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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Ashley Jane. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, 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. And what
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  Speaker 1: is the use of a book, thought Alice without pictures
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  Speaker 1: or conversations. So she was considering in her own mind
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  Speaker 1: as well as she could, for the day made 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, Oh, dear, oh, dear, I shall
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  Speaker 1: be too late. But when the rabbit actually took a
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  Speaker 1: watch out of its waistcoat pocket and looked at it,
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  Speaker 1: and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for
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  Speaker 1: it flashed across her mind that she had never before
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  Speaker 1: seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat pocket or a
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  Speaker 1: watch to take out of it. And, burning with curiosity,
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  Speaker 1: she ran across the field after it, and was just
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  Speaker 1: in time to see it pop down a large rabbit
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  Speaker 1: hole under the hedge. In another moment, down went Alice
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  Speaker 1: after it. The rabbit hole went straight on like a
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  Speaker 1: tunne off for some way and then dipped suddenly down,
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  Speaker 1: so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think
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  Speaker 1: about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be a very deep well. Either the well
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  Speaker 1: was very deep or she fell very slowly, for she
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  Speaker 1: had plenty of time as she went down to look
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  Speaker 1: about her. First, she tried to make out what she
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  Speaker 1: was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything.
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  Speaker 1: Then she looked at the sides of the well and
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  Speaker 1: noticed that they were filled with cupboards and bookshelves. Here
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  Speaker 1: and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.
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  Speaker 1: She took down a jar from one of the shelves
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  Speaker 1: as she passed. It was labeled orange marmalade, but to
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  Speaker 1: her great disappointment, it was empty. She did not like
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  Speaker 1: to drop the jar, so she managed to put it
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  Speaker 1: in one of the cupboards as she fell past it Down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: Would the fall never come to an end? There was
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  Speaker 1: nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking to herself.
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  Speaker 1: Dinah will miss me very much to night. I should
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  Speaker 1: think Dinah was the cat. I hope they'll remember her
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  Speaker 1: saucer of milk at tea time. Dinah, my dear, I
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  Speaker 1: wish you were down here with me. Alice felt that
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  Speaker 1: she was dozing off when suddenly, thump, thump, down. She
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  Speaker 1: came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and
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  Speaker 1: the fall was over. Alice was not a bit hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and she jumped up. In a moment, she looked up,
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  Speaker 1: but it was all dark. Overhead before her was another
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  Speaker 1: long passage, and the white rabbit was still in sight.
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  Speaker 1: Hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost.
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  Speaker 1: Away went Alice liked the wind and was just in
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  Speaker 1: time to hear it say as it turned a corner. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my ears and whiskers, how late it is getting She
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  Speaker 1: was close behind it when she turned the corner, but
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit was no longer to be seen. She found
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  Speaker 1: herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up
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  Speaker 1: by a row of lamps hanging from the roof. There
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  Speaker 1: were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked,
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  Speaker 1: And when Alice had been all the way down one
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  Speaker 1: side and up the other, trying every door, she walked
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  Speaker 1: sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever going
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  Speaker 1: to get out again. Suddenly she came upon a little
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  Speaker 1: table all made of solid glass. There was nothing on
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  Speaker 1: it but a tiny golden key, and Alice's first idea
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  Speaker 1: was that this might belong to one of the doors
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  Speaker 1: of the hall, but alas either the locks were too
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  Speaker 1: large or the key was too small, but at any rate,
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  Speaker 1: it would not open any of them. However, on the
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  Speaker 1: second time round, she came upon a low curtain she
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  Speaker 1: had not noticed before, and behind it was a little
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  Speaker 1: door about fifteen inches high. She tried the little golden
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  Speaker 1: key in the lock, and how great delight it fitted.
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  Speaker 1: Alice opened the do door and found that it led
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  Speaker 1: into a small passage not much larger than a rat hole.
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  Speaker 1: She knelt down and looked along the passage into the
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  Speaker 1: loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get
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  Speaker 1: out of that dark hall and wander about among those
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  Speaker 1: beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains. But she
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  Speaker 1: could not even get her head through the doorway. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice, How I wish I could shut up like
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  Speaker 1: a telescope. I think I could, if I only knew
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  Speaker 1: how to begin. Alice went back to the table, half
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  Speaker 1: hoping she might find another key on it, or, at
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  Speaker 1: any rate, a book of rules for shutting people up
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  Speaker 1: like telescopes. This time she found a little bottle on it,
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  Speaker 1: which certainly was not here before, said Alice. And tied
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  Speaker 1: round the neck of the bottle was a paper label
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  Speaker 1: with the words drink me beautifully printed on it in
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  Speaker 1: large letters. No, while, look fast, she said, and see
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  Speaker 1: whether it's marked poison or not, For she had never
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  Speaker 1: forgotten that if you drink from a bottle marked poison,
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  Speaker 1: it is almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later. However,
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  Speaker 1: this bottle was not marked poison, so Alice ventured to
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  Speaker 1: taste it, and, finding it very nice, it had sowed
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  Speaker 1: form mixed flavor of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast, turkey, toffee,
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  Speaker 1: and hot buttered toast. She very soon finished it off.
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  Speaker 1: What a curious feeling, said Alice, I must be shutting
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  Speaker 1: up like a telescope. And so it was. Indeed, she
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  Speaker 1: was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened
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  Speaker 1: up at the thought that she was now the right
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  Speaker 1: size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.
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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. Come.
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  Speaker 1: There's no use in crying like that, said Alice to herself,
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  Speaker 1: rather sharply, I advise you to leave off this minute.
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  Speaker 1: She generally gave herself very good advice, though she seldom
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  Speaker 1: followed it, and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as
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  Speaker 1: to bring tears into her eyes. Soon her eye fell
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  Speaker 1: on a little glass box that was lying under the table.
