WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:04.160 Chapter one Down the rabbit Hole, Alice was beginning to 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:06.639 get very tired of sitting by her sister on the 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:09.640 bank and of having nothing to do. Once or twice 4 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:12.039 she peeped into the book her sister was reading, but 5 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:14.839 it had no pictures or conversations in it, And what's 6 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.000 the use of a book, thought Alice without pictures or conversation. 7 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:21.839 So she was considering in her own mind as well 8 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:23.640 as she could, for the hot day made her feel 9 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:26.600 very sleepy and stupid whether the pleasure of making a 10 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:28.839 daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up 11 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.240 and picking the daisies. When suddenly a white rabbit with 12 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.799 pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so 13 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:38.920 very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it so 14 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:40.719 very much out of the way to hear the rabbit 15 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:43.920 say to itself, oh dear, oh dear, I shall be late. 16 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:46.799 When she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her 17 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:48.880 that she ought to have wondered at this, but at 18 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:51.679 the time it all seemed quite natural. But when the 19 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:55.119 rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket 20 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:58.799 and looked at it and then hurried on, Alice started 21 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:01.159 to her feet for it flushed cross her mind that 22 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:03.280 she had never before seen a rabbit with either a 23 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.079 waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out of it. And, 24 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:09.319 burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, 25 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:12.159 and fortunately was just in time to see it pop 26 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:15.719 down a large rabbit hole under the hedge in another moment. 27 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:18.920 Down went Alice after it, never once considering how in 28 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:21.760 the world she was to get out again. The rabbit 29 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:23.680 hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, 30 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:27.200 and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had 31 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:29.560 not a moment to think about stopping herself before she 32 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:33.200 found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the 33 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:36.040 well was very deep or she fell very slowly, for 34 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.439 she had plenty of time as she went down to 35 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.400 look about her and to wonder what was going to 36 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.799 happen next. First, she tried to look down and make 37 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.840 out what she was coming to, but it was too 38 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.760 dark to see anything. Then she looked at the sides 39 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:50.799 of the well and noticed that they were filled with 40 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:54.799 cupboards and book shelves. Here and there she saw maps 41 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:57.799 and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar 42 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:59.920 from one of the shelves as she passed. It was 43 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.799 labeled orange marmalade, but to her great disappointment, it was empty. 44 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:05.959 She did not like to drop the dar for fear 45 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.280 of killing somebody, so she managed to put it into 46 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:11.879 one of the cupboards as she fell past it. Well, 47 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.319 thought Alice to herself, after such a fall as this, 48 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:18.159 I shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs. How brave they'll 49 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:20.680 all think me at home. Why I wouldn't say anything 50 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:22.319 about it? Even if I fell off the top of 51 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:27.719 a house, which was very likely true, Down down, down, 52 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:29.599 would the fall never come. 53 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:29.919 To an end? 54 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:33.319 I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time, 55 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:35.960 she said aloud, I must be getting somewhere near the 56 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.199 center of the earth. Let me see, that would be 57 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.080 four thousand miles down, I think for you see, Alice 58 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:43.159 had learned several things of this sort in her lessons 59 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.360 in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very 60 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:47.919 good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was 61 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.080 no one to listen to her, still it was good 62 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:53.280 practice to say it over, Yes, that's about the right distance. 63 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.120 But then I wonder what latitude or longitude I've got 64 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:00.479 to Alice had no idea what latitude was or longitude either, 65 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:04.080 but thought they were nice grand words to say. Presently, 66 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.240 she began again, I wonder if I shall fall right 67 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.000 through the earth, how funny it'll seem to come out 68 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:13.759 among the people that walk with their heads downward, the antipathies. 69 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.680 I think she was rather glad there was no one 70 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:18.800 listening this time, as it didn't sound at all the 71 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:21.439 right word. But I shall have to ask them, what 72 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:24.319 if the name of the country is, you know, please, ma'am, 73 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:27.599 is this New Zealand or Australia? And she tried to 74 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.639 Curtsey as she spoke, fancy curtseying, as you're falling through 75 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:33.240 the air, do you think you could manage it? And 76 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:36.240 what an ignorant little girl, she'll think me for asking. No, 77 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.879 it'll never do to ask. Perhaps I shall see it 78 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:43.560 written up somewhere down, down down. There was nothing else 79 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:47.439 to do, so Alice soon began talking again. Dinah missed 80 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:51.000 me very much tonight. I should think Dinah was the cat. 81 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:55.360 I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at tea time. Dinah, 82 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:57.719 my dear, wish you were down here with me. There 83 00:03:57.719 --> 00:03:59.360 are no mice in the air. I'm afraid but you 84 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:02.000 might catch a ba, and that's very like a mouse, 85 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.199 you know. But do catskeet bats? 86 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:04.639 I wonder? 87 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.360 And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went 88 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:10.560 on saying to herself in a dreamy sort of way, 89 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:14.319 do cats see bats? Do cats eat bats? And sometimes 90 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:15.439 do batsy cats? 91 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:16.160 For you? 92 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:16.480 See? 93 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.319 As she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter 94 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:21.759 which way she put it. She felt that she was 95 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.000 dozing off and had just begun to dream that she 96 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.600 was walking hand in hand with Dinah and saying to 97 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:30.120 her very earnestly, now, Dinah, tell me the truth. Did 98 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:34.199 you ever eat a bat? When suddenly, thump, thump, down, 99 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:36.560 she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, 100 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.240 and the fall was over. Alice was not a bit hurt, 101 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.279 and she jumped up on her feet. In a moment, 102 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.759 she looked up, but it was all dark. Overhead before 103 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.279 her was another long passage, and the white rabbit was 104 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.120 still in sight. Hurrying down it. There was not a 105 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:53.720 moment to be lost. Away went Alice like the wind, 106 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:55.600 and was just in time to hear it say as 107 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:58.079 it turned a corner, Oh, my ears are whiskers. How 108 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.519 late it's getting She was close bey behind it when 109 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:02.759 she turned the corner, but the rabbit was no longer 110 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.879 to be seen. She found herself in a long, low hall, 111 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.040 which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging 112 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.720 from the roof. There were doors all around the hall, 113 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:13.360 but they were all locked, and when Alice had been 114 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.079 all the way down one side and up the other, 115 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.920 trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering 116 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:22.240 how she was ever to get out again. Suddenly she 117 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:25.120 came upon a little, three legged table, all made of 118 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:28.160 solid glass. There was nothing on it except a tiny 119 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.319 golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might 120 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:33.759 belong to one of the doors of the hall, but 121 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.079 alas either the locks were too large or the key 122 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:38.240 was too small, but at any rate, it would not 123 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.319 open any of them. However, on the second time round, 124 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.240 she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, 125 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.759 and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high. 126 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:50.399 She tried the little golden key in the lock, and 127 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:54.600 to her great delight it fitted. Alice opened the door 128 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.639 and found it led into a small passage not much 129 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.600 larger than a rat hole. She knelt down and looked 130 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.800 along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. 131 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.560 How she longed to get out of that dark hall 132 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.279 and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and 133 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.199 those cool fountains. But she could not even get her 134 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:14.879 head through the doorway. And even if my head would 135 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:17.800 go through, thought poor Alice, it would be of very 136 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.399 little use without my shoulders. Oh how I wish I 137 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:23.199 could shut up like a telescope. I think I could, 138 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.079 if I only know how to begin. For you see, 139 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:28.480 so many out of the way things had happened lately 140 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.319 that Alice had begun to think that very few things, indeed, 141 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.560 were really impossible. There seemed to be no use in 142 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:36.839 waiting by the little door, so she went back to 143 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.920 the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or, 144 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:41.959 at any rate, a book of rules for shutting people 145 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:45.720 up like telescopes. This time she found a little bottle 146 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:49.560 on it, which certainly was not here before, said Alice. 147 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:51.480 And round the neck of the bottle was a paper 148 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.759 label with the words drink me beautifully printed on it 149 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.399 in large letters. It was all very well to say 150 00:06:57.480 --> 00:06:59.720 drink me, but the wise little Alice was not going 151 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.079 to do that in a hurry no, I'll look first, 152 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:05.319 she said, and see whether it's marked poison or not. 153 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.480 For she had read several nice little histories about children 154 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.279 who'd gotten burnt and eaten up by wild beasts and 155 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.360 other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the 156 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.560 simple rules their friends had taught them, such as that 157 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:19.759 a red hot poker will burn you if you hold 158 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:21.759 it too long, and that if you cut your finger 159 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:24.680 very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds. And she 160 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:26.839 had never forgotten that if you'd drink much from a 161 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.879 bottle marked poison, it's almost certain to disagree with you 162 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.959 sooner or later. However, this bottle was not marked poison, 163 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:37.600 so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice. 164 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.120 It had, in fact a sort of mixed flavor of 165 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:45.160 cherry tart, custard, pineapple roast, turkey toffee, and hot buttered toast. 166 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:51.120 She very soon finished it off. What a curious feeling, 167 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.800 said Alice. I must be shutting up like a telescope. 168 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:56.720 And so it was. Indeed, she was now only ten 169 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.040 inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought 170 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.160 that she was now the size for going through the 171 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:04.879 little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she waited 172 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:06.920 for a few minutes to see if she was going 173 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.759 to shrink any further. She felt a little nervous about this, 174 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:13.000 for at might end, you know, said Alice to herself, 175 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.279 Am I going out altogether like a candle? I wonder 176 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:17.079 what I should be like? 177 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:17.360 Then? 178 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:19.879 And she tried to fancy what the flame of a 179 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:22.480 candle is like after the candle is blown out, for 180 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.839 she could not remember having ever seen such a thing. 181 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:28.560 After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided 182 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:31.279 on going into the garden at once. But alas for 183 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.840 poor Alice, when she got to the door, she found 184 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:36.440 she'd forgotten the little golden key, and when she went 185 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:38.519 back to the table for it, she found she could 186 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:41.720 not possibly reach it. She could see it quite plainly 187 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.399 through the glass, and she tried her best to climb 188 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:46.279 up one of the legs of the table, but it 189 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:49.159 was too slippery, And when she had tired herself out 190 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:52.000 with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried. 191 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:53.759 Come. 192 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:56.960 There's no use crying like that, said Alice to herself 193 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:00.320 rather sharply, I advise you to leave off this In it, 194 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:03.919 she generally gave herself very good advice, though she very 195 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.559 seldom followed it, and sometimes she scolded herself so severely 196 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:10.399 as to bring tears into her eyes. She once remembered 197 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:12.799 trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself 198 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:15.200 in a game of croquet. She was playing against herself. 199 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:18.080 For this, curious child was fond of pretending to be 200 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.960 two people. But it's no use, now, thought poor Alice, 201 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:24.519 to pretend to be two people. Why, there's hardly enough 202 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.639 of me to make one respectable person. Soon her eye 203 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:29.840 fell on a little glass box that was lying under 204 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:32.559 the table. She opened it and found in it a 205 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.919 very small cake, on which the words eat me were 206 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:40.559 beautifully marked in currants. Well I'll eat it, said Alice. 207 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.360 And if it makes me grow larger, I can reach 208 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:44.879 the key. And if it makes me grow smaller, I 209 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.320 can creep under the door. So either way I'll get 210 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:50.320 into the garden. And I don't care which happens. She 211 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:54.200 ate a little bit and said anxiously to herself, which 212 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.440 way which way, holding her hand on the top of 213 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.080 her head to feel which way it was growing. I 214 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.840 was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size. 215 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.720 To be sure, this generally happens when one needs cake. 216 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:08.120 But Alice had gotten so much into the way of 217 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:10.720 expecting nothing but out of the way things to happen, 218 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.159 that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to 219 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.600 go on in the common way. So she set to 220 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:20.039 work and very soon finished off the cake. End of 221 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:22.120 chapter one. 222 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:27.080 Chapter two, the Pool of Tears. Curious Sir, and curious sir, 223 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:30.320 cried Alice. She was so much surprised that for the 224 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:34.120 moment she quite forgot how to speak good English. Now 225 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:37.240 I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was. 226 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.679 Goodbye feet, for when she looked down at her feet, 227 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:43.960 they seemed to be almost out of sight. They were 228 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:48.039 getting so far off. Oh my poor little feet. I 229 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.159 wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for 230 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.559 you now, tears, I'm sure I shan't be able to. 231 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:56.600 I shall be a great deal too far off to 232 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:01.320 trouble myself about you. You must manage the best you can. 233 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:05.120 But I must be kind to them, thought Alice. Or 234 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.519 perhaps they won't walk the way I want to go. 235 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:09.840 Let me see, I'll give them a new pair of 236 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:14.200 boots every Christmas. And she went on planning to herself 237 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:17.240 how she should manage it. They must go by carrier, 238 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:20.559 she thought, And how funny I'll seem sending presents to 239 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.720 one's own feet, And how odd the directions will look 240 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:28.480 Alice's right foot a squire hearth rug near the fender 241 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:33.759 with Alice's love. Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking. Just 242 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:36.600 then her head struck against the roof of the hall. 243 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.600 In fact, she was now more than nine feet high, 244 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.399 and she at once took up the little golden key 245 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:46.879 and hurried off to the garden door. Poor Alice, it 246 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.840 was as much as she could do, lying down on 247 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.600 one side to look through the into the garden with 248 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:57.159 one eye, but to get through was more hopeless than ever. 249 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:01.000 She sat down and began to cry again. You ought 250 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.240 to be ashamed of yourself, said Alice. A great girl 251 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.840 like you, she might well say this, to go on 252 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.919 crying in this way, stop this moment, I tell you. 253 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:15.320 But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, 254 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.519 until there was a large pool all around her, about 255 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.639 four inches deep and reaching half down the hall. After 256 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:25.240 a time, she heard a little pattering of feet in 257 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.919 the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see 258 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:31.639 what was coming. It was the white rabbit returning, splendidly 259 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:34.039 dressed with a pair of white kid gloves in one 260 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.039 hand and a large fan in the other. He came 261 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.240 trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as 262 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:44.440 he came. Oh, the duchess, the duchess, Oh, won't she 263 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:48.279 be savage if I've kept her waiting. Alice felt so 264 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.200 desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one, 265 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:53.799 So when the rabbit came near her, she began, in 266 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:57.759 a low, timid voice, if you please, sir. The rabbit 267 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:00.960 started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, 268 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:04.480 and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he 269 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:09.080 could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and 270 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:12.080 as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself 271 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:15.879 All the time. She went on talking, dear, dear, how 272 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:19.840 queer everything is today? And yesterday things went on just 273 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:23.360 as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night. 