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Alice in Wonderland Drama - Lewis Carroll Alice Gerstenberg · Edgar Rice Burroughs Classics Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Credits of Alice in Wonderland by Alice Gerstenberg. 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 volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Actors listed Stage Directions read by Mikayla Curtis Lewis Carroll
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  Speaker 1: read by Charlotte Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Alice read by Amanda Friday.
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  Speaker 3: The Red Queen read by SHAWNA.
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  Speaker 4: Cannett, White Queen read by Elisabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 5: White Rabbit read by Todd.
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  Speaker 6: Humpty, Dumpty read by Jeff Muschado.
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  Speaker 7: Griffin read by Brett Hirsch.
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  Speaker 8: The Mock Turtle read by Ted DeLorme.
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  Speaker 9: Matt Hatter read by Elliott Gage.
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  Speaker 1: The Match Had by Charlotte Ducats, to Our Mouse read
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  Speaker 1: by Kimberly Kraus.
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  Speaker 10: Frog read by Larry Wilson.
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  Speaker 11: Duchess read by Ellie cat.
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  Speaker 12: Cheshire Cat read by Sarah Parshall.
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  Speaker 1: Tweetl d read by Charlotte Brown.
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  Speaker 13: Twido Doom read by Anastasia Saloa, The King.
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  Speaker 8: Of Hearts read by Ted DeLorme, The.
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  Speaker 14: Queen of Hearts read by Eden.
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  Speaker 12: Ray, Heddrick.
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  Speaker 15: Knave by Glorious job.
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  Speaker 16: Cuter pillar by Antel Buss.
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  Speaker 9: Two spot read by Dave Harrel, five spot read by
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  Speaker 9: Dave Harrell. Seven of Spades read by Dave Harrol.
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  Speaker 1: End of credits.
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  Speaker 17: Act one of Alice in Wonderland by Alice Gernsteinburg. This
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  Speaker 17: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 17: public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
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  Speaker 17: LibriVox dot org. Scene one Alice's home, Lewis Carroll is
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  Speaker 17: discovered playing chess. Golden haired Alice in a little blue dress.
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  Speaker 17: A black kitten in her arms stands watching him.
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  Speaker 2: That's a funny game, Uncle, What did you do? Then?
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  Speaker 1: A red pond took a white pawn? This way you see, Alice.
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  Speaker 1: The chessboard is divided into sixty four squares red and white,
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  Speaker 1: and the white army tries to win, and the red
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  Speaker 1: army tries to win.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a battle with soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, here are the kings and queens they're fighting for.
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  Speaker 1: That's the red and here's the white queen.
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  Speaker 2: How funny they look see the.
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  Speaker 1: Crowns on their heads, and look at their big feet.
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  Speaker 2: It's a foot a piece, that's what it is. Do
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  Speaker 2: they hump along like this.
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  Speaker 1: Here, you're spoiling the game. You must keep them in
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  Speaker 1: their right squares.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be a queen.
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  Speaker 1: Here you are.
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  Speaker 17: He points to a small white pond. Here you are
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  Speaker 17: in your little stiff skirt.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do, Alice?
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  Speaker 1: And now you are going to move here?
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  Speaker 2: Let me move myself.
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  Speaker 1: When you travel all along the board this way and
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  Speaker 1: you haven't been taken by the enemy, you may be
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  Speaker 1: a queen.
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  Speaker 2: Why do people always play with kings and queens? Mother
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  Speaker 2: has them in her playing cards too.
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  Speaker 4: Look.
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  Speaker 17: Alice goes to the mantel and takes a pack of
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  Speaker 17: playing cards from the ledge.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the King of Hearts, and here's his wife. She's
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  Speaker 2: the Queen of hearts. Isn't she cross? Looking? Wants to
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  Speaker 2: bite one's head off?
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  Speaker 17: Carol moves upon.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing against yourself, aren't you.
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  Speaker 1: That's one way of keeping in practice, Alice. I have
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  Speaker 1: friends in the university who want to beat me.
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  Speaker 2: But if you play against yourself, I should think you'd
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  Speaker 2: want to cheat.
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  Speaker 1: Does a nice little girl like you cheat when she's
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  Speaker 1: playing against herself?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I never do. I'd scold myself hard. I always
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  Speaker 2: pretend I'm two people too. It's lots of fun, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes when I'm all alone, I walk up to the
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  Speaker 2: looking glass and talk to the other Alice. She's so silly,
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  Speaker 2: that Alice. She can't do anything by herself. She just
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  Speaker 2: mocks me all the time. When I laugh, she laughs.
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  Speaker 2: When I point my finger at her, she points her
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  Speaker 2: finger at me. And when I stick my tongue out
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  Speaker 2: at her, she sticks her tongue out at me. Kitty
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  Speaker 2: has a twin too, haven't you, Darling.
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  Speaker 17: Alice goes to the mirror to show Kitty for twin.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to write a book someday about Alice. Alice
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  Speaker 1: in Wonderland, child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming
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  Speaker 1: eyes of wonder or Alice through the looking Glass.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you wish sometimes you could go into looking glass house?
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  Speaker 17: See Alice stands on an armchair and looks into the mirror.
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  Speaker 2: There's the room you can see through the glass. It's
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  Speaker 2: just the same as our living room here, only the
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  Speaker 2: things go the other way. I can see all of
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  Speaker 2: it all but the bit just behind the fireplace. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I do wish I could see that bit. I want
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  Speaker 2: so much to know if they've a fire there. You
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  Speaker 2: never can tell you no. Unless our fire smokes, then
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  Speaker 2: smoke comes up in that room too, But that may
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  Speaker 2: be just to make it look as if they had
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  Speaker 2: a fire, just to pretend they had. The books are
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  Speaker 2: something like our books, only the words go the wrong way.
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  Speaker 2: Won't there ever be any way of our getting through? Uncle?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think kitty find looking glass milk digestible?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't sound awful good, does it. But I might
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  Speaker 2: leave her at home. She's been into an awful lot
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  Speaker 2: of mischief to day. She founds this is knitting and
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  Speaker 2: chase the ball all over the garden where sister was
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  Speaker 2: playing croquet with the neighbors. And I ran and ran
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  Speaker 2: after the naughty little thing until I was all out
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  Speaker 2: of breath and so tired. Oh I'm tired.
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  Speaker 17: She yawns and makes herself comfortable in the arm chair.
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  Speaker 17: Carrol replaces the playing cards on the mantel and consults
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  Speaker 17: his watch.
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  Speaker 1: Take a nap, Yes, you have time before tea.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have mock turtle soup for supper. I
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  Speaker 2: heard Mamma tell the cook not to pepper it too much.
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  Speaker 1: What a funny little rabbit it is, nibbling all the time.
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  Speaker 17: He leans gently over the back of her chair, and
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  Speaker 17: seeing that she is going to sleep, puts out the
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  Speaker 17: lamp light and leaves the room. A red glow from
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  Speaker 17: the fireplace illumines alice dream music. A bluish light reveals
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  Speaker 17: the Red chest Queen and the White chest Queen in
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  Speaker 17: the mirror. The Red Queen points to Alice and says,
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  Speaker 17: in a mysterious voice.
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  Speaker 3: There she is. Let's call her over.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think she'll come?
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  Speaker 3: I'll call softly. Alice hissed, Alice, Alice.
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  Speaker 4: Hush if she wakes and catches us, Alice.
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  Speaker 17: Glass house their hands beckon her. Alice rises and talks sleepily.
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  Speaker 17: The queen's disappear. Alice climbs from the arm of the
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  Speaker 17: chair to the back of another, and so on up
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  Speaker 17: to the manteledge, where she picks her way daintily between
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  Speaker 17: the vases.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I can get through. I've tried before,
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  Speaker 2: but the glass was hard and I was afraid of
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  Speaker 2: cutting my finger.
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  Speaker 17: She feels the glass and is amazed to find it
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  Speaker 17: like gauze.
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  Speaker 2: Why it's soft, like gauze, it's turning into a sort
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  Speaker 2: of mist. Why it's easy to get through? Why why
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  Speaker 2: I'm going through?
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  Speaker 17: She disappears. Scene two is Scene one reversed. The portiers
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  Speaker 17: are black and red squares like a chessboard. A soft
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  Speaker 17: radiance follows the characters mysteriously as the curtain rises. Alice
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  Speaker 17: comes through the looking glass, steps down, looks about in wonderment,
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  Speaker 17: and goes to see if there is a fire. The
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  Speaker 17: Red Queen rises out of the grate and faces her haughtily.
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  Speaker 2: Why you're the Red Queen?
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  Speaker 3: Of course I am. Where do you come from and
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  Speaker 3: where are you going?
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  Speaker 7: Look up?
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  Speaker 3: Speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers.
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  Speaker 2: I only wanted to see what the looking glass was like.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps I've lost my way.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what you mean by your way. All
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  Speaker 3: the ways about here belonged to me, Curtsey, While you're
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  Speaker 3: thinking what to say, it saves time.
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  Speaker 2: I'll try it when I go home the next time
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little late for dinner.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for you to answer. Now, open your mouth
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  Speaker 3: a little wider when you speak, and always say your majesty.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose you don't want to lose your name. No, indeed,
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  Speaker 3: And yet I don't know. Only think how convenient it
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  Speaker 3: would be if you could manage to go home without it.
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  Speaker 3: For instance, if the governess wanted to call you to
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  Speaker 3: your lessons, she would call out, come here and there.
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  Speaker 3: She would have to leave off because there wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: any name for her to call. And of course you
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have to go.
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  Speaker 2: You know that would never do. I'm sure the governess
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  Speaker 2: would never think of excusing me from lessons for that.
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  Speaker 2: If she couldn't remember my name, she'd call me miss,
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  Speaker 2: as the servants do.
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  Speaker 9: Well.
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  Speaker 3: If she said miss and didn't say anything more, of
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  Speaker 3: course you'd miss your lessons. I I dare say, you
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  Speaker 3: can't even read this book.
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  Speaker 2: It's all in some language. I don't know why. It's
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  Speaker 2: a looking glass book, of course, And if I hold
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  Speaker 2: it up to a glass, the words will all go
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  Speaker 2: the right way. Gane Jebberwocky twas Brillig and the slithy
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  Speaker 2: toes did Gyre and gimble in the Wabe all mimsy
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  Speaker 2: where the burrow goes and the mom raiths out Grabe.
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  Speaker 2: It seems very pretty, but it's rather hard to understand.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas, only
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  Speaker 2: I don't exactly know what they are.
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  Speaker 3: I dare say you don't know your geography either. Look
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  Speaker 3: at the map.
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  Speaker 17: She takes a right angle course to the portiers and
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  Speaker 17: points to them with her scepter.
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  Speaker 2: It's marked out just like a big chessboard. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: mind being a pawn, though, of course I should like
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  Speaker 2: to be a red queen. Best.
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  Speaker 3: That's easily managed. When you get to the eighth square,
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  Speaker 3: you'll be a queen. It's a huge game of chess
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  Speaker 3: that's being played all over the world. Come on, we've
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  Speaker 3: got to run faster. Don't try to talk. I can't faster.
