you would have no school, she said. Of course there would,
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 4: said the mock turtle. And what did you do? Then,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 4: asked Alice. I'm tired of this, said the griffin. Tell
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 4: her now of the games we played, end of chapter nine.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: Chapter ten of Alice in Wonderland retold in words of
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 2: please visit LibriVox dot org. Read by ruhe Huck. Alice
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by J. C. Gorum.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter ten, The Lobster Dance. The mock turtle sighed, looked
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: at Alison, tried to speak, but for a minute or two,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: sobs choked his voice, same as if he had a
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: bone in his throat, said the Gryfon, and set to
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: work to shake him and punch him in the back.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: At last, the mock turtle found his voice, and, with
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: tears running down his cheeks, he went on. You may
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  Speaker 2: not have lived much in the sea. I haven't, said Alice,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: so you cannot know what a fine thing a lobster dances. No,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: said Alice. What sort of a dance is it? Why?
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: Said the gryffon, You first form in a line on
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: this sea shore, Two lines cried the mock turtle. Seals
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: turtles and so on. Then when you've cleared all the
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: small fish out of the way, that takes time, put
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: in the gryffen You moved to the front twice, each
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: with a lobster by his side, cried the greyfen. Of course,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: the mock turtle said, move to the front twice, change
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: and come back in the same way, said the gryffon.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: Then you know, the mock turtle went, on, you throw
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: the lobsters, shouted the gryffon, with a bound into the air.
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  Speaker 2: As far out to sea as you can swim out
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: for them, screamed the gryfon. Turn heels overhead in the sea,
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: cried the mock turtle. Change again, yelled the greyphon at
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: the top of his voice. Then back to land. And
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: that's all the first part, said the mock turtle. Both
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: the gryfon and the mock turtle had jumped about like
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: mad things all this time. Now they sat down quite
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: sad and still, and looked at aalis. It must be
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: a pretty dance, said Alice. Would you like to see
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: some of it? Ask them turtle. Oh, yes, she said, Come,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: let's try the first part said the mock turtle to
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: the gryphon. We can do it without lobsters. You know
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: which hell sing? Oh you sing, said the gryffon. I
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: don't know the words. So they danced round and round
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: Alice now and then, treading on her toes. When they
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: passed too close. They waved their four paws to mark
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: the time, while the mock turtles sang a queer kind
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: of song, each verse of which ended with the words
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: will you want you? Will you want you? Won't you
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: join the dance? Thank you? It's a fine dance to watch,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: said Alice, glad it was over at last. Now, said
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: the gryf and tell us about what you've seen and
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: done in your life. I could tell you of the
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: strange things I've seen today, said Alice, with some doubt
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: as to their wishing to hear it. All right, go on,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: they both cried. So Alice told them what she had
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: been through that day, from the time when she first
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: saw the white rabbit. They came up quite close to her,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: one on each side, and sat still till she got
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: to the path where she tried to say you are
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: old father William, and the words all came wrong. Then
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  Speaker 2: the mock turtle drew a long breath and said, that's
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: quite strange. It's all as strange as it can be,
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: said the Gryffon. It all came wrong, the mock turtle said,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: while he seemed to be in deep thought, I should
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: like to hear her try to say something. Now, tell
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: her to begin. He looked at the gryffon as if
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  Speaker 2: he thought it had the right to make Alice do
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: as it pleased. Stand up and say, tis the voice
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: of the sluggard, said the gryffon. How they do try
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: to make one do things, thought Alice, I might just
