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Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll · Audiobooks & Scary Stories

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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this reading, which comes from a
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  Speaker 1: work in the public domain, Through the Looking Glass by
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  Speaker 1: Lewis Carroll, Chapter one, looking Glass House. One thing was
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  Speaker 1: certain that the white kitten had had nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with it. It was the black kitten's fault entirely. For
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  Speaker 1: the white kitten had been having its face washed by
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  Speaker 1: the old cat for the last quarter of an hour,
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  Speaker 1: and bearing it pretty well considering, so you see that
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  Speaker 1: it couldn't have had any hand in the mischief. The
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  Speaker 1: way Dinah washed her children's faces was this. First she
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  Speaker 1: held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw,
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  Speaker 1: and then with the other paw she rubbed its face
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  Speaker 1: all over the wrong way, beginning at the nose. And
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  Speaker 1: just now, as I said, she was hard at work
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  Speaker 1: on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and
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  Speaker 1: trying to purr, no doubt, feeling that it was all
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  Speaker 1: meant for its good. But the black kitten had been
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  Speaker 1: finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so while Alice
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  Speaker 1: was sitting curled up in a corner of the great
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  Speaker 1: arm chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the
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  Speaker 1: kitten had been having a grand game of romps with
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  Speaker 1: the ball of Worsted, Alice had been trying to wind up,
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  Speaker 1: and had been rolling it up and down till it
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  Speaker 1: had all come undone again. And there it was spread
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  Speaker 1: over the hearth rug, all knots and tangles, with the
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  Speaker 1: kitten running after its own tail in the middle. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you wicked little thing, cried Alice, catching up the kitten
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  Speaker 1: and giving it a little kiss to make it understand
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  Speaker 1: that it was in disgrace. Really, Dinah ought to have
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  Speaker 1: taught you better manners. You ought, Dinah, you know you ought,
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  Speaker 1: she added, looking reproachfully at the old cat and speaking
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  Speaker 1: in as cross a voice as she could manage. And
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  Speaker 1: then she scrambled back into the arm chair, taking the
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  Speaker 1: kitten and the Worsted with her, and began winding up
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  Speaker 1: the ball again. But she didn't get on very fast,
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  Speaker 1: as she was talking all the time, sometimes to the
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  Speaker 1: kitten and sometimes to herself. Kitty sat very demurely on
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  Speaker 1: her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding,
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  Speaker 1: and now and then hooding out one paw and gently
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  Speaker 1: touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help,
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  Speaker 1: if it might. Do you know what tomorrow is, kitty,
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  Speaker 1: Alice began, you'd have guessed if you'd been up in
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  Speaker 1: the window with me. Only Dinah was making you tidy
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  Speaker 1: so you couldn't. I was watching the boys getting in
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  Speaker 1: sticks for the bonfire, and it wants plenty of sticks, kitty.
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  Speaker 1: Only it got so cold and it snowed, so they
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  Speaker 1: had to leave off. Never mind, kitty, we'll go and
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  Speaker 1: see the bonfire tomorrow. Hear, Alice wound two or three
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  Speaker 1: turns of the worsted round the kitten's neck, just to
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  Speaker 1: see how it would look. This led to a scramble
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  Speaker 1: in which the ball rolled down upon the floor, and
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  Speaker 1: yards and yards of it got unwound again. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know I was so angry, kitty, Alice went on as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they were comfortably settled again, when I saw
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  Speaker 1: all the mischief you had been doing, I was very
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  Speaker 1: nearly opening the window and putting you out into the snow.
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  Speaker 1: And you'd have deserved it, you little mischievous darling. What
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  Speaker 1: have you got to say for yourself? Now don't interrupt me,
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  Speaker 1: she went on, holding up one finger. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you all your faults. Number one, you squeaked twice
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  Speaker 1: while Dinah was washing your face this morning. Now you
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  Speaker 1: can't deny it. Kitty, I heard you. What's that you say?
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  Speaker 1: Pretending that the kitten was speaking, her paw went into
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  Speaker 1: your eye. Well that's your fault for keeping your eyes open.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd shut them tied up, it wouldn't have happened. Now,
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  Speaker 1: don't make any more excuses, but listen. Number two, you
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  Speaker 1: pulled snowdrop away by the tail, just as I had
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  Speaker 1: put down the saucer of milk before her. What you
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  Speaker 1: were thirsty, were you? How do you know she wasn't
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  Speaker 1: thirsty too? Now for number three, you unwound every bit
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  Speaker 1: of the worsted while I wasn't looking. That's three faults, kitty,
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  Speaker 1: and you've not been punished for any of them yet.
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  Speaker 1: You know I'm saving up all your punishments for Wednesday week.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose they had saved up all my punishments. She went on,
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  Speaker 1: talking more to herself than the kitten. What would they
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  Speaker 1: do at the end of a year. I should be
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  Speaker 1: sent to prison. I suppose when the day came, or
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  Speaker 1: let me see, suppose each punishment was to be going
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  Speaker 1: without a dinner. Then when the miserable day came, I
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  Speaker 1: should have to go without fifty dinners at once. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't mind that much, I'd far rather go without
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  Speaker 1: them than eat them. Do you hear the snow against
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  Speaker 1: the window panes, Kitty, How nice and soft it sounds,
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  Speaker 1: just as if some one was kissing the window all
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  Speaker 1: over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees
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  Speaker 1: and fields that it kisses them so gently, and then
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  Speaker 1: it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt,
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  Speaker 1: And perhaps it says, go to sleep, darlings till the
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  Speaker 1: summer comes again. And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty,
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  Speaker 1: they dressed themselves all in green and dance about whenever
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  Speaker 1: the wind blows. Oh that's very pretty, cried Alice, dropping
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  Speaker 1: the ball of worsted to clap her hands. And I
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  Speaker 1: do so wish it was true. I'm sure the woods
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  Speaker 1: look sleepy in the autumn when the leaves are getting brown, Kitty.
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  Speaker 1: Can you play chess now? Don't smile, my dear. I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking it seriously, because when we were playing just now,
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  Speaker 1: you watched just as if you understood it, and when
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  Speaker 1: I said check, you purred. Well, it was a nice check, kitty,
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  Speaker 1: And really I might have won if it hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: for that nasty night that came wiggling down among my pieces, kitty, dear,
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  Speaker 1: Let's pretend, and here I wish I could tell you
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  Speaker 1: half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her
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  Speaker 1: favorite phrase, Let's pretend. She had had quite a long
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  Speaker 1: argument with her sister only the day before, all because
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  Speaker 1: Alice had begun with let's pretend we're kings and queen's
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  Speaker 1: and her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued
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  Speaker 1: that they couldn't because there were only two of them,
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  Speaker 1: and Alice had been reduced at last to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you can be one of them then, and I'll be
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  Speaker 1: all the rest. And once she had really frightened her
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  Speaker 1: old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear, nurse, do
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  Speaker 1: let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena and you're a bone.
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  Speaker 1: But this is taking us away from Alice's speech to
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  Speaker 1: the kitten. Let's pretend that you're the Red queen. Kitty.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know I think if you sat up and
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  Speaker 1: folded your arms, you'd look exactly like her? Now do try?
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  Speaker 1: There's a deer. And Alice got the Red Queen off
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  Speaker 1: the table and set it up before the kitten as
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  Speaker 1: a model for it to imitate. However, the thing didn't
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  Speaker 1: succeed principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its
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  Speaker 1: arms properly. So to punish it, she held it up
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  Speaker 1: to the looking glass that it might see how sulky
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  Speaker 1: it was. And if you're not good directly, she added,
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  Speaker 1: I'll put you through into looking glass house. How would
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  Speaker 1: you like that? Now, if you'll only attend kitty and
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  Speaker 1: not talk so much, I'll tell you all my ideas
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  Speaker 1: about looking glass house. First, there's the room you can
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  Speaker 1: see through the glass. That's just the same as our
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  Speaker 1: drawing room, only the things go the other way. I
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  Speaker 1: can see all of it when I get upon a chair,
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  Speaker 1: all but the bit behind the fireplace. Oh, I do
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  Speaker 1: so wish I could see that bit. I want so
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  Speaker 1: much to know whether they've a fire in the winter.
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  Speaker 1: You never can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes,
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  Speaker 1: And then smoke comes up in that room too, But
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  Speaker 1: that may be only pretense, just to make it look
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  Speaker 1: as if they had a fire. Well, then the books
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  Speaker 1: are something like our books, only the words go the
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  Speaker 1: wrong way. I know that because I've held up one
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  Speaker 1: of our books to the glass, and then they hold
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  Speaker 1: up one in the other room. How would you like
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  Speaker 1: to live in looking Glass House, Kitty? I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: they'd give you milk in there. Perhaps looking glass milk
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  Speaker 1: isn't good to drink. But, oh, kitty, now we come
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  Speaker 1: to the passage. You can just see a little peep
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  Speaker 1: of the passage in looking Glass House if you leave
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  Speaker 1: the door of our drawing room wide open, and it's
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  Speaker 1: very like our passage as far as you can see.
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  Speaker 1: Only you know, it may be quite different on beyond. Oh, kitty,
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  Speaker 1: how nice it would be if we could only get
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  Speaker 1: through into looking Glass House. I'm sure it's got oh
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  Speaker 1: such beautiful things in it. Let's pretend there's a way
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  Speaker 1: of getting through into it somehow, kitty. Let's pretend the
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  Speaker 1: glass has got all soft like gauze so that we
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  Speaker 1: can get through. Why it's turning into a sort of mist. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I declare it'll be easy enough to get through. She
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  Speaker 1: was up on the chimney piece while she said this,
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  Speaker 1: though she hardly knew how she had got there, and
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  Speaker 1: certainly the glass was beginning to melt away just like
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  Speaker 1: a bright, silvery mist. In another moment, Alice was through
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  Speaker 1: the glass and had jumped lightly down into the looking
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  Speaker 1: glass room. The very first thing she did was to
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  Speaker 1: look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and
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  Speaker 1: she was quite pleased to find that there was a
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  Speaker 1: real one blazing away as brightly as the one she
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  Speaker 1: had left behind. So I shall be as warm here
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  Speaker 1: as I was in the old room, thought Alice. Warmer
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  Speaker 1: in fact, because there'll be no one here to scold
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  Speaker 1: me away from the fire. Oh what fun it'll be
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  Speaker 1: when they see me through the glass in here and
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  Speaker 1: can't get at me. Then she began looking about and
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  Speaker 1: noticed that what could be seen from the old room
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  Speaker 1: was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest
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  Speaker 1: was as different as possible. For instance, the pictures on
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  Speaker 1: the wall next the fire seemed to be all alive,
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  Speaker 1: and the very clock on the chimney piece, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can only see the back of it in the
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  Speaker 1: looking glass, had got the face of a little old
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  Speaker 1: man and grinned at her. They don't keep this room
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  Speaker 1: so tidy as the other, Alice thought to herself, as
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  Speaker 1: she noticed several of the chess men down in the
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  Speaker 1: hearth among the cinders. But in another moment, with a
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  Speaker 1: little oh of surprise, she was down on her hands
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  Speaker 1: and knees, watching them. The chess men were walking about
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  Speaker 1: two and two. Here are the Red King and the
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  Speaker 1: Red Queen, Alice said in a whisper, for fear of
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  Speaker 1: frightening them. And there are the White King and the
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  Speaker 1: White Queen sitting on the edge of a shovel. And
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  Speaker 1: here are two castles walking arm in arm. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they can hear me, she went on, as she
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  Speaker 1: put her head closer down. And I'm nearly sure they
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  Speaker 1: can't see me. I feel, somehow, as if I were invisible.
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  Speaker 1: Here something began squeaking on the table behind Alice and
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  Speaker 1: made her turn her head just in time to see
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  Speaker 1: one of the white pawns roll over and begin kicking.
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  Speaker 1: She watched it with great curiosity to see what would
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  Speaker 1: happen next. It is the voice of my child, the
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  Speaker 1: White Queen cried out as she rushed past the King
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  Speaker 1: so violently that she knocked him over among the cinders.
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  Speaker 1: My precious lily, my imperial kitten, and she he began
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  Speaker 1: scrambling wildly up the side of the fender. Imperial fiddlestick,
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  Speaker 1: said the King, rubbing his nose, which had been hurt
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  Speaker 1: by the fall. He had a right to be a
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  Speaker 1: little annoyed with the Queen, for he was covered with
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  Speaker 1: ashes from head to foot. Alice was very anxious to
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  Speaker 1: be of use, and as the poor little Lily was
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  Speaker 1: nearly screaming herself into a fit, she hastily picked up
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  Speaker 1: the queen and set her on the table by the
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  Speaker 1: side of her noisy little daughter. The queen gasped and
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  Speaker 1: sat down. The rapid journey through the air had quite
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  Speaker 1: taken away her breath, and for a minute or two
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  Speaker 1: she could do nothing but hug the little lily in silence.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as she had recovered her breath a little,
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  Speaker 1: she called out to the White King, who was sitting
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  Speaker 1: sulkily among the ashes. Mined the volcano. What volcano, said
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  Speaker 1: the king, looking up anxiously into the fire, as if
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  Speaker 1: he thought that was the most likely place to find
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  Speaker 1: one blue meat up, panted the Queen, who was still
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  Speaker 1: a little out of breath. Mind you come up the
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  Speaker 1: regular way, don't get blown up. Alice watched the White
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  Speaker 1: King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar,
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  Speaker 1: till at last she said, why, you'll be hours and
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  Speaker 1: hours getting to the table at that rate. I'd far
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  Speaker 1: better help you, hadn't I But The King took no
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  Speaker 1: notice of the question. It was quite clear that he
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  Speaker 1: could neither hear her nor see her. So Alice picked
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  Speaker 1: him up very gently and lifted him across, more slowly
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  Speaker 1: than she had lifted the Queen, that she mightn't take
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  Speaker 1: his breath away. But before she put him on the table,
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  Speaker 1: she thought she might as well dust him a little.
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  Speaker 1: He was so covered with ashes. She said afterwards that
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  Speaker 1: she had never seen in all her life such a
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  Speaker 1: face as the King made when he found himself held
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  Speaker 1: in the air by an invisible hand and being dusted.
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  Speaker 1: He was far too much astonished to cry out, But
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  Speaker 1: his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger,
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  Speaker 1: and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with
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  Speaker 1: laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh please, don't make such faces, my dear, she cried out,
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  Speaker 1: quite forgetting that the King couldn't hear her. You make
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  Speaker 1: me laugh so that I can hardly hold you. And
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  Speaker 1: don't keep your mouth so wide open all the ashes
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  Speaker 1: will get into it. There now, I think you're tidy enough,
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  Speaker 1: she added, as she smoothed his hair and set him
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  Speaker 1: upon the table near the queen. The King immediately fell
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  Speaker 1: flat on his back and lay perfectly still, and Alice
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  Speaker 1: was a little alarmed at what she had done, and
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  Speaker 1: went round the room to see if she could find
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  Speaker 1: any water to throw over him. However, she could find
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  Speaker 1: nothing but a bottle of ink, and when she got
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  Speaker 1: back with it, she found he had recovered, and he
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  Speaker 1: and the queen were talking together in a frightened whisper,
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  Speaker 1: so low that Alice could hardly hear what they said.
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  Speaker 1: The king was saying, I assure you, my dear, I
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  Speaker 1: turned cold to the very ends of my whiskers, to
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  Speaker 1: which the queen replied, you haven't got any whiskers. The
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  Speaker 1: horror of that moment, the King went on, I shall
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  Speaker 1: never never forget you will, though the queen said, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't make a memorandum of it. Alice looked on
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  Speaker 1: with great interest as the King took an enormous memorandum
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  Speaker 1: book out of his pocket and began writing. A sudden
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  Speaker 1: thought struck her, and she took hold of the end
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  Speaker 1: of the pencil, which came some way over his shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: and began writing for him. The poor king looked puzzled
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  Speaker 1: and unhappy, and struggled with the pencil for some time
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  Speaker 1: without saying anything, but Alice was too strong for him,
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  Speaker 1: and at last he panted out, my dear, I really
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  Speaker 1: must get a thinner pencil. I can't manage this one
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  Speaker 1: a bit. It writes all manner of things that I
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  Speaker 1: don't intend. What manner of things, said the queen, looking
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  Speaker 1: over the book in which Alice had put. The White
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  Speaker 1: Knight is sliding down the poker. He balances very badly.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a memorandum of your feelings. There was a
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  Speaker 1: book lying near Alice on the table, and while she
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  Speaker 1: sat watching the White King, for she was still a
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  Speaker 1: little anxious about him, and had the ink all ready
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  Speaker 1: to throw over him in case he fainted again, she
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  Speaker 1: turned over the leaves to find some part that she
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  Speaker 1: could read. For it's all in some language I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: she said to herself. It was like this, dott i
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  Speaker 1: korrebache sevet it'lls eight dna gilerb sought it bough eight
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  Speaker 1: n i elmc dna eric did sevegarab eight erro ismaum
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  Speaker 1: l la dot de bartcho star ima ate dna. She
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  Speaker 1: puzzled over this for some time, but at last a
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  Speaker 1: bright thought struck her. Why it's a looking glass book,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and if I hold it up to a glass,
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  Speaker 1: the words will all go the right way again. This
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  Speaker 1: was the poem that Alice read. JABBERWOCKI twas brillig, and
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  Speaker 1: the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wave,
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  Speaker 1: All mimsy were the Borogovs, and the mom Wrath's outgrave.
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  Speaker 1: Beware the jabberwok, my son, the jaws that bite, the
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  Speaker 1: claws that catch, Beware the judge of bird, and shun
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  Speaker 1: the frommiest Bandersnatch, he took his vorpal's sword in hand.