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  Speaker 2: Faster, Oh, nearly there.
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  Speaker 3: Nearly there. Why we passed it ten minutes ago. Faster
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  Speaker 3: you may rest a little now, Why.
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  Speaker 2: I do believe we're in the same place. Everything's just
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  Speaker 2: as it was.
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  Speaker 3: Of course it is. What would you have it?
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  Speaker 7: Well?
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  Speaker 2: In our country you generally get to somewhere else if
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  Speaker 2: you ran very fast for a long time, as we've
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  Speaker 2: been doing.
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  Speaker 3: A slow sort of country now here. You see, it
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  Speaker 3: takes all the running you can do to keep in
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  Speaker 3: the same place. If you want to get somewhere else,
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  Speaker 3: you must run at least twice as fast as that.
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather not try, please, I'm quite content to stay here.
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  Speaker 2: Only I am so hot and thirsty.
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  Speaker 3: I know what you'd like.
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  Speaker 17: She takes a little box out of her pocket.
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  Speaker 3: Have a biscuit.
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  Speaker 17: Alice, not liking to refuse, curtsies as she takes the
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  Speaker 17: biscuit and chokes.
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  Speaker 3: While you're refreshing yourself, I'll just take the measurements.
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  Speaker 17: She takes a ribbon out of her pocket and measures
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  Speaker 17: the map with it.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of two yards, I shall give you
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  Speaker 3: your directions.
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  Speaker 2: Have another biscuit, No, thank you, one's quite enough.
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  Speaker 3: There's quenched. I hope. At the end of three yards,
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  Speaker 3: I shall repeat them for fear of your forgetting them.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of four I shall say goodbye. And
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  Speaker 3: at the end of five I shall go that square
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  Speaker 3: belongs to Humpty Dumpty, and that's square to the griffin
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  Speaker 3: and mock turtle, and that's square to the Queen of hearts.
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  Speaker 3: But you make no remark.
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  Speaker 2: I I didn't know I had to make one.
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  Speaker 3: Just then you should have said, it's extremely kind of
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  Speaker 3: you to tell me all this. However, we'll suppose it
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  Speaker 3: said four goodbye. Five.
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  Speaker 17: Red Queen vanishes in a gust of wind behind the
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  Speaker 17: portiers rabbit music. White Rabbit comes out of the fireplace
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  Speaker 17: and walks about the room hurriedly. He wears a checked coat,
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  Speaker 17: carries white kid gloves in one hand, a fan in
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  Speaker 17: the other, and takes out his watch to look at
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  Speaker 17: it anxiously.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, the Duchess, the dodgess. Oh, won't she be savage
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  Speaker 5: if I've kept her waiting.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen a rabbit with a waistcoat and a
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  Speaker 2: watch and a waistcoat pocket. If you please, sir, oh.
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  Speaker 17: He drops fan and gloves in fright and dashes out
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  Speaker 17: by way of the portiers in a gust of wind.
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  Speaker 17: Alice picks up the fan and playfully puts on the gloves.
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  Speaker 17: The portiers flap in a breeze, and the shawl flies in.
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  Speaker 17: Alice catches the shawl and looks about for the owner,
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  Speaker 17: then meets the White Queen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very glad I happen to be in the way.
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  Speaker 17: The White Queen runs in wildly, both arms stretched out
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  Speaker 17: wide as if she were flying, and cries in a helpless,
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  Speaker 17: frightened way.
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  Speaker 4: Bread and butter, Bread and butter, am.
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  Speaker 2: I addressing the white Queen, Well.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, if you call that a dressing, it isn't my
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  Speaker 4: notion of the thing at all.
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  Speaker 2: If your majesty will only tell me the right way
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  Speaker 2: to begin. I'll do it as well as I can.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't want it done at all. I've been
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  Speaker 4: addressing myself for the last two hours.
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  Speaker 2: Every single thing's crooked, and you're all over pins. May
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  Speaker 2: I put your shawl straight for you?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what's the matter with it. It's out
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  Speaker 4: of temper. I've pinned it here and I've pinned it there,
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  Speaker 4: but there's no pleasing it.
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  Speaker 2: It can't go straight, you know if you pin it
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  Speaker 2: all on one side. And dear me, what a state
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  Speaker 2: your hair is in.
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  Speaker 4: The brush has got entangled in it, and I lost
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  Speaker 4: the comb yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Alice takes out a brush and arranges the queen's hair.
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  Speaker 2: You look better now, but really you should have a
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  Speaker 2: lady's maid.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure.
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  Speaker 7: Top.
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  Speaker 4: It's a week and jam every other day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want you to hire me, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: care for jam.
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  Speaker 4: It's very good jam.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't want any today at any rate.
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  Speaker 4: You couldn't have it if you did want it. The
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  Speaker 4: rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
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  Speaker 2: It must come sometimes to jam today.
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  Speaker 4: No, it can't. It's jam every other day. Today isn't
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  Speaker 4: any other day?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't understand you. It's dreadfully confusing.
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  Speaker 4: That's the effect of living backwards. It always makes one
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  Speaker 4: a little giddy at first.
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  Speaker 2: Living backwards. I never heard of such a thing.
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  Speaker 4: But there's one great advantage in it. That one's memory
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  Speaker 4: works both ways.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure mine only works one way. I can't remember
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  Speaker 2: things before they happen.
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  Speaker 4: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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  Speaker 2: What sort of things do you remember best?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, things that happened the week after next? For instance?
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  Speaker 17: Now she sticks a large piece of plaster on her finger.
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  Speaker 4: There's the king's messenger. He's in prison being punished, and
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  Speaker 4: the trial doesn't even begin till next Wednesday. And of
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  Speaker 4: course the crime comes last of all.
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  Speaker 2: Suppose he never commits the crime.
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  Speaker 17: The White Queen binds the plaster with ribbon.
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  Speaker 4: That would be all the better, wouldn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Of course it would be all the better. But it
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be all the better his being punished.
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  Speaker 4: You're wrong there at any rate. Were you ever punished
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  Speaker 4: only for faults and you were all the better for it?
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  Speaker 2: I know, yes, But then I had done the things
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  Speaker 2: I was punished for. That makes all the difference.
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  Speaker 4: But if you hadn't done them, that would have been better. Still,
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  Speaker 4: better and better and better.
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  Speaker 2: There's a mistake somewhere.
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  Speaker 17: The White Queen screams like an engine whistle and shakes hand.
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  Speaker 7: Ho.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my finger is bleeding.
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  Speaker 7: Ho.
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  Speaker 2: What is the matter? Have you pricked your finger?
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  Speaker 4: I haven't pricked it yet, but I soon shall.
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  Speaker 7: Ho.
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  Speaker 2: When do you expect to do it?
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  Speaker 4: When I fasten my shawl again, the brooch will come
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  Speaker 4: undone directly.
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  Speaker 7: Ho.
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  Speaker 17: Brooch flies open and she clutches it wildly.
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  Speaker 2: Take care you're holding an old crooked.
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  Speaker 17: The White Queen pricks her finger and smiles.
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  Speaker 4: That accounts for the bleeding. You see now you understand
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  Speaker 4: the way things happen here.
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  Speaker 2: But why don't you scream now?
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  Speaker 4: Why I've done all the screaming already. What would be
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  Speaker 4: the good of having it all over again? Oh, it's
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  Speaker 4: time to run if you want to stay in the
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  Speaker 4: same place, Come on.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, not so fast. I'm getting dizzy. Everything's black
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  Speaker 2: before my eyes.
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  Speaker 17: There is music and the sound of rushing wind, and
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  Speaker 17: in the darkness, the White Queen cries faster faster. Alice gasps.
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  Speaker 17: I can't please stop, and the queen replies.
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  Speaker 4: Then you can't stay in the same place. I'll have
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  Speaker 4: to drop you behind. Faster, faster, good bye.
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  Speaker 17: Scene three, When the curtain rises, one sees nothing but
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  Speaker 17: old black lanterns with orange lights hanging presumably from the sky.
• 18:38
  Speaker 17: The scene lights up slowly, revealing Alice seated on two
• 18:41
  Speaker 17: large cushions. She has been dropped behind by the White
• 18:45
  Speaker 17: Queen and is dazed to find herself in a strange
• 18:48
  Speaker 17: hall with many peculiar doors and knobs too high to reach.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Oh my head, where am i? Oh dear, Oh dear.
• 19:00
  Speaker 17: She staggers up, and, to her amazement, finds herself smaller
• 19:03
  Speaker 17: than the table.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I've never been smaller than any table before. I've always
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: been able to reach the knobs. What a curious feeling. Oh,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I'm shrinking. It's the fan, the gloves.
• 19:17
  Speaker 17: She throws them away, feels her head and measures herself
• 19:20
  Speaker 17: against the table and doors.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Oh saved in time, but I never never Oh my
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: fan and gloves.
• 19:30
  Speaker 18: Where are I?
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, mister rabbit, please help me out. I want to
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: go home. I want to go home.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Oh the duchess, Oh my fur and whiskers. She will
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: get me executed as sure as ferrets are ferrets.
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: Oh you have them.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry you drop them, you know.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: The white rabbit picks up fan and gloves and patters off.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: She'll chop off your.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Head if you please, sir, where am I won't? Please
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: tell me how to get out? I want to get out.
• 20:04
  Speaker 17: The white rabbit looks at his watch.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, my ears and whiskers, How late it's getting.
• 20:10
  Speaker 17: A trapdoor gives way, and rabbit disappears. Alice dashes after,
• 20:15
  Speaker 17: only in time to have the trap door bang in
• 20:17
  Speaker 17: her face.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: It's a rabbit hole. I'm small enough to fit it too.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: If I shrink anymore, it might end in my going
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: out altogether. Like a candle, I wonder what I would
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: be like?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Then?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: What does the flame of a candle look like after
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the candle is blown out? I've never seen such a thing.
• 20:36
  Speaker 17: Humpty dumpty sits on a wall.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Don't stand shattering to yourself like that.
• 20:41
  Speaker 18: But tell me your name and your business.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: My name is Alice.
• 20:46
  Speaker 18: But it's a stupid name. Enough, What does it mean?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Must a name mean something?
• 20:53
  Speaker 18: Of course it must.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: My name means the shape I am, and a good
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: handsome shape.
• 20:58
  Speaker 18: It is too.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: With a name like yours, you might be any shape almost.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: You're a humpty dumpty, just like an egg.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: It's very provoking to be called an egg.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Very I said you looked like an egg, sir, And
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: some eggs are very pretty.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: You know, some people have no more sense than a baby.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Why do you sit here all alone?
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Because there's nobody with me? Did you think I didn't
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: know the answer to that?
• 21:28
  Speaker 18: Ask another?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Don't you think you'd be safer down on the ground?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: That wall so very narrow?
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: What tremendously easy riddles you ask? Of course I don't think,
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: so take a good.
• 21:41
  Speaker 18: Look at me. I'm one that has spoken to a king.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: I am, and to show you I'm not proud, you
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: may shake hands with me.