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: well be at school at once. She stood up and
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: tried to repeat it, but her head was so full
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: of the lobster dance that she didn't know what she
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: was saying, and the words all came very queer. Indeed,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: tis the voice of the lobster. I heard him declare
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: you have baked me too? Brown? I must sugar my
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: hair as a duck with it's eye lids. So he
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: with his nose, trims his belt and his buttons and
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: turns out his toes. That's not the way I used
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: to say it when I was a child, said the
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: gryffen well, I never heard it before, said the mock turtle.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: But there's no sense in it at all. Alice did
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  Speaker 2: not speak. She sat down with her face in her hands,
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: and thought, will things never be as they used to
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: be any more? I should like you to tell what
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  Speaker 2: it means, said the mock turtle. She can't do that,
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: said the gryffon. Go on with the next verse. But
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: his toes, the mock turtle went on. How could he
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: turn them out with his nose? You know? Go on
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: with the next verse. The gryffon said it once more.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: The gryffen said, once more it begins. I passed by
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: his garden. Alice thought she must do as she was told,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: though she felt sure it would all come wrong, and
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: she went on. I passed by his garden and marked
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: with an eye how the owl and the oyster were
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: sharing the pie. What is the use of saying all
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: that stuff, the mock turtle broke in. If you don't
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: tell what it means as you go on, I tell
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  Speaker 2: you it's all nonsense. Yes, I think you might as
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: well leave off, said the gryffon, And Alice was but
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  Speaker 2: too glad to do so, shall we try the lobster
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  Speaker 2: dance once more. The gryffon said, or would you like
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: the mock turtle to sing you a song? Oh? A song? Please?
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: If the mock turtle would be so kind, Alice said
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: with so much zest that the gryffon threw back his
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: head and said, hmm, well, each one to his own taste,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: sing her turtle soup, will you, old fellow? The mock
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: turtle heaved a deep sigh, and, in a voice choked
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: with sobs, began his song. But just then the cry
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: of the trial is on was heard A long way off, come,
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: cried the gryffon. He took her by the hand, ran off,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: and did not wait to hear the song. What try it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Alice panted as she ran, But the gryffon only said
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: and still read as fast as he could. End of
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  Speaker 2: chapter ten.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 5: Chapter eleven of Alice in Wonderland retold in words of
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 5: one syllable. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 5: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 5: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Chris Moland. Alice
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 5: in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by J. C. Gorham,
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  Speaker 5: Chapter eleven, Who Stole the Tarts. The King and Queen
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 5: of Hearts were seated on their throne when Alice and
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 5: the Griffin came up, with a great crowd about them.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 5: There are all sorts of small birds and beasts, as
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 5: well as a whole pack of cards. The knave stood
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 5: in front of them in chains, with the soldier on
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 5: each side to guard him, and near the king was
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 5: the white Rabbit, with the trumpet in one hand and
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 5: a roll of paper in the other. In the middle
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 5: of the court was a table with a large dish
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  Speaker 5: of tarts on it. They looked so good that it
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 5: made Alice feel as if she would like to eat
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  Speaker 5: some of them. I wish they'd get the trial done,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 5: she thought, and hand around the pies. But there seemed
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 5: no chance of this. So to pass the time away,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 5: she looked round at the strange things about her. This
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 5: was the first time Alice had been in a court
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 5: of this kind, and she was quite pleased to find
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 5: that she knew the names of most things she saw.