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  Speaker 1: She opened it and found in it a very small
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  Speaker 1: cake on which the wires eat me were beautifully marked
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  Speaker 1: in currants. Well I'll eat it, said Alice. And if
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  Speaker 1: it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key,
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  Speaker 1: and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep
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  Speaker 1: under the door. So either way I'll get into the garden,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't care which happens. She ate a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and said anxiously to herself, 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 she was growing, And she was quite
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  Speaker 1: surprised to find that she remained the same size. So
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  Speaker 1: she set to work and very soon finished off the cake.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter one, chapter two of Alice's Adventures in
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  Speaker 1: Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This LibriVox according is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Ashley Jane. Chapter two, the Paul
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  Speaker 1: of Tears. Curiouser and curious, sir, cried Alice. She was
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  Speaker 1: so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot
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  Speaker 1: how to speak good English. Now I'm opening out like
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  Speaker 1: the largest telescope that ever was. Goodbye, feet, oh my
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  Speaker 1: poor little feet. I wonder who will put on your
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  Speaker 1: shoes and stockings for you? Now, DearS, I shall be
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  Speaker 1: a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you.
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  Speaker 1: Just at this moment her head struck against the roof
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  Speaker 1: of the hall. In fact, she was now rather more
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  Speaker 1: than nine feet high, and she at once took up
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  Speaker 1: the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
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  Speaker 1: Poor Alice, it was as much as she could do,
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  Speaker 1: lying down on one side to look through into the
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  Speaker 1: garden with one eye, but to get through was more
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  Speaker 1: hopeless than ever. She sat down and began to cry again.
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  Speaker 1: She went on, shedding gallons of tears until there was
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  Speaker 1: a large pool all around her, and reaching half down
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  Speaker 1: the hall. After a time, she heard a little pattering
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  Speaker 1: of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her
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  Speaker 1: eyes to 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, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the duchess, the duchess. Oh, won't she be savage if
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  Speaker 1: I've kept her waiting? When the rabbit came near her,
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  Speaker 1: Alice began in a low, timid voice, if you please, sir.
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  Speaker 1: The rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and
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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,
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  Speaker 1: and she kept fanning herself all the time. She went
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  Speaker 1: on talking, dear, dear, how queer everything is today? And
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  Speaker 1: yesterday things went on just as usual? Was I the
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  Speaker 1: same when I got up this morning? But if I'm
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  Speaker 1: not the same, the question is who in the world
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  Speaker 1: am I? And that's the great puzzle. As she said this,
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  Speaker 1: she looked down at her hands and was surprised to
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  Speaker 1: see that she had put on one of the rabbits
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  Speaker 1: of her white kid gloves while she was talking. How
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  Speaker 1: can I have done that? She thought, I must be
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  Speaker 1: growing small again. She got up and went to the
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  Speaker 1: table to measure herself by it, and found that she
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  Speaker 1: was now about two feet high and was going on
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  Speaker 1: shrinking rapidly. She soon found out that the cause of
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  Speaker 1: this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped
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  Speaker 1: it hastily, just in time to save herself from shrinking
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  Speaker 1: away altogether. That was a narrow escape, said Alice, a
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  Speaker 1: good deal frightened of the sudden change, but very glad
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  Speaker 1: to find herself still in existence. And now for the garden,
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  Speaker 1: and she ran off with all speed back to the
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  Speaker 1: little door. But alas the little door was shut in again,
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  Speaker 1: and the little golden key was lying on the glass
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  Speaker 1: table as before, things are worse than ever, thought the
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  Speaker 1: poor child. For I never was so small as this before. Never,
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  Speaker 1: as she said these words, her foot slipped, and in
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  Speaker 1: another moment, splash, she was up to her chin in
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  Speaker 1: salt water. Her first idea was that she had somehow
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  Speaker 1: fallen into the sea. However, she soon made out that
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  Speaker 1: she was in the pool of tears, which she had
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  Speaker 1: wept when she was nine feet high. Just then she
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  Speaker 1: heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off,
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  Speaker 1: and she swam nearer to see what it was. She
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  Speaker 1: soon made out that it was only a mouse that
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  Speaker 1: had slipped in like herself. Would it be of any use, now,
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  Speaker 1: thought Alice, to speak to this mouse. Everything is so
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  Speaker 1: out of the way down here that I should think
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  Speaker 1: very likely it can talk. There's no harm in trying,
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  Speaker 1: so she began, Oh, mouse, do you know the way
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  Speaker 1: out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming
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  Speaker 1: about here? Oh mouse. The mouse looked at her rather inquisitively,
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  Speaker 1: and seemed to her to wink with one of its
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  Speaker 1: little eyes. But it said nothing. Perhaps it doesn't understand English,
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  Speaker 1: thought Alice. I daresay it's a French mouse. Come over
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  Speaker 1: with William the conqueror, so she began again, Oh s
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  Speaker 1: mar shot, which was the first sentence in her French
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  Speaker 1: lesson book. The mouse gave a sudden leap out of
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  Speaker 1: the water and seemed to quiver all over with fright.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I beg your pardon, cried Alice, hastily, afraid that
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  Speaker 1: she had hurt the poor animal's feelings. I quite forgot
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  Speaker 1: you didn't like cats. Not like cats, cried the mouse
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  Speaker 1: in a shrill, passionate voice. Would you like cats if
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  Speaker 1: you were me? Well? Perhaps not, said Alice in a
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  Speaker 1: soothing tone. Don't be angry about it. And yet I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could show you our cat, Dinah. I think
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  Speaker 1: you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only
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  Speaker 1: see her. She's such a dear, quiet thing. The mouse
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  Speaker 1: was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must
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  Speaker 1: be really offended. We won't talk about her any more,
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  Speaker 1: if you'd rather not we indeed, cried the mouse, who
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  Speaker 1: was trembling down to the end of its tale. As
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  Speaker 1: if I would talk on such a subject. Our family
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  Speaker 1: always hated cats, nasty, loath vulgar things. Don't let me
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  Speaker 1: hear the name again. I won't, indeed, said Alice, in
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  Speaker 1: a great hurry to change the subject of conversation. Are
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  Speaker 1: you are you fond of dogs? There is such a
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  Speaker 1: nice little dog near our house. I should like to
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  Speaker 1: show you. It kills all the rats. And oh, dear,
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  Speaker 1: cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, I'm afraid I've offended
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  Speaker 1: it again, for the mouse was swimming away from her
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  Speaker 1: as hard as it could go, and making quite a
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  Speaker 1: commotion in the pool as it went. So, she called
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  Speaker 1: softly after it. Mouse, dear, do come back again, and
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  Speaker 1: we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't like them. When the mouse heard this, it turned
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  Speaker 1: round and swam slowly back to her. Its face was
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  Speaker 1: quite pale, and it said, in a low trembling voice,
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  Speaker 1: let us get to the shore, and then I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you my history, and you'll understand why it is I
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  Speaker 1: hate cats and dogs. It was time to go for
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  Speaker 1: the poors, getting quite crowded with the birds and animals
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  Speaker 1: that had fallen into it. There was a duck and
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  Speaker 1: a dodo, a lorry and an eaglet, and several other
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  Speaker 1: curious creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party
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  Speaker 1: swam to the shore. End of section two, chapter three
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  Speaker 1: of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain recording by Ashley Jane,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, A caucus race and a long tail. They
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  Speaker 1: were indeed a queer looking party that assembled on the bank.