• 21:49
  Speaker 17: He leans forward to offer Alice's hand, but she is
• 21:52
  Speaker 17: too small to reach it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: However, this conversation is going on a little too fast.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Let's go back to the last remark, but one.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I can't remember it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: In that case, we start fresh, and it's my turn
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: to choose the subject.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: You talk about it just as if it were a game.
• 22:13
  Speaker 18: So here's a question for you.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: How old did you say you were?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Seven years and six months wrong.
• 22:22
  Speaker 18: You never said a word about it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Now, if you'd asked my advice, i'd have said leave
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: off at seven.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: But I never ask advice about growing too proud. What
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: a beautiful belt you've got on, at least a beautiful cravat.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I should have said, no a belt. I mean, I
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: beg your pardon if only I knew which was neck
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: and which was waist.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: It is a most provoking thing when a person doesn't
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: know a cravat from a belt.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I know it's very ignorant of me.
• 22:55
  Speaker 18: It's a cravat, child, and a beautiful one. As you say,
• 22:59
  Speaker 18: there's good glory for you.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean by glory.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: When I use a word, it means just what I
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: choose it to mean, neither more nor less.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: The question is whether you can make words mean different things.
• 23:15
  Speaker 18: The question is a which is to be master. That's
• 23:19
  Speaker 18: all impenetrability. That's what I say.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Would you tell me please what that means?
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: I meant by impenetrability that we've had enough of that subject.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: And it would be just as well if you'd mention
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: what you meant to do next. As I suppose you
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: That's a great deal to make one word.
• 23:41
  Speaker 19: Mean when I make a word, do a lot of
• 23:44
  Speaker 19: work like that, I always pay it extra. Oh ah,
• 23:50
  Speaker 19: you should see him come round me of a Saturday
• 23:53
  Speaker 19: night for to get their wages.
• 23:55
  Speaker 18: You know that's all?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, goodbye till we meet.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: To go, I shouldn't know you again if we did meet.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: You're so exactly like other people.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: The face is what one goes by generally.
• 24:10
  Speaker 18: That's just what I complain of.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Your face is the same as everybody has the two eyes,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: so nose in the middle, mouth under.
• 24:19
  Speaker 18: It's always the same.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Now if you had the two eyes on the same
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: side of the nose, for instance, or the mouth at
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: the top, that would be some help.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: It wouldn't look nice.
• 24:30
  Speaker 18: Wait till you've tried. Goodbye.
• 24:34
  Speaker 17: He disappears as he came.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, I forgot to ask him how to?
• 24:39
  Speaker 17: She tries to open the doors. They are all locked.
• 24:42
  Speaker 17: She begins to weep. She walks weeping to a high
• 24:45
  Speaker 17: glass table and sits down on this lower ledge. She
• 24:48
  Speaker 17: sits on a big golden key and picks it up
• 24:50
  Speaker 17: in surprise. She tries it on all the doors, but
• 24:53
  Speaker 17: it does not fit. She weeps and weeps, and wonderland
• 24:57
  Speaker 17: grows dark to her in her despair in the director's cries.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm slipping. Oh oh, it's a lake. Oh my tears,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I'm floating.
• 25:08
  Speaker 17: A mysterious light shows a drink meat sign around a
• 25:11
  Speaker 17: bottle on the top of the table. Alice floats up
• 25:14
  Speaker 17: to it, panting and holding on to the edge of
• 25:16
  Speaker 17: the table, takes up the bottle.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: It isn't marked poison.
• 25:22
  Speaker 17: She SIPs at it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: This is good.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Tastes like cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast, turkey, toffee, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: hot buttered toast all together. Oh oh, I'm letting out
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: like a telescope.
• 25:37
  Speaker 17: A mysterious light shows her lengthening out music.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: But the lake is rising too. Oh oh it's deep.
• 25:46
  Speaker 14: I'm drowning.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Help help, I'm drowning.
• 25:50
  Speaker 17: I'm drowning.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: In my tears.
• 25:53
  Speaker 17: Easier Zger the Griffin, a huge green creature with big
• 25:59
  Speaker 17: glittering wings, appears where Humpty Dumpty had been and reaches
• 26:03
  Speaker 17: glittering claws over to grab and save Alice. Scene four
• 26:08
  Speaker 17: is symbolic of a wet and rocky shore in a
• 26:11
  Speaker 17: weird green light. The mock turtle is weeping dismally.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: Here he s here, eas here.
• 26:20
  Speaker 17: The mock turtle answers with his weeping.
• 26:26
  Speaker 20: Hm.
• 26:28
  Speaker 17: The griffin drags Alice in.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: Drop your tears into the sea with his.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: He sums as if he had a bone in his throat.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: He sighs as if his heart would break.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: What is his sorrow, oh Griffin, it's terrible.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: It's all his fancy. That mock turtle hasn't got no sorrows. Here,
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: young lady, she wants for to know your history. She do.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: I'll tell her the sit down both of you, and
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: don't speak a word till I've finished.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I don't see how you can ever finish if you
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: don't begin.
• 27:10
  Speaker 20: Once I was a real turtle.
• 27:18
  Speaker 17: A long silence is broken only by the exclamations of
• 27:21
  Speaker 17: the griffin and the heavy sobbing of the mock turtle.
• 27:25
  Speaker 20: UGHO. When we were little we went to school in
• 27:38
  Speaker 20: the sea.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: The master was an old turtle.
• 27:42
  Speaker 20: We used to call him tortoise.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Why did you call him tortoise if he wasn't one?
• 27:50
  Speaker 20: We called him tortoise because he taught us. Really, you
• 27:57
  Speaker 20: are very dull.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: You ought to be ashamed of your sofa asking such
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: a simple question. We've all old fellow, what'll be old
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: day about it?
• 28:08
  Speaker 20: Yes, we went to school in the sea. Though you
• 28:13
  Speaker 20: mayn't believe it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I never said I didn't.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: You did hold your tongue.
• 28:21
  Speaker 20: We are the best of educations. In fact, we went
• 28:26
  Speaker 20: to school every day.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I've been to a day school two. You needn't be
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: so proud as all that with extras. Yes, we learned
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: French and music and washing. Certainly not ah.
• 28:45
  Speaker 20: Then yours wasn't a really good school now hours we
• 28:51
  Speaker 20: had at the end.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: Of the bill, French, music and washing extra.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: You couldn't have wanted it much living at the bottom
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: of the sea.
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: I couldn't afford to learn it. I only took the
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: regular course.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 29:12
  Speaker 20: Reeling and writhing of course to begin with? And then
• 29:16
  Speaker 20: the different branches of a rithmetic ambition, distraction, uglification and derision.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I never heard of uglification.
• 29:30
  Speaker 17: What is it?
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: Never heard of uglifying? You know what to beautify is?
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I suppose, yes, it means to make anything prettier.
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: Well, then you don't know what to uglify is? You
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: are a simpleton.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: What else had you to learn?
• 29:50
  Speaker 20: Well?
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: There was mystery, mystery ancient and modern with seography, then drawling.
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: The drawling Master was an old conger eel that used
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: to come once a week. What he taught us was drawling,
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: stretching and fainting in coils.
• 30:15
  Speaker 13: What was that like?
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: Well, I can't show it you myself. I'm too stiff.
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: And Griffin never learned.
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: It had time. I went to the classical master, though
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: he was an old crab he.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: Was, I never went to him. He taught laughing and grief.
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: They used to say, so he did, so he did.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: And how many hours a day did you do? Lessons?
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: What a curious plan.
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: That's the reason the cold lesson, because they lessened from
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: day to day.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday, of
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: course it was. And how did you manage on the twelve?
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: That's enough about lessons. Tell us something about the games now.
• 31:18
  Speaker 17: Mock Turtle sighs cheaply, draws back one flapper across his eyes.
• 31:23
  Speaker 17: He looks at Alice and tries to speak, but sobs
• 31:25
  Speaker 17: shook his voice. Griffin punches him on.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: The back, same as if he had a bone in
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: his throat.
• 31:44
  Speaker 17: The mock turtle with tears running down his cheeks.
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: You made heart have lived much under.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: The sea, I haven't.
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: Perhaps you would never even introduce to a lobster.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I once tasted.
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: No, never, So you can.
• 32:04
  Speaker 20: Have no idea what a delightful thing a lobster quadrilli is?
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: No?
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Indeed, what sort of a dance is it?
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: Why you first form into a line along the seashore.
• 32:21
  Speaker 20: Two lines seals, turtles, salmon, and so on. Then when
• 32:28
  Speaker 20: you've cleared all the jellyfish out of the.
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: Way, that generally takes some.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: Time, you advance twice.
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: Each with a lobster as a partner.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: Of course, advance twice, set to partners.
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: Change lobsters, and retire in same order. Then you know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: you throw it the lobsters as far out as sea
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: as you can, swim after them, turn a somersault into sea,
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: change lobsters again.
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: Back to land again, and that's all the first figure.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: It must be a very pretty dance.
• 33:13
  Speaker 20: Would you like to see a love it?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Very much?
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: Indeed, come, let's try the first figure. We can do
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: it without the lobsters. You know, wouich you'll sing?
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: Oh you sing?
• 33:30
  Speaker 17: I've forgotten the words creatures solemnly dance round and round
• 33:35
  Speaker 17: Alice treading on her toes, waving forepaws to mark time,
• 33:38
  Speaker 17: while mock turtle sings.
• 33:41
  Speaker 20: Will you walk a little too faster? Said waiting to
• 33:47
  Speaker 20: a snail. There's a paupise clear behind us, and he's
• 33:52
  Speaker 20: treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and
• 33:59
  Speaker 20: the turtle all advance. They are waiting on the shingle.
• 34:06
  Speaker 20: Will you come and join the dance?
• 34:10
  Speaker 21: Will you?
• 34:11
  Speaker 20: Won't you? Will you?
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: Won't you? Will you join the dance?
• 34:18
  Speaker 20: Will you won't you? Will you? Won't you? Won't you
• 34:23
  Speaker 20: join the dance? You can really have no notion how
• 34:31
  Speaker 20: delightful it will be when they take us up and
• 34:37
  Speaker 20: fro us with the lobsters out to see. But the
• 34:44
  Speaker 20: snail replied, too far, too far, and gave al look
• 34:50
  Speaker 20: Uscance said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would
• 34:58
  Speaker 20: not join the dunce. Unts would not, could not, would not,
• 35:04
  Speaker 20: could not would not join the dunce. Would not, could not,
• 35:11
  Speaker 20: would not, could not could not join the dunce.
• 35:18
  Speaker 17: The creatures dance against Alice, pushing her back and forth
• 35:21
  Speaker 17: between them. She protests and finally escapes. They bump against
• 35:25
  Speaker 17: each other.
• 35:26
  Speaker 12: Thank you.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: It's a very interesting dance to watch. And I do
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: so like that curious song about the whiting.
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: Oh as to the waiting. They you've seen them, of course.
