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02 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll · Thrilling Adventures - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, The Pool of Tears. Curious Sir, and curious sir,
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  Speaker 1: cried Alice. She was so much surprised that for the
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  Speaker 1: moment she quite forgot how to speak good English. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm opening out like their largest telescope that ever was
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  Speaker 1: good bye feet, for when she looked down at her feet,
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  Speaker 1: they seemed to be almost out of sight. They were
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  Speaker 1: getting so far off. Oh my poor little feet. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you? Now, DearS,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I shan't be able to. I shall be
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  Speaker 1: a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you.
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  Speaker 1: You must manage the best you can. But I must
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  Speaker 1: be kind to them, thought Alice. Or perhaps they won't
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  Speaker 1: walk the way I want to go. Let me see.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: And she went on planning to herself how she should
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  Speaker 1: manage it. They must go by carrier, she thought, And
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  Speaker 1: how funny i'll seem sending presents to one's own, and
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  Speaker 1: how odd the directions will look. Alice's right foot a
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  Speaker 1: squire hearth rug near the fender with Alice's love. Oh dear,
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  Speaker 1: what nonsense I'm talking just then her head struck against
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  Speaker 1: the roof of the hall. In fact, she was now
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  Speaker 1: more than nine feet high, and she at once took
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  Speaker 1: up the little golden key and hurried off to the
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  Speaker 1: garden door. Poor Alice, it was as much as she
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  Speaker 1: could do, lying down on one side to look through
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  Speaker 1: the into the garden with one eye, but to get
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  Speaker 1: through was more hopeless than ever. She sat down and
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  Speaker 1: began to cry again. You ought to be ashamed of yourself,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice. A great girl like you, she might well
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  Speaker 1: say this, to go on crying in this way, stop
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  Speaker 1: this moment, I tell you. But she went on all
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  Speaker 1: the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a
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  Speaker 1: large pull all around her, about four inches deep and
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  Speaker 1: reaching half down the hall. After a time, she heard
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  Speaker 1: a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she
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  Speaker 1: hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It
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  Speaker 1: was the white rabbit, returning, splendidly dressed with a pair
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  Speaker 1: of white kid gloves in one hand and a large
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  Speaker 1: fan in the other. He came trotting along in a
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  Speaker 1: great hurry, muttering to himself as he came. Oh, the duchess,
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  Speaker 1: the duchess, Oh, won't she be savage if I've kept
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  Speaker 1: her waiting. Alice felt so desperate that she was ready
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  Speaker 1: to ask help of anyone. So when the rabbit came
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  Speaker 1: near her, she began in a low, timid voice, if
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  Speaker 1: you please, sir. The rabbit started violently, dropped the white
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  Speaker 1: kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the
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  Speaker 1: darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up
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  Speaker 1: the fan and gloves, and as the hall was very hot,
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  Speaker 1: she kept fanning herself all the time. She went on talking, dear, dear,
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  Speaker 1: how queer everything is today, and yesterday things went on
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  Speaker 1: just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in
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  Speaker 1: the night. Let me think was I the same when
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  Speaker 1: I got up this morning? I almost think I can
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  Speaker 1: remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same,
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  Speaker 1: the next question is who in the world am I? Ah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the great puzzle. And she began thinking over all
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  Speaker 1: the children that she knew that were of the same
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  Speaker 1: age as herself, to see if she could have been
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  Speaker 1: changed for any of them. I'm sure I'm not eighta,
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  Speaker 1: she said, for her hair goes in such long ringlets,
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  Speaker 1: and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of things, and she, oh, she knows such a very
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  Speaker 1: little Besides she she and I'm I and oh dear,
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  Speaker 1: how puzzling it all is. I'll try if I know
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  Speaker 1: all the things I used to know. Let me see,
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  Speaker 1: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: and four times seven is Oh, oh dear, I shall
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  Speaker 1: never get to twenty at that rate. However, the multiplication
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  Speaker 1: table does it signify. Let's try geography. London is the
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  Speaker 1: capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,
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  Speaker 1: and Rome. No, that's all wrong. I'm certain I must
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  Speaker 1: have been changed for Mabel. I'll try and say, how
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  Speaker 1: doth the little and she crossed her hands on her lap,
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  Speaker 1: as if she were saying lessons, and begin repeat it,
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  Speaker 1: But her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words
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  Speaker 1: did not come the same as they used to. How
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  Speaker 1: doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail and pour
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  Speaker 1: the waters of the nile on every golden scale? How
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  Speaker 1: cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spread his claws
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  Speaker 1: and welcome little fishes in with gently smiling jaws, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure those are not the right words, said poor Alice,
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  Speaker 1: and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on,
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  Speaker 1: I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have
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  Speaker 1: to go and live in that poky little house and
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  Speaker 1: have next to no toys to play with, and oh, ever,
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  Speaker 1: so many lessons to learn. No, I've made up my
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  Speaker 1: mind about it. If I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be no use their putting their heads down and
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  Speaker 1: saying come up again, dear. I shall only look up
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  Speaker 1: and say who am I? Then tell me that first,
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  Speaker 1: and then if I like being that person, I'll come up.