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  Speaker 1: The birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their far
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  Speaker 1: clinging close to them, and all dripping, wet, cross and uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: The first question, of course, was how to get dry again.
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  Speaker 1: They had a consultation about this, and after a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself
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  Speaker 1: talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them
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  Speaker 1: all her life. At last, the mouse, who seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be a person of some authority among them, called out,
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  Speaker 1: sit down, all of you and listen to me. I'll
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  Speaker 1: soon make you dry enough. They all sat down at
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  Speaker 1: once in a large ring, with the mouse in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Humph said the mouse, with an important air. Are you
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  Speaker 1: all ready? This is the dryest thing I know. Silence
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  Speaker 1: all round, if you please. William, the conqueror, whose cause
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  Speaker 1: was favored by the Pope, was soon submitted to by
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  Speaker 1: the English, who wanted leaders and had been of late
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  Speaker 1: much accustomed to usurpatient and conquest Edwin and Morcar. There
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  Speaker 1: owls of Mercier, Northumbria, ugh, said the lorry with a shiver,
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  Speaker 1: And even Steigan, the patriotic Archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable.
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  Speaker 1: Found what, said the duck? Found it? The mouse replied,
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  Speaker 1: rather crossly. Of course you know what it means. I
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  Speaker 1: know what it means well enough. When I find a thing,
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  Speaker 1: said the duck, it's generally a frog or a worm.
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  Speaker 1: The question is what did the archbishop find? The mouse
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  Speaker 1: did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on. Found
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  Speaker 1: it advisable to go with edgar Atheling to meet William
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  Speaker 1: and offer him the crown. How you getting on now,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, it continued turning to Alice as it spoke.
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  Speaker 1: We as ever, said Alice in a melancholy tone. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to dry me at all in that case,
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  Speaker 1: said the Dodo, solemnly, rising to its feet. I moved
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  Speaker 1: at the meeting adjown for the immediate adoption of more
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  Speaker 1: energetic remedies. Speak English, said the eaglet. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the meaning of half those long words. And what's more,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe you do either. What I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say, said the Dodo, in an offended tone, is
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  Speaker 1: that the best thing to get us dry would be
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  Speaker 1: a caucus race. What is a caucus race, said Alice. Why,
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  Speaker 1: said the Dodo. The best way to explain it is
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  Speaker 1: to do it. First. It marked out a race course
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  Speaker 1: in a sort of circle, and then all the party
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  Speaker 1: were placed along the course. Here and there. There was
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  Speaker 1: no one, two, three, and away. But they began running
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  Speaker 1: when they liked and left off when they liked, so
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  Speaker 1: that it was not easy to know when the race
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  Speaker 1: was over. However, when they had been running half an
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  Speaker 1: hour or so and were quite dry again, the Dodo
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  Speaker 1: suddenly called out the race is over, and they all
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  Speaker 1: crowded round it, panting and asking But who was one?
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  Speaker 1: The question the Dodo could not answer without a great
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  Speaker 1: deal of thought. At last it said, everybody has one,
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  Speaker 1: and all must have prizes. But who is to give
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  Speaker 1: the prizes? Quite a chorus of voices asked why She
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  Speaker 1: of course, said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling
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  Speaker 1: out in a confused way, prizes, prizes. Alice had no
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  Speaker 1: idea what to do, and in despair she put her
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  Speaker 1: hand into her pocket and pulled out a box of comfits,
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  Speaker 1: luckily salt water had not got into it, and handed
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  Speaker 1: them round as prices. There was exactly one a piece
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  Speaker 1: all round. The next thing was to eat the comforts.
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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. You promise to tell me your history, you know,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: said Alice. And why itis you hate C and D?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: She added in a whisper, half afraid that it would
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: be offended again. Mine is a long and sad tale,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: said the mouse, turning to Alice and sighing. It is
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a long tail, certainly, said Alice, looking down with wonder
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: at the mouse's tail. But why do you call it sad?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: And she kept on uzling about it while the mouse
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: something like this. Fury said to a mouse that he
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: met in the house, let us both go to law.