• 35:38
  Speaker 17: Yes, I've often seen them at Dinn checks herself hastily.
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: Well, I don't know where den may be. But if
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: you've seen them so often, of course you know what
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: they're like.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I believe. So they have their tails in their mouths,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: and there are all over crumbs.
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: You're wrong about the crumbs. Crumbs would all wash off
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: in the sea. But they have their tails in their mouths,
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: and the raisin is.
• 36:07
  Speaker 17: Mack turtl yarns and shuts his eyes.
• 36:14
  Speaker 20: Tell her about the reason all that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: The reason is that they would go with the lobsters
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: to the deaths. So they got thrown out to sea,
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: so they had to fall a long way, so they
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: got their tails fast in their mouths so they couldn't
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: get them out again. That's all, thank you.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: It's very interesting. I never knew so much about whiting before.
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: I can tell you more than that, if you like.
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: Do you know why it's called a whiting?
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I never thought about it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: Why it does the boots and shoes.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Does the boots and shoes.
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: Why what are your shoes done with? I mean, what
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: makes them so shiny?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: They're done with blacking.
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: I believe boots and shoes under the sea are done
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: with whiting, now you know?
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: And what are they made of?
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: Souls and news? Of course, any shrimp could have told
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: you that.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: If I'd been the whiting, I'd have said to the porpoise,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: keep back, please, we don't want you with us.
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: They were obliged having with them. No wise fish would
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: go anywhere without a porpoise, wouldn't it really? Of course?
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: Not?
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: Why if a fish came to me and told me
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: he was going on a journey, I should say, with what, porpoise?
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Don't you mean purpose?
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: I mean what I say?
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: Shall we try another figure of the loves to quadrille?
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: Or would you like the mock turtle to sing you
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: a song?
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Our song?
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Please? If the mock turtle would be so kind.
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: Hum no accounting for tastes, sing her turtle soup, would you,
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: old fellow?
• 38:11
  Speaker 17: The mock turtle sighs deeply and sometimes choked with sobs.
• 38:15
  Speaker 20: Sings beautyful soup, so rich and green, waveting in a
• 38:28
  Speaker 20: hot too in who for such dingties would not stoop
• 38:38
  Speaker 20: soup of the evening, beauty ful soup, Soup the ening,
• 38:50
  Speaker 20: beauty ful soup, beauty.
• 39:00
  Speaker 21: Ful sooopo boooooooooooo, outiful soup sooopo of thevening beutyful beautiful soupooooooooo.
• 39:22
  Speaker 17: The white rabbit enters, stretching out a red and white
• 39:25
  Speaker 17: checked sash with which he separates Alice from the creatures.
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: Check they won't let her stay in our square.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: The queen is coming this way.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: To chop our heads off. Come on, come on, let's fly.
• 39:42
  Speaker 17: The mock turtle and the griffin grab Alice and fly
• 39:44
  Speaker 17: into the air curtain. The curtain rises to reveal small
• 39:49
  Speaker 17: silhouettes of the griffin, mock turtle, and Alice in an
• 39:52
  Speaker 17: orange colored moon far away in the sky. Down below,
• 39:56
  Speaker 17: the white rabbit is shouting.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: To them, you will be safe, and the march Hare's
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: guar garden curtain.
• 40:02
  Speaker 17: End of Act one, Act two of Alice in Wonderland
• 40:16
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• 40:20
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• 40:23
  Speaker 17: to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Scene the march
• 40:29
  Speaker 17: Chai's garden showing part of the Duchess's house. On a
• 40:32
  Speaker 17: small platform, there is a tea table set with many
• 40:35
  Speaker 17: cups continuing into the wings to give the impression of
• 40:38
  Speaker 17: limitless length. The march Hare, hatter, and dormouse are crowded.
• 40:42
  Speaker 17: At one end. Alice sits on the ground where she
• 40:45
  Speaker 17: has been dropped from the sky. Finding herself not bruised,
• 40:49
  Speaker 17: she rises and approaches the table.
• 40:51
  Speaker 22: Noom, no room, There's plenty of room.
• 40:55
  Speaker 17: She sits in a large armchair at one end of
• 40:57
  Speaker 17: the table.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know who you are.
• 41:01
  Speaker 22: I am the march Hare, that's the hatter, and this
• 41:03
  Speaker 22: is the dormouse.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Have some wine.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I don't see any wine.
• 41:08
  Speaker 22: There isn't any.
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: Then.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: It wasn't very civil of you to offer it.
• 41:12
  Speaker 22: It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without
• 41:14
  Speaker 22: being invited.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I didn't know it was your table. It's made for
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: a great many more than three.
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: Your hair wants cutting.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: You should learn not to make personal remarks.
• 41:26
  Speaker 11: It's very rude.
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: Why is a raven like a writing desk?
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Come we shall have some fun now. I'm glad you'd
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: be goinge asking riddles. I believe I can guess that, so.
• 41:39
  Speaker 22: You mean you think you can find out the answer
• 41:41
  Speaker 22: to it exactly, so then you should say what you
• 41:45
  Speaker 22: mean I.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Do at least at least I mean what I say.
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: That's the same thing, you know, not the same thing
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: a bit.
• 41:55
  Speaker 23: Why.
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: You might just as well say that I see what
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: I eat is the same thing as I eat what
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: I see.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: You might as well say that I like what I
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: get is the same as I get what I like.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: You might just as well say that I breathe when
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I sleep is the same thing as I sleep. When
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I breathe, it is the.
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: Same thing with you.
• 42:18
  Speaker 17: Takes out his watch, looks at it uneasily, shakes it,
• 42:22
  Speaker 17: holds it to his ear.
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: What day of the month?
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: Is it?
• 42:26
  Speaker 13: The fourth?
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: Two days? Wrong? I told you butter wouldn't suit the works.
• 42:32
  Speaker 22: It was the best butter.
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well.
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: You shouldn't have put it in with the bread knife.
• 42:42
  Speaker 17: The march Hare takes the watch, looks at it gloomily,
• 42:46
  Speaker 17: dips it into his cup of tea, and looks at
• 42:48
  Speaker 17: it again, but doesn't know what else to say.
• 42:51
  Speaker 22: It was the best butter.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: You know what a funny watch? It tells the day
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: of the month, and doesn't tell what a clock it is.
• 42:59
  Speaker 9: Why should it? Does your watch tell you what year
• 43:02
  Speaker 9: it is?
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Of course not, but that's because it stays the same
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: year for such a long time.
• 43:08
  Speaker 9: Together, which is just the case with mine.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: I don't quite understand you. What you said had no
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.
• 43:19
  Speaker 17: The hatter poured some hot tea onto the dormouse's nose.
• 43:23
  Speaker 9: The dormouse is asleep again.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Of course, of course, just what I was going to
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: remark myself.
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: Have you guessed the riddle yet?
• 43:35
  Speaker 21: No?
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I give it up. What's the answer.
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: I haven't the slightest idea nor right.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I think you might do something better with the time
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: than wasting it and asking riddles that have no answers.
• 43:48
  Speaker 9: If you knew time as well as I do, you
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean.
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: Of course you don't. I dare say you never even
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: spoke to time.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Perhaps not, but I know I have to beat time
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: when I learn music.
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: Ah, that accounts for it. He won't stand beating now.
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: If you only kept on good terms with him, he'd
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance,
• 44:22
  Speaker 9: suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: to begin lessons. You'd only have to whisper a hint
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: to time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling
• 44:33
  Speaker 9: half past one time for dinner.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: I only wish it was.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: That would be grand, certainly, But then I shouldn't be
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: hungry for it, you know, not.
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: At first perhaps, But you could keep it to half
• 44:48
  Speaker 9: past one as long as you like.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Is that the way you manage?
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Not?
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: I we quarreled last March just before he went med.
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: It was at the great concert given by the Queen
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: of Hearts, and I had to sing Twinkle twink a
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: little bat. How I wonder what you're at. You know
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: the song?
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Perhaps I've had something like it, Twinker twinker twinker.
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: Well, i'd hardly finished the first verse when the Queen
• 45:27
  Speaker 9: bawled out he's murdering the time off with his.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Head, how dreadfully savage.
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: And ever since that he won't do a thing.
• 45:40
  Speaker 23: I ask.
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: It's always six o'clock now?
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Is that the reason so many tea things I put
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: out here?
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: Yes, that's it.
• 45:49
  Speaker 9: It's always tea time, and we've no time to wash
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: the things between whiles.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Then you keep moving round.
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: I suppose exactly so as these things get used up.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: But when you come to the beginning again, suppose we
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: change the subject.
• 46:10
  Speaker 12: I vote.
• 46:10
  Speaker 22: The young lady tells us a story.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I don't know one.
• 46:15
  Speaker 22: Then the doormas shall wake up dormouse.
• 46:19
  Speaker 17: They pinched him on both sides at once. The dormouse
• 46:23
  Speaker 17: opens his eyes slowly and says, in a hoarse, feeble voice.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I wasn't asleep. I heard every word you fellows were saying.
• 46:32
  Speaker 22: Tell us a story.
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: Yes, please do, and be quick about it, or you'll
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: be asleep again before it's done.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Once upon a time there were three little sisters, and
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: their names were Elsie, Lacy, and Tillie. And they lived
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of a well.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: What do they live on?
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: They lived on treacle.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: They couldn't have done that.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: You know they'd have been ill, so they were very ill.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: But why do they live at the bottom of a well?
• 47:06
  Speaker 22: Have's a lotte?
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I've had nothing yet, so I can't take more.
• 47:11
  Speaker 9: You mean you can't take less. It's very easy to
• 47:14
  Speaker 9: take more than nothing.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Nobody asked your opinion.
• 47:20
  Speaker 9: Who's making personal remarks?
• 47:22
  Speaker 7: No?
• 47:23
  Speaker 17: Alice helps herself to tea and bread and butter.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Why do they live at the bottom of a well?
• 47:29
  Speaker 17: The dormouse takes a minute or two to think, hmm,
• 47:34
  Speaker 17: it was a treacle.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Well, there's no such thing.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Shush, sh If you can't be civil, you'd better finish
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: this story for yourself.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: No, please, go on, I won't interrupt you again. I
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: dare say there may be one.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: One indeed, And so these three little sisters they were
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: learning to draw.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: You Now, what did they draw?
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: I want a clean cup. Let's all move one place on.
• 48:07
  Speaker 17: Hashra moves on, Dormouse takes this place, march Hare takes
• 48:11
  Speaker 17: Dormouse's place, and Alice unwillingly takes march Hare's place.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: I'm more so off than I was before. You've upset
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: the milk jug into your plate.
• 48:20
  Speaker 22: It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without
• 48:22
  Speaker 22: being invited.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Where did they draw the trecle from?
• 48:27
  Speaker 9: You can draw water out of a water well, so
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: I should think you could draw a treacle out of
• 48:35
  Speaker 9: a treacle.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Well, stupidly, but they went in the well.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Of course they were well in. They were learning to draw,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: and they drew all manner of things. Everything that begins with.
• 48:50
  Speaker 13: An m why with an M why not?
