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Speaker 1: Dramatis Personae of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
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Speaker 1: visit LibriVox.org. All in the golden afternoon, full leisurely we glide,
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Speaker 1: For both our oars, with little skill, by little arms
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Speaker 1: are plied, While little hands make vain pretense our wanderings
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Speaker 1: to guide. Ah, cruel three! In such an hour, beneath
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Speaker 1: such dreamy weather, To beg a tale of breath too
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Speaker 1: weak To stir the tiniest feather, Yet what can one
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Speaker 1: poor voice avail Against three tongues together? Imperious Prima flashes
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Speaker 1: forth her edict, To begin it! In gentler tone, Secunda
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Speaker 1: hopes There will be nonsense in it, While Tertia interrupts
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Speaker 1: the tale Not more than once a minute. Anon to
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Speaker 1: sudden silence won In fancy they pursued. the dream-child moving
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Speaker 1: through a land of wonders wild and new, in friendly
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Speaker 1: chat with bird or beast, and half believe it true,
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Speaker 1: and ever as the story drained the wells of fancy dry,
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Speaker 1: and faintly strove that weary one to put the subject by,
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Speaker 1: the rest next time, it is next time, the happy
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Speaker 1: voices cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland, thus slowly,
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Speaker 1: one by one, its quaint events were hammered out, and
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Speaker 1: now the tale is done. And home we steer a
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Speaker 1: merry crew beneath the setting sun. Alice, a childish story take,
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Speaker 1: and with a gentle hand, Lay it where childhood's dreams
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Speaker 1: are twined in memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath
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Speaker 1: of flowers plucked in a far-off land. Narration read by
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Speaker 1: David Goldfarb.
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Speaker 2: Alice, read by Miss.
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Speaker 3: Avarice The White Rabbit, read by Bologna Times The Mouse,
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Speaker 3: read by Cheryl Martin.
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Speaker 4: The Lowry, read by Abayee.
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Speaker 5: The Duck, read by Jessamy Glore.
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Speaker 6: The Dodo, read by Tim Ferreira.
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Speaker 7: The Eaglet, read by Dennis D. The Old Crab, read
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Speaker 7: by Joshua Logan.
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Speaker 3: Young Crab, read by Zonya.
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Speaker 8: The Magpie, read by Lucy Perry.
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Speaker 2: The Canary, read by Ellie Cat.
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Speaker 9: Pet, read by Terrence Tyler.
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Speaker 10: Bill, read by Aidan Brack.
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Speaker 1: The first guinea pig, read by The Rat King.
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Speaker 11: The second guinea pig, read by Kelsey.
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Speaker 12: The caterpillar, read by Algy Pug.
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Speaker 11: The pigeon, read by Kelsey.
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Speaker 9: The fish footman, read by Terence Taylor.
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Speaker 13: The frog footman, by Peter Yearsley.
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Speaker 14: The baby, read by Elizabeth Klatt.
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Speaker 15: The duchess, read by Heather Phillips.
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Speaker 16: The Cook, read by Anna.
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Speaker 14: The Cheshire Cat, read by Elizabeth Clutt.
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Speaker 17: The March Hare, read by Denny Sayers.
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Speaker 18: The Hatter, read by Arielle Lipshaw.
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Speaker 16: The Dormouse, read by Ruth Golding.
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Speaker 19: Five, read by Nero Ayor.
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Speaker 5: Two, read by Ellie.
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Speaker 8: Seven, read by Henry Fregon.
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Speaker 7: The First Soldier, read by Dennis Dee.
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Speaker 1: The Second Soldier, read by Phil Vecita.
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Speaker 4: The Third Soldier, read by Lucy Perry.
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Speaker 8: The Queen of Hearts, read by Nadine Aker-Depoulet.
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Speaker 13: The King of Hearts, read by Peter Yearsley.
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Speaker 12: The Gryphon, read by Algie Pag.
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Speaker 8: The Mock Turtle, read by Kara Schallenberg.
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Speaker 12: The Knave of Hearts, read by Levi Throckmorton.
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Speaker 18: Alice's Sister, read by Dana Meilinger.
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Speaker 1: CHAPTER I. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Alice was beginning to
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Speaker 1: get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank,
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Speaker 1: and of having nothing to do. Once or twice she
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Speaker 1: had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but
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Speaker 1: it had no pictures or conversations in it.
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Speaker 2: And what is the use of a book, thought Alice,
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Speaker 2: without pictures or conversation?
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Speaker 1: So she was considering in her own mind, as well
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Speaker 1: as she could, for the hot day was making her
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Speaker 1: feel very sleepy and stupid. Whether the pleasure of making
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Speaker 1: a daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting
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Speaker 1: up and picking the daisies, when suddenly— A white rabbit
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Speaker 1: with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing
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Speaker 1: so very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it
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Speaker 1: so very much out of the way to hear the
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Speaker 1: rabbit say to itself,'.
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Speaker 3: Oh dear, oh dear, I shall be late.
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Speaker 1: When she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her
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Speaker 1: that she ought to have wondered at this, but at
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Speaker 1: the time it all seemed quite natural. But when the
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Speaker 1: rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket—
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Speaker 1: and looked at it, and then hurried on. Alice started
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Speaker 1: to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that
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Speaker 1: she had never before seen a rabbit with either a
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Speaker 1: waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out of it.
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Speaker 1: And burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it,
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Speaker 1: and fortunately was just in time to see it pop
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Speaker 1: down a large rabbit hole under the hedge. In another moment,
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Speaker 1: down went Alice after it, never once considering how in
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Speaker 1: the world she was to get out again. The rabbit
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Speaker 1: hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,
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Speaker 1: and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had
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Speaker 1: not a moment to think about stopping herself before she
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Speaker 1: found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the
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Speaker 1: well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for
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Speaker 1: she had plenty of time as she went down to
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Speaker 1: look about her, and to wonder what was going to
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Speaker 1: happen next. First she tried to look down and make
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Speaker 1: out what she was coming to, but it was too
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Speaker 1: dark to see anything. Then she looked at the sides
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Speaker 1: of the well and noticed that they were filled with
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Speaker 1: cupboards and bookshelves. Here and there she saw maps and
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Speaker 1: pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from
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Speaker 1: one of the shelves as she passed. It was labelled
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Speaker 1: Orange Marmalade, but to her great disappointment it was empty.
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Speaker 1: She did not like to drop the jar for fear
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Speaker 1: of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one
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Speaker 1: of the cupboards as she fell past it. Well, thought
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Speaker 1: Alice to herself.
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Speaker 2: After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing
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Speaker 2: of tumbling downstairs. How brave they'll all think me at home. Why,
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell
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Speaker 2: off the top of the house.
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Speaker 1: Which was very likely true. Down, down, down. Would the
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Speaker 1: fall never come to an end?
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Speaker 2: I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time,
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Speaker 2: she said aloud. I must be getting somewhere near the
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Speaker 2: center of the earth. Let me see. That would be
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Speaker 2: four thousand miles down, I think.
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Speaker 1: For, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this
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Speaker 1: sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this
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Speaker 1: was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge,
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Speaker 1: as there was no one to listen to her, still
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Speaker 1: it was good practice to say it over.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's about the right distance. But then I wonder
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Speaker 2: what latitude or longitude I've got to.
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Speaker 1: Alice had no idea what latitude was, or longitude either.
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Speaker 1: but thought they were nice grand words to say. Presently
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Speaker 1: she began again.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth.
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Speaker 2: How funny it'll seem to come out among the people
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Speaker 2: that walk with their heads downward. The antipathies, I think.
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Speaker 1: She was rather glad there was no one listening this time,
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Speaker 1: as it didn't sound at all the right word.
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Speaker 2: But I shall have to ask them what the name
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Speaker 2: of the country is, you know. Please, ma'am, is this
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Speaker 2: New Zealand or Australia?
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Speaker 1: And she tried to curtsy as she spoke. Fancy curtsying
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Speaker 1: as you're falling through the air. Do you think you
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Speaker 1: could manage it?
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Speaker 2: And what an ignorant little girl shall thank me for asking. No,
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Speaker 2: it'll never do to ask. Perhaps I shall see it
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Speaker 2: written up somewhere.
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Speaker 1: Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so
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Speaker 1: Alice soon began talking again.
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Speaker 2: Dinah'll miss me very much tonight, I should think.
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Speaker 1: Dinah was the cat.
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Speaker 2: I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at tea time. Dinah,
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Speaker 2: my dear, I wish you were down here with me.
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Speaker 2: There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but
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Speaker 2: you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse,
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Speaker 2: you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?
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Speaker 1: And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went
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Speaker 1: on saying to herself in a dreamy sort of way.
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Speaker 2: Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?
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Speaker 1: And sometimes... Do bats eat cats? For, you see, as
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Speaker 1: she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which
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Speaker 1: way she put it. She felt that she was dozing off,
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Speaker 1: and had just begun to dream that she was walking
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Speaker 1: hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, Now.
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Speaker 2: Dinah, tell me the truth. Did you ever eat a bat?
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Speaker 1: When suddenly, thump, thump, down she came upon a heap
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Speaker 1: of sticks and dry leaves and the fall was over.
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Speaker 1: Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up
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Speaker 1: onto her feet in a moment. She looked up, but
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Speaker 1: it was all dark overhead. Before her was another long passage,
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Speaker 1: and the white rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it.
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Speaker 1: There was not a moment to be lost. Away went
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Speaker 1: Alice like the wind, and was just in time to
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Speaker 1: hear it say, as it turned a corner,'.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my ears and whiskers! How late it's getting!
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Speaker 1: She was close behind it when she turned the corner,
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Speaker 1: but the rabbit was no longer to be seen. She
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Speaker 1: found herself in a long, low hall. which was lit
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Speaker 1: up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
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Speaker 1: There were doors all round the hall, but they were
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Speaker 1: all locked, and when Alice had been all the way
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Speaker 1: down one side and up the other, trying every door,
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Speaker 1: she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was
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Speaker 1: ever to get out again. Suddenly she came upon a
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Speaker 1: little three-legged table, all made of solid glass. There was
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Speaker 1: nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's
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Speaker 1: first thought was that it might belong to one of
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Speaker 1: the doors of the hall.
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Speaker 12: But alas!
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Speaker 1: Either the locks were too large or the key was
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Speaker 1: too small, but at any rate it would not open
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Speaker 1: any of them. However, on the second time round she
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Speaker 1: came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before,
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Speaker 1: and behind it was a little door, about fifteen inches high.
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Speaker 1: She tried the little golden key in the lock, and
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Speaker 1: to her great delight it fitted. Alice opened the door
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Speaker 1: and found that it led into a small passage, not
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Speaker 1: much larger than a rat-hole, She knelt down and looked
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Speaker 1: along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.
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Speaker 1: How she longed to get out of that dark hall
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Speaker 1: and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and
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Speaker 1: those cool fountains. But she could not even get her
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Speaker 1: head through the doorway.
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Speaker 2: And even if my head would go through.
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Speaker 1: Thought poor Alice, it would be of very little.
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Speaker 2: Use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could
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Speaker 2: shut up like a telescope. I think I could, if
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Speaker 2: I only know how to begin.
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Speaker 1: For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately
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Speaker 1: that Alice had begun to think that very few things
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Speaker 1: indeed were really impossible. There seemed to be no use
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Speaker 1: in waiting by the little door, so she went back
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Speaker 1: to the table, half hoping she might find another key
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Speaker 1: on it, or at any rate a book of rules
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Speaker 1: for shutting people up like telescopes. This time she found
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Speaker 1: a little bottle on it.
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Speaker 2: Which certainly was not here.
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Speaker 1: Before,' said Alice.' and round the neck of the bottle
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Speaker 1: was a paper label with the words DRINK ME beautifully
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Speaker 1: printed on it in large letters. It was all very
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Speaker 1: well to say DRINK ME, but the wise little Alice
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Speaker 1: was not going to do that in a hurry.
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Speaker 2: No, I'll look first, she said, and see whether it's
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Speaker 2: marked POISON or not.
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Speaker 1: For she had read several nice little histories about children
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Speaker 1: who had got burnt and eaten up by wild beasts
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Speaker 1: and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember
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Speaker 1: the simple rules their friends had taught them, such as
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Speaker 1: that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold
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Speaker 1: it too long, and that if you cut your finger
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Speaker 1: very deeply with a knife it usually bleeds, and she
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Speaker 1: had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a
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Speaker 1: bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree with
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Speaker 1: you sooner or later. However, this bottle was not marked poison,
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Speaker 1: so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice.
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Speaker 1: It had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavor of
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Speaker 1: cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast.
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Speaker 1: She very soon finished it off.
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Speaker 2: What a curious feeling,' said Alice.' I must be shutting
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Speaker 2: up like a telescope.
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Speaker 1: And so it was indeed. She was now only ten
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Speaker 1: inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought
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Speaker 1: that she was now the right size for going through
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Speaker 1: the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she
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Speaker 1: waited for a few minutes to see if she was
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Speaker 1: going to shrink any further. She felt a little nervous
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Speaker 1: about this.
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Speaker 2: For it might end, you know,'.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice to herself,' in.
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Speaker 2: My going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what
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Speaker 2: I should be like then.
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Speaker 1: And she tried to fancy what the flame of a
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Speaker 1: candle is like after the candle is blown out, for
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Speaker 1: she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
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Speaker 1: After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided
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Speaker 1: on going into the garden at once. But alas for
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Speaker 1: poor Alice! When she got to the door she found
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Speaker 1: she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she
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Speaker 1: went back to the table for it she found she
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Speaker 1: could not possibly reach it. She could see it quite
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Speaker 1: plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to
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Speaker 1: climb up one of the legs of the table, but
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Speaker 1: it was too slippery, and when she had tired herself
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Speaker 1: out with trying the poor little thing sat down and cried.
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Speaker 2: Come, there's no use in crying like that.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice to herself rather sharply.
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Speaker 2: I advise you to leave off this minute.
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Speaker 1: She generally gave herself very good advice, though she very
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Speaker 1: seldom followed it, and sometimes she scolded herself so severely
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Speaker 1: as to bring tears into her eyes. And once she
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Speaker 1: remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated
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Speaker 1: herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself.
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Speaker 1: for this curious child was very fond of pretending to
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Speaker 1: be two people. But it's no use now, thought poor.
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Speaker 2: Alice, to pretend to be two people. Why, there's hardly
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Speaker 2: enough of me left to make one respectable person.
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Speaker 1: Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that
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Speaker 1: was lying under the table. She opened it and found
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Speaker 1: in it a very small cake, on which the words
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Speaker 1: EAT ME were beautifully marked in currants.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll eat it, said Alice. And if it makes
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Speaker 2: me grow larger, I can reach the key. And if
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Speaker 2: it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door.
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Speaker 2: So either way, I'll get into the garden, and I
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Speaker 2: don't care which happens.
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Speaker 1: She ate a little bit and said anxiously to herself.
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Speaker 2: Which way? Which way?
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Speaker 1: Holding her hand on the top of her head to
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Speaker 1: feel which way it was growing. And she was quite
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Speaker 1: surprised to find that she remained the same size. To
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Speaker 1: be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but
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Speaker 1: Alice had got so much into the way of expecting
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Speaker 1: nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen that it seemed quite
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Speaker 1: dull and stupid for life to go on in the
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Speaker 1: common way. So she set to work, and very soon
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Speaker 1: finished off the cake. End of Chapter 1 Chapter 2
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Speaker 1: of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll CHAPTER II.
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Speaker 1: THE POOL OF.
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Speaker 2: TEARS Curiouser and curiouser.
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Speaker 12: Cried Alice.
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Speaker 1: She was so much surprised that for the moment she
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Speaker 1: quite forgot how to speak good English.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was. Good-bye, feet!
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Speaker 1: For when she looked down at her feet, they seemed
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Speaker 1: to be almost out of sight they were getting so
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Speaker 1: far off.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my poor little feet. I wonder who will put
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Speaker 2: on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears. I'm
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Speaker 2: sure I shan't be able. I shall be a great
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Speaker 2: deal too far off to trouble myself about you. You
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Speaker 2: must manage the best way you can. But I must
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Speaker 2: be kind to them, thought Alice. Or perhaps they won't
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Speaker 2: walk the way I want to go. Let me see.
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Speaker 2: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.
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Speaker 1: And she went on planning to herself how she would
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Speaker 1: manage it.
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Speaker 2: They must go by the carrier. And how funny it'll seem,
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Speaker 2: sending presents to one's own feet. And how odd the
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Speaker 2: directions will look. Alice's right foot, Esquire, hearthrug, near the fender,
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Speaker 2: with Alice's love. Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking.
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Speaker 1: Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall.
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Speaker 1: In fact, she was now more than nine feet high,
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Speaker 1: and she at once took up the little golden key
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Speaker 1: and hurried off to the garden door. Poor Alice. It
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Speaker 1: was as much as she could do. lying down on
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Speaker 1: one side, to look through into the garden with one eye.
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Speaker 1: But to get through was more hopeless than ever. She
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Speaker 1: sat down and began to cry again.
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Speaker 2: You ought to be ashamed of yourself, said Alice. A
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Speaker 2: great girl like you.
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Speaker 1: She might well say this, to go on crying.
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Speaker 19: In this way.
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Speaker 2: Stop this moment, I tell you.
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Speaker 1: But she went on all the same. shedding gallons of
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Speaker 1: tears until there was a large pool all round her,
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Speaker 1: about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.
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Speaker 1: After a time she heard a little pattering of feet
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Speaker 1: in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to
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Speaker 1: see what was coming. It was the white rabbit returning,
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Speaker 1: splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in
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Speaker 1: one hand and a large fan in the other. He
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Speaker 1: came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself
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Speaker 1: as he came,' Oh.
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Speaker 3: The Duchess, the Duchess! Oh, won't she be savage if
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Speaker 3: I keep her waiting?
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Speaker 1: ALICE FELT SO DESPERATE THAT SHE WAS READY TO ASK
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Speaker 1: HELP OF ANYONE. SO WHEN THE RABBIT CAME NEAR HER,
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Speaker 1: SHE BEGAN IN A LOW, TIMID VOICE.
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Speaker 2: IF YOU PLEASE, SIR.
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Speaker 1: THE RABBIT STARTED VIOLENTLY, DROPPED THE WHITE KID GLOVES IN
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Speaker 1: THE FAN, AND SCURRIED AWAY INTO THE DARKNESS AS HARD
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Speaker 1: AS HE COULD GO. ALICE TOOK UP THE FAN AND GLOVES, AND,
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Speaker 1: AS THE HALL WAS VERY HOT, SHE KEPT FANNING HERSELF
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Speaker 1: ALL THE TIME SHE WENT ON TALKING.' DEAR, DEAR.
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Speaker 2: HOW QUEER EVERYTHING IS TODAY. AND YESTERDAY THINGS WENT ON
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Speaker 2: JUST AS USUAL.' I wonder if I've been changed in
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Speaker 2: the night. Let me think. Was I the same when
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Speaker 2: I got up this morning? I almost think I can
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Speaker 2: remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same,
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Speaker 2: the next question is, who in the world am I? Ah,
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Speaker 2: that's the great puzzle.
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Speaker 1: And she began thinking over all the children she knew
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Speaker 1: that were of the same age as herself, to see
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Speaker 1: if she could have been changed for any of them.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm not Ada, she said. For her hair
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Speaker 2: goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in
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Speaker 2: ringlets at all. And I'm sure I can't be Mabel,
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Speaker 2: for I know... all sorts of things, and she, oh,
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Speaker 2: she knows such a very little. Besides, she's she, and
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Speaker 2: I'm I, and oh dear, how puzzling it all is.
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Speaker 2: I'll try if I know all the things I used
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Speaker 2: to know. Let me see, four times five is twelve,
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Speaker 2: and four times six is thirteen. And four times seven is...
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Speaker 2: Oh dear, I shall never get to twenty at that rate. However,
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Speaker 2: the multiplication table doesn't signify. Let's try geography. London is
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Speaker 2: the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,
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Speaker 2: and Rome... No, that's all wrong, I'm certain. I must
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Speaker 2: have been changed for Mabel. I'll try and say, how
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Speaker 2: doth the little.
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Speaker 1: And she crossed her hands on her lap as if
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Speaker 1: she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it. but
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Speaker 1: her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did
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Speaker 1: not come the same as they used to do.
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Speaker 2: How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail, and
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Speaker 2: pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale?
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Speaker 2: How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spread his claws,
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Speaker 2: and welcome little fishes in with gently smiling jaws. I'm
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Speaker 2: sure those are not the right words.
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Speaker 1: Said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again
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Speaker 1: as she went on.
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Speaker 2: I must be Mabel after all. I shall have to
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Speaker 2: go and live in that pokey little house and have
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Speaker 2: next to no toys to play with. And, oh, ever
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Speaker 2: so many lessons to learn. No, I've made up my
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Speaker 2: mind about it. If I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here.
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Speaker 2: It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying,
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Speaker 2: Come up again, dear. I shall only look up and say,
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Speaker 2: Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then,
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Speaker 2: if I like being that person, I'll come up. If not,
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Speaker 2: I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else. But, oh, dear.
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Speaker 1: Cried Alice with a sudden burst of tears.
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Speaker 2: I do wish they would put their heads down. I
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Speaker 2: am so very tired of being all alone here.
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Speaker 1: As she said this, she looked down at her hands,
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Speaker 1: and was surprised to see that she had put on
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Speaker 1: one of the rabbit's little white kid gloves while she
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Speaker 1: was talking.
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Speaker 2: How can I have done that?
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Speaker 1: She thought.
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Speaker 2: I must be growing small again.
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Speaker 1: She got up and went to the table to measure
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Speaker 1: herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she
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Speaker 1: could guess, she was now about two feet high, and
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Speaker 1: was going on shrinking rapidly. She soon found out that
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Speaker 1: the cause of this was the fan she was holding,
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Speaker 1: and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid
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Speaker 1: shrinking away altogether.
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Speaker 2: That was a narrow.
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Speaker 1: Escape,' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change,
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Speaker 1: but very glad to find herself still in existence.
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Speaker 2: And now for the garden.
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Speaker 1: And she ran with all speed back to the little door,
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Speaker 1: but alas, the little door was shut again, and the
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Speaker 1: little golden key was lying on the glass table as before.
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Speaker 2: And things are worse than ever,'.
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Speaker 1: Thought the poor child.' For I never was.
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Speaker 2: So small as this before. Never. And I declare it's
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Speaker 2: too bad. That it is.
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Speaker 1: As she said these words, her foot slipped. In another moment, splash!
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Speaker 1: She was up to her chin in salt water. Her
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Speaker 1: first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea.
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Speaker 2: And in that case, I can go back by railway.
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Speaker 1: She said to herself. Alice had been to the seaside
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Speaker 1: once in her life. and had come to the general
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Speaker 1: conclusion that wherever you go to on the English coast
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Speaker 1: you find a number of bathing machines in the sea,
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Speaker 1: some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then
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Speaker 1: a row of lodging-houses, and behind them a railway station. However,
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Speaker 1: she soon made out that she was in the pool
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Speaker 1: of tears which she had wept when she was nine
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Speaker 1: feet high.
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Speaker 2: I wish I hadn't cried.
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Speaker 1: So much,' said Alice, as she swam about trying to
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Speaker 1: find her way out.
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Speaker 2: I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by
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Speaker 2: being drowned in my own tears.' That will be a
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Speaker 2: queer thing, to be sure. However, everything is queer today.