274 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:26.240 Let me think, was I the same when I got 275 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.519 up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling 276 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:32.399 a little different. But if I'm not the same, the 277 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:36.320 next question is who in the world am I? Ah, 278 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:40.080 that's the great puzzle, and she began thinking over all 279 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:42.519 the children that she knew that were of the same 280 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:44.679 age as herself, to see if she could have been 281 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:47.919 changed for any of them. I'm sure I'm not Ada, 282 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:51.480 she said, for her hair goes in such long ringlets, 283 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:55.039 and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all. And I'm 284 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:57.960 sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts 285 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:02.080 of things. And she, oh, she knows such a very 286 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:06.799 little besides she she and I'm I and oh dear, 287 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:10.559 how puzzling it all is. I'll try if I know 288 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:14.080 all the things I used to know. Let me see, 289 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:19.039 four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, 290 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:23.360 and four times seven is Oh dear, I shall never 291 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:27.399 get to twenty at that rate. However, the multiplication table 292 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:32.840 doesn't signify. Let's try geography. London is the capital of Paris, 293 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:36.399 and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome. No, 294 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:40.759 that's all wrong. I'm certain I must have been changed 295 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:44.039 for Mabel. I'll try and say, how doth the little 296 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:46.919 And she crossed her hands on her lap as if 297 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.960 she were saying lessons, and began repeat it. But her 298 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.840 voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not 299 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.120 come the same as they used to. How doth the 300 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:00.919 little crocodile improve his shining tail and pour the waters 301 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:05.399 of the nile on every golden scale, How cheerfully he 302 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.080 seems to grin, how neatly spread his claws and welcome 303 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:13.679 little fishes in with gently smiling jaws. I'm sure those 304 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.480 are not the right words, said poor Alice, and her 305 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:19.480 eyes filled with tears again as she went on, I 306 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.120 must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to 307 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:25.000 go and live in that poky little house and have 308 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:28.039 next to no toys to play with, and oh, ever, 309 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.000 so many lessons to learn. No, I've made up my 310 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:34.279 mind about it. If I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here. 311 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.639 It'll be no use. They're putting their heads down and 312 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:41.399 saying come up again, dear. I shall only look up 313 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:45.039 and say who am I? Then tell me that first, 314 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.320 and then if I like being that person, I'll come up. 315 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:51.799 If not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else. 316 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:55.919 But oh, dear, cried Alice with a sudden burst of tears. 317 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:59.000 I do wish they would put their heads down. I 318 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.799 am so very tired of being all alone here. As 319 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.600 she said this, she looked down at her hands and 320 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:08.120 was surprised to see that she had put on one 321 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.399 of the rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking. 322 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:13.639 How can I have done that? 323 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:14.200 She thought? 324 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.480 I must be growing small again. She got up and 325 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:19.960 went to the table to measure herself by it, and 326 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:22.639 found that as nearly as she could guess, she was 327 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:26.399 now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly. 328 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.759 She soon found out that the cause of this was 329 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:32.440 the fan that she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, 330 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:37.600 just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. That was 331 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.600 a narrow escape, said Alice, a good deal frightened at 332 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:44.240 the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still 333 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:47.600 in existence. And now for the garden, and she ran 334 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:50.440 with all speed back to the little door. But alas 335 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:53.200 the door was shut again, and the little golden key 336 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.440 was lying on the glass table as before. And things 337 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:59.559 are worse than ever thought the poor child. For I 338 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.960 ever was so small as this before, never, And I 339 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:08.039 declare it's too bad that it is. As she said 340 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:11.599 these words, her foot slipped, and another moment, splash, she 341 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.440 was up to her chin in salt water. Her first 342 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:17.079 idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, 343 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.119 and in that case I can go back by railway, 344 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:23.640 she said to herself. Alice had been to the seaside 345 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.119 once in her life that could come to the general 346 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:29.519 conclusion that wherever you go on the English coast, you 347 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:32.799 find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some 348 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.839 children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a 349 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:40.119 row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station. However, 350 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.319 she soon made out that she was in a pool 351 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:44.799 of tears, which she had wept when she was nine 352 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:48.920 feet high. I wish I hadn't cried so much, said Alice, 353 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.519 as she swam about trying to find her way out. 354 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:55.039 I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by 355 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:58.000 being drowned in my own tears, that will be a 356 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:03.200 queer thing, to be sure. However, everything is queer today. 357 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:06.079 Just then she heard something splash about in the pool 358 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.119 a little way off, and she swam nearer to make 359 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.920 out what it was. At first she thought it must 360 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.759 be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how 361 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.759 small she was now, and she soon made out that 362 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:21.640 it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself. 363 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:25.640 Would it be of any use now, thought Alice to 364 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.079 speak to this mouse. Everything is so out of the 365 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:32.960 way down here that I should think very likely it 366 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.079 can talk at any rate. There's no harm in trying, 367 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.559 So she began, Oh mouse, do you know the way 368 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:42.240 out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming 369 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:47.039 about here? Oh mouse, Alice thought this must be the 370 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.839 right way of speaking to a mouse. She had never 371 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:52.680 done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen 372 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:56.279 her brother's Latin grammar A mouse of a mouse to 373 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:00.240 a mouse, a mouse o mouse. The mouse looked at 374 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.839 her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with 375 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:08.160 one of its little eyes. But it said nothing. Perhaps 376 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:11.960 it doesn't understand English, thought Alice. I dare say it's 377 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.759 a French mouse. Come over with William the Conqueror. With 378 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:19.119 all her knowledge of history, Alice had no clear notion 379 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:23.160 how long ago anything had happened, So she began again 380 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:27.559 whiz monschat, which was the first sentence in her French 381 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.559 Lesson book. The mouse gave a sudden leap out of 382 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.640 the water and seemed to quiver all over with fright. Oh, 383 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.799 I beg your pardon, cried Alice, hastily, afraid that she 384 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:39.920 had hurt the poor animal's feelings. I quite forgot. You 385 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.160 don't like cats. Not like cats, cried the mouse in 386 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:47.440 a shrill, passionate voice. Would you like cats if you 387 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:51.519 were me? Well, perhaps not, said Alice in a soothing tone. 388 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:54.480 Don't be angry about it. And yet I wish I 389 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:57.279 could show you our cat Dinah. I think you'd take 390 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.480 a fancy to cats if you could only see her. 391 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.240 She's such a dear, quiet thing, Alice went on, half 392 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:06.200 to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool. 393 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:09.319 And she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking 394 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:12.039 her paws and washing her face. And she is such 395 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:14.720 a nice soft thing to nurse. And she's such a 396 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:17.799 capital one for catching mice. Oh, I beg your pardon, 397 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:20.839 cried Alice again. For this time the mouse was bristling 398 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:24.400 all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended. 399 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:27.519 We won't talk about her anymore if you'd rather not, 400 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:31.839 we indeed, cried the mouse, who was trembling down to 401 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:34.279 the end of his tail, As if I would talk 402 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:38.960 on such a subject. Our family always hated cats, nasty, 403 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:43.480 low vulguar things. Don't let me hear the name again. 404 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:47.799 I won't, indeed, said Alice, in a great hurry to 405 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:53.400 change the subject conversation. And you are you fond of dogs? 406 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:57.359 The mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly. 407 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.359 There is such a nice little dog near our I 408 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:03.279 should like to show you a little bright eyed terry, 409 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:06.400 you know, with oh, such long curly brown hair, And 410 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:08.920 it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit 411 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:11.519 up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things. 412 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:14.079 I can't remember half of them. And it belongs to 413 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:17.200 a farmer, you know. And he says it's so useful, 414 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:20.559 it's worth a hundred pounds. He says it kills all 415 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:24.799 the rats. And oh, dear, cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, 416 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:28.160 I'm afraid I've offended again. For the mouse was swimming 417 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:30.119 away from her as hard as it could go, and 418 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:32.240 making quite a commotion in the pool as it went. 419 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.279 So she called softly after it, mouse, dear, do come 420 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:40.400 back again. And I won't talk about cats or dogs either, 421 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:43.599 if you don't like them. When the mouse heard this, 422 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:46.720 it turned round and swam slowly back to her. Its 423 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:50.480 face was quite pale with passion. Alice thought, and it said, 424 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:54.039 in a low trembling voice, let us get to the shore, 425 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:57.680 and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll understand 426 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:01.400 why it is that I hate cats and all. It 427 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:03.559 was high time to go, for the pool was getting 428 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:06.519 quite crowded with birds and animals that had fallen into it. 429 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:09.920 There was a duck and a dodo, a lory and 430 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:14.160 an eglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way, 431 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:18.599 and the whole party swam to the shore end of chapter. 432 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:25.960 Two, chapter three, a caucus race and a long tail. 433 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:35.039 They were indeed a queer looking party that assembled on 434 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:41.400 the bank. The birds with draggled feathers, the animals with 435 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:46.799 their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping, wet, 436 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:55.200 cross and uncomfortable. The first question, of course, was how 437 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:59.920 to get dry again. They had a consultation about this, 438 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:05.400 and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to 439 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:12.119 Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if 440 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:17.759 she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had 441 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:22.519 quite a long argument with the lory, who at last 442 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:28.759 turned sulky and would only say, I am older than you, 443 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:34.880 and must know better, and this Alice would not allow 444 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:41.759 without knowing how old it was. And as the lry 445 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:47.599 positively refused to tell its age, there was no more 446 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:54.920 to be said. At last, the mouse, who seemed to 447 00:23:54.960 --> 00:24:00.319 be a person of authority among them, called out, sit down, 448 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:05.319 all of you and listen to me. I'll soon make 449 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:10.279 you dry enough. They all sat down at once in 450 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:16.480 a large ring, with the mouse in the middle. Alice 451 00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:21.960 kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt 452 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:26.799 sure she would catch a bad cold if she did 453 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:33.119 not get dry very soon. Ahem, said the mouse, with 454 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:39.799 an important air. Are you already? This is the driest 455 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:47.039 thing I know. Silence all around, if you please. William 456 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:52.480 the conqueror, whose cause was favored by the Pope, was 457 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:58.279 soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders and 458 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:05.079 had been of late much accustomed to usurpation, and conquest 459 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:12.799 Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria. Uugh, 460 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:17.519 said the lorry with a shiver. I beg your pardon, 461 00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:25.519 said the mouse, frowning, but very politely. Did you speak not, 462 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:31.799 I said the lory hastily. I thought you did, said 463 00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:39.880 the mouse. I proceed Edwin and Morcar, The earls of 464 00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:47.799 Mercia and Northumbria declared for him, and even Stigand the 465 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:56.240 patriotic Archbishop of Canterbury found it advisable. Found what, said 466 00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:03.359 the duck? Found it? The mouse replied, rather crossly. Of 467 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:09.279 course you know what it means. I know what it 468 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:14.559 means well enough. When I find a thing, said the duck, 469 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:20.920 It's generally a frog or a worm. The question is 470 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:28.680 what did the archbishop find? The mouse did not notice 471 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:37.559 this question, but hurriedly went on. Found it advisable to 472 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:43.400 go with Edgar Etheling to meet William and offer him 473 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:50.359 the crown. William's conduct was at first moderate, but the 474 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:55.599 insolence of his normans how are you getting on now, 475 00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:01.319 my dear, it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke. 476 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:08.039 As wet as ever, said Alice, in a melancholy tone. 477 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:15.400 It doesn't seem to dry me at all in that case, 478 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:21.640 said the Dodo, solemnly, rising to its feet. I moved 479 00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:26.119 that the meeting adjourn for the immediate adoption of more 480 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:33.720 energetic remedies. Speak English, said the eaglet. I don't know 481 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:38.359 the meaning of half those long words, and what's more, 482 00:27:39.319 --> 00:27:44.319 I don't believe you do either, and the eaglet bent 483 00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:48.960 down its head to hide a smile. Some of the 484 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:55.960 other birds tittered audibly. What I was going to say, 485 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:02.200 said the Dodo, in an offended tone, was that the 486 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:06.720 best thing is to get us dry would be a 487 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:15.480 caucus race. What is a caucus race? Said Alice, not 488 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:21.119 that she wanted much to know. But the Dodo had paused, 489 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:27.359 as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and 490 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:34.599 no one else seemed inclined to say anything. Why, said 491 00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:39.640 the Dodo, The best way to explain it is to 492 00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:44.160 do it. And you might like to try the thing 493 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:49.720 yourself some winter day. I will tell you how the 494 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:55.920 Dodo managed it. First it marked out a race course 495 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:02.319 in a sort of circle. The exact shape doesn't matter, 496 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:08.079 it said, And then all the party were placed along 497 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:16.519 the course. Here and there. There was no one, two, three, 498 00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:22.000 and away. But they began running when they liked and 499 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:26.559 left off when they liked, so that it was not 500 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:32.599 easy to know when the race was over. However, when 501 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:35.680 they had been running half an hour or so and 502 00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:40.960 were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out the 503 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.799 race is over, and they all crowded round it, panting 504 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:52.240 and asking, But who has won? This question the Dodo 505 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:57.079 could not answer without a great deal of thought, and 506 00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:02.000 it sat for a long time with one finger pressed 507 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:07.240 upon its forehead, the position in which you usually see 508 00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:11.839 Shakespeare in the pictures of him, while the rest waited 509 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:17.799 in silence. At last, the Dodo said, everybody has won, 510 00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:25.000 and all must have prizes. But who is to give 511 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:31.519 the prizes? Quite a chorus of voices asked why she, 512 00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:37.480 of course, said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger, 513 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:43.559 and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling 514 00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:50.920 out in a confused way, prizes, prizes. Alice had no 515 00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:56.279 idea what to do, and in despair, she put her 516 00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:01.799 hand in her pocket and pulled out a box of comfits, 517 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.920 luckily the salt water had not got into it, and 518 00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:14.279 handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one a 519 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:21.799 piece all round. But she should but she must have 520 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:27.200 a prize herself, you know, said the mouse. Of course, 521 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:32.079 the Dodo replied, very gravely. What else have you got 522 00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:37.359 in your pocket? He went on, turning to Alice, Only 523 00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:43.079 a thimble, said Alice. Sadly, hand it over here, said 524 00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:49.240 the Dodo. Then they all crowded round her once more, 525 00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:56.480 while the dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying, we beg 526 00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:02.880 your acceptance of this elegant thimble. And when it had 527 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:10.920 finished this short speech, they all cheered. Alice thought the 528 00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:15.880 whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave 529 00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:20.440 that she did not dare to laugh, And as she 530 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:25.359 could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed 531 00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:30.759 and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could. 