• 48:55
  Speaker 17: Alice is silent and confused. Hatter pinches dormouse to wake
• 48:59
  Speaker 17: him up. The dormouse wakes up with a little shriek
• 49:02
  Speaker 17: and continues week.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: That begins with ain em suggests mouse chaps and the
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: moon and memory and muchness. You know you say things
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: are much of a muchness? Did you ever see such
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: a thing as a drawing of a muchness?
• 49:20
  Speaker 9: Did you.
• 49:22
  Speaker 14: Really?
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: You ask me, I don't think.
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: Then you shouldn't talk.
• 49:27
  Speaker 12: No.
• 49:28
  Speaker 17: Alice rises and walks away.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: You are very rude. It's the stupidest tea party I
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: ever was at in all my life.
• 49:36
  Speaker 17: The white rabbit enters, carrying a huge envelope with a
• 49:39
  Speaker 17: steal and crown on it.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: No room, no room.
• 49:43
  Speaker 17: Rabbit pays no attention to them, but goes to the
• 49:45
  Speaker 17: house and raps loudly. A footman in livery with a
• 49:48
  Speaker 17: round face and large eyes like a frog and powdered
• 49:51
  Speaker 17: hair opens the door for.
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: The duchess an invitation from the queen to play croquet.
• 49:58
  Speaker 10: From the queen, an invitation for the duchess to play croquet.
• 50:04
  Speaker 17: White rabbit bows and goes out.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: No room, no room, no room, No room, no room.
• 50:11
  Speaker 17: The frog disappears into the room, but leaves the door open.
• 50:15
  Speaker 17: There's a terrible din and many saucepans fly out.
• 50:18
  Speaker 22: She's at it again.
• 50:20
  Speaker 9: It's perfectly disgusting.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Let's move on.
• 50:26
  Speaker 17: The platform moves off with the table chairs, march, hair,
• 50:28
  Speaker 17: hatter and door mass. Meanwhile, the frog has come out
• 50:32
  Speaker 17: again and is sitting near the closed door, staring stupidly
• 50:35
  Speaker 17: at the sky. Alice goes to the door timidly and knocks.
• 50:40
  Speaker 10: There's no sort of use in knocking, and that for
• 50:44
  Speaker 10: two reasons. First because I'm on the same side of
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: the door as you are. Secondly, because they're making such
• 50:53
  Speaker 10: a noise inside no one can possibly hear you.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Please, then to get in?
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: There might be some sense in your knocking if we
• 51:04
  Speaker 10: had the door between us, For instance, if you were inside,
• 51:10
  Speaker 10: you might knock and I could let you out.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: You know, how am I to get in?
• 51:16
  Speaker 10: I shall sit here till tomorrow.
• 51:19
  Speaker 17: The door opens and a large plate skims out straight
• 51:22
  Speaker 17: at the frog's head. It grazes his nose and breaks
• 51:25
  Speaker 17: into pieces. The frog acts as if nothing had happened, or.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Next day, maybe how am I to get in?
• 51:35
  Speaker 23: Are you to get in?
• 51:36
  Speaker 10: At all. That's the first question.
• 51:39
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: It's really dreadful, the way all your creatures argue. It's
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: enough to drive one crazy.
• 51:45
  Speaker 10: I shall sit here on and off for days and days.
• 51:50
  Speaker 17: But what am I to do?
• 51:52
  Speaker 10: Anything?
• 51:53
  Speaker 9: You like?
• 51:54
  Speaker 17: He begins to whistle.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Where's the sevant? Whose business it is to answer the door?
• 51:59
  Speaker 23: Which door?
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: This door?
• 52:02
  Speaker 10: Of course?
• 52:03
  Speaker 17: The frog looks at the door and rubs his thumb
• 52:05
  Speaker 17: on it to see if the paint will come off.
• 52:07
  Speaker 10: To answer the door? What's it been asking for?
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean.
• 52:14
  Speaker 10: I speaks English, doesn't I? Or are you deaf? What
• 52:19
  Speaker 10: did it ask you?
• 52:21
  Speaker 13: Nothing?
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I've been knocking at it.
• 52:24
  Speaker 10: Shouldn't do that, shouldn't do that? Vexes it?
• 52:27
  Speaker 20: You know?
• 52:28
  Speaker 17: He kicks the door.
• 52:30
  Speaker 10: You let it alone, and it'll let you alone, you know.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, there's no use talking to you.
• 52:39
  Speaker 17: She starts to open the door, just as the duchess
• 52:42
  Speaker 17: comes out, carrying a pig in baby's clothes. She sneezes,
• 52:46
  Speaker 17: Frog sneezes, and Alice sneezes.
• 52:48
  Speaker 11: If everybody minded her own business.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: It's peppa, of course.
• 52:55
  Speaker 11: My cook puts it in the soup.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: There's certainly too much peppa in the soup.
• 53:00
  Speaker 11: Sneeze then, and get rid of it.
• 53:02
  Speaker 17: Duchess begins to sing to the baby, giving it a
• 53:04
  Speaker 17: violent shake at the end of every line of the lullaby.
• 53:08
  Speaker 11: Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he.
• 53:13
  Speaker 17: Sneezes, frogged alice sneeze.
• 53:16
  Speaker 13: True, he only does.
• 53:19
  Speaker 11: It to annoy because he knows it teases.
• 53:23
  Speaker 17: Duches sneezes, frog sneezes, Alice sneezes you.
• 53:30
  Speaker 11: I speak severely to my boy.
• 53:32
  Speaker 17: I beat him when he sneezes, frog sneezes, Alice sneezes, for.
• 53:39
  Speaker 11: He can thoroughly enjoy the pepper when he pleases.
• 53:44
  Speaker 17: Duchess sneezes, frog sneezes, Alice sneezes. Duchess gasps and gives
• 53:51
  Speaker 17: a tremendous sneeze.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: You do, how deare?
• 53:58
  Speaker 17: She jumps aside as kettles and pots come flying out
• 54:01
  Speaker 17: of the door. The Duchess pays no attention.
• 54:04
  Speaker 13: What a cook to have?
• 54:06
  Speaker 17: She calls and sighed, oh, please mind what you're doing.
• 54:10
  Speaker 17: Another pan comes out and almost hits the baby.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, there goes his precious nose.
• 54:16
  Speaker 11: If everybody minded her own business, the world would go
• 54:18
  Speaker 11: round A deal faster than it does, which.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Would not be an advantage. Just think what work it
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: would make with the day and night. You see, the
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: earth takes twenty four hours to turn round on its axis.
• 54:30
  Speaker 11: Talking of axes, chop off her head.
• 54:33
  Speaker 17: The head of a grinning chesterre cat appears in a
• 54:36
  Speaker 17: tree above a wall.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Oh what's that cat?
• 54:39
  Speaker 11: Of course?
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Why does it grin like that?
• 54:43
  Speaker 11: It's a treasure cat. And that's why to baby pig.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that Cheshire cat's always grinned. In fact,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that cat's.
• 54:53
  Speaker 11: Could grin They all can, and most of em do.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know of any that do.
• 55:00
  Speaker 11: You don't know much, and that's a fact. Here you
• 55:03
  Speaker 11: may nurse it a bit if you like.
• 55:05
  Speaker 17: Flings the baby at Alice.
• 55:07
  Speaker 11: I must go and get ready to play croquet with
• 55:09
  Speaker 11: the queen.
• 55:11
  Speaker 17: She goes into the house.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: If I don't take this child away with me, they're
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: sure to kill it in a day or two. Cheshire
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: purs would you tell me please, which way I ought
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: to walk from here?
• 55:21
  Speaker 12: That depends a good deal and where you want to
• 55:25
  Speaker 12: get to.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: I don't much care where.
• 55:28
  Speaker 12: Then, It doesn't matter which way you walk.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: So long as I get somewhere.
• 55:35
  Speaker 12: Oh, you are sure to do that if you only
• 55:38
  Speaker 12: walk long enough.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Please? Will you tell me what sort of people live
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: about here?
• 55:44
  Speaker 12: All mad people?
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: But I don't want to go among mad people.
• 55:49
  Speaker 12: Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad.
• 55:52
  Speaker 12: He's mad. He's dreaming now? And what do you think
• 55:55
  Speaker 12: he's dreaming about?
• 55:57
  Speaker 17: Alice goes to the frog to scrutinize his face.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Nobody could guess that?
• 56:03
  Speaker 12: Why about you? And if he left off dreaming about you?
• 56:07
  Speaker 12: Where do you suppose you be where I am now?
• 56:11
  Speaker 12: Of course not you, you'd be nowhere. Why you're only
• 56:17
  Speaker 12: a sort of thing in his dream? And you're mad too?
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: How do you know I'm mad?
• 56:23
  Speaker 12: You must be, or you wouldn't have come here?
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: How do you know that you're mad?
• 56:29
  Speaker 12: To begin with? A dog's not mad?
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: You grant that, I suppose so?
• 56:36
  Speaker 23: Well?
• 56:36
  Speaker 24: Then you see a dog growls when it's angry and
• 56:40
  Speaker 24: wags its tail when it's pleased. Now, I growl when
• 56:44
  Speaker 24: I'm pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry.
• 56:47
  Speaker 12: Therefore I'm mad.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: I call it purring, not growling.
• 56:53
  Speaker 12: Call it what you like. Do you play croquet with
• 56:55
  Speaker 12: the Queen today?
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: I should like it very much, but I haven't been
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: invited yet.
• 57:01
  Speaker 12: You'll see me there.
• 57:02
  Speaker 17: Vanishes. Alice to the squirming baby.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, it's heavy and so ugly. Don't grunt. Oh oh,
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: it's a pig, please, mister footman.
• 57:14
  Speaker 17: Take it. Frog rises with dignity, whistles, and disappears into
• 57:19
  Speaker 17: the house. A kettle comes bounding out. Alice puts pig down,
• 57:23
  Speaker 17: and it crawls off. The cat appears again.
• 57:27
  Speaker 12: By the bye. What became of the baby?
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: It turned into a pig?
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: I thought it would vanishes.
• 57:35
  Speaker 17: Frog comes out of the house with hedgehogs and flamingos.
• 57:38
  Speaker 17: Cat reappears.
• 57:40
  Speaker 12: Did you say pig or fig?
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: I said pig? And I wish you wouldn't keep appearing
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: and vanishing so suddenly you make one quite giddy?
• 57:50
  Speaker 12: All right?
• 57:52
  Speaker 17: It vanishes slowly. Frog puts flamingos down and re enters
• 57:56
  Speaker 17: the house. While Alice is examining the flamingos. Curiously, Tweedledumb
• 58:00
  Speaker 17: and Tweedledee, each with an arm around the other's neck,
• 58:03
  Speaker 17: sidestep in and stand looking at Alice. Alice turns sees them,
• 58:08
  Speaker 17: starts in surprise, and involuntarily whispers tweedle d doom.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: If you think or waxworks, you are to pay.
• 58:20
  Speaker 13: Gone three lives if you sink the life you ought
• 58:24
  Speaker 13: to speak.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: The first thing in the visit to say is how
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: do you do? And shake hands?