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  Speaker 1: I will prosecute you. Come. I'll take no denial. We
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: must have the trial for really this morning. I've nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do, said the mouse to the car. Such a trial,
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  Speaker 1: dear sir, with no jury or judge, would be wasting
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  Speaker 1: our breath. I'll be judge. I'll be jury, said cunning
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  Speaker 1: old Fury. I'll try the whole cause and condemn you
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  Speaker 1: to death. You are not attending, said the mouse to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Alice severely. What are you thinking of? I beg your pardon,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: said Alice, very humbly. You had got to the fifth bend.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I think you insult me by talking such nonsense, said
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the mouse, getting up and walking away. Please come back
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and finish your story, Alice called after it, and the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: others all joined in chorus. Yes, please do but the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: mouse only shook its head impatiently and walked a little quicker.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had Dinah, our cat here, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: This caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the birds hurried off at once, and a canary called
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: out in a trembling voice, to which children, come away,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: my DearS, it's high time you were all in bed
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: on various pretexts. They all moved off, and Alice was
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: soon left alone. I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah. Nobody
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: seems to like her down here, and I'm sure she's
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the best cat in the world. Poor Alice began to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: cry again, for she felt very lonely and low spirited.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And a little while however, she again heard a little
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter three. Chapter four of Alice's Adventures in
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This LibriVox recording is in the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Ashley Jane. Chapter four, the rabbit
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  Speaker 1: sends in a little bill. It was the white rabbit
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: as if it had lost something Alice heard it muttering
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to itself, the Duchess, the duchess, Oh my dear paus,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: oh my far and whiskers. She'll get me executed as
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: sure as ferrets are ferrets. Why can I have dropped them?
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I wonder? Alice guessed in a moment that it was
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and she very good naturedly began hunting about for them,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: but they were nowhere to be seen. Things seemed to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: have changed since her swim in the pool, and the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: great hall with the glass table and the little door
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: had vanished completely. Very soon the rabbit noticed Alice and
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: called to her in an angry tone, Why Mary Anne,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: what are you doing out here? Run home this moment
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  Speaker 1: and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan.
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  Speaker 1: Quick Now. He took me for his housemaid, said Alice,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: as she ran off. How surprised he'll be when he
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: finds out who I am. As she said this, she
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: came upon a neat little house, on the door of
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: which was a bright brass plate with the name W
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Rabbit engraved upon it. She went in without knocking and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: hurried upstairs in great fear lest she should meet the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: real Mary Anne and be turned out of the house
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: before she had found the fan and gloves. By this time,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Alice had found her way into a tidy little room
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: with a table in the window and on it fan
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  Speaker 1: and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: She took up the fan and the pair of the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: gloves and was just going to leave the room when
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: her eyes fell upon a little bottle that stood near
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the looking glass. She uncorked it and put it to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: her lips, saying to herself, I do hope it'll make
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: me grow large again, For really, I'm quite tired of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: being such a tiny little thing. Before she had drank
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: half the bottle, she had found her head pressing against
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the ceiling and had to stoop to save her neck
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle, remarking,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: that's quite enough. I hope I sha'n't grow any more.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Alas it was too late to wish that, she went
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: on growing and growing, and very soon she had to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: kneel down on the floor. Still she went on growing,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and the last resource she put one arm out of
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the window and one foot up the chimney, and said
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to herself. Now I can do no more. Whatever happens,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: what will become of me. Luckily for Alice, the little
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: magic bottle had now had its full effect, and she
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: grew no larger. After a few minutes, she heard a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: voice outside and stopped to listen Mary Anne. Mary Anne
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: said the voice, fetch me my gloves this moment. Then
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: that she was now about a thousand times as large
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: as the rabbit and had no reason to be afraid
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: of it. Presently, the rabbit came up to the door
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and tried to open it, But as the door opened
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: inwards and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it, that
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: then I'll go round and get in at the window.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: That you won't, thought Alice, And after waiting till she fancied,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: she heard the rabbit just under the window. She suddenly
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: spread out her hand and made a snatch in the air.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: She did not get hold of anything, but she heard
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: a little shriek, and a fall and a crash of
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame or something
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: of that sort. Next came an angry voice the rabbits, Pat, Pat,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: where are you? And then a voice she had never
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: heard before. Sure, then, I'm here dig in for apples,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: your honor, here, come and help me out of this.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window. Sure
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: it's an arm, your honor. Well, it's got no business
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: there at any rate, Go and take it away. There
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: was a long silence after this, and Alice could only
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: hear whispers now and then, And at last she spread
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: out her hand again and made another snatch in the air.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: This time there were two little shrieks and more sounds
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of broken glass. I wonder what they'll do next, thought Alice.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: As for pulling me out of the window, I only
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: wish they could. She waited for some time without hearing
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: anything more. At last came a rumbling of little cart
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: wheels and the sound of a good many voices, all
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: talking together. She made out the words where's the other ladder?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Bill's got the other ladder? Bill? Here? Bill will the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: roof bear. Who's to go down the chimney? Nay, I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: shan't you do it? Here? Bill, the master says, you've
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: got to go down the chimney. Alice drew her foot
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: as far down the chimney as she could and waited
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: till she heard a little animal scratching and scrambling about
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: in the chimney close above her. Then she gave one
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: sharp kick and waited to see what would happen next.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: The first thing she heard was a general chorus of
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: there goes Bill. Then the rabbit's voice alone, catch him,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you by the hedge. Then silence, and then another confusion
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: of voices. Hold up his head, Brandy, now don't choke him.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: What happened to you? Last? Came a little feeble squeaking voice. Well,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I hardly know no more, thank'ee, I'm better now. All
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I know is something comes at me like a jack
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: in the box, and I goes like a skyrocket. After
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: a minute or two of silence, they began moving about again,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and Alice heard the rabbit say, a barrelful will do
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to begin with a bowlful of what? Thought Alice? But
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: she had not long to doubt, for the next moment,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and some of them hit her in the face. Alice
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: a bright idea came into her head. If I eat
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: one of these cakes, she thought, it's sure to make
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: some change in my size. So she swallowed one of
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the cakes and was delighted to find that she began
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: shrinking directly. As soon as she was small enough to
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: get through the door. She ran out of the house