532 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:37.200 The next thing was to eat the comfits. This caused 533 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:43.160 some noise and confusion, as the large birds complained that 534 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:47.640 they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked 535 00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:53.359 and had to be petted on the back. However, it 536 00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:56.880 was over at last, and they sat down again in 537 00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:01.480 a ring and begged the mouse to tell them something more. 538 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:09.720 You promised to tell me your history, you know, said Alice. 539 00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:14.559 And why it is you hate C and D she 540 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:18.680 added in a whisper, half afraid that it would be 541 00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:25.400 offended again. Mine is a long and a sad tale, 542 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:31.640 said the mouse, turning to Alice and sighing. It is 543 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:37.480 a long tale, certainly, said Alice, looking down with wonder 544 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:42.599 at the mouse's tail. But why do you call it sad? 545 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:48.319 And she kept on puzzling about it while the mouse 546 00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:53.599 was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was 547 00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:58.839 something like this. Here the words are written on the 548 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:05.359 page one two four on a line, and the lines 549 00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:09.119 are off set, so they snake down the page in 550 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:16.000 a wavy fashion. And here's what they say. Fury said 551 00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:21.679 to a mouse that he met in the house. Let 552 00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:28.519 us both go to law. I will prosecute you. Come. 553 00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:34.800 I'll take no denial. We must have a trial, for 554 00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:40.960 really this morning, I've nothing to do, said the mouse 555 00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:47.079 to the cur Such a trial, dear sir, with no 556 00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:54.360 jury or judge, would be wasting our breath. I'll be judge. 557 00:34:54.760 --> 00:35:00.440 I'll be jury, said cunning old Fury. I'll drive a 558 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:07.320 whole cause and condemn you to death. And there's where 559 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:14.119 the snaky text ends, continuing, you are not attending, said 560 00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:18.280 the mouse to Alice severely. What are you thinking of? 561 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:26.440 I beg your pardon, said Alice, very humbly. You had 562 00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:31.840 got to the fifth bend I think I had not, 563 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:38.519 cried the mouse, sharply and very angrily. A knot, said Alice, 564 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:45.599 always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. Oh, 565 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.559 do let me help to undo it. I shall do 566 00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.920 nothing of the sort, said the mouse, getting up and 567 00:35:54.000 --> 00:36:00.840 walking away. You insult me by talking such nonsense. I 568 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:06.039 didn't mean it, pleaded poor Alice. But you're so easily offended, 569 00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:13.760 you know. The mouse only growled in reply. Please come 570 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:19.000 back and finish your story, Alice called after it, and 571 00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:24.960 the others all joined in chorus, Yes, please do. But 572 00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:29.400 the mouse only shook its head impatiently and walked a 573 00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:34.199 little quicker. What a pity it wouldn't stay, sighed the lorry, 574 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:38.639 as soon as it was quite out of sight, and 575 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:44.559 an old crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter, ah, 576 00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:48.960 my dear, let this be a lesson to you never 577 00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:54.039 to lose your temper hold your tongue. Ma, said the 578 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:58.559 young crab a little snappishly. You're enough to try the 579 00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:04.000 patience of an oyster. Oh I wish I had our 580 00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:08.679 Dinah here, I know I do, said Alice aloud, addressing 581 00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:15.320 nobody in particular. She'd soon fetch it back. And who 582 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:18.840 is Dinah? If I might venture to ask the question? 583 00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:25.639 Said the lory. Alice replied eagerly, for she was always 584 00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:31.480 ready to talk about her pet. Dinah's our cat, and 585 00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:35.800 she's such a capital one for catching mice, you can't think. 586 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:39.960 And oh, I wish you could see her after the birds. 587 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:44.320 Why she'll eat a little bird as soon as look 588 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:51.880 at it. This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. 589 00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:56.920 Some of the birds hurried off at once. One old 590 00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:02.599 magpie began wrapping itself up, very very carefully, remarking, I 591 00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:07.039 really must be getting home. The night air doesn't suit 592 00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:11.679 my throat. And a canary called out in a trembling 593 00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:17.360 voice to its children, Come away, my DearS, it's high 594 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:23.559 time you were all in bed. On various pretexts, they 595 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:30.800 all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone. Oh 596 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:34.679 I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah, she said to herself 597 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:40.280 in a melancholy tone. Nobody seems to like her down here, 598 00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:45.840 and I'm sure she's the best cat in the world. Oh, 599 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:50.000 my dear Dinah, I wonder if I shall ever see 600 00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:55.199 you anymore. And here poor Alice began to cry again, 601 00:38:56.320 --> 00:39:01.199 for she felt very lonely and low spirited. In a 602 00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:05.920 little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of 603 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:11.400 footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half 604 00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:16.320 hoping that the mouse had changed his mind and was 605 00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:23.599 coming back to finish his story. This is the end 606 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:26.159 of chapter three. 607 00:39:26.760 --> 00:39:34.559 Chapter four, the rabbit sends in a little bill. It 608 00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:39.519 was the white rabbit, trotting slowly back again and looking 609 00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:43.559 anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something, 610 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:49.199 And she heard it muttering to itself, the duchess, the duchess, 611 00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:53.920 and my dear pause, oh, my fur and whiskers. She'll 612 00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:58.519 get me executed as sure as ferrets are ferrets. Where 613 00:39:58.800 --> 00:39:59.840 can I have dropped them? 614 00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:00.559 I wonder? 615 00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:06.480 Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for 616 00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:10.199 the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and 617 00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:14.880 she very good naturedly began hunting about for them, but 618 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:18.880 they were nowhere to be seen. Everything seemed to have 619 00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:21.920 changed since her swim in the pool, and the great 620 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:25.599 hall with the glass table and the little door had 621 00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:33.159 vanished completely. Very soon, the rabbit noticed Alice as she 622 00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:36.400 went hunting about, and called out to her in an 623 00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:40.599 angry tone, Why Mary Anne, what are you doing out here? 624 00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:43.239 Run home this moment and fetch me a pair of 625 00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:47.920 gloves and a fan quick now. And Alice was so 626 00:40:48.079 --> 00:40:50.440 much frightened that she ran off at once in the 627 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:54.480 direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake 628 00:40:54.559 --> 00:41:00.440 it had made. He took me for his hand smith, 629 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:04.039 she said to herself as she ran, How surprised he'll 630 00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:06.639 be when he finds out who I am. But I'd 631 00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:09.559 better take him his fun and gloves, that is, if 632 00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:14.119 I can find them. As she said this, she came 633 00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.840 upon a neat little house, on the door of which 634 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:21.679 was a bright brass plate with the name W Rabbit 635 00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:26.679 engraved upon it. She went in without knocking and hurried 636 00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:30.679 upstairs in great fear lest she should meet the real 637 00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:34.199 Mary Anne and be turned out of the house before 638 00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:40.039 she had found the fan and gloves. How queer it seems, 639 00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:44.360 Alice said to herself to be going messages for a rabbit. 640 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:48.679 I suppose Dianah will be sending me out on messages next, 641 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:53.119 And she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen. 642 00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:56.719 Miss Alice, come here directly and get ready for your 643 00:41:56.760 --> 00:42:00.840 walk coming in a minute, nurse. But I've got to 644 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:05.400 see that the mouse doesn't get out. Only I don't think. 645 00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:08.519 Alice went on that they'd let Dinah stop in the 646 00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:14.079 house if it began ordering people about like that. By 647 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:16.880 this time, she had found her way into a tidy 648 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:20.280 little room with a table in the window and on it, 649 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:24.360 as she had hoped, a fan, and two or three 650 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:28.679 pairs of tiny white kid gloves. She took up the 651 00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:31.480 fun a pair of the gloves, and was just going 652 00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:34.400 to leave the room when her eyes fell upon a 653 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:39.199 little bottle that stood near the looking glass. There was 654 00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:43.280 no label this time with the words drink me, but 655 00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:47.360 nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. 656 00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:51.960 I know something interesting is sure to happen, she said 657 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:56.199 to herself, whenever I eat or drink anything. So I'll 658 00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:58.960 just see what this bottle does. I do hope it'll 659 00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:01.599 make me grow large again, for really, I'm quite tired 660 00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:07.960 of being such a tiny little thing. It did so, indeed, 661 00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:12.199 and much sooner than she had expected. Before she had 662 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:16.599 drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against 663 00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:19.599 the ceiling and had to stoop to save her neck 664 00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:24.559 from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying 665 00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:28.400 to herself, that's quite enough. I hope I shan't grow 666 00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:30.559 any more. As it is, I can't get out at 667 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:33.960 the door. I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much. 668 00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:41.079 Alas it was too late to wish that. She went 669 00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:46.119 on growing and growing, and very soon had to kneel 670 00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:49.559 down on the floor. In another minute, there was not 671 00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:52.760 even room for this, and she tried the effect of 672 00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:55.599 lying down with one elbow against the door and the 673 00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:59.679 other arm curled round her head. Still she went on, 674 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:04.840 and as a last resource, she put one arm out 675 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.000 the window and one foot up the chimney, and said 676 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:11.679 to herself, now I can do no more. Whatever happens, 677 00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:18.320 what will become of me. Luckily for Alice, the little 678 00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:22.239 magic bottle had now had its full effect, and she 679 00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:28.440 grew no larger. Still, it was very uncomfortable, and as 680 00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:30.679 there seemed to be no sort of chance of her 681 00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:34.039 ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she 682 00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:41.519 felt unhappy. It was much pleasanter at home, thought poor Alice, 683 00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:45.559 when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller and being 684 00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:49.960 ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I 685 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:54.280 hadn't gone down that rabbit hole. And yet, and yet 686 00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:59.239 it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life. I 687 00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:03.480 do wonder what can have happened to me? When I 688 00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:06.280 used to read fairy tales. I fancied that kind of 689 00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:09.280 thing never happened, And now here I am in the 690 00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:12.199 middle of one. There ought to be a book written 691 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:15.719 about me. That there ought, And when I grow up, 692 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:20.119 I'll write one. But I'm grown up now, she added 693 00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:23.760 in a sorrowful tone. At least there's no room to 694 00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:31.760 grow up any more here. But then thought Alice, shall 695 00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:36.000 I never get any older than I am? Now that'll 696 00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:39.000 be a comfort one way, never to be an old woman, 697 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:44.239 but then always to have lessons to learn. Oh I 698 00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:50.719 shouldn't like that. Oh, you foolish Alice, she answered herself. 699 00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:53.000 How can you learn lessons in here? 700 00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:53.760 Why? 701 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:56.440 There's hardly room for you, and no room at all 702 00:45:56.480 --> 00:46:01.480 for any lesson books. And so she went on, taking 703 00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:05.239 first one side, then the other, and making quite a 704 00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:09.000 conversation of it altogether. But after a few minutes she 705 00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:14.199 heard a voice outside and stopped to listen mary Anne. 706 00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:17.239 Mary Anne said the voice, fetch me my gloves this 707 00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:21.840 moment then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. 708 00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:25.599 Alice knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her, 709 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:29.880 and she trembled till she shook the house quite forgetting 710 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:32.679 that she was now about a thousand times as large 711 00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:35.440 as the rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid 712 00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:40.480 of it. Presently, the rabbit came up to the door 713 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:44.880 and tried to open it, But as the door opened 714 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:49.679 inwards and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it, that 715 00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:55.079 attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself. 716 00:46:56.840 --> 00:46:58.880 Then I'll go round and get in at the window. 717 00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:06.719 That you won't, thought Alice, And after waiting till she fancied, 718 00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:10.800 she heard the rabbit just under the window. She suddenly 719 00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:13.639 spread out her hand and made a snatch in the air. 720 00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:17.440 She did not get hold of anything, but she heard 721 00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:19.960 a little shriek and a fall and a crash of 722 00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:24.159 broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just 723 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:27.559 possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame or something 724 00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:36.519 of the sort. Next came an angry voice the rabbits, Pat, Pat, 725 00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:40.320 where are you? And then the voice she had never 726 00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:45.039 heard before. Sure, then I'm here digging for apples, your honor, 727 00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:52.639 digging for apples, indeed, said the rabbit angrily. Here, come 728 00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:57.000 and help me out of this. Sounds of more broken glass. 729 00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:02.760 Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window? Sure, 730 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:08.679 it's an arm, your honor, he pronounced it arum an arm, 731 00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:12.239 you goose? Who ever saw one that size? Why it 732 00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:16.639 fills the whole window. Sure it does, your honor, but 733 00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:20.920 it's an arm for all that. Well, it's got no 734 00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:23.639 business there at any rate. Go and take it away. 735 00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:29.639 There was a long silence after this, and Alice could 736 00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:33.599 only hear whispers now and then, such as, sure I 737 00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:37.159 don't like it your honor at all at all. Do 738 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:40.719 as I tell you, you coward. And at last she spread 739 00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:43.639 out her hand again and made another snatch in the air. 740 00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:48.039 This time there were two little shrieks and more sounds 741 00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:52.960 of broken glass. What a number of cucumber frames there 742 00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:57.400 must be, thought Alice. I wonder what they'll do next. 743 00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:01.039 As for pulling me out of the window, I only 744 00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:04.119 wish they could. I'm sure I don't want to stay 745 00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:10.159 in here any longer. She waited for some time without 746 00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:14.800 hearing anything more. At last came a rumbling of little 747 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.920 cart wheels and the sound of a good many voices, 748 00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:23.039 all talking together. She made out the words where's the 749 00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:26.039 other ladder? Why I hadn't thought to bring but one 750 00:49:26.599 --> 00:49:29.199 bill's got the other bill? 751 00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:30.159 Fetch it here? 752 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:33.679 Lad he have put em up at the corner, no 753 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:37.039 time together. First, they don't reach half high enough yet, 754 00:49:38.519 --> 00:49:42.679 Oh they'll do well enough. Don't be particular. Here, Bill, 755 00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:48.119 catch hold of this rope? Will the roof break? Mind 756 00:49:48.159 --> 00:49:52.960 that loose slat? I it's coming down heads below A 757 00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:57.199 loud crush. Now who did that? It was Bill? I 758 00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:02.079 fancy who's to go down the chimne? Nay, I sha'n't 759 00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:02.679 you do it? 760 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:04.239 That? 761 00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:08.159 I won't. Then Bill's to go down here. Bill, the 762 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:14.199 master says you're to go down the chimney. Oh so 763 00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:18.039 Bill's got to come down the chimney. How's he said 764 00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:22.760 Alice to herself, Shay, they seemed to put everything upon Bill. 765 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:26.519 I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal. 766 00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:30.920 This fireplace is narrowed, to be sure, But I think 767 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:36.280 I can kick a little. She drew her foot as 768 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:39.599 far down the chimney as she could and waited till 769 00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:43.679 she heard a little animal she couldn't guess of what 770 00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:48.199 sort it was, scratching and scrambling about in the chimney 771 00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:54.119 close above her. Then, saying to herself, this is Bill, 772 00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:58.159 she gave one sharp kick and waited to see what 773 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:03.039 would happen. Next. The first thing she heard was a 774 00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:07.840 general chorus of there goes Bill, then the rabbit's voice along, 775 00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:13.960 catch him you by the hedge, Then silence, and then 776 00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:20.440 another confusion of voices. Hold robber's head, Brandon, now, don't 777 00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:23.960 choke him. How was it, old fellow? What happened to you? 778 00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:25.840 Tell us all about it? 779 00:51:29.199 --> 00:51:29.519 Last? 780 00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:37.840 Came a little feeble squeaking voice. That's Bill, thought Alice. Well, 781 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:41.920 I hardly know, no, morle. Thank ye, I'm better now, 782 00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:45.079 but I'm a deal too flustered to tell you all 783 00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:47.519 I know this. Something comes at me like a jack 784 00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:50.360 in the box, and up I goes like a skyrocket. 785 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:58.119 So you, dear old fellow, said the others. We must 786 00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:01.960 burn the house down, said the rabbit's voice, and Alice 787 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:06.239 called out as loud as she could. If you do, 788 00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:13.960 I'll set diner at you. There was a deadly silence instantly, 789 00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:18.840 and Alice thought to herself, I wonder what they will 790 00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:22.280 do next. If there had any sense, then take the 791 00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:27.639 roof off. After a minute or two, they began moving 792 00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:32.039 about again, and Alice heard the rabbit say, a barrelfool 793 00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:39.199 will do to begin with a barrelful of what? Thought Alice? 