• 58:30
  Speaker 17: The brothers give each other a hug, then hold out
• 58:33
  Speaker 17: the two hands that are free to shake hands with her.
• 58:36
  Speaker 17: Alice does not like shaking hands with either of them first,
• 58:39
  Speaker 17: for fear of hurting the other one's feelings. She takes
• 58:42
  Speaker 17: hold of both hands at once, and they all dance
• 58:44
  Speaker 17: around in a ring, quite naturally to music. Here we
• 58:47
  Speaker 17: go round the mulberry bush.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Would you tell me which road leads out of?
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: What shall I repeat to her?
• 58:54
  Speaker 13: The Vorus and the carpente is the the longest.
• 58:58
  Speaker 17: Gives his brother an affection hug.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: The sun was shining.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: If it's very long, would you please tell me first
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: which road?
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: The moon was shining sulkily.
• 59:09
  Speaker 13: The sea was wet as wet could be.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, oysters, come and walk with us. The wares did besiech.
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  Speaker 13: I pleasant walk A pleasant talk along the briny beach.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: The oyster winked his eigh and shook his heavy head.
• 59:27
  Speaker 13: Meaning to say he did not choose to leave the
• 59:30
  Speaker 13: oyster bed.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: But four young oysters hurried up, and yet another four, And.
• 59:36
  Speaker 13: Thick and fast they came at last, and more and
• 59:41
  Speaker 13: more and more.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: The wares and the carpenter walked a mile or so, and.
• 59:47
  Speaker 13: Then they rested on a rock conveniently low, and.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: All the little oysters stood waiting in a row a.
• 59:56
  Speaker 13: Loaf of bread. The warus said, is what whi chie
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 13: flee neat?
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 17: Now?
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: If you're ready, oysters, dear, we can begin to feed.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 13: But not on us, the oysters cried, turning little blue.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: The night is fine. The waver said, do you admire
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: the view?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 13: The carpenter said nothing, but got us in as a slice.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 13: I wish you were not quite so deep. I've had
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 13: to ask you twice.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: It seems a shame, the wavers said, to play such
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: a trick after we've brought them so far and made
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: them trot so quick.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 13: Oh, oysters, said the carpenter, you've had a pleasant rum.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Shall we be trotting home again?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 13: But an they came there none.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: This was scarcely odd, because.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 13: They'd eat and every did you see that?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 17: Dee interrupts in a passion, pointing to a white rattle
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 17: on the ground, It's only a rattle. Dumb stamps wildly
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 17: and tears his hair.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 7: O you it.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 13: Divorce, It's spoiled, of course, my nice neurato to d
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 13: you agree to have a bottle.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 17: He collects saucepans and pots. D picks up a saucepan.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: I suppose, so let's fight till dinner.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 17: They go out, hand in hand. Alice hears music.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: I wonder what is going to happen next?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 17: She backs down stage respectfully as the King and Queen
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 17: of Hearts enter, followed by the Knave of Hearts carrying
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 17: the King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion, and the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 17: White Rabbit and others. When they come opposite to Alice,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 17: they stop and look at her. The Duchess comes out
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 17: of her house.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 9: Who is this?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 17: The knave bows three times, smiles and giggles, idiot. What's
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 17: your name? Child?
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: My name is Alice, So please your majesty off with
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: a head off nonsense.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 8: Consider, my dear, she is only a child.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 14: Can you play a croquet?
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 20: Yes?
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 14: Come on, then get you all places?
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: Where are the mallets here?
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 17: The frog appears with the flamingos and hedgehogs off with
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 17: his head. No one pays her any attention.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 20: What fun?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: What is the fun?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 15: Why she it's all her fancy that they never execute anyone.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: What does one do.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 14: Get to your places?
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 17: She takes the flamingo uses its neck as a mallet,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 17: and a hedgehog is a ball. The frog doubles himself
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 17: into an arch. The king does the same with the flowers,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 17: and the knave offers himself as an arch for Alice.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 17: Even though Alice does not notice him. He holds the
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 17: arch position. The queen shouts, at intervals, off with his head,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 17: off with her head?
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: Where are the chest queens?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: Under sentence of execution? What four did you say?
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 20: What a pity?
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 12: No?
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I don't think it's at all a pity,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: I said.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 20: What for?
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: They boxed the queen's ears.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 17: Alice gives a little scream of laughter.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: Oh hush, the queen will hear you. You see, they
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: came rather late, and the queen said, oh dear, the
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: queen hears me.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 17: He hurries away. Alice notices the knave, who is still
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 17: pretending to be an arch.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: How can you go on thinking so quietly with your
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: head downwards?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 20: What does that matter?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 15: Where my body happens to be. My mind goes on
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 15: working just the same. The fact of it is, the
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 15: more head downwards I am, the more I keep on
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 15: inventing new things.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 8: Did you happen to meet any soldiers, my dear, as
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 8: you came through the wood?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 17: Yes?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: I did, several thousand. I should think.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 8: Four thousand, two hundred and seven. That's the exact number.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 8: They couldn't send all the horses, you know, because two
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 8: of them are wanted in the game, and I haven't
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: sent the two messengers either.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: What's the war about?
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 8: The Red Chess king has the whole army against us,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: but he can't kill a man who has thirteen hearts.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 17: The Duchess, Queen Frog and followers go out the knave
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 17: and the five spots, seventh spot, and nine spot of
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 17: hearts stand behind the king.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 8: Just look along the road and tell me if you
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 8: can see either of my messengers.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: I see nobody on the road.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 8: I only wish I had such eyes to be able
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 8: to see nobody. And at that distance too. Why it's
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: as much as I can do to see real people
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 8: by this light.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: I see somebody now, but he's coming so very slowly.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: And what curious attitudes he goes into skipping up and
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: down and wriggling like Neil.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 8: Not at all those are Anglo Saxon attitudes. He only
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 8: does them when he's happy. I must have two messengers,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: you know, to come and go, One to come and
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 8: one to go.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: I beg your pardon.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 8: It isn't respectable to beg.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: I only meant that. I didn't understand why one to
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: come and one to go.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: Don't I tell you? I must have two to fetch
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 8: and carry, one to fetch and one to carry.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 17: The march hare enters pants her breath, waves his hands about,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 17: and makes fearful faces at the king.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 8: You alarm me, I feel faint. Give me a ham sandwich,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 8: Another sandwich.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 22: There's nothing but high rift now.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 8: Hey, then there's nothing like eating hay when you're fate.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: I should think throwing cold water over you would be better.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 8: I didn't say there was nothing better. I said there
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 8: was nothing like it. Who did you pass on the road?
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 22: Nobody quite right.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 8: This young lady saw him too, So of course nobody
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 8: walks slower than you.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: I do my best.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 22: I'm sure nobody walks faster.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 13: Than I do.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 8: He can't do that, or else he'd have been here first. However,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 8: now you've got your breath, you may tell us what's
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 8: happened in the town.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 22: A whisper, It's.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 17: Much to Alice's surprise. He shouts into the King's ear.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 21: Be at it again?
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 8: Do you call that a whisper? If you do such
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 8: a thing again, I'll have you buttered. It went through
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 8: and through my head like an earthquake.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 17: The King and the march hare go out, followed by
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 17: the five, seven and nine spots. The Duchess runs in
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 17: and tucks her arm affectionately into Alice's.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 11: You can't think how glad I am to see you again,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 11: you dear old thing. Oh you're thinking about something, my dear,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 11: and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 11: you just now what the moral of that is, but
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 11: I shall remember in a bit.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: Perhaps it hasn't one tut tut, child.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 11: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 17: Squeezes closely, takes her chin into Alice's shoulder, and roughly
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 17: drags Alice along for a walk.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: The game's going on rather better now, tis so?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 11: And the moral of that is, Oh tis love. Tis
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 11: love that makes the world go round.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Somebody said that it's done by everybody minding their own business.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 11: Oh well, it means much the same thing. And the
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 11: moral of that is take care of the sense, and
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 11: the sounds will take care of themselves.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: How fond you are of finding morals and things?
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 11: I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 11: arm round your waist. The reason is that I'm doubtful
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 11: about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 11: He might bite? Very true, flamingoes and mustard both bite.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 11: And the moral of that is birds of a feather flock.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: Together only must It isn't a bed right as usual?
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 11: What a clear way you have of putting things.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: It's a mineral, I think.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 11: Of course it is. There's a large mustard mine near here.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 11: And the moral of that is, the more there is
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 11: of mine, the less there is of yours.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: Oh I know it's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: but it is.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 11: I quite agree with you. And the moral of that
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 11: is be what you would seem to be, or a
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 11: if you'd like it. Put more simply, never imagine yourself
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 11: to be otherwise than what it might appear to others.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 11: That what you were or might have been was not
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 11: otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 17: Them to be otherwise.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: I think I should understand that that if I had
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: it written down, but I can't quite follow it as
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: you say it.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 11: That's nothing to what I could say if I chose pray.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: Don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, don't talk about trouble. I make you a present
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 11: of everything I've said as yet. Hm, thinking again, I've
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 11: got a right to think, just about as much right
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 11: as pigs have to fly and the moral.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 17: The arm of the Duchess begins to tremble, and her
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 17: voice dies down. The Queen of Heart stands before them
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 17: with folded arms and frowning like a thunderstorm.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 11: A fine day, your majesty.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 13: No, I give you fair warning.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 14: Either you or your head must be off, and that
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 14: in about half no time your choice.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 17: The Duchess goes meekly into the house.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: Let's go on with the game.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 17: She goes off, and shouts at intervals, off.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 14: With his head, off with her head?
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 12: How are you getting on?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: It's no use speaking to you till your ears have come.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: I don't think they play it all fairly and they
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: all quarrel or so, and they don't seem to have
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: any rules in particular. And you've no idea how confusing
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: it is with all the things alive. There's the archer
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: got to go through next, walking about at the other
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: end of the ground. And I should have crockaded the
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: saw mine coming.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 17: Music begins.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 12: How do you like the Queen?
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: Not at all?
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 17: She's so extremely The king queen and the entire court enters.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 17: The Queen is near to Alice. The music stops, and
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 17: all look at Alice questioningly. Alice tries to propitiate the Queen.
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  Speaker 2: Likely to win.
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  Speaker 17: Music continues that it's hardly worth while finishing the game.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 17: Queen smiles and passes, on, who are you talking to?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: It's a friend of mine, a chesha cat. Allow me
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: to introduce it.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 8: I don't like the look of it at all. However,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 8: it may kiss my hand.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 12: If it likes I'd rather not.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 8: Don't be impertinent, and don't look at me like that.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: A cat may look at a king. I've read that
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: in some book, but I don't remember where.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 8: Well, it must be removed my dear, I wish you
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 8: would have this cat removed off with his head.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 15: But you can't cut off your head unless there's a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 15: body to cut it off from.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 8: Anything that has a head can be beheaded.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 14: If something isn't done about it. In less than no time,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 14: I'll have everybody executed all round.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: It belongs to the Duchess. You'd better ask her about it.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: It's ah, you'd better ask me.
