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🟡 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Lewis Carroll · Fantasy Audiobooks

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  Speaker 1: CHAPTER I. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Alice was beginning to
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  Speaker 1: get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank,
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  Speaker 1: and of having nothing to do, Once or twice she
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  Speaker 1: had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but
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  Speaker 1: it had no pictures or conversations in it. And what
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  Speaker 1: is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures
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  Speaker 1: or conversations? So she was considering in her own mind,
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  Speaker 1: as well as she could, for the hot day made
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  Speaker 1: her feel very sleepy and stupid, whether the pleasure of
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  Speaker 1: making a daisy chain would be worth the trouble of
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  Speaker 1: getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a white
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  Speaker 1: rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was
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  Speaker 1: nothing so very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think
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  Speaker 1: it so very much out of the way, to hear
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit say to itself, Oh dear, oh dear, I
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  Speaker 1: shall be late. When she thought it over afterwards, it
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  Speaker 1: occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this,
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  Speaker 1: but at the time it all seemed quite natural. But
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  Speaker 1: when the rabbit actually took a watch out of its
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  Speaker 1: waistcoat pocket and looked at it, and then hurried on,
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  Speaker 1: Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her
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  Speaker 1: mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with
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  Speaker 1: either a waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out
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  Speaker 1: of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the
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  Speaker 1: field after it, and fortunately was just in time to
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  Speaker 1: see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
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  Speaker 1: In another moment down went Alice after it, never once
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  Speaker 1: considering how in the world she was to get out again.
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  Speaker 1: The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,
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  Speaker 1: and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had
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  Speaker 1: not a moment to think about stopping herself, before she
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  Speaker 1: found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the
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  Speaker 1: well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for
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  Speaker 1: she had plenty of time as she went down to
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  Speaker 1: look about her, and to wonder what was going to
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  Speaker 1: happen next. First she tried to look down, and make
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  Speaker 1: out what she was coming to, but it was too
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  Speaker 1: dark to see anything. Then she looked at the sides
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  Speaker 1: of the well and noticed that they were filled with
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  Speaker 1: cupboards and bookshelves. Here and there she saw maps and
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  Speaker 1: pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from
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  Speaker 1: one of the shelves as she passed. It was labelled
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  Speaker 1: Orange Marmalade, but to her great disappointment it was empty.
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  Speaker 1: She did not like to drop the jar for fear
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  Speaker 1: of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one
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  Speaker 1: of the cupboards as she fell past it. Well, thought
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  Speaker 1: Alice to herself, After such a fall as this, I
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  Speaker 1: shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs. How brave they'll all
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  Speaker 1: think me at home. Why, I wouldn't say anything about it,
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  Speaker 1: even if I fell off the top of the house.
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  Speaker 1: Which was very likely true. Down, down, down. Would the
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  Speaker 1: fall never come to an end? I wonder how many
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  Speaker 1: miles I've fallen by this time, she said aloud. I
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  Speaker 1: must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see. That would be four thousand miles down,
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  Speaker 1: I think. For, you see, Alice had learnt several things
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  Speaker 1: of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and
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  Speaker 1: though this was not a very good opportunity for showing
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  Speaker 1: off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen
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  Speaker 1: to her, still it was good practice to say it over. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's about the right distance, but then I wonder what
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  Speaker 1: latitude or longitude I've got to. Alice had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what latitude was or longitude either, but thought they were
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  Speaker 1: nice grand words to say. Presently she began again. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if I shall fall right through the earth. How
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  Speaker 1: funny it'll seem to come out among the people that
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  Speaker 1: walk with their heads downward. The antipathies, I think. She
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  Speaker 1: was rather glad there was no one listening this time,
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  Speaker 1: as it didn't sound at all the right word. but
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  Speaker 1: I shall have to ask them what the name of
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  Speaker 1: the country is, you know. Please, ma'am, is this New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand or Australia? And she tried to curtsy as she spoke.
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  Speaker 1: Fancy curtsying as you're falling through the air. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think you could manage it? And what an ignorant little
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  Speaker 1: girl she'll think me for asking. No, it'll never do
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  Speaker 1: to ask. Perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere. Down, down, down.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began
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  Speaker 1: talking again. Dinah will miss me very much to-night, I
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  Speaker 1: should think. Dinah was the cat. I hope they'll remember
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  Speaker 1: her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear, I
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  Speaker 1: wish you were down here with me. There are no
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  Speaker 1: mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch
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  Speaker 1: a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But do cats eat bats, I wonder? And here Alice
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  Speaker 1: began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself,
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  Speaker 1: in a dreamy sort of way, Do cats eat bats?
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  Speaker 1: Do cats eat bats? And sometimes, Do bats eat cats? For,
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  Speaker 1: you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: much matter which way she put it. She felt that
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  Speaker 1: she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream
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  Speaker 1: that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and
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  Speaker 1: saying to her very earnestly, Now, Dinah, tell me the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever eat a bat? When suddenly, thump-thump, down
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  Speaker 1: she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves,
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  Speaker 1: and the fall was over. Alice was not a bit hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and she jumped up onto her feet in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: She looked up, but it was all dark overhead. Before
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  Speaker 1: her was another long passage, and the white rabbit was
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  Speaker 1: still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a
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  Speaker 1: moment to be lost, away went Alice like the wind,
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  Speaker 1: and was just in time to hear it say, as
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  Speaker 1: it turned a corner, Oh, my ears and whiskers, how
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  Speaker 1: late it's getting! She was close behind it when she
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  Speaker 1: turned the corner, but the rabbit was no longer to
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  Speaker 1: be seen. She found herself in a long, low hall,
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  Speaker 1: which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging
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  Speaker 1: from the roof. There were doors all round the hall,
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  Speaker 1: but they were all locked, and when Alice had been
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  Speaker 1: all the way down one side and up the other,
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  Speaker 1: trying every door— she walked sadly down the middle, wondering
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  Speaker 1: how she was ever to get out again. Suddenly she
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  Speaker 1: came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing on it except a tiny golden key,
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  Speaker 1: and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to
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  Speaker 1: one of the doors of the hall. But, alas, either
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  Speaker 1: the locks were too large, or the key was too small,
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  Speaker 1: but at any rate it would not open any of them. However,
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  Speaker 1: On the second time round she came upon a low
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  Speaker 1: curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was
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  Speaker 1: a little door, about fifteen inches high. She tried the
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  Speaker 1: little golden key in the lock, and to her great
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  Speaker 1: delight it fitted. Alice opened the door and found that
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  Speaker 1: it led into a small passage, not much larger than
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  Speaker 1: a rat-hole. She knelt down and looked along the passage
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  Speaker 1: into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed
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  Speaker 1: to get out of that dark hall and wander about
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  Speaker 1: among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains.
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  Speaker 1: But she could not even get her head through the doorway.'
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  Speaker 1: And even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice,'
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  Speaker 1: it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!
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  Speaker 1: I think I could, if I only knew how to begin!' for,
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  Speaker 1: you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that
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  Speaker 1: Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed
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  Speaker 1: were really impossible. There seemed to be no use in
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  Speaker 1: waiting by the little door, so she went back to
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  Speaker 1: the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or,
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  Speaker 1: at any rate, a book of rules for shutting people
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  Speaker 1: up like telescopes. This time she found a little bottle
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  Speaker 1: on it.' Which certainly was not here before,' said Alice.'
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  Speaker 1: and round the neck of the bottle was a paper
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  Speaker 1: label with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it
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  Speaker 1: in large letters. It was all very well to say
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  Speaker 1: DRINK ME, but the wise little Alice was not going
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  Speaker 1: to do that in a hurry. No, I'll look first,
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  Speaker 1: she said, and see whether it's marked POISON or not,
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  Speaker 1: for she had read several nice little histories about children
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  Speaker 1: who had got BURNT, and eaten up by wild beasts
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  Speaker 1: and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember
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  Speaker 1: the simple rules their friends had taught them, such as
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  Speaker 1: that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold
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  Speaker 1: it too long, and that if you cut your finger
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  Speaker 1: very deeply with a knife it usually bleeds, and she
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  Speaker 1: had never forgotten that if you drink much from a
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  Speaker 1: bottle marked poison it is almost certain to disagree with
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  Speaker 1: you sooner or later. HOWEVER, THIS BOTTLE WAS NOT MARKED POISON,
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  Speaker 1: SO ALICE VENTURED TO TASTE IT, AND, FINDING IT VERY
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  Speaker 1: NICE— IT HAD, IN FACT, A SORT OF MIXED FLAVOR OF
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  Speaker 1: CHERRY TART, CUSTARD, PINEAPPLE, ROAST TURKEY, TOFFEE, AND HOT BUTTERED
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  Speaker 1: TOAST— SHE VERY SOON FINISHED IT OFF.' What a curious feeling,'
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  Speaker 1: said Alice.'' I must be shutting up like a telescope.'
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: And so it was indeed. She was now only ten
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  Speaker 1: inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought
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  Speaker 1: that she was now the right size for going through
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  Speaker 1: the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she
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  Speaker 1: waited for a few minutes to see if she was
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  Speaker 1: going to shrink any further— and She felt a little nervous
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  Speaker 1: about this.' For it might end, you know,' said Alice
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  Speaker 1: to herself,' in my going out altogether, like a candle.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder what I should be like then.' And she
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  Speaker 1: tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is
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  Speaker 1: like after the candle is blown out, for she could
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  Speaker 1: not remember ever having seen such a thing. After a while,
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  Speaker 1: finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into
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  Speaker 1: the garden at once. But, alas, for poor Alice— When
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  Speaker 1: she got to the door she found she had forgotten
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  Speaker 1: the little golden key, and when she went back to
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  Speaker 1: the table for it she found she could not possibly
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  Speaker 1: reach it. She could see it quite plainly through the glass,
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  Speaker 1: and she tried her best to climb up one of
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  Speaker 1: the legs of the table, but it was too slippery.
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  Speaker 1: And when she had tired herself out with trying, the
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  Speaker 1: poor little thing sat down and cried.' Come, there's no
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  Speaker 1: use in crying like that,' said Alice to herself rather sharply.
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  Speaker 1: I advise you to leave off this minute. She generally
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  Speaker 1: gave herself very good advice, though she very seldom followed it,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring
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  Speaker 1: tears into her eyes, and once she remembered trying to
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  Speaker 1: box her own ears for having cheated herself in a
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  Speaker 1: game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this
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  Speaker 1: curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
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  Speaker 1: But it's no use now, thought poor Alice, to pretend
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  Speaker 1: to be two people, why there's hardly enough of me
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  Speaker 1: left to make one respectable person. Soon her eye fell
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  Speaker 1: on a little glass box that was lying under the table.
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  Speaker 1: She opened it, and found in it a very small cake,
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  Speaker 1: on which the words EAT ME were beautifully marked in currents. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll eat it, said Alice, and if it makes me
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  Speaker 1: grow larger I can reach the key. and if it
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  Speaker 1: makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door,
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  Speaker 1: so either way I'll get into the garden, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't care which happens.' She ate a little bit, and
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  Speaker 1: said anxiously to herself,' Which way? Which way?' holding her
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  Speaker 1: hand on the top of her head to feel which
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  Speaker 1: way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to
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  Speaker 1: find that she remained the same size. To be sure,
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  Speaker 1: this generally happens when one eats cake.' but Alice had
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  Speaker 1: got so much into the way of expecting nothing but
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  Speaker 1: out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and
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  Speaker 1: stupid for life to go on in the common way.
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  Speaker 1: So she set to work, and very soon finished off
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  Speaker 1: the cake. In March 2010, in San Diego, California. CHAPTER II.
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  Speaker 1: THE POOL OF TEARS' Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice. She
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  Speaker 1: was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite
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  Speaker 1: forgot how to speak good English.' Now I'm opening out
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  Speaker 1: like the largest telescope that ever was. Good-bye, feet!' for
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: when she looked down at her feet they seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off.' Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my poor little feet! I wonder who will put on
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  Speaker 1: your shoes and stockings for you now, dears. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: I shan't be able. I shall be a great deal
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  Speaker 1: too far off to trouble myself about you. You must
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  Speaker 1: manage the best way you can.'' But I must be
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  Speaker 1: kind to them,' thought Alice.' Or perhaps they won't walk
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  Speaker 1: the way I want to go. Let me see. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.' and
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  Speaker 1: she went on planning to herself how she would manage it.
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  Speaker 1: They must go by the carrier, she thought, and how
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  Speaker 1: funny it'll seem sending presents to one's own feet, and
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  Speaker 1: how odd the directions will look. Alice's right foot, Esquire, hearthrug,
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  Speaker 1: near the fender, with Alice's love. Oh dear, what nonsense
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking! Just then her head struck against the roof
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  Speaker 1: of the hall. In fact, she was now more than
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  Speaker 1: nine feet high, and she at once took up the
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  Speaker 1: little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do,
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  Speaker 1: lying down on one side, to look through into the
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  Speaker 1: garden with one eye, but to get through was more
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  Speaker 1: hopeless than ever. She sat down and began to cry again.'
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice.' A
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  Speaker 1: great girl like you!' she might well say this, to
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  Speaker 1: go on crying in this way, stop this moment, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you. But she went on all the same, shedding
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  Speaker 1: gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all
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  Speaker 1: round her, about four inches deep, and reaching half down
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  Speaker 1: the hall. After a time she heard a little pattering
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  Speaker 1: of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her
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  Speaker 1: eyes to see what was coming. It was the white
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  Speaker 1: rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid
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  Speaker 1: gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other.
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  Speaker 1: He came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to
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  Speaker 1: himself as he came,' Oh, the Duchess, the Duchess, oh,
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  Speaker 1: won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice
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  Speaker 1: felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help
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  Speaker 1: of any one, so when the rabbit came near her
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  Speaker 1: she began, in a low, timid voice,' If you please, sir,'
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  Speaker 1: The rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and
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  Speaker 1: the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard
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  Speaker 1: as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and,
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  Speaker 1: as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself
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  Speaker 1: all the time she went on talking.' Dear, dear, how
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  Speaker 1: queer everything is to-day, and yesterday things went on just
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  Speaker 1: as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night.