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  Speaker 1: Long time the manxoam foe he sought, So rested he
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  Speaker 1: by the tumtum tree, and stood awhile in thought, and
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  Speaker 1: as in uffish thought he stood. The jabberwock, with eyes
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  Speaker 1: of flame, came whiffling through the tolgy wood, and burbled
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  Speaker 1: as it came, one two, one two, and through and
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  Speaker 1: through the vorpal blade went snicker snack. He left it dead,
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  Speaker 1: and with its head he went galumphing back, and hast
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  Speaker 1: thou slain the jabberwock. Come to my arms, my beamish
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  Speaker 1: boy O frabeous day callu calais he chortled in his joy,
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  Speaker 1: twas Brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble
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  Speaker 1: in the wave. All mimsy were the Borgovs and the
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  Speaker 1: mom Wrath's outgrave. It seems very pretty, she said when
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  Speaker 1: she had finished it. But it's rather hard to understand,
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  Speaker 1: you see. She didn't like to confess, even to herself
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  Speaker 1: that she couldn't make it out at all. Somehow it
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  Speaker 1: seems to fill my head with ideas, only I don't
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  Speaker 1: exactly know what they are. However, somebody killed something that's
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  Speaker 1: clear at any rate. But oh, thought Alice, suddenly, jumping up.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't make haste, I shall have to go
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  Speaker 1: back through the looking glass before I've seen what the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the house is like. Let's have a look
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  Speaker 1: at the garden first. She was out of the room
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  Speaker 1: in a moment and ran downstairs, or at least it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't exactly running, but a new invention of hers for
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  Speaker 1: getting downstairs quickly and easily, As Alice said to herself,
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  Speaker 1: she just kept the tips of her fingers on the
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  Speaker 1: hand rail and floated gently down, without even touching the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: stairs with her feet. Then she floated on through the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: hall and would have gone straight out at the door
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: in the same way if she hadn't caught hold of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the door post. She was getting a little giddy with
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: so much floating in the air, and was rather glad
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to find herself walking again in the natural way. Chapter two,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: The Garden of Live Flowers. I should see the garden
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: far better, said Alice to herself, if I could get
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: to the top of that hill. And here's a path
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: that leads straight to it at least. No, it doesn't
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: do that, after going a few yards along the path
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and turning several sharp corners, but I suppose it will
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: at last, But how curiously it twists. It's more like
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: a corkscrew than a path. Well, this turn goes to
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the hill, I suppose. No it doesn't. This goes straight
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: back to the house. Well, then I'll try it the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: other way. And so she did, wandering up and down
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the house do what she would. Indeed, once when she
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: against it before she could stop herself. It's no use
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: talking about it, Alice said, looking up at the house
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and pretending it was Arguing with her, I'm not going
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: in again yet. I know I should have to get
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: through the looking glass again back into the old room,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and there'd be an end of all my adventures. Resolutely
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: turning her back upon the house, she set out once
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: more down the path, determined to keep straight on till
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: she got to the hill. For a few minutes, all
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: went on well, and she was just saying, I really
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: shall do it this time, when the path gave a
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: sudden twist and shook itself, as she described it afterwards,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and the next moment she found herself actually walking in
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: at the door. Oh it's too bad, she cried. I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: never saw such a house for getting in the way. Never. However,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: there was the hill full in sight, so there was
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: nothing to be done but start again. This time. She
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: came upon a large flower bed with a border of
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: daisies and a willow tree growing in the middle. O
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: tiger lily, said Alice, addressing herself to one that was
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: waving gracefully about in the wind. I wish you could talk.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: We can talk, said the tiger lily, when there's anybody
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: worth talking to. Alice was so astonished that she could
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: not speak for a minute. It quite seemed to take
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: her breath away at length, as the tiger lily only
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: went on waving about. She spoke again, in a timid voice,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: almost in a whisper. And can all the flowers talk
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: as well as you can, said the tiger lily, And
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a great deal louder. It isn't manners for us to begin,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you know, said the rose. And I really was wondering
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: when you'd speak, said I to myself. Her face has
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: got some sense in it, though it's not a clever one. Still,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you're the right color, and that goes a long way.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I don't care about the color, the tiger lily remarked.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: If only her petals curled up a little more, she'd
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: be all right. Alice didn't like being criticized, so she
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: began asking questions. Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: out here with nobody to take care of you? There's
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the tree in the middle, said the rose. What else
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: is it good for? But what could it do if
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: any danger came? Alice asked? It? Says bow woff, cried
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a daisy. That's why its branches are called bows. Didn't
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: you know that? Cried another daisy? And here they all
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: began shouting together, till the air seemed quite full of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: little shrill voices. Silence, every one of you, cried the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: tiger lily, waving itself passionately from side to side and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: trembling with excitement. They know I can't get at them,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: it panted, bending its quivering head towards Alice. Or they
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: wouldn't dare to do it. Never mind, Alice said, in
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a soothing tone, and stooping down to the daisies, who
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: were just beginning again, she whispered, if you don't hold
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: your tongues, I'll pick you. There was silence in a moment,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and several of the pink daisies turned white. That's right,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: said the tiger lily. The daisies are worst of all.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: When one speaks, they all begin together, and it's enough
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: to make one wither to hear the way they go on.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: How is it you can all talk so nicely, Alice said,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I've been in many gardens before, but none of the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: flowers could talk. Put your hand down and feel the ground,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: said the tiger lily. Then you'll know why Alice did so.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: It's very hard, she said, But I don't see what
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: that has to do with it. In most gardens, the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: tiger Lily said, they make the beds too soft, so
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that the flowers are always asleep. This sounded a very
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: good reason, and Alice was quite pleased to know it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I never thought of that before, she said. It's my
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: opinion that you never think at all. The Rose said,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: in a rather severe tone, I never saw anybody that
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: looked stupider A violet said, so suddenly that Alice quite jumped,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: for it hadn't spoken before. Hold your tongue, cried the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: tiger Lily, as if you ever saw anybody, you keep
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: your head under the leaves and snore away there till
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: you know no more what's going on in the world
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: than if you were a bud. Are there any more
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: people in the garden besides me, Alice said, not choosing
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to notice the Rose's last remark. There's one other flower
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: in the garden that can move about like you, said
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the rose. I wonder how you do it. You're always wondering,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: said the tiger Lily. But she's more bushy than you are.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Is she like me? Alice asked eagerly for the thought
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: crossed her mind. There's another little girl in the garden somewhere. Well.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: She has the same awkward shape as you, the Rose said,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: but she's redder, and her petals are shorter. I think
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: her petals are done up close, almost like Adahlia, the
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: tiger lily interrupted, not tumbled about anyhow like yours. But
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: that's not your fault, the rose added kindly. You're beginning
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to fade, you know, And then one can't help one's
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: petals getting a little untidy. Alice didn't like this idea
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: at all, so to change the subject, she asked, does
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: she ever come out here? I dare say you'll see
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: her soon, said the rose. She's one of the thorny kind.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Where does she wear the thorns? Alice asked, with some curiosity,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: why all round her head? Of course, the Rose replied.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I was wondering you hadn't got some two. I thought
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: it was the regular rule. She's coming, cried the larkspur.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I hear her footstep thump, thump, thump along the gravel walk.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Alice looked round eagerly and found that it was the
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Red Queen. She's grown a good deal, was her first remark.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: She had Indeed, when Alice first found her in the ashes,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: she had been only three inches high, and here she
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: was half a head taller than Alice herself. It's the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: fresh air that does it, said the Rose. Wonderful, fully
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: fine ere it is out here. I think I'll go
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and meet her, said Alice, for though the flowers were
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: interesting enough, she felt that it would be far grander
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to have a talk with a real queen. You can't
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: possibly do that, said the Rose. I should advise you
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to walk the other way. This sounded nonsense to Alice,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: so she said nothing, but set off at once towards
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the Red Queen. To her surprise, she lost sight of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: her in a moment, and found herself walking in at
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the front door. Again. A little provoked, she drew back, and,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: after looking everywhere for the queen, whom she spied out
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: at last a long way off, she thought she would
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: try the plan, this time of walking in the opposite direction.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: It succeeded beautifully. She had not been walking a minute
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: before she found herself face to face with the Red Queen,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and full in sight of the hill she had been
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: so long aiming at. Where do you come from? Said
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the Red Queen, and where are you going? Look up,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Alice attended to all these directions and explained as well
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: as she could that she had lost her way. I
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: don't know what you mean by your way, said the queen.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: All the ways about here belonged to me. But why
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: did you come out here at all? She added, in
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a kinder tone, Curtsey, while you're thinking what to say,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: it saves time. Alice wondered a little at this, but
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: she was too much in awe of the queen to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: disbelieve it. I'll try it when I go home, she
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: thought to herself, the next time I'm a little late
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: for dinner. It's time for you to answer now, the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: queen said, looking at her. Watch open your mouth a
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: little wider when you speak, and always say your majesty.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I only wanted to see what the garden was like,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: your majesty. That's right, said the queen, patting her on
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the head, which Alice didn't like at all. Though when
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: you say garden, I've seen gardens compared with which this
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: would be a wilderness. Alice didn't dare to argue the point,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: but went on and I thought i'd try and find
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: my way to the top of that hill. When you
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: say hill, the queen interrupted, I could show you hills
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: in comparison with which you'd call that a valley. No,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't, said Alice, surprised into contradicting her. At last,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: A hill can't be a valley. You know that would
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: be nonsense. The Red Queen shook her head. You may
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: call it nonsense if you like, she said, but I've
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: heard nonsense compared with which that would be as sensible
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: as a dictionary. Alice curtsied again, as she was afraid
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: from the Queen's tone that she was a little offended,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and they walked on in silence till they got to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the top of the little hill. For some minutes, Alice
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and the most curious country it was. There were a
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: side to side, and the ground between was divided up
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: into squares by a number of little green hedges that
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: reached from brook to brook. I declare it's marked out
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: just like a large chessboard, Alice said. At last, there
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: ought to be some men moving about somewhere, and so
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: there are, she added in a tone of delight, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: went on, it's a great, huge game of chess that's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: being played all over the world. If this is the
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: world at all, you know, Oh what fun it is.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: How I wish I was one of them. I wouldn't
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: mind being a pawn if only I might join, though
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: of course I should like to be a queen best.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: She glanced rather shyly at the real queen as she
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: said this, but her companion only smiled pleasantly and said,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: that's easily managed. You can be the white queen's pawn
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: if you like, as Lily's too young to play, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: you're in the second square to begin with. When you
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: get to the eighth square, you'll be a queen. Just
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: at this moment. Somehow or other, they began to run.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: how it was that they began. All she remembers is
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: that they were running hand in hand, and the queen
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: went so fast that it was all she could do
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to keep up with her. And still the queen kept
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: crying faster, faster, but Alice felt she could not go faster,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: though she had not breath left to say so. The
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: most curious part of the thing was that the trees
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: and the other things round them never changed their places
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: at all. However fast they went, they never seemed to
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: pass anything. I wonder if all the things move along
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: with us, thought, poor puzzled Alice, and the Queen seemed
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to guess her thoughts, for she cried, faster, don't try
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to talk, not that Alice had any idea of doing that.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: She felt as if she would never be able to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: talk again. She was getting so much out of breath,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and still the Queen cried faster, faster, and dragged her along.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Are we nearly there? Alice managed to pant out at last,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Nearly there? The queen repeated, why we passed it ten
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: minutes ago? Faster? And they ran on for a time
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in silence, with the wind whistling in Alice's ears and
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: almost blowing her hair off her head. She fancied now
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: now cried the queen, faster, faster, and they went so
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: fast that at last they seemed to skim through the air,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly just
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: As Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy. The
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Queen propped her up against a tree and said, kindly,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: you may rest a little now. Alice looked round her
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: in great surprise. Why I do believe we've been under
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: this tree the whole time. Everything's just as it was.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Of course it is, said the queen. What would you
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: have it well in our country, said Alice, still panting
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: a little. You'd generally get to somewhere else if you
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: ran very fast for a long time, as we've been
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: doing a slow sort of country, said the queen. Now Here,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: you see, it takes all the running you can do
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: to keep in the same place. If you want to
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: fast as that. I'd rather not try, please, said Alice.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I'm quite content to stay here, only I am so
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: hot and thirsty. I know what you'd like, the Queen said,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: good naturedly, taking a little box out of her pocket.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Have a biscuit. Alice thought it would not be civil
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to say no, though it wasn't at all what she wanted,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: so she took it and ate it as well as
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: she could, and it was very dry, and she thought
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: she had never been so nearly choked in all her life.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: While you're refreshing yourself, said the queen, I'll just take
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the measurements, And she took a ribbon out of her
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: pocket marked in inches, and began measuring the ground and
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: sticking little pegs in here and there. At the end
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: of two yards, she said, putting in a peg to
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: mark the distance. I shall give you your directions. Have
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: another biscuit, No, thank you, said Alice. One's quite enough
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: first quenched, I hope, said the queen. Alice did not
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: know what to say to this, but luckily the Queen
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: did not wait for an answer, but went on. At
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the end of three yards, I shall repeat them for
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: fear of your forgetting them. At the end of four
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I shall say good bye, and at the end of
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: five I shall go. She had got all the pegs
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: put in by this time, and Alice looked on with
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: great interest as she returned to the tree, and then
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: began slowly walking down the row. At the two yard peg,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: she faced round and said, a pawn goes two squares
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: in its first move. You know, so you'll go very
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: quickly through the third square by rail, I should think,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and you'll find yourself in the fourth square in no time. Well,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: that square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The fifth is
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: mostly water. The sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty. But you
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: make no remark. I I didn't know I had to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: make one. Just then, Alice faltered out. You should have said,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: it's extremely kind of you to tell me all this. However,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: poll suppose it said. The seventh square is all forest. However,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: one of the knights will show you the way, and
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: in the eighth square we shall be Queen's together, and
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it's all feasting and fun. Alice got up and curtsied
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: and sat down again. At the next peg, the Queen
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: turned again, and this time she said, speak in French
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: when you can't think of the English for a thing.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Turn out your toes as you walk, and remember who
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you are. She did not wait for Alice to curtsey
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: this time, but walked on quickly to the next peg,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: where she turned for a moment to say good bye,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and then hurried on to the last. How it happened,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Alice never knew, but exactly as she came to the
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: last peg, she was gone. Whether she vanished into the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: air or whether she ran quickly into the wood. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: she can run very fast, thought Alice. There was no
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: way of guessing, but she was gone, And Alice began
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: to remember that she was a pawn, and that it
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: would soon be time for her to move. Chapter three,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Looking Glass Insects. Of course, the first thing to do
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: was to make a grand survey of the country she
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: was going to travel through. It's something very like learning geography,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: being able to see a little further. Principal rivers. There
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: are none principal mountains. I'm on the only one, but
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's got any name. Principal towns. Why
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: what are those creatures making honey down there? They can't
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: be bees. Nobody ever saw bees a mile off, you know.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: And for some time she stood silent watching one of
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: them that was bustling about among the flowers, poking its
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: probosis into them, just as if it was a regular bee,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: thought Alice. However, this was anything but a regular bee.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: In fact, it was an elephant. As Alice soon found out,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: though the idea quite took her breath away at first.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: And what enormous flowers they must be was her next idea,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: something like cottages with the roofs taken off and stalks
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: put to them, and what quantities of honey they must make.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I think I'll go down, And no, I won't just yet,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: she went on, checking herself, just as she was beginning
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: to run down the hill and trying to find some
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: excuse for turning shy. So suddenly it'll never do to
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: go down among them without a good long branch to
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: brush them away. And what fun it'll be when they
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: ask me how I like my walk, I shall say, oh,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I like it well enough. Here came the favorite little
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: toss of the head, only it was so dusty and hot,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: and the elephants did tease. So I think I'll go
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: down the other way, she said, after a pause, And
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: perhaps I may visit the elephants later on. Besides, I
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: do so want to get into the third square. So
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: with this excuse, she ran down the hill and jumped
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: over the first of the six little brooks astrous gastrous, gastrous, gastrous, gastrous, gastrous, gastrous,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous GASTERSK tickets, please, said the guard, putting his
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: head in at the window. In a moment, everybody was
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: holding out a ticket. They were about the same size
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage. Now,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: then show your ticket, child. The guard went on, looking
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: angrily at Alice, and a great many voices all said
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: together like the chorus of a song, thought Alice. Don't
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: keep him waiting, child, Why his time is worth a
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: thousand pounds a minute. I'm afraid I haven't got one,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Alice said, in a frightened tone. There wasn't a ticket
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: office where I came from. And again the chorus of
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: voices went on. There wasn't room for one where she
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: came from the land. There is worth a thousand pounds
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: an inch. Don't make excuses, said the guard. You should
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: have bought one from the engine driver. And once more
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the chorus of voices went on, with the man that
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: drives the engine, why the smoke alone is worth a
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: thousand pounds a puff, Alice thought to herself. Then there's
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: no use in speaking. The voices didn't join in this time,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: as she hadn't spoken. But to her great surprise, they
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: all thought in chorus. I hope you understand what thinking
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: in chorus means, for I must confess that I don't
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: pounds a word. I shall dream about a thousand pounds tonight,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I know, I shall thought Alice. All this time the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: through a microscope, and then through an opera glass. At
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: last he said, you're traveling the wrong way, and shut
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: up the window and went away. So young a child,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: said the gentleman sitting opposite to her. He was dressed
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: in white paper, ought to know which way she's going,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: even if she doesn't know her own name. A goat
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: that was sitting next to the gentleman in white shut
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: his eyes and said in a loud voice, she ought
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: to know her way to the ticket office, even if
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: she doesn't know her alphabet. There was a beadle sitting
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: next to the goat. It was a very queer carriage
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: full of passengers altogether, and as the rules seemed to
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: be that they should all speak in turn, he went
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: on with she'll have to go back from here his luggage.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Alice couldn't see who was sitting beyond the beetle. But
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: a horse voice spoke next change engines, it said, and
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: was obliged to leave off. It sounds like a horse,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Alice thought to herself, And an extremely small voice close
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to her ear said, you might make a joke on that,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: something about horse and horse, you know. Then a very
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: gentle voice in the distance said, she must be labeled
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: blasts with care, you know. And after that other voices
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: went on, what a number of people there are in
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the carriage, thought Alice, saying she must go by post,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: as she's got a head on her. She must be
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: sent as a message by the telegraph, She must draw
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: the train herself the rest of the way, and so on.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: But the gentleman dressed in white paper, leaned forwards and
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: whispered in her ear. Never mind what they all say,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: my dear, but take a return ticket every time the
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: train stops. Indeed, I shan't, Alice said, rather impatiently. I
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: don't belong to this railway journey at all. I was
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: in a wood just now, and I wish I could
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: get back there. You might make a joke on that
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: said the little voice, close to her ear, something about
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you would if you could, you know, don't tease, so
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: said Alice, looking about in vain to see where the
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: voice came from. If you're so anxious to have a
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: joke made, why don't you make one yourself. The little
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: voice sighed deeply. It was very unhappy, evidently, and Alice
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: would have said something pitying to comfort it if it
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: would only sigh like other people, she thought. But this
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: was such a wonderfully small sigh that she wouldn't have
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: heard it at all if it hadn't come quite close
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: to her ear. The consequence of this was that it
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: tickled her ear very much, and quite took off her
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: thoughts from the unhappiness of the poor little creature. I
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: know you are a friend, the little voice went on,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: a dear friend, and an old friend. And you won't
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: hurt me though I am an insect. What kind of insect?