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Speaker 1: Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool
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Speaker 1: a little way off, and she swam nearer to make
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Speaker 1: out what it was. At first she thought it must
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Speaker 1: be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how
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Speaker 1: small she was now, and she soon made out that
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Speaker 1: it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
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Speaker 2: Would it be of any use now, thought Alice, to
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Speaker 2: speak to this mouse? Everything is so out of the
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Speaker 2: way down here. that I should think very likely it
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Speaker 2: can talk. At any rate, there's no harm in trying.
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Speaker 1: So she began,' O.
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Speaker 2: Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool?
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Speaker 2: I am very tired of swimming about here.
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Speaker 19: O mouse!
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Speaker 1: Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking
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Speaker 1: to a mouse. She had never done such a thing before,
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Speaker 1: but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin grammar,'
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Speaker 1: A mouse, of a mouse, to a mouse, a mouse,
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Speaker 1: O mouse!' The mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and
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Speaker 1: seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes,
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Speaker 1: but it said nothing.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps it doesn't understand.
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Speaker 1: English,' thought Alice.
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Speaker 20: I dare say it's a French mouse.
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Speaker 2: Come over with William the Conqueror.
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Speaker 1: For with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no
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Speaker 1: very clear notion how long ago anything had happened. So
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Speaker 1: she began again.
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Speaker 2: Où est ma chatte?
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Speaker 1: which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. The
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Speaker 1: mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water and
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Speaker 1: seemed to quiver all over with fright.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I beg your pardon, cried Alice.
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Speaker 1: Hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's feelings.
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Speaker 2: I quite forgot you didn't like cats.
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Speaker 1: Not like cats, cried the mouse in a shrill, passionate voice.
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Speaker 4: Would you like cats if you were me?
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Speaker 1: Well, perhaps not, said Alice in a soothing tone.
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Speaker 2: Don't be angry about it. And yet, I wish I
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Speaker 2: could show you our cat, Dinah. I think you'd take
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Speaker 2: a fancy to cats if you could only see her.
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Speaker 2: She is such a dear... quiet thing.
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Speaker 1: Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily
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Speaker 1: about in the pool.
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Speaker 2: And she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking
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Speaker 2: her paws and washing her face. And she is such
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Speaker 2: a nice, soft thing to nurse. And she's such a
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Speaker 2: capital one for catching mice.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I beg your pardon, cried Alice again, for this
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Speaker 1: time the mouse was bristling all over, and she felt
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Speaker 1: certain it must be really offended.
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Speaker 2: We won't talk about her any more, if you'd rather not.
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Speaker 1: We indeed cried the mouse, who was trembling down to
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Speaker 1: the end of his tail.
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Speaker 4: As if I would talk on such a subject. Our
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Speaker 4: family always hated cats. Nasty, low, vulgar things. Don't let
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Speaker 4: me hear the name again.
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Speaker 1: I won't indeed, said Alice, in a great hurry to
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Speaker 1: change the subject of conversation.
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Speaker 2: Are you, are you fond of, of dogs?
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Speaker 1: The mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly.
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Speaker 2: There is such a nice little dog near our house
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Speaker 2: I should like to show you. A little bright-eyed terrier,
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Speaker 2: you know, with, oh, such long curly brown hair. And
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Speaker 2: it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit
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Speaker 2: up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things.
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Speaker 2: I can't remember half of them. And it belongs to
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Speaker 2: a farmer, you know, and he says it's so useful
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Speaker 2: it's worth a hundred pounds. He says it kills all
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Speaker 2: the rats.
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Speaker 1: And, oh dear, cried Alice in a sorrowful tone.
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Speaker 2: I'm afraid I've offended it again.
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Speaker 1: For the mouse was swimming away from her as hard
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Speaker 1: as it could go. and making quite a commotion in
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Speaker 1: the pool as it went. So she called softly after it.
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Speaker 2: Mouse, dear, do come back again, and we won't talk
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Speaker 2: about cats or dogs either, if you don't like them.
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Speaker 1: When the mouse heard this, it turned round and swam
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Speaker 1: slowly back to her. Its face was quite pale, with passion,
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Speaker 1: Alice thought, and it said in a low, trembling voice,
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Speaker 1: Let us.
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Speaker 4: Get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my history,
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Speaker 4: and you'll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.
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Speaker 1: It was high time to go. for the pool was
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Speaker 1: getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had
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Speaker 1: fallen into it. There were a duck and a dodo,
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Speaker 1: a lorry and an eaglet, and several other curious creatures.
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Speaker 1: Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to
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Speaker 1: the shore. End of chapter 2 Chapter 3 of Alice's
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Speaker 1: Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll This is a LibriVox recording.
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Speaker 1: Race and a Long Tale They were indeed a queer-looking
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Speaker 1: party that assembled on the bank, the birds with draggled feathers,
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Speaker 1: the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and
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Speaker 1: all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. The first question, of course,
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Speaker 1: was how to get dry again. They had a consultation
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Speaker 1: about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite
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Speaker 1: natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them.
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Speaker 1: as if she had known them all her life. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: she had quite a long argument with the lorry, who
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Speaker 1: at last turned sulky and would only say,' I am.
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Speaker 18: Older than you, and must know better.
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Speaker 1: And this Alice would not allow without knowing how old
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Speaker 1: it was, and, as the lorry positively refused to tell
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Speaker 1: its age, there was no more to be said. At
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Speaker 1: last the mouse, who seemed to be a person of
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Speaker 1: authority among them, called out,' Sit.
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Speaker 4: Down, all of you, and listen to me. I'll soon
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Speaker 4: make you dry enough.
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Speaker 1: They all sat down at once in a large ring
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Speaker 1: with the mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes
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Speaker 1: anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would
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Speaker 1: catch a bad cold if she did not get dry
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Speaker 1: very soon. Ahem, said the mouse with an important air.
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Speaker 3: Are you all ready?
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Speaker 4: This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round,
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Speaker 4: if you please. William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured
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Speaker 4: by the Pope, was soon submitted to by the English,
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Speaker 4: who wanted leaders— and had been of late much accustomed
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Speaker 4: to usurpation and conquest. Edward and Morcar, the earls of
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Speaker 4: Mercia and Northumbria.
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Speaker 3: Oof!
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Speaker 1: Said the lorry with a shiver. I beg your pardon,
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Speaker 1: said the mouse, frowning, but very politely.
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Speaker 4: Did you speak?
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Speaker 8: Not I.
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Speaker 2: Ah!
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Speaker 1: Said the lorry hastily. I thought you did, said the mouse.
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Speaker 8: I proceed.
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Speaker 4: Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared
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Speaker 4: for him, and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury,
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Speaker 4: found it advisable. Found what?
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Speaker 1: Said the duck.
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Speaker 21: Found it!
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Speaker 15: Found it!
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Speaker 1: The mouse replied rather crossly.
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Speaker 4: Of course you know what it means.
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Speaker 15: I know what it means well enough when I find.
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Speaker 1: A thing, said the duck.
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Speaker 5: It's generally a frog.
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Speaker 8: Or a worm.
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Speaker 5: The question is, what did the archbishop find?
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Speaker 1: The mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on.
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Speaker 4: Found it advisable to go with Edgar Athling to meet
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Speaker 4: William and offer him the crown. William's conduct at first
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Speaker 4: was moderate, but the insolence of his Norman's How are
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Speaker 4: you getting on now, my dear?
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Speaker 1: It continued, turning to Alice as it spoke. As wet
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Speaker 1: as ever, said Alice in a melancholy tone.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't seem to dry me at all.
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Speaker 1: In that case, said the dodo solemnly, rising to its feet.
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Speaker 6: I move that the meeting adjourn for the immediate adoption
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Speaker 6: of more energetic remedies.
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Speaker 1: Speak English, said the eaglet.
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Speaker 7: I don't know the meaning of half those long words.
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Speaker 7: And what's more? I don't believe you do either.
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Speaker 1: And the eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile.
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Speaker 1: Some of the other birds tittered audibly. What I was
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Speaker 1: going to say, said the dodo in an offended tone,
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Speaker 1: was that.
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Speaker 6: The best thing to get us dry would be a
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Speaker 6: caucus race.
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Speaker 2: What is a caucus race?
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Speaker 1: Said Alice, not that she wanted much to know, but
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Speaker 1: the dodo had paused as if it thought that somebody
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Speaker 1: ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to
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Speaker 1: say anything.
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Speaker 6: Why, said the dodo, The best way to explain it
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Speaker 6: is to do it.
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Speaker 1: And, as you might like to try the thing yourself
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Speaker 1: some winter day, I will tell you how the dodo
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Speaker 1: managed it. First it marked out a race course in
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Speaker 1: a sort of circle.
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Speaker 6: The exact shape doesn't matter, it said.
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Speaker 1: And then all the party were placed along the course
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Speaker 1: here and there. There was no one, two, three, and away,
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Speaker 1: but they began running when they liked and left off
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Speaker 1: when they liked, so that it was not easy to
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Speaker 1: know when the race was over. However, when they had
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Speaker 1: been running half an hour or so, and were quite
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Speaker 1: dry again, the dodo suddenly.
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Speaker 6: Called out, The race is over.
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Speaker 1: And they all crowded round it, panting and asking, The
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Speaker 1: dodo has won! This question the dodo could not answer
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Speaker 1: without a great deal of thought, and it sat for
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Speaker 1: a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead,
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Speaker 1: the position in which you usually see Shakespeare in the
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Speaker 1: pictures of him, while the rest waited in silence. At
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Speaker 1: last the dodo.
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Speaker 6: Said, Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
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Speaker 4: But who is to pay the prizes?
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Speaker 1: Quite a chorus of voices asked. Why, she, of course,
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Speaker 1: said the dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger, and
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Speaker 1: the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out
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Speaker 1: in a confused way, Prizes!
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Speaker 9: Prizes!
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Speaker 8: Prizes!
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Speaker 1: Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair
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Speaker 1: she put her hand in her pocket and pulled out
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Speaker 1: a box of comfits. Luckily the salt water had not
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Speaker 1: got into it, and handed them round as prizes. There
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Speaker 1: was exactly one apiece all round.
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Speaker 4: But she must have a prize herself, you know.
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Speaker 1: Said the mouse. Of course, the dodo replied very gravely.
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Speaker 6: What else have you got in your pocket?
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Speaker 1: He went on, turning to Alice. Only a thimble, said
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Speaker 1: Alice sadly.
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Speaker 6: Hand it over here, said the dodo.
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Speaker 1: Then they all crowded round her once more, while the
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Speaker 1: dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying, We.
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Speaker 6: Beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble.
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Speaker 1: And when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered.
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Speaker 1: Alice thought the whole thing very absurd. but they all
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Speaker 1: looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh,
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Speaker 1: and as she could not think of anything to say,
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Speaker 1: she simply bowed and took the thimble, looking as solemn
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Speaker 1: as she could. The next thing was to eat the comfits.
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Speaker 1: This caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds
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Speaker 1: complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small
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Speaker 1: ones choked and had to be patted on the back. However,
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Speaker 1: it was over at last, and they sat down again
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Speaker 1: in a ring and begged the mouse to tell them
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Speaker 1: something more.
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Speaker 2: You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice.
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Speaker 2: and why it is you hate C. and D.
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Speaker 1: She added in a whisper, half afraid that it would
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Speaker 1: be offended again.
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Speaker 4: Mine is a long and sad tale.
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Speaker 1: Said the mouse, turning to Alice and sighing.
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Speaker 2: It is a long tale, certainly.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice, looking down with wonder at the mouse's tail.
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Speaker 2: But why do you call it sad?
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Speaker 1: And she kept on puzzling about it while the mouse
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Speaker 1: was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was
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Speaker 1: something like this.
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Speaker 4: Fury said to a mouse that he met in the house.
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Speaker 4: Let us both go to law. I will prosecute you. Come,
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Speaker 4: I'll take no denial. We must have a trial. For really,
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Speaker 4: this morning I've nothing to do, said the mouse to
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Speaker 4: the cur. Such a trial, dear sir, with no jury
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Speaker 4: or judge, would be wasting our breath. I'll be judge.
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Speaker 4: I'll be jury, said cunning old fury. I'll try the
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Speaker 4: whole cause and condemn you to death.
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Speaker 8: You are not attendings.
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Speaker 1: Said the mouse to Alice severely.' What are you thinking of?
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Speaker 2: I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly.' You had
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Speaker 2: got to the fifth bend, I think.'' I had not!
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Speaker 1: cried the mouse sharply and very angrily.
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Speaker 2: A knot?
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Speaker 1: said Alice, always ready to make herself useful and looking
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Speaker 1: anxiously about her.
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Speaker 2: Oh, do let me help to undo it.
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Speaker 1: I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the mouse,
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Speaker 1: getting up and walking away.
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Speaker 4: You insult me by talking such nonsense.
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Speaker 1: I didn't mean it, pleaded poor Alice.
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Speaker 2: But you're so easily offended, you know.
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Speaker 1: The mouse only growled in reply.
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Speaker 2: Please, come back and finish your story.
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Speaker 1: Alice called after it, and the others all joined in chorus.
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Speaker 8: Yes, please do.
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Speaker 1: But the mouse only shook its head impatiently and walked
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Speaker 1: a little quicker.
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Speaker 4: What a pity it wouldn't stay.
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Speaker 11: Ah!
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Speaker 1: Sighed the lorry as soon as it was quite out
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Speaker 1: of sight. and an old crab took the opportunity of
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Speaker 1: saying to her daughter, Ah.
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Speaker 15: My dear, let this be a lesson to you, never
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Speaker 15: to lose your temper.
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Speaker 1: Hold your tongue, ma, said the young crab a little snappishly.
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Speaker 4: You're enough to try the patience of an oyster.
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Speaker 2: I wish I had our diner here.
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Speaker 1: I know I do, said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.
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Speaker 2: She'd soon fetch it back.
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Speaker 18: And who is diner, if I might venture to ask
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Speaker 18: the question?
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Speaker 12: Rah!
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Speaker 1: Said the lorry. Alice replied eagerly, for she was always
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Speaker 1: ready to talk about her pet.
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Speaker 2: Dinah' s our cat, and she's such a capital one for
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Speaker 2: catching mice, you can't think. And, oh, I wish you
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Speaker 2: could see her after the birds. Why, she'll eat a
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Speaker 2: little bird as soon as look at it.
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Speaker 1: This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some
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Speaker 1: of the birds hurried off at once. One old magpie
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Speaker 1: began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking,'.
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Speaker 2: I really must be getting home.
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Speaker 5: The night air doesn't suit my throat.
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Speaker 1: and a canary called out in a trembling voice to
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Speaker 1: its children, Come.
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Speaker 5: Away, my dears.
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Speaker 11: It's high time you were all in bed.
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Speaker 1: On various pretexts, they all moved off, and Alice was
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Speaker 1: soon left alone.
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Speaker 2: I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah.
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Speaker 1: She said to herself in a melancholy tone.
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Speaker 2: Nobody seems to like her down here, and I'm sure
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Speaker 2: she's the best cat in the world. Oh, my dear Dinah,
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Speaker 2: I wonder if I shall ever see you any more.
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Speaker 1: And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she
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Speaker 1: felt very lonely and low-spirited. In a little while, however,
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Speaker 1: she heard again a little pattering of footsteps in the distance,
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Speaker 1: and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the mouse
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Speaker 1: had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish
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Speaker 1: his story. End of chapter 3 Chapter 4 of Alice's
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Speaker 1: SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL It was the white rabbit
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Speaker 1: trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went,
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Speaker 1: as if it had lost something, and she heard it
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Speaker 1: muttering to itself, Duchess, the Duchess, oh.
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Speaker 3: My dear paws, oh, my fur and whiskers! She'll get
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Speaker 3: me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets. Where can
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Speaker 3: I have dropped them, I wonder?
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Speaker 1: Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for
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Speaker 1: the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and
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Speaker 1: she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they
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Speaker 1: were nowhere to be seen. Everything seemed to have changed
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Speaker 1: since her swim in the pool, and the great hall
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Speaker 1: with the glass table and the little door had vanished completely.
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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.
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Speaker 3: Why, Mary Anne, what are you doing out here? Run
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Speaker 3: home this moment and fetch me a pair of gloves
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Speaker 3: and a fan. Quit now!
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Speaker 1: And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off
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Speaker 1: at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying
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Speaker 1: to explain the mistake it had made.
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Speaker 2: He took me for his housemate.
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Speaker 1: She said to herself as she ran.
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Speaker 2: How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am!'
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Speaker 2: But I'd better take him his fan and gloves. That is,
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Speaker 2: 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 hurried 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.
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Speaker 2: How queer it seems,'.
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Speaker 1: Alice said to herself,' to.
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Speaker 2: Be going messages for a rabbit.' I suppose Dinah will
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Speaker 2: be sending me on messages next.
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Speaker 1: And she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen.
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Speaker 2: Miss Alice, come here directly and get ready for your walk.
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Speaker 2: Coming in a minute, nurse, but I've got to see
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Speaker 2: that the mouse doesn't get out. Only I don't think,
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Speaker 2: Alice went on, that they'd let Dinah stop in the
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Speaker 2: house if it began ordering people about like that.
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Speaker 1: By this time she had found her way into a
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Speaker 1: tidy little room with a table in the window, and
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Speaker 1: on it, as she had hoped, a fan and two
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Speaker 1: or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves. She took
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Speaker 1: up the fan and a pair of the gloves and
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Speaker 1: was just going to leave the room when her eye
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Speaker 1: fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass.
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Speaker 1: There was no label this time with the words DRINK ME,
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Speaker 1: but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips.
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Speaker 2: I know something interesting is sure to happen,' she said
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Speaker 2: to herself. Whenever I eat or drink anything, so I'll
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Speaker 2: just see what this bottle does. I do hope it'll
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Speaker 2: make me grow large again, for really I'm quite tired
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Speaker 2: of being such a tiny little thing.
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Speaker 1: It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected.
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Speaker 1: Before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her
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Speaker 1: head pressing against the ceiling, and had to stoop to
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Speaker 1: save her neck from being broken. She hastily put down
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Speaker 1: the bottle, saying to herself, That's quite enough.
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Speaker 2: I hope I shan't grow any more. As it is,
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Speaker 2: I can't get out of the door. I do wish
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Speaker 2: I hadn't drunk quite so much.
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Speaker 1: Alas, it was too late to wish that. She went
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Speaker 1: on growing and growing, and very soon had to kneel
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Speaker 1: down on the floor. In another minute there was not
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Speaker 1: even room for this, and she tried the effect of
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Speaker 1: lying down, with one elbow against the door and the
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Speaker 1: other arm curled round her head. Still she went on growing,
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Speaker 1: and as a last resource she put one arm out
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Speaker 1: of the window and one foot up the chimney, and
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Speaker 1: said to herself.
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Speaker 2: Now I can do no more, whatever happens. What will
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Speaker 2: become of me?
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Speaker 1: Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had
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Speaker 1: its full effect, and she grew no larger. Still, it
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Speaker 1: was very uncomfortable, and as there seemed to be no
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Speaker 1: sort of chance of her ever getting out of the
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Speaker 1: room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.
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Speaker 2: It was much pleasanter at home, thought poor Alice, when
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Speaker 2: one wasn't always growing larger and smaller and being ordered
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Speaker 2: about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't
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Speaker 2: gone down that rabbit hole, and yet, and yet it's
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Speaker 2: rather curious, you know, this sort of life. I do
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Speaker 2: wonder what can have happened to me. When I used
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Speaker 2: to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing
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Speaker 2: never happened, and now here I am in the middle
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Speaker 2: of one. There ought to be a book written about me,
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Speaker 2: that there ought. And when I grow up, I'll write one.
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Speaker 2: But I'm grown up.
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Speaker 1: Now, she added in a sorrowful tone.
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Speaker 2: At least there's no room to grow up anymore here.
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Speaker 2: But then, thought Alice, shall I never get any older
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Speaker 2: than I am now? That'll be a comfort one way,
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Speaker 2: never to be an old woman. but then always to
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Speaker 2: have lessons to learn. Oh, I shouldn't like that. Oh,
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Speaker 2: you foolish Alice.
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Speaker 1: She answered herself.
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Speaker 2: How can you learn lessons in here? Why, there's hardly
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Speaker 2: room for you, and no room at all for any
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Speaker 2: lesson books.
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Speaker 1: And so she went on, taking first one side and
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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 3: Fetch me my gloves this moment!
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Speaker 1: Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
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Speaker 1: Alice knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her,
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Speaker 1: and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting
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Speaker 1: that she was now about a thousand times as large
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Speaker 1: as the rabbit and had no reason to be afraid
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Speaker 1: of it. Presently the rabbit came up to the door
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Speaker 1: and tried to open it, but as the door opened
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Speaker 1: inwards and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it, that
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Speaker 1: attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself.
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Speaker 3: Then I'll go around and get in at the window.
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Speaker 1: That you won't, thought Alice, and after waiting till she
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Speaker 1: fancied she heard the rabbit just under the window, she
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Speaker 1: suddenly spread out her hand and made a snatch in
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Speaker 1: the air. She did not get hold of anything, but
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Speaker 1: she heard a little shriek and a fall and a
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Speaker 1: crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it
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Speaker 1: was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame
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Speaker 1: or something of the sort. Next came an angry voice,
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Speaker 1: the rabbit's.
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Speaker 3: Pat, Pat, where are you?
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Speaker 1: And then a voice she had never heard before.
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Speaker 9: Sure then I'm here, digging for apples, your honor.
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Speaker 1: Digging for apples, indeed, said the rabbit angrily. Here, come
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Speaker 1: and help me out of this, sounds of more broken glass.
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Speaker 3: Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?
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Speaker 9: Sure, it's an arm, your honor.
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Speaker 1: He pronounced it arm.
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Speaker 3: An arm, you goose? Whoever saw one that size? Why,
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Speaker 3: it fills the whole window.
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Speaker 9: Sure it does, your honor, but it's an arm for
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Speaker 9: all that.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's got no business there, at any rate. Go
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Speaker 3: and take it away.
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Speaker 1: There was a long silence after this, and Alice could
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Speaker 1: only hear whispers now and then, such as,' Sure.
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Speaker 9: I don't like it, Your Honor, at all, at all.
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Speaker 3: 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 broken glass.
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Speaker 2: What a number of cucumber frames there must be!
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Speaker 1: thought Alice.
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Speaker 2: I wonder what they'll do next. As for pulling me
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Speaker 2: out of the window, I only wish they could. I'm
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Speaker 2: sure I don't want to stay in here 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 cartwheels and the sound
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Speaker 1: of a good many voices all talking together. She made
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Speaker 1: out the words, Where's.
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Speaker 3: The other ladder?
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Speaker 9: Why, I hadn't to bring but one. Bill's got the other.
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Speaker 3: Bill, fetch it here, lad. Here, put him up at
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Speaker 3: this corner.
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Speaker 20: No.
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Speaker 10: Time together first. They don't reach half high enough yet.
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Speaker 3: Oh, they'll do well enough. Don't be particular. Here, Bill,
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Speaker 3: catch hold of this rope.
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Speaker 10: Will the roof bear?
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Speaker 3: Mind that loose slate. Oh, it's coming down. Heads below.
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Speaker 1: A loud crash.
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Speaker 3: Now, who did that?
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Speaker 9: It was Bill, I fancy.
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Speaker 3: Who's to go down the chimney?
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Speaker 10: Nay, I shan't.
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Speaker 8: You do it.
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Speaker 9: That I won't, then.
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Speaker 3: Bill's to go down.