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  Speaker 17: Do it if you can it grins away the Duchess
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 17: and frog escape into the house.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 14: Cut it off.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 8: It's gone, it's gone. It's gone.
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  Speaker 3: It's gone.
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  Speaker 13: It's gone.
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  Speaker 20: It's gone.
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  Speaker 4: It's gone.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 13: Where where where?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 7: Where?
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 17: Where?
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: Where?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 14: Cut it off? Cut them all off?
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 13: No no, no, no, no, no, no no no no no,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 13: save me, save me.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 17: The knave shouts to Alice and gives her a tart
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 17: for safety.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 15: Take a tart.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 17: The Queen sees Alice stand out a moment from the others.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 14: Cut hers off, cut hers off.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 17: The others are glad to distract the Queen's attention from themselves.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 11: Cut hers off, cut hers off, cut hers off.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 17: Alice cries in fear and takes a quick bite at
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 17: the tart. If there is a trap door on the stage,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 17: Alice disappears down, leaving the crowd circling around the hole,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 17: screaming and amaze. If the stage has no trap door,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 17: a bridge is built across the footlights with a stair
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 17: leading down into the orchestra pit. When the crowd is
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 17: chasing Alice, she jumps over the footlights onto the bridge
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 17: as the curtain is falling, dividing her from the crowd
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 17: as she appeals to the audience.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: Save me, save me, who will save me?
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 17: And runs down the stairs and disappears. Curtain end that too.
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  Speaker 17: Act three of Alice in Wonderland by Alice Gernstenburg. This
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  Speaker 17: LibriVox dot org. Scene one. It's a garden of high,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 17: very conventional and artificial looking flowers. On a large mushroom
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 17: sits the caterpillar smoking a hookah. Alice is whirling about
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 17: trying to get her equilibrium after her fall. She goes
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 17: to the mushroom timidly and conscious of her size for
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 17: her chin reaches the top of the mushroom. She gazes
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 17: at the caterpillar wonderingly. He looks at her lazily and
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 17: speaks in a languid voice.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 9: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: I I hardly know, sir, just at present the Queen
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: frightened me so, and I've had an awfully funny fall
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: down a tunnel or a sort of well. At least
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: I know who I was when I got up this morning,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: but I think I must have been changed several times
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: since then.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 12: What do you mean by that?
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 5: Explain yourself.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: I can't explain myself. I'm afraid, sir, because I'm not myself.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: You see, being so many different sizes in a day
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  Speaker 2: is very confusing.
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  Speaker 17: You.
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  Speaker 7: Who are you?
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: I think you ought to tell me who you are first?
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 17: As Alice turns away.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 7: Come back.
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  Speaker 12: I've something important to say.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 17: Alice comes back.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: Keep your temper?
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  Speaker 3: Is that all?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 17: He puffs at the hookah in silence, finally takes it
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 17: out of his mouth and unfolds his arms. So you
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 17: think you will change it?
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 9: Do you?
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I am, sir. I don't keep the same size.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 12: What size do you want to be?
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know? At least I've never been so small
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: as a caterpillar.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 17: The caterpillar rears angrily.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 22: It is a very good height.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 7: And did.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: But I'm not used to it. I wish you wouldn't
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: all be so easily offended.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 9: You get used to it in time.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: Are you too big? Or am I too small?
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 17: She compares her heart wonderingly with the tall flowers. The
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 17: caterpillar looks at her sleepily, yawns, shakes himself, slides down
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 17: from the mushroom, and crawls slowly away.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 12: One side would make you grow taller, and the other
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 12: side we make you grow shorter.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: One side of what the other.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 4: Side of what?
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: Of the marshroom?
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 17: Alice hesitates, then embraces mushroom and picks bit from each side.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 17: Three gardeners representing spades enter, carrying brushes and red paint cans.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 5: Look out, now, Five, don't go splashing paint over me
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 5: like that.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 23: I couldn't help it. Seven jogged my elbow. That's right. Five.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 23: Always lay the blame on others. You better not talk.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 23: I heard the queen say, oly, yesterday, you deserve to
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 23: be beheaded.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 7: What for?
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 23: That's none of your business?
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 10: Do yes?
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 23: It is his business, and I'll tell him it was
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 23: for bringing the cooked tulip roots instead of onions. Will
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 23: of all the unjust.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 17: Things, seize Alice. Others look around.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: All bow, could you please tell me what side to eat?
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 17: Five and seven? Look at two.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 8: I don't know anything about it.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 17: He paints a white rose red.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 5: You ought to have been red. We put you in
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 5: by mistake, and if the Queen was to find it out,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 5: we should all have our heads cut off.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 17: A thumping is heard off stage, and the music grows
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 17: louder and louder. What's that.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 23: The white chest queen. Don't let her see what we
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 23: are doing.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 14: She'll tell on us.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 23: Run out and stop her from coming here.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 17: Five spot, says to Alice as she runs to the right.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 23: No, no, the other way.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: But she's up there.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 23: You can only meet her by walking the other way.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: Oh what nonsense, Go no way.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 17: Alice re enters in dismay and dashes out to the left.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: She's running away from me.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 17: The white Queen backs in from right, and Alice backs
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 17: in from left. They meet the gardeners, cry the queen,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 17: and throw themselves flat upon the ground. Their backs are
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 17: like the backs of the rest of the pack. Music stops.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 17: Alice looks at the queen, curious.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: Oh there you are. Why I'm just the size I
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: was when I saw you last, of course you are.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: And who are these? I can't tell them by their backs?
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 17: She turns them over with her foot.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: Turn over, Ah, I thought, So get up? What have
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 4: you been doing here?
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 8: May it please your majesty?
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 5: We were trying.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 17: The White Queen examines Rose.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 4: I see be gone, or I'll send the horses after
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 4: you and tell the Queen of Hearts.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 17: Gardeners rush off. The Red Queen enters. Alice has gone
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 17: to the mushroom again to look at the sides, and there,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 17: to her amazement, finds a gold crown and scepter, which
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 17: she immediately appropriates. Music the Queen's watch Alice superciliously. Alice
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 17: puts on her crown, proudly exclaiming in great elation Queen
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 17: Alice and walks downstage, bowing right and left to the
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 17: homage of her imaginary subjects. She repeats, as if scarcely
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 17: daring to believe it true, Queen Alice, music stops.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: Ridiculous.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: Is this the eighth square?
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: You can't be a queen, you know, till you've passed
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: the proper examination.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 4: The sooner we begin it, the better, Please, would you
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 4: tell me speak when you're spoken to.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: But if everybody obade that rule, and if you only
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: always waited for you to begin, you see, nobody would
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: ever say anything.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: So that preposterous.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: I only said if.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: She says. She only said, if.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 17: The white queen moans and wrings her hands.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, but she said a great deal more than that. Ah, yes,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 4: so much more than that.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: So you did, you know? Always speak the truth, think
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sure I didn't mean.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: That's just what I complained of. You should have meant.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: What do you suppose is the use of a child
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 3: and a child's more important than a joke. I hope
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: you couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: I don't deny things with my hands.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: Nobody said you did. I said you couldn't if you tried.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: She's in that state of mind that she wants to
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: deny something, only she doesn't know what to deny.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 3: A nasty, vicious temper. I invite you to Alice's dinner
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 3: party this afternoon.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: And I invite you.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't know I was to have a party at all.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: But if there is to be one, I think I
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: ought to invite the guests.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: We gave you the opportunity of doing it. But I
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: dare say you've not had many lessons in manners yet.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: Men as are not taught lessons. Lessons teach you to
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: do sums and things of that sort.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 4: Can you do audition? What's one and one and one
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 4: and one and one and one and one and one
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 4: and one and one.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I'll ask count.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: She can't do addition? Can you do subtraction? Take nine
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: from eight?
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: Nine from eight?
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 4: I can't you know? But she can't do subtraction? Can
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 4: you do division? Divide a loaf by a knife? What's
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: the answer to that?
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 17: I suppose the Red Queen answers.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: For her bread and butter. Of course, try another subtraction.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: Some take a bone from a dog. What remains the
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 3: bone wouldn't remain?
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: Of course, if I took it and the dog wouldn't remain,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: it would come to bite me, and I'm sure I
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: shouldn't remain.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: Then you think nothing would remain.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: I think that's the answer.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 9: Wrong.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: As usual, the dog's temper would remain, But I don't
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: see how while look here, the dog would lose its temper,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: wouldn't it?
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: Perhaps it would?
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: Then if the dog went away, its temper would remain.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: They might go different ways. What dreadful nonsense we are talking?
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: She can't do something's a bit? Can you do?
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: Sums?
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: I can do addition if you give me time. But
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: I can't do subtraction under any circumstances.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: Of course, you know your ABC.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 7: To be sure.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 12: I do, so do I.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 4: We'll often say it over together, dear, and I'll tell
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 4: you a secret. I can read words of one letter.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 4: Isn't that grand? However, don't be discouraged. You'll come to
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: it in time.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 3: Can you answer useful questions? How is bread made?
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: I know that you take some flower?
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: Where do you pick the flower in a garden or
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 4: in the hedges?
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: Well, it isn't picked at all, it's ground.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 4: How many acres of ground? You mustn't leave out? So
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: many things.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: Fan her head shall be feverish after so much thinking.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 17: They fan her with bunches of leaves, which blow her
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 17: hair wildly.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: Please please, she's all right again. Now do you know languages?
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: What's the French for fiddle?
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: D D fiddle d D's not English?
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: Whoever said it was?
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: If you tell me what language fiddle d D is,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you the French for it.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: Queens never make bargains.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: I wish queens never asked questions.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: Don't let us quarrel. What is the cause of lightning?
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: The cause of lightning is the thunder? No, no, I
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: meant the other way.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: It's too late to correct it. When you've once said
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 4: We had such a thunderstorm next Tuesday. You can't think.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 3: She never could, you know?
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 4: Part of the roof came off, and ever so much
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 4: thunder got in, and it went rolling round the room
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 4: in great lumps, and knocking over the tables and things,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: till I was so frightened I couldn't remember my own name.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: I never should try to remember my name in the
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: middle of an accident. Where would be the use of it.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: You must excuse her. She means well, but she can't
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: help saying foolish things. As a general rule. She never
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: was really well brought up. But it's amazing how good
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 3: tempered she is. Pat her on the head and see
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: how pleased she'll be a little kindness in putting her
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: hair and papers would do wonders with her.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 17: The White Queen gives a deep sigh and leans her
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 17: head on Alice's shoulder.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, I am so sleepy.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: She's tired, poor thing. Smooth her hair, lend her your
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: night cap and sing her soothing lullaby.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: I haven't got a night cat with me, and I
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: don't know any soothing lullabies.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: I must do it myself.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 16: Then hush a bye lady in Alice's lap till the feast.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: Ready, we've time for run nap.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 16: When the feastsover will go to the ball. Red Queen
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 16: and White Queen and Alice and all. And now you
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 16: know the words.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 17: She puts her head on Alice's other shoulder.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 3: Just sing it through to me. I'm getting sleepy too.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 17: Both queens fall fast asleep and snore loudly. What am
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 17: I to do?