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  Speaker 1: Let me think. Was I the same when I got
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  Speaker 1: up this morning?' I almost think I can remember feeling
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  Speaker 1: a little different, but if I'm not the same, the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: next question is, who in the world am I? Ah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the great puzzle. And she began thinking over all
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  Speaker 1: the children she knew that were of the same age
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  Speaker 1: as herself, to see if she could have been changed
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  Speaker 1: for any of them. I'm sure I'm not Ada, she said,
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  Speaker 1: for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go in ringlets at all, and I'm sure I
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things,
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  Speaker 1: and she, oh, she knows such a very little. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: she's she, and I'm I, and, oh dear, how puzzling
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  Speaker 1: it all is. I'll try if I know all the
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  Speaker 1: things I used to know. Let me see. Four times
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  Speaker 1: five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and
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  Speaker 1: four times seven is, oh dear, I shall never get
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  Speaker 1: to twenty at that rate. However, the multiplication table doesn't
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  Speaker 1: signify Let's try geography. London is the capital of Paris,
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  Speaker 1: and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome— no, that's
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  Speaker 1: all wrong, I'm certain. I must have been changed for Mabel.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try and say, How doth the little? And she
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  Speaker 1: crossed her hands on her lap as if she were
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  Speaker 1: saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice
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  Speaker 1: sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come
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  Speaker 1: the same as they used to do. How doth the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: little crocodile improve his shining tail, and pour the waters
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  Speaker 1: of the Nile on every golden scale? How cheerfully he
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  Speaker 1: seems to grin, how neatly spread his claws, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: little fishes in with gently smiling jaws. I'm sure those
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  Speaker 1: are not the right words, said poor Alice, and her
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  Speaker 1: eyes filled with tears again as she went on. I
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  Speaker 1: must be Mabel after all. and I shall have to
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  Speaker 1: go and live in that pokey little house, and have
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  Speaker 1: next to no toys to play with, and, oh, ever
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  Speaker 1: so many lessons to learn. No, I've made up my
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  Speaker 1: mind about it. If I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying,
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  Speaker 1: Come up again, dear. I shall only look up and say,
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  Speaker 1: Who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then,
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  Speaker 1: if I like being that person, I'll come up. If not,
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  Speaker 1: I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else.' But, oh dear!
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, I do
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: wish they would put their heads down. I am so
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  Speaker 1: very tired of being all alone here. As she said this,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to
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  Speaker 1: see that she had put on one of the rabbit's
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  Speaker 1: little white kid gloves while she was talking. How can
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  Speaker 1: I have done that? she thought. I must be growing
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  Speaker 1: small again. She got up and went to the table
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  Speaker 1: to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly
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  Speaker 1: as she could guess, she was now about two feet high,
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  Speaker 1: and was going on shrinking rapidly. She soon found out
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  Speaker 1: that the cause of this was the fan she was holding,
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  Speaker 1: and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: shrinking away altogether.' That was a narrow escape,' said Alice,
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  Speaker 1: a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very
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  Speaker 1: glad to find herself still in existence.' And now for
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the garden!' and she ran with all speed back to
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  Speaker 1: the little door, but, alas, the little door was shut again,
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  Speaker 1: and the little golden key was lying on the glass
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: table as before. And things are worse than ever, thought
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  Speaker 1: the poor child, for I never was so small as
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: this before, never, and I declare it's too bad that
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: it is. As she said these words her foot slipped,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and in another moment, splash, she was up to her
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: had somehow fallen into the sea, and in that case
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I can go back by railway, she said to herself.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Alice had been to the seaside once in her life,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and had come to the general conclusion that wherever you
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: go to on the English coast you find a number
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging-houses,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and behind them a railway station. However, she soon made
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  Speaker 1: out that she was in the pool of tears which
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  Speaker 1: she had wept when she was nine feet high.' I
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  Speaker 1: wish I hadn't cried so much,' said Alice as she
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  Speaker 1: swam about, trying to find her way out.' I shall
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  Speaker 1: be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned
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  Speaker 1: in my own tears. That will be a queer thing
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: to be sure. However, everything is queer to-day.' Just then
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: she heard something splashing about in the pool a little
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  Speaker 1: way off, and she swam nearer to make out what
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: it was. At first she thought it must be a
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  Speaker 1: walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: was now, and she soon made out that it was
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: only a mouse that had slipped in like herself. Would
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it be of any use now, thought Alice, to speak
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  Speaker 1: to this mouse? Everything is so out of the way
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  Speaker 1: down here that I should think it very likely it
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  Speaker 1: can talk. At any rate, there's no harm in trying.
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  Speaker 1: So she began, O mouse, do you know the way
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  Speaker 1: out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming
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  Speaker 1: about here, O mouse. Alice thought this must be the
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  Speaker 1: right way of speaking to a mouse. She had never
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  Speaker 1: done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: in her brother's Latin grammar, A mouse, of a mouse,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to a mouse, a mouse, O mouse. The mouse looked
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.'
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice.' I dare say
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  Speaker 1: it's a French mouse. Come over with William the Conqueror.' For,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: clear notion how long ago anything had happened. So she
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: began again.' Où est ma chatte?' which was the first
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: sentence in her French lesson-book. The mouse gave a sudden
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: leap out of the water and seemed to quiver all
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  Speaker 1: over with fright. Oh, I beg your pardon, cried Alice hastily,
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  Speaker 1: afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's feelings. I
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  Speaker 1: quite forgot you didn't like cats. Not like cats, cried
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  Speaker 1: the mouse in a shrill, passionate voice. Would you like
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  Speaker 1: cats if you were me? Well, perhaps not, said Alice
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: in a soothing tone. Don't be angry about it. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could show you our cat, Dinah. I
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  Speaker 1: think you'd take a fancy to cats, if you could
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  Speaker 1: only see her. She is such a dear, quiet thing,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily
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  Speaker 1: about in the pool. And she sits purring so nicely
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and she is such a nice, soft thing to nurse,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and she's such a capital one for catching mice. Oh,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon, cried Alice again, for this time
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: it must be really offended. We won't talk about her
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  Speaker 1: any more, if you'd rather not. We indeed, cried the mouse,
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  Speaker 1: who was trembling down to the end of his tail.
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  Speaker 1: As if I would talk on such a subject! Our
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: family always hated cats. Nasty, low, vulgar things. Don't let
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  Speaker 1: me hear the name again. I won't indeed, said Alice,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation.'
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Are you— are you fond of— of dogs?'' The mouse did not answer,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: so Alice went on eagerly.' There is such a nice
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: little dog near our house I should like to show you.'
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with, oh, such long
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: curly brown hair.' And it'll fetch things when you throw them,'
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: all sorts of things.' I can't remember half of them.'
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And it belongs to a farmer, you know,' and he
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: says it's so useful it's worth a hundred pounds.' He
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: says it kills all the rats, and—'' Oh, dear!' cried
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Alice in a sorrowful tone,' I' m afraid I've offended it again.'
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: For the mouse was swimming away from her as hard
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  Speaker 1: as it could go, and making quite a commotion in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the pool as it went. So she called softly after it,' Mouse, dear,
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  Speaker 1: do come back again, and we won't talk about cats
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  Speaker 1: or dogs either if you don't like them.' When the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: mouse heard this it turned round and swam slowly back
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  Speaker 1: to her. Its face was quite pale. With passion, Alice thought,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and it said in a low, trembling voice, Let us
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my history,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and you'll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: It was high time to go, for the pool was
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: fallen into it. There were a duck and a dodo,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: a lorry and an eaglet, and several other curious creatures.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to
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  Speaker 1: the shore. CHAPTER III. OF ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND BY
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  Speaker 1: LOUIS CARELL This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter 3. A Caucus Race and a Long Tail They
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: The first question, of course, was how to get dry again.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: They had a consultation about this, and after a few
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them
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  Speaker 1: all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: with the lorry, who at last turned sulky, and would
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: only say,' I am older than you, and must know better.'
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And this Alice would not allow without knowing how old
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: it was, and, as the lorry positively refused to tell
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  Speaker 1: its age, there was no more to be said. At
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  Speaker 1: last the mouse, who seemed to be a person of
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  Speaker 1: authority among them, called out, Sit down, all of you,
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  Speaker 1: and listen to me. I'll soon make you dry enough.
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  Speaker 1: They all sat down at once in a large ring,
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  Speaker 1: with the mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would
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  Speaker 1: catch a bad cold if she did not get dry
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  Speaker 1: very soon. Ahem! said the mouse, with an important air.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know.'
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Silence all round, if you please.'' William the Conqueror, whose
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: cause was favoured by the Pope,' was soon submitted to
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: by the English, who wanted leaders,' and had been of
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.' Edwin and Morcar,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the earls of Mercia and Northumbria.'' Ugh!' said the lorry,
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  Speaker 1: with a shiver.' I beg your pardon,' said the mouse, frowning,
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  Speaker 1: but very politely.' Did you speak?'' Not I,' said the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: lorry hastily.' I thought you did,' said the mouse.' I proceed.'
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, 'declared
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: for him, and even Stigand,' the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury,'
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: found it advisable.'' Found what?' said the duck.' Found it,'
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the mouse replied rather crossly.' Of course you know what
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: it means.' I know what it means well enough when
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I find a thing, said the duck. It's generally a
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: frog or a worm. The question is, what did the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: archbishop find? The mouse did not notice this question, but
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: hurriedly went on. Found it advisable to go with Edgar
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown. William's
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: conduct at first was moderate, but the insolence of his
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Normans— How are you getting on now, my dear? it continued,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: turning to Alice as it spoke.' As wet as ever,'
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: said Alice in a melancholy tone.' It doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: dry me at all.'' In that case,' said the dodo solemnly,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: rising to its feet,' I move that the meeting adjourn
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies.'' Speak English,'
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: said the eaglet.' I don't know the meaning of half
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: those long words, and what's more, I don't believe you
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  Speaker 1: do either.' And the eaglet bent down its head to
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  Speaker 1: hide a smile. Some of the other birds tittered audibly.'
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  Speaker 1: What I was going to say,' said the dodo, in
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: an offended tone,' was that the best thing to get
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: us dry would be a caucus race.'' What is a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: caucus race?' said Alice, not that she wanted much to know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: but the dodo had paused, as if it thought that
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: somebody ought to speak.' and no one else seemed inclined
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  Speaker 1: to say anything. Why, said the dodo, the best way
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: to explain it is to do it. And, as you
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: might like to try the thing yourself some winter day,
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you how the dodo managed it. First
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: The exact shape doesn't matter, it said. And then all
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the party were placed along the course, here and there.
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  Speaker 1: There was no one, two, three, and away, but they
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  Speaker 1: began running when they liked. and left off when they liked,
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  Speaker 1: so that it was not easy to know when the
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  Speaker 1: race was over. However, when they had been running half
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the
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  Speaker 1: dodo suddenly called out, The race is over! and they
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: all crowded round it, panting, and asking, But who has won?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: This question the dodo could not answer without a great
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: deal of thought, and it sat for a long time
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: with one finger pressed upon its forehead, the position in
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: which you usually see Shakespeare in the pictures of him.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: while the rest waited in silence. At last the dodo said,'
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.'' But who
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  Speaker 1: is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices asked.' Why, she,
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  Speaker 1: of course,' said the dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: out in a confused way,' Prizes, prizes!' Alice had no
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  Speaker 1: idea what to do, and in despair she put her
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: hand in her pocket and pulled out a box of comfits.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Luckily the salt water had not got into it, and
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one apiece,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: all round.' But she must have a prize herself, you know,'
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: said the mouse.' Of course,' the dodo replied very gravely.'
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  Speaker 1: What else have you got in your pocket?' he went on,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: turning to Alice.' Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly. Hand
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  Speaker 1: it over here,' said the dodo. Then they all crowded
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: round her once more, while the dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying,'
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble.' And when
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: it had finished this short speech, they all cheered. Alice
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: so grave that she did not dare to laugh, and,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: as she could not think of anything to say, she
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: simply bowed and took the thimble, looking as solemn as
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  Speaker 1: she could. the next thing was to eat the comfits.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: This caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: ones choked and had to be patted on the back. However,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: it was over at last, and they sat down again
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: in a ring, and begged the mouse to tell them
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: something more.' You promised to tell me your history, you know,'
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: said Alice,' and why it is you hate—'' C and D,'
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: she added in a whisper, half afraid that it would
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: be offended again.' MINE IS A LONG AND A SAD TALE,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: SAID THE MOUSE, TURNING TO ALICE AND SIGHING. IT IS
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: A LONG TALE, CERTAINLY, SAID ALICE, LOOKING DOWN WITH WONDER
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  Speaker 1: AT THE MOUSE'S TALE. BUT WHY DO YOU CALL IT SAD?
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  Speaker 1: AND SHE KEPT ON PUZZLING ABOUT IT WHILE THE MOUSE
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  Speaker 1: WAS SPEAKING, SO THAT HER IDEA OF THE TALE WAS
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: SOMETHING LIKE THIS. AND HERE THE MOUSE'S WORDS ARE PRINTED
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  Speaker 1: IN A LONG, SNAKY LINE DOWN THE PAGE, LIKE A
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  Speaker 1: MOUSE'S TALE. Fury said to a mouse that he met
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: in the house, Let us both go to law, I
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: will prosecute you. Come, I'll take no denial, we must
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: have a trial, for really this morning I've nothing to do.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Said the mouse to the cur, Such a trial, dear sir,
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  Speaker 1: with no jury or judge would be wasting our breath.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I'll be judge, I'll be jury, said cunning old Fury.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: You are not attending, said the mouse to Alice severely.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: What are you thinking of?'' I beg your pardon,' said Alice,
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  Speaker 1: very humbly.' You had got to the fifth bend, I think.''
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I had not,' cried the mouse, sharply and very angrily.'
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and looking anxiously about her.' Oh, do let me help
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  Speaker 1: to undo it.'' I shall do nothing of the sort,'
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: said the mouse, getting up and walking away.' You insult
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: me by talking such nonsense.' I didn't mean it, pleaded
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: poor Alice, but you're so easily offended, you know. The
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: mouse only growled in reply. Please come back and finish
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: your story, Alice called after it, and the others all
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: joined in chorus. Yes, please do. But the mouse only
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: shook its head impatiently and walked a little quicker. What
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: a pity it wouldn't stay, sighed the lorry, as soon
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: as it was quite out of sight, and an old
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter—' Ah,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: my dear, let this be a lesson to you never
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to lose your temper.'' Hold your tongue, ma,' said the
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: young crab, a little snappishly.' You' re enough to try the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: patience of an oyster.'' I wish I had our Dinah here,
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  Speaker 1: I know I do,' said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.'
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  Speaker 1: She' d soon fetch it back.'' And who is Dinah, if
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I might venture to ask the question?' said the lorry.'
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk
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  Speaker 1: about her pet.' Dinah's our cat, and she's such a
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: capital one for catching mice, you can't think. And, oh,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I wish you could see her after the birds. Why,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it.'
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: of the birds hurried off at once. One old magpie
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking,' I really must
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: be getting home. The night air doesn't suit my throat.'
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: And a canary called out in a trembling voice to
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: its children, Come away, my dears, it's high time you
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: were all in bed. On various pretexts they all moved off,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: and Alice was soon left alone. I wish I hadn't
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: mentioned Dinah, she said to herself in a melancholy tone.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Nobody seems to like her down here, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: she's the best cat in the world. Oh, my dear Dinah,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I wonder if I shall ever see you any more.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: felt very lonely and low-spirited. In a little while, however,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the mouse
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  Speaker 1: had changed his mind, and was coming back to finish
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: his story. CHAPTER IV. OF ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. By
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Lewis Carroll. CHAPTER IV. THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: BILL It was the white rabbit, trotting slowly back again,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: had lost something, and she heard it muttering to itself,'
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: The Duchess! the Duchess! O my dear paws! O my
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?'
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: were nowhere to be seen. Everything seemed to have changed
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: since her swim in the pool, and the great hall,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Very soon the rabbit noticed Alice as she went hunting about,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and called out to her in an angry tone,' Why,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Mary Anne, what are you doing out here?' Run home
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: this moment and fetch me a pair of gloves and
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: a fan. Quick now!' And Alice was so much frightened
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: that she ran off at once in the direction it
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.'