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Speaker 9: Here, Bill. The master says you're to go down the chimney.
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Speaker 2: Oh, so Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?
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Speaker 1: Said Alice to herself.
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Speaker 2: Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill. I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be in Bill's place for a good deal. This fireplace
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Speaker 2: is narrow, to be sure, but I think I can
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Speaker 2: kick a little.
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Speaker 1: She drew her foot as far down the chimney as
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Speaker 1: she could, and waited till she heard a little animal.
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Speaker 1: She couldn't guess of what sort it was, scratching and
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Speaker 1: scrambling about in the chimney close above her, then saying
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Speaker 1: to herself, This is Bill. She gave one sharp kick
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Speaker 1: and waited to see what would happen next. The first
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Speaker 1: thing she heard was a general chorus of, There goes Bill!
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Speaker 1: Then the rabbit's voice along.
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Speaker 12: Catch him!
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Speaker 3: You by the hedge!
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Speaker 1: Then silence, and then another confusion of voices.
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Speaker 11: Hold up his head!
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Speaker 9: Brandy now.
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Speaker 1: Don't choke him.
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Speaker 9: How was it, old fellow?
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Speaker 12: What happened to you?
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Speaker 11: Tell us all about it.
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Speaker 1: Last came a little feeble squeaking voice. That's Bill, thought Alice.
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Speaker 3: Well, I hardly know.
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Speaker 22: No more, thank ye.
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Speaker 10: I'm better now. But I'm a good deal too flustered
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Speaker 10: to tell you. All I know is, something comes at
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Speaker 10: me like a jack-in-a-box, and up I goes like a skyrocket.
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Speaker 1: So you did, old fellow, said the others.
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Speaker 3: We must burn the house down.
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Speaker 1: Said the rabbit's voice, and Alice called out as loud
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Speaker 1: as she could.
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Speaker 2: If you do, I'll set Dinah at you.
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Speaker 1: There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself.
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Speaker 2: I wonder what they will do next. If they had
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Speaker 2: 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 barrelful.
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Speaker 3: Will do, to begin with.
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Speaker 2: A barrelful of what?
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Speaker 1: Thought Alice, but she had not long to doubt, for
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Speaker 1: the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling
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Speaker 1: in at the window, and some of them hit her
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Speaker 1: in the face. I'll put a stop to this, she
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Speaker 1: said to herself.
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Speaker 2: And shouted out, You better not do that again, which.
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Speaker 1: Produced another dead silence. Alice noticed with some surprise that
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Speaker 1: the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they
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Speaker 1: lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into
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Speaker 1: her head.
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Speaker 2: If I eat one of these cakes.
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Speaker 1: she thought,' it' s.
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Speaker 2: Sure to make some change in my size, and as
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Speaker 2: it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller,
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Speaker 2: I suppose.
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Speaker 1: So she swallowed one of the cakes and was delighted
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Speaker 1: to find that she began shrinking directly. As soon as
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Speaker 1: she was small enough to get through the door, she
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Speaker 1: ran out of the house and found quite a crowd
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Speaker 1: of little animals and birds waiting outside. The poor little lizard, Bill,
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Speaker 1: was in the middle, being held up by two guinea pigs,
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Speaker 1: who were giving it something out of a bottle. They
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Speaker 1: all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared,
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Speaker 1: but she ran off as hard as she could and
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Speaker 1: soon found herself safe in a thick wood.
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Speaker 2: The first thing I've got to do, said Alice.
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Speaker 1: To herself as she wandered about.
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Speaker 2: In the wood, is to grow to my right size again,
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Speaker 2: and the second thing is to find my way into
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Speaker 2: that lovely garden. I think that will be the best plan.
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Speaker 1: It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt. and very neatly
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Speaker 1: and simply arranged. The only difficulty was that she had
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Speaker 1: not the smallest idea how to set about it, and
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Speaker 1: while she was peering about anxiously among the trees a
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Speaker 1: little sharp bark just over her head made her look
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Speaker 1: up in a great hurry. An enormous puppy was looking
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Speaker 1: down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching
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Speaker 1: out one paw trying to touch her.
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Speaker 2: Poor little thing,'.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard
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Speaker 1: to whistle to it, but she was terribly frightened all
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Speaker 1: the time at the thought that it might be hungry.'
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Speaker 1: in which case it would be very likely to eat
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Speaker 1: her up in spite of all her coaxing. Hardly knowing
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Speaker 1: what she did, she picked up a little bit of
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Speaker 1: stick and held it out to the puppy, whereupon the
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Speaker 1: puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at
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Speaker 1: once with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the
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Speaker 1: stick and made believe to worry it. Then Alice dodged
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Speaker 1: behind a great thistle to keep herself from being run over,
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Speaker 1: and the moment she appeared on the other side the
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Speaker 1: puppy made another rush at the stick and tumbled head
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Speaker 1: over heels in its hurry to get hold of it.
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Speaker 1: Then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game
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Speaker 1: of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to
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Speaker 1: be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again.
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Speaker 1: Then the puppy began a series of short charges at
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Speaker 1: the stick, running a very little way forwards each time
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Speaker 1: and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while.
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Speaker 1: till at last it sat down a good way off panting,
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Speaker 1: with its tongue hanging out of its 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 at
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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 puppy's bark sounded quite faint
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Speaker 1: in the distance.
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Speaker 2: And yet what a dear little puppy it was.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice as she leaned against a buttercup to rest
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Speaker 1: herself and fanned herself with one of the leaves.
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Speaker 2: I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if
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Speaker 2: I'd only been the right size to do it. Oh dear,
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Speaker 2: I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again.
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Speaker 2: Let me see. How is it to be managed? I
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Speaker 2: suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other,
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Speaker 2: but the great question is, what?
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Speaker 1: The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round
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Speaker 1: her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but
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Speaker 1: she did not see anything that looked like the right
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Speaker 1: thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. There was
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Speaker 1: a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height
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Speaker 1: as herself, and when she had looked under it and
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Speaker 1: on both sides of it and behind it, it occurred
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Speaker 1: to her that she might as well look and see
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Speaker 1: what was on the top of it. She stretched herself
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Speaker 1: up on tiptoe and peeped over the edge of the mushroom,
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Speaker 1: and her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar
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Speaker 1: that was sitting on the top with its arms folded,
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Speaker 1: quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest
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Speaker 1: notice of her or of anything else. End of Chapter
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Speaker 1: 4 Chapter 5 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis
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Speaker 1: Carroll CHAPTER V. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR The Caterpillar and
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Speaker 1: Alice looked at each other for some time in silence.
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Speaker 1: At last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its
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Speaker 1: mouth and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.' Who
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Speaker 1: are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging
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Speaker 1: opening for a conversation. Alice replied rather shyly.
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Speaker 2: I hardly know, sir, just at present. At least I
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Speaker 2: know who I was when I got up this morning,
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Speaker 2: but I think I must have been changed several times
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Speaker 2: since then.
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Speaker 12: What do you mean by that?
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Speaker 1: Said the caterpillar sternly.
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Speaker 12: Explain yourself.
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Speaker 2: I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir, said Alice, because
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Speaker 2: I'm not myself, you see.
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Speaker 1: I don't see, said the caterpillar.
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Speaker 2: I'm afraid I can't put it more.
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Speaker 1: Clearly, Alice replied very politely.
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Speaker 2: For I can't understand it myself to begin with, and
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Speaker 2: being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.
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Speaker 1: It isn't, said the caterpillar.
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Speaker 2: Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet, said Alice,
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Speaker 2: but when you have to turn into a chrysalis, you
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Speaker 2: will someday, you know, and then after that into a butterfly,
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Speaker 2: I should think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you?
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Speaker 12: Not a bit.
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Speaker 1: Said the caterpillar.
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Speaker 2: Well, perhaps your feelings may be different, said Alice. All
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Speaker 2: I know is, it would feel very clear to me.
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Speaker 1: You, said the caterpillar contemptuously.
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Speaker 12: Who are you?
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Speaker 1: Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation.
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Speaker 1: Alice felt a little irritated at the caterpillars making such
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Speaker 1: very short remarks, and she drew herself up and said
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Speaker 1: very gravely, I.
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Speaker 2: Think you ought to tell me who you are first.
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Speaker 12: Why?
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Speaker 1: Said the caterpillar. Here was another puzzling question, and as
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Speaker 1: Alice could not think of any good reason, and as
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Speaker 1: the caterpillar seemed to be in a very unpleasant state
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Speaker 1: of mind, she turned away. Come back, the caterpillar called
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Speaker 1: after her.
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Speaker 12: I have something important to say.
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Speaker 1: This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
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Speaker 1: Keep your temper, said the caterpillar.
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Speaker 2: Is that all?
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Speaker 1: Said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she could. No,
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Speaker 1: said the caterpillar. Alice thought she might as well wait,
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Speaker 1: as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps, after all,
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Speaker 1: it might tell her something worth hearing. For some minutes
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Speaker 1: it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded
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Speaker 1: its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again,
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Speaker 1: and said,'.
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Speaker 12: So you think you're changed, do you?
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Speaker 2: I' m afraid I am, sir,' said Alice.' I can't remember
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Speaker 2: things as I used, and I don't keep the same
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Speaker 2: size for ten minutes together.
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Speaker 1: Can' t remember what things?' said the caterpillar.
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Speaker 2: Well—' I've tried to say, how doth the little busy bee,
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Speaker 2: but it all came different.
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Speaker 1: Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.
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Speaker 12: Repeat, you are old, Father William.
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Speaker 1: Said the caterpillar. Alice folded her hands and began.
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Speaker 2: You are old, Father William, the young man said, and
54:23
Speaker 2: your hair has become very white, and yet you incessantly
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Speaker 2: stand on your head. Do you think, at your age,
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Speaker 2: it is right? In my youth, Father William replied to
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Speaker 2: his son, I feared it might injure the brain. But
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Speaker 2: now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, why, I
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Speaker 2: do it again and again. You are old, said the youth,
54:45
Speaker 2: as I mentioned before, and have grown most uncommonly fat.
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Speaker 2: Yet you turned a back somersault in at the door. Pray,
54:54
Speaker 2: what is the reason of that? In my youth. said
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Speaker 2: the sage, as he shook his grey locks, I kept
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Speaker 2: all my limbs very supple. By the use of this ointment,
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Speaker 2: when shilling the box, allow me to sell you a couple?
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Speaker 2: You are old, said the youth, and your jaws are
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Speaker 2: too weak for anything tougher than suet. Yet you finish
55:14
Speaker 2: the goose with the bones in the beak. Pray, how
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Speaker 2: did you manage to do it? In my youth, said
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Speaker 2: his father, I took to the law, and argued each
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Speaker 2: case with my wife, and the muscular strength which it
55:27
Speaker 2: gave to my jaw, has lasted the rest of my life.
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Speaker 2: You are old, said the youth, one would hardly suppose,
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Speaker 2: that your eye was as steady as ever. Yet you
55:38
Speaker 2: balanced an eel on the end of your nose. What
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Speaker 2: made you so awfully clever? I have answered three questions,
55:44
Speaker 2: and that is enough, said his father. Don't give yourself airs.
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Speaker 2: Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
55:52
Speaker 2: Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs.
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Speaker 12: That is not said aright.
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Speaker 1: Said the caterpillar.
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Speaker 2: Not quite right, I'm afraid, said Alice timidly. Some of
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Speaker 2: the words have got altered.
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Speaker 12: Is it wrong from beginning to end?
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Speaker 1: Said the caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.
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Speaker 1: The caterpillar was the first to speak.
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Speaker 12: What size do you want to be?
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Speaker 19: It asked.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not particular as to size, Alice hastily replied.
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Speaker 2: Only one doesn't like changing so often.
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Speaker 1: You know. I don't know, said the caterpillar. Alice said nothing.
56:30
Speaker 1: She had never been so much contradicted in her life before,
56:33
Speaker 1: and she felt that she was losing her temper. Are
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Speaker 1: you content now, said the caterpillar.
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Speaker 2: Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir,
56:42
Speaker 2: if you wouldn't mind, said Alice. Three inches is such
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Speaker 2: a wretched height to be.
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Speaker 1: It is a very good height indeed, said the caterpillar angrily,
56:52
Speaker 1: rearing itself upright as it spoke. It was exactly three
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Speaker 1: inches high.
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Speaker 2: But I'm not used to it.
56:58
Speaker 1: Pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone, and she thought
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Speaker 1: of herself.
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Speaker 2: I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended.
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Speaker 1: You'll get used to it in time, said the caterpillar,
57:08
Speaker 1: and it put the hookah into its mouth and began
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Speaker 1: smoking again. This time Alice waited patiently until it chose
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Speaker 1: to speak again. In a minute or two the caterpillar
57:16
Speaker 1: took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once
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Speaker 1: or twice and shook itself. Then it got down off
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Speaker 1: the mushroom and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking
57:23
Speaker 1: as it went— One.
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Speaker 12: Side will make it grow taller, and the other side
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Speaker 12: will make it grow shorter.
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Speaker 2: One side of what? The other side of what?
57:34
Speaker 1: Thought Alice to herself. Of the mushroom, said the caterpillar,
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Speaker 1: just as if she had asked it aloud, and in
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Speaker 1: another moment it was out of sight. Alice remained looking
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Speaker 1: thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make
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Speaker 1: out which were the two sides of it, and as
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Speaker 1: it was perfectly round she found this a very difficult question. However,
57:51
Speaker 1: at last she stretched her arms round it as far
57:53
Speaker 1: as they would go, and broke off a bit of
57:55
Speaker 1: the edge with each hand.
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Speaker 2: And now which is which?
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Speaker 1: she said to herself, and nibbled a little at the
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Speaker 1: right-hand bit to try the effect. The next moment she
58:04
Speaker 1: felt a violent blow underneath her chin. It had struck
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Speaker 1: her foot. She was a good deal frightened by this
58:09
Speaker 1: very sudden change, but she felt that there was no
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Speaker 1: time to be lost as she was shrinking rapidly, so
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Speaker 1: she set to work at once to eat some of
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Speaker 1: the other bit. Her chin was pressed so closely against
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Speaker 1: her foot that there was hardly room to open her mouth.'
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Speaker 1: but she did it at last, and managed to swallow
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Speaker 1: a morsel of the left-hand bit.
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Speaker 2: Come, my head's free at last,'.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into
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Speaker 1: alarm in another moment when she found that her shoulders
58:33
Speaker 1: were nowhere to be found. All she could see when
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Speaker 1: she looked down was an immense length of neck, which
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Speaker 1: seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea
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Speaker 1: of green leaves that lay far below her.
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Speaker 2: What can all that green stuff be?
58:45
Speaker 1: said Alice.
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Speaker 2: And where have my shoulders got to?' And oh, my
58:50
Speaker 2: poor hands! How is it I can't see you?
58:53
Speaker 1: She was moving them about as she spoke, but no
58:55
Speaker 1: result seemed to follow except a little shaking among the
58:57
Speaker 1: distant green leaves. As there seemed to be no chance
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Speaker 1: of getting her hands up to her head, she tried
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Speaker 1: to get her head down to them, and was delighted
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Speaker 1: to find that her neck would bend about easily in
59:07
Speaker 1: any direction, like a serpent. She had just succeeded in
59:10
Speaker 1: curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going
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Speaker 1: to dive in among the leaves, which she found to
59:14
Speaker 1: be nothing but the tops of the trees under which
59:16
Speaker 1: she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her
59:18
Speaker 1: draw back in a hurry. A large pigeon had flown
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Speaker 1: into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.' Serpent!'
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Speaker 1: screamed the pigeon.
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Speaker 2: I' m not a serpent!
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Speaker 1: said Alice indignantly.
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Speaker 2: Let me alone.
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Speaker 11: Servant, I say again.
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Speaker 1: Repeated the pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and
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Speaker 1: added with a kind of sob.
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Speaker 11: I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them.
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Speaker 2: I haven't the least idea what you're talking.
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Speaker 1: About, said Alice.
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Speaker 11: I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks,
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Speaker 11: and I've tried hedges.
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Speaker 1: The pigeon went on without attending to her.
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Speaker 11: But those serpents, there's no pleasing them.
1:00:01
Speaker 1: Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there
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Speaker 1: was no use in saying anything more till the pigeon
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Speaker 1: had finished.
1:00:07
Speaker 11: As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs, said
1:00:10
Speaker 11: the pigeon. But I must be on the lookout for
1:00:13
Speaker 11: serpents night and day. Why, I haven't had a wink
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Speaker 11: of sleep these three weeks.
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Speaker 2: I'm very sorry you've been annoyed.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.
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Speaker 11: And just as I'd taken the highest tree.
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Speaker 1: In the wood— continued the pigeon, raising its voice to
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Speaker 1: a shriek.
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Speaker 11: And just as I was thinking I should be free
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Speaker 11: of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down
1:00:36
Speaker 11: from the sky. Oh, serpent!
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Speaker 2: But I'm not a serpent, I tell you, said Alice.
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Speaker 17: I'm a.
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Speaker 11: I'm a... Well, what are you?
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Speaker 1: Said the pigeon.
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Speaker 11: I can see you're trying to invent something. I.
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Speaker 2: I'm a little girl.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice, rather doubtfully as she remembered the number of
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Speaker 1: changes she had gone through that day.
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Speaker 11: A likely story, indeed,'.
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Speaker 1: Said the pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt.
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Speaker 11: I' ve seen a good many little girls in my time,
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Speaker 11: but never one with such a neck as that. No, no,
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Speaker 11: you're a serpent, and there's no use denying it. I
1:01:19
Speaker 11: suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted
1:01:21
Speaker 11: an egg?
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Speaker 2: I have tasted eggs, certainly.
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Speaker 1: said Alice, who was a very truthful child.
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Speaker 2: But little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do,
1:01:31
Speaker 2: you know.
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Speaker 11: I don't.
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Speaker 1: Believe it,' said the pigeon.
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Speaker 11: But if they do, why, then they're a kind of serpent,
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Speaker 11: that's all I can say.
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Speaker 1: This was such a new idea to Alice that she
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Speaker 1: was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave
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Speaker 1: the pigeon the opportunity of adding,'.
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Speaker 11: You' re looking for eggs, I know that well enough.' And
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Speaker 11: what does it matter to me whether you're a little
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Speaker 11: girl or a serpent?
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Speaker 2: It matters a good deal to me, said Alice hastily.
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Speaker 2: But I'm not looking for eggs as it happens, and
1:02:02
Speaker 2: if I was, I shouldn't want yours. I don't like
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Speaker 2: them raw.
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Speaker 11: Well, be off then.
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Speaker 1: Said the pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled
1:02:12
Speaker 1: down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the
1:02:15
Speaker 1: trees as well as she could, for her neck kept
1:02:17
Speaker 1: getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then
1:02:20
Speaker 1: she had to stop and untwist it. After a while
1:02:22
Speaker 1: she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom
1:02:24
Speaker 1: in her hands, and she set to work very carefully,
1:02:27
Speaker 1: nibbling first at one and then at the other, and
1:02:29
Speaker 1: growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded
1:02:33
Speaker 1: in bringing herself down to her usual height. It was
1:02:36
Speaker 1: so long since she had been anything near the right
1:02:38
Speaker 1: size that it felt quite strange at first, but she
1:02:41
Speaker 1: got used to it in a few minutes and began
1:02:42
Speaker 1: talking to herself as usual.
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Speaker 2: Come, there's half my plan done now. How puzzling all
1:02:49
Speaker 2: these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to
1:02:52
Speaker 2: be from one minute to another. However, I've got back
1:02:55
Speaker 2: to my right size. The next thing is to get
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Speaker 2: into that beautiful garden. How is that to be done,
1:03:02
Speaker 2: I wonder?
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Speaker 1: As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open
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Speaker 1: place with a little house in it about four feet high.
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Speaker 2: Whoever lives there, thought Alice, it'll never do to come
1:03:12
Speaker 2: upon them this size. Why, I should frighten them out
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Speaker 2: of their wits.
1:03:17
Speaker 1: So she began nibbling at the right-hand bit again, and
1:03:20
Speaker 1: did not venture to go near the house till she
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Speaker 1: had brought herself down to nine inches high.
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Speaker 11: CHAPTER VI.
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Speaker 1: PIG AND PEPPER For a minute or two she stood
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Speaker 1: looking at the house and wondering what to do next,
1:03:51
Speaker 1: when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of
1:03:54
Speaker 1: the wood. She considered him to be a footman because
1:03:56
Speaker 1: he was in livery, otherwise, judging by his face only,
1:03:59
Speaker 1: she would have called him a fish, and rapped loudly
1:04:02
Speaker 1: at the door with his knuckles. It was opened by
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Speaker 1: another footman in livery with a round face and large
1:04:07
Speaker 1: eyes like a frog, and both footmen, Alice noticed, had
1:04:10
Speaker 1: powdered hair that curled all over their heads. She felt
1:04:13
Speaker 1: very curious to know what it was all about, and
1:04:15
Speaker 1: crept a little way out of the wood to listen.
1:04:18
Speaker 1: The fish-footman began by producing from under his arm a
1:04:20
Speaker 1: great letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he
1:04:23
Speaker 1: handed over to the other, saying in a solemn tone.
1:04:25
Speaker 9: For the Duchess, an invitation from the Queen to play croquet.
1:04:32
Speaker 1: The frog-footman repeated in the same solemn tone, only changing
1:04:35
Speaker 1: the order of the words a little.
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Speaker 13: From the Queen, an invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.
1:04:43
Speaker 1: Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together.
1:04:47
Speaker 1: Alice laughed so much at this that she had to
1:04:49
Speaker 1: run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her,
1:04:51
Speaker 1: and when she next peeped out the fish-footman was gone,
1:04:54
Speaker 1: and the other was sitting on the ground near the
1:04:56
Speaker 1: door staring stupidly up into the sky. Alice went timidly
1:04:59
Speaker 1: up to the door and knocked.
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Speaker 13: There' s no sort of use in knocking,' said the footman,'
1:05:04
Speaker 13: and that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the
1:05:10
Speaker 13: same side of the door as you are. Secondly—' because
1:05:14
Speaker 13: they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly
1:05:19
Speaker 13: hear you.
1:05:20
Speaker 1: And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise going on within,
1:05:23
Speaker 1: a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then
1:05:26
Speaker 1: a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had
1:05:28
Speaker 1: been broken to pieces. Please, then, said.
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Speaker 2: Alice, how am I to get in?
1:05:34
Speaker 13: There might be some sense in your knocking.
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Speaker 1: The footman went on without attending to her.
1:05:40
Speaker 13: If we had the door between us. For instance, if
1:05:44
Speaker 13: you were inside, you might knock, and I could let
1:05:48
Speaker 13: you out, you know.
1:05:49
Speaker 1: He was looking up into the sky all the time
1:05:52
Speaker 1: he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil. But
1:05:55
Speaker 1: perhaps he can't help it, she said to herself.
1:05:59
Speaker 2: His eyes are so very nearly at the top of
1:06:01
Speaker 2: his head, but at any rate he might answer questions.
1:06:05
Speaker 2: How am I to get in?
1:06:07
Speaker 1: She repeated aloud.
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Speaker 13: I shall sit here, the footman remarked, till tomorrow.
1:06:15
Speaker 1: At this moment the door of the house opened and
1:06:17
Speaker 1: a large plate came skimming out straight at the footman's head.
1:06:20
Speaker 1: It just grazed his nose and broke to pieces against
1:06:23
Speaker 1: one of the trees behind him.
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Speaker 13: Or next day, maybe.