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Alice inquired a little anxiously. What she really wanted to
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: know was whether it could sting or not, But she
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: thought this wouldn't be quite a civil question to ask,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: what then, you don't the little voice began when it
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: was drowned by a shrill scream from the engine, and
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: everybody jumped up in alarm. Alice among the rest. The horse,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: who had put his head out of the window quietly
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: drew it in and said, it's only a brook we
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: have to jump over. Everybody seemed satisfied with this, though
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Alice felt a little nervous at the idea of trains
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: jumping at all. However, it'll take us into the fourth square.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: That's some comfort, she said to herself. In another moment,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: she felt the carriage rise straight up into the air,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and in her fright, she caught at the thing nearest
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: to her hand, which happened to be the goat's beard
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: astros gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrisk.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: But the beard seemed to melt away as she touched it,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: and she found herself sitting quietly under a tree, while
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the gnat, for that was the insect she had been
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: talking to, was balancing itself on a twig just over
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: her head and fanning her with its wings. It certainly
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: was a very large gnat, about the size of a chicken,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Alice thought, still, she couldn't feel nervous with it, after
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: they had been talking together so long. Then you don't
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: like all insects, the Nat went on, as quietly as
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: if nothing had happened. I like them when they can talk,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Alice said, None of them ever talk where I come from.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: What sort of insects do you rejoice in where you
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: come from? The Nat inquired. I don't rejoice in insects
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: at all, Alice explained, because I'm rather afraid of them,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: at least the large kinds. But I can tell you
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the names of some of them. Of course, they answer
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: to their names. The Gnat remarked carelessly. I never knew
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: them to do it. What's the use of their having names,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the Nat said, If they won't answer to them, no
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: use to them, said Alice. But it's useful to the
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: things have names at all? I can't say, the gnat plied.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Further on in the wood down there, they've got no names. However,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: go on with your list of insects. You're wasting time. Well,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: there's the horse fly. Alice began counting off the names
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: on her fingers. All right, said the gnat. Half Way
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: up that bush, you'll see a rocking horse fly. If
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: you look. It's made entirely of wood and gets about
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: by swinging itself from branch to branch. What does it
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: live on, Alice asked, with great curiosity. Sap and sawdust,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: said the gnat. Go on with the list. Alice looked
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: up at the rocking horse fly with great interest and
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: made up her mind that it must have been just repainted.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: It looked so bright and sticky. And then she went on,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and there's the dragonfly. Look on the branch above your head,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: said the gnat, And there you'll find a snap dragonfly.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Its body is made of plum pudding, its wings of
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: holly leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: And what does it live on? Ferment, tea and mince pie,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the gnat replied. And it makes its nest in a
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Christmas box. And then there's the butterfly. Alice went on,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: after she had taken a good look at the insect
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: with its head on fire, and had thought to herself,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I wonder if that's the reason insects are so fond
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: of flying into candles, because they want to turn into
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: snap dragonflies crawling at your feet, said the gnat. Alice
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: drew her feet back in some alarm. You may observe
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: a bread and butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: bread and butter. Its body is a crust, and its
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: head is a lump of sugar. And what does it
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: live on? Weak tea with cream in it? A new
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: difficulty came into Alice's head. Supposing it couldn't find any
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: she suggested, then it would die, of course, But that
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: must happen very often, Alice remarked, thoughtfully. It always happens,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: said the gnat. After this, Alice was silent for a
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: minute or two, pondering. The gnat amused itself meanwhile by
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: humming round and round her head. At last, it settled
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: again and remarked, I suppose you don't want to lose
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: your name. No, indeed, Alice said a little anxiously. And
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: yet I don't know, the gnat went on in a
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: careless tone. Only think how convenient it would be if
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: you could manage to go home without it. For instance,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: if the governess wanted to call you to your lessons,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: she would call out, come here and there she would
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: have to leave off because there wouldn't be any name
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: for her to call. And of course you wouldn't have
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: to go. You know that would never do, I'm sure,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: said Alice. The governess would never think of excusing me
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: lessons for that. If she couldn't remember my name, she'd
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: call me miss, as the servants do. Well. If she
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: said miss and didn't say anything more, the gnat remarked,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: of course you'd miss your lessons. That's a joke. I
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: wish you had made it. Why do you wish I
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: had made it? Alice asked, it's a very bad one.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: But the nat only sighed deeply while two large tears
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: came rolling down its cheeks. You shouldn't make jokes, Alice said,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: if it makes you so unhappy. Then came another of
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: those melancholy little sighs, and this time the poor gnat
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: really seemed to have sighed itself away, for when Alice
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: looked up, there was nothing whatever to be seen on
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the twig, and as she was getting quite chilly with
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: sitting still so long, she got up and walked on.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: She very soon came to an open field with a
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: wood on the other side of it. It looked much
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: darker than the last wood, and Alice felt a little
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: timid about going into it. However, on second thoughts, she
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: made up her mind to go on, for I certainly
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: won't go back, she thought to herself, And this was
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the only way to the eighth square. This must be
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: the wood, she said thoughtfully to herself. Where things have
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: no names, I wonder why they'll become of my name
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: when I go in. I shouldn't like to lose it
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: at all, because they'd have to give me another, and
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: it would be almost certain to be an ugly one.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: But then the fun would be trying to find the
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: creature that had got my old name. That's just like
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the advertisements, you know when people lose dogs answers to
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: the name of Dash had on a brass collar. Just
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: fancy calling everything you met, Alice, till one of them answered.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Only they wouldn't answer at all if they were wise.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: She was rambling on in this way. When she reached
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: the wood, it looked very cool and shady. Well, at
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: any rate, it's a great comfort, she said, as she
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: stepped under the trees, after being so hot to get
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: into them. Into what she went on, rather surprised at
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: not being able to think of the word. I mean
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: to get under the under the under this, you know,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: putting her hand on the trunk of the tree. What
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: does it call itself? I wonder? I do believe it's
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: got no name? Why to be sure it hasn't? She
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: stood silent for a minute thinking, Then she suddenly began again.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Then it really has happened after all? And now who
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: am I? I will remember if I can. I'm determined
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: to do it. But being determined didn't help much, and
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: all she could say, after a great deal of puzzling
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: was L. I know it begins with L. Just then
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: a fawn came wandering by. It looked at Alice with
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: its large, gentle eyes, but didn't seem at all frightened.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Here then here, then, Alice said, as she held out
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: her hand and tried to stroke it, But it only
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: started back a little, and then stood looking at her again.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: What do you call yourself? The fawn said at last,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: such a soft, sweet voice it had I wish I knew,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: thought poor Alice, she answered, rather sadly. Nothing. Just now
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: think again, it said. That won't do, Alice thought, but
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: nothing came of it. Please would you tell me what
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: you call yourself, she said timidly. I think that might
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: help a little. I'll tell you if you'll move a
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: little further on. The fawn said, I can't remember here.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: So they walked on together though the wood, Alice, with
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: her arms clasped lovingly round the soft neck of the fawn,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: till they came out into another open field. And here
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: the fawn gave a sudden bound into the air and
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: shook itself free from Alice's arms. I'm a fawn, it
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: cried out, in a voice of delight, and dear me,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: you're a human child. A sudden look of alarm came
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: into its beautiful brown eyes, and in another moment it
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: had darted away at full speed. Alice stood looking after it,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: almost ready to cry with vexation at having lost her
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: dear little fellow traveler so suddenly. However, I know my
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: name now, she said. That's some comfort, Alice, Alice, I
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: won't forget it again. And now which of these finger
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: posts ought I to follow? I wonder? It was not
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: a very difficult question to answer, as there was only
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: one road through the wood, and the two finger posts
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: both pointed along it. I'll settle it, Alice, said to herself,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: when the road divides and they point different ways, But
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: this did not seem likely to happen. She went on
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: and on a long way, but wherever the road divided,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: there were sure to be two finger posts pointing the
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: same way, one marked to Tweedledum's house and the other
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: to the house of Tweedledee. I do believe, said Alice
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: at last, that they live in the same house. I wonder.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: I never thought of that before. But I can't stay
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: there long. I'll just call and say how'd you do
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: and ask them the way out of the wood if
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I could only get to the eighth square before it
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: gets dark. So she wandered on, talking to herself as
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: she went till on turning a sharp corner, she came
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: up on two fat little men so suddenly that she
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: could not help starting back. But in another moment she
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: recovered herself, feeling sure that they must be Chapter four,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: tweedl Dumb and tweedled They were standing under a tree,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: each with an arm round the other's neck, and Alice
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: knew which was which in a moment, because one of
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: them had Dumb embroidered on his collar and the other
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: d I suppose they've each got tweedle round at the
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: back of the collar, she said to herself. They stood
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: she was just looking round to see if the word
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: tweedle was written at the back of each collar, when
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: she was startled by a voice coming from the one
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: marked dumb. If you think we're waxworks, he said, you
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: ought to pay. You know, waxworks weren't made to be
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: looked at for nothing. Nohow, contrariwise, added the one marked
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: d If you think we're alive, you ought to speak.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm very sorry, was all Alice could say,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: for the words of the old song kept ringing through
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: her head like the ticking of a clock, and she
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: could hardly help saying them out loud. Tweedle Dumb and
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Tweedledee agreed to have a battle for Tweedledum, said Tweedledee
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: had spoilt his nice new rattle, just then flew down
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: a monstrous crow as black as a tar barrel, which
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: frightened both the heroes, so they quite forgot their quarrel.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking about, said Tweedledumb, but it
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: isn't so nohow contrariwise, continued Tweedledee. If it was so,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: it might be, and if it were so, it would be.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: But as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic I was thinking,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Alice said, very politely, which is the best way out
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: of this wood? It's getting so dark? Would you tell me? Please?
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: But the little men only looked at each other and grinned.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: They looked so exactly like a couple of great schoolboys
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: that Alice couldn't help pointing her finger at Tweedledum and saying,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: first boy, nohow. Tweedle Dumb cried out briskly and shut
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: his mouth up again with a snap. Next boy, said Alice,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: passing on to Tweedledee, though she felt quite certain he
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: would only shout out contrariwise, and so he did. You've
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: been wrong, cried tweedle Dumb. The first thing in a
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: visit is to say how d'ye do? And shake hands?
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: And here the two brothers gave each other a hug,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: and then they held out the two hands that were
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: free to shake hands with her. Alice did not like
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: shaking hands with either of them first, for fear of
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: hurting the other one's feelings, so as the best way
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: out of the difficulty, she took hold of both hands
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: at once. The next moment they were dancing round in
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: a ring. This seemed quite natural, she remembered afterwards, and
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: she was not even surprised to hear music playing. It
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: seemed to come from the tree under which they were dancing,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: and it was done as well as she could make
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: it out, by the branches rubbing one across the other,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: like fiddles fiddlesticks. But it certainly was funny, Alice said afterwards,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: when she was telling her sister the history of all this,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: to find myself singing, here we go round the mulberry bush.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know when I began it, but somehow I
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: felt as if I'd been singing it a long long time.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: The other two dancers were fat and very soon out
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: of breath, for time's round is enough for one dance.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Tweedle dumb panted out, and they left off dancing as
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: suddenly as they had begun. The music stopped at the
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: same moment. Then they let go of Alice's hands and
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: stood looking at her for a minute. There was a
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: rather awkward pause, as Alice didn't know how to begin
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: a conversation with people she had just been dancing with.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: It would never do to say, how dee do now?
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: She said to herself. We seem to have got beyond
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: that somehow. I hope you're not much tired, she said
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: at last, nohow, and thank you very much for asking,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: said tweedle Dumb, so much obliged, added Tweedledee. You like poetry? Ye, yes,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: pretty well some poetry, Alice said, doubtfully. Would you tell
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: me which road leads out of the wood? What shall
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: I repeat to her? Said Tweedledee, looking round at Tweedledum
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: with great solemn eyes, and not noticing Alice's question, The
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: walrus and the carpenter is the longest, Tweedledum replied, giving
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: his brother an affectionate huck. Tweedledee began instantly. The sun
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: was shining here. Alice ventured to interrupt him. If it's
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: very long, she said, as politely as she could, would
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: you please tell me first which road? Tweedledee smiled gently
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: and began again. The sun was shining on the sea,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: shining with all his might. He did his very best
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: to make the billows smooth and bright. And this was
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: odd because it was the middle of the night. The
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: moon was shining sulkily, because she thought the sun had
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: got no business to be there after the day done.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: It's very rude of him, she said, to come and
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: spoil the fun. The sea was wet as wet could be.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: The sands were dry as dry. You could not see
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: a cloud because no cloud was in the sky. No
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: birds were flying overhead. There were no birds to fly.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: The walrus and the carpenter were walking close at hand.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: They wept like anything to see such quantities of sand.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: If this were only cleared away, they said, it would
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: be grand if seven maids with seven mops swept it
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: for half a year. Do you suppose the walrus said
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: that they could get it clear? I doubt it, said
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: the carpenter, and shed a bitter tear. Oh, oysters, come
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: and walk with us. The walrus did beseech a pleasant walk,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: a pleasant talk along the briny beach. We cannot do
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: with more than four to give a hand to each.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: The eldest oyster looked at him, but never a word,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: he said. The eldest oyster winked his eye and shook
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: his heavy head, meaning to say he did not choose
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: to leave the oyster bed. But four young oysters hurried up,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: all eager for the treat. Their coats were brushed, their
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: faces washed, their shoes were clean and neat, and this
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: was odd, because you know, they hadn't any feet. Four
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: other oysters followed them, and yet another four, And thick
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: and fast they came at last, and more and more
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: and more, all hopping through the frothy waves and scrambling
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: to the shore. The walrus and the carpenter walked on
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: a mile or so, and then they rested on a
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: rock conveniently low, and all the little oysters stood and
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: waited in a row. The time has come, the walrus said,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: to talk of many things, of shoes and ships, and
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: sealing wax of cabbages and kings, and why the sea
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: is boiling hot and weather pigs have wings. But wait
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: a bit, the oysters cried, before we have our chat,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: for some of us are out of breath, and all
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: of us are fat. No, no hurry, said the carpenter. They
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: thanked him much for that. A loaf of bread, the
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: walrus said, is what we chiefly need. Pepper and vinegar besides,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: are very good. Indeed, Now, if you're ready, oysters. Dear,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: we can begin to feed, but not on us. The
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: oysters cried, turning a little blue. After such kindness, that
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: would be a dismal thing to do. The night is fine,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: the walrus said, do you admire the view? It was
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: so kind of you to come, and you are very nice.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: The carpenter said, nothing but cut us another slice. I
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: wish you were not quite so deaf. I've had to
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: ask you twice. It seems a shame, the walrus said,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: to play them such a trick after we've brought them
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: out so far and made them trot so quick. The
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: carpenter said nothing, but the butter's spread too thick. I
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: weep for you, the walrus said, I deeply sympathize. With
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: sobs and tears. He sorted out those of the largest size,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: holding his pocket handkerchief before his streaming eyes. Oh, oysters,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: said the carpenter, you've had a pleasant run. Shall we
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: be trotting home again? But answer came there none, and
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: that was scarcely odd, because they'd eaten every one. I
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: like the walrus best, said Alice, because you see, he
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: was a little sorry for the poor oysters. He ate
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: more than the carpenter, though, said Tweedledee. You see he
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: held his handkerchief in front, so that the carpenter couldn't
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: count how many he took. Contrariwise, that was mean, Alice
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: said indignantly. Then I liked the carpenter best if he
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: didn't eat so many as the walrus. But he ate
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: as many as he could get, said tweedle dumb. This
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: was a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began, well, they
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: were both very unpleasant characters here. She checked herself in
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: some alarm at hearing something that sounded to her like
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: the puffing of a large steam engine in the wood
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: near them, though she feared it was more likely to
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: be a wild beast. Are there any lions or tigers
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: about here? She asked timidly. It's only the red king snoring,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: said Tweedledee. Come and look at him. The brothers cried,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: and they each took one of Alice's hands and led
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: her up to where the king was sleeping. Isn't he
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: a lovely sight? Said Tweedledumb. Alice couldn't say honestly that
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: he was. He had a tall red night cap on
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: with a tassel, and he was lying crumpled up into
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: a sort of untidy heap and snoring loud fit to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: snore his head off as Tweedledum remarked, I'm afraid he'll
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: catch cold with lying on the damp grass, said Alice,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: who was a very thoughtful little girl. He's dreaming now,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: said Tweedledee. And what do you think he's dreaming about?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Alice said, nobody can guess that. Why about you, Tweedledee exclaimed,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: clapping his hands triumphantly. And if he left off dreaming
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: about you, where do you suppose you'd be where I
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: am now? Of course, said Alice. Not you, Tweedledee retorted contemptuously,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: you'd be nowhere. Why you're only a sort of thing
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: in his dream? If that their king was to wake,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: added Tweedle Dumb, you'd go out bang just like a candle.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't, Alice exclaimed indignantly. Besides, if I'm only a
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: sort of thing in his dream, what are you? I
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: should like to know? Ditto, said tweedle dumb. Ditto ditto,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: cried Tweedledee. He shouted this so loud that Alice couldn't
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: help saying, hush, you'll be waking him I'm afraid if
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: you make so much noise. Well, it's no use you're
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: talking about waking him, said Tweedledum. When you're only one
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: of the things in his dream. You know very well
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: you're not real. I am real, said Alice, and began
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: to cry. You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Tweedledee remarked, there's nothing to cry about if I wasn't real,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Alice said, half laughing through her tears. It all seems
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: so ridiculous. I shouldn't be able to cry. I hope
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: you don't suppose those are real tears. Tweedledum interrupted, in
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: a tone of great contempt. I know they're talking nonsense,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Alice thought to herself, and it's foolish to cry about it.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: So she brushed away her tears and went on as
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: cheerfully as she could. At any rate, I'd better be
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: getting out of the wood, for really, it's coming on
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: very dark. Do you think it's going to rain? Tweedledum
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: spread a large umbrella over himself and his brother and
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: looked up into it. No, I don't think it is,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: he said, at least not under here. No how, but
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: it may rain outside. It may if it chooses, said Tweedledee.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: We've no objection. Contrari wise, selfish things, thought Alice, and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: she was just going to say good night and leave them,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: when Tweedledum sprang out from under the umbrella and seized
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: her by the wrist. Do you see that, he said,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: in a voice choking with passion, and his eyes grew
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: large and yellow all in a moment, as he pointed
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: with a trembling finger at a small white thing lying
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: under the tree. It's only a rattle, Alice said, after
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: a careful examination of the little white thing. Not a rattlesnake,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: you know, she added, hastily, thinking that he was frightened.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: Only an old rattle, quite old and broken. I knew
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: it was, cried Tweedledum, beginning to stamp about wildly and
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: tear his hair. It's spoilt, of course. Here. He looked
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: at Tweedledee, who immediately sat down on the ground and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: tried to hide himself under the umbrella. Alice laid her
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: hand upon his arm and said, in a soothing tone,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: you needn't be so angry about an old rattle. But
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: it isn't old. Tweedledum cried in a greater fury than ever.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: It's new. I tell you, I bought it yesterday, my
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: nice new rattle, and his voice rose to a perfect scream.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: All this time, Tweedledee was trying his best to fold
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: up the umbrella with himself in it, which was such
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: an extraordinary thing to do that it quite took off
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Alice's attention from the angry brother. But he couldn't quite succeed,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: and it ended in his rolling over, bundled up in
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: the umbrella with only his head out, And there he lay,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: opening and shutting his mouth and his large eyes, looking
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: more like a fish than anything else. Alice thought, of course,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: you agree to have a battle, Tweedledum said, in a
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: calmer tone. I suppose so, the other sulkily replied, as
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: he crawled out of the umbrella. Only she must help
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: us to dress up, you know. So the two brothers
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: went off hand in hand into the wood and returned
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: in a minute with their arms full of things such
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: as bolsters, blankets, hearth rugs, table cloths, dish covers, and
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: coal scuttles. I hope you're a good hand at pinning
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: and tying strings, Tweedledum remarked. Every One of these things
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: has got to go on somehow or other. Alice said afterwards.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: She had never seen such a fuss made about anything
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: in all her life. The way those two bustled about,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: and the quantity of things they put on, and the
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: trouble they gave her in tying strings and fastening buttons. Really,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: they'll be more like bundles of old clothes than anything
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: else by the time they're ready, she said to herself,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: as she arranged a bolster round the neck of Tweedledee
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: to keep his head from being cut off. As he said,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: you know, he added, very gravely, it's one of the
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: most serious things that can possibly happen to one in
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: a battle to get one's head cut off. Alice laughed aloud,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: but she managed to turn it into a cough for
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: fear of hurting his feelings. Do I look very pale?