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  Speaker 5: That's the judge, she thought, I know him by his
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 5: great wig. The judge, by the way, was the king,
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  Speaker 5: and as he wore his crown on top of his wig.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 5: He looked quite ill at ease. And that's the jewelry box,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 5: thought Alice. And those twelve things she had to say things,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 5: you see, for some of them were beasts and some
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 5: were birds. I guess are the jurors. She said this
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 5: last word two or three times, as she was proud
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  Speaker 5: that she knew it, for she was right when she
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 5: thought that very few girls her age would have known
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 5: what it all meant. The twelve jurors all wrote on slates.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 5: What can they have to write now, Alice asked the
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 5: griffin in a low tone. The trial has not yet begun.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 5: They're putting down their names, the griffin said, for fear
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 5: they should forget them stupid things. Alice said in a
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 5: loud voice, but stopped at once, for the white rabbit
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 5: cried out silence in the court, and the king looked
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 5: round to make out who spoke. Alice could see quite
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 5: well that the jurors all wrote down stupid things on
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 5: their slates. She could even make out that one of
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 5: them did not know how to spell stupid, and that
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 5: he asked the one by his side to tell him
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 5: a nice muddle. The slates will be in by the
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 5: time the trials ended, thought Alice. One of the jurors
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 5: had a pencil that squeaked as he wrote this. Of course,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 5: Alice could not stand, so she went round near him
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 5: and soon found a chance to get it from him.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 5: This she did in such a way that the poor juror,
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 5: it was Bill the Lizard, could not make out at
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 5: all where it was. So he wrote with one finger
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 5: for the rest of the day. Of course, this was
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 5: no use, as it left no mark on the slate.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 5: Read the charge, said the King. On this, the white
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 5: rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and then from
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 5: the paper in his hand read the Queen of Hats,
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 5: she made some tarts all what a summer day, the
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 5: knave of hearts. He stole those tarts and took them
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 5: quite away. The jury will now take the case, said
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 5: the King. Not yet, Not yet, the rabbit said, in haste,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 5: there's a great deal else to come. First call the
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 5: first witness, said the King, and the white rabbit blew
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 5: three blasts on the trumpet, and then called out first witness.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 5: The first to come was the hatter. He came in
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 5: with a tea cup in one hand and a piece
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 5: of bread and butter in the other. I beg pardon, majesty,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 5: he said, But I had to bring these things in
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 5: as I was not quite through with my tea when
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 5: I was sent for. You ought to have been through,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 5: said the king. When did you begin? The hatter looked
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 5: at the march Hare, who had just come into cord
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 5: harm in arm with the dormouse. For the march I
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 5: think it was, he said, Fifth, said the march Hare,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 5: Six said the dormouse. Write that down, said the King
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 5: to the jury, And they wrote down all three dates
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 5: on their slates, and then adding them up, and changed
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 5: the sum to shillings and pence. Take off your hat,
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 5: the king said to the hatter. It isn't mine. Said
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 5: the hatter. Stole it, cried the king, as he turned
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 5: to the jury, who at once wrote it down. I
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 5: keep them the cell that added of none of my
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 5: own on the hatter. Here. The Queen put on her
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 5: eye glasses and stared hard at the hatter, who turned
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 5: pale with fright. Tell what you know of this case,
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 5: said the king, And don't be nervous, or I'll have
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 5: your head off on the spot. This did not seem
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 5: to calm him at all he shifted from one foot
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 5: to the other and looked at the Queen, and in
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 5: his fright, he bit a large piece out of his
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 5: tea cup in place of the bread and butter. Just
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 5: then Alice felt a strange thrill, the cause of which
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 5: she could not make out till she saw that she
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 5: had begun to grow again. I wish you wouldn't squeeze,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 5: so said the dormouse. I haven't room to breathe. I
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 5: can't help it, said Alice. I'm growing. You've caught no
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 5: right to grow here, said the dormouse. Don't detalk such nonsense,
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 5: said Alice. You know you grow too, Yes, but not.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: So fess as squeeze the breath out of those who
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: sit by me.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 5: He got up and crossed to the other side of
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 5: the court. All this time the Queen had not left
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 5: off staring at the hatter, and just as the dormouse
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 5: crossed the court, she said to one of the men,
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 5: bring me the list of those who sang in the
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 5: last concert, on which the poor hatter trembled so that
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 5: he shook both of his shoes off. Tell what you
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 5: know of this case, the king called out again, or
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 5: I'll have your head off if you do shake. I'm
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 5: a poor man, your majesty, the hatter began, in a
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 5: weak voice. And I hadn't just begun my tea, not
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 5: more than a week or so, And what with bread
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 5: and butter so thin, and the twinkling of the tea,
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 5: the twinkling of the what, asked the king? It began
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 5: with the tea, the hatter said, Of course, twinkling begins
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 5: with a tea, said the king. Do you take me
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 5: for her dunce go on? I'm a poor man, the
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 5: hatter said, And most things twinkle that to that. But
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 5: the march hare said, I didn't, said the march hare.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 5: In great haste, you did, said the hatter. I deny it,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 5: said the march hare. He denies it, said the king.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 5: Leave out that pot. Well, I'm sure, the dormouse said.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 5: The hatter went on with a look at the dormouse
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 5: to see if he would deny it too, but was
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 5: fast asleep. Then I caught some more bread. And but
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 5: what did the dormouse say, asked one of the jurors.