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: as she ran.' How surprised he'll be when he finds
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: out who I am! But I'd better take him his
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: fan and gloves— that is, if I can find them.' As
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: she said this, she came upon a neat little house—
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: on the door of which was a bright brass plate
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: with the name W. Rabbit engraved upon it. She went
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: in without knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: she should meet the real Mary Anne, and be turned
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: out of the house before she had found the fan
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: and gloves. How queer it seems, Alice said to herself,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to be going messages for a rabbit. I suppose Dinah
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: will be sending me on messages next, and she began
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: fancying the sort of thing that would happen.' Miss Alice,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: come here directly and get ready for your walk.'' Coming
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: in a minute, nurse, but I've got to see that
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the mouse doesn't get out.'' Only I don't think,' Alice
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: went on,' that they'd let Dinah stop in the house
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: if it began ordering people about like that.' By this
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: time she had found her way into a tidy little
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: room with a table in the window, and on it,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: as she had hoped, a fan and two or three
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: pairs of tiny white kid gloves— she took up the
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: fan and a pair of the gloves and was just
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: going to leave the room when her eye fell upon
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass there was
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: no label this time with the words drink me but
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: nevertheless she uncorked it, and put it to her lips.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I know something interesting is sure to happen, she said
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: to herself, whenever I eat or drink anything, so I'll
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: just see what this bottle does. I do hope it'll
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: make me grow large again, for really I'm quite tired
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: of being such a tiny little thing. It did so indeed,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: and much sooner than she had expected. Before she had
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: to herself, That's quite enough. I hope I shan't grow
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: any more. As it is, I can't get out at
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the door. I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much. Alas,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: it was too late to wish that. She went on
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: growing and growing, and very soon had to kneel down
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: on the floor. In another minute there was not even
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: room for this, and she tried the effect of lying
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: down with one elbow against the door, and the other
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: arm curled round her head. Still she went on growing,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: and as a last resource she put one arm out
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: of the window and one foot up the chimney, and
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: said to herself, Now I can do no more whatever happens.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: What will become of me? Luckily for Alice, the little
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: magic bottle had now had its full effect, and she
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: grew no larger. Still, it was very uncomfortable, and as
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: there seemed to be no sort of chance of her
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: felt unhappy. It was much pleasanter at home, thought poor Alice,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: hadn't gone down that rabbit hole. And yet— and yet— It's
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: rather curious, you know, this sort of life. I do
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: wonder what can have happened to me. When I used
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: never happened, and now here I am in the middle
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: of one. There ought to be a book written about me,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: that there ought, and when I grow up I'll write one.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: But I'm grown up now, she added in a sorrowful tone.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: At least there's no room to grow up any more here.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: But then, thought Alice, shall I never get any older
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: than I am now? that'll be a comfort in one way,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: never to be an old woman, but then always to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: have lessons to learn. Oh, I shouldn't like that.'' Oh,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: you foolish Alice,' she answered herself,' how can you learn
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for you, and
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: no room at all for any lesson-books.' And so she
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: went on, taking first one side and then the other,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: and making quite a conversation of it altogether.' but after
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: a few minutes she heard a voice outside and stopped
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: to listen.' Marianne! Marianne!' said the voice.' Fetch me my
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: gloves this moment!' Then came a little pattering of feet
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: on the stairs. Alice knew it was the rabbit coming
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: to look for her, and she trembled till she shook
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: thousand times as large as the rabbit, and had no
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: reason to be afraid of it. Presently the rabbit came
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: up to the door and tried to open it, but,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: as the door opened inwards, and Alice's elbow was pressed
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: hard against it, that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: it say to itself, Then I'll go round and get
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: in at the window. That you won't, thought Alice, and,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: after waiting till she fancied she heard the rabbit just
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: under the window, she suddenly spread out her hand and
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: made a snatch in the air. She did not get
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: a fall and a crash of broken glass, from which
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: into a cucumber frame, or something of the sort. Next
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: came an angry voice. The rabbit's,' Pat, Pat, where are you?'
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: And then a voice she had never heard before,' Sure,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: then I'm here, digging for apples, your honour.'' Digging for apples, indeed,'
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: said the rabbit angrily.' Here, Come and help me out
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: of this. Sounds of more broken glass. Now tell me, Pat,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: what's that in the window? Sure, it's an arm, your honor.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: He pronounced it, arm. An arm, you goose, whoever saw
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: one that size, why, it fills the whole window. Sure,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: it does, your honor, but it's an arm for all that. Well,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: it's got no business there at any rate. Go and
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: take it away. There was a long silence after this,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and Alice could only hear whispers now and then, such as, Sure,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I don't like it, your honour, at all, at all.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Do as I tell you, you coward. And at last
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: she spread out her hand again, and made another snatch
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: in the air. This time there were two little shrieks,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: and more sounds of broken glass. What a number of
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: cucumber frames there must be, thought Alice. I wonder what
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: they'll do next. As for pulling me out of the window,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: I only wish they could. I'm sure I don't want
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: to stay in here any longer.' She waited for some
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: time without hearing anything more. At last came a rumbling
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: of little cart-wheels, and the sound of a good many
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: voices all talking together. She made out the words,' Where' s
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the other ladder? Why, I hadn't to bring but one.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Bill's got the other. Bill, fetch it here, lad. Here,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: put him up at this corner. No, tie him together first.'
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: THEY DON'T REACH HALF HIGH ENOUGH YET. OH, THEY'LL DO
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: WELL ENOUGH. DON'T BE PARTICULAR. HERE, BILL, CATCH HOLD OF
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: THIS ROPE. WILL THE ROOF BEAR? MIND THAT LOOSE SLATE. OH,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: IT'S COMING DOWN. HEAD'S BELOW. A LOUD CRASH. NOW WHO
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: DID THAT? IT WAS BILL, I FANCY. WHO'S TO GO
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: DOWN THE CHIMNEY? NAY, I SHAN'T. YOU DO IT. THAT
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: I WON'T, THEN. BILL'S TO GO DOWN. HERE, BILL. THE
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: MASTER SAYS YOU'RE TO GO DOWN THE CHIMNEY. Oh, so
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he? said
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Alice to herself. Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: This fireplace is narrow, to be sure, but I think
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I can kick a little. She drew her foot as
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: far down the chimney as she could, and waited till
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: she heard a little animal. She couldn't guess of what
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: sort it was, scratching and scrambling about in the chimney
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: close above her. Then, saying to herself, This is Bill,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: would happen next. The first thing she heard was a
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: general chorus of, There goes Bill! Then the rabbit's voice along,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Catch him, you by the hedge! Then silence, and then
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: another confusion of voices. Hold up his head, Brandy now,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: don't choke him. How was it, old fellow? What happened
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: to you? Tell us all about it. Last came a
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: little feeble squeaking voice.' That' s Bill,' thought Alice.' Well, I
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: hardly know. No more, thank ye. I'm better now, but
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I'm a deal too flustered to tell you. All I
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: know is, something comes at me like a jack-in-the-box, and
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: up I goes like a sky-rocket.'' So you did, old fellow,'
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: said the others.' We must burn the house down,' said
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: the rabbit's voice, and Alice called out as loud as
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: she could,' If you do, I'll set Dinah at you.'
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself,'
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I wonder what they will do next. If they had
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: any sense, they'd take the roof off.' After a minute
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: or two they began moving about again, and Alice heard
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: the rabbit say,' A barrowful will do, to begin with.''
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: A barrowful of what?' thought Alice, but she had not
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: long to doubt. For the next moment a shower of
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: little pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: of them hit her in the face. I'll put a
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: stop to this, she said to herself, and shouted out,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: You'd better not do that again, which produced another dead silence.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: and a bright idea came into her head. If I
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: eat one of these cakes, she thought, It's sure to
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: make some change in my size, and as it can't
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.'
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: to find that she began shrinking directly. As soon as
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: she was small enough to get through the door, she
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: of little animals and birds waiting outside. The poor little lizard, Bill,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: was in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: who were giving it something out of a bottle. They
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: but she ran off as hard as she could, and
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: soon found herself safe in a thick wood.' The first
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: thing I've got to do,' said Alice to herself, as
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: she wandered about in the wood,' is to grow to
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: my right size again, and the second thing is to
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: find my way into that lovely garden. I think that
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: will be the best plan.'' It sounded an excellent plan,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged,' The only
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: difficulty was that she had not the smallest idea how
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: to set about it, and while she was peering about
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: her head made her look up in a great hurry.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: An enormous puppy was looking down at her with lustre.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: touch her.' Poor little thing,' said Alice, in a coaxing tone,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: and she tried hard to whistle to it, but she
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: it might be hungry, in which case it would be
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: very likely to eat her up in spite of all
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: her coaxing. Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit of stick, and held it out to
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the puppy, whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: from being run over, and the moment she appeared on
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: the other side the puppy made another rush at the stick,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: hold of it. Then Alice— thinking it was very like
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the thistle again. Then the puppy began a series of
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: short charges at the stick, running a very little way
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: forwards each time, and a long way back, and barking
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut. This
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: so she set off at once, and ran till she
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: was quite tired and out of breath, and till the
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.' And yet
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: what a dear little puppy it was,' said Alice, as
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: herself with one of the leaves.' I should have liked
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: teaching it tricks very much, if— if I'd only been the
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: right size to do it. Oh, dear!' I'd nearly forgotten
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: that I've got to grow up again. Let me see,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: how is it to be managed? I suppose I ought
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: to eat or drink something or other, but the great
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: question is, what? The great question certainly was, what? Alice
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: looked all round her at the flowers and the blades
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: of grass, but she did not see anything that looked
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: same height as herself, and when she had looked under it,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: and on both sides of it, and behind it, it
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: occurred to her that she might as well look and
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: see what was on the top of it. She stretched
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: large caterpillar that was sitting on the top, with its
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: the smallest notice of her or of anything else. CHAPTER V.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR The caterpillar and Alice looked at
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: each other for some time in silence. At last the
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: her in a languid, sleepy voice.' Who are you?' said
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: the caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Alice replied rather shyly,' I hardly know, sir, just at present.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: At least I know who I was when I got
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: up this morning.' but I think I must have been
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: changed several times since then. What do you mean by that?
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar sternly. Explain yourself. I can't explain myself,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid, sir, said Alice, because I'm not myself, you see.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: I don't see, said the caterpillar. I'm afraid I can't
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: put it more clearly, Alice replied very politely, for I
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: can't understand it myself to begin with,' and being so
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'' It isn't,'
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar.' Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,'
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: said Alice,' but when you have to turn into a
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: chrysalis—'' You will, some day, you know—'' and then after
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: that into a butterfly,' I should think you'll feel it
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: a little queer, won't you?'' Not a bit,' said the caterpillar.' Well,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice.' All I
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: know is, it would feel very queer to me.' You,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar contemptuously. Who are you? Which brought them
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: back again to the beginning of the conversation. Alice felt
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: a little irritated at the caterpillars making such very short remarks,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: and she drew herself up and said very gravely, I
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: think you ought to tell me who you are first. Why,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: said the caterpillar. Here was another puzzling question. and as
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Alice could not think of any good reason, and as
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: the caterpillar seemed to be in a very unpleasant state
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: of mind, she turned away.' Come back,' the caterpillar called
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: after her.' I' ve something important to say.' This sounded promising, certainly.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Alice turned and came back.' Keep your temper,' said the caterpillar.'
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: well as she could.' No,' said the caterpillar.' Alice thought
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: she might as well wait,' as she had nothing else
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: to do,' and perhaps after all it might tell her
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: something worth hearing.'' For some minutes it puffed away without speaking,'
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: but at last it unfolded its arms,' took the hookah
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: out of its mouth again, and said,' So you think
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: you're changed, do you?'' I' m afraid I am, sir,' said Alice.'
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: I can't remember things as I used,' and I don't
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: keep the same size for ten minutes together.'' Can' t remember
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: what things,' said the caterpillar.' Well, I've tried to say,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: how doth the little busy bee, but it all came different,'
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.' Repeat, you are old,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Father William,' said the caterpillar. Alice folded her hands and began.'
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: You are old, Father William,' the young man said,' and
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: your hair has become very white.'' and yet you incessantly
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: stand on your head.' Do you think at your age
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: it is right?'' In my youth,' Father William replied to
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: his son,' I feared it might injure the brain.' But
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,' why, I
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: do it again and again.'' You are old,' said the youth,'
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: as I mentioned before,' and have grown most uncommonly fat.'
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Yet you turned a back somersault in at the door.' Pray,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: what is the reason of that?'' In my youth,' said
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: the sage, as he shook his grey locks,' I kept
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: all my limbs very supple, by the use of this ointment,'
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: one shilling the box. Allow me to sell you a couple.''
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: You are old,' said the youth,' and your jaws are
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: too weak for anything tougher than suet.' Yet you finished
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: the goose, with the bones and the beak.' Pray, how
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: did you manage to do it?'' In my youth,' said
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: his father,' I took to the law, and argued each
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: case with my wife.' and the muscular strength which it
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: gave to my jaw has lasted the rest of my life.''
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: You are old,' said the youth.' One would hardly suppose
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: that your eye was as steady as ever. Yet you
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: balanced an eel on the end of your nose. What
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: made you so awfully clever?'' I have answered three questions,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: and that is enough,' said his father.' Don' t give yourself airs.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs.' That is not
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: said right, said the caterpillar. Not quite right, I am afraid,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: said Alice timidly. Some of the words have got altered.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: It is wrong from beginning to end, said the caterpillar decidedly,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: and there was silence for some minutes. The caterpillar was
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: the first to speak. What size do you want to be?
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: it asked. Oh, I'm not particular as to size, Alice
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: hastily replied. Only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know, said the caterpillar. Alice said nothing. She
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: had never been so much contradicted in her life before,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: and she felt that she was losing her temper. Are
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: you content now, said the caterpillar. Well, I should like
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: said Alice. Three inches is such a wretched height to be.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: It is a very good height indeed, said the caterpillar angrily,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: rearing itself upright as it spoke. It was exactly three
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: inches high. But I'm not used to it, pleaded poor
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Alice in a piteous tone. And she thought to herself,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended. You'll
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: get used to it in time, said the caterpillar, and
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: it put the hookah into its mouth, and began smoking
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: again this time alice waited patiently until it chose to
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: speak again in a minute or two the caterpillar took
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: twice and shook itself then it got down off the
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: mushroom and crawled away in the grass merely remarking as
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: it went,' One side will make you grow taller,' and
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: the other side will make you grow shorter.'' One side
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: of what?' The other side of what?' thought Alice to herself.'