794 00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:43.239 But she had not longed to doubt. For the next moment, 795 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:46.880 a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window, 796 00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:51.039 and some of them hit her in the face. I'll 797 00:52:51.079 --> 00:52:53.599 put a stop to this, she said to herself, and 798 00:52:53.719 --> 00:52:59.320 shouted out, you'd better not do that again, which produced 799 00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:06.519 another dead silence. Alice noted with some surprise that the 800 00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:09.840 pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay 801 00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:13.079 on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head. 802 00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:19.039 If I eat one of these cakes, she thought, it's 803 00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:22.159 sure to make some change in my size, and as 804 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:26.960 it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, 805 00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:31.840 I suppose. So she swallowed one of the cakes, and 806 00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:36.960 was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly. As 807 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.239 soon as she was small enough to get through the door, 808 00:53:39.519 --> 00:53:42.280 she ran out of the house and found quite a 809 00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:47.199 crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside. The poor 810 00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:51.000 little lizard bill was in the middle, being held up 811 00:53:51.039 --> 00:53:54.360 by two guinea pigs who were giving it something out 812 00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:58.159 of a bottle. They all made a rush at Alice 813 00:53:58.159 --> 00:54:01.119 the moment she appeared, but she ran off as hard 814 00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:03.920 as she could, and soon found herself safe in a 815 00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:09.760 thick wood. The first thing I've got to do, said 816 00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:12.800 Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the wood, 817 00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:16.920 is to grow to my right size again. And the 818 00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:20.280 second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. 819 00:54:21.079 --> 00:54:27.400 I think that will be the best plan. It sounded 820 00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:32.840 an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged. 821 00:54:33.840 --> 00:54:37.400 The only difficulty was that she had not got the 822 00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:41.599 smallest idea how to set about it. And while she 823 00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:45.639 was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp 824 00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:49.199 bark just over her head made her look up in 825 00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:56.119 a great hurry. An enormous puppy was looking down at 826 00:54:56.159 --> 00:55:00.800 her with large round eyes and feebly stres out one 827 00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:07.639 paw trying to touch her. Poor little thing, said Alice 828 00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:11.199 in a coaxing tone, And she tried hard to whistle 829 00:55:11.239 --> 00:55:14.440 to it, but she was terribly frightened all the time 830 00:55:14.719 --> 00:55:17.480 at the thought that it might be hungry, in which 831 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:19.760 case it would be very likely to eat her up. 832 00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:25.599 In spite of all her cooxing, Hardly knowing what she did, 833 00:55:25.960 --> 00:55:28.599 she picked up a little bit of stick and held 834 00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:31.760 it out to the puppy, whereupon the puppy jumped into 835 00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:34.480 the air off all its feet at once with a 836 00:55:34.599 --> 00:55:38.159 yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick and made 837 00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:42.559 believe to worry it. Then Alice dodged behind a great 838 00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:46.039 thistle to keep herself from being run over, and the 839 00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:49.039 moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made 840 00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:52.639 another rush at the stick and tumbled head over heels 841 00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:56.320 in its hurry to get hold of it. Then Alice, 842 00:55:56.760 --> 00:55:59.519 thinking it was very like having a game of play 843 00:55:59.559 --> 00:56:04.039 with a car and expecting every moment to be trampled 844 00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:08.559 under its feet, ran round the thistle again. Then the 845 00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:11.480 puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, 846 00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:14.920 running a very little way forwards each time, and a 847 00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:19.719 long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till 848 00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:23.760 at last it sat down a good way off, panting, 849 00:56:24.199 --> 00:56:27.400 with its tongue hanging out of his mouth and its 850 00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:34.440 great eyes half shut. This seemed to Alice a good 851 00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:38.000 opportunity for making her escape, so she set off it 852 00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:41.719 once and ran till she was quite tired and out 853 00:56:41.719 --> 00:56:45.800 of breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint 854 00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:51.400 in the distance. And yet what a dear little puppy, 855 00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:55.639 it was, said Alice, as she leaned against a buttercup 856 00:56:55.679 --> 00:56:58.920 to rest herself and found herself with one of the leaves. 857 00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:03.119 I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if 858 00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:08.079 if I'd only been the right size to do it. Oh, dear, 859 00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:11.679 I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again. 860 00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:16.719 Let me see how is this to be managed? I 861 00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:19.519 suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other, 862 00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:26.639 But the great question is what. The great question, certainly 863 00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:32.559 was what. Alice looked all round her, at the flowers 864 00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:35.840 and the blades of grass, but she did not see 865 00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:39.239 anything that looked like the right thing to eat or 866 00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:45.400 drink under the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing 867 00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:50.079 near her, about the same height as herself, and when 868 00:57:50.159 --> 00:57:53.400 she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, 869 00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.880 and behind it, it occurred to her that she might 870 00:57:57.920 --> 00:57:59.960 as well look and see what was on top of it. 871 00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:08.000 She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the 872 00:58:08.119 --> 00:58:12.920 edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those 873 00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:17.559 of a large caterpillar that was sitting on the top 874 00:58:18.119 --> 00:58:24.639 with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah and 875 00:58:24.840 --> 00:58:30.360 taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else. 876 00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:35.039 End of Chapter four. 877 00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:42.119 Chapter five, Advice from a Caterpillar. The caterpillar and Alice 878 00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:45.960 looked at each other for some time in silence. At last, 879 00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:48.559 the caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and 880 00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:51.880 addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. 881 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:53.320 Who are you? 882 00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:58.440 Said the caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for 883 00:58:58.480 --> 00:59:04.760 a conversation. Alice replied rather shyly. I I hardly know, sir, 884 00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:07.960 just at present. At least I know who I was 885 00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:10.199 when I got up this morning, but I think I 886 00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:14.679 must have been changed several times since then. What do 887 00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:19.199 you mean by that? Said the caterpillar, sternly, Explain yourself. 888 00:59:20.840 --> 00:59:24.960 I can't explain myself. I'm afraid, sir, said Alice, because 889 00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:29.440 I'm not myself. You see, I don't see, said the caterpillar. 890 00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:34.239 I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly, Alice replied 891 00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:37.760 very politely, for I can't understand it myself to begin with, 892 00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:40.679 and being so many different sizes in a day is 893 00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:47.639 very confusing, it isn't, said the caterpillar. Well, perhaps you 894 00:59:47.639 --> 00:59:50.800 haven't found it so yet, said Alice. But when you 895 00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:53.440 have to turn into a chrysalis you will some day, 896 00:59:53.480 --> 00:59:56.679 you know, and then after that into a butterfly. I 897 00:59:56.679 --> 00:59:58.800 should think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you? 898 01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:00.599 Not a bit? 899 01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:05.320 Said the caterpillar. Well perhaps your feelings may be different, 900 01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:08.800 said Alice. All I know is it would feel very 901 01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:13.280 queer to me. You, said the caterpillar contemptuously. 902 01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:14.800 Who are you? 903 01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:19.360 Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation. 904 01:00:20.719 --> 01:00:23.599 Alice felt a little irritated at the caterpillar's making such 905 01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:26.880 very short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, 906 01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:30.400 very gravely, I think you ought to tell me who 907 01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:36.719 you are first. Why said the caterpillar. Here was another 908 01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:39.840 puzzling question, And as Alice could not think of any 909 01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:42.320 good reason, and as the caterpillar seemed to be in 910 01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:47.360 a very unpleasant state of mind, she turned away. Come back, 911 01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:51.320 The caterpillar called after her. I've something important to say. 912 01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:56.880 This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. 913 01:00:58.840 --> 01:01:04.400 Keep your temper, said the caterpillar. Is that all, said Alice, 914 01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:08.119 swallowing down her anger as well as she could, No, 915 01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:14.000 said the caterpillar. Alice thought she might as well wait, 916 01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:17.159 as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps, after all, 917 01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:20.599 it might tell her something worth hearing. For some minutes 918 01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:24.119 it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded 919 01:01:24.119 --> 01:01:26.639 its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, 920 01:01:26.920 --> 01:01:32.199 and said, so you think you're changed, do you? I'm 921 01:01:32.239 --> 01:01:35.960 afraid I am, sir, said Alice. I can't remember things 922 01:01:35.960 --> 01:01:38.400 as I used, and I don't keep the same size 923 01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:45.679 for ten minutes together. Can't remember what things, said the caterpillar. Well, 924 01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:48.159 I've tried to say how doth the little busy be? 925 01:01:48.639 --> 01:01:51.199 But it all came different. Alice replied, in a very 926 01:01:51.239 --> 01:01:57.239 melancholy voice. Repeat your old, father, William, said the caterpillar. 927 01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:03.239 Alice folded her hand and began. You are old, father William, 928 01:02:03.400 --> 01:02:06.400 the young man said, and your hair has become very white, 929 01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:09.559 and yet you incessantly stand on your head. Do you 930 01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:13.039 think at your age? It is right? In my youth, 931 01:02:13.119 --> 01:02:15.920 Father William replied to his son. I feared it might 932 01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:18.679 injure the brain, But now that I'm perfectly sure I 933 01:02:18.719 --> 01:02:22.400 have none, why I do it again? And again? You 934 01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:25.239 are old, said the youth, as I mentioned before, and 935 01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:28.519 have grown most uncommonly fat yet you turned a back 936 01:02:28.519 --> 01:02:31.280 somersault in at the door. Pray, what is the reason 937 01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:34.880 of that? In my youth, said the sage, as he 938 01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:37.239 shook his gray locks, I kept all my limbs very 939 01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:40.159 supple by the use of this ointment. One shilling the box, 940 01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:44.079 allow me to sell you a couple. You are old, 941 01:02:44.199 --> 01:02:46.280 said the youth, And your jaws are too weak for 942 01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:49.559 anything tougher than suet. Yet you finished the goose with 943 01:02:49.639 --> 01:02:52.199 the bones and the beak. Pray, how did you manage 944 01:02:52.199 --> 01:02:55.679 to do it? In my youth, said his father, I 945 01:02:55.719 --> 01:02:57.960 took to the law and argued each case with my 946 01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:00.920 wife and a muscular string, which it gave to my 947 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:05.199 jaw as lasted the rest of my life. You are old, 948 01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:07.840 said the youth. One would hardly suppose that your eye 949 01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:10.800 was as steady as ever. Yet you balanced an eel 950 01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:12.800 on the end of your nose. What made you so 951 01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:17.000 awfully clever? I have answered three questions, and that is enough, 952 01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:20.000 said his father. Don't give yourself airs. Do you think 953 01:03:20.039 --> 01:03:22.199 I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, 954 01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:26.920 or I'll kick you down stairs. That is not said, right, 955 01:03:27.159 --> 01:03:32.880 said the caterpillar. Not quite right, I'm afraid, said Alice. Timidly. 956 01:03:33.559 --> 01:03:37.679 Some of the words have got altered. It is wrong 957 01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:41.639 from beginning to end, said the caterpillar decidedly, and there 958 01:03:41.679 --> 01:03:46.280 was silence for some minutes. The caterpillar was the first 959 01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:49.639 to speak. What size do you want to be? 960 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:51.639 It asked. 961 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:55.840 Oh, I'm not particular as to size. Alice hastily replied, 962 01:03:56.599 --> 01:04:00.639 only one doesn't like changing so often. You know, I 963 01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:06.159 don't know, said the caterpillar. Alice said nothing. She had 964 01:04:06.159 --> 01:04:09.239 never been so much contradicted in her life before, and 965 01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:13.519 she felt that she was losing her temper. Are you 966 01:04:13.639 --> 01:04:18.480 content now, said the caterpillar. Well, I should like to 967 01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:21.400 be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind, said Alice. 968 01:04:22.239 --> 01:04:25.760 Three inches is such a wretched height to be. It 969 01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:29.199 is a very good height, indeed, said the caterpillar, angrily, 970 01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:32.440 rearing itself upright as it spoke. It was exactly three 971 01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:36.360 inches high. But I'm not used to it, pleaded poor 972 01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:39.639 Alice in a piteous tone, And she thought to herself, 973 01:04:40.119 --> 01:04:44.639 I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended. You'll 974 01:04:44.679 --> 01:04:47.800 get used to it in time, said the caterpillar, and 975 01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:50.440 it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking. 976 01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:50.800 Again. 977 01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:56.000 This time, Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. 978 01:04:57.119 --> 01:04:59.559 In a minute or two, the caterpillar took the hookah 979 01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:02.079 out of it its mouth and yawned once or twice 980 01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:05.880 and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom 981 01:05:06.079 --> 01:05:09.400 and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, 982 01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:12.679 one side will make you grow taller, and the other 983 01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:16.719 side will make you grow shorter. One side of what 984 01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:21.119 the other side of what? Thought Alice to herself of 985 01:05:21.159 --> 01:05:23.920 the mushroom, said the caterpillar, just as if she had 986 01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:27.239 asked it aloud, And in another moment it was out 987 01:05:27.280 --> 01:05:32.320 of sight. Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for 988 01:05:32.360 --> 01:05:34.559 a minute, trying to make out which were the two 989 01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:37.360 sides of it, And as it was perfectly round, she 990 01:05:37.440 --> 01:05:41.400 found this a very difficult question. However, at last she 991 01:05:41.440 --> 01:05:43.679 stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, 992 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:47.519 and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand. 993 01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:51.639 And now which is which, she said to herself, and 994 01:05:51.800 --> 01:05:53.840 nibbled a little of the right hand bit to try 995 01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:57.159 the effect. The next moment she felt a violent blow 996 01:05:57.239 --> 01:06:01.360 underneath her chin. It had struck her foot. She was 997 01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:04.199 a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but 998 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:06.199 she felt that there was no time to be lost, 999 01:06:06.320 --> 01:06:09.159 as she was shrinking rapidly, so she set to work 1000 01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:11.920 at once to eat some of the other bit. Her 1001 01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:14.679 chin was pressed so closely against her foot that there 1002 01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:17.280 was hardly room to open her mouth, but she did 1003 01:06:17.320 --> 01:06:20.079 it at last and managed to swallow a morsel of 1004 01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:25.199 the left hand bit. Come my head's free at last, 1005 01:06:25.239 --> 01:06:28.239 said Alice, in a tone of delight, which changed into 1006 01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:31.440 alarm in another moment when she found that her shoulders 1007 01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:34.599 were nowhere to be found. All she could see when 1008 01:06:34.639 --> 01:06:38.079 she looked down was an immense length of neck, which 1009 01:06:38.159 --> 01:06:40.400 seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea 1010 01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:45.039 of green leaves that lay far below her. What can 1011 01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:48.280 all that green stuff be? Said Alice? And where have 1012 01:06:48.440 --> 01:06:51.679 my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how 1013 01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:54.679 is it I can't see you? She was moving them 1014 01:06:54.679 --> 01:06:57.840 about as she spoke, but no results seemed to follow, 1015 01:06:58.039 --> 01:07:02.800 except a little shaking among the distant green leaves. As 1016 01:07:02.840 --> 01:07:05.239 there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands 1017 01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:07.519 up to her head, she tried to get her head 1018 01:07:07.639 --> 01:07:10.440 down to them, and was delighted to find that her 1019 01:07:10.440 --> 01:07:13.519 neck would bend about easily in any direction like a serpent. 1020 01:07:14.679 --> 01:07:17.320 She had just succeeded in curving it down into a 1021 01:07:17.320 --> 01:07:20.960 graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, 1022 01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:23.360 which she found to be nothing but the tops of 1023 01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:26.320 the trees under which she had been wandering, when a 1024 01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:29.159 sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry. A 1025 01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:31.960 large pigeon had flown into her face and was beating 1026 01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:37.880 her violently with its wings. Serpent, screamed the pigeon. I'm 1027 01:07:37.880 --> 01:07:42.199 not a serpent, said Alice, indignantly. Let me alone, Serpent, 1028 01:07:42.280 --> 01:07:45.079 I say again, repeated the pigeon, but in a more 1029 01:07:45.079 --> 01:07:48.320 subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob. I've 1030 01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:52.920 tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them. I 1031 01:07:52.960 --> 01:07:56.280 haven't the least idea what you're talking about, said Alice. 1032 01:07:56.639 --> 01:07:59.320 I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, 1033 01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:02.400 and I've tried hedges. The pigeon went on without attending 1034 01:08:02.440 --> 01:08:07.800 to her. But those serpents, there's no pleasing them. Alice 1035 01:08:07.880 --> 01:08:10.599 was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was 1036 01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:14.159 no use in saying anything more till the pigeon had finished, 1037 01:08:15.480 --> 01:08:18.239 as if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs, said 1038 01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:20.359 the pigeon, But I must be on the lookout for 1039 01:08:20.439 --> 01:08:23.399 serpents night and day. Why I haven't had a wink 1040 01:08:23.439 --> 01:08:28.199 of sleep these three weeks. I'm very sorry you've been annoyed, 1041 01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:31.840 said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning. And 1042 01:08:32.159 --> 01:08:34.439 just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood, 1043 01:08:34.680 --> 01:08:37.880 continued the pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek. And 1044 01:08:38.119 --> 01:08:39.840 just as I was thinking I should be free of 1045 01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:42.760 them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from 1046 01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:47.520 the sky. Uugh, serpent. But I'm not a serpent, I 1047 01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:52.239 tell you, said Alice. I'm a I'm a well what 1048 01:08:52.520 --> 01:08:54.960 are you? Said the pigeon. I can see you're trying 1049 01:08:55.000 --> 01:08:59.479 to invent something. I I'm a little girl, said Alice, 1050 01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:02.520 rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she 1051 01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:07.039 had gone through that day. A likely story, indeed, said 1052 01:09:07.039 --> 01:09:10.079 the pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. I've 1053 01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:12.199 seen a good many little girls in my time, but 1054 01:09:12.279 --> 01:09:14.760 never one with such a neck as that. No, No, 1055 01:09:15.199 --> 01:09:17.640 you're a serpent, and there's no use denying it. I 1056 01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:19.399 suppose you'll be telling me next that you have never 1057 01:09:19.439 --> 01:09:24.239 tasted an egg. I have tasted eggs, certainly, said Alice, 1058 01:09:24.359 --> 01:09:27.399 who was a very truthful child. But little girls eat 1059 01:09:27.399 --> 01:09:31.399 eggs quite as much as serpents, do you know? I 1060 01:09:31.479 --> 01:09:34.199 don't believe it, said the pigeon. But if they do, 1061 01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:36.479 why then they're a kind of serpent, That's all I 1062 01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:41.039 can say. This was such a new idea to Alice 1063 01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:43.319 that she was quite silent for a minute or two, 1064 01:09:43.800 --> 01:09:47.119 which gave the pigeon the opportunity of adding, you're looking 1065 01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:49.520 for eggs. I know that well enough. And what does 1066 01:09:49.560 --> 01:09:51.640 it matter to me whether you're a little girl or 1067 01:09:51.640 --> 01:09:55.600 a serpent? It matters a good deal to me, said 1068 01:09:55.640 --> 01:09:59.079 Alice hastily. But I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens, 1069 01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:01.920 and if I won't, I shouldn't want yours. I don't 1070 01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:05.760 like them. Raw Well, be off, then, said the pigeon 1071 01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:08.600 in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into 1072 01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:12.720 its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well 1073 01:10:12.720 --> 01:10:15.479 as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among 1074 01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:17.800 the branches, and every now and then she had to 1075 01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:21.880 stop and untwist it. After a while, she remembered that 1076 01:10:21.960 --> 01:10:24.439 she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, 1077 01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:28.079 and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at 1078 01:10:28.079 --> 01:10:31.119 one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller 1079 01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:34.720 and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself 1080 01:10:34.760 --> 01:10:39.279 down to her usual height. It was so long since 1081 01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:41.920 she had been anything near the right size that it 1082 01:10:41.960 --> 01:10:44.720 felt quite strange at first, but she got used to 1083 01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:47.239 it in a few minutes and began talking to herself 1084 01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:51.760 as usual. Come, there's half my plan done now. How 1085 01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:54.720 puzzling all these changes are. I'm never sure what I'm 1086 01:10:54.760 --> 01:10:57.840 going to be from one minute to another. However, I've 1087 01:10:57.880 --> 01:11:00.520 got back to my right size. The next thing is 1088 01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:03.239 to get into that beautiful garden. How is that to 1089 01:11:03.279 --> 01:11:03.680 be done? 1090 01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:04.199 I wonder? 