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  Speaker 1: If not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: But oh, dear, cried Alice with a sudden burst of tears.
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  Speaker 1: I do wish they would put their heads down. I
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  Speaker 1: am so very tired of being all alone here. As
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  Speaker 1: she said this, she looked down at her hands and
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  Speaker 1: was surprised to see that she had put on one
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  Speaker 1: of the rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking.
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  Speaker 1: How can I have done that? She thought, I must
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  Speaker 1: be growing small again. She got up and went to
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  Speaker 1: the table to measure herself by it, and found that
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  Speaker 1: as nearly she could guess. She was now about two
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  Speaker 1: feet high and was going on shrinking rapidly. She soon
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  Speaker 1: found out that the cause of this was the fan
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  Speaker 1: that she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just
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  Speaker 1: in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. That was a
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  Speaker 1: narrow escape, said Alice, a good deal frightened at the
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  Speaker 1: sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence.
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  Speaker 1: And now for the garden, and she ran with all
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  Speaker 1: speed back to the little door. But alas the door
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  Speaker 1: was shut again, and the little golden key was lying
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  Speaker 1: on the glass table as before. And things are worse
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  Speaker 1: than ever, thought the poor child. For I never was
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  Speaker 1: so small as this before, never, And I declare it's
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  Speaker 1: too bad that it is. As she said these words,
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  Speaker 1: her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash, she was
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  Speaker 1: up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea
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  Speaker 1: was that she had somehow fallen into the sea. And
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  Speaker 1: in that case I can go back by railway, she
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  Speaker 1: said to herself. Alice had been to the seaside once
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  Speaker 1: in her life. That could come to the general conclusion
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  Speaker 1: that wherever you go on the English coast you find
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  Speaker 1: a number of bathing machines. In the sea, some children
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  Speaker 1: digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row
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  Speaker 1: of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station. However,
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  Speaker 1: she soon made out that she was in a pool
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  Speaker 1: of tears, which she had wept when she was nine
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  Speaker 1: feet high. I wish I hadn't cried so much, said Alice,
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  Speaker 1: as she swam about trying to find her way out.
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  Speaker 1: I shall be punished for it now, I suppose by
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  Speaker 1: being drowned in my own tears, that will be a
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  Speaker 1: queer thing, to be sure. However, everything is queer to day.
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  Speaker 1: Just then she heard something splash about in the pool
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  Speaker 1: a little way off, and she swam nearer to make
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  Speaker 1: out what it was. At first she thought it must
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  Speaker 1: be a walrus or aippopotamus, but then she remembered how
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  Speaker 1: small she was now, and she soon made out that
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  Speaker 1: it was only a mouse that had slipped in like her.