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Speaker 1: The footman continued in the same tone, exactly as if
1:06:29
Speaker 1: nothing had happened.
1:06:31
Speaker 2: How am I to get in?
1:06:33
Speaker 1: Asked Alice again in a louder tone.
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Speaker 13: Are you to get in at all?
1:06:38
Speaker 1: Said the footman.
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Speaker 13: That's the first question, you know.
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Speaker 1: It was, no doubt, only Alice did not like to
1:06:44
Speaker 1: be told so. It's really dreadful, she muttered to herself.
1:06:49
Speaker 2: The way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive
1:06:53
Speaker 2: one crazy.
1:06:54
Speaker 1: The footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for
1:06:56
Speaker 1: repeating his remark with variations.
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Speaker 13: I shall sit here, he said, on and off for
1:07:04
Speaker 13: days and days.
1:07:07
Speaker 2: But what am I to do?
1:07:09
Speaker 1: Said Alice.
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Speaker 13: Anything you like.
1:07:11
Speaker 1: Said the footman, and began whistling.
1:07:13
Speaker 2: Whistling Oh, there's no use in talking to him, said
1:07:41
Speaker 2: Alice desperately. He's perfectly idiotic.
1:07:44
Speaker 1: And she opened the door and went in. The door
1:07:47
Speaker 1: led right into a large kitchen, which was full of
1:07:49
Speaker 1: smoke from one end to the other. The Duchess was
1:07:51
Speaker 1: sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby.
1:07:54
Speaker 1: The cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large
1:07:56
Speaker 1: cauldron which seemed to be full of soup.
1:07:58
Speaker 2: There's certainly too much pepper in that.
1:08:00
Speaker 1: Soup, Alice said to herself, as well as she could,
1:08:03
Speaker 1: for sneezing. There was certainly too much of it in
1:08:06
Speaker 1: the air. Even the duchess sneezed occasionally, and as for
1:08:09
Speaker 1: the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a
1:08:12
Speaker 1: moment's pause.
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Speaker 8: Achoo!
1:08:16
Speaker 2: Achoo!
1:08:19
Speaker 8: Achoo!
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Speaker 1: The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze
1:08:33
Speaker 1: were the cook and a large cat which was sitting
1:08:35
Speaker 1: on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.
1:08:37
Speaker 2: Please, would you tell me?
1:08:40
Speaker 1: Said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite
1:08:42
Speaker 1: sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first.
1:08:45
Speaker 2: Why your cat grins like that?
1:08:48
Speaker 15: It's a Cheshire cat, said the Duchess. And that's why.
1:08:55
Speaker 3: Pig!
1:08:56
Speaker 1: She said the last word with such sudden violence that
1:08:59
Speaker 1: Alice quite gasped. But she saw in another moment that
1:09:02
Speaker 1: it was addressed to the baby and not to her.
1:09:04
Speaker 1: So she took courage and went on again.
1:09:06
Speaker 2: I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned. In fact,
1:09:10
Speaker 2: I didn't know that cats could grin.
1:09:13
Speaker 15: They all can, said the Duchess. And most of them do.
1:09:20
Speaker 2: I don't know of any.
1:09:22
Speaker 1: That do,' Alice said very politely, feeling quite pleased to
1:09:26
Speaker 1: have got into a conversation.
1:09:27
Speaker 15: You don't know much.
1:09:30
Speaker 1: said the Duchess.
1:09:30
Speaker 15: And that's a fact.
1:09:34
Speaker 1: Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark,
1:09:37
Speaker 1: and thought it would be as well to introduce some
1:09:39
Speaker 1: other subject of conversation. While she was trying to fix
1:09:42
Speaker 1: on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off
1:09:45
Speaker 1: the fire, and at once set to work throwing everything
1:09:47
Speaker 1: within her reach at the Duchess and the baby. The
1:09:50
Speaker 1: fire-irons came first, then followed a shower of saucepans, plates,
1:09:54
Speaker 1: and dishes. The Duchess took no notice of them even
1:09:56
Speaker 1: when they hit her, and the baby was howling so
1:09:59
Speaker 1: much already that it was quite impossible to say whether
1:10:01
Speaker 1: the blows hurt it or not.
1:10:02
Speaker 2: Oh, please mind what you're doing.
1:10:05
Speaker 1: cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.
1:10:08
Speaker 2: Oh, there goes his precious.
1:10:10
Speaker 1: Nose,' as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it
1:10:14
Speaker 1: and very nearly carried it off.
1:10:17
Speaker 15: If everybody minded their own business.
1:10:21
Speaker 1: The Duchess said in a hoarse growl.
1:10:23
Speaker 15: The world would go round a deal faster than it does.
1:10:29
Speaker 2: Which would not be an.
1:10:30
Speaker 1: Advantage, said Alice, who felt very glad to get an
1:10:33
Speaker 1: opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge.
1:10:36
Speaker 2: Just think of what work it would make with the
1:10:38
Speaker 2: day and night. You see, the earth takes twenty-four hours
1:10:41
Speaker 2: to turn round on its axis.
1:10:43
Speaker 15: Talking of axes, said the Duchess, Chop off her head!
1:10:50
Speaker 1: Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook to see if
1:10:52
Speaker 1: she meant to take the hint, but the cook was
1:10:54
Speaker 1: busily stirring the soup and seemed not to be listening,
1:10:57
Speaker 1: so she went on again.
1:10:59
Speaker 2: Twenty-four hours, I think. Or is it twelve?
1:11:02
Speaker 15: Oh, don't bother me, said the Duchess. I never could abide, figures.
1:11:09
Speaker 1: And with that she began nursing her child again, singing
1:11:12
Speaker 1: a sort of lullaby to it as she did so,
1:11:14
Speaker 1: and giving it a violent shake at the end of
1:11:16
Speaker 1: every line.
1:11:18
Speaker 15: Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when
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Speaker 15: he sneezes. He only does it to annoy because he
1:11:27
Speaker 15: knows it teases.
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Speaker 8: Wow, wow, wow, wow.
1:11:33
Speaker 1: While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song,
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Speaker 1: she kept tossing the baby violently up and down, and
1:11:39
Speaker 1: the poor little thing howled so that Alice could hardly
1:11:41
Speaker 1: hear the words.
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Speaker 15: I speak severely to my boy. I beat him when
1:11:54
Speaker 15: he sneezes, for he can thoroughly enjoy the pepper when
1:12:00
Speaker 15: he pleases.
1:12:01
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, wow.
1:12:06
Speaker 15: Here, you may nurse it a bit if you like.
1:12:09
Speaker 1: The Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her
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Speaker 1: as she spoke.
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Speaker 15: I must go and get ready to play croquet with
1:12:16
Speaker 15: the queen.
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Speaker 1: And she hurried out of the room. The cook threw
1:12:20
Speaker 1: a frying pan after her as she went out, but
1:12:22
Speaker 1: it just missed her. Alice caught the baby with some difficulty,
1:12:26
Speaker 1: as it was a queer-shaped little creature and held out
1:12:28
Speaker 1: its arms and legs in all directions. Just like a starfish,
1:12:33
Speaker 1: thought Alice. The poor little thing was snorting like a
1:12:35
Speaker 1: steam engine when she caught it. and kept doubling itself
1:12:42
Speaker 1: up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for
1:12:44
Speaker 1: the first minute or two, it was as much as
1:12:46
Speaker 1: she could do to hold it. As soon as she
1:12:49
Speaker 1: had made out the proper way of nursing it, which
1:12:51
Speaker 1: was to twist it up into a sort of knot
1:12:53
Speaker 1: and then keep tight hold of its right ear and
1:12:54
Speaker 1: left foot so as to prevent its undoing itself, she
1:12:57
Speaker 1: carried it out into the open air.
1:12:58
Speaker 2: If I don't take this child away with.
1:13:01
Speaker 1: Me,' thought Alice,' they' re.
1:13:03
Speaker 2: Sure to kill it in a day or two. Wouldn't
1:13:06
Speaker 2: it be murder to leave it behind?
1:13:08
Speaker 1: She said the last words out loud, and the little
1:13:10
Speaker 1: thing grunted in reply. It had left off sneezing by
1:13:13
Speaker 1: this time. Don't grunt, said Alice.
1:13:17
Speaker 2: That's not at all a proper way of expressing yourself.
1:13:20
Speaker 1: The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into
1:13:24
Speaker 1: its face to see what was the matter with it.
1:13:27
Speaker 1: There could be no doubt that it had a very
1:13:28
Speaker 1: turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose. Also,
1:13:32
Speaker 1: its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby. Altogether,
1:13:36
Speaker 1: Alice did not like the look of the thing at all.
1:13:38
Speaker 2: But perhaps it was only sobbing, she thought.
1:13:41
Speaker 1: And looked into its eyes again to see if there
1:13:43
Speaker 1: were any tears. No, there were no tears.
1:13:47
Speaker 2: If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear,
1:13:50
Speaker 2: said Alice seriously, I'll have nothing more to do with you.
1:13:54
Speaker 18: Mine now.
1:13:55
Speaker 1: The poor little thing sobbed again, or grunted. It was
1:13:58
Speaker 1: impossible to say which. And they went on for some
1:14:04
Speaker 1: while in silence. Alice was just beginning to think to herself.
1:14:09
Speaker 2: Now, what am I to do with this creature when
1:14:11
Speaker 2: I get it home?
1:14:12
Speaker 1: When it grunted again, so violently that she looked down
1:14:15
Speaker 1: into its face in some alarm. This time there could
1:14:19
Speaker 1: be no mistake about it. It was neither more nor
1:14:22
Speaker 1: less than a pig, and she felt that it would
1:14:24
Speaker 1: be quite absurd for her to carry it further. So
1:14:26
Speaker 1: she set the little creature down and felt quite relieved
1:14:29
Speaker 1: to see it trot away quietly into the wood. If
1:14:31
Speaker 1: it had grown up, she said to herself.
1:14:34
Speaker 2: It would have made a dreadfully ugly child. But it
1:14:37
Speaker 2: makes a rather handsome pig, I think.
1:14:40
Speaker 1: And she began thinking over other children she knew who
1:14:42
Speaker 1: might do very well as pigs, and was just saying
1:14:44
Speaker 1: to herself, If.
1:14:45
Speaker 2: One only knew the right way to change them.
1:14:48
Speaker 1: When she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire
1:14:50
Speaker 1: cat sitting on the bow of a tree a few
1:14:52
Speaker 1: yards off. The cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
1:14:55
Speaker 1: It looked good-natured, she thought. Still, it had very long
1:14:59
Speaker 1: claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that
1:15:01
Speaker 1: it ought to be treated with respect. Cheshire-puss, she began
1:15:05
Speaker 1: rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether
1:15:08
Speaker 1: it would like the name. However, it only grinned a
1:15:10
Speaker 1: little wider.
1:15:11
Speaker 2: Come, it's please so.
1:15:13
Speaker 1: Far, thought Alice, and she went on.
1:15:16
Speaker 2: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to
1:15:18
Speaker 2: go from here?
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Speaker 14: That depends a good deal on where you want to get.
1:15:24
Speaker 1: To, said the cat.
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Speaker 2: I don't much care where, said Alice.
1:15:29
Speaker 14: Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the cat.
1:15:34
Speaker 1: So long as I get somewhere, Alice added as an explanation.
1:15:38
Speaker 14: Oh, you're sure to do that, said the cat, if
1:15:42
Speaker 14: you only walk long enough.
1:15:44
Speaker 1: Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she
1:15:47
Speaker 1: tried another question.
1:15:48
Speaker 2: What sort of people live about here?
1:15:51
Speaker 1: In that direction, the cat said, waving its right paw.
1:15:55
Speaker 14: Round, lives a hatter. And in that.
1:15:59
Speaker 1: Direction, waving the other paw, lives a march hare.
1:16:05
Speaker 14: Visit either you like.
1:16:06
Speaker 1: They're both mad.
1:16:08
Speaker 2: But I don't want to go among mad people.
1:16:10
Speaker 1: Alice remarked. You can't help that, said the cat.
1:16:16
Speaker 14: We're all mad here.
1:16:18
Speaker 3: I'm mad.
1:16:19
Speaker 14: You're mad.
1:16:21
Speaker 2: How do you know I'm mad, said Alice.
1:16:25
Speaker 1: You must be, said the cat.
1:16:27
Speaker 14: Or you wouldn't have come here.
1:16:30
Speaker 1: Alice didn't think that proved it at all. However, she
1:16:32
Speaker 1: went on.
1:16:33
Speaker 2: And how do you know that you're mad?
1:16:36
Speaker 14: To begin with, said the cat, a dog's not mad.
1:16:40
Speaker 14: You grant that.
1:16:42
Speaker 2: I suppose so, said Alice.
1:16:45
Speaker 1: Well, then, the cat went on.
1:16:48
Speaker 14: You see, a dog growls when it's angry and wags
1:16:52
Speaker 14: its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm
1:16:56
Speaker 14: pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.
1:17:03
Speaker 2: I call it purring, not growling.
1:17:05
Speaker 1: Said Alice. Call it what you like, said the cat.
1:17:10
Speaker 14: Do you play croquet with the queen today?
1:17:12
Speaker 2: I should like it very much, said Alice. But I
1:17:16
Speaker 2: haven't been invited yet.
1:17:18
Speaker 1: You'll see me there, said the cat, and vanished. Alice
1:17:22
Speaker 1: was not much surprised at this, She was getting so
1:17:25
Speaker 1: used to queer things happening. While she was looking at
1:17:27
Speaker 1: the place where it had been, it suddenly appeared again.
1:17:30
Speaker 14: By the by, what became of the baby?
1:17:33
Speaker 1: said the cat.' I' d.
1:17:34
Speaker 14: Nearly forgotten to ask.
1:17:35
Speaker 2: It turned into a pig,'.
1:17:38
Speaker 1: Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back
1:17:40
Speaker 1: in a natural way.
1:17:41
Speaker 14: I thought it would.
1:17:44
Speaker 1: said the cat, and vanished again. Alice waited a little,
1:17:48
Speaker 1: half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear.
1:17:50
Speaker 1: and after a minute or two she walked on in
1:17:52
Speaker 1: the direction in which the March Hare was said to live.
1:17:54
Speaker 2: I' ve seen Hatters before,'.
1:17:57
Speaker 1: She said to herself.
1:17:58
Speaker 2: The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps,
1:18:02
Speaker 2: as this is May, it won't be raving mad, at
1:18:05
Speaker 2: least not so mad as it was in March.
1:18:07
Speaker 1: As she said this, she looked up, and there was
1:18:09
Speaker 1: the cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree.
1:18:11
Speaker 14: Did you say pig or fig?
1:18:15
Speaker 1: said the cat.
1:18:16
Speaker 2: I said pig,' replied Alice.' And I wish you wouldn't
1:18:20
Speaker 2: keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly. You make one quite giddy.
1:18:24
Speaker 1: All right, said the cat, and this time it vanished
1:18:28
Speaker 1: quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail and
1:18:31
Speaker 1: ending with the grin which remained some time after the
1:18:33
Speaker 1: rest of it had gone.
1:18:34
Speaker 2: Well, I've often seen a cat without a grin, thought Alice.
1:18:39
Speaker 2: But a grin without a cat? It's the most curious
1:18:41
Speaker 2: thing I ever saw in my life.
1:18:43
Speaker 1: She had not gone much farther before she came in
1:18:45
Speaker 1: sight of the house of the March Hare. She thought
1:18:47
Speaker 1: it must be the right house, because the chimney. were
1:18:50
Speaker 1: shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur.
1:18:53
Speaker 1: It was so large a house that she did not
1:18:54
Speaker 1: like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more
1:18:57
Speaker 1: of the left-hand bit of mushroom and raised herself to
1:18:59
Speaker 1: about two feet high. Even then she walked up towards
1:19:02
Speaker 1: it rather timidly, saying to herself, Suppose it.
1:19:05
Speaker 2: Should be raving mad after all. I almost wish I'd
1:19:08
Speaker 2: gone to see the Hatter instead.
1:19:10
Speaker 1: CHAPTER VII.
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Speaker 12: A MAD TEA-PARTY.
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Speaker 1: There was a table set out under a tree in
1:19:19
Speaker 1: front of the house, and the March Hare and the
1:19:21
Speaker 1: Hatter were having tea at it. A dormouse was sitting
1:19:41
Speaker 1: between them fast asleep, and the other two were using
1:19:43
Speaker 1: it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it and
1:19:46
Speaker 1: talking over its head.
1:19:47
Speaker 2: Very uncomfortable for the dormouse, thought Alice. Only, as it's asleep,
1:19:53
Speaker 2: I suppose it doesn't mind.
1:19:55
Speaker 1: The table was a large one, but the three were
1:19:57
Speaker 1: all crowded together at one corner of it.
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Speaker 17: No room!
1:20:00
Speaker 1: No room! They cried out when they saw Alice coming.
1:20:04
Speaker 2: There's plenty of room, said Alice indignantly.
1:20:08
Speaker 1: And she sat down in a large armchair at one
1:20:10
Speaker 1: end of the table.
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Speaker 17: Have some wine.
1:20:13
Speaker 1: The March Hare said, in an encouraging tone. Alice looked
1:20:16
Speaker 1: all round the table, but there was nothing on it
1:20:18
Speaker 1: but tea.
1:20:19
Speaker 2: I don't see any wine.
1:20:21
Speaker 1: She remarked. There isn't any, said the March Hare.
1:20:25
Speaker 2: Then it wasn't very civil of you to.
1:20:27
Speaker 1: Offer it, said Alice angrily.
1:20:30
Speaker 17: It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without
1:20:33
Speaker 17: being invited, said the March Hare.
1:20:36
Speaker 2: I didn't know it was your table.
1:20:38
Speaker 1: Said Alice.' It' s.
1:20:40
Speaker 2: Laid for a great many more than three.
1:20:41
Speaker 18: Your hair wants cutting,'.
1:20:44
Speaker 1: Said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for
1:20:46
Speaker 1: some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.
1:20:49
Speaker 2: You should learn not to make personal remarks,'.
1:20:53
Speaker 1: Alice said with some severity.
1:20:54
Speaker 2: It' s very rude.
1:20:56
Speaker 1: The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this,
1:20:59
Speaker 1: but all he said was,' Why.
1:21:01
Speaker 18: Is a raven like a writing-desk?'' Come, we shall.
1:21:05
Speaker 1: Have some fun now,' thought Alice.
1:21:08
Speaker 2: I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. I believe I can
1:21:12
Speaker 2: guess that.
1:21:13
Speaker 1: She added aloud.
1:21:14
Speaker 17: Do you mean that you think you can find out
1:21:17
Speaker 17: the answer to it?
1:21:18
Speaker 1: Said the March Hare.
1:21:20
Speaker 2: Exactly so, said Alice.
1:21:23
Speaker 17: Then you should say what you mean.
1:21:25
Speaker 1: The March Hare went on. I do, Alice hastily replied.
1:21:30
Speaker 2: At least, at least I mean what I say. That's
1:21:34
Speaker 2: the same thing, you know.
1:21:35
Speaker 18: Not the same thing a bit.
1:21:37
Speaker 1: Said the Hatter.
1:21:38
Speaker 18: You might just as well say that I see what
1:21:41
Speaker 18: I eat is the same thing as I eat what
1:21:43
Speaker 18: I see.
1:21:44
Speaker 1: You might just as well say, added the March Hare,
1:21:48
Speaker 1: that I like what I get is the same thing
1:21:52
Speaker 1: as I get what I like.
1:21:55
Speaker 16: You might just as well say.
1:21:57
Speaker 1: Added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep,
1:22:00
Speaker 1: that I.
1:22:01
Speaker 16: Breathe when I sleep is the same thing as I
1:22:05
Speaker 16: sleep when I breathe.
1:22:07
Speaker 18: It is the same thing with you.
1:22:10
Speaker 1: Said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped and the
1:22:13
Speaker 1: party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over
1:22:15
Speaker 1: all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.
1:22:20
Speaker 1: The Hatter was the first to break the silence.
1:22:22
Speaker 18: What day of the month is it?
1:22:24
Speaker 1: He said, turning to Alice. He had taken his watch
1:22:27
Speaker 1: out of his pocket and was looking at it uneasily,
1:22:29
Speaker 1: shaking it every now and then and holding it to
1:22:31
Speaker 1: his ear. Alice considered a little and then.
1:22:33
Speaker 2: Said, The fourth.
1:22:36
Speaker 18: Two days wrong.
1:22:37
Speaker 1: Sighed the Hatter.
1:22:38
Speaker 18: I told you butter wouldn't suit the works,' he added.
1:22:42
Speaker 1: Looking angrily at the March Hare.' It was the best butter,'
1:22:46
Speaker 1: the March Hare meekly replied.
1:22:48
Speaker 18: Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,'
1:22:52
Speaker 18: the Hatter grumbled.' You shouldn't have put it in with
1:22:55
Speaker 18: the bread-knife.'.
1:22:56
Speaker 1: The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily.
1:22:59
Speaker 1: Then he dipped it into his cup of tea and
1:23:00
Speaker 1: looked at it again, but he could think of nothing
1:23:02
Speaker 1: better to say than his first remark.' It was the
1:23:05
Speaker 1: best butter.' You know, Alice had been looking over his
1:23:09
Speaker 1: shoulder with some curiosity.
1:23:11
Speaker 2: What a funny watch, she remarked. It tells the day
1:23:15
Speaker 2: of the month and doesn't tell what o'clock it is.
1:23:18
Speaker 1: Why should it, muttered the Hatter.
1:23:20
Speaker 18: Does your watch tell you what year it is?
1:23:23
Speaker 1: Of course not, Alice replied very readily.
1:23:26
Speaker 2: But that's because it stays the same year for such
1:23:29
Speaker 2: a long time together.
1:23:30
Speaker 18: Which is just the case with.
1:23:32
Speaker 1: Mine, said the Hatter. Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's
1:23:36
Speaker 1: remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it,
1:23:39
Speaker 1: and yet it was certainly English.
1:23:41
Speaker 2: I don't quite understand you, she said, as politely as
1:23:44
Speaker 2: she could.
1:23:45
Speaker 18: The Dormouse is asleep again.
1:23:47
Speaker 1: Said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea
1:23:49
Speaker 1: upon its nose. The Dormouse shook its head impatiently and said,
1:23:53
Speaker 1: without opening its eyes.
1:23:55
Speaker 16: Of course, of course, just what I was going to
1:23:58
Speaker 16: remark myself.
1:24:00
Speaker 18: Have you guessed the riddle yet?
1:24:02
Speaker 1: The Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
1:24:03
Speaker 2: No, I give it up.
1:24:06
Speaker 1: Alice replied.
1:24:07
Speaker 2: What's the answer?
1:24:08
Speaker 18: I haven't the slightest.
1:24:10
Speaker 1: Idea, said the Hatter. Nor I, said the March Hare.
1:24:15
Speaker 1: Alice sighed wearily.
1:24:17
Speaker 2: I think you might do something better with the time,
1:24:20
Speaker 2: she said, than wasted in asking riddles that have no answers.
1:24:25
Speaker 18: If you knew time as well as I do, said
1:24:28
Speaker 18: the Hatter, you wouldn't talk about wasting it.
1:24:31
Speaker 3: It's him.
1:24:32
Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean.
1:24:35
Speaker 1: Said Alice.
1:24:36
Speaker 2: Of course you don't,'.
1:24:38
Speaker 1: The Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously.
1:24:41
Speaker 18: I dare say you never even spoke to time.
1:24:44
Speaker 2: Perhaps not,'.