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: Of the mushroom,' said the caterpillar,' just as if she
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: had asked it aloud.' and in another moment it was
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: out of sight. Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: for a minute, trying to make out which were the
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: two sides of it, and as it was perfectly round
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: she found this a very difficult question. However, at last
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: she stretched her arms round it as far as they
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: would go, and broke off a bit of the edge
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: with each hand.' And now which is which?' she said
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: to herself, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: to try the effect. The next moment she felt a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: violent blow underneath her chin. It had struck her foot.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: but she felt that there was no time to be
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: lost as she was shrinking rapidly, so she set to
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: work at once to eat some of the other bit.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot that
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: there was hardly room to open her mouth, but she
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: of the left-hand bit.' Come, my head's free at last,'
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: said Alice, in a tone of delight, which changed into
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: were nowhere to be found. All she could see, when
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: of green leaves that lay far below her.' What can
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: all that green stuff be?' said Alice.' And where have
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: my shoulders got to? And, oh, my poor hands! How
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: is it I can't see you?' She was moving them
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: except a little shaking among the distant green leaves. As
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: up to her head, she tried to get her head
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: down to them, and was delighted to find that her
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: neck would bend about easily in any direction like a serpent.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: She had just succeeded in curving it down into a
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: which she found to be nothing but the tops of
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: the trees under which she had been wandering, when a
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry. A
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: her violently with its wings.' Serpent!' screamed the pigeon.' I' m
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: not a serpent!' said Alice indignantly.' Let me alone!' Serpent,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: I say again, repeated the pigeon, but in a more
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, I've
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them. I
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: haven't the least idea what you're talking about, said Alice.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: and I've tried hedges, the pigeon went on, without attending
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: to her. But those serpents, there's no pleasing them. Alice
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: no use in saying anything more till the pigeon had finished.'
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the pigeon,' but I must be on the lookout for
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: serpents night and day. Why, I haven't had a wink
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: of sleep these three weeks.'' I' m very sorry you've been annoyed,'
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.' And
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,'
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: continued the pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek. And
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: just as I was thinking I should be free of
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: the sky. Ugh! Serpent! But I'm not a serpent, I
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: tell you, said Alice. I'm a... I'm a... Well, what
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: are you? said the pigeon. I can see you're trying
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: to invent something. I...' I' m a little girl,' said Alice,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: had gone through that day.' A likely story indeed,' said
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: the pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt.' I' ve
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: seen a good many little girls in my time, but
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: never one with such a neck as that.' No, no,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: you're a serpent, and there's no use denying it.' I
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: an egg.' I have tasted eggs certainly, said Alice, who
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: was a very truthful child, but little girls eat eggs
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: quite as much as serpents do, you know. I don't
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: believe it, said the pigeon, but if they do, why,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: This was such a new idea to Alice that she
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: the pigeon the opportunity of adding, You're looking for eggs,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: I know that well enough. and what does it matter
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?''
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: It matters a good deal to me,' said Alice hastily,'
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: but I'm not looking for eggs as it happens, and
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: if I was I shouldn't want yours. I don't like
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: them raw.'' Well, be off then,' said the pigeon in
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches— and
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: every now and then she had to stop and untwist it.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: After a while she remembered that she still held the
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: work very carefully, nibbling first at one, and then at
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: It was so long since she had been anything near
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: the right size that it felt quite strange at first,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: but she got used to it in a few minutes.'
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: and began talking to herself as usual.' Come, there's half
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: my plan done now. How puzzling all these changes are!
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: I'm never sure what I'm going to be from one
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: minute to another. However, I've got back to my right size.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: The next thing is to get into that beautiful garden.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: How is that to be done, I wonder?' As she
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: a little house in it about four feet high.' Whoever
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: lives there,' thought Alice, it'll never do to come upon
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: them this size why I should frighten them out of
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: their wits. So she began nibbling at the right-hand bit again,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: and did not venture to go near the house till
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: she had brought herself down to nine inches high. VI.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: PIG AND PEPPER For a minute or two she stood
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: looking at the house, and wondering what to do next,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: the wood. She considered him to be a footman because
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: he was in livery, otherwise, judging by his face only,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: she would have called him a fish. and rapped loudly
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: at the door with his knuckles. It was opened by
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: another footman in livery, with a round face and large
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: eyes like a frog, and both footmen, Alice noticed, had
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: powdered hair that curled all over their heads. She felt
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: very curious to know what it was all about, and
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: crept a little way out of the wood to listen.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: The fish-footman began by producing from under his arm a
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: great letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: handed over to the other, saying in a solemn tone,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: For the Duchess, an invitation from the Queen to play croquet.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: The frog-footman repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: the order of the words a little, From the Queen,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: an invitation for the Duchess to play croquet. Then they
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together. Alice
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: laughed so much at this, that she had to run
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: back into the wood for fear of their hearing her,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: and when she next peeped out the fish-footman was gone,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: and the other was sitting on the ground near the door,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: staring stupidly up into the sky. Alice went timidly up
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: to the door and knocked.' There' s no sort of use
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: in knocking,' said the footman,' and that for two reasons. First,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: because I'm on the same side of the door as
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: you are. Secondly, because they're making such a noise inside,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: no one could possibly hear you. and certainly there was
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: a most extraordinary noise going on within, a constant howling
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.' Please, then,'
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: said Alice,' how am I to get in?'' There might
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: be some sense in your knocking,' the footman went on,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: without attending to her,' if we had the door between us.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: For instance, if you were inside, you might knock, and
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: i could let you out you know he was looking
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: up into the sky all the time he was speaking
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: and this alice thought decidedly uncivil but perhaps he can't
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: help it she said to herself his eyes are so
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: very nearly at the top of his head but at
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: any rate he might answer questions How am I to
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: get in? she repeated aloud. I shall sit here, the
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: footman remarked, till to-morrow. At this moment the door of
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: straight at the footman's head. It just grazed his nose
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.'
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Or next day, maybe,' the footman continued in the same tone,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: exactly as if nothing had happened.' How am I to
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder tone.' Are
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: you to get in at all?' said the footman.' That' s
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: the first question, you know.'' It was, no doubt.' Only
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Alice did not like to be told so.' It' s really dreadful,'
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: she muttered to herself,' the way all the creatures argue.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: It's enough to drive one crazy.' The footman seemed to
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: think this a good opportunity for repeating his remark with variations.'
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: I shall sit here,' he said,' on and off for
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: days and days.'' But what am I to do?' said Alice.'
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Anything you like, said the footman, and began whistling. Oh,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: there's no use in talking to him, said Alice desperately.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: He's perfectly idiotic. And she opened the door and went in.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: The door led right into a large kitchen, which was
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: full of smoke from one end to the other. The
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: nursing a baby. The cook was leaning over the fire,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: stirring a large cauldron, which seemed to be full of soup.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: There's certainly too much pepper in that soup, Alice said
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: to herself, as well as she could for sneezing. There
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: was certainly too much of it in the air. Even
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: the Duchess sneezed occasionally, and as for the baby, it
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: was sneezing and howling alternately, without a moment's pause. The
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze were
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: the cook and a large cat which was sitting on
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.' Please, would
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: was not quite sure whether it was good manners for
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: her to speak first.' Why your cat grins like that?''
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: It' s a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess,' and that's why. Pig!'
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: She said the last word with such sudden violence that
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Alice quite jumped, but she saw in another moment that
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: it was addressed to the baby, and not to her,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: so she took courage and went on again. I didn't
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: know that Cheshire cats always grinned. In fact, I didn't
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: know that cats could grin. They all can, said the Duchess,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: and most of them do. I don't know of any
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: that do, Alice said very politely, feeling quite pleased to
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: have got into a conversation. You don't know much, said
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: the Duchess, and that's a fact. Alice did not at
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: all like the tone of this remark. and thought it
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: would be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: While she was trying to fix on one, the cook
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: took the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: once set to work throwing everything within her reach at
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: the Duchess and the baby. The fire-irons came first, then
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes. The Duchess
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: took no notice of them even when they hit her,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: and the baby was howling so much already that it
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: or not.' Oh, please mind what you're doing,' cried Alice,'
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: jumping up and down in an agony of terror.' Oh,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: there goes his precious nose!'' As an unusually large saucepan
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: flew close by it,' and very nearly carried it off.'
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: a hoarse growl,' the world would go round a deal
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: faster than it does.'' Which would not be an advantage,'
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: of showing off a little of her knowledge. Just think
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: of what work it would make with the day and night.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: You see, the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: on its axis. Talking of axes, said the Duchess, chop
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: off her head. Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: to see if she meant to take the hint, but
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: the cook was busy stirring the soup, and seemed not
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: to be listening, so she went on again. Twenty-four hours,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: I think, Or is it twelve? I—'' Oh, don't bother me,'
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: said the Duchess. I never could abide figures.' And with
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: it a violent shake at the end of every line.'
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: he sneezes. He only does it to annoy, because he
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: knows it teases.' Chorus, in which the cook and the
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: baby joined WOW! WOW! WOW! While the Duchess sang the
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: second verse of the song, she kept tossing the baby
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: so that Alice could hardly hear the words. I speak
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: severely to my boy, I beat him when he sneezes,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: for he can thoroughly enjoy the pepper when he pleases.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: Chorus WOW! WOW! WOW! Here, you may nurse it a
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: bit if you like. the duchess said to alice flinging
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: the baby at her as she spoke i must go
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: and get ready to play croquet with the queen and
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: she hurried out of the room the cook threw a
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: frying pan after her as she went out but it
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: just missed her alice caught the baby with some difficulty
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: as it was a queer-shaped little creature and held out
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: its arms and legs in all directions just like a
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: starfish thought alice The poor little thing was snorting like
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: the first minute or two, it was as much as
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: she could do to hold it. As soon as she
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: had made out the proper way of nursing it, which
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: was to twist it up into a sort of knot,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: and then keep tight hold of its right ear and
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself, she
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: carried it out into the open air.' If I don't
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: take this child away with me,' thought Alice,' they' re sure
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: to kill it in a day or two. Wouldn't it
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: be murder to leave it behind?' She said the last
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: words out loud, and the little thing grunted in reply.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: It had left off sneezing by this time.' Don' t grunt,'
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: said Alice.' That' s not at all a proper way of
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: expressing yourself.' The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: anxiously into its face to see what was the matter
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: with it. There could be no doubt that it had
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: a very turned-up nose, much more like a snout than
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: a real nose. Also, its eyes were getting extremely small
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: for a baby. Altogether, Alice did not like the look
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: of the thing at all. But perhaps it was only sobbing,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: she thought, and looked into its eyes again to see
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: if there were any tears. No, there were no tears.'
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear,'
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: said Alice seriously, I'll have nothing more to do with you.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: Mind now! The poor little thing sobbed again, or grunted,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: it was impossible to say which, and they went on
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: for some while in silence. Alice was just beginning to
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: think to herself, Now what am I to do with
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: this creature when I get it home? When it grunted again,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: so violently that she looked down into its face in
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: some alarm. This time there could be no mistake about it.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: It was neither more nor less than a pig, and
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: she felt that it would be quite absurd for her
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: to carry it further. So she set the little creature down,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: into the wood. If it had grown up, she said
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  Speaker 1: to herself, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child,
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  Speaker 1: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think. And
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: she began thinking over other children she knew, who might
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: if one only knew the right way to change them,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire
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  Speaker 1: Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few
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  Speaker 1: yards off. The cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: It looked good-natured, she thought. Still, it had very long claws,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: and a great many teeth, so she felt that it
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: ought to be treated with respect.' Cheshire Puss,' she began,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: it would like the name. However, it only grinned a
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  Speaker 1: little wider. Come, it's pleased so far, thought Alice, and
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: she went on. Would you tell me, please, which way
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  Speaker 1: I ought to go from here? That depends a good
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  Speaker 1: deal on where you want to get to, said the cat.
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  Speaker 1: I don't much care where, said Alice. Then it doesn't
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: matter which way you go, said the cat. So long
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: as I get somewhere, Alice added as an explanation. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're sure to do that, said the cat, if you
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: only walk long enough. Alice felt that this could not
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: be denied, so she tried another question. What sort of
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: people live about here? In that direction, the cat sighed.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: waving its right paw round,' lives a hatter, and in
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: that direction,' waving the other paw,' lives a march hare.
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  Speaker 1: Visit either you like. They're both mad.'' But I don't
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.' Oh, you
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: can't help that,' said the cat.' We' re all mad here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm mad. You're mad.'' How do you know I'm mad?'
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: said Alice.' You must be,' said the cat.' Or you
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have come here.' Alice didn't think that proved it
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  Speaker 1: at all. However, she went on.' And how do you
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: know that you're mad?'' To begin with,' said the cat.'
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: A dog's not mad. You grant that.'' I suppose so,'
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: said Alice.' Well then, the cat went on, you see,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: a dog growls when it's angry and wags its tail
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: wag my tail when I'm angry, therefore I'm mad. I
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: call it purring, not growling, said Alice. Call it what
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  Speaker 1: you like, said the cat. Do you play croquet with
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: the queen today? I should like it very much, said Alice,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: but I haven't been invited yet. You'll see me there,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: said the cat, and vanished. Alice was not much surprised
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: at this. She was getting so used to queer things happening.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: While she was looking at the place where it had been,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: it suddenly appeared again. By the by, what became of
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: the baby, said the cat, I'd nearly forgotten to ask.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: It turned into a pig, Alice quietly said, just as
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: if it had come back in a natural way. I
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: thought it would, said the cat, and vanished again. Alice
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: it did not appear, and after a minute or two
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: she walked on in the direction in which the March
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Hare was said to live. I've seen Hatters before, she
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: said to herself. The March Hare will be much the
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: most interesting, and perhaps, as this is May, it won't
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: be raving mad, at least not so mad as it
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: was in March. As she said this, she looked up,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: and there was the cat again, sitting on a branch
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: of a tree.' Did you say pig, or fig?' said
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: the cat.' I said pig,' replied Alice,' and I wish
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly. You make
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: one quite giddy.'' All right,' said the cat, and this
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: time after the rest of it had gone.'' Well, I've
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice.' But
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: a grin without a cat? It's the most curious thing
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: I ever saw in my life!' She had not gone
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: much farther before she came in sight of the house
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: of the March Hare. She thought it must be the
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears, and
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: the roof was thatched with fur. It was so large
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: a house that she did not like to go nearer
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: till she had nibbled some more of the left-hand bit
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: of the mushroom.' and raised herself to about two feet high.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: Even then she walked up towards it rather timidly, saying
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: to herself,' Suppose it should be raving mad after all.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: I almost wish I'd gone to see the Hatter instead.'
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: CHAPTER VII. A MAD TEA-PARTY There was a table set
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: out under a tree in front of the house, and
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: A Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: other two were using it as a cushion, resting their
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: elbows on it and talking over its head. Very uncomfortable
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: for the dormouse, thought Alice, only, as it's asleep, I
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: suppose it doesn't mind. The table was a large one,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: but the three were all crowded together at one corner
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: of it. No room, no room, they cried out when
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: they saw Alice coming. There's plenty of room, said Alice indignantly,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: and she sat down in a large armchair at one
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: end of the table. Have some wine, the March Hare
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the table,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: but there was nothing on it but tea. I don't
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: see any wine, she remarked. There isn't any, said the
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: March Hare. Then it wasn't very civil of you to
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: offer it, said Alice angrily. It wasn't very civil of
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: you to sit down without being invited, said the March Hare.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't know it was your table, said Alice. It's
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: laid for a great many more than three. Your hare
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: wants cutting, said the Hatter. He had been looking at
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: his first speech.' You should learn not to make personal remarks,'
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: Alice said with some severity.' It' s very rude.' The Hatter
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: opened his eyes very wide on hearing this, but all
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: he said was,' Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'' Come,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: we shall have some fun now,' thought Alice.' I' m glad
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: they've begun asking riddles.' I believe I can guess that,
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: she added aloud. Do you mean that you think you
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: can find out the answer to it? said the March Hare.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: Exactly so, said Alice. Then you should say what you mean,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: the March Hare went on. I do, Alice hastily replied.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: At least, at least I mean what I say. That's
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: the same thing, you know. Not the same thing a bit,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: said the Hatter. You might just as well say that
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: I see what I eat, is the same thing as,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: I eat what I see.'' You might just as well say,'
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: added the March Hare, that, I like what I get,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: is the same thing as, I get what I like.''