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 5: That I can't tell, said the hatter. You must tell,
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 5: or I'll have your head off, said the king. The
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 5: wretched hatter dropped his cup and bread and went down
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 5: to one knee. I'm a poor man, he began. You're
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 5: a poor speaker, said the king. Here one of the
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 5: guinea pigs cheered, and one of the men seized him,
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 5: thrust him into a bag, which tied up with strings,
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 5: and then sat upon it. If that's all you know,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 5: you may stand down, the king said. I'm as low
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 5: as I can get now, said the hatter. I'm on
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 5: the floor as it is. Then you may sit down.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 5: The king said, I'd like to get through Martya first,
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 5: said the hatter, with a look at the queen, who
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 5: still read the list in her hand. You may go,
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 5: said the king, and the hatter left the court in
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 5: such haste that he did not even wait to put
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 5: his shoes on, and just take his head off outside,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 5: the queen added to one of the soldiers, but the
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 5: hatter was out of sight before the man could get
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 5: to the door. Call the next witness, said the king.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 5: The next to come was the duchess's cook, and Alice
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 5: guessed who it was by the way the people near
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 5: the door sneezed all at once. Tell what you know
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 5: of this case, said the king. Shan't, said the cook.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 5: The King looked at the white rabbit, who said, in
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 5: a low voice, your majesty must make her tell. Well,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 5: if I must, I must, said the king with a
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 5: sad look. He folded his arms and frowned at the
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 5: cook till his eyes were almost out of sight. Then asked,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 5: in a most stern voice, what ought taughts made of.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: Papa?
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 5: Mostly, said the cook. Sugar said a weak voice near her,
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 5: keep that dormouse. The queen shrieked off with his head.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 5: Turn him out of court. Pitch him off with his head.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 5: The whole court ran here and there, getting the dormouse
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 5: turned out, and by the time this was done, the
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 5: cook had gone. That's all right, said the king, as
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 5: if he were glad to be rid of her call.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 5: The next and he added in a low tone to
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 5: the Queen, now, dear, you must take the next witness
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  Speaker 5: in hand. Quite makes my head ache. Alice watched the
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  Speaker 5: white rabbit as he looked over the list. She thought
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  Speaker 5: to herself, I want to see what the next witness
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  Speaker 5: will be like, for they haven't found out much yet.
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  Speaker 5: Think if you can, how she felt when the white
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  Speaker 5: rabbit read out at the top of his shrill, little
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  Speaker 5: voice the name Alice. End of chapter of eleven. Recording
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  Speaker 5: by Chris.