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: Said tweedl eddumb coming up to have his helmet tied on.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: He called it a helmet, though it certainly looked much
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: more like a saucepan. Well, yes, a little, Alice replied gently.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: I'm very brave. Generally, he went on in a low voice.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Only to day I happen to have a headache, and
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: I've got a toothache, said Tweedledee, who had overheard the remark.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: I'm far worse off than you. Then you'd better not
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: fight to day, said Alice, thinking it a good opportunity
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: to make peace. We must have a bit of a fight,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: but I don't care about going on long, said Tweedledumb.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: What's the time now, Tweedledee looked at his watch and
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: said half past four. Let's fight till six and then
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: have dinner, said tweedle dumb. Very well, the other said,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: rather sadly, and she can watch us. Only you'd better
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: not come very close, he added. I generally hit everything
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: I can see when I get really excited, and I
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: hit everything within reach, cried Tweedledum, whether I can see
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: it or not. Alice laughed. You must hit the trees
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: pretty often, I should think, she said. Tweedledum looked round
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: him with a satisfied smile. I don't suppose, he said,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: There'll be a tree left standing for ever so far
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: round by the time we've finished. And all about a rattle,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: said Alice, still hoping to make them a little ashamed
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: of fighting for such a trifle. I shouldn't have minded
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: it so much, said tweedle dumb. If it hadn't been
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: a new one, I wish the monstrous crow would come,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: thought Alice. There's only one sword, you know, Tweedledum said
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: to his brother. But you can have the umbrella. It's
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: quite as sharp. Only we must begin quick. It's getting
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: as dark as it can and darker, said Tweedledee. It
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: be a thunderstorm coming on. What a thick black cloud
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: that is, she said, And how fast it comes? Why
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: I do believe it's got wings. It's the crow, Tweedledum
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: cried out in a shrill voice of alarm, and the
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: two brothers took to their heels and were out of
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: sight in a moment. Alice ran a little way into
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: the wood and stopped under a large tree. It can
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: never get at me here, she thought. It's far too
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: large to squeeze itself in among the trees. But I
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: wish it wouldn't flap its wings, so it makes quite
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: a hurricane in the wood. Hears somebody's shawl being blown away.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: Chapter five, Wool and Water. She caught the shawl as
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: she spoke and looked about for the owner. In another moment,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: the white Queen came running wildly through the wood with
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: both arms stretched out wide as if she were flying,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: and Alice very civilly went to meet her with the shawl.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: I'm very glad I happened to be in the way,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Alice said, as she helped her to put on her
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: shawl again. The White Queen only looked at her in
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: a helpless, frightened sort of way, and kept repeating something
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: in a whisper to herself that sounded like bread and butter,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: bread and butter. And Alice felt that if there was
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: to be any conversation at all, she must manage it herself,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: so she began rather timidly, am I addressing the white Queen? Well, yes,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: if you call that a dressing, The queen said, it
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: isn't my notion of the thing at all. Alice thought
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: it would never do to have an argument at the
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: very beginning of their conversation, so she smiled and said,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: if your majesty will only tell me the right way
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: to begin, I'll do it as well as I can.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: But I don't want it done at all, groaned the
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: poor queen. I've been a dressing myself for the last
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: two hours. It would have been all the better, as
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: it seemed to Alice, if she had got some one
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: else to dress her. She was so dreadfully untidy. Every
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: single thing's crooked, Alice thought to herself, and she's all
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: over pins. May I put your sh all straight for you?
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: She added aloud. I don't know what's the matter with it,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: the queen said, in a melancholy voice. It's out of temper.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: I think I've pinned it here and I've pinned it there,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: But there's no pleasing it. It can't go straight, you know,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: if you pin it all on one side, Alice said,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: as she gently put it right for her. And dear me,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: what a state your hair is in. The brush has
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: got entangled in it, the queen said, with a sigh,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: And I lost the comb yesterday. Alice carefully released the
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: brush and did her best to get the hair into order. Come.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: You look rather better now, she said, after altering most
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: of the pins. But really you should have a lady's maid.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure, the queen said,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: tuppence a week and jam every other day. Alice couldn't
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: help laughing as she said, I don't want you to
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: hire me, and I don't care for jam. It's very
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: good jam, said the queen. Well, I don't want any
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: today at any rate. You couldn't have it if you
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: did want it, The Queen said, the rule is jam
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jammed today. It must
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: come sometimes to jam today. Alice objected, No, it can't,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: said the queen. It's jam every other day. Today, isn't
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: any other day? You know? I don't understand you, said Alice.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: It's dreadfully confusing. That's the effect of living backwards, the
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: Queen said, kindly. It always makes one a little giddy
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: at first living backwards, Alice repeated, in great astonishment. I
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: never heard of such a thing. But there's one great
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: advantage in it that one's memory works both ways. I'm
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: sure mine only works one way. Alice remarked, I can't
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: remember things before they happen. It's a poor sort of
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: memory that only works bad backwards. The Queen remarked, what
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: sort of things do you remember best? Alice ventured to ask, oh,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: things that happened the week after next. The Queen replied,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: in a careless tone, for instance, now she went on,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: sticking a large piece of plaster on her finger as
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: she spoke, there's the king's messenger. He's in prison now,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: being punished, and the trial doesn't even begin till next Wednesday.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: And of course the crime comes last of all. Suppose
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: he never commits the crime, said Alice. That would be
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: all the better, wouldn't it, the queen said, as she
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: bound the plaster round her finger with a bit of ribbon.
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  Speaker 1: Alice felt there was no denying that. Of course it
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: would be all the better, she said, But it wouldn't
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: be all the better his being punished. You're wrong there
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: at any rate, said the queen. Were you ever punished
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: only for faults? Said Alice? And you were all the
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: better for it, I know, the Queen said, try emphantly. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: But then I had done the things I was punished for,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice. That makes all the difference. But if you
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: hadn't done them, the queen said, that would have been better. Still, better,
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  Speaker 1: and better and better. Her voice went higher with each
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: better till it got quite to a squeak. At last,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Alice was just beginning to say, there's a mistake somewhere
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: when the Queen began screaming so loud that she had
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: to leave the sentence unfinished. Oh oh, oh, shouted the queen,
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  Speaker 1: shaking her hand about as if she wanted to shake
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  Speaker 1: it off. My finger's bleeding. Oh oh, oh oh. Her
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: screams were so exactly like the whistle of a steam
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: engine that Alice had to hold both her hands over
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: her ears. What is the matter, she said, as soon
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: as there was a chance of making herself heard. Have
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: you pricked your finger? I haven't pricked it yet, the
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: queen said, but I soon shall. Oh oh oh, when
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: do you expect to do it? Alice asked, feeling very
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: much inclined to laugh. When I fasten my shawl again,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: the poor queen groaned out, the brooch will come undone directly.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Oh oh. As she said the words, the brooch flew open,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: and the Queen clutched wildly at it and tried to
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: clasp it again. Take care, cried Alice. You're holding it
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: all crooked. And she caught at the brooch, but it
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: was too late. The pin had slipped and the Queen
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: had pricked her finger. That accounts for the bleeding, you see,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: she said to Alice with a smile. Now you understand
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: the way things happen here. But why don't you scream now,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Alice asked, holding her hands ready to put over her
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: ears again. Why I've done all the screaming already, said
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: the queen. What would be the good of having it
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: all over again? By this time it was getting light.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: The crow must have flown away, I think, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad it's gone. I thought it was the
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: night coming on. I wish I could manage to be glad,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: the queen said, Only I never can remember the rule.
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  Speaker 1: You must be very happy living in this wood and
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: being glad whenever you like. Only it is so very
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: lonely here, Alice said in a melancholy voice, and at
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: the thought of her loneliness, two large tears came rolling
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: down her cheeks. Oh don't go on like that, cried
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: the poor queen, wringing her hands in despair. Consider what
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: a great girl you are. Consider what a long way
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: you've come today. Consider what a clock it is. Consider anything.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: Only don't cry. Alice could not help laughing at this,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: even in the midst of her tears. Can you keep
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: from crying by considering things? She asked, That's the way
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: it's done. The queen said, with great decision. Nobody can
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: do two things at once. You know, let's consider your
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: age to begin with. How old are you? I'm seven
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: and a half exactly. You needn't say Exactually, the queen remarked,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: I can believe it without that. Now, I'll give you
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: something to believe. I'm just one hundred and one, five
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: months and a day. I can't believe that, said Alice,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: Can't you, the queen said, in a pitying tone, try again,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: draw a long breath and shut your eyes. Alice laughed.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: There's no use trying, she said. One can't believe impossible things.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: I dare say. You haven't had much practice, said the queen.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: When I was your age, I always did it for
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: shawl again. The brooch had come undone as she spoke,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: and a sudden gust of wind blew the Queen's shawl
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: across a little brook. The queen spread out her arms
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: again and went flying after it, and this time she
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: succeeded in catching it for herself. I've got it, she cried,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: in a triumphant tone. Now you shall see me pin
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: it on again, all by myself. Then, I hope your
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: finger is better now, Alice said very politely as she
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  Speaker 1: crossed the little brook after the queen. Astrous gastrous gastrous
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  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous
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  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gasterisk Oh, much better,
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  Speaker 1: cried the Queen, her voice rising to a squeak as
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: she went on. Much beet he be etter be yetter
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: b Yeah. The last word ended in a long bleat,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: so like a sheep that Alice quite started. She looked
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: at the Queen, who seemed to have suddenly wrapped herself
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: up in wool. Alice rubbed her eyes and looked again.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: She couldn't make out what had happened at all. Was
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: she in a shop? And was that really? Was it
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: really a sheep that was sitting on the other side
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: of the counter. Rub as she could, she could make
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: nothing more of it. She was in a little dark shop,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: leaning with her elbows on the counter, and opposite to
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: her was an old sheep sitting in an arm chair knitting,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: And every now and then leaving off to look at
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: her through a great pair of spectacles. What is it
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: you want to buy, the sheep said, at last, looking
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: up for a moment from her knitting. I don't quite
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: know yet, Alice said, very gently. I should like to
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: look all round me first, if I might. You may
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: look in front of you, and on both sides if
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: you like, said the sheep. But you can't look all
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: round you unless you've got eyes at the back of
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: your head. But these, as it happened, Alice had not got,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: so she contented herself with turning round, looking at the
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: shelves as she came to them. The shop seemed to
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: be full of all manner of curious things. But the
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: oddest part of it all was that, whenever she looked
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: hard at any shelf to make out exactly what it
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: had on it, that particular shelf was always quite empty,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: though the others round it were crowded as full as
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: they could hold. Things flow about. So here, she said
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: at last, in a plaintive tone, after she had spent
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: a minute or so in vainly pursuing a large, bright
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: thing that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: a work box, and was always in the shelf next
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: above the one she was looking at, And this one
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: is the most provoking of all. But i'll tell you what,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: she added, as a sudden thought struck her. I'll follow
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: it up to the very top shelf of all. It'll
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: puzzle it to go through the ceiling, I expect. But
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: even this plan failed. The thing went through the ceiling
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: as quietly as possible, as if it were quite used
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: to it. Are you a child or a teetotum, the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: sheep said, as she took up another pair of needles.
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  Speaker 1: You'll make me giddy soon if you go on turning
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: round like that. She was now working with fourteen pairs
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: at once, and Alice couldn't help looking at her in
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: great astonishment. How can she knit with so many, the
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: puzzled child thought to herself. She gets more and more
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: like a porcupine every minute. Can you row? The sheep asked,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: handing her a pair of knitting needles. As she spoke, yes,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: a little, but not on land and not with needles,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Alice was beginning to say, when suddenly the needles turned
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: into oars in her hands, and she found they were
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: in a little boat gliding along between banks. So there
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: was nothing for it but to do her best, Feather,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: cried the sheep, as she took up another pair of needles.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: This didn't sound like a remark that needed any answer,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: so Alice said nothing but pulled away. There was something
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: very queer about the water, she thought, as every now
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: and then the oars got fast in it and would
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: hardly come out again. Feather, Feather, the sheep cried, again,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: taking more needles. You'll be catching a crab directly, a
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: dear little crab, thought Alice. I should like that. Didn't
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: you hear me say feather, the sheep cried angrily, taking
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: up quite a bunch of needles. Indeed I did, said Alice.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: You've said it very often and very loud. Please where
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: are the crabs in the water? Of course, said the sheep,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: sticking some of the needles into her hair as her
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: hands were full. Feather, I say, why do you say
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: feather so often? Alice asked, at last, rather vexed. I'm
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: not a bird, you are, said the sheep. You're a
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: little goose. This offended Alice a little, so there was
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: no more conversation for a minute or two while the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: boat glided gently on, sometimes among beds of weeds, which
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: made the oars stick fast in the water worse than ever,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: and sometimes under trees, but always with the same tall
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: river banks frowning over their heads. Oh please, there are
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: some scented rushes, Alice cried, in a sudden transport of delight.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: There really are, and such beauties. You needn't say please
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: to me about em, the sheep said, without looking up
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: from her knitting. I didn't put em there, and I'm
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: not going to take em away. No, but I meant please,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: May we wait and pick some? Alice pleaded, If you
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: don't mind stopping the boat for a minute, How am
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: I to stop it, said the sheep. If you leave
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: off rowing, it'll stop of itself. So the boat was
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: left to drift down the stream as it would till
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: it glided gently in among the waving rushes. And then
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: the little sleeves were carefully rolled up, and the little
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: arms were plunged in elbow deep to get the rushes
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: a good long way down before breaking them off. And
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: for a while Alice forgot all about the sheep and
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: the knitting, as she bent over the side of the
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: boat with just the ends of her tangled hair dipping
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: into the water, while with bright, eager eyes she caught
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: at one bunch after another of the darling scented rushes.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: I only hope the boat won't tipple over, she said
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: to herself. Oh, what a lovely one. Only I couldn't
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: quite reach it. And it certainly did seem a little provoking,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: almost as if it happened on purpose. She thought that
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: one that she couldn't reach. The prettiest are always further,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: of the rushes, and growing so far off as with
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: flushed cheeks and dripping hair and hands, she scrambled back
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: into her place and began to arrange her new found treasures.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: What mattered it to her just then that the rushes
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: had begun to fade and to lose all their scent
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: and beauty from the very moment that she picked them.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: Even real scented rushes, you know, last only a very
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: little while, and these, being dream rushes, melted away almost
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: like snow as they lay in heaps at her feet.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: But Alice hardly noticed this, there were so many other
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: curious things to think about. They hadn't gone much farther before.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: The blade of one of the oars got fast in
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: the water and wouldn't come out again, so Alice explained
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: it afterwards, And the consequence was that the handle of
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: it caught her under the chin, and in spite of
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: a series of little shrieks of oh oh oh from
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: poor Alice, it swept her straight off the seat and
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: down among the heap of rushes. However, she wasn't hurt
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: and was soon up again. The sheep went on with
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: her knitting all the while, just as if nothing had happened.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: That was a nice crab you caught, she remarked, as
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: Alice got back into her place, very much relieved to
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: find herself still in the boat. Was it? I didn't
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: see it, said Alice, peeping cautiously over the side of
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: the boat into the dark water. I wish it hadn't
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: let go. I should so like to see a little
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: crab to take home with me. But the sheep only
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: laughed scornfully and went on with her knitting. Are there
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: many crabs here? Said Alice? Crabs and all sorts of things,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: said the sheep, plenty of choice. Only make up your mind.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: Now what do you want to buy? To buy? Alice echoed,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: in a tone that was half astonished and half frightened,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: for the oars and the boat and the river had
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: vanished all in a moment, and she was back again
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: in the little dark shop. I should like to buy
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: an egg, please, she said, timidly. How do you sell them?
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: Fivepence farthing for one? Tuppens for two? The sheep replied,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: Then two are cheaper than one, Alice said, in a
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: surprised tone, taking out her purse. Only you must eat
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: them both if you buy two, said the sheep. Then
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: I'll have one, please, said Alice, as she put the
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: money down on the counter, For she thought to herself,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: they mightn't be at all nice, you know. She took
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: the money and put it away in a box. Then
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: she said, I never put things into people's hands. That
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: would never do. You must get it for yourself, and
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: so saying, she went off to the other end of
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: the shop and set the egg upright on a shelf.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: I wonder why it wouldn't do, thought Alice, as she
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: groped her way among the tables and chairs, for the
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: shop was very dark towards the end. The egg seems
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: to get further away the more I walk towards it.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: Let me see, is this a chair? Why it's got branches?