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: waiting outside. They all made a rush at Alice the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: moment she appeared, but she ran off as hard as
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: she could, and soon found herself safe in a thick wood.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: The first thing I've got to do, said Alice to herself,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: as she wandered about in the wood, is to grow
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to my right size again. And second thing is to
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: find my way into that lovely garden. I suppose I
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: ought to eat or drink something or other. But the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: great question is what. Alice looked all round her, at
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the flowers and the blades of grass, but she could
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: not see anything that looked like the right thing to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: eat or drink. Under the circumstance, there was a large
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peered over the edge,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: caterpillar that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: smoking along hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: her or anything else. End of chapter four, Chapter five
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This LibriVox
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain recording by Ashley Jane.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Chapter five advised from a Caterpillar. At last, the caterpillar
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed Alice
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: in a languid, sleepy voice. Who are you, said the caterpillar.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Alice replied, rather shyly. I I hardly know, sir, just
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: at present. At least I know who I was when
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I got up this morning, but I think I must
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: have changed several times since then. What do you mean
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: by that, said the caterpillar, sternly. Explain yourself. I can't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: explain myself. I'm afraid, sir, said Alice, because I'm not myself.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: You see, being so many different sizes in a day
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: is very confusing. She drew herself up and said, very gravely,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I think you ought to tell me who you are? Fast?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Why said the caterpillar. As Alice could not think of
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: any good reason, and the caterpillar seemed to be in
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a very unpleasant state of mind, she turned away. Come back,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the caterpillar called after her. I've something important to say.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Alice turned and came back again. Keep your temper, said
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the caterpillar. Is that all, said Alice, swallowing down her
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: anger as well as she could. No, said the caterpillar.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: It unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: mouth again, and said, so you think you're changed, do you?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid I am, sir, said Alice. I can't remember
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: things as I used, and I don't keep the same
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: size for ten minutes together. What size do you want
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: to be? Asked the caterpillar. I I'm not particular as
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to size, Alice hastily replied, only one doesn't like changing
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: so often. You know, I should like to be a
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: little larger, sir. If you wouldn't mind, said Alice. Three
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: inches is such a wretched height to be. It is
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a very good height, indeed, said the caterpillar, angrily, rearing
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: itself upright as it spoke. It was exactly three inches high.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: In a minute or two, the caterpillar got down off
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the mushroom and crawled away into the grass, merely remarking
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: as it went. One side will make you grow taller,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: and the other side will make you grow shorter. One
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: side of what the other side of what, thought Alice
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to herself. Of the mushroom, said the caterpillar, just as
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: if she had asked it out loud, And in another
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: moment it was out of sight. Alice remained looking thoughtfully
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: which were the two sides of it. At last, she
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: stretched her arm round it as far as they would go,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: And now which is which, she said to herself, and
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: nibbled a little of the right hand bit to try
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the effect. The next moment she felt a very violent
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: blow underneath her chin. It had struck her foot. She
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: as she was shrinking rapidly, so she set to work
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: at once to eat some of the other bit. Her
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: chin was pressed so closely against her foot that there
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: was hardly room to open her mouth, but she did
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: it at last and managed to swallow a morsel of
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the left hand bit. Come. My head's free at last,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: said Alice. But all she could see when she looked
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: down was an immense length of neck, which seemed to
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: rise like a stalk out of a sea of green
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: leaves that lay far below her. Why have my shoulders
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: got to and oh, my poor hands, how is it
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I can't see you. She was delighted to find that
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: her neck would bend about easily in any direction like
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: a serpent. She had just succeeded in carving it down
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: among the leaves when a sharp hiss made her draw
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: back in a hurry. A large pigeon had thrown into
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: her face and was beating her violently with its wings. Serpent,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: cried the pigeon. I'm not a serpent, said Alice, indignantly.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Let me alone. I've tried the roots of trees and
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I've tried banks, and I've tried hedges, the pigeon went on,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: But those serpents, there's no pleasing them. Alice was more
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and more puzzled, as if it wasn't trouble enough hatching
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the eggs, said the pigeon. But I must be on
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the lookout for serpents night and day. And just as
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I had taken the highest tree in the wood, continued
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: the pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek. And just
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: as I was thinking I should be free from them
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Oh serpent. But I'm not a serpent, I tell you,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: said Alice. I'm a I'm a I'm a little girl,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: she added, rather doubtfully as she remembered the number of
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: changes she had gone through that day. You're looking through
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: you're looking for eggs. I know that well enough, said
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the pigeon. And what does it matter to me whether
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: you're a little girl or a serpent? It matters a
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: good deal to me, said Alice hastily. But I'm not
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: looking for eggs, as it happens, And if I was,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't want yours. I don't want them all well,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: be off, then, said the pigeon in a sulky tone,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: as it settled down again into its nest. Alice crouched
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: down among the trees as well as she could, for
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: now and then she had to stop and untwist it.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: After a while, she remembered that she still held the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: pieces of mushroom in her hand, and she set to
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: It was so long since she had been anything near
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: the right size that it felt quite strange at first.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: The next thing is to get into that beautiful garden.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: How is that to be done? I wonder? As she
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: said this, she came suddenly upon an open place with
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: a little house in it, about four feet high, where
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: for lives there, thought Alice. It'll never do to come
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: upon them this size. Why I should frighten them out
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: of their wits. She did not venture to go near
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the house till she had brought herself down to nine
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: inches high. End of Chapter five, Chapter six of Alice's
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This LibriVox recording is
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: in the public domain recording by Ashley Jane, Chapter six,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Pig and Pepper. For a minute or two she stood
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: looking at the house, when suddenly a footman in livery
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: came running out of the wood. Judging by his face
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: only she would have caught him a fish, and rapped
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: loudly at the door with his knuckles. It was opened
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: by another footman in livery, with a round face and
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: large eyes like a frog. The fish footman began by
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: producing from under his arm a great letter, and this
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: tone for the Duchess an invitation from the Queen to
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: play croquet. The frog footman repeated, in the same solemn
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: tone from the Queen, an invitation for the duchess to
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: play croquet. Then they both bowed low, and their carls
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: got entangled together. When Alice next peeped out, the fish
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Alice went timidly up to the door and knocked. There's
