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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter four, the rabbit sends in a little bill. It
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  Speaker 1: was the white rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking
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  Speaker 1: anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something,
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  Speaker 1: And she heard it muttering to itself, the duchess, the duchess,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my dear paws, oh my fur and whiskers. She'll
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  Speaker 1: get me executed. As sure as ferrets are ferrets? Where
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  Speaker 1: can I have dropped them? I wonder? Alice guessed in
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  Speaker 1: a moment that it was looking for the fan and
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  Speaker 1: the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good
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  Speaker 1: naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to be seen. Everything seemed to have changed since her
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  Speaker 1: swim in the pool, and the great hall with the
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  Speaker 1: glass table and the little door had vanished company lately.
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  Speaker 1: Very soon, the rabbit noticed Alice as she went hunting about,
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  Speaker 1: and called out to her in an angry tone, Why
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  Speaker 1: Marry Anne, what are you doing out here? Run home
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  Speaker 1: this moment and fetch me a pair of gloves and
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  Speaker 1: a fan quick now. And Alice was so much frightened
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  Speaker 1: that she ran off at once in the direction it
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  Speaker 1: pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake. It had made.
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  Speaker 1: He took me for his housemaid, She said to herself
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  Speaker 1: as she ran, How surprised he'll be when he finds
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  Speaker 1: out who I am. But I'd better take him his
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  Speaker 1: fun and gloves, that is, if I can find them.
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  Speaker 1: As she said this, she came upon a neat little house,
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  Speaker 1: on the door of which was a bright brass plate
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  Speaker 1: with the name W Rabbit engraved upon it. She went
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  Speaker 1: in without knocking and hurry upstairs in great fear lest
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  Speaker 1: she should meet the real Mary Anne and be turned
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  Speaker 1: out of the house before she had found the fan
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  Speaker 1: and gloves. How queer it seems, Alice said to herself,
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  Speaker 1: to be going messages for a rabbit. I suppose Dinah
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  Speaker 1: will be sending me out on messages next, And she
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  Speaker 1: began fancying the sort of thing that would happen. Miss Alice,
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  Speaker 1: come here directly and get ready for your walk coming
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  Speaker 1: in a minute, nurse. But I've got to see that
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  Speaker 1: the mouse doesn't get out. Only I don't think. Alice
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  Speaker 1: went on that they'd let Dinah stop in the house
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  Speaker 1: if it began ordering people about like that. By this
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  Speaker 1: time she had found her way into a tidy little
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  Speaker 1: room with a table in the window and on it,
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  Speaker 1: as she had hoped, a fan and two or three
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  Speaker 1: pairs of tiny white kid gloves. She took up the fan,
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  Speaker 1: a pair of the gloves, and was just going to
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  Speaker 1: leave the room when her eyes fell upon a little
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  Speaker 1: bottle that stood near the looking glass. There was no label,
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  Speaker 1: this time with the words drink me, but nevertheless she
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  Speaker 1: uncorked it and put it to her lips. I know
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  Speaker 1: something interesting is sure to happen, she said to herself,
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  Speaker 1: whenever I eat or drink anything. So I'll just see
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  Speaker 1: what this bottle does. I do hope it'll make me
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  Speaker 1: grow large again, for really, I'm quite tired of being
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  Speaker 1: such a tiny little thing. It did so, indeed, and
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  Speaker 1: much sooner than she had expected. Before she had drunk
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  Speaker 1: half the bottle, she found as she found her head
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  Speaker 1: pressing against the ceiling and had to stoop to save
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  Speaker 1: her neck from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle,
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  Speaker 1: saying to herself, that's quite enough. I hope I shan't
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  Speaker 1: grow any more. As it is, I can't get out
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  Speaker 1: at the door. I do wish I hadn't drunk quite
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  Speaker 1: so much, alas it was too late to wish that,
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  Speaker 1: she went on growing and growing, and very soon had
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  Speaker 1: to kneel down on the floor. In another minute, there
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  Speaker 1: was not even room for this, and she tried the
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  Speaker 1: effect of lying down with one elbow against the door
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  Speaker 1: and the other arm curled round her head. Still she
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  Speaker 1: went on growing, and as a last resource, she put
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  Speaker 1: one arm out the window and one foot up the chimney,
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  Speaker 1: and said to herself, now I can do no more.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever happens, what will become of me. Luckily for Alice,
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  Speaker 1: the little magic bottle had now had its full effect,
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  Speaker 1: and she grew no larger. Still, it was very uncom comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: and as there seemed to be no sort of chance
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  Speaker 1: of her ever getting out of the room again, no
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  Speaker 1: wonder she felt unhappy. It was much pleasanter at home,
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  Speaker 1: thought poor Alice, when one wasn't always growing larger and
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  Speaker 1: smaller and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I
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  Speaker 1: almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit hole. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: and yet it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life.