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  Speaker 2: Mownd Chapter eight of Alice in Wonderland. This is a
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  Speaker 2: Read by Ruhie Hauck. Alice in Wonderland in words of
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  Speaker 2: one syllable by J. C. Gorham, Chapter twelve. Alice understand here,
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  Speaker 2: cried Alice. But she quite forgot how love she had
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  Speaker 2: grown in the last few minutes, and jumped up in
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  Speaker 2: such haste that the edge of her skirt tipped the
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  Speaker 2: jury box and turned them all out on the heads
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  Speaker 2: of the crowd below. And there they lay sprawling about,
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  Speaker 2: which made her think of a globe of goldfish which
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  Speaker 2: she had upset the week before. Oh, I beg your pardon,
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  Speaker 2: she said, and picked them up and put them back
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  Speaker 2: in the jury box as fast as she could. The
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  Speaker 2: trial cannot go on, said the King in a grave voice,
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  Speaker 2: till all the men are back in place. All he
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  Speaker 2: said with great force, and looked hard at Alice. She
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  Speaker 2: looked at the jury box and saw that in her
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  Speaker 2: haste she had put the lizard in the head first,
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  Speaker 2: and the poor thing was waving its stail in the air,
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  Speaker 2: but could not move. She soon got it out and
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  Speaker 2: put it right. Not that it matters much, she thought,
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  Speaker 2: I should think it would be quite as much use
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  Speaker 2: in the trial one way up as the other. As
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  Speaker 2: soon as their slates and pencils had been handed back
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  Speaker 2: to them, the jury set to work to write out
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  Speaker 2: an account of their fall. All but the lizard, who
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  Speaker 2: seemed too weak to write, but sat and gazed up
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  Speaker 2: into the roof of the court. What do you know
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  Speaker 2: of this case, the king asked Alice. Not one thing,
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  Speaker 2: said Alice. Not one thing at all, asked the king.
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  Speaker 2: Not one thing at all, said Alice. Write that down,
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  Speaker 2: the king said to the jury. The king sat for
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  Speaker 2: some time and wrote in his note book. Then he
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  Speaker 2: called out silence and read from his book rule forty two,
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  Speaker 2: each one more than a mile high to leave. The court.
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  Speaker 2: All looked at Alice. I'm not a mile high, said Alice.
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  Speaker 2: You are, said the king, not far from two miles high,
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  Speaker 2: added the Queen. Well I shan't go, said Alice, for
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  Speaker 2: I know that's a new rule you have just made.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first rule in the book, said the King.
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  Speaker 2: Then it ought to be rule one, said Alice. The
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  Speaker 2: King turned pale and shut his note book at once.
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  Speaker 2: The jury can now take the case, he said in
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  Speaker 2: a weak voice. There's more to come yet, Please your majesty,
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  Speaker 2: said the white rabbit as he jumped up. This thing
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  Speaker 2: has just been picked up. What's in it, asked the Queen.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't read it yet, said the white rabbit. But
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  Speaker 2: it seems to be a note from the nave of
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  Speaker 2: hearts to some one whose name is on it, said
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  Speaker 2: one of the jurors. There's no name on it, said
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  Speaker 2: the white rabbit. He looked at it with more care
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  Speaker 2: as he spoke, and added, it isn't a note at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's a set of rhymes. Please your majesty, said the knave.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't write it, and they can't prove that I did.
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  Speaker 2: There's no name signed at the end. If you didn't
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  Speaker 2: sign it, said the king. That makes your case burse.
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  Speaker 2: You must have meant some harm, or you'd have signed
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  Speaker 2: your name like an honest man. All clap their hands
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  Speaker 2: at this, as it was the first smart thing the
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  Speaker 2: king had said that day. That proves his guilt, said
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  Speaker 2: the Queen. It does not prove a thing, said Alice.
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  Speaker 2: Why you don't so much as know what the rhymes are?
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  Speaker 2: Read them, said the king. Where should I begin, your majesty,
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  Speaker 2: The white rabbit asked why at the first verse? Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the King said, looking grave, and go on till you
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  Speaker 2: come to the end. Then stop. The white rabbit read.
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  Speaker 2: They told me you had been to her and spoke
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  Speaker 2: of me to him. She gave me a good name, indeed,
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  Speaker 2: but said I could not swim. He sent them word
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  Speaker 2: that I had gone. We know it to be true.
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  Speaker 2: If she should push the matter on, what would become
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  Speaker 2: of you. I gave her one, They gave him two.