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: I declare, how very odd to find trees growing here?
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: And actually hears a little brook. Well, this is the
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: very queerest shop I ever saw. Astros gastrous gastrous gastrous
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrisk. So she went on wondering,
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: more and more at every step, as everything toned into
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: a tree the moment she came up to it, and
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: she quite expected the egg to do the same. Chapter six,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty. However, the egg only got larger and larger,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: and more and more human. When she had come within
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: a few yards of it, she saw that it had
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: eyes and a nose and mouth. And when she had
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: come close to it she saw clearly that it was
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty himself. It can't be anybody else, she said
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: to herself. I'm as certain of it as if his
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: name were written all over his face. It might have
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: been written a hundred times easily on that enormous face.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty was sitting with his legs crossed like a
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: turk on the top of a high wall, such a
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: narrow one that Alice quite wondered how he could keep
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: his balance. And as his eyes were steadily fixed in
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: the opposite direction and he didn't take the least notice
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: of her, she thought he must be a stuffed figure
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: after all. And how exactly like an egg he is,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: she said aloud, standing with her hands ready to catch him,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: for she was every moment expecting him to fall. It's
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: very provoking, Humpty Dumpty said, after a long silence, looking
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: away from Alice as he spoke. To be called an egg, very,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: I said, you looked like an egg, Sir, Alice gently explained,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: And some eggs are very pretty, you know, she added,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: hoping to turn her remark into a sort of a compliment.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: Some people said, Humpty Dumpty, looking away from her as usual,
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: have no more sense than a baby. Alice didn't know
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: what to say to this. It wasn't at all like conversation,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: she thought, as he never said anything to her. In fact,
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree. So
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: she stood and softly repeated to herself, Humpty Dumpty sat
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty in his place again. That last line is
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: much too long for the poetry, she added, almost out loud,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her. Don't stand there
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: chattering to yourself like that, Humpty Dumpty said, looking at
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: her for the first time. But tell me your name
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: and your business. My name is Alice, But it's a
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: stupid enough name, Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. What does it mean?
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: Must a name mean something? Alice asked doubtfully. Of course
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: it must, Humpty Dumpty said, with a short laugh. My
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: name means the shape I am, and a good handsome shape.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: It is too with a name like yours, you might
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: be any shape almost. Why do you sit out here
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: all alone, said Alice, not wishing to begin an argument.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: Why because there's nobody with me, cried Humpty Dumpty. Did
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: you think I didn't know the answer to that? Ask another.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: Don't you think you'd be safer down on the ground.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: Alice went on, not with any idea of making another riddle,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: but simply in her good natured anxiety for the queer
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: cree that wall is so very narrow. What tremendously easy
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: riddles you ask, Humpty Dumpty growled out, of course, I
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: don't think so. Why if ever I did fall off,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: which there's no chance of. But if I did here
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: he pursed his lips and looked so solemn and grand
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: that Alice could hardly help laughing. If I did fall
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: he went on, the King has promised me, with his
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: very own mouth to to to send all his horses
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: and all his men. Alice interrupted rather unwisely. Now I
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: declare that's too bad, Humpty Dumpty cried, breaking into a
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: sudden passion. You've been listening at doors and behind trees
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: and down chimneys, or you couldn't have known it. I
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: haven't indeed, Alice said, very gently, it's in a book.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: Ah well, they may write such things in a book,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty said, in a calmer tone. That's what you
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: call a history of England. That is. Now, take a
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: good look at me. I'm one that has spoken to
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: a king. I am. Mayhap you'll never see such another.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: And to show you I'm not proud, you may shake
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: hands with me. And he grinned almost from ear to
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: ear as he leant forwards, and as nearly as possible,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: fell off the wall in doing so, and offered Alice
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: his hand. She watched him a little anxiously as she
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: took it. If he smiled much more, the ends of
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: his mouth might meet behind, she thought. And then I
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: don't know what would happen to his head. I'm afraid
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: it would come off. Yes, all his horses and all
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: his men, Humpty Dumpty went on. They'd pick me up
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: again in a minute, they would. However, this conversation is
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: going on a little too fast. Let's go back to
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: the last remark, but one I'm afraid I can't quite
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: remember it, Alice said, very politely. In that case, we
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: start fresh, said Humpty Dumpty. And it's my turn to
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: choose a subject. He talks about it just as if
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: it was a game, thought Alice. So here's a question
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: for you. How old did you say you were? Alice
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: made a short calculation and said seven years and six
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: months wrong. Humpty Dumpty exclaimed, triumphantly. You never said a
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: word like it. I though you meant how old are you?
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: Alice explained. If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn't want to begin another argument,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: so she said nothing. Seven years and six months, Humpty
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: Dumpty repeated thoughtfully, an uncomfortable sort of age. Now, if
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: you'd asked my advice, I'd have said leave off at seven.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: But it's too late now. I never ask advice about growing,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: Alice said, indignantly, too proud, the other inquired. Alice felt
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: even more indignant at this suggestion. I mean, she said
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: that one can't help grow. One can't, perhaps, said Humpty Dumpty,
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: but two can with proper assistance. You might have left
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: off at seven. What a beautiful belt you've got on,
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: Alice suddenly remarked. They had had quite enough of the
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: subject of age. She thought, and if they really were
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: to take turns in choosing subjects, it was her turn now,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: at least, she corrected herself on second thoughts, A beautiful cravat.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: I should have said, no a belt. I mean, I
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: beg your pardon, she added, in dismay for Humpty Dumpty
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: looked thoroughly offended, and she began to wish she hadn't
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: chosen that subject. If I only knew, she thought to herself,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: which was neck and which was waist. Evidently, Humpty Dumpty
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: was very angry, though he said nothing for a minute
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: or two. When he did speak again, it was in
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: a deep growl. It is a most provoking thing, he
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: said at last. When a person doesn't know a cravat
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: from a belt, I know, it's very ignorant of me,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: Alice said, in so humble a tone that Humpty Dumpty relented.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: It's a cravat, child, and a beautiful one, as you say.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: It's a present from the White King and Queen there. Now,
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: is it really? Said Alice, quite pleased to find that
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: she had chosen a good subject. After all, they gave
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: it me, Humpty Dumpty continued thoughtfully, as he crossed one
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: knee over the other and clasped his hands round it.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: They gave it me for an unbirthday present. I beg
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: your pardon, Alice said, with a puzzled air. I'm not offended,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: said Humpty Dumpty, I mean, what is an unbirthday present?
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: A present given when it isn't your birthday. Of course,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: Alice considered a little I like birthday presents best, she said.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: At last, you don't know what you're talking about, cried
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty. How many days are there in a year?
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: Three hundred and sixty five, said Alice. And how many
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: birthdays have you one? And if you take one from
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five, what remains three hundred and
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: sixty four. Of course, Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful. I'd rather
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: see that done on paper, he said. Alice couldn't help
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: smiling as she took out her memorandum book and worked
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: the sum for him. Three hundred and sixty five one
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: underscore underscore Underscore Underscore, three hundred and sixty four underscore
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: Underscore Underscore. Humpty Dumpty took the book and looked at
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: it carefully. That seems to be done right, he began.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: You're holding it upside down, Alice interrupted, to be sure,
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: I was, Humpty Dumpty said gaily as she turned it
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: round for him. I thought it looked a little queer
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: as I was saying, that seems to be done right,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: though I haven't time to look it over thoroughly just now.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: And that shows that there are three hundred and sixty
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: four days when you might get unbirthday, certainly, said Alice,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: and only one for birthday presents. You know there's glory
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: for you. I don't know what you mean by glory, Alice, said,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. Of course you don't till I
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: tell you. I meant there's a nice knockdown argument for you.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: But glory doesn't mean a nice knockdown argument, Alice objected.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: to mean, neither more nor less. The question is, said, Alice,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: whether you can make words mean so many different things?
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: The question is, said, Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master?
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: That's all. Alice was too much puzzled to say anything,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. They've a temper,
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: some of them, particularly verbs. They're the proudest adjectives you
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: can do anything with. But not verbs. However, I can
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: manage the whole lot of them. Impenetrability, That's what I say.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: Would you tell me, please, said Alice, what that means? Now?
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: You talk like a reasonable child, said Humpty Dumpty, looking
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: very much pleased. I meant by impenetrability that we've had
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: enough of that subject. And it would be just as
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: well if you'd mention what you mean to do next,
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: the rest of your life. That's a great deal to
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: make one word mean, Alice said, in a thoughtful tone.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: When I make a word, do a lot of work
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: like that, said Humpty Dumpty. I always pay it extra, Oh,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: other remark. Ah, you should see em come round me
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: of a Saturday night. Humpty Dumpty went on, wagging his
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: head gravely from side to side. For to get their wages.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: You know, Alice didn't venture to ask what he paid
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: them with. And so you see, I can't tell you.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: You seem very clever at explaining words, sir, said Alice.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: called jabberwocky? Let's hear it? Said Humpty Dumpty. I can
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: explain all the poems that were ever invented, and a
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: good many that haven't been invented just yet. This sounded
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse, twas brillig
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wave,
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: all mimsy were the Borogovs and the mom Wrath's outgrave.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: That's enough to begin with, Humpty Dumpty interrupted. There are
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: plenty of hard words there. Brillig means four o'clock in
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: the afternoon, the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: That'll do very well, said Alice. And slithy, well, slithy
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: means lithe, and slimy lithe is the same as active.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: You see, it's like a portmanteau. There are two meanings
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: packed up into one word. I see it now now,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: Alice remarked thoughtfully. And what are toes? Well, toes are
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: something like badgers. There's something like lizards, and there's something
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: like corkscrews. They must be very curious looking creatures they are, that,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: said Humpty Dumpty. Also they make their nests under sun dials.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: Also they live on cheese. And what's the gyre? And
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: to gimble to gyre is to go round and round
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: like a gyroscope. To gimble is to make holes like
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: a gimlet, and the wave is the grass plot round
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: a sundial, I suppose, said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: Of course it is. It's called wave, you know, because
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: it goes a long way before it, and a long
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: way behind it, and a long way beyond it on
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: each side, Alice added, exactly. So. Well, then mimsy is
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: flimsy and miserable. There's another portmanteau for you, and that
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: borogov is a thin, shabby looking bird with its feathers
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: sticking out all round, something like a live mop. And
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: then mom, wraths, said Alice, I'm afraid I'm giving you
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: a great deal of trouble. Well, a wrath is a
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: sort of green pig. But Mom, I'm not certain about
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's short for from home, meaning that they've
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: lost their way, you know. And what does outgrabe mean? Well,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: outgrabing is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: of sneeze in the middle. However, you'll hear it done,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: maybe down in the wood yonder, and when you've once
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: heard it, you'll be quite content. Who's been repeating all
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: that hard stuff to you? I read it in a book,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: said Alice. But I had some poetry repeated to me
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: much easier than that by Tweedledee. I think it was
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: as to poetry, you know, said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: one of his great hands. I can repeat poetry as
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: well as other folk, if it comes to that. Oh,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: it needn't come to that, Alice hastily said, hoping to
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: keep him from beginning. The piece I'm going to repeat,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: he went on, without noticing her remark was written entirely
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: for your amusement. Alice felt that in that case she
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: really ought to listen to it, so she sat down
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: and said thank you, rather sadly. In winter, when the
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: fields are white, I sing this song for your delight.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: Only I don't sing it, he added, as an explanation.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: I see you don't, said Alice. If you can see
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: whether I'm singing or not, you've sharper eyes than most,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty remarked severely. Alice was silent. In spring, when
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: I mean. Thank you very much, said Alice. In summer,
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: when the days are long, perhaps you'll understand the song
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: In autumn, when the leaves are brown, take pen and
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: ink and write it down. I will if I can
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: remember it so long, said Alice. You needn't go on
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: making remarks like that. Humpty Dumpty said, they're not sensible,
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: and they put me out. I sent a message to
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: the fish. I told them, this is what I wish
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: the little fishes of the sea. They sent an answer
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: back to me. The little fish's answer was, we cannot
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: do it, sir, because I'm afraid I don't quite understand,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: said Alice. It gets easier further on. Humpty Dumpty replied,
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: I sent to them again to say it will be
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: better to obey. The fishes answered with a grin. Why
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: what a temper you are in? I told them once,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: I told them twice. They would not listen to advice.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: I took a kettle, large and new, fit for the
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: deed I had to do. My heart went hop, my
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: heart went thump. I filled the kettle at the pump.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: Then some one came to me and said, the little
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: fishes are in bed. I said to him, I said
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: it plain, Then you must wake them up again. I
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: said it very loud and clear. I went and shouted
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: in his ear. Humpty Dumpty raised his voice almost to
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: a scream as he repeated this verse, and Alice thought,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: with a shudder, I wouldn't have been the messenger for anything.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: But he was very stiff and proud. He said, you
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: needn't shout so loud. And he was very proud and stiff.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: He said, I'd go and wake them if I took
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: a corkscrew from the shelf. I went to wake them
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: up myself, and when I found the door was locked,
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: I pulled and pushed and kicked and knocked. And when
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: I found the door was shut, I tried to turn
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: the handle, but there was a long pause. Is that all,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: Alice timidly asked. That's all, said Humpty Dumpty. Good bye.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: This was rather sudden, Alice thought, But after such a
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: very strong hint that she ought to be going, she
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: felt that it would hardly be civil to stay. So
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: she got up and held out her hand. Good Bye
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: till we meet again, she said, as cheerfully as she could.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't know you again if we did meet, Humpty
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: Dumpty replied, in a discontented tone, giving her one of
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: his fingers to shake. You're so exactly like other people.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: The face is what one goes by generally, Alice remarked,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: in a thoughtful tone. That's just what I complain of,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: said Humpty Dumpty. Your face is the same as everybody
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: has the two eyes, so marking their places in the
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: air with this thumb, nose in the middle, mouth under
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: it's always the same. Now, if you had the two
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: or the mouth at the top, that would be some help.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't look nice. Alice objected, but Humpty Dumpty only
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: shut his eyes and said, wait till you've tried. Alice
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: waited a minute to see if he would speak again,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: but as he never opened his eyes or took any
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: further notice of her, she said goodbye once more, and
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: getting no answer to this, she quietly walked away. But
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: she couldn't help saying to herself as she went, of
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: all the unsatisfactory She repeated this aloud, as it was
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: a great comfort to have such a long word to
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: say of all the unsatisfactory people I ever met. She
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: never finished the sentence, for at this moment a heavy
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: crash shook the forest from end to end. Chapter seven
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: the lion and the unicorn. The next moment, soldiers came
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: running through the wood, at first in twos and threes,
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: then ten or twenty together, and at last in such
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: crowds that they seemed to fill the whole forest. Alice
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: got behind a tree for fear of being run over,
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: and watched them go by. She thought that in all
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: her life she had never seen soldiers so uncertain on
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: their feet. They were always tripping over something or other,
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: and whenever one went down, several more always fell over him,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: so that the ground was soon covered with little heaps
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: of men. Then came the horses, having four feet, these
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: managed rather better than the foot soldiers, but even they
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: stumbled now and then, and it seemed to be a
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: regular rule that whenever a horse stumbled, the rider fell
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: off instantly. The confusion got worse every moment, and Alice
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: was very glad to get out of the wood into
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: an open place, where she found the White King seated
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: on the ground, busily writing in his memorandum book. I've
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: sent them all, the King cried in a tone of
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: delight on seeing Alice, did you happen to meet any soldiers,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: my dear? As you came through the wood. Yes, I did,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: said Alice, several thousand, I should think for thousand, two
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: hundred and seven. That's the exact number, the king said,
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: referring to his book. I couldn't send all the horses,
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: you know, because two of them are wanted in the game.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: And I haven't sent the two messengers either. They're both
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: gone to the town. Just look along the road and
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: tell me if you can see either of them. I
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: see nobody on the road, said Alice. I only wish
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: I had such eyes, the King remarked, in a fretful tone,
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: to be able to see nobody, and at that distance too.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: Why it's as much as I can do to see
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: real people by this light. All this was lost on Alice,
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: who was still looking intently along the road, shading her
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: eyes with one hand. I see somebody now, she exclaimed
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: at last. But he's coming very slowly, and what curious
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: attitudes he goes into. For the messenger kept skipping up
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: and down and wriggling like an eel as he came along,
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: with his great hands spread out like fans on each side.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: Not at all, said the king. He's an Anglo Saxon messenger,
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: and those are Anglo Saxon attitudes. He only does them
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  Speaker 1: when he's happy. His name is Higher, he pronounced it
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: so as to rhyme with mayor. I love my love
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  Speaker 1: with an H. Alice couldn't help beginning because he is happy.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: I hate him with an H because he is hideous.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: I fed him with with with ham, sandwiches and hay.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Hiah, and he lives. He lives on
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: the hill. The king remarked, simply, without the least idea
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: that he was joining in the game. While Alice was
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: still hesitating for the name of a town beginning with H,
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: the other messengers called Hatta. I must have two, you know,
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: to come and go, One to come and one to go.
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  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon, said Alice. It isn't respectable to beg,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: said the king. I only meant that. I didn't understand,
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: said Alice. Why one to come and one to go?