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  Speaker 1: Would it be of any use, now, thought Alice to
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  Speaker 1: speak to this mouse. Everything is so out of the
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  Speaker 1: way down here that I should think very likely it
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  Speaker 1: can talk at any rate. There's no harm in trying,
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  Speaker 1: So she began, Oh, mouse, do you know the way
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  Speaker 1: out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming
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  Speaker 1: about here, Oh mouse, Alice thought this must be the
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  Speaker 1: right way of speaking to a mouse. She had never
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  Speaker 1: done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen
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  Speaker 1: her brother's Latin grammar A mouse of a mouse to
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  Speaker 1: a mouse, a mouse o mouse. The mouse looked at
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  Speaker 1: her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with
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  Speaker 1: one of its little eyes. But it said nothing. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't understand English, thought Alice. I dare say it's
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  Speaker 1: a French mouse. Come over with William the Conqueror. With
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  Speaker 1: all her knowledge of history, Alice had no clear notion
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  Speaker 1: how long ago anything had happened, so she began again
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  Speaker 1: whiz monschat, which was the first sentence in her French
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  Speaker 1: lesson book. The mouse gave a sudden leap out of
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  Speaker 1: the water and seemed to quiver all over with fright.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I beg your pardon, cried Alice, hastily, afraid that
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  Speaker 1: she had hurt the poor animal's feelings. I quite forgot.
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  Speaker 1: You don't like cats. Not like cats, cried the mouse
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  Speaker 1: in a shrill, passionate voice. Would you like cats if
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  Speaker 1: you were me? Well? Perhaps not, said Alice in a
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  Speaker 1: soothing tone. Don't be angry about it. And yet I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could show you our cat, Dinah. I think
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  Speaker 1: you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only
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  Speaker 1: see her. She is such a dear, quiet thing, Alice
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  Speaker 1: went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about
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  Speaker 1: in the pool. And she sits purring so nicely by
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  Speaker 1: the fire, licking her paws and washing her face. And
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  Speaker 1: she is such a nice soft thing to nurse, and
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  Speaker 1: she's such a capital one for catching mice. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: beg your pardon, cried Alice again. For this time the
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  Speaker 1: mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it
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  Speaker 1: must be really offended. We won't talk about her any more,
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  Speaker 1: if you'd rather not, we indeed, cried the mouse, who
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  Speaker 1: was trembling down to the end of his tail. As
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  Speaker 1: if I would talk on such a subject. Our family
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  Speaker 1: always hated cats, nasty, low, vulgar things. Don't let me
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  Speaker 1: hear the name again. I won't, indeed, said Alice, in
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  Speaker 1: great hurry to change the subject conversation. And you are
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  Speaker 1: you fond of dogs? The mouse did not answer, so
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  Speaker 1: Alice went on eagerly. There was such a nice little
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  Speaker 1: dog near our house. I should like to show you
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  Speaker 1: a little bright eyed terror, you know, with oh such
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  Speaker 1: long curly brown hair, and it'll fetch things when you
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  Speaker 1: throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner,
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  Speaker 1: and all sorts of things. I can't remember half of them.
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  Speaker 1: And it belongs to a farmer, you know. And he
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  Speaker 1: says it's so useful it's worth a hundred pounds. He
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  Speaker 1: says it kills all the rat si oh, dear, cried
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  Speaker 1: Alice in a sorrowful tone. I'm afraid I've offended again.
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  Speaker 1: For the mouse was swimming away from her as hard
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  Speaker 1: as it could go, and making quite a commotion in
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  Speaker 1: the pool as it went. So, she called softly after it, Mouse, dear,
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  Speaker 1: do come back again. And I won't talk about cats
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  Speaker 1: or dogs either, if you don't like them. When the
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  Speaker 1: mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back
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  Speaker 1: to her. Its face was quite pale with passion. Alice thought,
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  Speaker 1: and it said, in a low trembling voice, let us
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  Speaker 1: get to the shore, and then i'll tell you my
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  Speaker 1: history and you'll understand why it is that I hate
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  Speaker 1: cats and dogs. It was high time to go, for
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  Speaker 1: the pool was getting quite crowded with birds and animals.
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  Speaker 1: That had fallen into it. There was a duck and
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  Speaker 1: a dodo, a lorry and an eaglet, and several other
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  Speaker 1: curious creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party
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  Speaker 1: swam to the shore. End of Chapter two