1:24:46
Speaker 1: Alice cautiously replied.' But I.
1:24:48
Speaker 2: Know I have to beat time when I learn music.'' Ah,
1:24:52
Speaker 2: that accounts.
1:24:53
Speaker 1: For it,' said the Hatter.
1:24:54
Speaker 18: He won't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on
1:24:59
Speaker 18: good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked
1:25:02
Speaker 18: with the clock. For instance—' Suppose it were nine o'clock
1:25:05
Speaker 18: in the morning, just time to begin lessons. You'd only
1:25:08
Speaker 18: have to whisper a hint a time, and round goes
1:25:11
Speaker 18: the clock in a twinkling. Half-past one, time for dinner.
1:25:15
Speaker 17: I only wish it was.
1:25:17
Speaker 1: The March Hare said to itself in a whisper.
1:25:20
Speaker 2: That would be grand, certainly, said Alice thoughtfully. But then
1:25:26
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be hungry for it, you know.
1:25:29
Speaker 1: Not at first, perhaps, said the Hatter.
1:25:32
Speaker 18: But you could keep it to half-past one as long
1:25:34
Speaker 18: as you liked.
1:25:36
Speaker 2: Is that the way you manage?
1:25:38
Speaker 1: Alice asked. The Hatter shook his head mournfully. Not I,
1:25:43
Speaker 1: he replied.
1:25:44
Speaker 18: We quarreled last March, just before he went mad, you know.
1:25:48
Speaker 1: Pointing with his teaspoon at the March Hare.
1:25:51
Speaker 18: It was at the great concert given by the Queen
1:25:53
Speaker 18: of Hearts, and I had to sing. Twinkle, twinkle, little bat,
1:25:58
Speaker 18: how I wonder what you're at.' Twinkle, twinkle, little bat,
1:26:04
Speaker 18: how I wonder what you're at. You know the song, perhaps?
1:26:08
Speaker 2: I' ve heard something like it,' said Alice.
1:26:12
Speaker 1: It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued.' In this way.
1:26:17
Speaker 18: Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in
1:26:21
Speaker 18: the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, up above the world you fly,
1:26:27
Speaker 18: like a tea-tray in the sky.
1:26:31
Speaker 22: Twinkle, twinkle!
1:26:33
Speaker 1: Here the Dormouse shook itself and began singing in its sleep.
1:26:36
Speaker 16: Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle!
1:26:41
Speaker 1: And went on so long that they had to pinch
1:26:43
Speaker 1: it to make it stop.
1:26:44
Speaker 18: Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse.
1:26:47
Speaker 1: said the Hatter.
1:26:48
Speaker 2: When the Queen.
1:26:49
Speaker 18: Jumped up and bawled out, he's murdering the time, off
1:26:52
Speaker 18: with his head!
1:26:53
Speaker 2: How dreadfully savage!
1:26:56
Speaker 1: exclaimed Alice.
1:26:57
Speaker 11: And ever since that!
1:26:59
Speaker 1: The Hatter went on in a mournful tone.
1:27:02
Speaker 18: He won't do a thing I ask. It's always six
1:27:05
Speaker 18: o'clock now.
1:27:06
Speaker 1: A bright idea came into Alice's head.
1:27:08
Speaker 2: Is that the reason so many tea things are put
1:27:11
Speaker 2: out here?
1:27:12
Speaker 12: She asked.
1:27:13
Speaker 1: Yes, that's it, said the Hatter with a sigh.
1:27:17
Speaker 18: It's always tea time, and we've no time to wash
1:27:20
Speaker 18: the things between whiles.
1:27:22
Speaker 2: Then you keep moving round, I.
1:27:24
Speaker 1: Suppose, said Alice. Exactly so, said the Hatter.
1:27:30
Speaker 18: As the things get used up.
1:27:32
Speaker 2: But what happens when you come to the beginning again?
1:27:35
Speaker 1: Alice ventured to ask.
1:27:38
Speaker 17: Suppose we change the subject.
1:27:41
Speaker 1: The March Hare interrupted, yawning.
1:27:42
Speaker 17: I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady
1:27:47
Speaker 17: tells us a story.
1:27:49
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I don't know one.
1:27:51
Speaker 1: Said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal.
1:27:54
Speaker 18: Then the Dormouse shall.
1:27:55
Speaker 1: They both cried.
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Speaker 18: Wake up, Dormouse!
1:27:58
Speaker 1: And they pinched it on both sides at once. The
1:28:01
Speaker 1: Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. I wasn't asleep, he said
1:28:06
Speaker 1: in a hoarse, feeble voice.
1:28:09
Speaker 16: I heard every word you fellows were saying.
1:28:12
Speaker 1: Tell us a story, said the March Hare.
1:28:16
Speaker 2: Yes, please do, pleaded Alice. And be quick about it,
1:28:20
Speaker 2: added the.
1:28:21
Speaker 18: Hatter, or you will be asleep again before it's done.
1:28:24
Speaker 1: Once upon a time there were three little sisters, The
1:28:27
Speaker 1: Dormouse began in a great hurry.
1:28:29
Speaker 16: And their names were Elsie, Lacey, and Tilly, and they
1:28:33
Speaker 16: lived at the bottom of a well.
1:28:34
Speaker 2: What did they live on?
1:28:37
Speaker 1: said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions
1:28:39
Speaker 1: of eating and drinking.
1:28:40
Speaker 16: They lived on treacle.
1:28:43
Speaker 1: Said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or two.
1:28:45
Speaker 2: They couldn't have done that, you know, Alice gently remarked.
1:28:49
Speaker 2: They'd have been ill.
1:28:51
Speaker 1: So they were, said the Dormouse.
1:28:54
Speaker 16: Very ill.
1:28:56
Speaker 1: Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary
1:28:59
Speaker 1: ways of living would be like, but it puzzled her
1:29:01
Speaker 1: too much, so she went on.
1:29:02
Speaker 2: But why did they live at the bottom of a well?
1:29:05
Speaker 1: Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice
1:29:08
Speaker 1: very earnestly.
1:29:09
Speaker 2: I' ve had nothing.
1:29:11
Speaker 1: Yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone.
1:29:14
Speaker 2: So I can't take more?
1:29:15
Speaker 18: You mean you can't take less?
1:29:18
Speaker 1: said the Hatter.' It' s.
1:29:19
Speaker 18: Very easy to take more than nothing.
1:29:21
Speaker 2: Nobody asked your opinion,' said Alice.
1:29:25
Speaker 18: Who's making personal remarks now?
1:29:28
Speaker 1: The Hatter asked triumphantly. Alice did not quite know what
1:29:31
Speaker 1: to say to this, so she helped herself to some
1:29:34
Speaker 1: tea and bread and butter, and then turned to the
1:29:36
Speaker 1: Dormouse and repeated her question.
1:29:38
Speaker 2: Why did they live at the bottom of a well?
1:29:40
Speaker 1: The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think
1:29:42
Speaker 1: about it, and then said, It.
1:29:45
Speaker 16: Was a treacle well.
1:29:47
Speaker 2: There's no such thing.
1:29:49
Speaker 1: Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the
1:29:52
Speaker 1: March Hare went and the Dormouse sulkily remarked,' If.
1:29:58
Speaker 16: You can't be civil, you'd better finish this story for yourself.
1:30:02
Speaker 2: No, please go.
1:30:04
Speaker 1: On,' Alice said very humbly.
1:30:06
Speaker 2: I won't interrupt again. I dare say there may be one.
1:30:11
Speaker 1: One, indeed,' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he consented to
1:30:17
Speaker 1: go on.
1:30:17
Speaker 16: And so these three little sisters, they were learning to draw,
1:30:23
Speaker 16: you know.
1:30:23
Speaker 2: What did they draw?
1:30:26
Speaker 1: said Alice, quite forgetting her promise.' Jaco,' said the Dormouse,
1:30:30
Speaker 1: without considering at all this time.' I want a clean cup,'
1:30:33
Speaker 1: interrupted the Hatter.
1:30:34
Speaker 18: Let' s all move one place on.
1:30:37
Speaker 1: He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him.
1:30:40
Speaker 1: The March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice,
1:30:42
Speaker 1: rather unwillingly, took the place of the March Hare. The
1:30:45
Speaker 1: Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from
1:30:47
Speaker 1: the change, and Alice was a good deal worse off
1:30:50
Speaker 1: than before, as the March Hare had just upset the
1:30:52
Speaker 1: milk-jug into his plate. Alice did not wish to offend
1:30:55
Speaker 1: the Dormouse again, so she began very cautiously.
1:30:58
Speaker 2: But I don't understand. Where did they draw the treacle from?
1:31:03
Speaker 18: You can draw water out of a water well, said
1:31:06
Speaker 18: the Hatter. So I should think you could draw treacle
1:31:09
Speaker 18: out of a treacle well.
1:31:10
Speaker 11: Eh, stupid?
1:31:12
Speaker 2: But they were in the well.
1:31:14
Speaker 1: Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to notice this
1:31:16
Speaker 1: last remark. Of course they were, said the Dormouse.
1:31:21
Speaker 8: Well in.
1:31:23
Speaker 1: This answer so confused poor Alice that she let the
1:31:26
Speaker 1: Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it.
1:31:28
Speaker 16: They were learning to draw.
1:31:31
Speaker 1: The Dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for
1:31:34
Speaker 1: it was getting very sleepy.
1:31:36
Speaker 16: And they drew all manner of things, everything that begins
1:31:42
Speaker 16: with an M.
1:31:44
Speaker 2: Why with an M?
1:31:46
Speaker 12: Said Alice.
1:31:47
Speaker 1: Why not? said the March Hare. Alice was silent. The
1:31:51
Speaker 1: Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time and was
1:31:54
Speaker 1: going off into a doze, but on being pinched by
1:31:56
Speaker 1: the Hatter it woke up again with a little shriek
1:31:59
Speaker 1: and went on. Eek!
1:32:01
Speaker 2: Eek! Eek!
1:32:03
Speaker 16: That begins with an N, such as mousetraps and the moon,
1:32:10
Speaker 16: and memory and muchness. You know you say things are
1:32:16
Speaker 16: much of a muchnesser. Did you ever see such a
1:32:19
Speaker 16: thing as a drawing of a muchness?
1:32:22
Speaker 1: Really, now you ask me, said Alice, very much confused.
1:32:28
Speaker 2: I don't think.
1:32:29
Speaker 1: Then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. This piece of
1:32:33
Speaker 1: rudeness was more than Alice could bear. She got up
1:32:35
Speaker 1: in great disgust and walked off. The Dormouse fell asleep instantly,
1:32:39
Speaker 1: and neither of the others took the least notice of
1:32:41
Speaker 1: her going, though she looked back once or twice, half
1:32:43
Speaker 1: hoping that they would call after her. The last time
1:32:46
Speaker 1: she saw them, they were trying to put the dormouse
1:32:48
Speaker 1: into the teapot.
1:32:49
Speaker 2: At any rate, I'll never go there again.
1:32:52
Speaker 1: said Alice as she picked her way through the wood.
1:32:54
Speaker 2: It' s the stupidest tea party I ever was at in
1:32:57
Speaker 2: all my life.
1:32:59
Speaker 1: Just as she said this, she noticed that one of
1:33:00
Speaker 1: the trees had a door leading right into it.
1:33:02
Speaker 2: That' s very curious,' she thought.
1:33:05
Speaker 20: But everything's curious today.
1:33:08
Speaker 2: I think I may as well go in at once.
1:33:11
Speaker 1: And in she went. Once more she found herself in
1:33:14
Speaker 1: the long hall, and close to the little glass table.
1:33:16
Speaker 2: Now I'll manage better.
1:33:19
Speaker 1: This time,' she said to herself, and began by taking
1:33:22
Speaker 1: the little golden key and unlocking the door that led
1:33:24
Speaker 1: into the garden. Then she went to work nibbling at
1:33:27
Speaker 1: the mushroom— she had kept a piece of it in her
1:33:29
Speaker 1: pocket— till she was about a foot high. Then she walked
1:33:32
Speaker 1: down the little passage, and then she found herself at
1:33:35
Speaker 1: last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and
1:33:39
Speaker 1: the cool fountains. CHAPTER VIII.
1:33:42
Speaker 12: THE QUEEN'S.
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Speaker 1: CROQUET GROUND A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of
1:33:51
Speaker 1: the garden. The roses growing on it were white, but
1:34:11
Speaker 1: there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red.
1:34:14
Speaker 1: Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went
1:34:16
Speaker 1: nearer to watch them, and just as she came up
1:34:18
Speaker 1: to them she heard one of them say,' Look.
1:34:21
Speaker 5: Out now, Five. Don't go splashing paint over me like that.
1:34:24
Speaker 19: I couldn't help it.
1:34:26
Speaker 1: said Five in a sulky tone.
1:34:27
Speaker 19: Seven jogged my elbow,'.
1:34:30
Speaker 1: On which Seven looked up and said,' That' s right, Five.
1:34:33
Speaker 1: Always lay the blame on others.
1:34:35
Speaker 19: You' d better not talk,' said Five.' I heard the queen
1:34:39
Speaker 19: say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded.'' What for?
1:34:43
Speaker 1: said the one who had spoken first.' That' s none of
1:34:46
Speaker 1: your business, too,' said Seven.' Yes, it is his business,'
1:34:51
Speaker 1: said Five.
1:34:52
Speaker 19: And I'll tell him. It was for bringing the cook
1:34:55
Speaker 19: tulip-fruits instead of onions.
1:34:57
Speaker 1: Seven flung down his brush and had just begun,'.
1:35:00
Speaker 15: Well, of all the unjust things,'.
1:35:03
Speaker 1: When his eye chanced to fall upon Alice as she
1:35:05
Speaker 1: stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly. The others
1:35:08
Speaker 1: looked round also, and all of them bowed low.
1:35:11
Speaker 2: Would you tell me?
1:35:12
Speaker 1: Said Alice a little timidly.
1:35:14
Speaker 2: Why you are painting those roses?
1:35:17
Speaker 1: Five and Seven said nothing but looked at Two. Two
1:35:20
Speaker 1: began in a low voice.
1:35:22
Speaker 5: Why, the fact is, you see, miss, this here ought
1:35:24
Speaker 5: to have been a red rose tree, and we put
1:35:27
Speaker 5: the white one in by mistake, and if the Queen
1:35:29
Speaker 5: was to find it out, we should all have our
1:35:31
Speaker 5: heads cut off, you know. So you see, miss, we
1:35:34
Speaker 5: are doing our best before she comes to.
1:35:36
Speaker 1: At this moment five who had been anxiously looking across
1:35:38
Speaker 1: the garden.
1:35:39
Speaker 13: Called out, The Queen!
1:35:41
Speaker 19: The Queen!
1:35:42
Speaker 1: And the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat upon their faces.
1:35:46
Speaker 1: There was a sound of many footsteps, and Alice looked round,
1:35:49
Speaker 1: eager to see the Queen. First came ten soldiers carrying clubs.
1:35:53
Speaker 1: These were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat,
1:35:56
Speaker 1: with their hands and feet at the corners. Next the
1:35:58
Speaker 1: ten courtiers. These were ornamented all over with diamonds, and
1:36:02
Speaker 1: walked two and two as the soldiers did. After these
1:36:05
Speaker 1: came the royal children. There were ten of them, and
1:36:08
Speaker 1: the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand
1:36:10
Speaker 1: in couples. They were all ornamented with hearts. Next came
1:36:14
Speaker 1: the guests, mostly kings and queens, and among them Alice
1:36:17
Speaker 1: recognized the white rabbit. It was talking in a hurried,
1:36:20
Speaker 1: nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went
1:36:23
Speaker 1: by without noticing her. Then followed the knave of hearts,
1:36:27
Speaker 1: carrying the king's crown on a crimson velvet cushion, and
1:36:30
Speaker 1: last of all this grand procession came the king and
1:36:33
Speaker 1: queen of hearts. Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought
1:36:36
Speaker 1: not to lie down on her face like the three gardeners,
1:36:39
Speaker 1: but she could not remember ever having heard of such
1:36:41
Speaker 1: a rule at processions.
1:36:43
Speaker 2: And besides, what would be the use of a procession,
1:36:46
Speaker 2: thought she, if people had all to lie down upon
1:36:49
Speaker 2: their faces, so that they couldn't see it?
1:36:52
Speaker 1: So she stood still where she was and waited. When
1:36:55
Speaker 1: the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and
1:36:58
Speaker 1: looked at her, and the queen said severely, Who is this?
1:37:01
Speaker 1: She said it to the knave of hearts, who only
1:37:03
Speaker 1: bowed and smiled in reply. Idiot, said the queen, tossing
1:37:07
Speaker 1: her head impatiently, and turning to Alice she went on.
1:37:11
Speaker 22: What's your name, child?
1:37:12
Speaker 2: My name is Alice, so please your.
1:37:15
Speaker 1: Majesty, said Alice very politely, but she added to herself.
1:37:19
Speaker 2: Why, they're only a pack of cards, after all. I
1:37:23
Speaker 2: needn't be afraid of them.
1:37:25
Speaker 22: And who are these?
1:37:27
Speaker 1: Said the queen, pointing to the three gardeners who were
1:37:30
Speaker 1: lying round the rose-tree. For, you see, as they were
1:37:32
Speaker 1: lying on their faces and the pattern on their backs
1:37:34
Speaker 1: was the same as the rest of the pack, she
1:37:36
Speaker 1: could not tell whether they were gardeners or soldiers or
1:37:38
Speaker 1: courtiers or three of her own children.
1:37:40
Speaker 2: How should I know?
1:37:43
Speaker 1: said Alice, surprised at her own courage.
1:37:44
Speaker 2: It' s no business of mine.
1:37:47
Speaker 1: The queen turned crimson with fury, and after glaring at
1:37:51
Speaker 1: her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed,' Off.
1:37:54
Speaker 3: With her head!
1:37:56
Speaker 19: Off!
1:37:57
Speaker 2: Nonsense!
1:37:59
Speaker 1: said Alice very loudly and decidedly, and the queen was silent.
1:38:03
Speaker 1: The king laid his hand upon her arm and timidly.
1:38:05
Speaker 13: Said, Consider, my dear, she is only a child.
1:38:10
Speaker 1: The queen turned angrily away from him and said to
1:38:12
Speaker 1: the knave, Turn them over. The knave did so very
1:38:16
Speaker 1: carefully with one foot. Get up, said the queen in
1:38:19
Speaker 1: a shrill loud voice, and the three gardeners instantly jumped
1:38:22
Speaker 1: up and began bowing to the king, the queen, the
1:38:25
Speaker 1: royal children, and everybody else.
1:38:27
Speaker 8: Leave off that.
1:38:28
Speaker 1: Screamed the queen.' You make me giddy!' And then, turning
1:38:32
Speaker 1: to the rose-tree, she went on.
1:38:34
Speaker 22: What have you been doing here?
1:38:36
Speaker 5: Made please your majesty,'.
1:38:38
Speaker 1: Said two in a very humble tone, going down on
1:38:41
Speaker 1: one knee as he spoke.
1:38:43
Speaker 5: I see,'.
1:38:45
Speaker 1: Said the queen, who had meanwhile been examining the roses.'
1:38:48
Speaker 1: Off with the heads!' And the procession moved on, three
1:38:52
Speaker 1: of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners,
1:38:55
Speaker 1: who ran to Alice for protection.
1:38:57
Speaker 2: You shan't be beheaded.
1:38:59
Speaker 1: Said Alice, and she put them into a large flowerpot
1:39:01
Speaker 1: that stood near. The three soldiers wandered about for a
1:39:04
Speaker 1: minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly marched
1:39:07
Speaker 1: off after the others.
1:39:08
Speaker 8: Are the heads off?
1:39:10
Speaker 1: Shouted the queen.
1:39:11
Speaker 15: The heads are gone, if it please your majesty.
1:39:14
Speaker 1: The soldiers shouted in reply. That's right, shouted the queen.
1:39:19
Speaker 8: Can you play croquet?
1:39:22
Speaker 1: The soldiers were silent and looked at Alice, as the
1:39:24
Speaker 1: question was evidently meant for her. Yes, shouted Alice. Come on, then,
1:39:31
Speaker 1: roared the queen, and Alice joined the procession, wondering very
1:39:34
Speaker 1: much what would happen next.
1:39:36
Speaker 3: It's a very fine day.
1:39:39
Speaker 1: Said a timid voice at her side. She was walking
1:39:41
Speaker 1: by the white rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face. Very,
1:39:46
Speaker 1: said Alice.
1:39:47
Speaker 2: Where's the duchess?
1:39:49
Speaker 1: Hush, hush, said the rabbit in a low, hurried tone.
1:39:52
Speaker 1: He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and
1:39:55
Speaker 1: then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to
1:39:58
Speaker 1: her ear, and whispered.
1:39:59
Speaker 3: She's under sentence of execution.
1:40:02
Speaker 2: What for?
1:40:04
Speaker 1: Said Alice.
1:40:05
Speaker 3: Did you say, what a pity?
1:40:07
Speaker 1: The rabbit asked.
1:40:08
Speaker 2: No, I didn't, said Alice. I don't think it's at
1:40:12
Speaker 2: all a pity. I said, what for?
1:40:15
Speaker 3: She boxed the queen's ears.
1:40:19
Speaker 1: The rabbit began. Alice gave a little scream of laughter.
1:40:23
Speaker 3: Oh, hush!
1:40:24
Speaker 1: The rabbit whispered in a frightened tone.
1:40:27
Speaker 3: The queen will hear you. You see, she came rather late,
1:40:30
Speaker 3: and the queen said, Get to your places!
1:40:34
Speaker 1: Shouted the queen in a voice of thunder, and people
1:40:36
Speaker 1: began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other. However,
1:40:40
Speaker 1: they got settled down in a minute or two, and
1:40:42
Speaker 1: the game began. Alice thought she had never seen such
1:40:45
Speaker 1: a curious croquet ground in her life. It was all
1:40:48
Speaker 1: ridges and furrows. The balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets
1:40:51
Speaker 1: live flamingos, and the soldiers had to double themselves up
1:40:54
Speaker 1: and to stand on their hands and feet to make
1:40:56
Speaker 1: the arches. The chief difficulty Alice found at first was
1:40:59
Speaker 1: in managing her flamingo. She succeeded in getting its body
1:41:03
Speaker 1: tucked away comfortably enough under her arm, with its legs
1:41:06
Speaker 1: hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its
1:41:08
Speaker 1: neck nicely straightened out and was going to give the
1:41:10
Speaker 1: hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself
1:41:13
Speaker 1: round and look up in her face. with such a
1:41:16
Speaker 1: puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing.
1:41:19
Speaker 1: And when she had got its head down and was
1:41:21
Speaker 1: going to begin again, it was very provoking to find
1:41:23
Speaker 1: that the hedgehog had unrolled itself and was in the
1:41:25
Speaker 1: act of crawling away. Besides all this, there was generally
1:41:28
Speaker 1: a ridge or furrow in the way, wherever she wanted
1:41:31
Speaker 1: to send the hedgehog to, and as the doubled-up soldiers
1:41:33
Speaker 1: were always getting up and walking off to other parts
1:41:36
Speaker 1: of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that
1:41:38
Speaker 1: it was a very difficult game indeed. The players all
1:41:42
Speaker 1: played at once, without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while,
1:41:45
Speaker 1: and fighting for the hedgehogs, and in a very short
1:41:47
Speaker 1: time the queen was in a furious passion, and went
1:41:50
Speaker 1: stamping about and shouting.
1:41:52
Speaker 2: Off with his head!