1091 01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:08.319 As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open 1092 01:11:08.359 --> 01:11:12.560 place with a little house in it about four feet high. 1093 01:11:12.760 --> 01:11:15.760 Whoever lives there, thought Alice, it'll never do to come 1094 01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:18.720 upon them this size. Why I should frighten them out 1095 01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:22.000 of their wits. So she began nibbling at the right 1096 01:11:22.000 --> 01:11:24.560 hand bit again, and did not venture to go near 1097 01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:27.319 the house till she had brought herself down to nine 1098 01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:31.960 inches high. End of Chapter five. 1099 01:11:32.439 --> 01:11:36.840 Chapter six, Pagan Pepper for a minute or two she 1100 01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:39.279 stood looking at the house and wondering what to do next, 1101 01:11:39.319 --> 01:11:41.560 when suddenly a footman and livery came running out of 1102 01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:43.960 the wood. She considered him a footman because he was 1103 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:46.680 in livery, Otherwise, judging by his face only, she would 1104 01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:48.880 have called him a fish, and rapped loudly at the 1105 01:11:48.880 --> 01:11:51.680 door with his knuckles. It was opened by another footman 1106 01:11:51.720 --> 01:11:54.000 in livery, with a round face and large eyes like 1107 01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:57.319 a frog, and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair 1108 01:11:57.439 --> 01:12:00.439 and curls all over their head. She felt very curious 1109 01:12:00.439 --> 01:12:01.960 to know what it was all about, and crept a 1110 01:12:02.000 --> 01:12:04.560 little way out of the wood to listen. The fish 1111 01:12:04.560 --> 01:12:07.359 footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter, 1112 01:12:07.560 --> 01:12:10.319 nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over 1113 01:12:10.359 --> 01:12:12.319 to the other, saying, in a solemn tone, for the 1114 01:12:12.399 --> 01:12:15.800 Duchess an invitation from the Queen to play croquet. The 1115 01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:18.840 frog footman repeated in the same solemn tone, only changing 1116 01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:21.039 the order of the words a little from the Queen, 1117 01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:24.520 an invitation for the duchess to play croquet. Then they 1118 01:12:24.520 --> 01:12:28.199 both bowed, and their curls got entangled together. Alice laughed 1119 01:12:28.199 --> 01:12:30.000 so much at this that she had to run back 1120 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:32.600 into the wood for fear of their hearing her. And 1121 01:12:32.640 --> 01:12:35.039 when she next peeped out, the fish footman was gone, 1122 01:12:35.079 --> 01:12:37.159 and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, 1123 01:12:37.239 --> 01:12:41.039 staring stupidly up into the sky. Alice went timidly up 1124 01:12:41.079 --> 01:12:43.720 to the door and knocked. There's no sort of use 1125 01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:46.760 in knocking, said the footman, and that for two reasons, 1126 01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:49.119 First because I'm on the same side of the door 1127 01:12:49.159 --> 01:12:52.199 as you. Secondly, because they're making such a noise inside 1128 01:12:52.239 --> 01:12:55.000 that no one could possibly hear you. And certainly there 1129 01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:58.119 was a most extraordinary noise going on within, a constant 1130 01:12:58.159 --> 01:13:00.760 howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, 1131 01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:02.960 as if a dish or a kettle had been broken 1132 01:13:03.000 --> 01:13:05.960 to pieces. Please, then, said Alice, how am I to 1133 01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:08.720 get in? There might be some sense in your knocking. 1134 01:13:09.039 --> 01:13:11.800 The footman went on without attending to her. If we 1135 01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:14.600 had a door between us, for instance, if you were inside, 1136 01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:16.600 you might knock and I could let you out. You know, 1137 01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:19.119 he was looking up into the sky all the time 1138 01:13:19.159 --> 01:13:22.079 he was speaking. And this, Alice thought, decidedly and civil. 1139 01:13:22.439 --> 01:13:24.680 But perhaps he can't help it, she said to herself. 1140 01:13:24.920 --> 01:13:27.119 His eyes are so very nearly at the top of 1141 01:13:27.159 --> 01:13:30.000 his head. But at any rate he might answer questions. 1142 01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:33.920 How am I to get in? She repeated aloud. I 1143 01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:38.399 shall sit here, the footman remarked, till tomorrow. At this moment, 1144 01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:40.319 the door of the house opened, and a large plate 1145 01:13:40.399 --> 01:13:43.720 came skimming out straight for the footman's head. It just 1146 01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:46.000 grazed his nose and broke to pieces against one of 1147 01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:49.920 the trees behind him. Or next day maybe, The footman 1148 01:13:49.960 --> 01:13:52.880 continued in the same tone, exactly as if nothing had happened. 1149 01:13:53.760 --> 01:13:56.079 How am I to get in? Asked Alice in a 1150 01:13:56.119 --> 01:13:59.319 louder tone. Are you to get in at all? Said 1151 01:13:59.319 --> 01:14:02.760 the footman, that's the first question, you know, It was 1152 01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:05.079 no doubt. Only Alice did not like to be told. 1153 01:14:05.119 --> 01:14:08.439 So it's really dreadful, she muttered to herself, the way 1154 01:14:08.479 --> 01:14:11.319 all these creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy. 1155 01:14:12.119 --> 01:14:14.600 The footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for 1156 01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:18.800 repeating his remark with variations. I shall sit here, he said, 1157 01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:21.720 on and off for days and days. But what am 1158 01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:24.960 I to do, said Alice. Anything you like, said the footman, 1159 01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:28.119 and began whistling. Oh, there's no use in talking to him, 1160 01:14:28.159 --> 01:14:31.880 said Alice desperately. He's perfectly idiotic, and then opened the 1161 01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:34.720 door and went in. The door led right into a 1162 01:14:34.800 --> 01:14:37.239 large kitchen which was full of smoke from one end 1163 01:14:37.239 --> 01:14:39.439 to the other. The Duchess was sitting on a three 1164 01:14:39.479 --> 01:14:42.159 legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby. The cook 1165 01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:44.760 was leaning over the fire, stirring a large caldron, which 1166 01:14:44.800 --> 01:14:47.600 seemed to be full of soup. There's certainly too much 1167 01:14:47.640 --> 01:14:49.960 pepper in that soup, Alice said to herself, as well 1168 01:14:49.960 --> 01:14:53.239 as she could for sneezing, There certainly was too much 1169 01:14:53.239 --> 01:14:56.119 of it in the air. Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally, 1170 01:14:56.159 --> 01:14:58.720 and as for the baby, was sneezing and howling alternately 1171 01:14:58.800 --> 01:15:01.520 without a moment's pause. The only two creatures in the 1172 01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:03.479 kitchen that did not sneeze were the cook and the 1173 01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:05.760 large cat, which was laying on the hearth and grinning 1174 01:15:05.760 --> 01:15:09.439 from ear to ear. Please, would you tell me, said 1175 01:15:09.479 --> 01:15:11.920 Alice a little timidly, for she was not quite sure 1176 01:15:11.920 --> 01:15:14.039 whether it was good manners for her to speak. First, 1177 01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:18.279 Why you are cat grins like that? It's a Cheshire cat, 1178 01:15:18.399 --> 01:15:21.720 said the Duchess, And that's why pig, she said, the 1179 01:15:21.800 --> 01:15:25.039 last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite jumped, 1180 01:15:25.079 --> 01:15:27.720 But she saw in another moment that it was addressed 1181 01:15:27.720 --> 01:15:30.039 to the baby and not to her, so she took 1182 01:15:30.119 --> 01:15:33.239 courage and went on again. I didn't know that Cheshire 1183 01:15:33.239 --> 01:15:36.119 cats always grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats 1184 01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:39.119 could grin. They all can, said the Duchess, and most 1185 01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:42.279 of them do. I don't know any that do, said Alice, 1186 01:15:42.359 --> 01:15:45.319 very politely, feeling quite pleased to have gotten into a conversation. 1187 01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:48.760 You don't know much, said the Duchess, and that's a fact. 1188 01:15:49.680 --> 01:15:51.960 Alice did not like it all the tone of this remark, 1189 01:15:52.039 --> 01:15:53.840 and thought it would be as well to introduce some 1190 01:15:53.920 --> 01:15:57.039 other subject of conversation. While she was trying to fix 1191 01:15:57.079 --> 01:15:59.279 on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off 1192 01:15:59.279 --> 01:16:02.039 the fire and at once set to work throwing everything 1193 01:16:02.079 --> 01:16:05.319 within her reach at the Duchess and the baby. The 1194 01:16:05.359 --> 01:16:09.239 fire irons came first, then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, 1195 01:16:09.319 --> 01:16:11.880 and dishes. The Duchess took no notice of them even 1196 01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:14.039 when they hit her, and the baby was howling so 1197 01:16:14.159 --> 01:16:16.479 much already that it was quite impossible to say whether 1198 01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:19.960 the blows hurt it or not. Oh, please mind what 1199 01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:23.199 you're doing, cried Alex, jumping up and down an agony 1200 01:16:23.239 --> 01:16:26.359 of terror. Oh there goes as precious nose as an 1201 01:16:26.439 --> 01:16:30.039 unusually large saucepan flew by, and very nearly carried it off. 1202 01:16:30.399 --> 01:16:33.319 If everybody minded their own business, said the Duchess in 1203 01:16:33.399 --> 01:16:35.560 a horse growl, the world would go around a deal 1204 01:16:35.640 --> 01:16:38.640 faster than it does, which would not be an advantage, 1205 01:16:38.680 --> 01:16:41.159 said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity 1206 01:16:41.399 --> 01:16:43.840 of showing off a little of her knowledge. Just think 1207 01:16:43.840 --> 01:16:45.359 of what work it would make of her the day 1208 01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:48.319 and night. You see, the earth takes twenty four hours 1209 01:16:48.319 --> 01:16:51.760 to turn around on its axis. Talking of axes, said 1210 01:16:51.760 --> 01:16:55.319 the Duchess, chop off her head. Alice glanced rather anxiously 1211 01:16:55.359 --> 01:16:56.920 at the cook to see if she meant to take 1212 01:16:56.920 --> 01:16:59.039 the hint, but the cook was busily stirring the soup 1213 01:16:59.159 --> 01:17:02.359 and seemed not to be. She went on again, twenty 1214 01:17:02.439 --> 01:17:05.640 four hours, I think, or is it twelve? I? Oh, 1215 01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:08.840 don't bother me, said the Duchess. I never could abide figures, 1216 01:17:09.239 --> 01:17:11.520 And with this she began nursing the child again, singing 1217 01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:13.439 a sort of lallabye to it as she did so, 1218 01:17:13.840 --> 01:17:16.199 and giving a violent shake at the end of every line, 1219 01:17:16.840 --> 01:17:20.039 speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when 1220 01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:24.199 he sneezes. He only does it to annoy because he 1221 01:17:24.279 --> 01:17:27.680 knows it teases. And then the chorus, in which the 1222 01:17:27.680 --> 01:17:31.840 cook and the baby joined Wow Wow Wow. While the 1223 01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:34.039 duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept 1224 01:17:34.039 --> 01:17:36.199 tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor 1225 01:17:36.199 --> 01:17:39.279 little thing howled so that Alice could hardly hear the words, 1226 01:17:39.720 --> 01:17:42.880 I speak severely to my boy and beat him when 1227 01:17:42.920 --> 01:17:47.199 he sneezes, for he can thoroughly enjoy the pepper when 1228 01:17:47.239 --> 01:17:51.960 he pleases. Wow wow Wow. Here you might nurse out 1229 01:17:51.960 --> 01:17:54.079 a bit if you like. The duchess said to Alice, 1230 01:17:54.079 --> 01:17:56.640 flinging the baby at her as she spoke, I must 1231 01:17:56.720 --> 01:17:58.880 go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen. 1232 01:17:59.159 --> 01:18:01.039 And she hurried out the room, and the cook threw 1233 01:18:01.079 --> 01:18:03.680 a frying pan after her. She went, but just missed her. 1234 01:18:04.399 --> 01:18:06.600 Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was 1235 01:18:06.640 --> 01:18:09.359 a queer shaped little creature, and held out its arms 1236 01:18:09.359 --> 01:18:13.000 and legs in all directions, just like a starfish, thought Alice. 1237 01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:15.640 The poor little thing was snorting like a steam engine 1238 01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:18.079 when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and 1239 01:18:18.119 --> 01:18:20.880 straightening itself out again, so that altogether for the first 1240 01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:22.880 minute or two, it was as much as she could 1241 01:18:22.920 --> 01:18:25.199 do to hold it. As soon as she had made 1242 01:18:25.199 --> 01:18:27.319 out the proper way of nursing it, which was to 1243 01:18:27.359 --> 01:18:29.000 twist it up in a sort of knot, and then 1244 01:18:29.079 --> 01:18:31.720 keep tight hold of its rear end and left foot 1245 01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:34.880 so as to prevent its undoing itself, she carried it 1246 01:18:34.920 --> 01:18:37.880 into the open air. If I don't take this child 1247 01:18:37.880 --> 01:18:40.039 away from me, thought Alice, they're sure to kill it 1248 01:18:40.039 --> 01:18:42.159 in a day or two. Wouldn't it be murder to 1249 01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:44.760 leave it behind? She said the last words out loud, 1250 01:18:44.800 --> 01:18:47.239 and the little thing grunted in reply. It had left 1251 01:18:47.239 --> 01:18:50.760 austineezing by this time. Don't grunt, said Alice. That's not 1252 01:18:50.960 --> 01:18:53.560 at all a proper way of expressing yourself. The baby 1253 01:18:53.560 --> 01:18:56.359 grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face 1254 01:18:56.399 --> 01:18:58.680 to see what was the matter with it. There could 1255 01:18:58.720 --> 01:19:01.039 be no doubt that it had a turn up nose, 1256 01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:04.039 which was more like a snout than a real nose. Also, 1257 01:19:04.079 --> 01:19:07.239 its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby altogether, 1258 01:19:07.279 --> 01:19:09.199 Alice did not like the look of the thing at all. 1259 01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:12.960 But perhaps it's only sobbing, she thought, and looked into 1260 01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:16.159 its eyes again to see if there were any tears. No, 1261 01:19:16.359 --> 01:19:19.079 there were no tears. If you're going to turn into 1262 01:19:19.079 --> 01:19:21.680 a pig, my dear, said Alice, seriously, I've got nothing 1263 01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:23.960 more to do with you. Mind now. The poor little 1264 01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:26.960 thing sobbed again or grunted, it was impossible to say which, 1265 01:19:27.199 --> 01:19:30.439 and then went on for some while in silence. Alice 1266 01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:32.479 was just beginning to think to herself, now, what am 1267 01:19:32.479 --> 01:19:34.479 I supposed to do with this creature when I get home? 1268 01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:37.399 When it grunted again, so violently that she looked down 1269 01:19:37.439 --> 01:19:40.880 into its face with some alarm. This time there could 1270 01:19:40.920 --> 01:19:43.119 be no mistake about it. It was neither more or 1271 01:19:43.239 --> 01:19:46.000 less than a pig, and she felt that it would 1272 01:19:46.039 --> 01:19:48.079 be quite absurd for her to carry it any further. 1273 01:19:48.239 --> 01:19:50.560 So she let the little creature down, and felt quite 1274 01:19:50.600 --> 01:19:53.199 relieved to see it trot away quietly into the woods. 1275 01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:55.760 If it had grown up, she said to herself, it 1276 01:19:55.760 --> 01:19:58.479 would have made a dreadfully ugly child, But it makes 1277 01:19:58.479 --> 01:20:01.800 a rather handsome pig. And she began thinking of her 1278 01:20:01.840 --> 01:20:04.399 other children. She knew who might do very well as pigs, 1279 01:20:04.840 --> 01:20:07.520 and was just saying to herself, if one only knew 1280 01:20:07.520 --> 01:20:09.479 the right way to change them, when she was a 1281 01:20:09.479 --> 01:20:12.039 little startled by seeing the cheshire cat sitting on the 1282 01:20:12.079 --> 01:20:14.640 bow of a tree just a few yards off. The 1283 01:20:14.720 --> 01:20:17.399 cat only grinned when it saw Alice, and it looked 1284 01:20:17.439 --> 01:20:20.239 good natured, she thought. Still, it had very long claws 1285 01:20:20.239 --> 01:20:22.600 and a great many teeth, so she felt that it 1286 01:20:22.640 --> 01:20:26.199 ought to be treated with respect. Cheshire Puss, she began 1287 01:20:26.359 --> 01:20:29.199 rather timidly, and she did not at all know whether 1288 01:20:29.239 --> 01:20:31.439 it would like the name. However, it only grinned a 1289 01:20:31.479 --> 01:20:34.560 little wider. Come it's pleased so far, thought Alice, and 1290 01:20:34.600 --> 01:20:37.760 she went on, would you tell me please which way 1291 01:20:37.800 --> 01:20:41.680 I ought to go from here? That depends a good 1292 01:20:41.760 --> 01:20:44.479 deal on where you want to go, said the cat. 1293 01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:48.119 I don't much care where, said Alice. Then it doesn't 1294 01:20:48.239 --> 01:20:51.800 matter which way you go, said the cat, so as 1295 01:20:51.800 --> 01:20:55.720 long as I go somewhere, Alice added with explanation, Oh, 1296 01:20:55.840 --> 01:20:59.279 you're sure to do that, said the cat, if only 1297 01:20:59.399 --> 01:21:02.439 you walk long enough. Alice felt that this could not 1298 01:21:02.560 --> 01:21:05.439 be denied, so she tried another question. What sort of 1299 01:21:05.439 --> 01:21:09.920 people live about here? In that direction? The cat said, 1300 01:21:10.039 --> 01:21:13.800 waving its right par round lives a hatter, and in 1301 01:21:13.960 --> 01:21:17.720 that direction, waving the other paw leaves a march here. 1302 01:21:18.239 --> 01:21:21.159 Visit either you like? They're both mad. But I don't 1303 01:21:21.199 --> 01:21:24.640 want to go among mad people. Alice remarked. Oh you 1304 01:21:24.760 --> 01:21:27.800 can't help that, said the cat. We're all mad here. 1305 01:21:28.119 --> 01:21:31.039 I'm mad, you're mad. How do you know I'm mad? 1306 01:21:31.159 --> 01:21:34.199 Said Alice. You must be, said the cat, or you 1307 01:21:34.279 --> 01:21:37.640 wouldn't have come here. Alice didn't think that proves it 1308 01:21:37.680 --> 01:21:40.319 at all. However, she went on, and how do you 1309 01:21:40.399 --> 01:21:43.520 know that you're mad? To begin with? Said the cat. 1310 01:21:43.800 --> 01:21:47.239 A dog's not mad. You grant that. I suppose so, 1311 01:21:47.439 --> 01:21:51.279 said Alice. Well, then the cat went on. You see 1312 01:21:51.359 --> 01:21:54.560 a dog growls when it's angry and wags its tail 1313 01:21:54.680 --> 01:21:58.840 when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and 1314 01:21:58.880 --> 01:22:03.039 wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad. I 1315 01:22:03.159 --> 01:22:06.319 call it purring, not growling, said Alice. Call it what 1316 01:22:06.520 --> 01:22:09.560 you like, said the cat. Do you play croquet with 1317 01:22:09.560 --> 01:22:13.039 the Queen today? I should like it very much, said Alice. 1318 01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:16.159 But I haven't been invited yet. You'll see me there, 1319 01:22:16.640 --> 01:22:20.119 said the cat, and vanished. Alice was not much surprised 1320 01:22:20.119 --> 01:22:21.960 at this, she was getting so well used to the 1321 01:22:22.039 --> 01:22:25.199 queer things happening. While she was still looking at the 1322 01:22:25.199 --> 01:22:28.319 place where it had been, it suddenly appeared again by 1323 01:22:28.439 --> 01:22:31.920 the bye. What became of the baby? Said the cat. 1324 01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:35.640 I'd nearly forgotten to ask. It turned into a pig, 1325 01:22:36.159 --> 01:22:39.239 Alice answered, very quietly, Just as if the cat had 1326 01:22:39.239 --> 01:22:42.439 come back in a natural way. I thought it would, 1327 01:22:42.720 --> 01:22:45.720 said the cat, and vanished again. Alice waited a little, 1328 01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:48.359 half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear. 1329 01:22:48.960 --> 01:22:50.920 After a minute or two, she walked on in the 1330 01:22:50.960 --> 01:22:53.199 direction in which the March Hare was said to live. 1331 01:22:53.640 --> 01:22:56.560 I've seen Hatteras before, she said to herself. The march 1332 01:22:56.600 --> 01:23:00.479 Hare will be much more interesting. And perhaps, as this may, 1333 01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:03.520 it won't be raving mad, at least not so mad 1334 01:23:03.560 --> 01:23:06.039 as it was in March. And she said this, she 1335 01:23:06.119 --> 01:23:08.239 looked up, and there was the cat again, sitting on 1336 01:23:08.279 --> 01:23:12.800 the branch of a tree. Did you say, pig or fig? 1337 01:23:13.199 --> 01:23:16.479 Said the cat? I said, pig, replied Alice. And I 1338 01:23:16.520 --> 01:23:19.600 wish that you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly. 1339 01:23:20.039 --> 01:23:23.920 You make one quite giddy. All right, said the cat, 1340 01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:26.439 And this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the 1341 01:23:26.560 --> 01:23:28.640 end of the tail and ending with the grin, which 1342 01:23:28.680 --> 01:23:31.880 remained some time after the rest of it had gone well. 1343 01:23:32.199 --> 01:23:35.119 I've often seen a cat without a grin, thought Alice, 1344 01:23:35.399 --> 01:23:38.039 But a grin without a cat, It's the most curious 1345 01:23:38.079 --> 01:23:41.000 thing I ever saw in all my life. She had 1346 01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:43.439 not gone much further before she came inside of the 1347 01:23:43.479 --> 01:23:46.199 house of the march Hare. She thought it must be 1348 01:23:46.199 --> 01:23:48.680 the right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears, 1349 01:23:48.720 --> 01:23:51.640 and the roof was thatched with fur. It was such 1350 01:23:51.640 --> 01:23:53.680 a large house that she did not like to go 1351 01:23:53.800 --> 01:23:55.920 nearer till she had nibbled some more off the left 1352 01:23:55.920 --> 01:23:58.640 hand bit of a mushroom, and she raised herself about 1353 01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:01.760 two feet high. Even then she walked up towards it 1354 01:24:01.840 --> 01:24:05.600 rather timidly, saying to herself, suppose it should be raving mad. 1355 01:24:05.720 --> 01:24:09.079 After all, I almost wish I'd gone to the hatter instead. 1356 01:24:10.359 --> 01:24:11.399 End of chapter. 1357 01:24:11.079 --> 01:24:18.399 Six, Chapter seven, A mad tea party. There was a 1358 01:24:18.439 --> 01:24:21.159 table set out under a tree in front of the house, 1359 01:24:21.800 --> 01:24:24.760 and the march Hare and the Hatter were having tea 1360 01:24:24.840 --> 01:24:28.800 at it. A dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, 1361 01:24:29.359 --> 01:24:31.600 and the other two were using it as a cushion, 1362 01:24:31.840 --> 01:24:34.800 resting their elbows on it and talking over its head. 1363 01:24:36.079 --> 01:24:41.159 Very uncomfortable for the dormouse, thought Alice. Only as it's asleep, 1364 01:24:41.359 --> 01:24:46.079 I suppose it doesn't mind. The table was a large one, 1365 01:24:46.319 --> 01:24:49.279 but the three were all crowded together at one corner 1366 01:24:49.319 --> 01:24:53.159 of it. No room, no room, they cried out when 1367 01:24:53.199 --> 01:24:58.159 they saw Alice coming. There's plenty of room, said Alice indignantly, 1368 01:24:58.720 --> 01:25:01.479 and she sat down in a large arm chair at 1369 01:25:01.560 --> 01:25:05.600 one end of the table. Have some wine, the march 1370 01:25:05.640 --> 01:25:10.399 Hare said, in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round 1371 01:25:10.399 --> 01:25:12.600 the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 1372 01:25:13.760 --> 01:25:17.920 I don't see any wine, she remarked. There isn't any, 1373 01:25:18.039 --> 01:25:21.960 said the march Hare. Then it wasn't very civil of 1374 01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:26.039 you to offer it, said Alice angrily. It wasn't very 1375 01:25:26.039 --> 01:25:29.239 civil of you to sit down without being invited, said 1376 01:25:29.279 --> 01:25:32.720 the march Hare. I didn't know it was your table, 1377 01:25:32.840 --> 01:25:37.279 said Alice. It's laid for a great many more than three. 1378 01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:42.119 Your hair wants cutting, said the hatter. He had been 1379 01:25:42.119 --> 01:25:45.239 looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and 1380 01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:49.680 this was his first speech. You should learn not to 1381 01:25:49.720 --> 01:25:55.439 make personal remarks. Alice said, with some severity, it's very rude. 1382 01:25:57.760 --> 01:26:00.560 The hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this, 1383 01:26:00.880 --> 01:26:04.880 but all he said was why is a raven like 1384 01:26:05.119 --> 01:26:06.279 a writing desk? 1385 01:26:07.439 --> 01:26:07.720 Come? 1386 01:26:07.840 --> 01:26:10.760 We shall have some fun now, thought Alice. I'm glad 1387 01:26:10.800 --> 01:26:14.479 they've begun asking riddles. I believe I can guess that. 1388 01:26:15.159 --> 01:26:18.880 She added aloud. Do you mean that you think you 1389 01:26:18.920 --> 01:26:21.680 can find out the answer to it? Said the march hare. 1390 01:26:23.159 --> 01:26:28.239 Exactly so, said Alice. Then you should say what you mean. 1391 01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:34.279 The march Hare went on, I do, Alice hastily replied, 1392 01:26:34.640 --> 01:26:38.520 at least at least I mean what I say. That's 1393 01:26:38.560 --> 01:26:42.479 the same thing, you know, not the same thing a bit, 1394 01:26:42.840 --> 01:26:46.000 said the hatter. You might just as well say that 1395 01:26:46.600 --> 01:26:49.640 I see what I eat is the same thing as 1396 01:26:50.159 --> 01:26:54.760 I eat what I see. You might just as well say, 1397 01:26:55.520 --> 01:26:59.239 added the march Hare. That I like what I get 1398 01:26:59.479 --> 01:27:02.279 is the same thing as I get what I like. 1399 01:27:04.039 --> 01:27:07.680 You might just as well say, added the dormouse, who 1400 01:27:07.760 --> 01:27:11.840 seemed to be talking in his sleep, that I breathe 1401 01:27:11.920 --> 01:27:15.199 when I sleep is the same thing as I sleep. 