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: seemed to be talking in his sleep, that, I breathe
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: when I sleep, is the same thing as, I sleep
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: when I breathe.'' It is the same thing with you,'
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: The Hatter was the first to break the silence.' What
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: day of the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: He had taken his watch out of his pocket, and
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: and holding it to his ear. Alice considered a little,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: and then said, THE FOURTH' Two days wrong,' sighed the Hatter.'
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: I told you butter wouldn't suit the works,' he added,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: looking angrily at the March Hare.' It was the best butter,'
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: the March Hare meekly replied.' Yes, but some crumbs must
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: have got in as well,' the Hatter grumbled.' You shouldn't
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: have put it in with the bread-knife.' The March Hare
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: took the watch and looked at it gloomily. Then he
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: it again, but he could think of nothing better to
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: say than his first remark.' It was the best butter,
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: you know.' Alice had been looking over his shoulder with
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: some curiosity.' What a funny watch,' she remarked.' It tells
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: the day of the month, and doesn't tell what o'clock
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: it is.'' Why should it?' muttered the Hatter.' Does your
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: watch tell you what year it is?'' Of course not,'
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: Alice replied very readily. but that's because it stays the
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: same year for such a long time together.'' Which is
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: just the case with mine,' said the Hatter. Alice felt
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.'
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: she could.' The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose.'
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: The Dormouse shook its head impatiently and said, without opening
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: its eyes, Of course, of course, just what I was
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: going to remark myself. Have you guessed the riddle yet?
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. No, I give
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: it up, Alice replied. What's the answer? I haven't the
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: slightest idea, said the Hatter. Nor I, said the March Hare.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: Alice sighed wearily. I think you might do something better
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: with the time, she said, than waste it in asking
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: riddles that have no answers. If you knew time as
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: well as I do, said the Hatter, you wouldn't talk
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: about wasting it. It's him. I don't know what you mean,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: said Alice. Of course you don't, the Hatter said, tossing
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: his head contemptuously. I dare say you never even spoke
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: to time. Perhaps not, Alice cautiously replied. but I know
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: I have to beat time when I learn music. Ah,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: that accounts for it, said the Hatter. He won't stand beating. Now,
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: if you only kept on good terms with him,' he' d
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: do almost anything you liked with the clock.' For instance,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning,' just time
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: to begin lessons.' You' d only have to whisper a hint
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: to time,' and round goes the clock in a twinkling.'
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: Half- past one. Time for dinner.'' I only wish it was.'
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: the March Hare said to itself in a whisper. That
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: would be grand, certainly, said Alice thoughtfully, but then I
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be hungry for it, you know. Not at first, perhaps,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: said the Hatter, but you could keep it to half-past
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: one as long as you liked. Is that the way
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: you manage? Alice asked. The Hatter shook his head mournfully.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: Not I, he replied. We quarreled last March, just before
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: he went mad, you know. pointing with his teaspoon at
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: the March Hare. It was at the great concert given
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing, Twinkle, twinkle,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: little bat, how I wonder what you're at. You know
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: the song, perhaps? I've heard something like it, said Alice.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: It goes on, you know, the Hatter continued, in this way.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: the sky, twinkle, twinkle, Here the Dormouse shook itself, and
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: began singing in its sleep,' Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle,' and
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: went on so long that they had to pinch it
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: to make it stop.' Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse,'
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: said the Hatter,' when the Queen jumped up and bawled out.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: He's murdering the time! Off with his head!'' How dreadfully savage!'
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: exclaimed Alice.' And ever since that,' the Hatter went on
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: in a mournful tone, He won't do a thing I ask.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: It's always six o'clock now. A bright idea came into
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: Alice's head. Is that the reason so many tea things
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: are put out here? she asked. Yes, that's it, said
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: the Hatter with a sigh. It's always tea time, and
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: we've no time to wash the things between whiles. Then
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: you keep moving round, I suppose, said Alice. Exactly so,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: said the Hatter, as the things get used up.' But
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: ventured to ask.' Suppose we change the subject,' the March
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: Hare interrupted, yawning.' I' m getting tired of this. I vote
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: the young lady tells us a story.'' I' m afraid I
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: don't know one,' said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal.'
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: Then the Dormouse shall,' they both cried.' Wake up, Dormouse!'
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: And they pinched it on both sides at once.' The
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: Dormouse slowly opened his eyes.' I wasn't asleep, he said
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: in a hoarse, feeble voice. I heard every word you
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: fellows were saying. Tell us a story, said the March Hare. Yes,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: please do, pleaded Alice. And be quick about it, added
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: the Hatter, or you'll be asleep again before it's done.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: Once upon a time there were three little sisters, the
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: Dormouse began in a great hurry, and their names were Elsie, Lacey,
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: and Tilly, and they lived at the bottom of a well.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: What did they live on? said Alice, who always took
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. They
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: lived on treacle, said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: or two. They couldn't have done that, you know, Alice
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: gently remarked. They'd have been ill. So they were, said
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: the Dormouse, very ill. Alice tried to fancy to herself
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: what such an extraordinary way of living would be like,
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: but it puzzled her too much, so she went on.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: But why did they live at the bottom of a well?
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: Take some more tea, the March Hare said to Alice
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: very earnestly. I've had nothing yet, Alice replied in an
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: offended tone, so I can't take more. You mean you
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: can't take less, said the Hatter. It's very easy to
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: take more than nothing. Nobody asked your opinion, said Alice.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: Who's making personal remarks now? the Hatter asked triumphantly. Alice
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: did not quite know what to say to this, so
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: she helped herself to some tea and bread and butter,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: and then turned to the Dormouse and repeated her question.'
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: Why did they live at the bottom of a well?'
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: about it, and then said,' It was a treacle well.''
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: There' s no such thing,' Alice was beginning very angrily, but
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: the Hatter and the March Hare went,' Shh! shh!' And
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: the Dormouse sulkily remarked, If you can't be civil, you'd
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: better finish the story for yourself. No, please go on,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: Alice said very humbly. I won't interrupt again. I dare
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: say there may be one. One indeed, said the Dormouse indignantly. However,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: he consented to go on. And so these three little sisters,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: they were learning to draw, you know. What did they draw,
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: said Alice, quite forgetting her promise. Treacle, said the Dormouse.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: without considering at all this time.' I want a clean cup,'
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: interrupted the Hatter.' Let' s all move one place on.' He
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: The March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: the change, and Alice was a good deal worse off
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: than before, as the March Hare had just upset the
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: milk-jug into his plate. Alice did not wish to offend
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: the Dormouse again, so she began very cautiously.' But I
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: don't understand. Where did they draw the treacle from?'' You
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: can draw water out of a water-well,' said the Hatter.'
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: So I should think you could draw treacle out of
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: a treacle-well. Eh, stupid?'' But they were in the well,'
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to notice this
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: last remark.' Of course they were,' said the Dormouse.' Well in.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: This answer so confused poor Alice that she let the
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it. They
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: were learning to draw, the Dormouse went on, yawning and
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy, and
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: they drew all manner of things, everything that begins with
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: an M. Why with an M? said Alice. Why not?
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: said the March Hare. Alice was silent. The door-mouse had
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: closed its eyes by this time, and was going off
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: into a doze, but on being pinched by the hatter
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: it woke up again with a little shriek, and went on,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: That begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: and memory, and muchness. You know you say things are
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: much of a muchness. Did you ever see such a
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: thing as a drawing of a muchness? Really, now you
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: ask me, said Alice, very much confused, I don't think—
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: Then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. This piece of
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: rudeness was more than Alice could bear. She got up
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: in great disgust and walked off. The Dormouse fell asleep instantly,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: and neither of the others took the least notice of
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: her going, though she looked back once or twice, half
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: hoping that they would call after her. The last time
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: into the teapot. At any rate, I'll never go there again,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: said Alice, as she picked her way through the wood.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: my life. Just as she said this, she noticed that
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: one of the trees had a door leading right into it.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: That's very curious, she thought, but everything's curious to-day. I
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: think I may as well go in at once. And
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: in she went. Once more she found herself in the
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: long hall and close to the little glass table. Now
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: I'll manage better this time, she said to herself. and
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: began by taking the little golden key and unlocking the
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: door that led into the garden. Then she went to
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: work nibbling at the mushroom. She had kept a piece
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: of it in her pocket, till she was about a
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: foot high. Then she walked down the little passage, and
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: then she found herself at last in the beautiful garden,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains. CHAPTER VIII.
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  Speaker 1: THE QUEEN'S CROQUET GROUND A large rose-tree stood near the
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: entrance of the garden. The roses growing on it were white,
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: nearer to watch them, and just as she came up
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: to them she heard one of them say, Look out now, Five,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: don't go splashing paint over me like that. I couldn't
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: help it, said Five in a sulky tone. Seven jogged
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: my elbow. On which Seven looked up and said, That's right, Five,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: always lay the blame on others. You'd better not talk,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: said Five. I heard the Queen say only yesterday you
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: deserve to be beheaded.'' What for?' said the one who
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: had spoken first.' That' s none of your business, too,' said Seven.' Yes,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: it is his business,' said Five,' and I'll tell him.'
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: It was for bringing the cooked tulip roots instead of onions.''
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: Seven flung down his brush and had just begun,' Well,
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: of all the unjust things!'' When his eye chanced to
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: fall upon Alice,' as she stood watching them, and he
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: checked himself suddenly. The others looked round also, and all
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: of them bowed low.' Would you tell me,' said Alice,
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: a little timidly,' why you are painting those roses?' Five
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: and seven said nothing, but looked at two. Two began
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: in a low voice.' Why, the fact is, you see, miss,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: we put a white one in by mistake, and if
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: the queen was to find it out, We should all
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, miss,
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: we're doing our best before she comes, too. At this
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: moment five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden,
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: called out, The queen! The queen! And the three gardeners
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: instantly threw themselves flat upon their faces. There was a
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: sound of many footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: see the queen. First came ten soldiers carrying clubs. These
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: with their hands and feet at the corners. Next the
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: ten courtiers. These were ornamented all over with diamonds, and
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: walked two and two, as the soldiers did. After these
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: came the royal children. There were ten of them, and
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: the little dears came jumping merrily along, hand in hand,
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: in couples. They were all ornamented with hearts. Next came
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: the guests, mostly kings and queens, and among them Alice
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: recognized the white rabbit, It was talking in a hurried,
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: by without noticing her. Then followed the knave of hearts,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: carrying the king's crown on a crimson velvet cushion, and,
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: last of all this grand procession came, the king and
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: queen of hearts. Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: not to lie down on her face like the three gardeners,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: but she could not remember ever having heard of such
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: a rule at processions, and besides, What would be the
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: use of a procession, thought she, if people had all
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn't
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: see it? So she stood still where she was, and waited.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: and looked at her, and the queen said severely, Who
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: is this? She said it to the knave of hearts,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: who only bowed and smiled in reply. Idiot, said the queen,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: tossing her head impatiently. And, turning to Alice, she went on,'
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: What' s your name, child?'' My name is Alice, so please
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: your majesty,' said Alice very politely. But she added to herself,' Why,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: they're only a pack of cards, after all. I needn't
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: be afraid of them.'' And who are these?' said the queen,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: pointing to the three gardeners who were lying round the rose-tree. For,
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: you see, as they were lying on their faces, and
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: the pattern on their backs was the same as the
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: rest of the pack, she could not tell whether they
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: own children.' How should I know?' said Alice, surprised at
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: her own courage.' It' s no business of mine.' The queen
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: a moment like a wild beast, screamed,' Off with her head! Off!'' Nonsense!'
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: said Alice very loudly and decidedly, and the queen was silent.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: The king laid his hand upon her arm and timidly said,' Consider,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: my dear, she is only a child.' The queen turned
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: angrily away from him and said to the knave,' Turn
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: them over.' The knave did so very carefully, with one foot.'
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: Get up!' said the queen in a shrill, loud voice,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: and the three gardeners instantly jumped up and began bowing
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: to the king, the queen, the royal children, and everybody else.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: Leave off that, screamed the queen, you make me giddy.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, What
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: have you been doing here? May it please your majesty,
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: said two, in a very humble tone, going down on
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: one knee as he spoke, we were trying. I see,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: said the queen, who had meanwhile been examining the roses.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: Off with their heads! And the procession moved on. three
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: of the soldiers remaining behind, to execute the unfortunate gardeners,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: who ran to Alice for protection.' You shan't be beheaded,'
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: said Alice, and she put them into a large flower-pot
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: that stood near. The three soldiers wandered about for a
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly marched
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: off after the others.' Are their heads off?' shouted the queen.'
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: Their heads are gone, if it please your majesty,' the
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: soldiers shouted in reply.' That' s right,' shouted the queen.' Can
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: you play croquet?' The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: as the question was evidently meant for her.' Yes!' shouted Alice.'
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: Come on, then!' roared the queen, and Alice joined the procession,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: wondering very much what would happen next.' It' s— it' s a very
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: fine day,' said a timid voice at her side. She
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: was walking by the white rabbit, who was peeping anxiously
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: into her face.' Very,' said Alice.' Where is the Duchess?'' Hush, hush!'
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: said the rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He looked
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear,
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: and whispered,' She' s under sentence of execution.'' What for?' said Alice.'
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: Did you say, what a pity?' the rabbit asked.' No,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't,' said Alice.' I don't think it's at all
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: a pity.' I said, what for?' She boxed the queen's ears,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: the rabbit began. Alice gave a little scream of laughter. Oh, hush,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: the rabbit whispered in a frightened tone. The queen will
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: hear you. You see, she came rather late, and the
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: queen said, Get to your places, shouted the queen in
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: a voice of thunder, and people began running about in
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: all directions, tumbling up against each other. However, they got
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: settled down in a minute or two, and the game began.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: ground in her life. It was all ridges and furrows,
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingos, and
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: on their hands and feet to make the arches. The
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: She succeeded in getting its body tucked away comfortably enough
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally,
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: its head, it would twist itself round and look up
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: into her face with such a puzzled expression that she
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: could not help bursting out laughing. And when she had
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: got its head down and was going to begin again,
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: unrolled itself and was in the act of crawling away.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: Besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: in the way, wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to,
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: and as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: game indeed. The players all played at once without waiting
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: and in a very short time the queen was in
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting,' Off
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: with his head!' or,' Off with her head!' about once
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: a minute. Alice began to feel very uneasy. To be sure,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: she had not as yet had any dispute with the queen,
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: but she knew that it might happen any minute.' And then,'
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: thought she,' what would become of me? They're dreadfully fond
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: of beheading people here. The great wonder is that there's
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: any one left alive.' SHE WAS LOOKING ABOUT FOR SOME
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: WAY OF ESCAPE, AND WONDERING WHETHER SHE COULD GET AWAY
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: WITHOUT BEING SEEN, WHEN SHE NOTICED A CURIOUS APPEARANCE IN
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: THE AIR. IT PUZZLED HER VERY MUCH AT FIRST, BUT
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: AFTER WATCHING IT A MINUTE OR TWO, SHE MADE IT
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: OUT TO BE A GRIN, AND SHE SAID TO HERSELF,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: IT'S THE CHESHIRE CAT. NOW I SHALL HAVE SOMEBODY TO
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: TALK TO. HOW ARE YOU GETTING ON? SAID THE CAT,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: AS SOON AS THERE WAS MOUTH ENOUGH FOR IT TO
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: SPEAK WITH. ALICE WAITED TILL THE EYES APPEARED, and then nodded.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: It's no use speaking to it, she thought, till its
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: ears have come, or at least one of them. In
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: another minute the whole head appeared, and then Alice put
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: down her flamingo, and began an account of the game,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her.