1:41:54
Speaker 22: Or Off with her head!
1:41:56
Speaker 1: About once in a minute. Alice began to feel very uneasy.
1:42:00
Speaker 1: To be sure, she had not as yet had any
1:42:02
Speaker 1: dispute with the queen, but she knew that it might
1:42:04
Speaker 1: happen any minute.
1:42:05
Speaker 2: And then, thought she, what would become of me? They're
1:42:09
Speaker 2: dreadfully fond of beheading people here. The great wonder is
1:42:13
Speaker 2: that there's anyone left alive.
1:42:15
Speaker 1: She was looking about for some way of escape, and
1:42:18
Speaker 1: wondering whether she could get away without being seen, when
1:42:20
Speaker 1: she noticed a curious appearance in the air. It puzzled
1:42:23
Speaker 1: her very much at first, but after watching it a
1:42:25
Speaker 1: minute or two, she made it out to be a grin,
1:42:27
Speaker 1: and she said to herself.
1:42:29
Speaker 2: It's the Cheshire Cat. Now I shall have somebody to
1:42:32
Speaker 2: talk to.
1:42:34
Speaker 8: How are you getting on?
1:42:36
Speaker 1: Said the cat, as soon as there was mouth enough
1:42:38
Speaker 1: for it to speak with. Alice waited till the eyes appeared,
1:42:41
Speaker 1: and then nodded.
1:42:42
Speaker 2: It' s no use speaking to it,' she thought,' till its
1:42:46
Speaker 2: ears have come, or at least one of them.
1:42:49
Speaker 1: In another minute the whole head appeared, and then Alice
1:42:52
Speaker 1: put down her flamingo and began an account of the game,
1:42:54
Speaker 1: feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her.
1:42:57
Speaker 1: The cat seemed to think that there was enough of
1:42:59
Speaker 1: it now in sight, and no more of it appeared.
1:43:01
Speaker 2: I don't think they play at all fairly,'.
1:43:04
Speaker 1: Alice began in rather a complaining tone.
1:43:07
Speaker 2: And they all quarrel so dreadfully, one can't hear oneself speak.
1:43:11
Speaker 2: And they don't seem to have any rules in particular.
1:43:14
Speaker 2: At least, if there are, nobody attends to them. And
1:43:19
Speaker 2: you've no idea how confusing it is, all the things
1:43:22
Speaker 2: being alive. For instance, there's the arch I've got to
1:43:25
Speaker 2: go through next, walking about at the other end of
1:43:28
Speaker 2: the ground. And I should have croqueted the queen's hedgehog
1:43:31
Speaker 2: just now. Only it ran away when it saw mine coming.
1:43:35
Speaker 14: How do you like the queen?
1:43:38
Speaker 1: SAID THE CAT IN A LOW VOICE.
1:43:40
Speaker 2: NOT AT ALL, SAID ALICE. SHE'S SO EXTREMELY.
1:43:45
Speaker 1: JUST THEN SHE NOTICED THAT THE QUEEN WAS CLOSE BEHIND
1:43:47
Speaker 1: HER LISTENING, SO SHE WENT ON.
1:43:49
Speaker 2: LIKELY TO WIN, THAT IT'S HARDLY WORTHWHILE FINISHING THE GAME.
1:43:53
Speaker 1: THE QUEEN SMILED AND PASSED ON.
1:43:56
Speaker 13: WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?
1:43:58
Speaker 1: SAID THE KING, GOING UP TO ALICE AND LOOKING AT
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Speaker 1: THE CAT'S HEAD WITH GREAT CURIOSITY.
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Speaker 2: IT'S A FRIEND OF MINE, A CHESHIRE CAT, SAID ALICE.'
1:44:07
Speaker 2: Allow me to introduce it.
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Speaker 13: I don't like the look of it at all,' said
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Speaker 13: the king.
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Speaker 1: However, it may.
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Speaker 13: Kiss my hand if it likes.
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Speaker 8: I' d rather not,' the cat remarked.
1:44:19
Speaker 13: Don' t be impertinent,'.
1:44:21
Speaker 1: Said the king.
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Speaker 13: And don't look at me like that.
1:44:25
Speaker 1: He got behind Alice as he spoke.
1:44:26
Speaker 2: A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
1:44:30
Speaker 1: I' ve.
1:44:30
Speaker 2: Read that in some book, but I don't remember where.
1:44:33
Speaker 13: Well, it must be removed.
1:44:36
Speaker 1: said the king very decidedly, and he called the queen
1:44:38
Speaker 1: who was passing at the moment.
1:44:40
Speaker 13: My dear, I wish you would have this catch removed.
1:44:43
Speaker 1: The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties,
1:44:46
Speaker 1: great or small. Off with his head, she said, without
1:44:49
Speaker 1: even looking round.
1:44:51
Speaker 13: I'll fetch the executioner myself.
1:44:53
Speaker 1: Said the king eagerly, and he hurried off. Alice thought
1:44:56
Speaker 1: she might as well go back and see how the
1:44:58
Speaker 1: game was going on, as she heard the queen's voice
1:45:00
Speaker 1: in the distance screaming with passion. She had already heard
1:45:03
Speaker 1: her sentence three of the players to be executed for
1:45:05
Speaker 1: having missed their turns, and she did not like the
1:45:08
Speaker 1: look of things at all, as the game was in
1:45:09
Speaker 1: such confusion that she never knew whether it was her
1:45:11
Speaker 1: turn or not. So she went in search of her hedgehog.
1:45:15
Speaker 1: The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog,
1:45:18
Speaker 1: which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croquetting one
1:45:20
Speaker 1: of them with the other. The only difficulty was that
1:45:23
Speaker 1: her flamingo was gone across to the other side of
1:45:25
Speaker 1: the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a
1:45:27
Speaker 1: helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.
1:45:30
Speaker 1: By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought
1:45:32
Speaker 1: it back, The fight was over, and both the hedgehogs
1:45:34
Speaker 1: were out of sight.
1:45:35
Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter much,'.
1:45:38
Speaker 1: Thought Alice,' as.
1:45:39
Speaker 2: All the archers are gone from this side of the ground.
1:45:42
Speaker 1: So she tucked it away under her arm that it
1:45:44
Speaker 1: might not escape again, and went back for a little
1:45:46
Speaker 1: more conversation with her friend. When she got back to
1:45:48
Speaker 1: the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a
1:45:51
Speaker 1: large crowd collected round it. There was a dispute going
1:45:54
Speaker 1: on between the executioner, the king, and the queen, who
1:45:57
Speaker 1: were all talking at once, while all the rest were
1:45:59
Speaker 1: quite silent and looked very uncomfortable.' The moment Alice appeared,
1:46:03
Speaker 1: she was appealed to by all three to settle the question,
1:46:06
Speaker 1: and they repeated their arguments to her. Though, as they
1:46:09
Speaker 1: all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed
1:46:11
Speaker 1: to make out exactly what they said. The executioner's argument
1:46:15
Speaker 1: was that you couldn't cut off a head unless there
1:46:17
Speaker 1: was a body to cut it off from, that he
1:46:19
Speaker 1: had never had to do such a thing before, and
1:46:21
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to begin at his time of life.
1:46:24
Speaker 1: The king's argument was that anything that had a head
1:46:27
Speaker 1: could be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.
1:46:30
Speaker 1: The queen's argument was that if something wasn't done about
1:46:32
Speaker 1: it in less than no time, she'd have everybody executed
1:46:35
Speaker 1: all round. It was this last remark that had made
1:46:38
Speaker 1: the whole party look so grave and anxious. Alice could
1:46:41
Speaker 1: think of nothing else to say but,'.
1:46:42
Speaker 2: It belongs to the duchess. You'd better ask her about it.
1:46:47
Speaker 22: She' s in prison,'.
1:46:49
Speaker 1: The queen said to the executioner.
1:46:51
Speaker 22: Fetch her here.
1:46:53
Speaker 1: And the executioner went off like an arrow. The cat's
1:46:55
Speaker 1: head began fading away the moment he was gone. and
1:46:58
Speaker 1: by the time he had come back with the Duchess
1:47:00
Speaker 1: it had entirely disappeared, so the King and the Executioner
1:47:03
Speaker 1: ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the
1:47:05
Speaker 1: rest of the party went back to the game. CHAPTER IX.
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Speaker 1: OF ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. By Lewis Carroll. This is
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Speaker 1: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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Speaker 1: For more information, or to volunteer, Please visit LibriVox.org. Chapter 9.
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Speaker 1: The Mock Turtle's Story.
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Speaker 15: You can't think how glad I am to see you again,
1:47:38
Speaker 15: you dear old.
1:47:39
Speaker 1: Thing, said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately
1:47:42
Speaker 1: into Alice's and they walked off together. Alice was very
1:47:45
Speaker 1: glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and
1:47:48
Speaker 1: thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper
1:47:50
Speaker 1: that had made her so savage when they met in
1:47:51
Speaker 1: the kitchen.
1:47:52
Speaker 2: When I'm a Duchess, she.
1:47:54
Speaker 1: Said to herself, not in a very hopeful tone, though, I.
1:47:57
Speaker 2: Won't have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup
1:48:00
Speaker 2: does very well without. Maybe it's always pepper that makes
1:48:04
Speaker 2: people hot-tempered.
1:48:05
Speaker 1: She went on, very much pleased at having found out
1:48:08
Speaker 1: a new kind of rule.
1:48:09
Speaker 2: And vinegar that makes them sour, and chamomile that makes
1:48:12
Speaker 2: them bitter, and barley sugar and such things that make
1:48:16
Speaker 2: children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that. She had
1:48:10
Speaker 2: quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a
1:48:12
Speaker 2: little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear.
1:48:15
Speaker 2: You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you
1:48:16
Speaker 2: forget to talk.
1:48:33
Speaker 15: I can't tell you just now what the moral of
1:48:36
Speaker 15: that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.
1:48:39
Speaker 1: Perhaps it hasn't one, Alice ventured to remark. Tut-tut, child,
1:48:43
Speaker 1: said the Duchess.
1:48:45
Speaker 15: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
1:48:48
Speaker 1: And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as
1:48:51
Speaker 1: she spoke. Alice did not much like keeping so close
1:48:54
Speaker 1: to her, first because the Duchess was very ugly, and
1:48:57
Speaker 1: secondly— because she was exactly the right height to rest
1:49:00
Speaker 1: her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably
1:49:03
Speaker 1: sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude,
1:49:06
Speaker 1: so she bore it as well as she could.
1:49:08
Speaker 2: The game's going on rather better now.
1:49:10
Speaker 1: She said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little.
1:49:13
Speaker 15: Tis so, said the Duchess, and the moral of that is, Oh,
1:49:18
Speaker 15: tis love, tis love that makes the world go round.
1:49:23
Speaker 2: Somebody said, Alice whispered, that it's done by everybody minding
1:49:28
Speaker 2: their own business.
1:49:29
Speaker 15: Ah, well, it means much the same thing.
1:49:32
Speaker 1: Said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice's
1:49:35
Speaker 1: shoulder as she added.
1:49:36
Speaker 15: And the moral of that is, take care of the
1:49:40
Speaker 15: sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
1:49:44
Speaker 2: How fond she is of finding morals in things, Alice
1:49:48
Speaker 2: thought to herself.
1:49:49
Speaker 15: I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my
1:49:53
Speaker 15: arm round your waist.
1:49:55
Speaker 1: The Duchess said after a pause.
1:49:57
Speaker 15: The reason is that I'm doubtful about the temper of
1:50:00
Speaker 15: your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
1:50:05
Speaker 2: He might bite.
1:50:06
Speaker 1: Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious to have
1:50:09
Speaker 1: the experiment tried. Very true, said the Duchess.
1:50:13
Speaker 15: Flamingos and mustard both bite. And the moral of that
1:50:19
Speaker 15: is birds of a feather flock together.
1:50:23
Speaker 2: Only mustard isn't a bird.
1:50:25
Speaker 1: Alice remarked. Right as usual, said the Duchess.
1:50:29
Speaker 15: What a clear way you have of putting things.
1:50:32
Speaker 2: It's a mineral, I think, said Alice.
1:50:36
Speaker 15: Of course it is.
1:50:37
Speaker 1: Said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything
1:50:39
Speaker 1: that Alice said.
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Speaker 15: There's a large mustard mine near here, and the moral
1:50:44
Speaker 15: of that is, the more there is of mine, the
1:50:48
Speaker 15: less there is of yours.
1:50:50
Speaker 1: Oh, I know, exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to
1:50:53
Speaker 1: this last remark.
1:50:55
Speaker 2: It's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it is.
1:50:58
Speaker 1: I quite agree with you, said the Duchess.
1:51:02
Speaker 15: And the moral of that is, be what you would
1:51:05
Speaker 15: seem to be, or, if you'd like to put it
1:51:08
Speaker 15: more simply, never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than
1:51:12
Speaker 15: what it might appear to others that what you were
1:51:15
Speaker 15: or might have been was not otherwise than what you
1:51:18
Speaker 15: had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
1:51:22
Speaker 2: I think I should understand that better.
1:51:25
Speaker 1: Alice said very politely.
1:51:26
Speaker 2: If I had it written down. But I can't quite
1:51:29
Speaker 2: follow it as you say it.
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Speaker 15: That' s nothing to what I could say if I chose,'.
1:51:35
Speaker 1: The Duchess replied in a pleased tone.
1:51:37
Speaker 2: Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,'
1:51:41
Speaker 2: said Alice.
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Speaker 15: Oh, don't talk about trouble,' said the Duchess.' I make
1:51:45
Speaker 15: you a present of everything I've said as yet.
1:51:48
Speaker 2: A cheap sort of present,' thought Alice.
1:51:51
Speaker 3: I' m.
1:51:51
Speaker 2: Glad they don't give birthday presents like that.
1:51:54
Speaker 1: but she did not venture to say.
1:51:55
Speaker 13: It out loud.
1:51:56
Speaker 15: Thinking again?
1:51:58
Speaker 1: The Duchess asked with another dig of her sharp little chin.
1:52:01
Speaker 2: I've a right to think.
1:52:03
Speaker 1: Said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a
1:52:05
Speaker 1: little worried.
1:52:06
Speaker 15: Just about as much right, said the Duchess. Does pigs
1:52:11
Speaker 15: have to fly?
1:52:13
Speaker 1: But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died away,
1:52:18
Speaker 1: even in the middle of her favorite word, moral, and
1:52:20
Speaker 1: the arm that was linked into hers began to tremble.
1:52:23
Speaker 1: Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen in front
1:52:25
Speaker 1: of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.
1:52:29
Speaker 15: If I'm doing your majesty,'.
1:52:33
Speaker 1: The Duchess began in a low, weak voice.
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Speaker 22: Now I give you fair warning.
1:52:38
Speaker 1: shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke.
1:52:40
Speaker 22: Either you or your head must be off, and that
1:52:44
Speaker 22: in about half no time. Take your choice.
1:52:46
Speaker 1: The Duchess took her choice and was gone in a moment.
1:52:49
Speaker 22: Let' s go on with the game.
1:52:51
Speaker 1: THE QUEEN SAID TO ALICE, AND ALICE WAS TOO MUCH
1:52:53
Speaker 1: FRIGHTENED TO SAY A WORD, BUT SLOWLY FOLLOWED HER BACK
1:52:56
Speaker 1: TO THE CROQUET GROUND. THE OTHER GUESTS HAD TAKEN ADVANTAGE
1:52:59
Speaker 1: OF THE QUEEN'S ABSENCE AND WERE RESTING IN THE SHADE. HOWEVER,
1:53:02
Speaker 1: THE MOMENT THEY SAW HER THEY HURRIED BACK TO THE GAME,
1:53:04
Speaker 1: THE QUEEN MERELY REMARKING THAT A MOMENT'S DELAY WOULD COST
1:53:07
Speaker 1: THEM THEIR LIVES. ALL THE TIME THEY WERE PLAYING THE
1:53:10
Speaker 1: QUEEN NEVER LEFT OFF QUARRELING WITH THE OTHER PLAYERS AND SHOUTING,'.
1:53:13
Speaker 22: OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
1:53:15
Speaker 8: OR' OFF WITH HER HEAD!
1:53:17
Speaker 1: THOSE WHOM SHE SENTENCED WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY THE SOLDIERS, who,
1:53:20
Speaker 1: of course, had to leave off being archers to do this,
1:53:23
Speaker 1: so that by the end of half an hour or
1:53:24
Speaker 1: so there were no archers left, and all the players,
1:53:28
Speaker 1: except the king, the queen, and Alice, were in custody
1:53:30
Speaker 1: and under sentence of execution. Then the queen left off,
1:53:34
Speaker 1: quite out of breath, and said to Alice.
1:53:36
Speaker 22: Have you seen the mock turtle yet?
1:53:39
Speaker 1: No, said Alice.
1:53:41
Speaker 2: I don't even know what a mock turtle is.
1:53:43
Speaker 22: It's the thing mock turtle soup is.
1:53:45
Speaker 1: Made from, said the queen.
1:53:46
Speaker 2: I never saw one, or heard of one.
1:53:50
Speaker 1: Said Alice.
1:53:51
Speaker 22: Come on, then, said the queen, and he shall tell
1:53:53
Speaker 22: you his history.
1:53:55
Speaker 1: As they walked off together, Alice heard the king say
1:53:57
Speaker 1: in a low voice to the company.
1:53:58
Speaker 13: Generally, You are all pardoned.
1:54:01
Speaker 2: Come, that's a good thing.
1:54:02
Speaker 1: She said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy
1:54:05
Speaker 1: at the number of executions the queen had ordered. They
1:54:08
Speaker 1: very soon came upon a griffin lying fast asleep in
1:54:10
Speaker 1: the sun. If you don't know what a griffin is,
1:54:13
Speaker 1: look at the picture. A blazy thing, said the queen.
1:54:17
Speaker 22: And take this young lady to see the muck-turtle, and
1:54:19
Speaker 22: to hear his history. I must go back and see
1:54:22
Speaker 22: after some executions I have ordered.
1:54:25
Speaker 1: And she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the griffon.
1:54:27
Speaker 1: Alice did not quite like the look of the creature,
1:54:30
Speaker 1: but on the whole she thought it would be quite
1:54:31
Speaker 1: as safe to stay with it as to go after
1:54:33
Speaker 1: that savage queen, so she waited. The griffon sat up
1:54:36
Speaker 1: and rubbed its eyes, then it watched the queen till
1:54:39
Speaker 1: she was out of sight, then it chuckled.
1:54:40
Speaker 12: What fun!
1:54:42
Speaker 1: said the griffon, half to itself, half to Alice.
1:54:45
Speaker 2: What is the fun?
1:54:47
Speaker 1: Said Alice. Why, she, said the griffon.
1:54:51
Speaker 12: It's all her fancy, but they never executes nobody, you know.
1:54:56
Speaker 19: Come on.
1:54:58
Speaker 1: Everybody says, come on, here, thought Alice as she went
1:55:02
Speaker 1: slowly after it.
1:55:04
Speaker 2: I never was so ordered about in all my life, never.
1:55:07
Speaker 1: They had not gone far before they saw the mock
1:55:09
Speaker 1: turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a
1:55:12
Speaker 1: little ledge of rock. and as they came nearer, Alice
1:55:15
Speaker 1: could hear him sighing as if his heart would break.
1:55:21
Speaker 1: She pitied him deeply.
1:55:23
Speaker 2: What is his sorrow?
1:55:25
Speaker 1: She asked the griffon, and the griffon answered very nearly
1:55:27
Speaker 1: in the same words as before.
1:55:29
Speaker 12: It's all his fancy, but he hasn't got no sorrow,
1:55:33
Speaker 12: you know.
1:55:34
Speaker 2: Come on.
1:55:36
Speaker 1: So they went up to the mock turtle, who looked
1:55:38
Speaker 1: at them with large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.
1:55:42
Speaker 12: This here young lady, said the griffon, she wants for
1:55:46
Speaker 12: to know your history, she do?
1:55:48
Speaker 1: I'll tell it her, said the mock turtle in a deep,
1:55:51
Speaker 1: hollow tone.
1:55:53
Speaker 8: Sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word
1:55:56
Speaker 8: till I've finished.
1:55:57
Speaker 1: So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes.
1:56:01
Speaker 1: Alice thought to herself, I don't.
1:56:03
Speaker 2: See how he can even finish, if he doesn't begin.
1:56:06
Speaker 1: But she waited patiently.
1:56:10
Speaker 18: Once.
1:56:11
Speaker 1: said the mock turtle at last with a deep sigh.
1:56:14
Speaker 8: I was a real turtle.
1:56:16
Speaker 1: These words were followed by a very long silence, broken
1:56:19
Speaker 1: only by an occasional exclamation of, from the griffin, and
1:56:23
Speaker 1: the constant heavy sobbing of the mock turtle. Alice was
1:56:39
Speaker 1: very nearly getting up and saying.
1:56:41
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, for your interesting story.
1:56:45
Speaker 1: But she could not help thinking there must be more
1:56:47
Speaker 1: to come, so she sat still and said nothing.
1:56:53
Speaker 8: When we were little.
1:56:54
Speaker 1: The mock turtle went on at last, more calmly, though
1:56:57
Speaker 1: still sobbing a little now and then.
1:57:06
Speaker 8: We went to school in the sea. The master was
1:57:10
Speaker 8: an old turtle. We used to call him Tortoise.
1:57:14
Speaker 2: Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?
1:57:17
Speaker 1: Alice asked.
1:57:18
Speaker 8: We called him Tortoise because.
1:57:20
Speaker 1: He taught us, said the Mock Turtle angrily.
1:57:24
Speaker 8: Really, you are very dull.
1:57:26
Speaker 12: You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such
1:57:30
Speaker 12: a simple question.
1:57:32
Speaker 1: Added the Gryphon, and then they both sat silent and
1:57:34
Speaker 1: looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into
1:57:36
Speaker 1: the earth. At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle.
1:57:40
Speaker 12: Drive on, old fellow. Don't be all day about it.
1:57:44
Speaker 1: And he went on in these words.
1:57:46
Speaker 8: Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you
1:57:50
Speaker 8: mayn't believe it.
1:57:51
Speaker 2: I never said I.
1:57:52
Speaker 1: Didn't, interrupted Alice. You did, said the mock turtle. Hold
1:57:57
Speaker 1: your tongue, added the griffon before Alice could speak again.
1:58:01
Speaker 1: The mock turtle went on.
1:58:03
Speaker 8: We had the best of educations. In fact, we went
1:58:07
Speaker 8: to school every day.
1:58:08
Speaker 2: I've been to a day school, too, said Alice. You
1:58:12
Speaker 2: needn't be so proud as all that.
1:58:15
Speaker 8: With extras?
1:58:16
Speaker 1: Asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously. Yes, said Alice.
1:58:21
Speaker 2: We learned French and music.
1:58:23
Speaker 8: And washing?
1:58:24
Speaker 1: Said the Mock Turtle. Certainly not, said Alice indignantly.
1:58:29
Speaker 8: Ah, Then yours wasn't a really good.
1:58:32
Speaker 1: School, said the mock turtle in a tone of great relief.
1:58:35
Speaker 8: Now, at ours, they had, at the end of the bill, French, music,
1:58:42
Speaker 8: and washing extra.
1:58:44
Speaker 2: You couldn't have wanted it much, said Alice, living at
1:58:48
Speaker 2: the bottom of the sea.
1:58:49
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford to learn it, said the mock turtle
1:58:53
Speaker 1: with a sigh.