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: Didn't I tell you? The King repeated impatiently, I must
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: have two to fetch and carry. One to fetch and
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: one to carry. At this moment the messenger arrived, he
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: was far too much out of breath to say a word,
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: and could only wave his hands about and make the
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: most fearful faces at the poor king. This young lady
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: loves you with an h the king said, introducing Alice,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: in the hope of turning off the messenger's attention from himself.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: But it was no use. The Anglo Saxon attitudes only
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: got more extraordinary every moment while the great eyes rolled
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: wildly from side to side. You alarm me, said the King.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: I feel faint. Give me a ham sandwich, on which
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: the messenger, to Alice's great amusement, opened a bag that
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: hung round his neck and handed a sandwich to the King,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: who devoured it greedily. Another sandwich, said the King. There's
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: nothing but hay left now, the messenger said, peeping into
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: the bag, hay. Then the King murmured in a faint whisper.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: Alice was glad to see that it revived him a
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: good deal. There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint,
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: he remarked to her, as he munched away. I should
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: think throwing cold water over you would be better, Alice suggested,
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: or some salvolatile I didn't say there was nothing better,
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: the king replied, I said there was nothing like it,
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: which Alice did not venture to deny, who did you
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: pass on the road, The King went on, holding out
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: his hand to the messenger for some more. Hay, nobody,
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: said the messenger. Quite right, said the king. This young
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: lady saw him too, so of course nobody walks slower
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: than you. I do my best, the messenger said, in
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: a sulky tone. I'm sure nobody walks much faster than
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: I do. He can't do that, said the king, or
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: else he'd have been here first. However, now you've got
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: your breath, you may tell us what's happened in the town.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: I'll whisper it, said the messenger, putting his hands to
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: his mouth in the shape of a trumpet and stooping
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: so as to get close to the king's ear. Alice
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: was sorry for this, as she wanted to hear the
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: news too. However, instead of whispering, he simply shouted at
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: the top of his voice. They're at it again. Do
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: you call that a whisper? Cried the poor king, jumping
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: up and shaking himself. If you do such a thing again,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: I'll have you buttered. It went through and through my
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: head like an earthquake. It would have to be a
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: very tiny earthquake, thought Alice, who are at it again.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: She ventured to ask why the lion and the unicorn.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, said the king, fighting for the crown. Yes,
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: to be sure, said the king. And the best of
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: the joke is that it's my crown. All the while,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: Let's run and see them. And they trotted off, Alice
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: repeating to herself as she ran the words of the
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: old song the lion and the unicorn were fighting for
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: the crown. The lion beat the unicorn all round the town.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown, some
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: gave them plumb cake, and drummed them out of town.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: Does the one that winds get the crown? She asked,
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: as well as she could, for the run was putting
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: her quite out of breath. Dear me, no, said the king,
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: what an idea? Would you be good enough? Alice panted out,
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: after running a little further, to stop a minute, just
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: to get one's breath again. I'm good enough, the king said,
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: Only I'm not strong enough. You see, a minute goes
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: by so fearfully quick, you might as well try to
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: stop a bandersnatch. Alice had no more breath for talking,
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: so they trotted on in silence till they came in
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: sight of a great crowd in the middle of which
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: the lion and unicorn were fighting. They were in such
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: a cloud of dust that at first Alice could not
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: make out which was which, but she soon managed to
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: distinguish the unicorn by his horn. They placed themselves close
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: to where Hatta, the other messenger, was standing, watching the fight,
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: with a cup of tea in one hand and a
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: piece of bread and butter in the other. He's only
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: just out of prison and he hadn't finished his tea
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: when he was sent in high A, whispered to Alice.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: And they only give them oyster shells in there, so
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: you see, he's very hungry and thirsty. How are you,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: dear child, He went on, putting his arm affectionately round
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: Hatta's neck. Hatta looked round and nodded, and went on
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: with his bread and butter. Were you happy in prison,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: dear child, said Haya. Hatta looked round once more, and
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: this time a tear or two trickled down his cheek,
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: but not a word would he say. Speak, can't you,
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: Haya cried impatiently, but Hatta only munched away and drank
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: some more tea. Speak, won't you cried the king, how
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: are they getting on with the fight? Hatta made a
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: desperate effort and swallowed a large piece of bread and butter.
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: They're getting on very well, he said, in a choking voice.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: Each of them has been down about eighty seven times.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: Then I suppose they'll soon bring the white bread and
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: the brown. Alice ventured to remark. It's waiting for them now,
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: said Hatta. This is a bit of it as I'm eating.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: There was a pause in the fight just then, and
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: the lion and the unicorn sat down panting while the
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: king called out ten minutes allowed for refreshments. Haia and
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: Hatta set to work at once, carrying rough trays of
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: white and brown bread. Alice took a piece to taste,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: but it was very dry. I don't think they'll fight
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: any more to day, the King said to Hatta, go
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: and order the drums to begin, and Hatta went bounding
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: away like a grasshopper. For a minute or two, Alice
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: stood silent watching him. Suddenly she brightened up. Look, look,
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: she cried, pointing eagerly. There's the white Queen running across
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: the country. She came flying out of the wood over yonder.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: How fast those queens can run. There's some enemy after her,
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: no doubt, the king said, without even looking round. That
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: wood's full of them. But aren't you going to run
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: and help her? Alice asked, very much, surprised at his
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: taking it so quietly. No use, No use, said the king.
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: She runs so fearfully quick you might as well try
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: to catch a bandersnatch. But I'll make a memorandum about
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: her if you like. She's a dear good creature, he
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum book.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: Do you spell creature with a double ghee? At this moment,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: the unicorn sauntered by them with his hands in his pockets.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: I had the best of it this time, he said
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: to the king, just glancing at him as he passed
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: a little a little, The King replied, rather nervously. You
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have run him through with your horn. You know
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: it didn't hurt him, the unicorn said, carelessly, And he
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: was going on when as I happened to fall upon Alice,
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: he turned round rather instantly and stood for some time,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: looking at her with an air of the deepest disgust.
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: What is this? He said? At last, This is a
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: child Hyah replied, eagerly, coming in front of Alice to
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: introduce her and spreading out both his hands towards her
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: in an Anglo Saxon attitude. We only found it today.
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: It's as large as life and twice as natural. I
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: always thought they were fabulous monsters, said the unicorn. Is
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: it alive? It can talk, said Hya solemnly. The unicorn
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: looked dreamily at Alice and said, talk child. Alice could
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: not help her lips curling up into a smile as
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: she began. Do you know I always thought unicorns were
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: fabulous monsters too. I never saw one alive before. Well,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: now that we have seen each other, said the unicorn.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: that a bargain? Yes, if you like, said Alice. Come
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: fetch out the plum cake, old man. The unicorn went on,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: turning from her to the king. None of your brown
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: bread for me, certainly, certainly, the king muttered and beckoned
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: to Hyah. Open the bag. He whispered, quick, not that
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: one that's full of hay. Hyah took a large cake
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: out of the bag and gave it to Alice to
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: hold while he got out a dish and carving knife.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: How they all came out of it? Alice couldn't guess.
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: It was just like a conjuring trick. She thought. The
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: lion had joined them while this was going on. He
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: looked very tired and sleepy, and his eyes were half shut.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: What's this? He said, blinking lazily at Alice and speaking
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: in a deep, hollow tone that sounded like the tolling
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: of a great bell. Ah, what is it now, the
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: unicorn cried eagerly. You'll never guess, I couldn't the lion
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: and looked at Alice wearily. Are you animal, vegetable or mineral?
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: He said, yawning at every other word. It's a fabulous monster,
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: the unicorn cried out, before Alice could reply. Then, hand
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: round the plum cake monster, the lion said, lying down
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: and putting his chin on his paws, and sit down,
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: both of you. To the king and the unicorn, fair
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: play with the cake, you know. The king was evidently
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: very uncomfortable at having to sit down between the two
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: great creatures, but there was no other place for him.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: What a fight we might have for the crown, now,
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: the unicorn said, looking slyly up at the crown, which
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: the poor king was nearly shaking off his head. He
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: trembled so much. I should win easy, said the lion.
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not so sure of that, said the unicorn. Why
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: I beat you all round the town, you chicken, the
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: lion replied angrily, half getting up as he spoke. Here
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: the king interrupted to prevent the quarrel going on. He
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: was very nervous, and his voice quite quivered. All round
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: the town. He said, that's a good long way. Did
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: you go by the old bridge or the market place?
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: You get the best view by the old bridge. I'm
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: sure I don't know, the lion growled out. As he
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: lay down again. There was too much dust to see anything.
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: What a time the monster is cutting up that cake.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: Alice had seated herself on the bank of a little
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: brook with the great dish on her knees, and was
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: sawing away diligently with the knife. It's very provoking, she
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: said in reply to the lion. She was getting quite
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: used to being called the monster. I've cut several slices already,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: but they always join on again. You don't know how
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: to manage looking glass cakes, the unicorn remarked, hand it
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: round first and cut it afterwards. This sounded nonsense, but
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: Alice very obediently got up and carried the dish round,
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: and the cake divided itself into three pieces as she
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: did so. Now cut it up, said the lion, as
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: she returned to her place with the empty dish. I
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: say this isn't fair, cried the unicorn, as Alice sat
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: with the knife in her hand, very much puzzled how
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: to begin. The monster has given the lion twice as
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: much as me, She's kept none for herself. Anyhow, said
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: the lion. Do you like plum cake? Monster? But before
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: Alice could answer him, the drums began. Where the noise
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: came from, she couldn't make out. The air seemed full
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: of it, and it rang through and through her head
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: till she felt quite deafened. She started to her feet
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: and sprang across the little brook in her terror astrous
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gasterrisk, and
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: had just time to see the lion and the unicorn
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: rise to their feet with angry looks at being interrupted
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: in their feast before she dropped to her knees and
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: put her hands over her ears, vainly trying to shut
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: out the dreadful uproar. If that doesn't drum them out
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: of town, she thought to herself, nothing ever will Chapter eight.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: It's my own invention. After a while, the noise seemed
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: no one to be seen, and her first thought was
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: that she must have been dreaming about the lion and
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: the unicorn and those queer Anglo Saxon messengers. However, there
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: was the great dish still lying at her feet on
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: which she had tried to cut the plum cake. So
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: I wasn't dreaming after all, she said to herself, unless
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: unless we're all part of the same dream. Only I
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: do hope it's my dream and not the Red King's.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: I don't like belonging to another person's dream, she went on,
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: in a rather complaining tone. I've a great mind to
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: go and wake him and see what happens. At this moment,
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: her thoughts were interrupted by a loud shouting of a
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: hoy a hoy, check and a knight dressed in crimson
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: armor came galloping down upon her, brandishing a great club.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: Just as he reached her, the horse stopped. Suddenly, you're
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: my prisoner, the knight cried, as he tumbled off his horse.
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: Startled as she was. Alice was more frightened for him
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: than for herself at the moment, and watched him with
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: some anxiety as he mounted again. As soon as he
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: was comfortably in the saddle, he began once more, you're
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: my but here another voice broke in, a hoy, a
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: hoy check, and Alice looked round in some surprise for
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: the new enemy. This time it was a white knight.
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: He drew up at Alice's side and tumbled off his horse,
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: just as the Red Knight had done. Then he got
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: on again, and the two knights sat and looked at
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: each other for some time without speaking. Alice looked from
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: one to the other in some bewilderment. She's my prisoner,
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: you know, the Red Knight said, at last, yes, But
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: then I came and rescued her. The White Knight replied, well,
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: we must fight for her. Then said the Red Knight,
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: as he took up his helmet, which hung from the saddle,
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: and was something the shape of a horse's head, and
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: put it on, you will observe the rules of battle.
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: Of course, the white knight remarked, putting on his helmet too.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: I always do, said the Red knight, and they began
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: banging away at each other with such fury that Alice
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: got behind a tree to be out of the way
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: of the blows. I wonder now what the rules of
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: battle are, she said to herself, as she watched the
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: fight timidly peeping out from her hiding place. One rule
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: seems to be that if one knight hits the other,
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: he knocks him off his horse, and if he misses,
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: he tumbles off himself. And another rule seems to be
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: that they hold their clubs with their arms as if
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: they were punch and judy, what a noise they make
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: when they tumble, just like a whole set of fire
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: irons falling into the fender. And how quiet the horses are.
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: They let them get on and off them, just as
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: if they were tables. Another rule of battle that Alice
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: had not noticed seemed to be that they always fell
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: on their heads, and the battle ended with their both
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: falling off. In this way, side by side. When they
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: got up again, they shook hands, and then the Red
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: Knight mounted and galloped off. It was a glorious victory,
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: wasn't it, said the White Knight, as he came up, panting.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Alice said, doubtfully. I don't want to
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: be anybody's prisoner. I want to be a queen. So
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: you will when you've crossed the next brook, said the
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: White Knight. I'll see you safe to the end of
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: the wood, and then I must go back. You know
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: that's the end of my move. Thank you very much,
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: said Alice. May I help you off with your helmet?
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: It was evidently more than he could manage by himself. However,
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: she managed to shake him out of it. At last,
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: Now one can breathe more easily, said the Knight, putting
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: back his shaggy hair with both hands and turning his
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: gentle face and large, mild eyes to Alice. She thought
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: she had never seen such a strange looking soldier in
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: all her life. He was dressed in tin armor, which
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: seemed to fit him very badly, and he had a
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: queer shaped little deal box fastened across his shoulder, upside
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: down and with the lid hanging open. Alice looked at
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: it with great curiosity. I see your admiring my little box,
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: the Knight said, in a friendly tone. It's my own
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: invention to keep clothes and sandwiches in. You see. I
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: carry it upside down so that the rain can't get in,
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: but the things can get out. Alice gently remarked, do
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: you know the lid's open? I didn't know it, the
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: knight said, a shade of vexation passing over his face.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: Then all the things must have fallen out, and the
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: box is no use without them. He unfastened it as
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: he spoke, and was just going to throw it into
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: the bushes, when a sudden thought seemed to strike him,
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: and he hung it carefully on a tree. Can you
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: guess why I did that, he said to Alice. Alice
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: shook her head in hope some bees may make a
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: nest in it. Then I should get the honey. But
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: you've got a beehive or something like one fastened to
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: the saddle, said Alice. Yes, it's a very good beehive,
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: the Knight said, in a discontented tone, one of the
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: best kind. But not a single bee has come near
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: it yet, And the other thing is a mouse trap.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: I suppose the mice keep the bees out, or the
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: bees keep the mice out. I don't know which. I
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: was wondering what the mouse trap was for, said Alice.
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: It isn't very likely there would be any mice on
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: the horse's back. Not very likely, perhaps, said the knight.
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: But if they do come, I don't choose to have
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: them running all about. You see, he went on, after
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: a pause. It's as well to be provided for everything.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: That's the reason the horse has all those anklets round
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: his feet. But what are they for, Alice asked, in
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: a tone of great curiosity, to guard against the bites
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: of sharks. The knight replied, it's an invention of my own.
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: And now help me on. I'll go with you to
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: the end of the wood. What's the dish for? It's
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: meant for plum cake, said Alice. We'd better take it
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: with us. The Knight said, it'll come in handy if
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: we find any plum cake. Help me to get it
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: into this bag. This took a very long time to manage,
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: though Alice held the bag open very carefully because the
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: Knight was so very awkward in putting in the dish.
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: The first two or three times that he tried, he
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: fell in himself instead. It's rather a tight fit, you see,
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: he said, as they got it in a last There
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: are so many candlesticks in the bag, and he hung
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: it to the saddle, which was already loaded with bunches
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: of carrots and fire irons and many other things. I
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: hope you've got your hair well fastened on, he continued,
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: as they set off, only in the usual way, Alice said, smiling.
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: That's hardly enough, he said, anxiously. You see, the wind
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: is so very strong here, it's as strong as soup.
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: Have you invented a plan for keeping the hair from
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: being blown off? Alice inquired, Not yet, said the Knight.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: But I've got a plan for keeping it from falling off.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: I should like to hear it very much. First you
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: take an upright stick, said the Knight. Then you make
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: your hair creep up it like a fruit tree. Now,
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: the reason hair falls off is because it hangs down.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: Things never fall upwards. You know. It's a plan of
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: my own invention. You may try it if you like.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: It didn't sound a comfortable plan, Alice thought, and for
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: a few minutes she walked on in silence, puzzling over
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: the idea, and every now and then stopping to help
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: the poor knight, who certainly was not a good rider.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: Whenever the horse stopped, which it did very often, he
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: fell off in front, and whenever it went on again,
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: which it generally did rather suddenly, he fell off behind.
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: a habit of now and then falling off sideways, and
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: as he generally did this on the side on which
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid you've not had much practice in riding, she
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: ventured to say, as she was helping him up from
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: his fifth tumble. The knight looked very much surprised and
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: a little offended at the remark. What makes you say that,
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: he asked, as he scrambled back into the saddle, keeping
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: hold of alice His hair with one hand to save
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: himself from falling over on the other side. Because people
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: don't fall off quite so often when they've had much practice.
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: I've had plenty of practice, the knight said, very gravely.
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: Plenty of practice. Alice could think of nothing better to
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: say than indeed, but she said it as heartily as
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: she could. They went on a little way in silence
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: after this, the Knight with his eyes shut, muttering to himself,
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: and Alice watching anxiously for the next tumble. The great
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: art of riding, the Knight suddenly began in a loud voice,
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: waving his right arm as he spoke, is to keep here.
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: The sentence ended as suddenly as it had begun, as
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: the Knight fell heavily on the top of his head,
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: exactly in the path where Alice was walking. She was
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: quite frightened this time, and said in an anxious tone
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: as she picked him up. I hope no bones are broken,
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: none to speak of. The Knight said, as if he
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: didn't mind breaking two or three of them. The great
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: art of riding, as I was saying, is to keep
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: your balance properly like this, you know. He let go
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: the bridle and stretched out both his arms to show
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: Alice what he meant, and this time he fell flat
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: on his back, right under the horse's feet. Plenty of practice,
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: he went on repeating all the time that Alice was
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: getting him on his feet again. Plenty of practice. It's
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: too ridiculous, cried Alice, losing all her patience this time.
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: You ought to have a wooden horse on wheels that
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: you ought? Does that kind go smoothly? The knight asked
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: in a tone of great interest, clasping his arms round
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: the horse's neck as he spoke, just in time to
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: save himself from tumbling off again. Much more smoothly than
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: a live horse, Alice said, with a little scream of laughter,
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: in spite of all she could do to prevent it.
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: I'll get one, the knight said thoughtfully to himself, one
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: or two several. There was a short sigh after this,
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: and then the Knight went on again. I'm a great
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: hand at inventing things. Now, I dare say you noticed
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: that last time you picked me up that I was
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: looking rather thoughtful. You were a little grave, said Alice. Well,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: just then I was inventing a new way of getting
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: over a gate. Would you like to hear it? Very much? Indeed,
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: Alice said politely. I'll tell you how I came to
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: think of it, said the knight. You see, I said
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: to myself. The only difficulty is with the feet. The
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: head is high enough already. Now, first I put my
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: head on the top of the gate, then I stand
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: on my head. Then the feet are high enough, you see,
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: Then I'm over you see. Yes, I suppose you'd be
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: over when that was done, Alice said thoughtfully, But don't
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: you think it would be rather hard? I haven't tried
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: it yet, the knight said gravely, So I can't tell
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: for certain, but I'm afraid it would be a little hard.
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: He looked so vexed at the idea that Alice ranged
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: the subject hastily. What a curious helmet you've got, she said, cheerfully.