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: no sort of use in knocking, said the footman, And
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that for two reasons, First because I am on the
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: same side of the door as you are. Secondly, because
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: hear you. And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: going on within, a constant howling and sneezing, and every
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: now and then a great crash, as if a dish
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: or kettle had been broken to pieces. How am I
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: to get in, asked Alice. Are you to get in
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: at all? Said the footman, that's the first question, you know.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Alice opened the door and went in. The door led
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: right into a large kitchen which was full of smoke
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: from one end to the other. The Duchess was sitting
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: on a three legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: The cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: cauldron which seemed to be full of soup. There's certainly
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: too much pepper in that soup, Alice said to herself,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: as well as she could for sneezing. Even the Duchess
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: sneezed occasionally, and as for the baby, it was sneezing
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  Speaker 1: and howling alternately, without a moment's pause. The only two
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: creatures in the kitchen that did not sneeze were the
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: cooks and a large cat, which was grinning from ear
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  Speaker 1: to ear. Please would you tell me, said Alice, a
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: little timidly, why your cat grins like that. It's a
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Cheshire cat, said the duchess. And that's why I didn't
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: know that Cheshire cats always grinned. In fact, I didn't
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: know the cat's good grin, said Alice. You don't know much,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: said the duchess, And that's a fact. Just then, the
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: cook took the caldron of soup off the fire and
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: at once set to work throwing everything within her reach
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: at the Duchess and the baby. The fire irons came first,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes. The
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Duchess took no notice of them, even when they hit her,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: and the baby howling so much already that it was
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Oh please, mind what you're doing, cried Alice, jumping up
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: and down in an agony of terror. Here you may
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: nurse it a bit if you like, the Duchess said
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I must go and get ready to play croquet with
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: the queen, and she hurried out of the room. Alice
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: queer shaped little creature, and held out its arms and
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: legs in all directions. If I don't take this child
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: away with me, thought Alice, they're sure to kill it
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: in a day or two. Wouldn't it be murder to
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: leave it behind? She said the last words out loud,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: and the little thing grunted in reply. If you're going
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: to turn into a pig, my dear, said Alice, I'll
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: have nothing more to do with you, my And now
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Alice was just beginning to think to herself, now what
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: am I going to do with this creature when I
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: get it home? When it grunted again so violently that
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Alice looked down into its face in some alarm. This time,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: there could be no mistake about it. It was neither
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: more nor less than a pig. So she set the
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: little creature down and felt quite relieved to see it
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: trot away quietly into the wood. Alice was a little
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: startled by seeing the cheshire cat sitting on a bow
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: of a tree a few yards off. The cat only
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: grinned when it saw her. Cheshier Puss began Alice rather timidly.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Would you please tell me which way I ought to
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: go from here? In that direction, the cat said, waving
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: the right paw round lives a hatter, and in that direction,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: waving the other paw, lives a march visit either you like.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: They're both mad. But I don't want to go among
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: mad people. Alice remarked, Oh, you can't help that, said
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: the cat. We're all mad here. Do you play croquet
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: with the queen today? I should like it very much,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: said Alice, But I haven't been invited yet. You'll see
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: me there, said the cat, and vanished. Alice had not
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: gone much farther before she came in sight of the
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: house of the march Hare. It was so large a
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: house that she did not like to go near till
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: she had nibbled some more of the left hand bit
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: of mushroom, end of chapter six, Chapter seven of Alice's
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This librifox recording is
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Recording by Ashley Jane. Chapter seven
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: a mad tea party. There was a table set out
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: under a tree in front of the house, and the
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: march Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: A dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep. The table
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: was a large one, but the three were all crowded
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: together at one corner of it. No room, no room,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: they cried out when they saw Alice coming. There's plenty
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: of room, said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: a large arm chair at one end of the table.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: but all he said was why is a raven like
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: a writing desk? I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. I
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: believe I can guess that, She added aloud. Do you
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: mean to think that you can find out the answer
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  Speaker 1: to it? Said the march Hare. Exactly so, said Alice.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Then you should say what you mean. The march Hare
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: went on, I do. Alice hastily replied, at least at
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: least I mean what I say. That's the same thing.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: You know. You might just as well say, added the dormouse,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: which seemed to be talking in its sleep, that I
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: breathe when I sleep. It's the same thing as I sleep,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: when I breathe. It is the same thing with you,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: said the hatter, and he poured a little hot tea
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: upon its nose. The dormouse shook its head impatiently and said,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: without opening its eyes. Of course, of course, just what
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I was going to remark myself. Have you guessed the
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: riddle yet, the hatter said, turn to Alice again, No,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I give it up. Alice replied, what's the answer. I
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: haven't the slightest idea, said the hatter, Nor I said
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the march hare. Alice gave a weary sigh. I think
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: you might do something better with the time, she said,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: than wasting it and asking riddles that have no answers.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Take some more tea, the march hare said to Alice,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: very earnestly. I've had nothing yet. Alice replied, in an
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: offended tone. So I can't take more. You mean you
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: can't take less, said the hatter. It's very easy to
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: take more than nothing. At this point, Alice got up
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: and walked off. The dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: of the others took the least notice of her going,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: though she looked back once or twice. The last time
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: she saw them, they were trying to put the dormouse
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: into the teapot. At any rate, I'll never go there again,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: said Alice, as she picked her way through the wood.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: It's the stupidest tea party I ever was at in
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: my life. Just as she said this, she noticed that
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: one of the trees had a door leading right into it.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: That's very curious, she thought, I think I may as
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: well go in at once, And in she went once more.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: She found herself in the long hall and close to
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: the little glass table. Taking the little golden key, she
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: unlocked the door that led into the garden. Then she
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: set to work nibbling at the mushroom. She had kept
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: a piece of it in her pocket till she was
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: about a fort high. Then she walked down the little passage,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: and then she found herself at last in the beautiful garden,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: among the bright flower beds and the call. Found end
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: of chapter seven, Chapter eight of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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  Speaker 1: by Lewis Carroll. This LibriVox recording is in the public
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: domain recording by Ashley Jane. Chapter eight The Queen's croquet Ground.