1402 01:27:15.279 --> 01:27:19.600 When I breathe, it is the same thing with you, 1403 01:27:20.199 --> 01:27:24.399 said the hatter. And here the conversation dropped, and the 1404 01:27:24.439 --> 01:27:27.600 party sat silent for a minute while Alice thought over 1405 01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:31.439 all she could remember about ravens and writing desks, which 1406 01:27:31.560 --> 01:27:35.800 wasn't much. The hatter was the first to break the silence. 1407 01:27:37.039 --> 01:27:40.079 What day of the month is it? He said, turning 1408 01:27:40.079 --> 01:27:43.000 to Alice. He had taken his watch out of his 1409 01:27:43.119 --> 01:27:46.680 pocket and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every 1410 01:27:46.720 --> 01:27:51.239 now and then and holding it to his ear. Alice 1411 01:27:51.279 --> 01:27:57.880 considered a little and then said the fourth two days wrong, 1412 01:27:58.319 --> 01:28:02.319 sighed the hatter. I told you butter wouldn't suit the works, 1413 01:28:02.640 --> 01:28:07.159 he added, looking angrily at the march Hare. It was 1414 01:28:07.239 --> 01:28:12.279 the best butter. The march Hare meekly replied, yes, but 1415 01:28:12.399 --> 01:28:15.880 some crumbs must have got in as well. The hatter grumbled, 1416 01:28:16.399 --> 01:28:19.560 you shouldn't have put it in with the bread knife. 1417 01:28:20.640 --> 01:28:24.000 The march Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily. 1418 01:28:24.399 --> 01:28:26.680 Then he dipped it into his cup of tea and 1419 01:28:26.840 --> 01:28:29.479 looked at it again. But he could think of nothing 1420 01:28:29.520 --> 01:28:33.039 better to say than his first remark, it was the 1421 01:28:33.079 --> 01:28:37.600 best butter, you know. Alice had been looking over his 1422 01:28:37.680 --> 01:28:42.560 shoulder with some curiosity. What a funny watch, she remarked. 1423 01:28:43.119 --> 01:28:45.600 It tells the day of the month, and doesn't tell 1424 01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:50.359 what o'clock it is, Why should it, muttered the hatter. 1425 01:28:50.960 --> 01:28:54.640 Does your watch tell you what year it is? Of 1426 01:28:54.720 --> 01:28:59.479 course not, Alice replied very readily. But that's because it 1427 01:28:59.520 --> 01:29:02.119 stays the same year for such a long time together, 1428 01:29:03.680 --> 01:29:07.000 which is just the case with mine, said the hatter. 1429 01:29:08.479 --> 01:29:12.720 Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The hatter's remark seemed to have 1430 01:29:12.840 --> 01:29:15.439 no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was 1431 01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:21.079 certainly English. I don't quite understand you, she said, as 1432 01:29:21.119 --> 01:29:26.840 politely as she could. The dormouse is asleep again, said 1433 01:29:26.880 --> 01:29:29.920 the hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon 1434 01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:34.720 its nose. The dormouse shook its head impatiently and said, 1435 01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:39.000 without opening its eyes. Of course, of course, just what 1436 01:29:39.119 --> 01:29:43.479 I was going to remark myself. Have you guessed the 1437 01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:48.760 riddle yet, the hatter said, turning to Alice again, No, 1438 01:29:49.239 --> 01:29:54.079 I give it up. Alice replied, what's the answer? I 1439 01:29:54.159 --> 01:29:59.119 haven't the slightest idea, said the hatter, Nor I said 1440 01:29:59.119 --> 01:30:05.000 the march hare. Alice sighed wearily. I think you might 1441 01:30:05.119 --> 01:30:08.840 do something better with the time, she said, van waste 1442 01:30:08.920 --> 01:30:13.479 it in asking riddles that have no answers. If you 1443 01:30:13.600 --> 01:30:16.479 knew time as well as I do, said the hatter. 1444 01:30:16.920 --> 01:30:22.640 You wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him. I don't 1445 01:30:22.640 --> 01:30:26.560 know what you mean, said Alice. Of course you don't, 1446 01:30:27.199 --> 01:30:31.560 the hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. I dare say 1447 01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:38.399 you never even spoke to time. Perhaps not, Alice cautiously replied, 1448 01:30:39.119 --> 01:30:41.439 But I know I have to beat time when I 1449 01:30:41.520 --> 01:30:46.479 learn music. Ah, that accounts for it, said the hatter. 1450 01:30:46.960 --> 01:30:50.520 He won't stand beating now. If you only kept on 1451 01:30:50.600 --> 01:30:53.880 good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked 1452 01:30:53.920 --> 01:30:58.039 with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock 1453 01:30:58.079 --> 01:31:01.720 in the morning, just time to begin lessons. You'd only 1454 01:31:01.760 --> 01:31:04.960 have to whisper a hint to time, and round goes 1455 01:31:05.000 --> 01:31:08.720 the clock in a twinkling half past one. Time for dinner. 1456 01:31:10.560 --> 01:31:13.560 I only wish it was the march, hare said to 1457 01:31:13.640 --> 01:31:18.800 itself in a whisper. That would be grand, certainly, said 1458 01:31:18.840 --> 01:31:23.359 Alice thoughtfully. But then I shouldn't be hungry for it, 1459 01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:28.640 you know, not at first, perhaps, said the hatter. But 1460 01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:31.159 you could keep it to half past one as long 1461 01:31:31.199 --> 01:31:36.920 as you liked. Is that the way you manage? Alice asked? 1462 01:31:37.920 --> 01:31:42.479 The hatter shook his head mournfully. Not I, he replied. 1463 01:31:43.039 --> 01:31:46.840 We quarreled last March, just before he went mad, you know, 1464 01:31:47.760 --> 01:31:51.359 pointing with his teaspoon. At the March Hare it was 1465 01:31:51.399 --> 01:31:53.920 at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, 1466 01:31:54.279 --> 01:31:58.840 and I had to sing Twinkle Twinkle, little bat. How 1467 01:31:58.960 --> 01:32:03.279 I wonder what you're at. You know the song? Perhaps 1468 01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:08.239 I've heard something like it, said Alice. It goes on, 1469 01:32:08.479 --> 01:32:14.319 you know, the hatter continued, in this way, up above 1470 01:32:14.439 --> 01:32:18.159 the world, you fly like a tea tray in the sky. 1471 01:32:18.560 --> 01:32:24.439 Twinkle twinkle. Here the dormouse shook itself and began singing 1472 01:32:24.439 --> 01:32:29.800 in its sleep, Twinkle twinkle, twinkle twinkle, and went on 1473 01:32:30.079 --> 01:32:32.439 so long that they had to pinch it to make 1474 01:32:32.479 --> 01:32:38.079 it stop. Well, i'd hardly finished the first verse, said 1475 01:32:38.079 --> 01:32:41.680 the hatter, when the Queen jumped up and bawled out. 1476 01:32:42.359 --> 01:32:48.800 He's murdering the time off with his head, how dreadfully savage, 1477 01:32:49.319 --> 01:32:54.399 exclaimed Alice. And ever since that, the hatter went on 1478 01:32:54.640 --> 01:32:58.119 in a mournful tone. He won't do a thing I ask. 1479 01:32:58.720 --> 01:33:04.279 It's always six o'clock. A bright idea came into Alice's head. 1480 01:33:05.319 --> 01:33:07.960 Is that the reason so many tea things are put 1481 01:33:08.000 --> 01:33:13.279 out here, she asked. Yes, that's it, said the hatter 1482 01:33:13.359 --> 01:33:17.079 with a sigh. It's always tea time, and we've no 1483 01:33:17.239 --> 01:33:21.800 time to wash the things between whiles, then you keep 1484 01:33:21.840 --> 01:33:28.199 moving round, I suppose, said Alice. Exactly so, said the hatter, 1485 01:33:28.880 --> 01:33:33.159 as the things get used up. But what happens when 1486 01:33:33.159 --> 01:33:36.520 you come to the beginning again? Alice ventured to ask, 1487 01:33:38.119 --> 01:33:42.199 suppose we change the subject. The march hare interrupted, yawning, 1488 01:33:42.800 --> 01:33:45.720 I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady 1489 01:33:45.760 --> 01:33:49.600 tells us a story. I'm afraid I don't know one, 1490 01:33:49.840 --> 01:33:55.880 said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal. Then the dormouse shall, 1491 01:33:56.399 --> 01:34:00.119 They both cried, Wake up, dormouse, and they pinched it 1492 01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:05.479 on both sides at once. The dormouse slowly opened his eyes. 1493 01:34:06.920 --> 01:34:10.800 I wasn't asleep, he said, in a hoarse, feeble voice. 1494 01:34:11.880 --> 01:34:16.239 I heard every word you fellows were saying. Tell us 1495 01:34:16.279 --> 01:34:22.520 a story, said the march hare. Yes, please do, pleaded Alice. 1496 01:34:22.720 --> 01:34:25.640 And be quick about it, added the hatter, or you'll 1497 01:34:25.640 --> 01:34:29.800 be asleep again before it's done. Once upon a time 1498 01:34:29.880 --> 01:34:33.800 there were three little sisters. The dormouse began in a 1499 01:34:33.800 --> 01:34:39.000 great hurry, and their names were Elsie, Lacy, and Tilly, 1500 01:34:39.720 --> 01:34:43.600 and they lived at the bottom of a well. What 1501 01:34:43.720 --> 01:34:46.840 did they live on, said Alice, who always took a 1502 01:34:46.880 --> 01:34:52.439 great interest in questions of eating and drinking. They lived 1503 01:34:52.479 --> 01:34:57.560 on treacle, said the dormouse, after thinking a minute or two. 1504 01:34:58.479 --> 01:35:02.359 They couldn't have done that, you know, Alice gently remarked. 1505 01:35:02.760 --> 01:35:07.399 They'd have been ill. So they were, said the dormouse, 1506 01:35:08.159 --> 01:35:13.520 very ill. Alice tried to fancy to herself what such 1507 01:35:13.560 --> 01:35:16.640 an extraordinary way of living would be like, but it 1508 01:35:16.720 --> 01:35:21.279 puzzled her too much, so she went on, but why 1509 01:35:21.279 --> 01:35:24.800 did they live at the bottom of a well? Take 1510 01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:28.479 some more tea? The march hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 1511 01:35:29.720 --> 01:35:34.000 I've had nothing yet, Alice replied in an offended tone, 1512 01:35:34.720 --> 01:35:38.720 So I can't take more? You mean you can't take less, 1513 01:35:39.079 --> 01:35:42.760 said the hatter. It's very easy to take more than nothing. 1514 01:35:44.800 --> 01:35:50.720 Nobody asked your opinion, said Alice, who's making personal remarks now, 1515 01:35:51.439 --> 01:35:56.680 the hatter asked, triumphantly. Alice did not quite know what 1516 01:35:56.800 --> 01:35:59.520 to say to this, so she helped herself to some 1517 01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:02.640 tea and bread and butter, and then turned to the 1518 01:36:02.680 --> 01:36:06.920 dormouse and repeated her question, why did they live at 1519 01:36:06.920 --> 01:36:11.159 the bottom of a well. The dormouse again took a 1520 01:36:11.199 --> 01:36:13.399 minute or two to think about it, and then said 1521 01:36:14.680 --> 01:36:19.880 it was a treacle. Well, there's no such thing. Alice 1522 01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:23.279 was beginning very angrily, but the hatter and the march 1523 01:36:23.359 --> 01:36:29.439 hare went shh, and the dormouse sulkily remarked, if you 1524 01:36:29.520 --> 01:36:34.279 can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself. No, 1525 01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:39.760 please go on, Alice said, very humbly. I won't interrupt again. 1526 01:36:40.079 --> 01:36:44.359 I dare say there may be one one indeed, said 1527 01:36:44.399 --> 01:36:49.760 the dormouse indignantly. However, he consented to go on. And 1528 01:36:50.000 --> 01:36:53.319 so these three little sisters they were learning to draw. 1529 01:36:53.600 --> 01:36:58.600 You know what did they draw? Said Alice, quite forgetting 1530 01:36:58.600 --> 01:37:04.560 her promise. Treacle, said the dormouse, without considering at all 1531 01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:09.119 this time. I want a clean cup, interrupted the hatter. 1532 01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:10.960 Let's all move one place. 1533 01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:11.079 On. 1534 01:37:12.760 --> 01:37:16.239 He moved on as he spoke, and the dormouse followed him. 1535 01:37:16.680 --> 01:37:20.000 The march hare moved into the dormouse's place, and Alice 1536 01:37:20.119 --> 01:37:24.279 rather unwillingly took the place of the march hare. The 1537 01:37:24.319 --> 01:37:26.920 hatter was the only one who got any advantage from 1538 01:37:26.960 --> 01:37:29.600 the change, and Alice was a good deal worse off 1539 01:37:29.640 --> 01:37:32.720 than before. As the march hare had just upset the 1540 01:37:32.760 --> 01:37:37.319 milk jug into his plate. Alice did not wish to 1541 01:37:37.319 --> 01:37:42.119 offend the dormouse again, so she began very cautiously. But 1542 01:37:42.520 --> 01:37:46.920 I don't understand where did they draw the treacle from. 1543 01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:51.119 You can draw water out of a water well, said 1544 01:37:51.119 --> 01:37:53.800 the hatter, So I should think you could draw a 1545 01:37:53.880 --> 01:37:58.319 treacle out of a treacle. Well, eh, stupid, But they 1546 01:37:58.359 --> 01:38:02.399 were in the well, Alice said to the dormouse, not 1547 01:38:02.520 --> 01:38:06.680 choosing to notice this last remark. Of course they were, 1548 01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:13.600 said the dormouse. Well in this answer so confused poor 1549 01:38:13.640 --> 01:38:16.079 Alice that she let the dormouse go on for some 1550 01:38:16.239 --> 01:38:21.880 time without interrupting it. They were learning to draw. The 1551 01:38:21.960 --> 01:38:26.079 dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it 1552 01:38:26.119 --> 01:38:30.600 was getting very sleepy, and they drew all manner of things, 1553 01:38:31.039 --> 01:38:35.880 everything that begins with an M. Why with an M, 1554 01:38:36.479 --> 01:38:42.479 said Alice, Why not, said the march hare. Alice was silent. 1555 01:38:43.720 --> 01:38:46.560 The dormouse had closed its eyes by this time and 1556 01:38:46.720 --> 01:38:50.239 was going off into a doze, But on being pinched 1557 01:38:50.239 --> 01:38:52.399 by the hatter, it woke up again with a little 1558 01:38:52.399 --> 01:38:57.199 shriek and went on that begins with an M, such 1559 01:38:57.199 --> 01:39:05.079 as mouse traps, and the and memory and muchness. You know, 1560 01:39:05.199 --> 01:39:08.239 you say things are much of a muchness? Did you 1561 01:39:08.319 --> 01:39:13.520 ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness? Really? 1562 01:39:13.880 --> 01:39:18.399 Now you ask me, said Alice, very much confused. I 1563 01:39:18.479 --> 01:39:25.359 don't think then you shouldn't talk, said the hatter. This 1564 01:39:25.520 --> 01:39:29.039 piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear. She 1565 01:39:29.159 --> 01:39:32.840 got up in great disgust and walked off. The dormouse 1566 01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:36.239 fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the 1567 01:39:36.359 --> 01:39:39.560 least notice of her going, though she looked back once 1568 01:39:39.640 --> 01:39:42.520 or twice, half hoping that they would call after her. 1569 01:39:44.039 --> 01:39:46.319 The last time she saw them, they were trying to 1570 01:39:46.359 --> 01:39:51.119 put the dormouse into the teapot. At any rate, I'll 1571 01:39:51.119 --> 01:39:54.800 never go there again, said Alice, as she picked her 1572 01:39:54.840 --> 01:39:58.479 way through the wood. It's the stupidest tea party I 1573 01:39:58.560 --> 01:40:03.439 ever was at in all my Just as she said this, 1574 01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:06.399 she noticed that one of the trees had a door 1575 01:40:06.600 --> 01:40:11.520 leading right into it. That's very curious, she thought, But 1576 01:40:11.800 --> 01:40:14.880 everything's curious to day. I think I may as well 1577 01:40:14.880 --> 01:40:20.800 go in at once. And in she went once more. 1578 01:40:20.880 --> 01:40:24.159 She found herself in the long hall and close to 1579 01:40:24.199 --> 01:40:28.279 the little glass table. Now I'll manage better this time, 1580 01:40:28.640 --> 01:40:32.319 she said to herself, and began by taking the little 1581 01:40:32.319 --> 01:40:35.800 golden key and unlocking the door that led into the garden. 1582 01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:40.520 Then she went to work, nibbling at the mushroom. She 1583 01:40:40.600 --> 01:40:42.960 had kept a piece of it in her pocket till 1584 01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:46.199 she was about a foot high. Then she walked down 1585 01:40:46.239 --> 01:40:51.079 the little passage, and then she found herself at last 1586 01:40:51.279 --> 01:40:55.560 in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower beds and 1587 01:40:55.680 --> 01:41:01.800 the cool fountains. End of chapter six, Chapter eight, The 1588 01:41:01.880 --> 01:41:07.159 Queen's croquet ground. A large rose tree stood near the 1589 01:41:07.279 --> 01:41:10.079 entrance of the garden. The roses growing on it were white, 1590 01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:13.439 but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red. 1591 01:41:14.159 --> 01:41:16.840 Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went 1592 01:41:16.920 --> 01:41:19.279 nearer to watch them, And just as she came up 1593 01:41:19.319 --> 01:41:22.000 to them, she heard one of them say, look out, now, Five, 1594 01:41:22.159 --> 01:41:25.359 don't go splashing paint all over me like that. I 1595 01:41:25.399 --> 01:41:28.880 couldn't help it, said five, in a sulky tone. Seven 1596 01:41:28.960 --> 01:41:32.279 jogged my elbow, on which seven looked up and said, 1597 01:41:32.479 --> 01:41:36.319 that's right. Five, always lay the blame on others. You'd 1598 01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:39.680 better not talk, said five. I heard the queen say, 1599 01:41:39.760 --> 01:41:44.840 only yesterday, you deserve to be beheaded. What four said 1600 01:41:44.840 --> 01:41:48.600 the one who had spoken first. That's none of your business, too, 1601 01:41:49.159 --> 01:41:53.079 said seven. Yes, it is his business, said five, And 1602 01:41:53.159 --> 01:41:56.319 I'll tell him it was for bringing the cook tulip 1603 01:41:56.319 --> 01:42:00.479 brutes instead of onions. Seven flung down his breath and 1604 01:42:00.520 --> 01:42:05.079 had just begun well of all the unjust things, when 1605 01:42:05.119 --> 01:42:07.680 his eye chanced to fall upon Alice as she stood 1606 01:42:07.760 --> 01:42:11.439 watching them, and he checked himself. Suddenly the others looked 1607 01:42:11.479 --> 01:42:15.039 round also, and all of them bowed low. Would you 1608 01:42:15.119 --> 01:42:18.680 tell me, said Alice a little timidly. Why are you 1609 01:42:18.760 --> 01:42:19.840 painting those roses? 1610 01:42:21.439 --> 01:42:21.680 Five? 1611 01:42:21.680 --> 01:42:25.039 And seven said nothing, but looked at two. Two began 1612 01:42:25.119 --> 01:42:29.880 in a low voice. Why the fact is, you see, miss, 1613 01:42:30.319 --> 01:42:32.600 this yere ought to have been a red rose tree, 1614 01:42:33.000 --> 01:42:34.760 and we put a white one in by mistake. 1615 01:42:35.039 --> 01:42:36.039 And if the Queen was. 1616 01:42:36.000 --> 01:42:38.560 To find out, we should all have our heads cut off, 1617 01:42:38.600 --> 01:42:41.560 you know. So you see, miss, we're doing our best 1618 01:42:41.560 --> 01:42:45.439 before she comes to At this moment, five, who'd been 1619 01:42:45.479 --> 01:42:48.960 anxiously looking across the garden, called out the queen. The 1620 01:42:49.039 --> 01:42:53.079 queen and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat upon 1621 01:42:53.119 --> 01:42:56.560 their faces. There was a sound of many footsteps, and 1622 01:42:56.640 --> 01:43:01.199 Alice looked round, eager to see the queen. First came 1623 01:43:01.239 --> 01:43:04.720 ten soldiers carrying clubs. They were all shaped like the 1624 01:43:04.720 --> 01:43:07.560 three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet 1625 01:43:07.600 --> 01:43:11.760 at the corners. Next the ten courtiers. These were ornamented 1626 01:43:11.760 --> 01:43:14.520 all over with diamonds and walked two and two as 1627 01:43:14.560 --> 01:43:18.279 the soldiers did. After these came the royal children. There 1628 01:43:18.279 --> 01:43:20.720 were ten of them, and the little deers came, jumping 1629 01:43:20.760 --> 01:43:23.840 merrily along hand in hand in couples. They were all 1630 01:43:23.960 --> 01:43:28.399 ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly kings and queens, 1631 01:43:28.640 --> 01:43:31.600 and among them Alice recognized the white rabbit. It was 1632 01:43:31.680 --> 01:43:34.800 talking in a hurried, nervous manner, smiling at everything that 1633 01:43:34.920 --> 01:43:39.199 was said, and went by without noticing her. Then followed 1634 01:43:39.199 --> 01:43:41.680 the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's crown on a 1635 01:43:41.680 --> 01:43:44.920 crimson velvet cushion. And last of all this grand procession 1636 01:43:45.079 --> 01:43:49.039 came the King and Queen of Hearts. Alice was rather 1637 01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:51.359 doubtful whether she ought not lie down on her face 1638 01:43:51.439 --> 01:43:54.079 like the three gardeners, but she could not remember ever 1639 01:43:54.119 --> 01:43:57.079 having heard of such a rule of processions, And besides, 1640 01:43:57.359 --> 01:43:59.399 what would be the use of a procession? Thought she 1641 01:43:59.800 --> 01:44:02.119 if people all had to lie down upon their faces 1642 01:44:02.119 --> 01:44:05.079 so they couldn't see it, So she stood still where 1643 01:44:05.119 --> 01:44:09.560 she was and waited. When the procession came opposite to Alice, 1644 01:44:09.600 --> 01:44:11.600 they all stopped and looked at her, and the Queen 1645 01:44:11.680 --> 01:44:15.279 said severely, who is this? She said it to the 1646 01:44:15.359 --> 01:44:19.119 knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply. Idiot, 1647 01:44:19.560 --> 01:44:22.920 said the queen, tossing her head impatiently, and turning to Alice, 1648 01:44:23.000 --> 01:44:24.279 she went on, what's your name? 1649 01:44:24.359 --> 01:44:25.119 Child? 1650 01:44:25.800 --> 01:44:28.800 My name is Alice, so please, your majesty, said Alice 1651 01:44:28.880 --> 01:44:31.760 very politely, But she added to herself, why they're only 1652 01:44:31.800 --> 01:44:33.840 a pack of cards, after all, I needn't be afraid 1653 01:44:33.880 --> 01:44:38.079 of them. And who are these? Said the queen, pointing 1654 01:44:38.119 --> 01:44:40.720 to the three gardeners who were lying round the rose tree. 1655 01:44:40.880 --> 01:44:42.680 For you see, as they were all lying on their 1656 01:44:42.720 --> 01:44:44.920 faces and the pattern on their backs was the same 1657 01:44:44.920 --> 01:44:47.000 as the rest of the pack, she could not tell 1658 01:44:47.039 --> 01:44:49.880 whether they were her gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or 1659 01:44:49.880 --> 01:44:54.039 three of her own children. How should I know, said Alice, 1660 01:44:54.159 --> 01:44:56.800 surprised at her own courage. It's no business of mine. 1661 01:44:58.279 --> 01:45:01.439 The queen turned crimson with fear, and after glaring at 1662 01:45:01.439 --> 01:45:04.199 her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed off 1663 01:45:04.239 --> 01:45:08.960 with her head off. Nonsense, said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, 1664 01:45:09.279 --> 01:45:12.119 and the Queen was silent. The King laid his hand 1665 01:45:12.159 --> 01:45:15.800 upon her arm and timidly said, consider, my dear, she 1666 01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:19.680 is only a child. The Queen turned angrily away from 1667 01:45:19.760 --> 01:45:22.800 him and said to the knave, turn them over. The 1668 01:45:22.880 --> 01:45:27.680 knave did so, very carefully with one foot. Get up, 1669 01:45:28.039 --> 01:45:30.560 said the Queen in a shrill, loud voice, and the 1670 01:45:30.600 --> 01:45:33.720 three gardeners instantly jumped up and began bowing to the King, 1671 01:45:33.800 --> 01:45:37.359 the Queen, the royal children and everybody else. Leave off that, 1672 01:45:37.920 --> 01:45:41.239 screamed the Queen. You make me giddy, and then turning 1673 01:45:41.239 --> 01:45:43.920 to the rose tree, she went on, what have you 1674 01:45:43.960 --> 01:45:47.680 been doing here? Nay it please, Your Majesty said too, 1675 01:45:47.720 --> 01:45:50.000 in a very humble tone, going down on one knee 1676 01:45:50.039 --> 01:45:54.439 as he spoke. We were trying, I see, said the Queen, 1677 01:45:54.479 --> 01:45:58.000 who had meanwhile been examining the roses off with their heads, 1678 01:45:58.600 --> 01:46:01.359 and the procession moved on. Three of the soldiers remaining 1679 01:46:01.399 --> 01:46:04.760 behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran to Alice 1680 01:46:04.760 --> 01:46:08.560 for protection. You shan't be beheaded, said Alice, and She 1681 01:46:08.560 --> 01:46:10.720 put them into a large flower pot that stood near 1682 01:46:11.359 --> 01:46:13.640 the three soldiers wandered about for a minute or two 1683 01:46:13.680 --> 01:46:16.359 looking for them, and then quietly marched off. After the 1684 01:46:16.399 --> 01:46:21.159 others are their heads off, shouted the Queen. Their heads 1685 01:46:21.159 --> 01:46:23.800 are gone. If it please your majesty, the soldiers shouted 1686 01:46:23.800 --> 01:46:28.840 in reply. That's right, shouted the Queen. Can you play croquet? 1687 01:46:29.279 --> 01:46:31.560 The soldiers were silent and looked at Alice as the 1688 01:46:31.600 --> 01:46:36.239 question was evidently meant for her. Yes, shouted Alice. Come on, 1689 01:46:36.359 --> 01:46:39.960 then roared the queen, and Alice joined the procession, wondering 1690 01:46:40.039 --> 01:46:43.720 very much what would happen next. It's a very fine dah, 1691 01:46:44.359 --> 01:46:47.079 said a timid voice at her side. She was walking 1692 01:46:47.119 --> 01:46:50.239 by the white rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face. 1693 01:46:51.199 --> 01:46:55.279 Very said Alice, where's the duchess? Sh sh said the 1694 01:46:55.359 --> 01:46:58.359 rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He looked anxiously over 1695 01:46:58.359 --> 01:47:00.760 his shoulder as he spoke, and then and raised himself 1696 01:47:00.800 --> 01:47:03.560 upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear and whispered, 1697 01:47:03.880 --> 01:47:05.760 She's under sentence of execution. 1698 01:47:07.119 --> 01:47:08.640 What for, said Alice? 1699 01:47:09.239 --> 01:47:12.840 Did you say? What a pity? The rabbit asked, No, 1700 01:47:13.199 --> 01:47:15.319 I didn't, said Alice. I don't think it's at all 1701 01:47:15.319 --> 01:47:19.600 a pity, I said, what for she boxed the Queen's ears, 1702 01:47:20.199 --> 01:47:23.560 the rabbit began. Alice gave a little scream of laughter. 1703 01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:26.960 Oh hush, the rabbit whispered in a frightened tone. 1704 01:47:27.119 --> 01:47:28.600 The queen hear you. 1705 01:47:28.600 --> 01:47:31.359 You see she came rather late, And the queen said, 1706 01:47:31.800 --> 01:47:34.640 get to your places, shouted the queen in a voice 1707 01:47:34.680 --> 01:47:38.000 of thunder, And people began running about in all directions, 1708 01:47:38.159 --> 01:47:41.119 tumbling up against each other. However, they got settled down 1709 01:47:41.119 --> 01:47:44.920 in a minute or two, and the game began. Alice 1710 01:47:44.920 --> 01:47:47.239 thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground 1711 01:47:47.239 --> 01:47:49.920 in her life. It was all ridges and furrows. The 1712 01:47:50.000 --> 01:47:53.119 balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the 1713 01:47:53.159 --> 01:47:55.399 soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on 1714 01:47:55.439 --> 01:47:58.479 their hands and feet to make the arches. The chief 1715 01:47:58.479 --> 01:48:01.600 difficulty Alice found it first was in managing her flamingo. 1716 01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:04.840 She succeeded in getting its body tucked away comfortably enough 1717 01:48:04.920 --> 01:48:07.840 under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, 1718 01:48:07.960 --> 01:48:10.520 just as she got its neck nicely straightened out, and 1719 01:48:10.600 --> 01:48:12.520 was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, 1720 01:48:12.560 --> 01:48:14.760 it would twist itself round and look up in her 1721 01:48:14.800 --> 01:48:17.800 face with such a puzzled expression that she could not 1722 01:48:17.880 --> 01:48:20.600 help bursting out laughing. And when she got its head 1723 01:48:20.600 --> 01:48:23.079 down and she was going to begin again, it was 1724 01:48:23.279 --> 01:48:25.800 very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself 1725 01:48:25.800 --> 01:48:28.800 and was in the act of crawling away. Besides all this, 1726 01:48:28.920 --> 01:48:30.880 there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way 1727 01:48:30.920 --> 01:48:33.680 wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and as 1728 01:48:33.720 --> 01:48:35.880 the doubled up soldiers were always getting up and walking 1729 01:48:35.960 --> 01:48:38.439 off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came 1730 01:48:38.479 --> 01:48:41.399 to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game. Indeed, 1731 01:48:42.319 --> 01:48:45.000 the players all played at once without waiting for turns, 1732 01:48:45.239 --> 01:48:48.680 quarreling all the while and fighting for the hedgehogs. And 1733 01:48:48.760 --> 01:48:50.600 in a very short time the queen was in a 1734 01:48:50.600 --> 01:48:53.920 furious fashion and went stamping about and shouting off with 1735 01:48:54.039 --> 01:48:57.279 his head off with her head about once in a minute. 