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  Speaker 2: You gave us three or more. They all came back
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  Speaker 2: from him to you, though they were mine before. My
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  Speaker 2: notion was she liked him best before she had this fit.
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  Speaker 2: This must be kept from all the rest but him
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  Speaker 2: and you and it. That's the best thing we've heard yet,
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  Speaker 2: said the King, rubbing his hands as if much pleased.
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  Speaker 2: So now let the jury if one of you can
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  Speaker 2: tell what it means, said Alice. She had grown so
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  Speaker 2: large by this time that she had no fear of
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  Speaker 2: the king. I would be glad to hear it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think there's a grain of sense in it, the
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  Speaker 2: jury all wrote down on their slates. She doesn't think
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  Speaker 2: there's a grain of sense in it. But no one
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  Speaker 2: tried to tell what it meant. If there's no sense
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  Speaker 2: in it, said the king. That saves a world of work,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as we needn't try to find it. And
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  Speaker 2: yet I don't know, he went on, as he spread
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  Speaker 2: out the rhymes on his knee and looked at them
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  Speaker 2: with one eye. I seem to find some sense in them,
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  Speaker 2: said I could not swim. You can't swim, can you,
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  Speaker 2: he added, turning to the knave. The knave shook his
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  Speaker 2: head with a sigh. Do I look like it? He said,
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  Speaker 2: which it was plain he did not, as he was
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  Speaker 2: made of cardboard. All right, so far, said the king,
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  Speaker 2: and he went on, we know it to be true.
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  Speaker 2: That's the jury. Of course. I gave her one. They
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  Speaker 2: gave him two. That must be what he did with
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  Speaker 2: the tarts, you know. But it goes on. They all
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  Speaker 2: came back from him to you, said Alice. Why there
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  Speaker 2: they are, said the King, pointing to the tarts. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: that as clear as can be? Then it goes on.
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  Speaker 2: Before she had this fit. You don't have fits, my dear,
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  Speaker 2: I think, he said to the Queen. No, no, said
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  Speaker 2: the Queen, in a great rage, throwing an ink stand
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  Speaker 2: at the lizard as she spoke. Then the words don't
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  Speaker 2: fit you, he said, and looked round the court with
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  Speaker 2: a smile. But no one spoke. It's a pun, he added,
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  Speaker 2: in a fierce stone. Then all the court laughed. Let
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  Speaker 2: the jury now bring in their verdict. The king said, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: said the queen. Sentence first, then the verdict. Such stuff,
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  Speaker 2: said Alice, out loud. Of course, the jury must make
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  Speaker 2: hold your tongue, screamed the Queen. I won't, said Alice.
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  Speaker 2: Off with her head, shouted the Queen at the top
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  Speaker 2: of a voice. No one moved. Who cares for you,
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  Speaker 2: said Alice. She had grown to her full size by
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  Speaker 2: this time, you are nothing but a pack of cards.
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  Speaker 2: At this the whole pack rose up in the air
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  Speaker 2: and flew down upon her. She grave a little scream
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  Speaker 2: and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying
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  Speaker 2: on the bank with her head in the lap of
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  Speaker 2: her sister, who was brushing away some dead leaves that
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  Speaker 2: had fluttered down from the trees onto her face. Who
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  Speaker 2: wake up? Alice, dear, said her sister. Why what a
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  Speaker 2: long sleep you have had. Oh, I have had such
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  Speaker 2: a strange dream, said Alice. And then she told her
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  Speaker 2: sister as well as she could all these strange things
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  Speaker 2: that you have just read about. And when she came
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  Speaker 2: to the end of it, her sister kissed her and said,
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  Speaker 2: it was a strange dream, dear, I'm sure, but run
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  Speaker 2: now into your tea. It's getting late. So Alice got
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  Speaker 2: up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well
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  Speaker 2: she might, what a wonderful dream it had been. End
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  Speaker 2: of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland re told in words of
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  Speaker 2: one syllable by Missus J. C. Gorham