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  Speaker 1: A large rose tree stood near the entrance of the garden.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: The roses growing on it were white, but there were
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: three gardeners at it, busily painting them red. Suddenly their
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: eyes chanced to fall upon Alice as she stood watching them.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Would you tell me, please, said Alice a little timidly,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: why you were painting those roses red? Five and seven
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: said nothing, but looked at two. Two began in a
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: low voice, Why the fact is, you see, miss, this
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: here ought to have been a red rose tree, and
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: we put in a white one by mistake. And if
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: the Queen was to find out, we would all have
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: our heads cut off, you know. So you see, miss,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: we're doing our best. Afore she comes to. At this moment, five,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called out
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: the Queen. The queen and the three gardeners instantly threw
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: themselves flat upon their faces. There was a sound of
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: many footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to see the queen.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: First came ten soldiers carrying clubs with their hands and
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: feet at the corners. Next the ten courtiers. These were
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: ornamented all over with diamonds. After these came the royal children.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: There were ten of them, all ornamented with hearts. Next
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: came the guests, mostly kings and queens, and among them
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Alice recognized the white rabbit. Then followed the Knave of Hearts,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: carrying the King's crown on the crimson velvet cushion. And
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: last of all this grand procession came the King and
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: the Queen of Hearts. When the procession came opposite to Alice,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: they all stopped and looked at her, and the queen
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: said severely, who is this? She said it to the
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: My name is Alice, so please, your majesty, said Alice
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: very politely. But she added to herself, why they are
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: only a pack of cards? After all? Can you play croquete?
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Shouted the queen. The question was evidently meant for Alice. Yes,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: said Alice loudly. Come on, then roared the queen. It's
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: it's a very fine day, said tim voice to Alice.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: She was walking by the rabbit, who was peeping anxiously
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: into her face. Very said Alice, where's the duchess? Hush, hush,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: said the rabbit. She's under sentence for execution. What for,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: said Alice? She boxed the queen's ears. The rabbit began.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Get to your places, shouted the queen in a voice
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: of thunder, and people began running about in all directions,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: tumbling up against each other. However, they got settled down
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: in a minute or two, and the game began. Alice
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: in her life. It was all ridges and furrows. The
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: croquet balls were live hedgehogs, and the mallets live flamingoes,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: and the soldiers had to double themselves up and stand
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: on their hands and feet to make the arches. The
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: players all played at once without waiting for times, quarreling
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: all the while and fighting for the hedgehogs. And in
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: and went stamping about and shouting off with his head
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: or off with her head about once a minute. They're
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: dreadfully fond of bedding people here, thought Alice. The great
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: wonder is that there's any one left alive. She was
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: looking about for some way of escape when she noticed
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: a curious appearance in the air. It's a Cheshire cat,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: she said to herself. Now I shall have somebody to
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: talk to. How are you getting on, said the cat.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: I don't think they play it all fairly, Alice said,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: in a rather complaining tone. And they all quarrel so dreadfully.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: One can't hear one's self speak, and they don't seem
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: to have any roars in particular. How do you like
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the queen, said the cat in a low voice. Not
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: at all, said Alice. Alice thought she might as well
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: go back and see how the game was going on,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: so she went off in search of her hedgehog. The
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: them with the other. The only difficulty was that how
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: where Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: of way to fly up into a tree. She caught
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the flamingo and tucked it away under her arm that
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: it might not escape again. Just then Alice ran across
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: the Duchess, who was now out of prison. She tucked
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: her arm affectionately into Alice's and they walked off together.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Alice was very glad to find her in such a
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: pleasant temper. She was a little startled, however, when she
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: heard the voice of the Duchess close to her ear.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: You are thinking about something, my dear, and that makes
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: you forget to talk. The game is going on rather
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: better now, Alice said. By way of keeping up the conversation,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: A little tis, so, said the Duchess. And the moral
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: of that is, oh tis love, Tis love that makes
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: the world go round, somebody, said, Alice whispered, that it's
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: done by everybody minding his own business. Ah well, it
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: means much the same thing, said the Duchess, digging her
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added. And
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: the moral of that is take care of the sense,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: and the sounds will take care of themselves. To Alice's
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: great surprise, the Duchess's arm that was linked into hers
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: began to tremble. Alice looked up and there stood the
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Queen in front of them, with her arms folded, frowning
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: like a thunderstorm. Now I give you fair warning, shouted
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke. Either
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: you or your head must be off, and that in
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: about half no time. Take your choice. The Duchess took
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: her choice and was gone in a moment. Let's go
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: on with the game, the Queen said to Alice, and
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Alice was much too frightened to say a word, but
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: slowly followed her back to the croquet ground. All the
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: time they were playing, the Queen never left off, quarreling
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: with the other players and shouting off with his head
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: or off with her head. By the end of half
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: an hour or so, all the players except the King,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: the Queen, and Alice were in custody of the soldiers
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: and under sentence of execution. Then the Queen left off,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: quite out of breath, and walked away with Alice. Alice
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: heard the King say in a low voice to the company, generally,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: you were all pardoned. Suddenly the cry the trials beginning
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: was heard in the distance, and Alice ran along with
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: the others. End of chapter eight. Chapter nine of Alice's
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This LibriVox recording is
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: in the public domain recording by Ashley Jane, Chapter nine,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Who Stole the Tarts? The King and Queen of Hearts