1736 01:48:58.199 --> 01:49:00.960 Alice began to feel very uneasy. To be sure, she 1737 01:49:01.000 --> 01:49:03.079 had not as yet had any dispute with the queen, 1738 01:49:03.479 --> 01:49:05.399 but she knew that it might happen any minute, and 1739 01:49:05.600 --> 01:49:09.039 then thought she what would become of me? They're dreadfully 1740 01:49:09.039 --> 01:49:11.479 fond of be hiding people here. The great wonder is 1741 01:49:11.520 --> 01:49:14.880 that there's any one left alive. She was looking about 1742 01:49:14.920 --> 01:49:17.159 for some way of escape and wondering whether she could 1743 01:49:17.159 --> 01:49:20.159 get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious 1744 01:49:20.159 --> 01:49:23.239 appearance in the air. It puzzled her very much at first, 1745 01:49:23.439 --> 01:49:25.800 but after watching it a minute or two, she made 1746 01:49:25.840 --> 01:49:28.119 it out to be a grin, and she said to herself. 1747 01:49:28.520 --> 01:49:31.279 It's the chesher cat. Now I shall have somebody to 1748 01:49:31.319 --> 01:49:34.239 talk to. How are you getting on? Said the cat, 1749 01:49:34.279 --> 01:49:35.840 as soon as there was mouth enough for it to 1750 01:49:35.840 --> 01:49:39.760 speak with. Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. 1751 01:49:40.560 --> 01:49:42.880 It's no use speaking to it, she thought, till its 1752 01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:45.560 years have come, or at least one of them. In 1753 01:49:45.640 --> 01:49:48.359 another minute, the whole head appeared, and then Alice put 1754 01:49:48.399 --> 01:49:50.720 down her flamingo and began an account of the game, 1755 01:49:51.000 --> 01:49:53.439 feeling very glad she had some one to listen to her. 1756 01:49:54.319 --> 01:49:56.119 The cat seemed to think that there was enough of 1757 01:49:56.119 --> 01:49:58.199 it now in sight, and no more of it appeared. 1758 01:49:59.159 --> 01:50:02.079 I don't think they've they at all fairly, Alice began, 1759 01:50:02.359 --> 01:50:05.319 in rather a complaining tone, and they all quarrel so 1760 01:50:05.439 --> 01:50:08.199 dreadfully one can't hear one's self speak. And they don't 1761 01:50:08.199 --> 01:50:10.880 seem to have any rules in particular, at least if 1762 01:50:10.920 --> 01:50:14.199 there are, nobody attends to them. And you've no idea. 1763 01:50:14.199 --> 01:50:17.680 How confusing it is all the things being alive. For instance, 1764 01:50:17.880 --> 01:50:20.399 there's the arch I've got to go through next, walking 1765 01:50:20.399 --> 01:50:22.279 about at the other end of the ground, and I 1766 01:50:22.279 --> 01:50:24.600 should have crockaded the queen's hedgehog just now, only it 1767 01:50:24.680 --> 01:50:27.720 ran away when it saw mine coming. How do you 1768 01:50:27.840 --> 01:50:30.560 like the queen, said the cat in a low voice. 1769 01:50:31.600 --> 01:50:37.000 Not at all, said Alice. She's so extremely Just then 1770 01:50:37.119 --> 01:50:39.560 she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening, 1771 01:50:39.880 --> 01:50:42.920 so she went on likely to win, that it's hardly 1772 01:50:42.960 --> 01:50:47.239 worth while finishing the game. The queen smiled and passed on. 1773 01:50:48.119 --> 01:50:50.880 Who are you talking to? Said the King, going up 1774 01:50:50.920 --> 01:50:53.640 to Alice and looking at the cat's head with great curiosity. 1775 01:50:54.600 --> 01:50:57.359 It's a friend of mine, a chesha cat, said Alice. 1776 01:50:57.399 --> 01:51:00.279 Allow me to introduce it. I don't like the of 1777 01:51:00.319 --> 01:51:03.119 it at all, said the king. However, it may kiss 1778 01:51:03.159 --> 01:51:07.039 my hand if it likes and rather not, the cat remarked. 1779 01:51:07.520 --> 01:51:10.560 Don't be impertinent, said the king, and don't look at 1780 01:51:10.560 --> 01:51:13.279 me like that. He got behind Alice as he spoke, 1781 01:51:14.000 --> 01:51:16.600 A cat may look at a king, said Alice. I've 1782 01:51:16.600 --> 01:51:20.359 read that in some book, but I don't remember where. Well, 1783 01:51:20.359 --> 01:51:23.479 it must be removed, said the king very decidedly, and 1784 01:51:23.520 --> 01:51:25.520 he called the Queen, who was passing at the moment, 1785 01:51:25.960 --> 01:51:28.239 my dear, I wish you would have this cat removed. 1786 01:51:29.319 --> 01:51:31.920 The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties 1787 01:51:31.960 --> 01:51:34.920 great or small. Off with his head, she said, without 1788 01:51:35.000 --> 01:51:38.680 even looking round. I'll fetch the executioner myself, said the 1789 01:51:38.760 --> 01:51:43.079 king eagerly, and he hurried off. Alice thought she might 1790 01:51:43.079 --> 01:51:44.760 as well go back and see how the game was 1791 01:51:44.800 --> 01:51:47.359 going on, as she heard the queen's voice in the distance, 1792 01:51:47.399 --> 01:51:50.600 screaming with passion. She'd already heard her sentence three of 1793 01:51:50.600 --> 01:51:53.039 the players to be executed for having missed their turns, 1794 01:51:53.279 --> 01:51:55.039 and she did not like the look of things at all, 1795 01:51:55.079 --> 01:51:57.159 as the game was in such confusion that she never 1796 01:51:57.239 --> 01:51:59.319 knew whether it was her turn or not, so she 1797 01:51:59.359 --> 01:52:02.479 went in search of her hedgehog. The hedgehog was engaged 1798 01:52:02.479 --> 01:52:04.920 in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice 1799 01:52:04.960 --> 01:52:07.760 an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other. 1800 01:52:08.039 --> 01:52:10.720 The only difficulty was that her flamingo was gone across 1801 01:52:10.760 --> 01:52:12.960 to the other side of the garden, where Alice could 1802 01:52:13.000 --> 01:52:14.720 see it trying in a helpless sort of way to 1803 01:52:14.720 --> 01:52:17.479 fly up into a tree. By the time she had 1804 01:52:17.479 --> 01:52:19.680 caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was 1805 01:52:19.720 --> 01:52:22.600 over and both the hedgehogs were out of sight. But 1806 01:52:22.680 --> 01:52:25.720 it doesn't matter much, thought Alice, as all the arches 1807 01:52:25.720 --> 01:52:27.840 are gone from this side of the ground, so she 1808 01:52:27.920 --> 01:52:29.720 tucked it away under her arm that it might not 1809 01:52:29.840 --> 01:52:32.399 escape again, and went back for a little more conversation 1810 01:52:32.479 --> 01:52:35.800 with her friend. When she got back to the tessure cat, 1811 01:52:35.880 --> 01:52:38.319 she was surprised to find quite a large crowd collected 1812 01:52:38.319 --> 01:52:41.600 around it. There was a dispute going on between the executioner, 1813 01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:44.119 the king, and the Queen, who were all talking at once, 1814 01:52:44.319 --> 01:52:47.319 while all the rest were quite silent and looked very uncomfortable. 1815 01:52:48.239 --> 01:52:50.840 The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all 1816 01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:53.920 three to settle the question, and they repeated their arguments 1817 01:52:53.920 --> 01:52:56.000 to her, though as they all spoke at once, she 1818 01:52:56.039 --> 01:52:58.279 found it very hard indeed to make out exactly what 1819 01:52:58.319 --> 01:53:01.880 they said. The execute sher's argument was you couldn't cut 1820 01:53:01.880 --> 01:53:03.760 off a head unless there was a body to cut 1821 01:53:03.800 --> 01:53:06.159 it off from that he had never had to do 1822 01:53:06.199 --> 01:53:08.159 such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin 1823 01:53:08.279 --> 01:53:11.760 at his time of life. The king's argument was that 1824 01:53:11.840 --> 01:53:14.239 anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that 1825 01:53:14.279 --> 01:53:17.960 you weren't to talk nonsense. The queen's argument was that 1826 01:53:18.039 --> 01:53:20.399 if something wasn't done about it in less than no time, 1827 01:53:20.479 --> 01:53:24.399 she'd had everybody executed all around. It was this last 1828 01:53:24.439 --> 01:53:26.439 remark that had made the whole party look so grave 1829 01:53:26.439 --> 01:53:30.039 and anxious. Alice could think of nothing else to say. 1830 01:53:30.159 --> 01:53:33.000 But it belongs to the Duchess. You'd better ask her 1831 01:53:33.079 --> 01:53:36.760 about it. She's in prison, the queen said to the executioner, 1832 01:53:37.159 --> 01:53:40.279 fetch her here, and the executioner went off like an arrow. 1833 01:53:40.920 --> 01:53:43.680 The cat's head began fading away the moment he was gone, 1834 01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:45.760 and by the time he had come back with the Duchess, 1835 01:53:46.000 --> 01:53:49.560 it had entirely disappeared. So the king and the executioner 1836 01:53:49.800 --> 01:53:52.159 ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the 1837 01:53:52.239 --> 01:53:56.159 rest of the party went back to the game. End 1838 01:53:56.159 --> 01:53:57.199 of chapter eight. 1839 01:53:57.800 --> 01:54:03.520 Chapter nine, the mocked her story. You can't think how 1840 01:54:03.560 --> 01:54:06.439 glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing, 1841 01:54:07.560 --> 01:54:11.239 said the Duchess as she tucked her arm affectionately into 1842 01:54:11.239 --> 01:54:16.560 Alice's and they walked off together. Alice was very glad 1843 01:54:16.640 --> 01:54:19.279 to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought 1844 01:54:19.359 --> 01:54:22.079 to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that 1845 01:54:22.159 --> 01:54:24.920 had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen. 1846 01:54:25.880 --> 01:54:29.439 When I'm a duchess, she said to herself, not in 1847 01:54:29.520 --> 01:54:33.439 a very hopeful tone, though I won't have any pepper 1848 01:54:33.479 --> 01:54:37.520 in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. 1849 01:54:38.399 --> 01:54:42.640 Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot tempered. She 1850 01:54:42.760 --> 01:54:45.920 went on, very much pleased at having found out a 1851 01:54:45.920 --> 01:54:49.760 new kind of rule. And vinegar that makes them sour, 1852 01:54:50.239 --> 01:54:54.039 and camomeal that makes them bitter, and and barley sugar, 1853 01:54:54.079 --> 01:54:57.319 and such things that make children sweet tempered. I only 1854 01:54:57.359 --> 01:55:00.560 wish people knew that, then they wouldn't be so stingy 1855 01:55:00.600 --> 01:55:04.319 about it. You know. She had quite forgotten the Duchess 1856 01:55:04.359 --> 01:55:06.800 by this time, and was a little startled when she 1857 01:55:06.920 --> 01:55:11.600 heard her voice close to her ear. You're thinking about something, 1858 01:55:11.680 --> 01:55:14.920 my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I 1859 01:55:14.960 --> 01:55:17.399 can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, 1860 01:55:17.479 --> 01:55:20.800 but I shall remember it in a bit. Perhaps it 1861 01:55:20.840 --> 01:55:26.000 hasn't one, Alice ventured to remark. Tout hot child, said 1862 01:55:26.039 --> 01:55:29.159 the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can 1863 01:55:29.239 --> 01:55:33.159 find it, and she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's 1864 01:55:33.199 --> 01:55:37.159 side as she spoke. Alice did not much like keeping 1865 01:55:37.199 --> 01:55:41.039 so close to her, first because the duchess was very ugly, 1866 01:55:41.600 --> 01:55:44.600 and secondly because she was exactly the right height to 1867 01:55:44.640 --> 01:55:47.600 rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an 1868 01:55:47.720 --> 01:55:51.520 uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude, 1869 01:55:51.560 --> 01:55:54.880 so she bored as well as she could. The game's 1870 01:55:54.920 --> 01:55:58.399 going on rather better now, she said, by way of 1871 01:55:58.520 --> 01:56:02.479 keeping up the conversation, A little tis, so, said the Duchess. 1872 01:56:02.880 --> 01:56:06.520 And the moral of that is, oh tis love. Tis 1873 01:56:06.640 --> 01:56:11.239 love that makes the world go round, somebody, said, Alice 1874 01:56:11.279 --> 01:56:15.119 whispered that it's done by everybody minding their own business. 1875 01:56:16.560 --> 01:56:20.279 Ah well, it means much the same thing, said the Duchess, 1876 01:56:20.640 --> 01:56:24.720 digging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added. 1877 01:56:25.439 --> 01:56:28.800 And the moral of that is take care of the sense, 1878 01:56:29.119 --> 01:56:32.840 and the sounds will take care of themselves. How fond 1879 01:56:32.880 --> 01:56:36.560 she is of finding morals in things, Alice thought to herself, 1880 01:56:37.840 --> 01:56:39.920 I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my 1881 01:56:40.159 --> 01:56:43.439 arm round your waist, the Duchess said, after a pause. 1882 01:56:43.920 --> 01:56:46.640 The reason is that I'm doubtful about the temper of 1883 01:56:46.640 --> 01:56:52.840 your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment he might bite? 1884 01:56:53.960 --> 01:56:57.319 Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious to have 1885 01:56:57.399 --> 01:57:02.600 the experiment tried. Very true, said the Duchess. Flamingoes and 1886 01:57:02.720 --> 01:57:06.479 mustard both bite. And the moral of that is birds 1887 01:57:06.520 --> 01:57:10.840 of a feather flock together. Only mustard isn't a bird, 1888 01:57:11.399 --> 01:57:15.800 Alice remarked. Right as usual, said the Duchess. What a 1889 01:57:15.880 --> 01:57:19.600 clear way you have of putting things. It's a mineral, 1890 01:57:19.680 --> 01:57:24.239 I think, said Alice. Of course it is, said the Duchess, 1891 01:57:24.319 --> 01:57:27.159 who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said. 1892 01:57:27.960 --> 01:57:31.199 There's a large mustard mine near here, and the moral 1893 01:57:31.279 --> 01:57:33.960 of that is, the more there is of mine, the 1894 01:57:34.039 --> 01:57:39.319 less there is of yours. Oh I know, exclaimed Alice, 1895 01:57:39.359 --> 01:57:42.960 who had not attended to this last remark. It's a vegetable. 1896 01:57:43.600 --> 01:57:47.359 It doesn't look like one, but it is. I quite 1897 01:57:47.479 --> 01:57:50.640 agree with you, said the Duchess. And the moral of 1898 01:57:50.680 --> 01:57:54.520 that is be what you would seem to be, or 1899 01:57:54.840 --> 01:57:58.640 if you'd like it put more simply, never imagine yourself 1900 01:57:58.680 --> 01:58:01.760 not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others. 1901 01:58:01.840 --> 01:58:04.600 That what you were or might have been was not 1902 01:58:04.760 --> 01:58:07.279 otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to 1903 01:58:07.319 --> 01:58:14.239 them to be otherwise. I think I should understand that better, 1904 01:58:14.920 --> 01:58:19.079 Alice said, very politely, if I had it written down. 1905 01:58:19.840 --> 01:58:22.119 But I can't quite follow it as you say it. 1906 01:58:23.199 --> 01:58:25.479 That's nothing to what I could say if I chose. 1907 01:58:26.039 --> 01:58:30.279 The Duchess replied, in a pleased tone. Pray, don't trouble 1908 01:58:30.319 --> 01:58:34.039 yourself to say it any longer than that, said Alice. Oh, 1909 01:58:34.039 --> 01:58:37.039 don't talk about trouble, said the Duchess. I make you 1910 01:58:37.119 --> 01:58:40.520 a present of everything I've said as yet, a cheap 1911 01:58:40.560 --> 01:58:43.640 sort of present, thought Alice. I'm glad they don't give 1912 01:58:43.720 --> 01:58:47.039 birthday presents like that, But she did not venture to 1913 01:58:47.079 --> 01:58:51.640 say it out loud. Thinking again, the Duchess asked, with 1914 01:58:51.720 --> 01:58:55.039 another dig of her sharp little chin. I've a right 1915 01:58:55.079 --> 01:58:58.720 to think, said Alice, sharply, for she was beginning to 1916 01:58:58.760 --> 01:59:02.439 feel a little worried. Just about as much right, said 1917 01:59:02.439 --> 01:59:06.000 the Duchess, as pigs have to fly and the moral 1918 01:59:07.359 --> 01:59:11.039 But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died 1919 01:59:11.079 --> 01:59:14.279 away even in the middle of her favorite word moral, 1920 01:59:14.760 --> 01:59:17.479 and the arm that was linked into hers began to tremble. 1921 01:59:17.960 --> 01:59:20.800 Alice looked up and there stood the Queen in front 1922 01:59:20.800 --> 01:59:24.399 of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunder storm. 1923 01:59:25.560 --> 01:59:29.680 A fine day, your majesty, the duchess began in a low, 1924 01:59:30.000 --> 01:59:30.920 weak voice. 1925 01:59:31.640 --> 01:59:36.359 Now I give you fair warning, shouted the queen, stamping 1926 01:59:36.399 --> 01:59:39.840 on the ground as she spoke. Either you or your 1927 01:59:39.960 --> 01:59:43.279 head must be off, and that in about half no time. 1928 01:59:43.840 --> 01:59:47.520 Take your choice. The duchess took her choice and was 1929 01:59:47.560 --> 01:59:50.119 gone in a moment. Let's go on with the game, 1930 01:59:50.920 --> 01:59:54.079 the queen said to Alice, and Alice was too much 1931 01:59:54.119 --> 01:59:57.119 frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back 1932 01:59:57.159 --> 02:00:01.479 to the croquet ground. The other had taken advantage of 1933 02:00:01.520 --> 02:00:05.159 the Queen's absence and were resting in the shade. However, 1934 02:00:05.439 --> 02:00:07.960 the moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game, 1935 02:00:08.359 --> 02:00:11.520 the queen merely remarking that a moment's delay would cost 1936 02:00:11.560 --> 02:00:14.840 them their lives. All the time they were playing, the 1937 02:00:14.920 --> 02:00:17.840 Queen never left off, quarreling with the other players and 1938 02:00:17.960 --> 02:00:21.720 shouting off with his head or off with her head. 1939 02:00:22.640 --> 02:00:26.000 Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, 1940 02:00:26.319 --> 02:00:29.199 who of course had to leave off being arches to 1941 02:00:29.239 --> 02:00:31.479 do this, so that by the end of half an 1942 02:00:31.479 --> 02:00:34.359 hour or so, there were no arches left, and all 1943 02:00:34.399 --> 02:00:38.119 the players except the King, the Queen, and Alice were 1944 02:00:38.159 --> 02:00:42.239 in custody and under sentence of execution. Then the Queen 1945 02:00:42.359 --> 02:00:45.600 left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, 1946 02:00:46.039 --> 02:00:49.840 have you seen the mock turtle yet? No, said Alice. 1947 02:00:50.600 --> 02:00:53.720 I don't even know what a mock turtle is. It's 1948 02:00:53.760 --> 02:00:56.760 the thing mock turtle soup is made from, said the Queen. 1949 02:00:57.600 --> 02:01:00.800 I never saw one or heard of one, said Alice. 1950 02:01:01.359 --> 02:01:04.399 Come on, then, said the Queen, and he shall tell 1951 02:01:04.439 --> 02:01:07.800 you his history. As they walked off together, Alice heard 1952 02:01:07.800 --> 02:01:10.079 the King say, in a low voice to the company, 1953 02:01:10.159 --> 02:01:12.199 generally you are all pardoned. 1954 02:01:13.119 --> 02:01:13.399 Come. 1955 02:01:13.520 --> 02:01:16.319 That's a good thing, she said to herself, for she 1956 02:01:16.399 --> 02:01:19.159 had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the 1957 02:01:19.239 --> 02:01:23.079 Queen had ordered. They very soon came upon a gryffin 1958 02:01:23.520 --> 02:01:26.359 lying fast asleep in the sun. If you don't know 1959 02:01:26.359 --> 02:01:30.239 what a gryffin is, look at the picture up, lazy thing, 1960 02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:33.319 said the Queen, and take this young lady to see 1961 02:01:33.319 --> 02:01:36.640 the mock turtle and to hear his history. I must 1962 02:01:36.680 --> 02:01:39.880 go back and see after some executions I have ordered, 1963 02:01:40.359 --> 02:01:43.119 And she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the gryffin. 1964 02:01:43.560 --> 02:01:45.920 Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, 1965 02:01:46.279 --> 02:01:48.199 but on the whole she thought it would be quite 1966 02:01:48.199 --> 02:01:50.600 as safe to stay with it as to go after 1967 02:01:50.680 --> 02:01:55.439 that savage queen. So she waited. The griffin sat up 1968 02:01:55.439 --> 02:01:58.159 and rubbed its eyes. Then it watched the queen till 1969 02:01:58.199 --> 02:02:02.119 she was out of sight. Then it what fun, said 1970 02:02:02.119 --> 02:02:05.840 the griffin, half to itself after Alice. What is the fun? 1971 02:02:06.119 --> 02:02:10.119 Said Alice? Why, she said the griffin. It's all her 1972 02:02:10.159 --> 02:02:14.039 fancy that they never execute nobody, you know. Come on, 1973 02:02:15.199 --> 02:02:18.640 everybody says, come on here, thought Alice, as she went 1974 02:02:18.720 --> 02:02:21.720 slowly after it. I never was so ordered about in 1975 02:02:21.760 --> 02:02:25.159 all my life. Never. They had not gone far before 1976 02:02:25.159 --> 02:02:27.920 they saw the mock turtle in the distance, sitting sad 1977 02:02:27.960 --> 02:02:30.760 and lonely on a little ledge of rock. And as 1978 02:02:30.760 --> 02:02:33.760 they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing, as if 1979 02:02:33.760 --> 02:02:38.079 his heart would break. She pitied him deeply. What is 1980 02:02:38.159 --> 02:02:41.720 his sorrow? She asked? The griffin and the gryffin answered 1981 02:02:42.119 --> 02:02:45.520 very nearly in the same words as before. It's all 1982 02:02:45.560 --> 02:02:48.399 his fancy that he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. 1983 02:02:49.199 --> 02:02:52.600 Come on, So they went up to the mock turtle, 1984 02:02:52.640 --> 02:02:55.800 who looked at them with large eyes full of tears, 1985 02:02:56.399 --> 02:03:00.560 but said nothing. This here, young lady, said the griffin. 1986 02:03:00.800 --> 02:03:04.279 She wants for to know your history. She do, I'll 1987 02:03:04.399 --> 02:03:07.319 tell it her, said the mock turtle in a deep, 1988 02:03:07.399 --> 02:03:10.800 hollow tone. Sit down, both of you, and don't speak 1989 02:03:10.840 --> 02:03:14.159 a word till I've finished. So they sat down and 1990 02:03:14.279 --> 02:03:17.760 nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to herself, I 1991 02:03:17.800 --> 02:03:20.600 don't see how he can even finish if he doesn't begin, 1992 02:03:21.239 --> 02:03:25.439 but she waited patiently. Once said the mock turtle at last, 1993 02:03:25.720 --> 02:03:30.439 with a deep sigh, I was a real turtle. These 1994 02:03:30.479 --> 02:03:33.560 words were followed by a very long silence, broken only 1995 02:03:33.640 --> 02:03:37.840 by an occasional exclamation of hump from the griffin and 1996 02:03:37.920 --> 02:03:41.640 the constant heavy sobbing of the mock turtle. Alice was 1997 02:03:41.800 --> 02:03:45.079 very nearly getting up and saying thank you, sir for 1998 02:03:45.159 --> 02:03:49.880 your interesting story, but she could not help thinking there 1999 02:03:50.000 --> 02:03:52.840 must be more to come, so she sat still and 2000 02:03:52.920 --> 02:03:57.760 said nothing. When we were little, the mock turtle went on, 2001 02:03:57.880 --> 02:04:01.159 at last, more calmly, those sobbing a little now. And 2002 02:04:01.279 --> 02:04:05.640 then we went to school in the sea. The master 2003 02:04:05.840 --> 02:04:09.079 was an old turtle. We used to call him tortoise. 2004 02:04:09.920 --> 02:04:12.359 Why did you call him tortoise if he wasn't one, 2005 02:04:12.760 --> 02:04:18.039 Alice asked. We called him tortoise because he taughtois, said 2006 02:04:18.039 --> 02:04:22.600 the mock turtle angrily. Really, you are very dull. You 2007 02:04:22.680 --> 02:04:25.079 ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a 2008 02:04:25.159 --> 02:04:28.920 simple question, added the griffin, And then they both sat 2009 02:04:29.000 --> 02:04:31.760 silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to 2010 02:04:31.840 --> 02:04:35.119 sink into the earth. At last, the griffin said to 2011 02:04:35.159 --> 02:04:38.680 the mock turtle, drive on, old fellow, don't be all 2012 02:04:38.800 --> 02:04:43.600 day about it. And he went on in these words, Yes, 2013 02:04:43.840 --> 02:04:46.560 we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't 2014 02:04:46.600 --> 02:04:52.439 believe it. I never said I didn't, interrupted Alice. You did, 2015 02:04:52.960 --> 02:04:56.279 said the mock turtle. Hold your tongue, added the griffin. 2016 02:04:56.479 --> 02:04:59.680 Before Alice could speak again, the mock turtle went on, 2017 02:05:00.319 --> 02:05:03.800 we had the best of educations. In fact, we went 2018 02:05:03.840 --> 02:05:07.960 to school every day. I've been to a day school too, 2019 02:05:08.079 --> 02:05:10.960 said Alice. You needn't be so proud. As all that 2020 02:05:12.159 --> 02:05:16.720 with extras, asked the mock turtle, a little anxiously. Yes, 2021 02:05:16.800 --> 02:05:22.720 said Alice. We learned French and music and washing, said 2022 02:05:22.760 --> 02:05:28.680 the mock turtle. Certainly not, said Alice indignantly. Ah, then 2023 02:05:28.760 --> 02:05:32.359 yours wasn't a really good school, said the mock turtle 2024 02:05:32.399 --> 02:05:35.880 in a tone of great relief. Now at hours they 2025 02:05:36.000 --> 02:05:40.319 had at the end of the bill, French, music, and 2026 02:05:40.840 --> 02:05:46.279 washing extra. You couldn't have wanted it much, said Alice, 2027 02:05:46.319 --> 02:05:50.159 living at the bottom of the sea. I couldn't afford 2028 02:05:50.199 --> 02:05:53.000 to learn it, said the mock turtle with a sigh. 2029 02:05:53.840 --> 02:05:59.680 I only took the regular course. What was that, inquired Alice. 2030 02:06:00.199 --> 02:06:04.000 Reeling and writhing, Of course, to begin with, the mock 2031 02:06:04.079 --> 02:06:10.439 turtle replied, and then the different branches of arithmetic, ambition, distraction, 2032 02:06:11.039 --> 02:06:17.479 uglification and derision. I never heard of uglification, Alice ventured 2033 02:06:17.520 --> 02:06:21.279 to say, what is it? The griffin lifted up both 2034 02:06:21.279 --> 02:06:27.039 its paws and surprise, what never heard of uglifying? It exclaimed. 2035 02:06:27.640 --> 02:06:33.279 You know what to beautify is? I suppose, yes, said Alice, doubtfully. 2036 02:06:33.880 --> 02:06:40.239 It means to make anything prettier. Well, then the griffin 2037 02:06:40.279 --> 02:06:42.800 went on, if you don't know what to uglify is 2038 02:06:42.920 --> 02:06:47.199 you are a simpleton. Alice did not feel encouraged to 2039 02:06:47.239 --> 02:06:50.039 ask any more questions about it, so she turned to 2040 02:06:50.039 --> 02:06:54.720 the mock turtle and said, what else had you to learn? Well? 2041 02:06:54.800 --> 02:06:58.840 There was mystery, the mock turtle replied, counting off the 2042 02:06:58.880 --> 02:07:04.479 subjects on his flat. Mystery ancient and modern, with seography, 2043 02:07:05.239 --> 02:07:09.720 then drawling. The drawling master was an old conger eel 2044 02:07:09.800 --> 02:07:14.680 that used to come once a week. He taught us drawling, stretching, 2045 02:07:15.079 --> 02:07:20.680 and fainting in coils. What was that like? Said Alice. Well, 2046 02:07:20.760 --> 02:07:23.760 I can't show it you myself. The mock turtle said, 2047 02:07:23.840 --> 02:07:28.159 I'm too stiff. And the griffin never learned it had 2048 02:07:28.159 --> 02:07:31.479 in time, said the griffin. I went to the classics master, 2049 02:07:31.600 --> 02:07:35.760 though he was an old crab he was, I never 2050 02:07:35.840 --> 02:07:38.720 went to him, the mock turtle said, with a sigh. 2051 02:07:39.039 --> 02:07:43.039 He taught laughing in grief, they used to say, so 2052 02:07:43.239 --> 02:07:46.119 he did, so he did, said the griffin, sighing in 2053 02:07:46.239 --> 02:07:49.680 his turn. And both creatures hid their faces and their paws. 2054 02:07:51.479 --> 02:07:55.039 And how many hours a day did you do lessons? 2055 02:07:55.079 --> 02:07:58.119 Said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten 2056 02:07:58.199 --> 02:08:01.800 hours the first day. The mock turtle nine the next, 2057 02:08:01.840 --> 02:08:07.239 and so on. What a curious plan, exclaimed Alice. That's 2058 02:08:07.279 --> 02:08:11.079 the reason they're called lessons, the griffin remarked, because they 2059 02:08:11.159 --> 02:08:14.720 lessened from day to day. This was quite a new 2060 02:08:14.720 --> 02:08:17.000 idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little 2061 02:08:17.000 --> 02:08:21.399 before she made her next remark. Then the eleventh day 2062 02:08:21.479 --> 02:08:25.640 must have been a holiday, of course, it was, said 2063 02:08:25.640 --> 02:08:29.039 the mock turtle. And how did you manage on the twelfth? 2064 02:08:29.760 --> 02:08:34.960 Alice went on eagerly. That's enough about lessons, the griffin interrupted, 2065 02:08:35.039 --> 02:08:38.319 in a very decided tone. Tell her something about the 2066 02:08:38.359 --> 02:08:42.840 games now. End of chapter nine. 2067 02:08:43.439 --> 02:08:52.119 Chapter ten, the Lobster Quadrille. The mock turtle sighed deeply 2068 02:08:52.920 --> 02:08:57.279 and drew the back of one flapper across his eyes. 2069 02:08:58.840 --> 02:09:04.359 He looked at Alice and tried to speak, but for 2070 02:09:04.399 --> 02:09:11.039 a minute or two, sobs choked his voice, same as 2071 02:09:11.079 --> 02:09:14.880 if he had a bone in his throat, said the griffin, 2072 02:09:16.119 --> 02:09:20.199 and it set to work shaking him and punching him 2073 02:09:20.199 --> 02:09:25.439 in the back. At last, the mock turtle recovered his voice, 2074 02:09:26.199 --> 02:09:34.960 and with tears running down his cheeks, he went on again. 