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  Speaker 1: I do wonder what can have happened to me? When
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  Speaker 1: I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing never happened and now here I am in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of one. There ought to be a book
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  Speaker 1: written about me. That there ought, And when I grow up,
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  Speaker 1: I'll write one. But I've grown up now, she added
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  Speaker 1: in a sorrowful tone. At least there's no room to
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  Speaker 1: grow up any more here. But then thought Alice, shall
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  Speaker 1: I never get any older than I am? Now? That'll
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  Speaker 1: be a comfort one way, never to be an old woman,
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  Speaker 1: but then always to have lessons to learn. Oh I
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't like that. Oh, you foolish Alice, she answered herself.
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  Speaker 1: How can you learn lessons in here? Why? There's hardly
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  Speaker 1: room for you, and no room at all for any
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  Speaker 1: lesson books. And so she went on, taking first one side,
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  Speaker 1: then the other, and making quite a conversation of it altogether.
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  Speaker 1: But after a few minutes she heard a voice outside
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  Speaker 1: and stopped to listen mary Anne. Mary Anne said the voice,
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  Speaker 1: fetch me my gloves this moment. Then came a little
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  Speaker 1: pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit coming to look for her, and she embowed
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  Speaker 1: till she shook the house quite forgetting that she was
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  Speaker 1: now about a thousand times as large as the rabbit,
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  Speaker 1: and had no reason to be afraid of it. Presently,
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit came up to the door and tried to
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  Speaker 1: open it, But as the door opened inwards and Alice's
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  Speaker 1: elbow was pressed hard against it, that attempt proved a failure.
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  Speaker 1: Alice heard it say to itself, Then I'll go round
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  Speaker 1: and get in at the window. That you won't, thought Alice,
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  Speaker 1: And after waiting till she fancied, she heard the rabbit
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  Speaker 1: just under the window. She suddenly spread out her hand
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  Speaker 1: and made a snatch in the air. She did not
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  Speaker 1: get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek
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  Speaker 1: and a fall and a crash of broken glass, from
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  Speaker 1: which she concluded that it was just possible it had
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  Speaker 1: fallen into a cucumber or something of the sort. Next
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  Speaker 1: came an angry voice the rabbits, Pat, Pat, where are you?
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  Speaker 1: And then the voice she had never heard before. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: then I'm here digging for apples, your honor, digging for apples, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: said the rabbit angrily. Here, come and help me out
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  Speaker 1: of this. Sounds of more broken glass. Now tell me, Pat,
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  Speaker 1: what's that in the window. Sure it's an arm, your honor,
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  Speaker 1: he pronounced it, arum an arm, you goose? Who ever
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  Speaker 1: saw one that size. Why it fills the whole window.
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  Speaker 1: Sure it does your honor, but it's an arm for
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  Speaker 1: all that. Well, it's got no business there at any rate.
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  Speaker 1: Go and take it away. There was a long silence
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  Speaker 1: after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then,
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  Speaker 1: such as, Shah, I don't like it, you're honor at
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  Speaker 1: all at all? Do as I tell you, you coward.