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: were seated on their throne when they arrived, with a
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: great crowd assembled about them, all sorts of little birds
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: The knave was standing before them in chains, with a
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: soldier on each side to guard him. And near the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: king was the white rabbit, with a trumpet in one
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: hand and a scroll of parchment in the other. In
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: the very middle of the court was a table with
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: a large dish of tarts upon it. I wish they'd
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: get the trial done, Alice thought, and hand round the refreshments.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: The judge, by the way, was the King, and he
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: wore his crown over his great wig. That's the jury box,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: thought Alice. And those twelve creatures, some were animals and
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: some were birds. I suppose they are the durers. Just
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: then the white rabbit cried out silence in the court.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Herald read the accusation, said the King. On this, the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, then unrolled
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: the parchment scroll and read as follows. The Queen of Hearts,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: she made some tarts all on a summer day. The
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts and took them
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: quite away. Call the first witness, said the king, and
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: the white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: called out first witness. The first witness was the hatter.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: He came in with a tea cup in one hand
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: and a piece of bread and butter in the other.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: You ought to have finished, said the king. When did
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: you begin? The hatter looked at the march Hare, who
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: had followed him into the court arm in arm with
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: the dormouse fourteenth of March I think it was, he said.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Give your evidence, said the King, and don't be nervous,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: or I'll have you executed on the spot. This did
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: not seem to encourage the witness at all. He kept
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: shifting from one foot to the other, looking under easily
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: at the Queen, and in his confusion, he bit a
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: large piece of his teacup instead of the bread and butter.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Just at this moment, Alice felt a very curious sensation
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: she was beginning to grow larger again. The miserable hatter
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: dropped his teacup and bread and butter and went down
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: on one knee. I'm a poor man, your majesty, he began.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: You're a very poor speaker, said the king. You may go,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Call the next witness said the king. The next witness
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: was the Duchess's cook. She carried the pepper box in
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: her hand, and the people near the door began sneezing
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: all at once. Give your evidence, said the king. Shan't,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: said the cook. The King looked anxiously at the white Rabbit,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: who said, in a low voice, your Majesty must cross
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: examine this witness. Well, if I must, I must, The
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: King said, what are the tarts made of pepper? Mostly,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: said the cork. For some minutes the whole court was
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: in confusion, and by the time they had settled down again,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: the cork had disappeared. Never mind, said the King. Call
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: the next witness, Alice, watched the White Rabbit as he
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: fumbled over the list. Imagine her surprise when he read out,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: at the top of his shrill, little voice, the name Alice.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: End of chapter nine, Chapter ten of Alice's Adventures in
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This LibriVox recording is in the
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Ashley Jane. Chapter ten. Alice's evidence here,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: cried Alice. She jumped up in such a hurry that
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: she tipped over the jury box, upsetting all the jurymen.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: On to the heads of the crowd below. Oh, I
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: beg your pardon, she exclaimed, in a tone of great dismay.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: The trial cannot proceed, said the King until all the
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: jurymen are back in their proper places. All, he repeated,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice, What do you
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: know about this business, said the King to Alice, Nothing whatever,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: said Alice. The King then read from his book Rule
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: forty two, all persons more than a mile high to
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: leave the court. I'm not a mile high, said Alice.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Nearly two miles high, said the Queen. Well, I shan't
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: go at any rate, said Alice. The King turned pale
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: and shut his notebook. Hastily, consider your verdict, he said
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: to the jury in a low trembling voice. There's more
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: evidence to come yet, Please your majesty, said the white rabbit,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: jumping up in a great hurry. This paper has just
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: been picked up. It seems to be a letter written
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  Speaker 1: by the prisoner to somebody. He unfolded the paper as
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  Speaker 1: he spoke, and added, it isn't a letter after all,
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  Speaker 1: it's a set of fasts. Please, your majesty, said the knave.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't write it, and they can't prove that I did.
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  Speaker 1: There's no name signed at the end. You must have
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  Speaker 1: meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed your name
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  Speaker 1: like an honest man, said the King. There was a
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  Speaker 1: general clapping of hands at this. Read them, he added,
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  Speaker 1: turning to the white Rabbit. There was dead silence in
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  Speaker 1: the court whilst the White Rabbit read out the verses.
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  Speaker 1: That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,
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  Speaker 1: said the King. I don't believe there's an atom of
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  Speaker 1: meaning in it, ventured Alice. If there's no meaning in it,
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  Speaker 1: said the King. That saves a world of trouble, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as we needn't try to find any Let the Jewry
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  Speaker 1: consider their verdict. No, no, said the Queen. Sentence first
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  Speaker 1: verdict afterwards, stuff and nonsense, said Alice loudly. The idea
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  Speaker 1: of having the sentence fast hold your tongue, said the Queen,
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  Speaker 1: turning purple. I won't, said Alice. 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 1: Who cares for you, said Alice. She had grown to
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  Speaker 1: her false eye by this time. You're nothing but a
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  Speaker 1: pack of cards. At this the whole pack rose up
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  Speaker 1: in the air and came flying down upon her. She
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  Speaker 1: gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger,
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  Speaker 1: and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying
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  Speaker 1: on the bank with her head in the lap of
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  Speaker 1: her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves
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  Speaker 1: that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.
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  Speaker 1: Wake up, Alice, dear, said her sister. Why what a
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  Speaker 1: long sleep you've had. 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. Alice got up
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  Speaker 1: and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well as
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  Speaker 1: she might, what a wonderful dream it had been. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter ten, end of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by
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  Speaker 1: Lewis Carroll.