1:58:54
Speaker 8: I only took the regular course.
1:58:57
Speaker 2: What was that?
1:58:58
Speaker 1: Inquired Alice.
1:59:00
Speaker 8: Reeling and writhing, of course, to begin with,'.
1:59:03
Speaker 1: The mock turtle replied.
1:59:04
Speaker 8: And then the different branches of arithmetic— ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
1:59:13
Speaker 2: I never heard of uglification,'.
1:59:17
Speaker 1: Alice ventured to say.' What is it?' The griffon lifted
1:59:20
Speaker 1: up both its paws in surprise.' What?
1:59:23
Speaker 12: Never heard of uglifying?
1:59:25
Speaker 1: it exclaimed.' You know.
1:59:27
Speaker 12: What to beautify is, I suppose?
1:59:29
Speaker 1: Yes, said Alice doubtfully.
1:59:32
Speaker 2: It means to make anything prettier.
1:59:38
Speaker 1: Well then, the griffon went on.
1:59:40
Speaker 12: If you don't know what to ooglify is, you are
1:59:44
Speaker 12: a simpleton.
1:59:45
Speaker 1: Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions
1:59:48
Speaker 1: about it, so she turned to the mock turtle and said.
1:59:51
Speaker 2: What else had you to learn?
1:59:53
Speaker 8: Well, there was.
1:59:55
Speaker 1: Mystery, the mock turtle replied, counting off the subject on
1:59:58
Speaker 1: his flappers.
1:59:59
Speaker 8: Mystery, ancient and modern, with seography, then drawling. The drawling
2:00:06
Speaker 8: master was an old conger eel that used to come
2:00:09
Speaker 8: once a week. He taught us drawling, stretching, and fainting
2:00:14
Speaker 8: in coils.
2:00:15
Speaker 2: What was that like?
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Speaker 1: Said Alice. Well, I can't show it you myself, the
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Speaker 1: mock turtle said.
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Speaker 8: I'm too stiff, and the griffon never learnt it.
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Speaker 1: Hadn't I, said the griffon.
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Speaker 12: I went to the classics master, though. He was an
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Speaker 12: old crab, he was.
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Speaker 1: I never went to him, the mock turtle said with
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Speaker 1: a sigh.
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Speaker 8: He taught laughing and grief, they used to say.
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Speaker 1: So he did, so he did, said the griffon, sighing
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Speaker 1: in his turn, and both creatures hid their faces in
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Speaker 1: their paws.
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Speaker 2: And how many hours a day did you do.
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Speaker 1: Lessons, said Alice in a hurry to change the subject.
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Speaker 8: Ten hours the first day.
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Speaker 1: Said the mock turtle.
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Speaker 8: Nine the next, and so on.
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Speaker 2: What a curious plan, exclaimed Alice.
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Speaker 12: That's the reason they're called lessons, the griffon remarked, because
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Speaker 12: they lesson from day to day.
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Speaker 1: This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she
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Speaker 1: thought it over a little before she made her next remark.
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Speaker 2: Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday.
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Speaker 1: Of course it was, said the mock turtle.
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Speaker 2: And how did you manage on the twelfth?
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Speaker 1: Alice went on eagerly.
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Speaker 12: That's enough about lessons.
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Speaker 1: The griffon interrupted in a very decided tone.
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Speaker 12: Tell us something about the games now.
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Speaker 1: End of chapter 9 Chapter 10 of Alice's Adventures in
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Speaker 1: Wonderland by Lewis Carroll This is a LibriVox recording. All
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Speaker 1: Quadrille The mock turtle sighed deeply and drew the back
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Speaker 1: of one flapper across his eyes. He looked at Alice
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Speaker 1: and tried to speak, but for a minute or two,
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Speaker 1: sobs choked his voice.
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Speaker 11: Oh, oh, oh, oh.
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Speaker 12: Same as if he had a bone in his.
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Speaker 1: Throat, said the griffon, and it set to work shaking
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Speaker 1: him and punching him in the back. At last the
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Speaker 1: mock turtle recovered his voice, and with tears running down
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Speaker 1: his cheeks, he went on again.
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Speaker 8: You may not have lived much under the sea.
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Speaker 1: I haven't, said Alice.
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Speaker 8: And perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster.
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Speaker 1: Alice began to say, I once tasted, but checked herself
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Speaker 1: hastily and said.
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Speaker 11: No, never.
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Speaker 8: So you can have no idea what a delightful thing
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Speaker 8: a lobster quadrille is.
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Speaker 1: No, indeed, said Alice.
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Speaker 2: What sort of a dance is it?
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Speaker 12: Why, said the griffon, You first form into a line
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Speaker 12: along the seashore.
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Speaker 1: Two lines, cried the mock turtle.
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Speaker 8: Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on. Then, when you've cleared
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Speaker 8: all the jellyfish out of the way.
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Speaker 12: That generally takes some time.
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Speaker 1: Interrupted the griffon.
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Speaker 8: You advance twice.
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Speaker 12: Each with a lobster as a partner.
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Speaker 1: Cried the griffon. Of course, the mock turtle said.
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Speaker 8: Advance twice, set to partners.
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Speaker 12: Change lobsters and retire in same.
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Speaker 1: Order, continued the griffon. Then, you know, the mock turtle
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Speaker 1: went on.
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Speaker 8: You throw the... The.
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Speaker 1: Lobsters, shouted the griffon with a bound into the air.
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Speaker 8: As far out to sea as you can.
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Speaker 1: Swim after them, screamed the griffon.
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Speaker 8: Turn a somersault in the sea.
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Speaker 1: Cried the mock turtle, capering wildly about. Change lobsters again,
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Speaker 1: yelled the griffon at the top of its voice.
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Speaker 8: Back to land again. And that's all the first figure.
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Speaker 1: Said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice. And the
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Speaker 1: two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things
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Speaker 1: all this time, sat down again very sadly and quietly
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Speaker 1: and looked at Alice.
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Speaker 2: It must be a very pretty dance.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice timidly.
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Speaker 8: Would you like to see a little of it.
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Speaker 1: Said the Mock Turtle. Very much indeed, said Alice.
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Speaker 8: Come, let's try the first.
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Speaker 1: Figure, said the Mock Turtle to the Gryphon.
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Speaker 8: We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall sing?
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Speaker 12: Oh, you sing, said the griffon. I've forgotten the words.
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Speaker 1: So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every
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Speaker 1: now and then treading on her toes when they passed
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Speaker 1: too close, and waving their forepaws to mark the time,
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Speaker 1: while the mock turtle sang this, very slowly and sadly.
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Speaker 8: Will you walk a little faster, said a whiting to
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Speaker 8: a snail. There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's
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Speaker 8: treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and
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Speaker 8: the turtles all advance. They are waiting on the shingle.
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Speaker 8: Will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you?
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Speaker 8: Will you, won't you? Will you join the dance? will
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Speaker 8: you won't you will you won't you won't you join
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Speaker 8: the dance you can really have no notion how delightful
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Speaker 8: it will be when they take us up and throw
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Speaker 8: us with the lobsters out to sea but the snail
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Speaker 8: replied too far too far and gave a look askance
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Speaker 8: said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not
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Speaker 8: join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not,
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Speaker 8: would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not,
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Speaker 8: could not, could not join the dance. what matters it
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Speaker 8: how far we go his scaly friend replied there is
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Speaker 8: another shore you know upon the other side the further
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Speaker 8: off from england the nearer is to france then turn
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Speaker 8: not pale beloved snail but come and join the dance
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Speaker 8: Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you
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Speaker 8: join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you,
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Speaker 8: won't you join the dance?
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Speaker 2: Thank you. It's a very interesting dance to watch.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last.
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Speaker 2: And I do so like that curious song about the whiting.
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Speaker 1: Oh, as to the whiting, said the Mock Turtle.
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Speaker 8: They, you've seen them, of course.
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Speaker 1: Yes, said Alice.
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Speaker 2: I've often seen them at din.
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Speaker 1: She checked herself hastily.
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Speaker 8: I don't know where din may be, said the Mock Turtle.
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Speaker 8: But if you've seen them so often, of course you
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Speaker 8: know what they're like.
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Speaker 1: I believe so, Alice replied thoughtfully.
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Speaker 2: They have their tails in their mouths, and they're all
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Speaker 2: over crumbs.
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Speaker 8: You're wrong about the crumbs.
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Speaker 1: Said the Mock Turtle.
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Speaker 8: Crumbs would all wash off in the sea, but they
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Speaker 8: have their tails in their mouths, and the reason is.
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Speaker 1: here the mock turtle yawned and shut.
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Speaker 8: His eyes tell her about the reason and all that.
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Speaker 1: He said to the griffin the reason is said the
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Speaker 1: griffin that.
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Speaker 12: They would go with the lobsters to the dance then
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Speaker 12: they got thrown out to sea so they had to
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Speaker 12: fall a long way And so they got their tails
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Speaker 12: fast in their mouths. So they couldn't get them out again.
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Speaker 12: That's all.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, said Alice.
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Speaker 2: It's very interesting. I never knew so much about a
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Speaker 2: whiting before.
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Speaker 12: I can tell you more than that, if you like,
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Speaker 12: said the griffon. Do you know why it's called a whiting?
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Speaker 2: I never thought about it, said Alice.
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Speaker 14: Why?
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Speaker 12: It does the boots and the shoes.
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Speaker 1: The griffon replied very solemnly. Alice was thoroughly puzzled.
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Speaker 2: Does the boots and shoes?
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Speaker 1: She repeated in a wondering tone.
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Speaker 12: Why, what are your shoes done with?
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Speaker 1: Said the griffon.
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Speaker 12: I mean, what makes them so shiny?
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Speaker 1: Alice looked down at them and considered a little before
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Speaker 1: she gave her answer.
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Speaker 2: They're done with blacking, I believe.
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Speaker 12: Boots and shoes under the sea?
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Speaker 1: The griffon went on in a deep voice.
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Speaker 12: Are done with a whiting, now you know.
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Speaker 2: And what are they made of?
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Speaker 1: Alice asked in a tone of great curiosity.
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Speaker 12: Souls and eels, of course.
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Speaker 1: The griffon replied rather impatiently.
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Speaker 12: Any shrimp could have told you that.
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Speaker 1: If I'd been the whiting, said Alice, whose thoughts were
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Speaker 1: still running on the song.
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Speaker 2: I'd have said to the porpoise, Keep back, please. We
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Speaker 2: don't want you with us.
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Speaker 8: They were obliged to have him with them, the mock
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Speaker 8: turtle said. No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't it really?
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Speaker 1: Said Alice in a tone of great surprise. Of course not,
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Speaker 1: said the Mock Turtle.
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Speaker 8: Why, if a fish came to me and told me
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Speaker 8: he was going a journey, I should say, with what purpose?
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Speaker 2: Don't you mean purpose?
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Speaker 1: Said Alice.
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Speaker 8: I mean what I say.
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Speaker 1: The Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone, and the
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Speaker 1: griffon added.
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Speaker 12: Come, let's hear some of your adventures.
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Speaker 2: I could tell you my adventures, beginning from this morning.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice a little timidly.
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Speaker 2: But it's no use going back to yesterday, because I
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Speaker 2: was a different person then.
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Speaker 1: Explain all that, said the Mock Turtle.
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Speaker 12: No, no, the adventures.
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Speaker 1: First, said the Griffin in an impatient tone.
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Speaker 12: Explanations take such a dreadful time.
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Speaker 1: So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time
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Speaker 1: when she first saw the White Rabbit. She was a
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Speaker 1: little nervous about it just at first. The two creatures
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Speaker 1: got so close to her, one on each side, and
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Speaker 1: opened their eyes and mouths so very wide. But she
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Speaker 1: gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly quiet,
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Speaker 1: till she got to the part about her repeating, You
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Speaker 1: are old, Father William, to the caterpillar, and the words
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Speaker 1: all coming different. And then the mock turtle drew a
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Speaker 1: long breath and said.
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Speaker 8: That's very curious.
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Speaker 12: It's all about as curious as it can be.
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Speaker 1: Said the griffon. It all came different, the mock turtle
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Speaker 1: repeated thoughtfully.
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Speaker 8: I should like to hear her try and repeat something now.
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Speaker 8: Tell her to begin.
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Speaker 1: He looked at the griffon as if he thought it
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Speaker 1: had some kind of authority over Alice.
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Speaker 12: Stand up, and repeat,' Tis the voice of the sluggard,'
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Speaker 12: said the griffon.
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Speaker 2: Have the creatures order one about, and make one repeat.
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Speaker 1: Lessons,' thought Alice.' I might as well be at school
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Speaker 1: at once.' However, she got up and began to repeat it,
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Speaker 1: but her head was so full of the lobster quadrille
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Speaker 1: that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the
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Speaker 1: words came very queer indeed.
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Speaker 2: Tis the voice of the lobster,' I heard him declare.'
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Speaker 2: You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.
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Speaker 2: As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose,
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Speaker 2: trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
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Speaker 2: When the sands are all dry, he is gay as
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Speaker 2: a lark, and will talk in contemptuous tones of the shark.
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Speaker 2: But when the tide rises and sharks are around, his
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Speaker 2: voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
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Speaker 12: That's different from what I used to say when I
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Speaker 12: was a child.
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Speaker 1: Said the griffon.
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Speaker 8: Well, I never heard it before.
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Speaker 1: Said the mock turtle.
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Speaker 8: But it sounds uncommon nonsense.
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Speaker 1: Alice said nothing. She had sat down with her face
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Speaker 1: in her hands, wondering if anything would ever happen in
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Speaker 1: a natural way again. I should like to have it explained,
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Speaker 1: said the mock turtle.
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Speaker 12: She can't explain.
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Speaker 1: It, said the griffon hastily.
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Speaker 12: Go on with the next verse.
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Speaker 8: But about his.
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Speaker 1: Toes, the mock turtle persisted.
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Speaker 8: How could he turn them out with his nose, you know?
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Speaker 2: It's the first position in dancing.
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Speaker 1: Alice said, but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing,
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Speaker 1: and longed to change the subject.
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Speaker 12: Go on with the next verse.
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Speaker 1: The griffon repeated impatiently.
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Speaker 12: It begins, I passed by his garden.
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Speaker 1: Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure
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Speaker 1: it would all come wrong, and she went on in
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Speaker 1: a trembling voice.
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Speaker 2: I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
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Speaker 2: how the owl and the panther were sharing a pie.
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Speaker 2: The panther took pie crust and gravy and meat, while
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Speaker 2: the owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
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Speaker 2: When the pie was all finished, the owl, as a boon,
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Speaker 2: was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon, while the panther
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Speaker 2: received knife and fork with a growl, and concluded the banquet.
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Speaker 8: What is the use of repeating all that stuff?
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Speaker 1: The mock turtle interrupted.
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Speaker 8: If you don't explain it as you go on, it's
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Speaker 8: by far the most confusing thing I ever heard.
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Speaker 16: Yes.
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Speaker 1: I think you'd better leave off, said the griffon, and
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Speaker 1: Alice was only too glad to do so.
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Speaker 12: Shall we try another figure of the lobster quadrille? The
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Speaker 12: griffon went on. Would you like the mock turtle to
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Speaker 12: sing you a song?
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Speaker 2: Oh, a song, please, if the mock turtle would be
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Speaker 2: so kind.
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Speaker 1: Alice replied so eagerly that the griffon said in a
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Speaker 1: rather offended tone.
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Speaker 12: Hmm, no accounting for tastes. Sing her turtle soup, will you,
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Speaker 12: old fellow?
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Speaker 1: The mock turtle sighed deeply and began in a voice
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Speaker 1: sometimes choked with sobs to sing this.
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Speaker 23: Beautiful soup so rich and green, waiting in a hot tureen.
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Speaker 8: Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening,
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Speaker 8: beautiful soup. Soup of the evening, beautiful soup. Beautiful soup.
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Speaker 8: Beautiful soup, soup of the evening, beautiful, beautiful soup. Beautiful soup,
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Speaker 8: who cares for fish, game, or any other dish? Who
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Speaker 8: would not give all else for two? Pennyworth only of
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Speaker 8: beautiful soup. Pennyworth only of beautiful soup. Beautiful soup. Beautiful soup.
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Speaker 21: Soup of the evening.
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Speaker 8: Beautiful, beautiful soup.
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Speaker 1: Chorus again, cried the griffon, and the mock turtle had
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Speaker 1: just begun to repeat it when a cry of, The
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Speaker 1: trial's beginning, was heard in the distance. Come on, cried
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Speaker 1: the griffon, and taking Alice by the hand, it hurried
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Speaker 1: off without waiting for the end of the song.
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Speaker 2: What trial is it?
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Speaker 1: Alice panted as she ran, but the griffon only answered,
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Speaker 1: Come on. and ran the faster, while more and more
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Speaker 1: faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the
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Speaker 1: melancholy words.
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Speaker 21: Soup of the evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup.
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Speaker 1: End of chapter 10 Chapter 11 of Alice's Adventures in
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Speaker 1: Wonderland by Lewis Carroll CHAPTER XI. WHO STOLE THE TARTS?
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Speaker 1: The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their
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Speaker 1: throne when they arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them,
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Speaker 1: all sorts of little birds and beasts, as well as
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Speaker 1: the whole pack of cards. The knave was standing before
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Speaker 1: them in chains, with a soldier on each side to
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Speaker 1: guard him, and near the king was the white rabbit
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Speaker 1: with a trumpet in one hand and a scroll of
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Speaker 1: parchment in the other. In the very middle of the
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Speaker 1: court was a table with a large dish of tarts
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Speaker 1: upon it. They looked so good that it made Alice
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Speaker 1: quite hungry to look at them.
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Speaker 2: I wish they'd get the trial done, she thought, and
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Speaker 2: hand round their refreshments.
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Speaker 1: But there seemed to be no chance of this, so
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Speaker 1: she began looking at everything about her to pass away
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Speaker 1: the time. Alice had never been in a court of
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Speaker 1: justice before, but she had read about them in books,
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Speaker 1: and she was quite pleased to find that she knew
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Speaker 1: the name of nearly everything there.
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Speaker 20: That's the judge, she said to herself, because of his
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Speaker 20: great wig.
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Speaker 1: The judge, by the way, was the king, and as
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Speaker 1: he wore his crown over the wig, look at the
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Speaker 1: frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,
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Speaker 1: he did not look at all comfortable, and it was
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Speaker 1: certainly not becoming.
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Speaker 2: And that's the jury box, thought Alice. And those twelve creatures?
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Speaker 1: She was obliged to say creatures, you see, because some
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Speaker 1: of them were animals and some were birds.
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Speaker 2: I suppose they are the jurors.
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Speaker 1: She said this last word two or three times over
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Speaker 1: to herself, being rather proud of it, for she thought,
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Speaker 1: and rightly too, that very few little girls of her
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Speaker 1: age knew the meaning of it at all. However, jurymen
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Speaker 1: would have done just as well. The twelve jurors were
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Speaker 1: all writing very busily on slates.
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Speaker 2: What are they doing?
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Speaker 1: Alice whispered to the griffin.
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Speaker 20: They can't have anything to put down yet, before the
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Speaker 20: trial's begun.
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Speaker 12: They're putting down their name.
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Speaker 1: The griffin whispered in reply.
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Speaker 12: For fear they should forget them before the end of
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Speaker 12: the trial.
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Speaker 2: Stupid things!
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Speaker 1: Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily,
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Speaker 1: for the white rabbit cried.
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Speaker 3: Out,' Silence in the court!
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Speaker 1: and the king put on his spectacles and looked anxiously
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Speaker 1: round to make out who was talking. Alice could see,
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Speaker 1: as well as if she were looking over their shoulders,
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Speaker 1: that all the jurors were writing down 'stupid things' on
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Speaker 1: their slates.' and she could even make out that one
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Speaker 1: of them didn't know how to spell stupid and that
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Speaker 1: he had to ask his neighbor to tell him.
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Speaker 2: A nice muddle their slates'll be in before the trial's over,
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Speaker 2: thought Alice.
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Speaker 1: One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This,
2:19:14
Speaker 1: of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round
2:19:17
Speaker 1: the court and got behind him, and very soon found
2:19:20
Speaker 1: an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so
2:19:22
Speaker 1: quickly that the poor little juror— it was Bill, the lizard—
2:19:26
Speaker 1: could not make out at all what had become of it. So,
2:19:28
Speaker 1: after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to
2:19:31
Speaker 1: write with one finger for the rest of the day,
2:19:33
Speaker 1: and this was of very little use, as it left
2:19:35
Speaker 1: no mark on the slate.
2:19:36
Speaker 13: Harold, read the accusation.
2:19:39
Speaker 1: Said the king. On this the white rabbit blew three
2:19:42
Speaker 1: blasts on the trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scroll
2:19:45
Speaker 1: and read as follows.
2:19:46
Speaker 3: The queen of hearts, she made some tarts, all on
2:19:50
Speaker 3: a summer day. The knave of hearts, he stole those tarts,
2:19:54
Speaker 3: and took them quite away.
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Speaker 1: Consider your verdict, the king said to the jury. Not yet,
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Speaker 1: not yet, the rabbit hastily interrupted.
2:20:03
Speaker 3: There's a great deal to come before that.
2:20:05
Speaker 13: Call the first witness.
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Speaker 1: Said the king, and the white rabbit blew three blasts
2:20:09
Speaker 1: on the trumpet and called out, First witness! The first
2:20:14
Speaker 1: witness was the hatter. He came in with a teacup
2:20:16
Speaker 1: in one hand and a piece of bread and butter
2:20:18
Speaker 1: in the other.
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Speaker 18: I beg pardon, your majesty, he began, for bringing these in,
2:20:24
Speaker 18: but I hadn't quite finished my tea when I was
2:20:26
Speaker 18: sent for.
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Speaker 13: You ought to have finished, said the King.
2:20:29
Speaker 12: When did you begin?
2:20:31
Speaker 1: The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed
2:20:33
Speaker 1: him into the court, arm in arm with the Dormouse.
2:20:36
Speaker 18: Fourteenth of March, I think it was, he said.
2:20:39
Speaker 1: Fifteenth, said the March Hare. Sixteenth, added the Dormouse. Write
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Speaker 1: that down, the King said to the jury, and the
2:20:47
Speaker 1: jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates,
2:20:50
Speaker 1: and then added them up and reduced the answer to
2:20:52
Speaker 1: shillings and pence. Take off your hat, the King said
2:20:56
Speaker 1: to the Hatter. It isn't mine, said the Hatter. Stolen,
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Speaker 1: the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made
2:21:03
Speaker 1: a memorandum of the fact.
2:21:04
Speaker 18: I keep them to sell.
2:21:06
Speaker 1: The Hatter added as an explanation.
2:21:08
Speaker 19: I've none of my own.
2:21:09
Speaker 8: I'm a Hatter.
2:21:10
Speaker 1: Here the Queen put on her spectacles and began staring
2:21:13
Speaker 1: at the Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.
2:21:15
Speaker 13: Give your evidence, said the King, and don't be nervous,
2:21:20
Speaker 13: or I'll have you executed on the spot.
2:21:22
Speaker 1: This did not seem to encourage the witness at all.
2:21:25
Speaker 1: He kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking
2:21:28
Speaker 1: uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion he bit
2:21:30
Speaker 1: a large piece out of his teacup instead of the
2:21:32
Speaker 1: bread and butter. Just at this moment Alice felt a
2:21:35
Speaker 1: very curious sensation, which puzzled her a good deal, until
2:21:39
Speaker 1: she made out what it was. She was beginning to
2:21:41
Speaker 1: grow larger again, and she thought at first she would
2:21:43
Speaker 1: get up and leave the court, but on second thoughts
2:21:46
Speaker 1: she decided to remain where she was as long as
2:21:48
Speaker 1: there was room for her.