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: Is that your invention too? The knight looked down proudly
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: at his helmet, which hung from the saddle. Yes, he said,
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: but I've invented a better one than that, like a
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: sugar loaf. When I used to wear it, if I
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: fell off the horse, it always touched the ground directly,
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: so I had a very little way to fall, you see.
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: But there was the danger of falling into it, to
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: be sure. That happened to me once, and the worst
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: of it was before I could get out again. The
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: other white knight came and put it on. He thought
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: it was his own helmet. The knight looked so solemn
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: about it that Alice did not dare to laugh. I'm
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: afraid you must have hurt him, she said, in a
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: trembling voice, being on the top of his head. I
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: had to kick him, of course, the knight said, very seriously,
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: and then he took the helmet off again. But it
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: took hours and hours to get me out. I it
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: was as fast as as lightning, you know. But that's
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: a different kind of fastness, Alice objected. The knight shook
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: his head. It was all kinds of fastness with me,
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: I can assure you, he said. He raised his hands
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: in some excitement as he said this, and instantly rolled
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: out of the saddle and fell headlong into a deep ditch.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: Alice ran to the side of the ditch to look
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: for him. She was rather startled by the fall, as
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: for some time he had kept on very well, and
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: she was afraid that he really was hurt. This time. However,
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: though she could see nothing but the saws of his feet,
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: she was much relieved to hear that he was talking
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: on in his usual tone. All kinds of fastness, he repeated.
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: But it was careless of him to put another man's
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: helmet on with the man in it too. How can
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: you go on talking so quietly. Head downwards, Alice asked,
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: as she dragged him out by the feet and laid
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: him in a heap on the bank. The Knight looked
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: surprised at the question. What does it matter where my
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: body happens to be, he said, My mind goes on
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: working all the same. In fact, the more head downwards
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: I am, the more I keep inventing new things. Now,
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: the cleverest thing of the sort that I ever did,
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: he went on, after a pause, was inventing a new
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: pudding during the meat course, in time to have it
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: cooked for the next course, said Alice. Well not the
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: next course, the Night said, in a slow, thoughtful tone. No, certainly,
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: not the next course. Then it would have to be
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: the next day. I suppose you wouldn't have two pudding
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: courses in one dinner. Well not the next day, the
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: Night repeated, as before, not the next day. In fact,
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: he went on, holding his head down and his voice
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: getting lower and lower. I don't believe that pudding ever
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: was cooked. In fact, I don't believe that pudding ever
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: will be cooked. And yet it was a very clever
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: putting to invent. What did you mean it to be
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: made of? Alice asked, hoping to cheer him up, for
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: the poor knight seemed quite low spirited about it. It
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: began with blotting paper, the knight answered with a groan.
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 1: That wouldn't be very nice. I'm afraid not very nice alone,
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: he interrupted, quite eagerly. But you've no idea what a
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: difference it makes mixing it with other things such as
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: gunpowder and sealing wax. And here I must leave you.
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: They had just come to the end of the wood.
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: Alice could only look puzzled. She was thinking of the pudding.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: You are sad, the knight said, in an anxious tone.
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: Let me sing you a song to comfort you. Is
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: it very long? Alice asked, for she had heard a
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: good deal of poetry that day. It's long, said the knight,
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: but very very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it,
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: either it brings the tears into their eyes or else,
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: or else, what said Alice, For the Knight had made
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: aus sudden pause, or else? It doesn't you know? The
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: name of the song is called Haddock's Eyes. Oh that's
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: the name of the song, is it, Alice said, trying
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: to feel interested. No, you don't understand, the knight said,
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: looking a little vexed, that's what the name is called.
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: The name really is the aged aged man. Then I
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: ought to have said that's what the song is called,
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 1: Alice corrected herself. No, you oughtn't. That's quite another thing.
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: The song is called ways and Means. But that's only
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: what it's called. You know. Well, what is the song,
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: then said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: I was coming to that, The knight said, the song
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: really is a sitting on a gate, and the tunes
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: my own invention, So saying, he stopped his horse and
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: let the reins fall on its neck, then slowly beating
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: time with one hand, and with a faint smile lighting
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: up his gentle foolish face, as if he enjoyed the
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: music of his song, he began. Of all the strange
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: things that Alice saw in her journey through the looking glass,
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: this was the one that she always remembered most clearly.
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: Years afterwards, she could bring the whole scene back again,
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: as if it had been only yesterday. The mild blue
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: eyes and kindly smile of the night, the setting sun
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: gleaming through his hair and shining on his armor in
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: a blaze of light, that quite dazzled her. The horse
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: quietly moving about with the reins hanging loose on his neck, cropping,
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: the grass at her feet, and the black shadows of
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: the forest behind. All this she took in like a picture,
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: as with one hand shading her eyes. She leant against
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 1: a tree, watching the strange pair and listening in a
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: half dream to the melancholy music of the song. But
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: the tune is in his own invention, she said to herself.
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: It's I give THEE all I can know. More. She
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: stood and listened very attentively, but no tears came into
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: her eyes. I'll tell THEE everything I can. There's little
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: to relate. I saw an aged aged man, a sitting
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: on a gate. Who are you, aged man? I said,
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: And how is it you live? And his answer trickled
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: through my head like water through a sieve. He said,
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: I look for butterflies that sleep among the wheat. I
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: make them into mutton pies and sell them in the street.
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: I sell them unto men, he said, whose sail on
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: stormy seas. And that's the way I get my bread.
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: A trifle, if you please. But I was thinking of
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: a plan to dye one's whiskers green, and always use
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: so large a fan that they could not be seen. So,
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: having no reply to give to what the old man said,
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: I cried, come tell me how you live, and thumped
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: him on the head. His accents mile took up the tail.
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: He said, I go my ways, and when I find
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: a mountain rill, I set it in a blaze. And
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: thence they make a stuff they call Roland's ma cassar oil.
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: Yet Tuppen's hapany is all they give me for my toil.
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: But I was thinking of a way to feed one's
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: self on batter, and so go on from day to day,
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: getting a little fatter. I shook him well, from side
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: to side, until his face was blue. Come tell me
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: how you live, I cried. And what it is you do,
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: he said. I hunt for hattock's eyes among the heather, bright,
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 1: and work them into waistcoat buttons in the silent night.
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: And these I do not sell for gold or coin
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: of silvery shine, but for a copper hapenny, and that
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: will purchase nine. I sometimes dig for buttered rolls or
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: set limed twigs for crabs. I sometimes searched the grassy
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: knolls for wheels of handsome cabs. And that's the way
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: he gave a wink by which I get my wealth.
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: And very gladly will I drink your honor's noble health.
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: I hurt him then, for I had just completed my
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: design to keep them an eyebridge from rust by boiling
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 1: it in wine. I thanked him much for telling me
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: the way he got his wealth, but chiefly for his
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: wish that he might drink my noble health. And now,
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: if ere by chance, I put my fingers into glue,
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: or madly squeeze a right hand foot into a left
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 1: hand shoe, or if I drop upon my toe of
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: very heavy weight, I weep, for it reminds me so
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: of that old man I used to know, whose look
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: was mild, whose speech was slow, whose hair was whiter
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: than the snow, whose face was very like a crow,
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: with eyes like cinders, all aglow, who seemed distracted with
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: his woe, who rocked his body to and fro, and
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: muttered mumblingly and low, as if his mouth were full
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: of dough, who snorted like a buffalo. That summer evening
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: long ago, a sitting on a gate, as the Knight
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: sang the last words of the ballad, he gathered up
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: the reins and turned his horse's head along the road
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 1: by which they had come. You've only a few yards
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 1: to go, he said, down the hill and over that
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: little brook, and then you'll be a queen. But you'll
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: stay and see me off first, he added, as Alice
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: turned with an eager look in the direction to which
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: he pointed. I shan't be long. You'll wait and wave
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: your handkerchief when I get to that turn in the road.
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: I think it'll encourage me. You see. Of course i'll wait,
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: said Alice. And thank you very much for coming so far,
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: and for the song. I liked it very much, I
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: hope so, the knight said, doubtfully. But you didn't cry
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: so much as I thought you would. So they shook hands,
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 1: and then the night rode slowly away into the forest.
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: It won't take long to see him off, I expect,
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: Alice said to herself as she stood watching him. There
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: he goes right on his head as usual. However he
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: gets on again pretty easily. That comes of having so
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: many things hung round the horse. So she went on
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: talking to herself as she watched the horse walking leisurely
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: along the road and the night tumbling off first on
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: one side and then on the other. After the fourth
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: or fifth tumble, he reached the turn, and then she
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: waved her handkerchief to him and waited till he was
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: out of sight. I hope it encouraged him, she said,
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: as she turned to run down the hill. And now
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 1: for the last brook, and to be a queen. How
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: grand it sounds. A very few steps brought her to
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: the edge of the brook, the eighth square at last,
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: she cried, as she bounded across astrous gastrous, gastrous gastrous
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gastrous gasterrisk and threw herself down
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: to rest on a lawn as soft as moss, with
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: little flower beds dotted about it. Here and there. Oh,
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: how glad I am to get here? And what is
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: this on my head? She exclaimed in a tone of dismay,
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: as she put her hands up to something very heavy
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: and fitted tight all round her head. But how can
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: it have got there without my knowing it? She said
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: to herself, as she lifted it off and set it
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: on her lap to make out what it could possibly be.
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: It was a golden crown. Chapter nine, Queen Alice. Well
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: this is grand, said Alice. I never expected I should
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: be a queen so soon. And I'll tell you what
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: it is, your majesty, She went on in a severe tone.
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: She was always rather fond of scolding herself. It'll never
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: do for you to be lolling about on the grass
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: like that. Queens have to be dignified, you know. So
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: she got up and walked about rather stiffly, just at first,
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: as she was afraid that the crown might come off.
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: But she comforted herself with the thought that there was
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: nobody to see her, and if I really am a queen,
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: she said, as she sat down again, I shall be
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: able to manage it quite well. In time, everything was
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: happening so oddly that she didn't feel a bit surprised
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: at finding the Red Queen and the White Queen sitting
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: close to her, one on each side. She would have
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: liked very much to ask them how they came there,
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: but she feared it would not be quite civil. However,
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: there would be no harm, she thought, in asking if
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: the game was over, please would you tell me? She
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: began looking timidly at the Red queen, speak when you're
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 1: spoken to. The queen sharply interrupted her. But if everybody
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: obeyed that rule, said Alice, who was always ready for
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: a little argument. And if you only spoke when you
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: were spoken to, and the other person always waited for
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: you to begin, you see, nobody would ever say anything.
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: So that ridiculous, cried the queen. Why don't you see
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: child here? She broke off with a frown, and, after
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation.
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: What do you mean by if you really are a queen?
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: What right have you to call yourself? So you can't
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: be a queen? You know, till you've passed the proper examination,
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 1: And the sooner we begin it, the better. I only said, if,
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: poor Alice pleaded in a piteous tone. The two queens
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: looked at each other, and the Red Queen remarked, with
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: a little shudder, she says, she only said if. But
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: she said a great deal more than that, The White
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: Queen moaned, wringing her hands. Oh, ever, so much more
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: than that, So you did you know? The Red queen
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: said to Alice, Always speak the truth, think before you speak,
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: and write it down afterwards. I'm sure, I didn't mean,
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: That's just what I complain of. You should have meant.
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: What do you suppose is the use of child without
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: any meaning. Even a joke should have some meaning, and
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: a child's more important than a joke. I hope you
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 1: I don't deny things with my hands, Alice objected. Nobody
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: said you did, said the Red Queen. I said you
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: couldn't if you tried. She's in that state of mind,
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: said the White Queen, that she wants to deny something,
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: only she doesn't know what to deny. A nasty, vicious temper,
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: the Red Queen remarked, and then there was an uncomfortable
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: silence for a minute or two. The Red Queen broke
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: the silence by saying to the White Queen, I invite
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: you to Alice's dinner party this afternoon. The White Queen
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: smiled feebly and said, and I invite you. I didn't
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: know I was to have a party at all, said Alice.
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: But if there is to be one, I think I
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: ought to invite the guests. We gave you the opportunity
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: of doing it. The Red Queen remarked, but I dare
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: say you've not had many lessons in manners yet. Manners
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: are not taught in lessons, said Alice. Lessons teach you
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: to do sums and things of that sort, and you
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: do addition. The White Queen asked, what's one and one
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: and one and one and one and one and one
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: and one and one and one. I don't know, said Alice.
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: I lost count. She can't do addition. The Red Queen interrupted,
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: Can you do subtraction? Take nine from eight? Nine from eight?
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: I can't, you know? Alice replied, very readily. But she
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: can't do subtraction, said the White queen. Can you do division?
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: Divide a loaf by a knife? What's the answer to that?
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: I suppose, Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered,
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: for her bread and butter. Of course, try another subtraction.
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: Some take a bone from a dog. What remains? Alice considered,
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: the bone wouldn't remain. Of course, if I took it
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: and the dog wouldn't remain, it would come to bite me.
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure I shouldn't remain. Then you think nothing
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: would remain, said the Red Queen. I think that's the
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 1: answer wrong as usual, said the Red Queen. The dog's
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: temper would remain, but I don't see how. Why look here,
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: the Red Queen cried. The dog would lose its temper,
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 1: wouldn't it? Perhaps would, Alice replied cautiously. Then if the
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: dog went away, its temper would remain, the queen exclaimed triumphantly.
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 1: Alice said, as gravely as she could. They might go
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: different ways, But she couldn't help thinking to herself, what
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: dreadful nonsense we are talking. She can't do sums a bit,
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 1: the queen said, together with great emphasis. Can you do sums?
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 1: Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: didn't like being found fault with so much. The queen
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: gasped and shut her eyes. I can do addition if
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 1: you give me time, but I can't do subtraction under
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: any circumstances. Of course, you know your A B C,
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: said the Red Queen. To be sure, I do, said Alice,
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: So do I. The White Queen whispered. We'll often say
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: it over together, dear, and I'll tell you a secret.
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: I can read words of one letter. Isn't that grand? However,
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: don't be discouraged. You'll come to it in time. Here,
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: the Red Queen began again. Can you answer useful questions?
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: She said? How is bread made? I know that, Alice
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 1: cried eagerly. You take some flour. Where do you pick
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 1: the flower, the White Queen asked, in a garden or
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 1: in the hedges. Well, it isn't picked at all, Alice explained,
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: it's ground. How many acres of ground, said the White Queen.
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: You mustn't leave out so many things fan her head.
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 1: The Red Queen anxiously interrupted, she'll be feverish after so
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: much thinking. So they set to work and fanned her
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: with bunches of leaves till she had to beg them
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: to leave off. It blew her hair about. So she's
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 1: all right again now, said the Red Queen. Do you
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: know languages? What's the French for fiddle de dee fiddle?
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 1: The d's not English, Alice replied gravely. Whoever said it was,
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: said the Red Queen. Alice thought she saw a way
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: out of the difficulty this time. If you'll tell me
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: what language fiddle de dee is, I'll tell you the
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 1: French for it, she exclaimed triumphantly. But the Red Queen
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: drew herself up rather stiffly and said, queens never make bargains.
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: I wish queens never asked questions, Alice thought to herself.
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 1: Don't let us quarrel. The White Queen said, in an
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: anxious tone, what is the cause of lightning? The cause
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: of lightning, Alice said, very decidedly, for she felt quite
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: certain about this is the thunder No. No, she hastily
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: corrected herself. I meant the other way. It's too late
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: to correct it, said the Red Queen. When you've once
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: the consequences. Which reminds me. The White Queen said, looking
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: down and nervously clasping and unclasping her hands, we had
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: such a thunderstorm last Tuesday, I mean one of the
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 1: last set of tuesdays, you know. Alice was puzzled. In
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: our country, she remarked, there's only one day at a time.
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: The Red Queen said, that's a poor, thin way of
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 1: doing things. Now Here. We mostly have days and nights
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 1: two or three at a time, and sometimes in the
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: winter we take as many as five nights together for warmth,
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 1: you know, are five nights warmer than one night. Then
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 1: Alice ventured to ask five times as warm, of course,
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 1: but they should be five times as cold by the
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 1: same rule. Just so, cried the Red Queen. Five times
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 1: as warm and five times as cold, just as I'm
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 1: five times as rich as you are, and five times
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: as clever. Alice sighed and gave it up. It's exactly
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: like a riddle with no answer, she thought. Humpty dumpty
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: saw it too. The White Queen went on, in a
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 1: low voice, more as if she were talking to herself.
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: He came to the door with a corkscrew in his hand.
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: What did he want, said the Red Queen. He said
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: he would come in. The White Queen went on, because
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened,
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: there wasn't such a thing in the house that morning.
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: Is there generally? Alice asked, in an astonished tone. Well,
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: only on Thursdays, said the Queen. I know what he
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: came for, said Alice. He wanted to punish the fish.
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: Because here the White Queen began again. It was such
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: a thunderstorm. You can't think she never could, you know,
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 1: said the Red Queen, and part of the roof came
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: off and ever so much thunder got in, and it
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: went rolling round the room in great lumps, and knocking
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 1: over the tables and things, till I was so frightened
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 1: I couldn't remember my own name. Alice thought to herself,
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 1: I never should try to remember my name in the
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: middle of an accident. Where would be the use of it.
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 1: But she did not say this loud, for fear of
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 1: hurting the poor queen's feeling. Your majesty must excuse her,
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: the Red Queen said to Alice, taking one of the
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: White Queen's hands in her own and gently stroking it.
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 1: She means well, but she can't help saying foolish things
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: as a general rule. The White Queen looked timidly at Alice,
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 1: who felt she ought to say something kind, but really
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 1: couldn't think of anything at the moment. She never was
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: really well brought up. The Red Queen went on, but
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: it's amazing how good tempered she is. Pat her on
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: the head, and see how pleased she'll be. But this
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: was more than Alice had courage to do a little kindness,
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: and putting her hair in papers would do wonders with her.
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: The White Queen gave a deep sigh and laid her
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: head on Alice's shoulder. I am so sleepy, she moaned.
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: She's tired, poor thing, said the Red Queen. Smooth her hair,
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 1: lend her your nightcap and sing her a soothing lullaby.
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: I haven't got a night cap with me, said Alice,
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: as she tried to obey the first direction. And I
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: don't know any soothing lullabies. I must do it myself, then,
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 1: said the Red Queen, and she began husher by lady
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 1: in Alice's lap. Till the feast's ready. We've time for
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 1: a nap. When the feast's over, we'll go to the ball.