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  Speaker 1: And at last she spread out her hand again and
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  Speaker 1: made another snatch in the air. This time there were
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  Speaker 1: two little shrieks and more sounds of breaken glass. What
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  Speaker 1: a number of cucumber frames there must be, thought Alice.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder what they'll do next. As for pulling me
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  Speaker 1: out of the window, I only wish they could. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure I don't want to stay and hear any longer.
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  Speaker 1: She waited for some time without hearing anything more. At
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  Speaker 1: last came a rumbling of little cart wheels and the
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  Speaker 1: sound of a good many voices, all talking together. She
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  Speaker 1: made out the words where's the other ladder? Why I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't thought to bring but one bill's got the other bill?
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  Speaker 1: Fetch it here, lad he put em up at the corner.
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  Speaker 1: No time together. First they don't reach half high enough yet,
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  Speaker 1: Oh they'll do well enough. Don't be particular here, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: catch hold of this rope? Will the roof break? Mind
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  Speaker 1: that loose slut? Ah? It's comin down heads below A
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  Speaker 1: loud crush. Now who did that? It was Bill? I
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  Speaker 1: fancy who's to go down the chimney? Nay, I shan't
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  Speaker 1: you do it? That? I won't. Then Bill's to go
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  Speaker 1: down here. Bill, the master says you're to go down
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  Speaker 1: the chimney. Oh, so Bill's got to come down the chimney.
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  Speaker 1: Haw's he said Alice to herself, shy. They seem to
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  Speaker 1: put everything upon Bill. I wouldn't be in Bill's place
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  Speaker 1: for a good deal. This fireplace is narrow, to be sure,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I can kick a little. She drew
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  Speaker 1: her foot as far down the chimney as she could
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  Speaker 1: and waited till she heard a little animal she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: guess of what sort it was, scratching and scrambling about
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  Speaker 1: in the chimney close above her. Then, saying to herself,
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  Speaker 1: this is Bill, she gave one sharp kick and waited
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  Speaker 1: to see what would happen next. The first thing she
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  Speaker 1: heard was a general chorus of there goes Bill. Then
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit's voice along, catch him you by the hedge.
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  Speaker 1: Then silence, and then another confusion of voices. Hold upper's head, Brandy, now,
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  Speaker 1: don't choke him. How was it, old fellow? What happened
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  Speaker 1: to you? Tell us all about it? Last? Came a
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  Speaker 1: little feeble squeaking voice. That's Bill, thought Alice. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: hardly know, no, morle. Thank ye. I'm better now, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm a deal too flustered to tell yo all I
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  Speaker 1: know this. Something comes at me like a jack in
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  Speaker 1: the box, and up I goes like a skyrocket. So you,
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  Speaker 1: dear old fellow, said the others. We must burn the
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  Speaker 1: house down, said the rabbit's voice, and Alice called out
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  Speaker 1: as loud as she could. If you do, I'll set
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  Speaker 1: diner at you. There was a deadly silence instantly, and
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  Speaker 1: Alice thought to herself, I wonder what they will do next,
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  Speaker 1: if there had any sense, they'd take the roof off.
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  Speaker 1: After a minute or two, they began moving about again,
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  Speaker 1: and Alice heard the rabbit say, a barrelfool will do
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  Speaker 1: to begin with a barrelful of what? Thought Alice. But
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  Speaker 1: she had not long to doubt, for the next moment
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  Speaker 1: a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window,
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  Speaker 1: and some of them hit her in the face. I'll
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  Speaker 1: put a stop to this, she said to herself, and
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  Speaker 1: shouted out, you'd better not do that again, which produced
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  Speaker 1: another dead silence. Alice noted with some surprise that the
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  Speaker 1: pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay
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  Speaker 1: on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head.