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: The cat seemed to think that there was enough of
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: it now in sight, and no more of it appeared.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think they play at all fairly, Alice began,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: in rather a complaining tone. and they all quarrel so
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak, and they don't seem
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: to have any rules in particular, at least, if there are,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: nobody attends to them, and you've no idea how confusing
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: it is, all the things being alive. For instance, there's
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: the arch I've got to go through next, walking about
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: at the other end of the ground, and I should
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: have croqueted the queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: away when it saw mine coming.'' How do you like
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: the queen?' said the cat, in a low voice.' Not
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: at all,' said Alice. She's so extremely—' JUST THEN SHE
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: NOTICED THAT THE QUEEN WAS CLOSE BEHIND HER, LISTENING, SO
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: SHE WENT ON, LIKELY TO WIN, THAT IT'S HARDLY WORTHWHILE
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: FINISHING THE GAME. THE QUEEN SMILED AND PASSED ON. WHO
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: ARE YOU TALKING TO? SAID THE KING, GOING UP TO ALICE,
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: AND LOOKING AT THE CAT'S HEAD WITH GREAT CURIOSITY. IT'S
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: A FRIEND OF MINE, A CHESHIRE CAT, SAID ALICE. ALLOW
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: ME TO INTRODUCE IT. I DON'T LIKE THE LOOK OF
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: IT AT ALL, SAID THE KING. However, it may kiss
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: my hand if it likes.'' I' d rather not,' the cat remarked.'
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: Don' t be impertinent,' said the king,' and don't look at
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: me like that.' He got behind Alice as he spoke.'
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.' I' ve
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: read that in some book, but I don't remember where.'' Well,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: it must be removed,' said the king, very decidedly, and
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: he called the queen, who was passing at the moment.'
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: My dear, I wish you would have this cat removed.'
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: the queen had only one way of settling all difficulties,
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: great or small. Off with his head, she said, without
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: even looking round. I'll fetch the executioner myself, said the
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: king eagerly, and he hurried off. Alice thought she might
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: as well go back and see how the game was
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: going on, as she heard the queen's voice in the distance,
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: screaming with passion. She had already heard her sentence three
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: of the players to be executed for having missed their turns,
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: and she did not like the look of things at all,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: as the game was in such confusion that she never
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: knew whether it was her turn or not. So she
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: went in search of her hedgehog. The hedgehog was engaged
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: The only difficulty was that her flamingo was gone across
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: to the other side of the garden, where Alice could
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: see it trying, in a helpless sort of way, to
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: fly up into a tree. By the time she had
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: and both the hedgehogs were out of sight. But it
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter much, thought Alice, as all the arches are
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: gone from this side of the ground. So she tucked
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: it away under her arm, that it might not escape again,
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: and went back for a little more conversation with her friend.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round it.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: There was a dispute going on between the executioner, the king,
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: and the queen, who were all talking at once, while
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: three to settle the question, and they repeated their arguments
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: to her, though, as they all spoke at once, she
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: found it very hard indeed to make out exactly what
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: they said. The executioner's argument was that you couldn't cut
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: off a head unless there was a body to cut
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: it off from, that he had never had to do
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: at his time of life. The king's argument was that
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: you weren't to talk nonsense. The queen's argument was that
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: if something wasn't done about it in less than no time,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: she'd have everybody executed all round. It was this last remark,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: Alice could think of nothing else to say but,' It
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: belongs to the Duchess. You'd better ask her about it.''
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: She' s in prison,' the Queen said to the Executioner.' Fetch
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: her here.' And the Executioner went off like an arrow.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: The cat's head began fading away the moment he was gone, and,
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: by the time he had come back with the Duchess,
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: it had entirely disappeared. So the king and the executioner
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: rest of the party went back to the game. CHAPTER IX.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: OF ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. BY LOUIS CARELL. CHAPTER IX.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY You can't think how glad I
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: am to see you again, you dear old thing, said
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: and they walked off together. Alice was very glad to
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: When I'm a duchess, she said to herself, not in
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: a very hopeful tone, though, I won't have any pepper
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered, she went on,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: very much pleased at having found out a new kind
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: of rule, and vinegar that makes them sour, and chamomile
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: that makes them bitter, and barley sugar and such things
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that,
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know.
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: was a little startled when she heard her voice close
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: to her ear. You're thinking about something, my dear, and
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: just now what the moral of that is, but I
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: shall remember it in a bit. Perhaps it hasn't won,
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: Alice ventured to remark.' Tut, tut, child,' said the Duchess,'
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: everything' s got a moral, if only you can find it.'
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: she spoke. Alice did not much like keeping so close
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  Speaker 1: to her, first because the Duchess was very ugly, and
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  Speaker 1: secondly because she was exactly the right height to rest
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  Speaker 1: her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably
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  Speaker 1: sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude,
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  Speaker 1: so she bore it as well as she could.' The
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  Speaker 1: game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way
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  Speaker 1: of keeping up the conversation a little.' Tis so,' said
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  Speaker 1: the Duchess,' and the moral of that is,' Oh, tis love,
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: tis love, that makes the world go round.'' Somebody said,'
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: Alice whispered,' that it's done by everybody minding their own business.'' Ah, well,
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  Speaker 1: it means much the same thing,' said the Duchess. 'digging
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  Speaker 1: her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added,'
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: And the moral of that is, take care of the sense,'
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  Speaker 1: and the sounds will take care of themselves.'' How fond
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  Speaker 1: she is of finding morals in things,' Alice thought to herself.'
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  Speaker 1: I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my
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  Speaker 1: arm round your waist,'' the Duchess said after a pause.'
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  Speaker 1: The reason is that I'm doubtful about the temper of
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  Speaker 1: your flamingo.' Shall I try the experiment?' HE MIGHT BITE,
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  Speaker 1: ALICE CAUTIOUSLY REPLIED, NOT FEELING AT ALL ANXIOUS TO HAVE
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: THE EXPERIMENT TRIED. VERY TRUE, SAID THE DUTCHESS, FLAMINGOS AND
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: MUSTARD BOTH BITE, AND THE MORAL OF THAT IS, BIRDS
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  Speaker 1: OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER. ONLY, MUSTARD ISN'T A BIRD,
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: ALICE REMARKED. RIGHT AS USUAL, SAID THE DUTCHESS, WHAT A
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: CLEAR WAY YOU HAVE OF PUTTING THINGS. It's a mineral,
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  Speaker 1: I think, said Alice. Of course it is, said the Duchess,
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said.
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  Speaker 1: There's a large mustard mine near here, and the moral
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  Speaker 1: of that is, the more there is of mine, the
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: less there is of yours. Oh, I know, exclaimed Alice,
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  Speaker 1: who had not attended to this last remark. It's a vegetable.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: It doesn't look like one, but it is. I quite
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  Speaker 1: agree with you, said the Duchess. and the moral of
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  Speaker 1: that is, be what you would seem to be, or,
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like it put more simply, never imagine yourself
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  Speaker 1: not to be otherwise than what it might appear to
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  Speaker 1: others that what you were or might have been was
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared
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  Speaker 1: to them to be otherwise. I think I should understand
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  Speaker 1: that better, Alice said very politely, if I had it
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  Speaker 1: written down, but I can't quite follow it as you
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  Speaker 1: say it.'' That' s nothing to what I could say if
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  Speaker 1: I chose,' the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.' Pray
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  Speaker 1: don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,'
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: said Alice.' Oh, don't talk about trouble,' said the Duchess.'
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: I make you a present of everything I've said as yet.''
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  Speaker 1: A cheap sort of present,' thought Alice.' I' m glad they
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: don't give birthday presents like that.' But she did not
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  Speaker 1: venture to say it out loud.' Thinking again? the Duchess asked,
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  Speaker 1: with another dig of her sharp little chin. I've a
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  Speaker 1: right to think, said Alice sharply, for she was beginning
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  Speaker 1: to feel a little worried. Just about as much right,
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: said the Duchess, as pigs have to fly, and the mm.
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice dilated. away,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: even in the middle of her favorite word, moral, and
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: the arm that was linked into hers began to tremble.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen in front
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  Speaker 1: of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.'
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  Speaker 1: A fine day, Your Majesty!' The Duchess began, in a low,
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  Speaker 1: weak voice.' Now I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen,
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: stamping on the ground as she spoke.' Either you or
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: your head must be off, and that, in about half
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: no time, take your choice.' The Duchess took her choice,
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: and was gone in a moment.' Let' s go on with
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: the game,' the Queen said to Alice, and Alice was
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  Speaker 1: too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: her back to the croquet-ground. The other guests had taken
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: advantage of the queen's absence, and were resting in the shade. However,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: the moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game,
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  Speaker 1: the queen merely remarking that a moment's delay would cost
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  Speaker 1: them their lives. All the time they were playing, the
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  Speaker 1: queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting,'
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  Speaker 1: Off with his head!' or,' Off with her head!' Those
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers,
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: who of course had to leave off being arches to
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: do this, so that by the end of half an
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: hour or so there were no arches left, and all
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: the players, except the king, the queen, and Alice, were
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: in custody and under sentence of execution. Then the queen
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice,
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: Have you seen the mock-turtle yet? No, said Alice. I
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: don't even know what a mock turtle is. It's the
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: thing mock turtle soup is made from, said the queen.
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  Speaker 1: I never saw one or heard of one, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: Come on then, said the queen, and he shall tell
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  Speaker 1: you his history. As they walked off together, Alice heard
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  Speaker 1: the king say, in a low voice, to the company generally,
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  Speaker 1: You are all pardoned. Come, that's a good thing, she
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: said to herself. for she had felt quite unhappy at
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: the number of executions the queen had ordered. They very
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: soon came upon a griffin lying fast asleep in the sun.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: If you don't know what a griffin is, look at
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: the picture. Up, lazy thing, said the queen, and take
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  Speaker 1: this young lady to see the mock-turtle, and to hear
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  Speaker 1: his history. I must go back and see after some
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: executions I have ordered. And she walked off, leaving Alice
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  Speaker 1: alone with the griffin. Alice did not quite like the
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: look of the creature, but on the whole she thought
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  Speaker 1: it would be quite as safe to stay with it
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  Speaker 1: as to go after that savage queen, so she waited.
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  Speaker 1: The griffon sat up and rubbed its eyes. Then it
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: watched the queen till she was out of sight. Then
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  Speaker 1: it chuckled.' What fun!' said the griffon. Half to itself,
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  Speaker 1: half to Alice.' What is the fun?' said Alice.' Why, she!'
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: said the griffon.' It' s all her fancy, that. They never
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: executes nobody, you know. Come on.'' Everybody says come on here,'
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: thought Alice, as she went slowly after it.' I never
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: was so ordered about in all my life, never.' They
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle
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  Speaker 1: in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: ledge of rock, and as they came nearer, Alice could
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: pitied him deeply.' What is his sorrow?' she asked the griffon,
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: and the griffon answered, very nearly in the same words
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  Speaker 1: as before,' It' s all his fancy that. He hasn't got
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: no sorrow, you know. Come on.' So they went up
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  Speaker 1: to the mock-turtle, who looked at them with large eyes
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: full of tears, but said nothing.' This here young lady,'
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: said the griffon, 'she wants for to know your history,
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: she do.'' I' ll tell it her,' said the mock turtle
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: in a deep hollow tone. Sit down, both of you,
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: and don't speak a word till I've finished. So they
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  Speaker 1: sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: to herself, I don't see how he can ever finish
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: if he doesn't begin. But she waited patiently. Once, said
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: the mock turtle at last, with a deep sigh, I
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: was a real turtle. These words were followed by a
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of,
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: from the griffin, and the constant heavy sobbing of the mock-turtle.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: Alice was very nearly getting up and saying, Thank you, sir,
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: for your interesting story, but she could not help thinking
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: there must be more to come, so she sat still
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  Speaker 1: and said nothing. When we were little, the mock-turtle went
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: now and then.' We went to school in the sea.
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  Speaker 1: The master was an old turtle. We used to call
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: him Tortoise.'' Why did you call him Tortoise if he
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: wasn't one?' Alice asked.' We called him Tortoise because he
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: taught us,' said the mock turtle angrily.' Really you are
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: very dull.'' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: asking such a simple question,' added the griffon, and then
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: felt ready to sink into the earth. At last the
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: griffon said to the mock turtle, Drive on, old fellow,
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: don't be all day about it. And he went on
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: in these words, Yes, we went to school in the sea,
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  Speaker 1: though you mayn't believe it. I never said I didn't,
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: interrupted Alice. You did, said the mock turtle. Hold your tongue,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: added the griffon, before Alice could speak again. The mock
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: turtle went on. We had the best of educations. In fact,
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: we went to school every day.'' I' ve been to a
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: day school, too,' said Alice.' You needn't be so proud
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: as all that.'' With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: little anxiously.' Yes,' said Alice.' We learned French and music.''
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.' Certainly not,' said Alice indignantly.' Ah,
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock Turtle.'
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: in a tone of great relief. Now at ours they had,
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: at the end of the bill, French, music, and washing, extra.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: You couldn't have wanted it much, said Alice, living at
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the sea. I couldn't afford to learn it,
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. I only took
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: the regular course. What was that? inquired Alice. Reeling and writhing,
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: of course, to begin with, the Mock Turtle replied. and
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: then the different branches of arithmetic— ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.'
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: I never heard of uglification,' Alice ventured to say.' What
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: is it?' The griffon lifted up both its paws in surprise.' What?
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: Never heard of uglifying?' it exclaimed.' You know what to
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: beautify is, I suppose.'' Yes,' said Alice doubtfully.' It means
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: to make anything prettier.' Well, then, the griffon went on,
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: if you don't know what to uglify is, you are
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: a simpleton. Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: more questions about it, so she turned to the mock-turtle
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: and said, What else had you to learn? Well, there
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: was mystery, the mock-turtle replied, counting off the subjects on
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: his flappers. Mystery, ancient and modern, with seography, then drawling,
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: The drawling master was an old conger eel that used
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: to come once a week. He taught us drawling, stretching,
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: and fainting in coils. What was that like? said Alice. Well,
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: I can't show it you myself, the mock turtle said.