2:21:49
Speaker 16: I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.
2:21:52
Speaker 1: said the Dormouse, who was sitting next to her.
2:21:55
Speaker 16: I can hardly breathe.
2:21:57
Speaker 1: I can't help it, said Alice very meekly.
2:21:59
Speaker 2: I'm growing.
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Speaker 1: You've no right to grow here, said the Dormouse. Don't
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Speaker 1: talk nonsense, said Alice more boldly.
2:22:09
Speaker 2: You know you're growing too.
2:22:11
Speaker 16: Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace, said the Dormouse.
2:22:16
Speaker 16: Not in that ridiculous fashion.
2:22:19
Speaker 1: And he got up very sulkily and crossed over to
2:22:21
Speaker 1: the other side of the court. All this time the
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Speaker 1: queen had never left off staring at the hatter, and
2:22:26
Speaker 1: just as the dormouse crossed the court she said to
2:22:28
Speaker 1: one of the officers of the.
2:22:29
Speaker 22: Court, Bring me the list of the singers in the
2:22:32
Speaker 22: last concert.
2:22:33
Speaker 1: On which the wretched hatter trembled so that he shook
2:22:36
Speaker 1: both his shoes off.
2:22:37
Speaker 13: Give your evidence, the king repeated angrily, or I'll have
2:22:41
Speaker 13: you executed, whether you're nervous or not.
2:22:45
Speaker 1: I'm a poor man, your majesty, the hatter began in
2:22:48
Speaker 1: a trembling voice.
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Speaker 18: And I hadn't begun my tea, not above a week
2:22:52
Speaker 18: or so. And what with the bread and butter getting
2:22:55
Speaker 18: so thin and the twinkling of the tea?
2:22:58
Speaker 13: The twinkling of the what?
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Speaker 1: Said the king. It began with the tea, the hatter replied.
2:23:05
Speaker 13: Of course twinkling begins with a tea.
2:23:08
Speaker 1: Said the king sharply.
2:23:09
Speaker 13: Do you take me for a dunce?
2:23:11
Speaker 3: Go on.
2:23:12
Speaker 1: I'm a poor man, the hatter went on.
2:23:15
Speaker 18: And most things twinkled after that. Only the March Hare said.
2:23:19
Speaker 12: I didn't.
2:23:21
Speaker 1: The March Hare interrupted in a great hurry. You did,
2:23:25
Speaker 1: said the Hatter. I deny it, said the March Hare.
2:23:29
Speaker 13: He denies it, said the King. Leave out that part.
2:23:33
Speaker 18: Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said.
2:23:35
Speaker 1: The Hatter went on, looking anxiously round to see if
2:23:38
Speaker 1: he would deny it too. But the Dormouse denied nothing,
2:23:41
Speaker 1: being fast asleep. After that, continued the Hatter.
2:23:45
Speaker 18: I cut some more bread and butter.
2:23:47
Speaker 3: But what did the Dormouse say?
2:23:49
Speaker 1: One of the jury asked.
2:23:50
Speaker 2: That I can't remember, said the Hatter.
2:23:53
Speaker 13: You must remember, remarked the King, or I'll have you executed.
2:23:58
Speaker 1: The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread and butter
2:24:01
Speaker 1: and went down on one knee.
2:24:03
Speaker 18: I'm a poor man, Your Majesty.
2:24:05
Speaker 1: He began.
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Speaker 13: You're a very poor speaker, said the King.
2:24:10
Speaker 1: Here one of the guinea pigs cheered, and was immediately
2:24:14
Speaker 1: suppressed by the officers of the court. As that is
2:24:19
Speaker 1: rather a hard word, I will just explain to you
2:24:22
Speaker 1: how it was done. They had a large canvas bag,
2:24:24
Speaker 1: which tied up at the mouth with strings. Into this
2:24:27
Speaker 1: they slipped the guinea pig headfirst and then sat upon it.
2:24:30
Speaker 20: I'm glad I've seen that done, thought Alice. I've so
2:24:33
Speaker 20: often read in the newspapers at the end of trials.
2:24:36
Speaker 20: There was some attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed
2:24:40
Speaker 20: by the officers of the court, and I never understood
2:24:43
Speaker 20: what it meant till now.
2:24:44
Speaker 13: If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,
2:24:48
Speaker 13: continued the king.
2:24:49
Speaker 1: I can't go no lower, said the hatter.
2:24:52
Speaker 18: I'm on the floor as it is.
2:24:54
Speaker 13: Then you may sit down.
2:24:55
Speaker 1: The king replied. Here the other guinea pig cheered and
2:24:58
Speaker 1: was suppressed.
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Speaker 11: Hooray!
2:25:01
Speaker 8: Hooray!
2:25:02
Speaker 2: Come, that finished the guinea pigs, thought Alice. Now we
2:25:07
Speaker 2: shall get on better. I'd rather finish my.
2:25:09
Speaker 1: Tea, said the hatter with an anxious look at the
2:25:12
Speaker 1: queen who was reading the list of singers. You may go,
2:25:15
Speaker 1: said the king, and the hatter hurriedly left the court
2:25:17
Speaker 1: without even waiting to put his shoes on.
2:25:19
Speaker 22: And just take his head off outside.
2:25:22
Speaker 1: The queen added to one of the officers. But the
2:25:24
Speaker 1: hatter was out of sight before the officer could get
2:25:26
Speaker 1: to the door.
2:25:27
Speaker 13: Call the next witness.
2:25:29
Speaker 1: Said the king. The next witness was the duchess's cook.
2:25:32
Speaker 1: She carried the pepper box in her hand, and Alice
2:25:34
Speaker 1: guessed who it was even before she got into the court.
2:25:37
Speaker 1: By the way, the people near the door began sneezing
2:25:39
Speaker 1: all at once. Give your evidence, said the king.
2:25:43
Speaker 18: Shant.
2:25:43
Speaker 1: Said the cook. The king looked anxiously at the white rabbit,
2:25:46
Speaker 1: who said in a low voice, Your.
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Speaker 3: Majesty must cross-examine this witness.
2:25:52
Speaker 1: Well, if I must, I must, the king said with
2:25:55
Speaker 1: a melancholy air, and after folding his arms and frowning
2:25:58
Speaker 1: at the cook till his eyes were nearly out of sight,
2:26:00
Speaker 1: he said in a deep voice.
2:26:02
Speaker 13: What are tarts made of?
2:26:05
Speaker 1: Pepper, mostly, said the cook. Treacle, said a sleepy voice
2:26:11
Speaker 1: behind her.
2:26:12
Speaker 22: Color the door-mouse.
2:26:14
Speaker 1: The queen shrieked out.
2:26:15
Speaker 22: Behead that door-mouse! Turn the door-mouse out of court! Suppress him!
2:26:20
Speaker 22: Pinch him! Off with his whiskers!
2:26:23
Speaker 1: For some minutes the whole court was in confusion getting
2:26:25
Speaker 1: the door-mouse turned out, and by the time they had
2:26:28
Speaker 1: settled down again the cook had disappeared. Never mind, said
2:26:31
Speaker 1: the king with an air of great relief.
2:26:34
Speaker 13: Call the next witness.
2:26:36
Speaker 1: And he added in an undertone to the queen.
2:26:38
Speaker 13: Really, my dear, You must cross-examine the next witness. It
2:26:42
Speaker 13: quite makes my forehead ache.
2:26:44
Speaker 1: Alice watched the white rabbit as he fumbled over the list,
2:26:47
Speaker 1: feeling very curious to see what the next witness would
2:26:49
Speaker 1: be like.
2:26:50
Speaker 2: For they haven't gotten much evidence yet.
2:26:52
Speaker 1: She said to herself. Imagine her surprise when the white
2:26:56
Speaker 1: rabbit read out at the top of his shrill little
2:26:57
Speaker 1: voice the name.
2:26:58
Speaker 11: Alice!
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Speaker 1: End of chapter 11 Chapter 12 CHAPTER XII. ALICE'S EVIDENCE' Here!'
2:27:10
Speaker 1: cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment
2:27:15
Speaker 1: how large she had grown in the last few minutes,
2:27:18
Speaker 1: and she jumped up in such a hurry that she
2:27:20
Speaker 1: tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt.'
2:27:37
Speaker 1: upsetting all the jurymen onto the heads of the crowd below.
2:27:40
Speaker 1: and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much
2:27:43
Speaker 1: of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the
2:27:45
Speaker 1: week before. Oh, I beg your pardon, she exclaimed in
2:27:49
Speaker 1: a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up
2:27:52
Speaker 1: again as quickly as she could, for the accident of
2:27:54
Speaker 1: the goldfish kept running in her head. and she had
2:27:57
Speaker 1: a vague sort of idea that they must be collected
2:27:59
Speaker 1: at once and put back into the jury-box, or they
2:28:01
Speaker 1: would die.
2:28:02
Speaker 13: The trial cannot proceed.
2:28:04
Speaker 1: Said the king in a very grave voice.
2:28:07
Speaker 13: Until all the jurymen are back in their proper places.
2:28:11
Speaker 11: All!
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Speaker 1: He repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as
2:28:15
Speaker 1: he said so. Alice looked at the jury-box and saw
2:28:18
Speaker 1: that in her haste she had put the lizard in
2:28:21
Speaker 1: head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its
2:28:23
Speaker 1: tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move.
2:28:27
Speaker 1: She soon got it out again and put it right.
2:28:29
Speaker 20: Not that it signifies much,'.
2:28:31
Speaker 1: She said to herself.
2:28:32
Speaker 20: I should think it would be quite as much use
2:28:35
Speaker 20: in the trial, one way up as the other.
2:28:37
Speaker 1: As soon as the jury had a little recovered from
2:28:39
Speaker 1: the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils
2:28:42
Speaker 1: had been found and handed back to them, they set
2:28:44
Speaker 1: to work very diligently to write out a history of
2:28:46
Speaker 1: the accident.' all except the lizard, who seemed too much
2:28:49
Speaker 1: overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open,
2:28:52
Speaker 1: gazing up into the roof of the court.
2:28:53
Speaker 13: What do you know about this business?
2:28:56
Speaker 1: the king said to Alice.' Nothing,' said Alice.
2:28:59
Speaker 13: Nothing whatever?
2:29:01
Speaker 1: persisted the king.' Nothing whatever,' said Alice.
2:29:04
Speaker 13: That' s very important,'.
2:29:06
Speaker 1: The king said, turning to the jury. They were just
2:29:09
Speaker 1: beginning to write this down on their slates when the
2:29:11
Speaker 1: white rabbit interrupted.
2:29:12
Speaker 3: Unimportant, your majesty means, of course.
2:29:16
Speaker 1: He said in a very respectful tone, but frowning and
2:29:19
Speaker 1: making faces at him as he spoke. Unimportant, of course,
2:29:23
Speaker 1: I meant, the king hastily said, and went on to
2:29:26
Speaker 1: himself in an undertone.
2:29:27
Speaker 13: Important, unimportant, unimportant, important.
2:29:32
Speaker 1: As if he were trying which word sounded best. Some
2:29:35
Speaker 1: of the jury wrote down important and some unimportant. Alice
2:29:39
Speaker 1: could see this as she was near enough to look
2:29:41
Speaker 1: over their slates.
2:29:42
Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter a bit, she.
2:29:44
Speaker 1: Thought to herself. At this moment the king, who had
2:29:47
Speaker 1: been for some time busily writing in his notebook, cackled out, Silence!
2:29:51
Speaker 1: and read out from his book.
2:29:53
Speaker 13: Rule 42. All persons more than a mile high to
2:29:59
Speaker 13: leave the court.
2:30:01
Speaker 1: Everybody looked at Alice.
2:30:03
Speaker 2: I'm not a mile high, said Alice.
2:30:05
Speaker 1: You are, said the king.
2:30:07
Speaker 22: Nearly two miles high, added the queen.
2:30:10
Speaker 20: Well, I shan't go, at any rate, said Alice. Besides,
2:30:15
Speaker 20: that's not a regular rule. You invented it just now.
2:30:19
Speaker 13: It's the oldest rule in the book.
2:30:21
Speaker 1: Said the king.
2:30:23
Speaker 2: Then it ought to be number one.
2:30:24
Speaker 1: Said Alice. The king turned pale and shut his notebook hastily.
2:30:28
Speaker 13: Consider your verdict.
2:30:31
Speaker 1: He said to the jury in a low, trembling voice.
2:30:33
Speaker 3: There's more evidence to come yet, please, your majesty.
2:30:37
Speaker 1: Said the white rabbit jumping up in a great hurry.
2:30:40
Speaker 3: This paper has just been picked up.
2:30:42
Speaker 1: What's in it, said the queen. I haven't opened it yet,
2:30:46
Speaker 1: said the White Rabbit.
2:30:47
Speaker 3: But it seems to be a letter written by the
2:30:50
Speaker 3: prisoner to somebody.
2:30:53
Speaker 13: It must have been that, said the King, unless it
2:30:56
Speaker 13: was written to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.
2:30:59
Speaker 9: Who is it directed to, said one of the jurymen.
2:31:03
Speaker 1: It isn't directed at all, said the White Rabbit.
2:31:06
Speaker 3: In fact, there's nothing written on the outside.
2:31:09
Speaker 1: He unfolded the paper as he spoke and added, It
2:31:13
Speaker 1: isn't a.
2:31:13
Speaker 3: Letter, after all. It's a set of verses.
2:31:16
Speaker 10: Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?
2:31:19
Speaker 1: Asked another of the jurymen. No, they're not, said the
2:31:22
Speaker 1: white rabbit.
2:31:23
Speaker 3: And that's the queerest thing about it.
2:31:25
Speaker 1: The jury all looked puzzled.
2:31:27
Speaker 13: He must have imitated somebody else's hand.
2:31:31
Speaker 24: Said the king. The jury all brightened up again. Please,
2:31:35
Speaker 24: your majesty, said the knave. I didn't write it, and
2:31:39
Speaker 24: they can't prove I did. There's no name signed at
2:31:42
Speaker 24: the end.
2:31:43
Speaker 13: If you didn't sign it, said the king, that only
2:31:47
Speaker 13: makes the matter worse. You must have meant some mischief,
2:31:51
Speaker 13: or else you'd have signed your name like an honest man.
2:31:54
Speaker 1: There was a general clapping of hands at this. It
2:31:56
Speaker 1: was the first really clever thing the king had said
2:31:58
Speaker 1: that day. That proves his guilt, said the queen.
2:32:02
Speaker 2: It proves nothing of the sort, said Alice. Why, you
2:32:06
Speaker 2: don't even know what they're about.
2:32:07
Speaker 1: Read them, said the king. The white rabbit put on
2:32:10
Speaker 1: his spectacles.
2:32:12
Speaker 3: Where shall I begin, please, your majesty?
2:32:15
Speaker 12: He asked.
2:32:16
Speaker 13: Begin at the beginning, the king said gravely, and go
2:32:20
Speaker 13: on till you come to the end, then stop.
2:32:24
Speaker 1: These were the verses the white rabbit read.
2:32:27
Speaker 3: They told me you had been to her, and mentioned
2:32:29
Speaker 3: me to him. She gave me a good character, but
2:32:33
Speaker 3: said I could not swim. He sent them word I
2:32:37
Speaker 3: had not gone, we know it to be true. If
2:32:40
Speaker 3: she should push the matter on, what would become of you?
2:32:44
Speaker 3: I gave her one, they gave him two, you gave
2:32:47
Speaker 3: us three or more. They all returned from him to you,
2:32:52
Speaker 3: though they were mine before. If I or she should
2:32:56
Speaker 3: chance to be involved in this affair— He trusts you
2:33:00
Speaker 3: to set them free, exactly as we were. My notion
2:33:04
Speaker 3: was that you had been, before she had this fit,
2:33:09
Speaker 3: an obstacle that came between him and ourselves and it.
2:33:15
Speaker 3: Don't let him know she liked them best, for this
2:33:18
Speaker 3: must ever be a secret kept from all the rest,
2:33:23
Speaker 3: between yourself and me.
2:33:25
Speaker 13: That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet.
2:33:28
Speaker 1: Said the king, rubbing his hands. So now let the
2:33:31
Speaker 1: jury— If any one of them can explain it, said Alice.
2:33:35
Speaker 1: She had grown so large in the last few minutes
2:33:37
Speaker 1: that she wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting him.
2:33:39
Speaker 2: I'll give him sixpence. I don't believe there's an atom
2:33:43
Speaker 2: of meaning in it.
2:33:44
Speaker 1: The jury all wrote down on their slates, she doesn't
2:33:46
Speaker 1: believe there's an atom of meaning in it, but none
2:33:49
Speaker 1: of them attempted to explain the paper.
2:33:51
Speaker 13: If there's no meaning in it, said the king, that
2:33:54
Speaker 13: saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't
2:33:57
Speaker 13: try to find any. and yet I don't know.
2:34:01
Speaker 1: He went on, spreading out the verses on his knee
2:34:03
Speaker 1: and looking at them with one eye.
2:34:05
Speaker 13: I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.
2:34:09
Speaker 13: Said I could not swim. You can't swim, can you?
2:34:13
Speaker 1: He added, turning to the knave. The knave shook his
2:34:16
Speaker 1: head sadly.
2:34:17
Speaker 12: Do I look like it?
2:34:19
Speaker 1: He said, which he certainly did not, being made entirely
2:34:22
Speaker 1: of cardboard.
2:34:23
Speaker 13: All right so far.
2:34:25
Speaker 1: Said the king, and he went on muttering over the
2:34:27
Speaker 1: verses to himself.
2:34:28
Speaker 13: We know it to be true. That's the jury, of course.
2:34:33
Speaker 13: I gave her one, they gave him two. Why, that
2:34:38
Speaker 13: must be what he did with the tarts, you know.
2:34:40
Speaker 18: But it goes on. They all returned from.
2:34:43
Speaker 1: Him to you, said Alice. Why, there they are, said
2:34:47
Speaker 1: the king triumphantly, pointing to the tarts on the table.
2:34:50
Speaker 13: Nothing can be clearer than that. Then again, before she
2:34:55
Speaker 13: had this fit— You never had fits, my dear, I think.
2:34:59
Speaker 1: He said to the queen. Never, said the queen furiously,
2:35:02
Speaker 1: throwing an inkstand at the lizard as she spoke. The
2:35:05
Speaker 1: unfortunate little bill had left off running on his slate
2:35:07
Speaker 1: with one finger as he found it made no mark,
2:35:10
Speaker 1: but he now hastily began again, using the ink that
2:35:13
Speaker 1: was trickling down his face as long as it lasted.
2:35:15
Speaker 13: Then the words don't fit you.
2:35:18
Speaker 1: Said the king, looking round the court with a smile.
2:35:20
Speaker 1: There was a dead silence.
2:35:22
Speaker 3: It's a pun.
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Speaker 1: The king added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed.
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Speaker 13: Let the jury consider their verdict.
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Speaker 1: The king said for about the twentieth time that day. No, no,
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Speaker 1: said the queen.
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Speaker 22: Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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Speaker 20: Stuff and nonsense, said Alice loudly. The idea of having
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Speaker 20: the sentence first.
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Speaker 22: Hold your tongue.
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Speaker 1: Said the queen, turning purple. I won't, said Alice.
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Speaker 8: Off with her head!
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Speaker 1: The queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.
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Speaker 2: Who cares for you?
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Speaker 1: said Alice. She had grown to her full size by
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Speaker 1: this time.
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Speaker 2: You' re nothing but a pack of cards.
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Speaker 1: At this the whole pack rose up into the air
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Speaker 1: and came flying down upon her. She came a little scream,
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Speaker 1: half of fright and half of anger, and tried to
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Speaker 1: beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank,
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Speaker 1: with her head in the lap of her sister, who
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Speaker 1: was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered
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Speaker 1: down from the trees upon her face. Wake up, Alice dear,
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Speaker 1: said her sister.
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Speaker 10: Why, what a long sleep you've had.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I've had such a curious dream.
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Speaker 1: Said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as
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Speaker 1: she could remember them, all these strange adventures of hers
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Speaker 1: that you have just been reading about. And when she
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Speaker 1: had finished, her sister kissed her and said, It was
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Speaker 1: a curious dream, dear, certainly.
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Speaker 10: But now run into your tea. It's getting late.
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Speaker 1: So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran,
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Speaker 1: as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
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Speaker 1: BUT HER SISTER SAT STILL JUST AS SHE LEFT HER,
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Speaker 1: LEANING HER HEAD ON HER HAND, WATCHING THE SETTING SUN,
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Speaker 1: AND THINKING OF LITTLE ALICE AND ALL HER WONDERFUL ADVENTURES,
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Speaker 1: TILL SHE TOO BEGAN DREAMING AFTER A FASHION, AND THIS
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Speaker 1: WAS HER DREAM. FIRST SHE DREAMED OF LITTLE ALICE HERSELF,
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Speaker 1: AND ONCE AGAIN THE TINY HANDS WERE CLASPED UPON HER KNEE,
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Speaker 1: AND THE BRIGHT EAGER EYES WERE LOOKING UP INTO HERS.
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Speaker 1: SHE COULD HEAR THE VERY TONES OF HER VOICE, AND
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Speaker 1: SEE THAT QUEER LITTLE TOSS OF HER HEAD TO KEEP
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Speaker 1: BACK THE WANDERING HAIR THAT WOULD ALWAYS GET INTO HER EYES.
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Speaker 1: and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the
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Speaker 1: whole place around her became alive, the strange creatures of
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Speaker 1: her little sister's dream. The long grass rustled. at her
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Speaker 1: feet as the white rabbit hurried by. The frightened mouse
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Speaker 1: splashed his way through the neighboring pool. She could hear
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Speaker 1: the rattle of the teacups, as the March Hare and
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Speaker 1: his friends shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill voice
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Speaker 1: of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution.
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Speaker 1: Once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the Duchess's knee
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Speaker 1: while plates and dishes crashed around it. Once more the
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Speaker 1: shriek of the griffon, the squeaking of the lizard's slate-pencil,
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Speaker 1: and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs filled the air,
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Speaker 1: mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable mock-turtle.
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Speaker 1: So she sat on with closed eyes and half believed
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Speaker 1: herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to
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Speaker 1: open them again and all would change to dull reality.
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Speaker 1: The grass would be only rustling in the wind and
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Speaker 1: the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds, The
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Speaker 1: rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep bells and the
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Speaker 1: queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy,
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Speaker 1: and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the griffin,
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Speaker 1: and all the other queer noises would change, she knew,
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Speaker 1: to the confused clamor of the busy farmyard, while the
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Speaker 1: lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the
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Speaker 1: place of the mock turtle's heavy sobs. Lastly, she pictured
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Speaker 1: to herself how this same little sister of hers would,
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Speaker 1: in the after-time, be herself a grown woman, and how
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Speaker 1: she would keep, through all her riper years— the simple
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Speaker 1: and loving heart of her childhood, and how she would
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Speaker 1: gather about her other little children and make their eyes
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Speaker 1: bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even
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Speaker 1: with the dream of Wonderland of long ago, and how
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Speaker 1: she would feel with all their simple sorrows and find
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Speaker 1: a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own
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Speaker 1: child life and the happy summer days.
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Speaker 12: The End.
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Speaker 1: End of Chapter 12 End of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Speaker 1: by Lewis Carroll