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: Take care of two queens asleep at once? Do wake
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: up you heavy things?
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 17: All lights go out, leaving a mysterious glow on Alice
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 17: and the Queen's The White Rabbit blows trumpet off stage.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 8: The trials beginning.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: What trial is it?
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 5: Who stole the tarts?
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: I ate a tot.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 5: You've got to be tried.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be tried.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 5: You've got to be tried.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: I won't be tried. I won't, I won't.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 17: Scene two is a court room suggesting playing carts. The
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 17: jurymen are all kinds of creatures. The King and Queen
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 17: of Hearts are seated on the throne. The knave is
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 17: before them in chains. The white rabbit has a trumpet
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 17: in one hand and a scroll of parchment in the other.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 17: In the middle of the court stands at table with
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 17: a large dish of tarts upon it. The white Rabbit
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 17: blows three blast on his trumpet.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 18: Bottom bottom bottom.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 5: Silence in the court.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 17: Alice watches jurymen writing busily on their slates.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 4: What are they doing?
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: They can't have anything to put down yet before the
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: trial's begun.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 15: They're putting down their names for fear they should forget
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 15: them before.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: The end of the trial.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: Stupid things.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 23: Silent in the court.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 17: The jurors write in chorus.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 10: Supidod things, How do you spell stupid?
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: A nice muddle? Less slates will be in before the
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: trial's over.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 14: There's a pencil squeaking cut it down.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 17: The jurors in chorus as they write squeaking. The King
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 17: wears a crown over his wig, puts on his spectacles
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 17: as he says.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 8: Harold, read the accusation.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 17: The White Rabbit blows three blasts on his trumpet, unrolls
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 17: a parchment scroll, and reads to the music.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 4: But m but arm, but arm.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 5: The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts all on
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 5: a summer day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 5: tarts and took them quite away.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 8: Consider your verdict.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 10: Not yet, not yet.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 5: There's a great deal to come before that.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 8: Call the first witness, first witness.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 17: The Hatter comes in with a tea cup in one hand,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 17: and a piece of bread and butter in the other.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 9: I beg your pardon, your majesty for bringing these in.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 9: But I hadn't quite finished my tea when I was
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 9: sent for.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 8: You ought to have finished. When did you begin?
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 17: Hatter looks at the march Hare, who follows him arm
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 17: in arm with the dormouse.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 9: Fourteenth of March.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 22: I think it was fifteenth sixteenth.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 8: Write that down.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 10: Fourteen fifteen, sixteen forty five. Reduce that to shillings.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 8: Take off your hat.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 9: It isn't mine.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 10: Stolen, stolen.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 9: I keep them to sell I have none of my own.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 9: I'm a hatter.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 17: The Queen of Hearts puts on her spectacles and stairs
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 17: at the hatter, who fidgets uncomfortably.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 8: Give your evidence, and don't be nervous, or I'll have
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 8: you execute it on the spot.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 17: The hatter continues to shift nervously from one foot to
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 17: the other, looks uneasily at the Queen, trembles so that
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 17: he shakes off both his shoes, and in his confusion,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 17: bites a large piece out of his tea cup instead
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 17: of the bread and butter.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 9: I'm a poor man, your majesty, and I hadn't but
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 9: just begun my tea not above a week or so.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 9: And what with the bread and butter getting so thin,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 9: and the twinkling of the tea, the.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 8: Twinkling of what it began with the tea, of course,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 8: twinkling begins with a tea? Do you take me for
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 8: a dunce?
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 9: Go on, I'm a poor man. And most things twinkled
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 9: after that, Only the march hare said I.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 13: Didn't you did?
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: I deny it?
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 8: He denies it. Leave out that part.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 14: But what did the dormouse say.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 9: That I can't remember?
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 8: You must remember, or I'll have you executed?
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 17: The hatter drops teacup and bread and butter and goes
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 17: down on one knee.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 9: I'm a poor man, your majesty.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 8: If that's all you know about it, you may stand down.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 9: I can't go, no lower, I'm on the floor as
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 9: it is.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 8: Then you may sit down.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 9: I'd rather finish my tea.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 8: You may go.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 17: The hatter goes out hurriedly, leaving one of his shoes behind.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 17: The Queen nonchalantly says to an officer.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 14: And just take his head off outside, But the hatter was.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 17: Out of sight before the officer could get to the door.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 8: Call the next witness.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 17: Next witness, The duchess enters with a pepper pot, which
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 17: she shakes about. Everybody begins to sneeze, march hare, sneezes,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 17: and rushes out.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 8: Give your evidence.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 5: Shan't your majesty must cross examine this witness?
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 8: Well, if I must, I must. What does your cook say?
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 8: Tarts are made of pepper?
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 17: The duchess shakes the pot and the court sneezes. Cheeko
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 17: hint to the Duchess shakes the pot at him. He
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 17: sneezes for the first time.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 14: Call the dormouse, behead the dormouse. Turn that dormouse out
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 14: of court, suppress him, pinch him off with his whiskers.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 17: The whole court is in confusion, turning the dormouse out,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 17: and while it is settling down again, the duchess disappears.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 5: The Duchess.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 6: She's gone, she's gone, never mind, in a low tone
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 6: to the Queen.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 8: Really, my dear, you must cross examine the next witness.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 8: It quite makes my forehead ache. A call the next witness.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 17: The white Rabbit fumbles with the parchment and then cries,
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  Speaker 17: in a shrill little voice, Alice, here, what.
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  Speaker 8: Do you know about this business?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing? Whatever?
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  Speaker 17: The King says to the jury.
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  Speaker 5: That's very important, unimportant, Your majesty means, of.
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  Speaker 8: Course, unimportant. Of course I meant important, unimportant, unimportant important.
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  Speaker 8: Consider your verdict.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 17: The jury write important and some write unimportant.
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  Speaker 5: There's more evidence to come yet, please, your majesty. This
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 5: paper has just been picked up.
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  Speaker 14: What's in it?
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  Speaker 17: The white rabbit fumbles with a huge envelope.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't opened it yet, but it seems to be
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  Speaker 5: a letter written by the prisoner to somebody.
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  Speaker 8: It must have been that, unless it was written to nobody,
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  Speaker 8: which isn't usual, you know, who.
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  Speaker 2: Is it directed to?
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  Speaker 5: It isn't directed at all. In fact, there's nothing written
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  Speaker 5: on the outside.
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  Speaker 17: Takes out a tiny piece of paper.
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  Speaker 5: It isn't a letter at all. It's a set of verses?
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  Speaker 14: Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?
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  Speaker 17: The jury brightens up. The white rabbit looks at the
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 17: knave's hand. The knave hides his hand from the chain's rattle.
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  Speaker 5: No, they're not, And that's the queerest thing about it.
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  Speaker 17: The jury looks puzzled.
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  Speaker 8: He must have imitated somebody else's hand.
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  Speaker 15: Please your majesty, I didn't write it, and they can't
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  Speaker 15: prove I did. There's no name signed.
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  Speaker 7: At the end.
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  Speaker 8: If you didn't sign it, that only makes the matter worse.
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  Speaker 8: You must have meant some mischief, or else you'd have
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  Speaker 8: signed your name like an honest man.
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  Speaker 17: At this there is a general clapping of hands that
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  Speaker 17: proves his guilt.
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  Speaker 2: It proves nothing of the sort. Why you don't even
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: know what they're about?
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  Speaker 23: Read them?
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  Speaker 17: The white rabbit puts on his monocle.
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  Speaker 5: Where shall I begin to please your majesty?
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  Speaker 8: Begin at the beginning and go on till you come
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  Speaker 8: to the end. Then stop.
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  Speaker 5: They told me you had been to her and mentioned
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  Speaker 5: me to him. She gave me a good character, but
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 5: said I could not swim. I gave her one, They
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  Speaker 5: gave him two, You gave us three or more. They
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  Speaker 5: all returned from him to you, though they were mine before.
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  Speaker 5: My notion was that you had been before. She had
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 5: this fit an obstacle that came between him and ourselves,
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  Speaker 5: and it don't let him know she liked him best,
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 5: for this must ever be a secret kept from all
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  Speaker 5: the rest, between yourself and me.
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  Speaker 8: That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet.
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  Speaker 2: So now let the jury, if any of them can
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  Speaker 2: explain it, I'll give him sixpence. I don't believe there's
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: an atom of meaning in it.
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  Speaker 18: She doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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  Speaker 8: If there's no meaning in it, that saves a world
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  Speaker 8: of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any.
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  Speaker 8: And yet I don't know.
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  Speaker 17: Spreads out the verses on his knee, and Saudi sim I.
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  Speaker 8: Seemed to see some meaning after all, said I could
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  Speaker 8: not swim. You can't swim, can you?
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  Speaker 17: The knave shakes his head sadly and points to his suit.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 15: Do I look like it.
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  Speaker 20: All right?
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  Speaker 23: So far?
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  Speaker 8: We know it to be true. That's the jury. Of course,
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 8: I gave her one, they gave him two. Why that
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 8: must be what he did with the tarts, you know.
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  Speaker 10: But it goes on.
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  Speaker 2: They all returned from him to you.
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  Speaker 17: The King triumphantly points to the tarts.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 8: Why there they are. Nothing can be clearer than that.
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  Speaker 8: Then again, before she had this fit you never had fit,
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  Speaker 8: my dear.
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  Speaker 23: I think.
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  Speaker 18: Never.
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  Speaker 8: Then the words don't fit you.
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  Speaker 17: There's dead silence, while the King looks around the court
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  Speaker 17: with a smile.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 8: It's a pun.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 17: Everybody laughs, music.
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  Speaker 8: Let the jewelry consider their verdict.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 14: No, no sentence, first verdict.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: Afterwards, stuff and nonsense.
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  Speaker 17: The queen says, furiously, hold your tongue.
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  Speaker 14: I won't hof with her head.
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  Speaker 2: Who cares for you?
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  Speaker 9: Cut it off?
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  Speaker 2: You're nothing but a pack of cards.
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  Speaker 17: As the lights go out and the curtain falls, all
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 17: the characters hold their positions as if petrified. Curtain Scene three.
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  Speaker 17: The curtain rises to show Alice still asleep in the armchair,
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  Speaker 17: the fire in the grate suffusing her with its glow.
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  Speaker 1: Wake up, Alice, it's time for tea.
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  Speaker 17: Off stage, the characters repeat their most characteristic lines. Off
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  Speaker 17: with her head, consider your verdict. Oh my fur and whiskers.
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  Speaker 17: The Duchess sneezes, the cat cries, as if the characters
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 17: were fading away into the pack of real playing cards,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 17: which shower through the mirror all over Alice. There is music.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 17: Alice wakes, rises and looks about in surprise and wonderment.
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  Speaker 2: Why it was a dream.
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  Speaker 17: Curtain?
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  Speaker 1: End of Act three by Alice Gerstenberg.