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: I'm too stiff, and the griffin never learnt it. Hadn't time,
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: said the griffin. I went to the classic's master, though.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: He was an old crab, he was. I never went
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: to him, the mock turtle said with a sigh. He
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: taught laughing and grief, they used to say. So he did,
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: so he did, said the griffon, sighing in his turn,
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: and both creatures hid their faces in their paws. And
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: how many hours a day did you do lessons, said Alice,
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: in a hurry to change the subject? Ten hours the
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: first day, said the mock turtle, nine the next, and
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: so on. What a curious plan, exclaimed Alice. That's the
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: reason they're called lessons, the griffon remarked, because they lesson
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: from day to day. This was quite a new idea
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: to Alice, and she thought it over a little before
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: she made her next remark. Then the eleventh day must
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: have been a holiday. Of course it was, said the
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: mock turtle. And how did you manage on the twelfth?
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: Alice went on eagerly. That's enough about lessons, the griffon
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: interrupted in a very decided tone. Tell her something about
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: the games now. End of chapter 9 Read by Kara
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  Speaker 1: Schallenberg March 2010 In San Diego, California CHAPTER X. THE
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: LOBSTER QUADRILL The Mock Turtle sighed deeply and drew the
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: back of one flapper across his eyes. He looked at
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: Alice and tried to speak, but for a minute or
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: two sobs choked his voice.' Same as if he had
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: a bone in his throat,' said the griffon, and it
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: set to work shaking him and punching him in the back.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: At last the mock turtle recovered his voice, and, with
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: tears running down his cheeks, he went on again.' You
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: may not have lived much under the sea.'' I haven't,'
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: said Alice.' and perhaps you were never even introduced to
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: a lobster. Alice began to say, I once tasted, but
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: checked herself hastily, and said, No, never. So you can
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: have no idea what a delightful thing a lobster quadrille is. No, indeed,
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: said Alice, what sort of a dance is it? Why,
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: said the griffon, you first form into a line along
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: the seashore. Two lines, cried the mock-turtle, Seals, turtles, salmon,
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: and so on. Then, when you've cleared all the jellyfish
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: out of the way... That generally takes some time, interrupted
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: the griffon. You advance twice, each with a lobster as
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: a partner, cried the griffon. Of course, the mock turtle said,
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: advance twice, set to partners. Change lobsters and retire in
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: same order, continued the griffon. Then, you know, the mock
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: turtle went on, You throw the—'' The lobsters!' shouted the griffon,
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: with a bound into the air.' As far out to
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: sea as you can.'' Swim after them!' screamed the griffon.'
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the mock turtle,
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: capering wildly about.' Change lobsters again!' yelled the griffon at
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: the top of its voice.' Back to land again, and
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: that's all the first figure!' said the mock turtle, suddenly
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: dropping his voice. and the two creatures, who had been
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: again very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice.' It
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: must be a very pretty dance,' said Alice timidly.' Would
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: you like to see a little of it?' said the
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: Mock Turtle.' Very much indeed,' said Alice.' Come, let's try
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: the first figure,' said the Mock Turtle to the Gryphon.'
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall sing?'' Oh,
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: you sing,' said the griffon.' I' ve forgotten the words.' So
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: and then treading on her toes when they passed too close,
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: and waving their forepaws to mark the time, while the
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: mock-turtle sang this, very slowly and sadly.' Will you walk
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail.' There' s
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.'
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance.
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: They are waiting on the shingle. Will you come and
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: join the dance? Will you, won't you? Will you, won't you?
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: Will you join the dance? Will you, won't you? Will you,
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: won't you? Won't you join the dance? You can really
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: have no notion how delightful it will be when they
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: take us up and throw us with the lobsters out
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: to sea. But the snail replied, Too far, too far.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: and gave a look askance, said he thanked the whiting kindly,
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: but he would not join the dance. Would not, could not,
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: would not, could not, would not join the dance. Would not,
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance.'
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: What matters it how far we go?' his scaly friend replied.'
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: The further off from England, the nearer is to France.'
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: the dance. Will you, won't you, will you, won't you,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you,
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: won't you, won't you join the dance? Thank you. It's
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: a very interesting dance to watch, said Alice, feeling very
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: glad that it was over at last. And I do
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: so like that curious song about the whiting. Oh, as
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: to the whiting, said the Mock Turtle, they— You've seen them,
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: of course. Yes, said Alice, I've often seen them at din.
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: She checked herself hastily. I don't know where din may be,
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: said the Mock Turtle, but if you've seen them so often,
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: of course you know what they're like. I believe so,
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: Alice replied thoughtfully. They have their tails in their mouths,
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: and they're all over crumbs. You're wrong about the crumbs,
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: said the Mock Turtle. crumbs would all wash off in
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: the sea, but they have their tails in their mouths,
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: and the reason is—' Here the mock turtle yawned and
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: shut his eyes.' Tell her about the reason and all that,'
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: he said to the griffon.' The reason is,' said the griffon,'
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: that they would go with the lobsters to the dance,
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: so they got thrown out to sea, so they had
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: to fall a long way, so they got their tails
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: fast in their mouths, so they couldn't get them out again,
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: that's all. Thank you, said Alice. It's very interesting. I
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: never knew so much about a whiting before. I can
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: tell you more than that, if you like, said the griffon.
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: Do you know why it's called a whiting? I never
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: thought about it, said Alice. Why? It does the boots
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: and shoes, the griffon replied very solemnly. Alice was thoroughly puzzled.
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: Does the boots and shoes, she repeated in a wondering tone. Why,
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: what are your shoes done with, said the griffon. I mean,
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: what makes them so shiny? Alice looked down at them
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: and considered a little before she gave her answer. They're
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: done with blacking, I believe. Boots and shoes under the sea,
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: the griffon went on in a deep voice, are done
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: with a whiting. Now you know. And what are they
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: made of? Alice asked in a tone of great curiosity.
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: Souls and eels, of course, the griffon replied rather impatiently.
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: Any shrimp could have told you that. If I'd been
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: the whiting, said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: the song, I'd have said to the porpoise, Keep back, please.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: We don't want you with us. They were obliged to
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: have him with them, the mock turtle said. No wise
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'' Wouldn' t it really?'
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: said Alice, in a tone of great surprise.' Of course not,'
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: said the Mock Turtle.' Why, if a fish came to me,
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: and told me he was going on a journey, I
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: should say, With what porpoise?'' Don' t you mean purpose?' said Alice.'
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied, in
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: an offended tone. And the griffon added,' Come, let's hear
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: some of your adventures.' I could tell you my adventures
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: beginning from this morning, said Alice a little timidly, but
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: a different person then. Explain all that, said the Mock Turtle. No, no,
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: the adventures first, said the Gryphon, in an impatient tone.
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: Explanations take such a dreadful time. So Alice began telling
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: them her adventures from the time when she first saw
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about it
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: just at first, The two creatures got so close to her,
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: one on each side, and opened their eyes and mouths
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: so very wide, but she gained courage as she went on.
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 1: Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: part about her repeating, You are old, Father William, to
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: the caterpillar, and the words all coming different, and then
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: the Mock Turtle drew a long breath and said, That's
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: very curious. It's all about as curious as it can be,
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: said the Gryphon.' It all came different,' the mock turtle
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: repeated thoughtfully.' I should like to hear her try and
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: repeat something now. Tell her to begin.' He looked at
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: the griffon as if he thought it had some kind
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: of authority over Alice.' Stand up and repeat,' Tis the
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: voice of the sluggard,' said the griffon.' How the creatures
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: order one about and make one repeat lessons,' thought Alice.'
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: I might as well be at school at once.' However,
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: she got up and began to repeat it, but her
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: head was so full of the lobster quadrille that she
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: very queer indeed.' Tis the voice of the lobster, I
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: heard him declare, you have baked me too brown, I
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 1: must sugar my hair. As a duck with its eyelids,
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: so he with his nose, trims his belt and his buttons,
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 1: and turns out his toes. When the sands are all dry,
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: he is gay as a lark, and will talk in
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: contemptuous tones of the shark, but when the tide rises
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: and sharks are around, his voice has a timid and
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: tremulous sound. That's different from what I used to say
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: when I was a child, said the griffon.' Well, I
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 1: never heard it before,' said the mock-turtle,' but it sounds
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: uncommon nonsense.' Alice said nothing. She had sat down with
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: her face in her hands, wondering if anything would ever
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: happen in a natural way again.' I should like to
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: have it explained,' said the mock-turtle. SHE CAN'T EXPLAIN IT,
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: SAID THE GRIFFIN HASTILY. GO ON WITH THE NEXT VERSE.
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: BUT ABOUT HIS TOES, THE MOCK TURTLE PERSISTED. HOW COULD
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: HE TURN THEM OUT WITH HIS NOSE, YOU KNOW? IT'S
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: THE FIRST POSITION IN DANCING, ALICE SAID, BUT WAS DREADFULLY
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: PUZZLED BY THE WHOLE THING, AND LONGED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT.
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: GO ON WITH THE NEXT VERSE, THE GRIFFIN REPEATED IMPATIENTLY.
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: IT BEGINS, I PASSED BY HIS GARDEN. Alice did not
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice.
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: I passed by his garden, and marked with one eye
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: how the owl and the panther were sharing a pie.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: The panther took pie-crust and gravy and meat, while the
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: When the pie was all finished, the owl, as a boon,
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon, while the panther
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: received knife and fork with a growl, and concluded the banquet.'
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: What is the use of repeating all that stuff?' the
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: mock turtle interrupted.' If you don't explain it as you
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: go on, it's by far the most confusing thing I
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: ever heard.'' Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: the griffon, and Alice was only too glad to do so.'
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: Shall we try another figure of the lobster quadrille?' the
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: griffon went on. or would you like the Mock Turtle
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: to sing you a song? Oh, a song, please, if
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: the Mock Turtle would be so kind, Alice replied, so
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: eagerly that the griffon said, in a rather offended tone, Hmm,
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: no accounting for tastes. Sing her Turtle Soup, will you,
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: old fellow? The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: a voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this. Beautiful soup,
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: so rich and green, waiting in a hot tureen. Who
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening,
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: beautiful soup. Soup of the evening, beautiful soup. Beautiful soup,
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: beautiful soup. Soup of the evening, beautiful, beautiful soup. Beautiful soup,
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: who cares for fish, game, or any other dish? WHO
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: WOULD NOT GIVE ALL ELSE FOR TWO PENNYWORTH ONLY OF
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: BEAUTIFUL SOUP, PENNYWORTH ONLY OF BEAUTIFUL SOUP, BEAUTIFUL SOUP, BEAUTIFUL SOUP,
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: SOUP OF THE EVENING BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL SOUP.' Chorus again!' cried
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: the griffin, and the mock-turtle had just begun to repeat it,
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: when a cry of,' The trial's beginning!' was heard in
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 1: the distance.' Come on!' cried the griffon, and, taking Alice
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: by the hand, it hurried off, without waiting for the
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: end of the song.' What trial is it?' Alice panted
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: as she ran. But the griffon only answered,' Come on!'
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came,
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words,'
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: Soup of the evening, beautiful evening!' Beautiful soup! CHAPTER X.
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: WHO STOLE The King and Queen of Hearts were seated
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: on their throne when they arrived, with a great crowd
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: assembled about them, all sorts of little birds and beasts,
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: as well as the whole pack of cards. The knave
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: was standing before them in chains, with a soldier on
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: each side to guard him, and near the king was
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 1: the white rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: a scroll of parchment in the other. In the very
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: middle of the court was a table, with a large
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: dish of tarts upon it, They looked so good that
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: it made Alice quite hungry to look at them. I
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: wish they'd get the trial done, she thought, and hand
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: round the refreshments. But there seemed to be no chance
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: of this, so she began looking at everything about her,
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: to pass away the time. Alice had never been in
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: a court of justice before, but she had read about
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: them in books, and she was quite pleased to find
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: that she knew the name of nearly everything there. That's
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: the judge, she said to herself. because of his great wig.
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: The judge, by the way, was the king, and as
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: he wore his crown over the wig— look at the frontispiece
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: if you want to see how he did it— he did
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 1: not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming.'
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: And that's the jury-box,' thought Alice,' and those twelve creatures—'
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: She was obliged to say creatures, you see, because some
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: of them were animals and some were birds.' I suppose
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: they are the jurors.' She said this last word two
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 1: or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it,
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. However,
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: jurymen would have done just as well. The twelve jurors
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: were all writing very busily on slates.' What are they doing?'
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: Alice whispered to the griffin.' They can't have anything to
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: put down yet before the trial's begun.'' They' re putting down
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: their names.' the griffin whispered in reply, for fear they
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: should forget them before the end of the trial.' Stupid things!'
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily,
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: for the white rabbit cried out,' Silence in the court!'
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 1: and the king put on his spectacles, and looked anxiously
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: round to make out who was talking. Alice could see,
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: as well as if she were looking over their shoulders,
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: that all the jurors were writing down stupid things on
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: their slates, and she could even make out that one
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: of them didn't know how to spell stupid, and that
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: he had to ask his neighbor to tell him. A
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 1: nice muddle their slates'll be in before the trial's over,
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: thought Alice. One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This,
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: the court and got behind him, and very soon found
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: quickly that the poor little juror— it was Bill, the Lizard—
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: could not make out at all what had become of it, so,
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: write with one finger for the rest of the day,
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: and this was of very little use, as it left
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 1: no mark on the slate.' Herald, read the accusation,' said
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: the king. On this the white rabbit blew three blasts
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: on the trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scroll, and
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: read as follows. The queen of hearts, she made some tarts,
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: all on a summer day. The knave of hearts, he
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: stole those tarts, and took them quite away. Consider your verdict,
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: the king said to the jury. Not yet, not yet,
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: the rabbit hastily interrupted. There's a great deal to come
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: before that. Call the first witness, said the king, and
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: the white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: called out, First witness! The first witness was the Hatter.
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: He came in with a teacup in one hand and
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: a piece of bread and butter in the other. I
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: beg pardon, Your Majesty, he began, for bringing these in,
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: but I hadn't quite finished my tea when I was
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: sent for. You ought to have finished, said the King.
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: When did you begin? The Hatter looked at the March
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 1: Hare who had followed him into the court, arm in
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: arm with the Dormouse. Fourteenth of March, I think it was,
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: he said. Fifteenth, said the March Hare. Sixteenth, added the Dormouse.
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: Write that down, the king said to the jury, and
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates,
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: and then added them up, and reduced the answer to
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: shillings and pence. Take off your hat, the king said
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: to the Hatter. It isn't mine, said the Hatter. Stolen,
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: the king exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: a memorandum of the fact. I keep them to sell,
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: the hatter added as an explanation. I've none of my own.
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: I'm a hatter. Here the queen put on her spectacles
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: and began staring at the hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: Give your evidence, said the king, and don't be nervous,
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: or I'll have you executed on the spot. This did
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: not seem to encourage the witness at all. He kept
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: the queen. and in his confusion he bit a large
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: piece out of his teacup instead of the bread and
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: butter just at this moment alice felt a very curious
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: sensation which puzzled her a good deal until she made
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 1: out what it was. She was beginning to grow larger again,
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: and she thought at first she would get up and
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: leave the court, but on second thoughts she decided to
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: remain where she was, as long as there was room
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: for her.' I wish you wouldn't squeeze so,' said the Dormouse,
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: who was sitting next to her.' I can hardly breathe.''