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 1: Red Queen and White Queen and Alice and all. And
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: now you know the words, she added, as she put
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: her head down on Alice's other shoulder. Just sing it
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: through to me. I'm getting sleepy too. In another moment,
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: both queens were fast asleep and snoring loud. What am
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: I to do? Exclaimed Alice, looking about in great perplexity
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: as first one round head and then the other rolled
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 1: down from her shoulder and lay like a heavy lump
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: in her lap. I don't think it ever happened before
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: that any one had to take care of two queens
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: asleep at once. No, not in all the history of England.
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: It couldn't, you know, because there never was more than
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: one queen at a time. Do wake up, you heavy things?
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 1: She went on in an impatient tone, But there was
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: no answer but a gentle snoring. The snoring got more
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 1: distinct every minute, and sounded more like a tune. At
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 1: last she could even make out the words, and she
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: listened so eagerly that when the two great heads vanished
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: from her lap, she hardly missed them. She was standing
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: before an arched doorway, over which were the words Queen
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 1: Alice in large letters, and on each side of the
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 1: arch there was a bell handle. One was marked visitor's
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: bell and the other servant's bell. I'll wait till the
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 1: song's over, thought, Alice, and then i'll ring the Which
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: bell must I ring? She went on, very much puzzled
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 1: by the names. I'm not a visitor and I'm not
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 1: a servant. There ought to be one marked queen, you know.
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: Just then the door opened a little way, and a
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 1: creature with a long beak put its head out for
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: a moment and said, no admittance till the week after next,
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: and shut the door again with a bang. Alice knocked
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: and rang in vain for a long time. But at
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 1: last a very old frog, who was sitting under a tree,
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 1: got up and hobbled slowly towards her. He was dressed
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: in bright yellow and had enormous boots on. What is
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: it now? The frog sat in a deep, hoarse whisper.
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: Alice turned round, ready to find fault with anybody. Where's
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: the servant whose business it is to answer the door?
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: She began angrily, Which door, said the frog? Alice almost
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: stamped with irritation at the slow drawl in which he
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: spoke This door, of course. The frog looked at the
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 1: door with his large, dull eyes for a minute. Then
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: he went nearer and rubbed it with his thumb, as
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: if he were trying whether the paint would come off.
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: Then he looked at Alice to answer the door. He said,
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: what's it been asking of? He was so hoarse that
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 1: Alice could scarcely hear him. I don't know what you mean,
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: she said, I talks English, doesn't I? The frog went on,
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: or are you deaf? What did it ask you? Nothing?
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: Alice said, impatiently. I've been knocking at it shouldn't do that,
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: shouldn't do that? The frog muttered, vex is it you know?
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: Then he went up and gave the door a kick
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 1: with one of his great feet. You let it alone,
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: he panted out as he hobbled back to his tree,
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: And it'll let you alone, you know. At this moment,
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: the door was flung open, and a shrill voice was
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: heard singing to the looking glass world. It was Alice
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 1: that said, I've a scepter in hand, I've a crown
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: on my head. Let the looking glass creatures, whatever they be,
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: and me, And hundreds of voices joined in the chorus.
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can,
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 1: and sprinkle the table with buttons and bran, put cats
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: in the coffee and mice in the tea. And welcome
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: Queen Alice with thirty times three. Then followed a confused
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 1: noise of cheering, and Alice thought to herself, thirty times
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: three makes ninety. I wonder if any one's counting In
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: a minute. There was silence again, and the same shrill
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: voice sang another verse, Oh, looking glass creatures, quoth Alice,
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: draw near tis an honor to see me, a favor
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: to hear, tis a privilege high to have dinner and
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: tea along with the Red Queen, the White Queen and me.
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: Then came the chorus again. Then fill up the glasses
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: with treacle and ink or anything else that is pleasant
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 1: to drink, mix sand with the cider, and wool with
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 1: the wine, and welcome Queen Alice with ninety times nine,
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 1: ninety times nine. Alice repeated in despair, Oh, that'll never
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: be done. I'd better go in at once, And there
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: was a dead silence the moment she appeared. Alice glanced
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 1: nervously along the table as she walked up the large
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  Speaker 1: hall and noticed that there were about fifty guests of
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  Speaker 1: all kinds. Some were animals, some birds, and there were
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  Speaker 1: even a few flowers among them. I'm glad they've come
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  Speaker 1: without waiting to be asked, she thought. I should never
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  Speaker 1: have known who were the right people to invite. There
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  Speaker 1: were three chairs at the head of the table. The
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  Speaker 1: Red and White Queen's had already taken two of them,
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  Speaker 1: but the middle one was empty. Alice sat down in it,
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  Speaker 1: rather uncomfortable in the silence and longing for some one
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  Speaker 1: to speak. At last, the Red Queen began. You've missed
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  Speaker 1: the soup and fish, she said. Put on the joint,
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  Speaker 1: and the waiters set a leg of mutton before Alice,
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  Speaker 1: who looked at it rather anxiously, as she had never
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  Speaker 1: had to carve a joint before. You look a little shy.
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  Speaker 1: Let me introduce you to that leg of mutton, said
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  Speaker 1: the Red Queen. Alice. Mutton, Mutton, Alice. The leg of
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  Speaker 1: mutton got up in the dish and made a little
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  Speaker 1: bow to Alice, and Alice returned the bow, not knowing
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  Speaker 1: whether to be frightened or amused. May I give you slice,
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  Speaker 1: she said, taking up the knife and fork, and looking
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  Speaker 1: from one queen to the other. Certainly not, the Red
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  Speaker 1: Queen said, very decidedly, it isn't etiquette to cut any one.
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  Speaker 1: You've been introduced to. Remove the joint, and the waiters
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  Speaker 1: carried it off and brought a large plum pudding in
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  Speaker 1: its place. I won't be introduced to the pudding, please,
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  Speaker 1: Alice said, rather hastily, or we shall get no dinner
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  Speaker 1: at all. May I give you some? But the Red
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  Speaker 1: Queen looked sulky and growled. Pudding, Alice, Alice, pudding. Remove
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  Speaker 1: the pudding, and the waiters took it away so quickly
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  Speaker 1: that Alice couldn't return its bow. However, she didn't see
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  Speaker 1: why the Red Queen should be the only one to
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  Speaker 1: give orders, so as an experiment, she called out, waiter,
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  Speaker 1: bring back the pudding, and there it was again in
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  Speaker 1: a moment, like a conjuring trick. It was so large
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  Speaker 1: that she couldn't help feeling a little shy with it,
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  Speaker 1: as she had been with the mutton. However, she conquered
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  Speaker 1: her shyness by a great effort and cut a slice
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  Speaker 1: and handed it to the Red Queen. What impertinence? Said
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  Speaker 1: the pudding. I wonder how you'd like it if I
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  Speaker 1: were to cut a slice out of you, you creature.
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  Speaker 1: It spoke in a thick, suety sort of voice, and
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  Speaker 1: Alice hadn't a word to say in reply. She could
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  Speaker 1: only sit and look at it and gasp. Make a remark,
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  Speaker 1: said the Red Queen, It's ridiculous to leave all the
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  Speaker 1: conversation to the pudding. Do you know I've had such
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  Speaker 1: a quantity of poetry repeated to me today? Alice began
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  Speaker 1: a little frightened at finding that. The moment she opened
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  Speaker 1: her lips, there was dead silence, and all eyes were
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  Speaker 1: fixed upon her. And it's a very curious thing. I
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  Speaker 1: think every poem was about fishes in some way. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know why they're so fond of fishes? All about here?
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  Speaker 1: She spoke to the Red Queen, whose answer was a
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  Speaker 1: little wide of the mark. As to fishes, she said,
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  Speaker 1: very slowly and solemnly, putting her mouth close to alice ear.
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  Speaker 1: Her White Majesty knows a lovely riddle all in poetry,
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  Speaker 1: all about fishes. Shall she repeat it? Her Red Majesty's
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  Speaker 1: very kind to mention it. The White Queen murmured into
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  Speaker 1: Alice's other ear, in a voice like the cooing of
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  Speaker 1: a pigeon. It would be such a treat, May I
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  Speaker 1: please do? Alice said, very politely. The White Queen laughed
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  Speaker 1: with delight and stroked Alice's cheek. Then she began. First,
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  Speaker 1: the fish must be caught. That is easy. A baby
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  Speaker 1: I think could have caught it. Next, the fish must
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  Speaker 1: be bought. That is easy, A penny I think would
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  Speaker 1: have bought it. Now, cook me the fish that is
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  Speaker 1: easy and will not take more than a minute. Let
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  Speaker 1: it lie in a dish. That is easy, because it
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  Speaker 1: already is in it. Bring it here, let me sup
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  Speaker 1: it is easy to set such a dish on the table.
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  Speaker 1: Take the dish cover. Ah, that is so hard that
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  Speaker 1: I fear I am unable, for it holds it like glue,
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  Speaker 1: holds the lid to the dish while it lies in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. Which is easiest to do. Undishcover the fish
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  Speaker 1: or dish cover the riddle. Take a minute to think
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  Speaker 1: about it, and then guess, said the Red Queen. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: we'll drink your health, Queen Alice's health. She screamed at
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  Speaker 1: the top of her voice, and all the guests began
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  Speaker 1: drinking it directly and very queerly. They managed it. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them put their glasses upon their heads like extinguishers
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  Speaker 1: and drank all that trickled down their faces. Others upset
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  Speaker 1: the decanters and drank the wine as it ran off
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  Speaker 1: the edges of the table, And three of them, who
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  Speaker 1: looked like kangaroos, scrambled into the dish of roast mutton
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  Speaker 1: and began eagerly lapping up the gravy, just like pigs
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  Speaker 1: in a trough. Thought, Alice, you ought to return thanks.
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  Speaker 1: In a neat speech, the Red Queen said, frowning at Alice,
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  Speaker 1: as she spoke, we must support you, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: White Queen whispered, as Alice got up to do it
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  Speaker 1: very obediently, but a little frightened. Thank you very much,
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  Speaker 1: she whispered in reply. But I can do quite well
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  Speaker 1: without That wouldn't be at all the thing, the Red
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  Speaker 1: queen said, very decidedly. So Alice tried to submit to
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  Speaker 1: it with a good grace. And they did push, so,
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  Speaker 1: she said afterwards, when she was telling her sister the
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  Speaker 1: history of the feast, you would have thought they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to squeeze me flat. In fact, it was rather difficult
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  Speaker 1: for her to keep in her place while she made
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  Speaker 1: her speech. The two queens pushed her so one on
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  Speaker 1: each side that they nearly lifted her up into the air.
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  Speaker 1: I rise to return, thanks, Alice began, and she really
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: did rise as she spoke, several inches, but she got
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  Speaker 1: hold of the edge of the table and managed to
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  Speaker 1: pull herself down again. Take care of yourself, screamed the
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  Speaker 1: White Queen, seizing Alice's hair with both her hands. Something's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. And then, as Alice afterward words described it,
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: all sorts of things happened in a moment. The candles
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  Speaker 1: all grew up to the ceiling, looking something like a
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  Speaker 1: bed of rushes with fireworks at the top. As to
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  Speaker 1: the bottles, they each took a pair of plates, which
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  Speaker 1: they hastily fitted on as wings, and so with forks
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  Speaker 1: for legs, went fluttering about in all directions, and very
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  Speaker 1: like birds they look, Alice thought to herself as well
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  Speaker 1: as she could in the dreadful confusion that was beginning
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  Speaker 1: at this moment. She heard a hoarse laugh at her
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  Speaker 1: side and turned to see what was the matter with
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  Speaker 1: the white Queen. But instead of the queen there was
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  Speaker 1: the leg of mutton sitting in the chair. Here I
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  Speaker 1: am cried a voice from the soup tureen, and Alice
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  Speaker 1: turned again, just in time to see the Queen's broad,
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  Speaker 1: good natured face grinning at her for a moment over
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the taren, before she disappeared into the soup.
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  Speaker 1: There was not a moment to be lost. Already several
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  Speaker 1: of the guests were lying down in the dishes, and
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  Speaker 1: the soup ladle was walking up the table towards Alice's
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  Speaker 1: chair and beckoning to her impatiently to get out of
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  Speaker 1: its way. I can't stand this any longer. She cried,
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  Speaker 1: as she jumped up and seized the tablecloth with both hands.
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  Speaker 1: One good pull, and plates, dishes, guests, and candles came
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  Speaker 1: crashing down together in a heap on the floor. And
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  Speaker 1: as for you, she went on, turning fiercely upon the
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  Speaker 1: red Queen, whom she considered as the cause of all
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  Speaker 1: the mischief. But the queen was no longer at her side.
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  Speaker 1: She had suddenly dwindled down to the size of a
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  Speaker 1: little doll, and was now on the table, merrily running
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  Speaker 1: round and round after her own shawl, which was trailing
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  Speaker 1: behind her. At any other time, Alice would have felt
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  Speaker 1: surprised at this, but she was far too much excited
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  Speaker 1: to be surprised at anything now. As for you, she repeated,
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  Speaker 1: catching hold of the little creature in the very act
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  Speaker 1: of jumping over a bottle which had just lighted upon
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  Speaker 1: the table, I'll shake you into a kitten, that I
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  Speaker 1: will Chapter ten shaking. She took her off the table
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  Speaker 1: as she spoke, and shook her backwards and forwards with
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  Speaker 1: all her might. The red Queen made no resistance whatever,
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  Speaker 1: Only her face grew very small, and her eyes got
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  Speaker 1: large and green and still. As Alice went on shaking her.
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  Speaker 1: She kept on growing shorter and fatter, and softer and rounder,
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  Speaker 1: and chapter eleven waking And it really was a kitten
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  Speaker 1: after all. Chapter twelve, which dreamed it, Your majesty shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: purr so loud, Alice said, rubbing her eyes and addressing
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  Speaker 1: the kitten respectfully. Yet with some severity you woke me
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  Speaker 1: out of. Oh, such a nice dream. And you've been
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  Speaker 1: along with me, kitty, all through the looking glass world,
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  Speaker 1: did you know it? Dear? It is a very inconvenient
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  Speaker 1: habit of kittens. Alice had once made the remark that
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  Speaker 1: whatever you say to them, they always purr, if they
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  Speaker 1: would only per four yes and mew for no, or
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  Speaker 1: any rule of that sort. She had said, so that
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  Speaker 1: one could keep up a conversation. But how can you
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  Speaker 1: talk with a person if they always say the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: On this occasion, the kitten only purred, and it was
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  Speaker 1: impossible to guess whether it meant yes or no. So
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  Speaker 1: Alice hunted among the chess men on the table till
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  Speaker 1: she had found the red queen. Then she went down
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  Speaker 1: on her knees on the hearth rug and put the
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  Speaker 1: kitten and the queen to look at each other. Now, kitty,
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  Speaker 1: she cried, clapping her hands triumphantly. Confess that was what
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  Speaker 1: you turned into. But it wouldn't look at it, she said.
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  Speaker 1: When she was explaining the thing afterwards to her sister,
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  Speaker 1: it turned away its head and pretended not to see it.
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  Speaker 1: But it looked a little ashamed of itself, So I
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  Speaker 1: think it must have been the red queen. Sit up
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  Speaker 1: a little more stiffly, dear Alice, cried, with a merry
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  Speaker 1: laugh and curtsey, while you're thinking what to what to purr?
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  Speaker 1: It saves time, remember, And she caught it up and
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  Speaker 1: gave it one little kiss, just in honor of having
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  Speaker 1: been a red queen. Snowdrop, my pet. She went on,
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  Speaker 1: looking over her shoulder at the white kitten, which was
• 2:50:10
  Speaker 1: still patiently undergoing its toilet. When will Dinah have finished
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  Speaker 1: with your white majesty? I wonder that must be the
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  Speaker 1: reason you were so untidy in my dream. Dinah, do
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  Speaker 1: you know that you're scrubbing a white queen? Really? It's
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  Speaker 1: most disrespectful of you. And what did Dinah turn to?
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  Speaker 1: I wonder? She prattled on, as she settled comfortably down
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  Speaker 1: with one elbow in the rug and her chin in
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  Speaker 1: her hand. To watch the kittens. Tell me, Dinah, did
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  Speaker 1: you turn to Humpty Dumpty? I think you did. However,
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  Speaker 1: you'd better not mention it to your friends just yet,
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  Speaker 1: for I'm not sure. By the way, Kitty, if only
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  Speaker 1: you've been really with me in my dream, there was
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  Speaker 1: one thing you would have enjoyed. I had such a
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  Speaker 1: quantity of poetry said to me, all about fishes. Tomorrow morning,
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  Speaker 1: you shall have a real treat. All the time you're
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  Speaker 1: eating your breakfast. I'll repeat the Walrus and the Carpenter
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  Speaker 1: to you, and then you can make believe its oysters. Dear. Now, Kitty,
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  Speaker 1: let's consider who it was that dreamed at all. This
• 2:51:14
  Speaker 1: is a serious question, my dear, and you should not
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  Speaker 1: go on licking your paw like that, as if Dinah
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  Speaker 1: hadn't washed you this morning. You see, Kitty, it must
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  Speaker 1: have been either me or the Red King. He was
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  Speaker 1: part of my dream, of course, but then I was
• 2:51:29
  Speaker 1: part of his dream too, was it the Red King? Kitty?
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  Speaker 1: You were his wife, my dear, so you ought to know. Oh, Kitty,
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  Speaker 1: do help to settle it. I'm sure your paw can wait.
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  Speaker 1: But the provoking kitten only began on the other paw
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  Speaker 1: and pretended it hadn't heard the question, which do you
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  Speaker 1: think it was? A boat beneath a sunny sky, lingering
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  Speaker 1: onward dreamily in an evening of July? Children three, that
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  Speaker 1: nestle near, eager eye and willing year, Please lest a
• 2:52:00
  Speaker 1: simple tale to hear. Long has paled, that sunny sky
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  Speaker 1: echoes fade, and memories die, Autumn frosts have slain July
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  Speaker 1: still she haunts me, phantom wise alice moving under skies
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  Speaker 1: never seen by waking eyes. Children, Yet the tale to
• 2:52:17
  Speaker 1: hear Eager eye and willing year lovingly shall nestle near
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  Speaker 1: in a wonderland They lie, dreaming as the days go by,
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  Speaker 1: dreaming as the summers die, ever drifting down the stream,
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  Speaker 1: lingering in the golden gleam life. What is it but
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  Speaker 1: a dream? The end? Thanks for listening, my friend,