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  Speaker 1: If I eat one of these cakes, she thought, it's
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  Speaker 1: sure to make some change in my size, and as
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  Speaker 1: it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me
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  Speaker 1: than I suppose. So she swallowed one of the cakes
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  Speaker 1: and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as she was small enough to get through
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  Speaker 1: the door, she ran out of the house and found
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  Speaker 1: quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.
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  Speaker 1: The poor little lizard Bill was in the middle, being
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  Speaker 1: held up by two guinea pigs who were giving it
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  Speaker 1: something out of a bottle. They all made a rush
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  Speaker 1: at Alice the moment she appeared, but she ran off
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  Speaker 1: as hard as she could and soon found herself safe
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  Speaker 1: in a thick wood. The first thing I've got to do,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the wood,
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  Speaker 1: is to grow to my right size again. And the
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  Speaker 1: second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden.
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  Speaker 1: I think that will be the best plan. It sounded
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  Speaker 1: an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged.
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  Speaker 1: The only difficulty was that she had not got the
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  Speaker 1: smallest idea how to set about it. And while she
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  Speaker 1: was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp
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  Speaker 1: bark just over her head made her look up in
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  Speaker 1: a great hurry. An enormous puppy was looking down at
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  Speaker 1: her with large round eyes and feebly stretching out one
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  Speaker 1: paw trying to touch her. Poor little thing, said Alice
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  Speaker 1: in a coaxing tone, And she tried hard to whistle
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  Speaker 1: to it, but she was terribly frightened all the time
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  Speaker 1: at the thought that it might be hungry, in which
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  Speaker 1: case it would be very likely to eat her up.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of all her coaxing. Hardly knowing what she did,
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  Speaker 1: she picked up a little bit of stick and held
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  Speaker 1: it out to the puppy, whereupon the puppy jumped into
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  Speaker 1: the air off all its feet at once, with a
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  Speaker 1: yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick and made
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  Speaker 1: believe to worry it. Then Alice dodged behind a great
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  Speaker 1: thistle to keep herself from being run over, and the
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  Speaker 1: moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made
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  Speaker 1: another rush at the stick and tumbled head over heels
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  Speaker 1: in its hurry to get hold of it. Then Alice,
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  Speaker 1: thinking it was very like having a game of play
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  Speaker 1: with a cart horse and expecting every moment to be
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  Speaker 1: trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again. Then
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  Speaker 1: the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick,
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  Speaker 1: running a very little way forwards each time, and a
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  Speaker 1: long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till
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  Speaker 1: at last it sat down a good way off, panting,
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  Speaker 1: with its tongue hanging out of his mouth and its
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  Speaker 1: great eyes half shut. This seemed to Alice a good
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for making her escape, so she set off it
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  Speaker 1: once and ran till she was quite tired and out
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  Speaker 1: of breath, and till the puppies bark sounded quite faint
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  Speaker 1: in the distance. And yet what a dear little puppy
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  Speaker 1: it was, said Alice, as she leaned against a buttercup
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  Speaker 1: to rest herself, and found herself with one of the leaves.
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  Speaker 1: I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if
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  Speaker 1: if I'd only been the right size to do it. Oh, dear,
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  Speaker 1: I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see how is this to be managed? I
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  Speaker 1: suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other,
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  Speaker 1: But the great question is what. The great question certainly
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  Speaker 1: was what. Alice looked all round her, at the flowers
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  Speaker 1: and the blades of grass, but she did not see
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  Speaker 1: anything that looked like the right thing to eat or
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  Speaker 1: drink under the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing
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  Speaker 1: near her, about the same height as herself, And when
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  Speaker 1: she had looked under it, and on both sides of it,
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  Speaker 1: and behind it, it occurred to her that she might
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  Speaker 1: as well look and see what was on top of it.
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  Speaker 1: She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those
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  Speaker 1: of a large caterpillar that was sitting on the top
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  Speaker 1: with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah and
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  Speaker 1: taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter four,