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: I can't help it,' said Alice very meekly.' I' m growing.''
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: You' ve no right to grow here,' said the Dormouse.' Don' t
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: talk nonsense,' said Alice more boldly.' You know you're growing, too.'' Yes,
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the Dormouse.'
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: Not in that ridiculous fashion.' And he got up very
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: sulkily and crossed over to the other side of the court.
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: All this time the queen had never left off staring
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: at the hatter, and, just as the dormouse crossed the court,
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: she said to one of the officers of the court,'
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert,'
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 1: on which the wretched hatter trembled so that he shook
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: both his shoes off.' Give your evidence,' the king repeated angrily,'
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: or I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or not.''
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: I' m a poor man, your majesty,' the Hatter began in
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 1: a trembling voice, and I hadn't begun my tea, not
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: above a week or so, and what with the bread
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: and butter getting so thin, and the twinkling of the tea.
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 1: The twinkling of the what? said the King. It began
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: with the tea, the Hatter replied. Of course twinkling begins
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 1: with a tea, said the King sharply. Do you take
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: me for a dunce? Go on. I'm a poor man,
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: the Hatter went on, and most things twinkled after that,
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 1: only the March Hare said, I didn't, the March Hare
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: interrupted in a great hurry. You did, said the Hatter.
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: I deny it, said the March Hare. He denies it,
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: said the King. Leave out that part. Well, at any rate,
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 1: the Dormouse said, the Hatter went on, looking anxiously round,
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: to see if he would deny it too, but the
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 1: Dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep. After that, continued the Hatter,
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: I cut some more bread and butter. But what did
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: the Dormouse say? one of the jury asked. That I
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 1: can't remember, said the Hatter. You must remember, remarked the King,
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: or I'll have you executed. The miserable Hatter dropped his
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: teacup and bread and butter and went down on one knee.
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: I'm a poor man, your majesty, he began. You're a
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: very poor speaker, said the king. Here one of the
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately suppressed by the officers of
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: the court. As that is rather a hard word, I
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: will just explain to you how it was done. They
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: had a large canvas bag, which tied up at the
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: mouth with strings. Into this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first,
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 1: and then sat upon it. I'm glad I've seen that done,
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: thought Alice. I've so often read in the newspapers at
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 1: the end of trials, there was some attempt at applause
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court,
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 1: and I never understood what it meant till now. If
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 1: that's all you know about it, you may stand down,
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: continued the king. I can't go no lower, said the hatter.
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 1: I'm on the floor as it is. Then you may
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: sit down, the king replied. Here the other guinea-pig cheered,
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 1: and was suppressed.' Come, that finished the guinea-pigs,' thought Alice.'
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: Now we shall get on better.'' I' d rather finish my tea,'
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: said the Hatter, with an anxious look at the Queen,
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: who was reading the list of singers.' You may go,'
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court,
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: without even waiting to put his shoes on.' And just
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: take his head off outside!' the queen added to one
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 1: of the officers, but the hatter was out of sight
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: before the officer could get to the door. Call the
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: next witness, said the king. The next witness was the
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: duchess's cook. She carried the pepper-box in her hand, and
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: the court, by the way the people near the door
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: began sneezing all at once. Give your evidence, said the king. Shant,
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: said the cook. The king looked anxiously at the white rabbit,
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 1: who said in a low voice, Your Majesty must cross-examine
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 1: this witness. Well, if I must, I must, the king said,
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 1: with a melancholy air, and, after folding his arms and
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: frowning at the cook till his eyes were nearly out
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 1: of sight, he said in a deep voice, What are
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: tarts made of? Pepper, mostly, said the cook. Treacle. said
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: a sleepy voice behind her.' Collar that dormouse!' the queen
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: shrieked out.' Behead that dormouse! Turn that dormouse out of court!
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 1: Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers!' For some
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  Speaker 1: minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the dormouse
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  Speaker 1: turned out, and by the time they had settled down
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: again the cook had disappeared.' Never mind,' said the king,
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  Speaker 1: with an air of great relief.' Call the next witness!'
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: and he added in an undertone to the queen. Really,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, you must cross-examine the next witness. It quite
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  Speaker 1: makes my forehead ache. Alice watched the white rabbit as
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  Speaker 1: he fumbled over the list, feeling very curious to see
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  Speaker 1: what the next witness would be like, for they haven't
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  Speaker 1: got much evidence yet, she said to herself. Imagine her
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: surprise when the white rabbit read out, at the top
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  Speaker 1: of his shrill little voice, the name Alice! CHAPTER XII.
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  Speaker 1: ALICE'S EVIDENCE' Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry
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  Speaker 1: of the moment how large she had grown in the
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  Speaker 1: last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a
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  Speaker 1: hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge
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  Speaker 1: of her skirt, upsetting all the jury-men on to the
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  Speaker 1: heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about,
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  Speaker 1: reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she
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  Speaker 1: had accidentally upset the week before.' Oh, I beg your pardon!'
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: she exclaimed, in a tone of great dismay. and began
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  Speaker 1: picking them up again as quickly as she could, for
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head,
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  Speaker 1: and she had a vague sort of idea that they
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  Speaker 1: must be collected at once, and put back into the jury-box,
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 1: or they would die. The trial cannot proceed, said the king,
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: in a very grave voice, until all the jurymen are
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  Speaker 1: back in their proper places. All, he repeated with great emphasis,
• 2:35:10
  Speaker 1: looking hard at Alice as he said so. Alice looked
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: at the jury-box and saw that, in her haste, she
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 1: had put the lizard in head downwards, and the poor
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 1: little thing was waving its tail about in a melancholy way,
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: being quite unable to move. She soon got it out
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: again and put it right.' Not that it signifies much,'
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: she said to herself.' I should think it would be
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 1: quite as much use in the trial one way up
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: as the other.' As soon as the jury had a
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: little recovered from the shock of being upset— and their
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them,
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: they set to work very diligently to write out a
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  Speaker 1: history of the accident, all except the lizard, who seemed
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: too much overcome to do anything but sit with its
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 1: mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.'
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  Speaker 1: What do you know about this business?' the king said
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 1: to Alice.' Nothing,' said Alice.' Nothing whatever?' persisted the king.'
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  Speaker 1: Nothing whatever,' said Alice.'' That' s very important,' the king said,
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 1: turning to the jury. They were just beginning to write
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: this down on their slates, when the white rabbit interrupted,'
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  Speaker 1: Unimportant your majesty means, of course,' he said, in a
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  Speaker 1: very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 1: as he spoke.' Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the king
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 1: hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone.' Important, unimportant, unimportant, important,'
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: as if he were trying which word sounded best.' Some
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: of the jury wrote it down important, and some unimportant.
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  Speaker 1: Alice could see this, as she was near enough to
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: look over their slates. But it doesn't matter a bit,
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  Speaker 1: she thought to herself. At this moment the king, who
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: had been for some time busily writing in his notebook,
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  Speaker 1: cackled out, Silence! and read out from his book, Rule 42.
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  Speaker 1: All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody looked at Alice. I'm not a mile high, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: You are, said the king. Nearly two miles high, added
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  Speaker 1: the queen. Well, I shan't go at any rate, said Alice. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: that's not a regular rule. You invented it just now.
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  Speaker 1: it's the oldest rule in the book said the king
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 1: then it ought to be number one said alice the
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  Speaker 1: king turned pale and shut his notebook hastily consider your
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  Speaker 1: verdict he said to the jury in a low trembling
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 1: voice' There' s more evidence to come yet, please your majesty,'
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry.'
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: This paper has just been picked up.'' What' s in it?'
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: said the Queen.' I haven't opened it yet,' said the
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: White Rabbit,' but it seems to be a letter, written
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  Speaker 1: by the prisoner to— to somebody.'' It must have been that,'
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: said the King,' unless it was written to nobody, which
• 2:38:11
  Speaker 1: isn't usual, you know.'' Who is it directed to?' said
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: one of the jurymen. It isn't directed at all, said
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: the White Rabbit. In fact, there's nothing written on the outside.
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  Speaker 1: He unfolded the paper as he spoke, and added, It
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: isn't a letter, after all. It's a set of verses.
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  Speaker 1: Are they in the prisoner's handwriting? asked another of the jurymen. No,
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  Speaker 1: they're not, said the White Rabbit, and that's the queerest
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  Speaker 1: thing about it. The jury all looked puzzled. He must
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: have imitated somebody else's hand, said the King. The jury
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: all brightened up again.' Please, your majesty,' said the knave,'
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 1: I didn't write it, and they can't prove I did.
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  Speaker 1: There's no name signed at the end.'' If you didn't
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 1: sign it,' said the king,' that only makes the matter worse.
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: You must have meant some mischief, or else you'd have
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  Speaker 1: signed your name like an honest man.' There was a
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: general clapping of hands at this. It was the first
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: really clever thing the king had said that day. That
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  Speaker 1: proves his guilt, said the queen. It proves nothing of
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  Speaker 1: the sort, said Alice. Why, you don't even know what
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: they're about. Read them, said the king. The white rabbit
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 1: put on his spectacles. Where shall I begin, please your majesty?
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: he asked. Begin at the beginning, the king said gravely,
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 1: and go on till you come to the end, then stop.
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 1: These were the verses the white rabbit read. They told
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: me you had been to her, and mentioned me to him.
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: She gave me a good character, but said I could
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: not swim. He sent them word I had not gone,
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  Speaker 1: we know it to be true. If she should push
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 1: the matter on, what would become of you? I gave
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: her one, they gave him two, you gave us three
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: or more. They all returned from him to you, though
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: they were mine before. If I or she should chance
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: to be involved in this affair, he trusts to you
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: to set them free exactly as we were. My notion
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: was that you had been, before she had this fit,
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: an obstacle that came between him and ourselves and it.
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 1: Don't let him know she liked them best, for this
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 1: must ever be a secret, kept from all the rest,
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 1: between yourself and me. That's the most important piece of
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 1: evidence we've heard yet, said the king, rubbing his hands.
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 1: So now let the jury—'' If any one of them
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: can explain it,' said Alice. She had grown so large
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 1: in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: afraid of interrupting him.' I' ll give him sixpence. I don't
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: believe there's an atom of meaning in it.' The jury
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: all wrote down on their slates,' She doesn't believe there's
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: an atom of meaning in it.' But none of them
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: attempted to explain the paper.' If there's no meaning in it,'
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: said the kink, That saves a world of trouble, you know,
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: as we needn't try to find any.'' And yet I
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 1: don't know,' he went on, spreading out the verses on
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: his knee, and looking at them with one eye.' I
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: seem to see some meaning in them, after all. Said
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 1: I could not swim.'' You can't swim, can you?' he added,
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 1: turning to the knave. The knave shook his head sadly.'
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: Do I look like it?' he said. which he certainly
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 1: did not, being made entirely of cardboard.' All right so far,'
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: said the king, and he went on muttering over the
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 1: verses to himself.' We know it to be true.'' That' s
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 1: the jury, of course.'' I gave her one, they gave
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 1: him two.' Why, that must be what he did with
• 2:41:57
  Speaker 1: the tarts, you know.'' But,' it goes on,' they all
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: returned from him to you,' said Alice.' Why, there they are,
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: said the king triumphantly, pointing to the tarts on the table.
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 1: Nothing can be clearer than that. Then again, before she
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: had this fit. You never had fits, my dear, I think,
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 1: he said to the queen. Never, said the queen furiously,
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: throwing an inkstand at the lizard as she spoke. The
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 1: unfortunate little bill had left off writing on his slate
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 1: with one finger, as he found it made no mark,
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 1: but now he hastily began again using the ink, that
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: was trickling down his face, as long as it lasted.'
• 2:42:36
  Speaker 1: Then the words don't fit you,' said the king, looking
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 1: round the court with a smile. There was a dead silence.'
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: It' s a pun,' the king added in an offended tone,
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: and everybody laughed.' Let the jury consider their verdict,' the
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 1: king said, for about the twentieth time that day.' No, no,'
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: said the queen, 'sentence first, verdict afterwards.' Stuff and nonsense,
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: said Alice loudly, the idea of having the sentence first.
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 1: Hold your tongue, said the queen, turning purple. I won't,
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: said Alice. Off with her head, the queen shouted at
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 1: the top of her voice. Nobody moved. Who cares for you,
• 2:43:24
  Speaker 1: said Alice. She had grown to her full size by
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 1: this time. You are nothing but a pack of cards.
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: At this the whole pack rose up into the air
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 1: and came flying down upon her. She gave a little scream,
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: half of fright and half of anger, and tried to
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 1: with her head in the lap of her sister, who
• 2:43:47
  Speaker 1: was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 1: down from the trees upon her face.' Wake up, Alice dear,'
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: said her sister.' Why, what a long sleep you've had!' Oh,
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: I've had such a curious dream, said Alice, and she
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: told her sister, as well as she could remember them,
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: all these strange adventures of hers that you have just
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 1: been reading about, and when she had finished, her sister
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: kissed her and said, It was a curious dream, dear, certainly,
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: but now run into your tea, it's getting late. So
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran,
• 2:44:24
  Speaker 1: as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 1: but her sister sat still just as she left her,
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 1: leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 1: and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful adventures,
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 1: till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and this
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 1: was her dream. First she dreamed of little Alice herself,
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 1: and once again the tiny hands were clasped upon her
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: knee and the bright eager eyes were looking up into hers.
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 1: She could hear the very tones of her voice and
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 1: see that queer little toss of her head to keep
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 1: back the wandering hair that would always get into her eyes.
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 1: And still, as she listened, or seemed to listen, the
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: whole place around her became alive with the strange creatures
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 1: of her little sister's dream. The long grass rustled at
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 1: her feet as the white rabbit hurried by. The frightened
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 1: mouse splashed his way through the neighboring pool. She could
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 1: and his friends shared their never-ending meal. and the shrill
• 2:45:24
  Speaker 1: voice of the queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution.
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: Once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the duchess's knee,
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 1: while plates and dishes crashed around it. Once more the
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: shriek of the griffon, the squeaking of the lizard's slate-pencil,
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 1: and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs filled the air,
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 1: mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable mock-turtle.
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 1: So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 1: herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: open them again, and all would change to dull reality.
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 1: The grass would be only rustling in the wind, and
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds. The
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 1: rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells, and the queen's
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd-boy. And the
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 1: sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the griffin, and
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 1: all the other queer noises would change, she knew, to
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 1: the confused clamour of the busy farmyard, while the lowing
• 2:46:21
  Speaker 1: of the cattle in the distance would take the place
• 2:46:24
  Speaker 1: of the mock-turtle's heavy sobs. Lastly, she pictured to herself
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time,
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 1: be herself a grown woman, and how she would keep,
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 1: through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: of her childhood, and how she would gather about her
• 2:46:42
  Speaker 1: other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager
• 2:46:45
  Speaker 1: with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: of wonderland of long ago. and how she would feel
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: with all their simple sorrows and find a pleasure in
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 1: all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life and the
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 1: happy summer days. THE END That's the end of Alice's
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 1: Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, read by Kara Schallenberg, www.kray.org,
• 2:47:16
  Speaker 1: in March 2010, in San Diego, California.