2075 02:09:35.640 --> 02:09:41.520 You may not have lived much under the sea, I haven't, 2076 02:09:41.680 --> 02:09:48.399 said Alice. And perhaps you were never even introduced to 2077 02:09:48.520 --> 02:09:55.680 a lobster. Alice began to say I once tasted, but 2078 02:09:56.319 --> 02:10:03.560 checked herself hastily and said, no, oh, never, So you 2079 02:10:04.000 --> 02:10:09.119 can have no idea what a delightful thing a lobster 2080 02:10:09.359 --> 02:10:16.039 quadrille is. No, indeed, said Alice, what sort of a 2081 02:10:16.159 --> 02:10:22.720 dance is it? Why, said the griffin. You first form 2082 02:10:22.960 --> 02:10:29.479 into a line along the seashore, two lines, cried the 2083 02:10:29.520 --> 02:10:37.159 mock turtle. Seals turtles, salmon, and so on. Then when 2084 02:10:37.199 --> 02:10:43.680 you've cleared all the jellyfish out of the way, that 2085 02:10:43.880 --> 02:10:51.960 generally takes some time, interrupted the griffin. You advanced twice, 2086 02:10:52.560 --> 02:10:56.720 each with a lobster as a partner, cried the griffin. 2087 02:10:58.079 --> 02:11:04.880 Of course, the mock turn said, advance twice, set to partners, 2088 02:11:06.199 --> 02:11:11.880 change lobsters, and retire in the same order, continued the griffin. 2089 02:11:13.159 --> 02:11:18.239 Then you know, the mock turtle went on. You throw 2090 02:11:18.399 --> 02:11:25.199 the the lobsters, shouted the griffin, with a bound into 2091 02:11:25.279 --> 02:11:30.359 the air. As far out to sea as you can 2092 02:11:32.359 --> 02:11:39.119 swim after them, screamed the griffin. Turn a somersault in 2093 02:11:39.239 --> 02:11:48.880 the sea, cried the mock turtle, capering wildly about change 2094 02:11:49.000 --> 02:11:53.560 lobsters again, yelled the griffin at the top of his voice. 2095 02:11:53.960 --> 02:11:58.039 Back to land again. And that's all, the first figure, 2096 02:11:58.800 --> 02:12:03.840 said the mock turtle, suddenly dropping his voice, and the 2097 02:12:03.880 --> 02:12:09.159 two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things 2098 02:12:09.199 --> 02:12:15.399 all this time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, 2099 02:12:16.800 --> 02:12:23.239 and looked at Alice. It must be a very pretty dance, 2100 02:12:24.000 --> 02:12:29.479 said Alice, timidly. Would you like to see a little 2101 02:12:29.560 --> 02:12:36.640 of it, said the mock turtle, Very much indeed, said Alice. 2102 02:12:37.960 --> 02:12:44.000 Come let's try the first figure, said the mock turtle 2103 02:12:44.079 --> 02:12:48.760 to the griffin. We can do without lobsters. You know 2104 02:12:50.239 --> 02:12:58.800 which shall sing? Oh you sing, said the griffin. I've 2105 02:12:59.239 --> 02:13:07.720 forgotten words. So they began solemnly dancing around and round 2106 02:13:07.840 --> 02:13:12.880 Alice every now and then, treading on her toes when 2107 02:13:12.920 --> 02:13:18.920 they passed too close, and waving their forepaws to mark 2108 02:13:19.039 --> 02:13:25.640 the time, while the mock turtle sang this very slowly 2109 02:13:26.119 --> 02:13:34.000 and sadly. Will you walk a little faster, said a 2110 02:13:34.159 --> 02:13:39.760 whiting to a snail. There's a porpoise close behind us, 2111 02:13:40.680 --> 02:13:46.319 and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the 2112 02:13:46.359 --> 02:13:52.560 lobsters and the turtles all advance. They are waiting on 2113 02:13:52.760 --> 02:13:58.560 the shingle. Will you come and join the dance. Will 2114 02:13:58.600 --> 02:14:02.640 you won't you will? Will you won't you? Will you 2115 02:14:02.800 --> 02:14:07.960 join the dance? Will you won't you? Will you won't 2116 02:14:08.039 --> 02:14:12.880 you won't you join the dance? You can really have 2117 02:14:13.119 --> 02:14:19.760 no notion how delightful it will be when they take 2118 02:14:19.880 --> 02:14:26.960 us up and throw us with the lobsters out to see. 2119 02:14:28.199 --> 02:14:33.840 But the snail replied, too far, too far, and gave 2120 02:14:33.920 --> 02:14:41.000 a look. Askance said he thanked the whiting kindly, but 2121 02:14:41.159 --> 02:14:46.119 he would not join the dance. Would not, could not, 2122 02:14:47.239 --> 02:14:52.960 would not, could not, would not join the dance. Would 2123 02:14:53.000 --> 02:14:57.600 not could not, would not, could not, could not join 2124 02:14:57.680 --> 02:15:02.079 the dance. What it matters it how far we go? 2125 02:15:03.159 --> 02:15:08.199 His scaly friend replied, there is another shore, you know, 2126 02:15:09.560 --> 02:15:15.039 upon the other side, the further off from England. The 2127 02:15:15.159 --> 02:15:21.720 nearer is to France. Then turn not, pale, beloved snail, 2128 02:15:22.600 --> 02:15:26.960 but come and join the dance. Will you won't you? 2129 02:15:27.880 --> 02:15:33.800 Will you? Won't you? Will you join the dance? Will 2130 02:15:33.880 --> 02:15:38.560 you won't you will you won't you? Won't you join 2131 02:15:38.640 --> 02:15:45.920 the dance? Thank you. It's a very interesting dance to watch, 2132 02:15:46.520 --> 02:15:52.279 said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last. 2133 02:15:53.279 --> 02:15:58.000 And I do so like that curious song about the whiting. 2134 02:16:00.000 --> 02:16:04.600 Oh as to the whiting, said the mock turtle. They 2135 02:16:05.520 --> 02:16:11.039 you've seen them, of course, yes, said Alice. I've often 2136 02:16:11.119 --> 02:16:18.079 seen them at Din. She checked herself hastily. I don't 2137 02:16:18.239 --> 02:16:24.079 know where Din may be, said the mock turtle. But 2138 02:16:24.399 --> 02:16:28.960 if you've seen them so often, of course you know 2139 02:16:29.039 --> 02:16:36.920 what they're like. I believe so, Alice replied thoughtfully. They 2140 02:16:37.000 --> 02:16:42.639 have their tails in their mouths, and they're all over crumbs. 2141 02:16:44.799 --> 02:16:51.079 You're wrong about the crumbs, said the mock turtle. Crumbs 2142 02:16:51.280 --> 02:16:56.920 would all wash off in the sea. But they have 2143 02:16:57.280 --> 02:17:03.280 their tails in their mouths. And the reason is, hear 2144 02:17:03.559 --> 02:17:08.879 the mock turtle yawned and shut his eyes. Tell her 2145 02:17:08.959 --> 02:17:12.719 about the reason and all that he said to the griffin. 2146 02:17:14.319 --> 02:17:19.959 The reason is, said the griffin, that they would go 2147 02:17:20.120 --> 02:17:25.520 with the lobsters to the dance, so they got thrown 2148 02:17:25.559 --> 02:17:30.399 out to sea, so they had to fall a long way, 2149 02:17:31.440 --> 02:17:36.479 so they got their tails fast in their mouths so 2150 02:17:36.559 --> 02:17:43.559 they couldn't get them out again. That's all, thank you, 2151 02:17:43.719 --> 02:17:49.840 said Alice. It's very interesting. I never knew so much 2152 02:17:50.040 --> 02:17:56.000 about a whiting before. I can tell you more than that, 2153 02:17:56.360 --> 02:18:01.440 if you like, said the griffin. Do you know why 2154 02:18:01.680 --> 02:18:07.719 it's called a whiting. I never thought about it, said Alice. 2155 02:18:08.559 --> 02:18:17.159 Why it does bob boots and shoes, the griffin replied, 2156 02:18:17.520 --> 02:18:26.440 very solemnly. Alice was thoroughly puzzled. Does the boots and shoes? 2157 02:18:27.520 --> 02:18:33.239 She repeated, in a wondering tone. Why what are your 2158 02:18:33.440 --> 02:18:39.399 shoes done with? Said the griffin, I mean, what makes 2159 02:18:39.479 --> 02:18:47.399 them so shiny? Alice looked down at them and considered 2160 02:18:47.600 --> 02:18:54.760 a little before she gave her answer. They're done with blacking, 2161 02:18:55.399 --> 02:19:03.159 I believe boots and shoes under the sea. The griffin 2162 02:19:03.239 --> 02:19:09.120 went on, in a deep voice. Are done with whiting. 2163 02:19:10.040 --> 02:19:11.079 Now you know? 2164 02:19:14.079 --> 02:19:17.760 And what are they made of? Alice asked, in a 2165 02:19:17.799 --> 02:19:25.799 tone of great curiosity. Souls and eels, of course, the 2166 02:19:25.879 --> 02:19:32.639 griffin replied, rather impatiently. Any shrimp could have told you that. 2167 02:19:36.159 --> 02:19:40.799 If I'd been the whiting, said Alice, whose thoughts were 2168 02:19:40.879 --> 02:19:46.159 still running on the song, I'd have said to the porpoise, 2169 02:19:47.399 --> 02:19:53.680 keep back, please, we don't want you with us. They 2170 02:19:53.719 --> 02:20:01.040 were obliged to have him with them. The mock turtle said, no, oh, wise, 2171 02:20:01.079 --> 02:20:07.799 fish would go anywhere without a porpoise, wouldn't it, really, 2172 02:20:08.799 --> 02:20:14.520 said Alice, in a tone of great surprise of course not, 2173 02:20:15.040 --> 02:20:20.440 said the mock turtle. Why if a fish came to 2174 02:20:20.479 --> 02:20:24.879 me and told me he was going on a journey, 2175 02:20:26.000 --> 02:20:33.920 I would say, with what porpoise? Don't you mean purpose, 2176 02:20:34.920 --> 02:20:40.719 said Alice, I mean what I say, the mock turtle 2177 02:20:40.799 --> 02:20:48.000 replied in an offended tone, and the griffin added, come, 2178 02:20:48.680 --> 02:20:54.600 let's hear some of your adventures. I could tell you 2179 02:20:54.680 --> 02:20:59.680 my adventures beginning from this morning, said Alice, a little 2180 02:20:59.760 --> 02:21:07.879 tim but it's no use going back to yesterday because 2181 02:21:08.840 --> 02:21:16.520 I was a different person. Then explain all that, said 2182 02:21:16.600 --> 02:21:23.280 the mock turtle. No, no, the adventures first, said the 2183 02:21:23.319 --> 02:21:30.959 griffin in an impatient tone. Explanations take such a dreadful time. 2184 02:21:33.680 --> 02:21:38.840 So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time 2185 02:21:38.959 --> 02:21:43.360 when she first saw the white rabbit. She was a 2186 02:21:43.399 --> 02:21:48.719 little nervous about it, just at first. The two creatures 2187 02:21:48.840 --> 02:21:54.159 got so close to her, one on each side, and 2188 02:21:54.360 --> 02:22:00.319 opened their eyes and mouths so very wide, But she 2189 02:22:00.399 --> 02:22:06.639 gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly 2190 02:22:06.840 --> 02:22:11.120 quiet till she got to the part about her repeating 2191 02:22:12.200 --> 02:22:17.840 you are old father William to the caterpillar, and the 2192 02:22:17.879 --> 02:22:23.040 words all coming different, and then the mock turtle drew 2193 02:22:23.079 --> 02:22:30.840 a long breath and said, that's very curious. It's all 2194 02:22:30.920 --> 02:22:36.399 about as curious as it can be, said the griffins. 2195 02:22:37.959 --> 02:22:44.959 It all came different, the mock turtle repeated thoughtfully, I 2196 02:22:45.040 --> 02:22:49.680 should like to hear her try and repeat something. Now, 2197 02:22:51.120 --> 02:22:56.600 tell her to begin. He looked at the griffin as 2198 02:22:56.760 --> 02:23:03.239 if he thought it had some kind of beforety over. Alice, 2199 02:23:03.280 --> 02:23:09.159 stand up and repeat, tis the voice of the sluggard, 2200 02:23:10.000 --> 02:23:17.200 said the griffin. How the creatures order one about and 2201 02:23:17.360 --> 02:23:22.719 make one repeat lessons? Thought Alice. I might as well 2202 02:23:22.760 --> 02:23:28.680 be at school at once. However, she got up and 2203 02:23:28.799 --> 02:23:33.079 began to repeat it, but her head was so full 2204 02:23:33.120 --> 02:23:37.360 of the lobster quadrille that she hardly knew what she 2205 02:23:37.600 --> 02:23:45.760 was saying, and that words came very queer. Indeed, tis 2206 02:23:45.840 --> 02:23:50.120 the voice of the lobster. I heard him declare you 2207 02:23:50.280 --> 02:23:54.680 have baked me too? Brown, I must sugar my hair 2208 02:23:56.159 --> 02:24:00.879 as a duck with its eyelids. So he with his nose, 2209 02:24:01.959 --> 02:24:06.520 trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his 2210 02:24:06.719 --> 02:24:12.399 toes when the sands are all dry. He is gay 2211 02:24:12.440 --> 02:24:17.719 as a lark, and will talk in contemptuous tones of 2212 02:24:17.760 --> 02:24:23.600 the shark. But when the tide rises and sharks are around. 2213 02:24:24.920 --> 02:24:32.799 His voice has a timid and tremulous sound. That's different 2214 02:24:32.959 --> 02:24:36.040 from what I used to say when I was a child, 2215 02:24:36.840 --> 02:24:41.959 said the griffin. Well I never heard it before, said 2216 02:24:42.000 --> 02:24:49.840 the mock turtle. But it sounds uncommon nonsense. Alice said nothing. 2217 02:24:50.799 --> 02:24:53.760 She had sat down with her face in her hands, 2218 02:24:54.440 --> 02:25:00.000 wondering if anything would ever happen in a natural way again. 2219 02:25:01.920 --> 02:25:06.479 I should like to have it explained, said the mock turtle. 2220 02:25:07.680 --> 02:25:13.040 She can't explain it, said the griffin hastily. Go on 2221 02:25:13.239 --> 02:25:19.680 with the next verse. But about his toes, the mock 2222 02:25:19.799 --> 02:25:25.639 turtle persisted. How could he turn them out with his nose? 2223 02:25:26.079 --> 02:25:33.040 You know, it's the first position in dancing, Alice said, 2224 02:25:33.760 --> 02:25:38.000 but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing and longed 2225 02:25:38.200 --> 02:25:43.079 to change the subject. Go on with the next verse, 2226 02:25:43.200 --> 02:25:50.239 the griffin repeated, impatiently. It begins, I passed by his garden. 2227 02:25:52.799 --> 02:25:58.159 Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure 2228 02:25:59.000 --> 02:26:03.600 it would all come wrong, and she went on in 2229 02:26:03.680 --> 02:26:10.399 a trembling voice. I passed by his garden and marked 2230 02:26:10.639 --> 02:26:16.479 with one eye how the owl and the panther were 2231 02:26:16.520 --> 02:26:24.479 sharing pie. The panther took pie crust and gravy and meat, 2232 02:26:25.120 --> 02:26:29.440 while the owl had the dish as its share of 2233 02:26:29.479 --> 02:26:34.280 the treat. When the pie was all finished, the owl, 2234 02:26:34.600 --> 02:26:40.159 as a boon, was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon, 2235 02:26:41.479 --> 02:26:46.280 while the panther received knife and fork with a growl 2236 02:26:47.520 --> 02:26:54.520 and concluded the banquet. What is the use of repeating 2237 02:26:54.680 --> 02:27:00.479 all that stuff, the mock turtle interrupted, If you don't 2238 02:27:00.520 --> 02:27:05.799 explain it as you go on, it's by far the 2239 02:27:05.840 --> 02:27:12.079 most confusing thing I ever heard. Yes, I think you'd 2240 02:27:12.120 --> 02:27:17.319 better leave off, said the griffin, and Alice was only 2241 02:27:17.520 --> 02:27:23.639 too glad to do so. Shall we try another figure 2242 02:27:23.760 --> 02:27:29.000 of the lobster quadrille? The griffin went on, Or would 2243 02:27:29.040 --> 02:27:32.360 you like the mock turtle to sing you a song? 2244 02:27:33.799 --> 02:27:34.040 Oh? 2245 02:27:34.680 --> 02:27:39.719 A song? Please? If the mock turtle would be so kind, 2246 02:27:40.239 --> 02:27:45.799 Alice replied so eagerly that the Griffin said, in a 2247 02:27:46.000 --> 02:27:54.719 rather offended tone, HM, no accounting for tastes, sing her 2248 02:27:54.879 --> 02:28:01.520 turtle soup, will you, old fellow. The mock turtle sighed 2249 02:28:01.559 --> 02:28:08.040 deeply and began, in a voice sometimes choked with sobs, 2250 02:28:09.000 --> 02:28:19.920 to sing this beautiful soup, so rich and green, waiting 2251 02:28:20.159 --> 02:28:27.399 in a hot turine. Who for such dainties? Would not 2252 02:28:27.959 --> 02:28:37.239 stoop soup of the evening, beautiful soup, Soup of the evening, 2253 02:28:38.559 --> 02:28:40.399 Beautiful soup. 2254 02:28:41.120 --> 02:28:56.239 Beautautiful soup, beautautiful soup, Soup. 2255 02:28:54.799 --> 02:29:06.760 Of the evening, beautiful beautiful soup, beautiful soup. 2256 02:29:07.799 --> 02:29:16.159 Who cares for fish, game or any other dish, Who 2257 02:29:16.239 --> 02:29:22.440 would not give all else for two pennyworth only of 2258 02:29:22.680 --> 02:29:37.399 beautiful soup, penniworth only of beautiful soup, beautiful soup, beautiful soup, 2259 02:29:38.440 --> 02:29:51.879 Soup of the ening, beautiful beautiful soup. Chorus again cried 2260 02:29:51.920 --> 02:29:56.360 the griffin, and the mock turtle had just begun to 2261 02:29:56.440 --> 02:30:01.559 repeat it when a cry of the the trials beginning 2262 02:30:02.479 --> 02:30:06.959 was heard in the distance. Come on, cried the griffin, 2263 02:30:07.719 --> 02:30:13.840 and taking Alice by the hand, it hurried off without 2264 02:30:13.879 --> 02:30:19.879 waiting for the end of the song. What trial is it? 2265 02:30:20.680 --> 02:30:25.840 Alice panted as she ran, but the griffin only answered, 2266 02:30:26.639 --> 02:30:32.280 come on, and ran the faster, while more and more 2267 02:30:32.360 --> 02:30:38.000 faintly came carried on the breeze that followed them the 2268 02:30:38.040 --> 02:30:41.559 melancholy words soon. 2269 02:30:42.959 --> 02:30:50.639 Of the evening beautiful Beautiful Soup. 2270 02:30:54.520 --> 02:30:56.760 End of chapter ten. 2271 02:30:57.559 --> 02:31:00.879 Chapter eleven, the King and Queen of Hearts were seated 2272 02:31:00.920 --> 02:31:03.440 on their throne. When they arrived, with a great crowd 2273 02:31:03.520 --> 02:31:06.799 assembled about them, all sorts of little birds and beasts, 2274 02:31:06.959 --> 02:31:09.520 as well as a whole pack of cards. The Knave 2275 02:31:09.680 --> 02:31:12.120 was standing before them in chains, with a soldier on 2276 02:31:12.159 --> 02:31:15.000 each side to guard him, and near the king was 2277 02:31:15.000 --> 02:31:17.559 the white Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand and 2278 02:31:17.639 --> 02:31:20.520 a scroll of parchment in the other. In the very 2279 02:31:20.559 --> 02:31:23.159 middle of the court was a table with a large 2280 02:31:23.159 --> 02:31:25.799 dish of tarts upon it. They looked so good that 2281 02:31:25.840 --> 02:31:28.639 it made Alice quite hungry to look at them. I 2282 02:31:28.719 --> 02:31:31.159 wish they'd get the trial done, she thought, and hand 2283 02:31:31.239 --> 02:31:34.680 round the refreshments. But there seemed to be no chance 2284 02:31:34.719 --> 02:31:37.559 of this, so she began looking at everything about her 2285 02:31:37.600 --> 02:31:41.319 to pass away the time. Alice had never been in 2286 02:31:41.360 --> 02:31:43.680 a court of justice before, but she had read about 2287 02:31:43.680 --> 02:31:46.159 them in books, and she was quite pleased to find 2288 02:31:46.200 --> 02:31:47.959 that she knew the name of nearly everything. 2289 02:31:48.000 --> 02:31:48.280 There. 2290 02:31:49.040 --> 02:31:51.399 That's the judge, she said to herself, because of his 2291 02:31:51.479 --> 02:31:55.639 great wig. The judge, by the way, was the king. 2292 02:31:55.920 --> 02:31:58.040 And as he wore his crown over the wig, he 2293 02:31:58.120 --> 02:32:00.760 did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly 2294 02:32:00.799 --> 02:32:04.559 not becoming. And that's the jury box, thought Alice, and 2295 02:32:04.600 --> 02:32:08.000 those twelve creatures. She was obliged to say creatures, you see, 2296 02:32:08.120 --> 02:32:10.680 because some of them were animals and some were birds. 2297 02:32:11.200 --> 02:32:14.200 I suppose they are the jurors. She said this last 2298 02:32:14.239 --> 02:32:16.760 word two or three times over to herself, being rather 2299 02:32:16.799 --> 02:32:19.719 proud of it, for she thought, and rightly too, that 2300 02:32:19.959 --> 02:32:22.440 very few little girls of her age knew the meaning 2301 02:32:22.479 --> 02:32:25.840 of it at all. However, jurymen would have done just 2302 02:32:25.879 --> 02:32:30.120 as well. The twelve jurors were all writing very busily 2303 02:32:30.159 --> 02:32:33.959 on slates. What are they doing, Alice whispered to the griffin. 2304 02:32:34.559 --> 02:32:37.079 They can't have anything to put down yet before the 2305 02:32:37.120 --> 02:32:41.520 trial's begun. They're putting down their names. The griffin whispered 2306 02:32:41.520 --> 02:32:44.520 in reply, for fear that they should forget them before 2307 02:32:44.559 --> 02:32:49.000 the end of the trial. Stupid things, Alice began in 2308 02:32:49.079 --> 02:32:51.959 a loud, indignant voice. But she stopped hastily, for the 2309 02:32:51.959 --> 02:32:54.600 white rabbit cried out silence in the court, and the 2310 02:32:54.719 --> 02:32:57.319 king put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round to 2311 02:32:57.360 --> 02:33:01.440 make out who was talking. Alice could see, as well 2312 02:33:01.479 --> 02:33:03.719 as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all 2313 02:33:03.760 --> 02:33:06.840 the jurors were writing down stupid things on their slates, 2314 02:33:07.159 --> 02:33:09.040 and she could even make out that one of them 2315 02:33:09.079 --> 02:33:11.600 didn't know how to spell stupid, and that he had 2316 02:33:11.600 --> 02:33:14.879 to ask his neighbor to tell him a nice muddle. 2317 02:33:14.920 --> 02:33:17.760 Their slates'll be in before the trial's over, thought Alice, 2318 02:33:19.600 --> 02:33:22.239 one of the jurors, had a pencil that squeaked. This, 2319 02:33:22.319 --> 02:33:25.040 of course Alice could not stand, and she went round 2320 02:33:25.079 --> 02:33:27.399 the court and got behind him, and very soon found 2321 02:33:27.399 --> 02:33:30.399 an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so 2322 02:33:30.520 --> 02:33:33.440 quickly that the poor little juror, it was Bill the Lizard, 2323 02:33:33.840 --> 02:33:36.239 could not make out at all what had become of it. So, 2324 02:33:36.520 --> 02:33:39.200 after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to 2325 02:33:39.200 --> 02:33:41.200 write with one finger for the rest of the day. 2326 02:33:41.360 --> 02:33:43.520 And this was of very little use, as it left 2327 02:33:43.600 --> 02:33:48.079 no mark on the slate. How old read the accusation, 2328 02:33:48.360 --> 02:33:51.639 said the king. On this, the white rabbit blew three 2329 02:33:51.680 --> 02:33:54.680 blasts on the trumpet, and then enrolled the parchment scroll 2330 02:33:54.760 --> 02:33:58.399 and read as follows. The Queen of Hearts she made 2331 02:33:58.399 --> 02:34:01.760 some tarts all on a summer. The Knave of Hearts, 2332 02:34:01.760 --> 02:34:06.200 he stole those tarts and took them quite away. Consider 2333 02:34:06.239 --> 02:34:09.120 your verdict, the king said to the jury. Not yet, 2334 02:34:09.200 --> 02:34:12.399 not yet, the rabbit hastily interrupted, that's a great deal 2335 02:34:12.440 --> 02:34:16.600 to come before that call the first witness, said the King, 2336 02:34:16.799 --> 02:34:19.120 and the white Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet 2337 02:34:19.159 --> 02:34:23.760 and called out best witness. The first witness was the hatter. 2338 02:34:24.680 --> 02:34:26.760 He came in with a tea cup in one hand 2339 02:34:26.840 --> 02:34:28.680 and a piece of bread and butter in the other. 2340 02:34:29.600 --> 02:34:32.840 I beg pardon your majesty, he began for bringing these in. 2341 02:34:33.319 --> 02:34:35.280 But I hadn't quite finished my tea when I was 2342 02:34:35.319 --> 02:34:38.879 sent for. You ought to have finished, said the king. 2343 02:34:39.479 --> 02:34:42.479 When did you begin? The hatter looked at the march Hare, 2344 02:34:42.639 --> 02:34:44.680 who had followed him into the court arm in arm 2345 02:34:44.719 --> 02:34:48.159 with a dormouse. Fourteenth of March, I think it was, 2346 02:34:48.360 --> 02:34:52.559 he said, Fifteenth, said the march Hare. Sixteenth, added the dormouse. 2347 02:34:53.360 --> 02:34:55.799 Write that down, the King said to the jury, and 2348 02:34:55.920 --> 02:34:58.799 the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, 2349 02:34:59.120 --> 02:35:01.159 and then added them up and reduced the answer to 2350 02:35:01.200 --> 02:35:04.840 shillings and pence. Take off your hat, the king said 2351 02:35:04.840 --> 02:35:08.120 to the hatter, It isn't mine, said the hatter. Still in, 2352 02:35:08.239 --> 02:35:11.159 the king exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made 2353 02:35:11.200 --> 02:35:14.319 a memorandum of the fact, I keep them to sell. 2354 02:35:14.559 --> 02:35:17.520 The hatter added, as an explanation, I've none of my own. 2355 02:35:17.799 --> 02:35:20.799 I am a hatter here. The Queen put on her 2356 02:35:20.799 --> 02:35:23.760 spectacles and began staring at the hatter, who turned pale 2357 02:35:23.799 --> 02:35:27.840 and fidgeted. Give your evidence, said the king, and don't 2358 02:35:27.879 --> 02:35:30.239 be nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot. 2359 02:35:31.280 --> 02:35:33.760 This did not seem to encourage the witness at all. 2360 02:35:34.360 --> 02:35:36.760 He kept shifting from one foot to the other, looking 2361 02:35:36.840 --> 02:35:39.920 uneasily at the Queen, and in his confusion, he bit 2362 02:35:39.959 --> 02:35:42.239 a large piece out of his teacup instead of the 2363 02:35:42.280 --> 02:35:46.719 bread and butter. Just at this moment, Alice felt a 2364 02:35:46.840 --> 02:35:50.000 very curious sensation, which puzzled her a good deal until 2365 02:35:50.040 --> 02:35:52.680 she made out what it was. She was beginning to 2366 02:35:52.719 --> 02:35:55.399 grow larger again, and she thought at first she would 2367 02:35:55.399 --> 02:35:57.920 get up and leave the court, but on second thoughts, 2368 02:35:58.000 --> 02:36:00.360 she decided to remain where she was as long as 2369 02:36:00.360 --> 02:36:03.799 there was room for her. I wish you wouldn't squeeze, 2370 02:36:03.879 --> 02:36:06.120 so said the dormouse, who was sitting next to her. 2371 02:36:06.440 --> 02:36:10.079 I can hardly breathe. I can't help it, said Alice, 2372 02:36:10.159 --> 02:36:13.520 very meekly. I'm growing. You've no right to grow, here, 2373 02:36:13.559 --> 02:36:17.639 said the dormouse. Don't talk nonsense, said Alice more boldly. 2374 02:36:17.959 --> 02:36:21.399 You know you're growing too, Yes, but I grow at 2375 02:36:21.440 --> 02:36:24.879 a reasonable pace, said the dormouse, not in that ridiculous fashion, 2376 02:36:25.520 --> 02:36:27.799 And he got up, very sulkily and crossed over to 2377 02:36:27.840 --> 02:36:31.440 the other side of the court. All this time the 2378 02:36:31.479 --> 02:36:34.239 Queen had never left off staring at the hatter, and 2379 02:36:34.440 --> 02:36:37.000 just as the dormouse crossed the court, she said to 2380 02:36:37.040 --> 02:36:39.680 one of the officers of the court, bring me the 2381 02:36:39.760 --> 02:36:42.440 list to the singers in the last concert, on which 2382 02:36:42.440 --> 02:36:44.879 the wretched hatter trembled so that he shook both his 2383 02:36:44.959 --> 02:36:49.120 shoes off. Give your evidence, the king repeated, angrily, or 2384 02:36:49.159 --> 02:36:53.399 I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or not. I'm 2385 02:36:53.440 --> 02:36:56.040 a poor man, your majesty, the hatter began, in a 2386 02:36:56.040 --> 02:36:59.840 trembling voice. And I hadn't begun my tea, not above 2387 02:36:59.879 --> 02:37:02.479 a week or so, And what with the bread and 2388 02:37:02.520 --> 02:37:05.000 butter getting so thin, and the twinkling of the tea, 2389 02:37:06.040 --> 02:37:08.959 the twinkling of the watt, said the king. It begun 2390 02:37:09.079 --> 02:37:12.840 with the tea. The hatter replied, Of course, twinkling begins 2391 02:37:12.840 --> 02:37:15.479 with the tea, said the King. Sharply, do take me 2392 02:37:15.559 --> 02:37:19.200 for a dunce. Go on, I'm a poor man. The 2393 02:37:19.239 --> 02:37:22.680 hatter went on, and most things twinkled. After that, only 2394 02:37:22.879 --> 02:37:26.200 the march hare said I didn't. The march hare interrupted, 2395 02:37:26.200 --> 02:37:28.719 in a great hurry. You did, said the hatter. I 2396 02:37:28.799 --> 02:37:32.040 deny it, said the march hare. He denies it, said 2397 02:37:32.040 --> 02:37:35.719 the king. Leave out that part well, at any rate, 2398 02:37:35.799 --> 02:37:38.879 the dormouse said. The hatter went on looking anxiously round 2399 02:37:38.879 --> 02:37:41.120 to see if he would deny it too, but the 2400 02:37:41.120 --> 02:37:46.079 dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep. After that, continued the hatter. 2401 02:37:46.399 --> 02:37:49.239 I cut some more bread and butter. But what did 2402 02:37:49.280 --> 02:37:52.079 the dormouse say. One of the jury asked that I 2403 02:37:52.079 --> 02:37:56.719 can't remember, said the hatter. You must remember, remarked the king, 2404 02:37:56.920 --> 02:38:00.479 or I'll have you executed. The miserable hatter dropped his 2405 02:38:00.520 --> 02:38:03.040 teacup and bread and butter and went down on one knee. 2406 02:38:03.440 --> 02:38:06.600 I'm a poor man, your majesty, he began. You're a 2407 02:38:06.719 --> 02:38:09.879 very poor speaker, said the king. Here one of the 2408 02:38:09.879 --> 02:38:13.120 guinea pigs cheered and was immediately suppressed by the officers 2409 02:38:13.120 --> 02:38:15.879 of the court. As that is rather a hard word, 2410 02:38:16.000 --> 02:38:18.000 I will just explain to you how it was done. 2411 02:38:18.079 --> 02:38:20.200 They had a large canvas bag which tied up at 2412 02:38:20.239 --> 02:38:22.879 the mouth with strings. Into this they slipped the guinea 2413 02:38:22.879 --> 02:38:26.719 pig headfirst, and then sat upon it. I'm glad I've 2414 02:38:26.760 --> 02:38:29.479 seen that done, thought Alice. I've so often read in 2415 02:38:29.520 --> 02:38:31.920 the newspapers at the end of trials there with some 2416 02:38:32.040 --> 02:38:35.159 attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers 2417 02:38:35.159 --> 02:38:37.319 of the court. And I never understood what it meant 2418 02:38:37.399 --> 02:38:41.040 till now. If that's all you know about it, you 2419 02:38:41.079 --> 02:38:44.719 may stand down, continued the king. I can't go, no loa, 2420 02:38:44.879 --> 02:38:46.840 said the hatter. I'm on the floor as it is. 2421 02:38:47.639 --> 02:38:50.319 Then you may sit down, the king replied. Hear the 2422 02:38:50.360 --> 02:38:54.360 other guinea pig cheered and was suppressed. Come that finished, 2423 02:38:54.360 --> 02:38:56.840 the guinea pigs, thought, Alice, Now we shall get on better. 2424 02:38:58.239 --> 02:39:00.440 I'd rather finish my tea, said the hatter, with an 2425 02:39:00.440 --> 02:39:02.600 anxious look at the Queen, who was reading the list 2426 02:39:02.600 --> 02:39:05.399 of singers. You may go, said the king, and the 2427 02:39:05.440 --> 02:39:07.959 hatter hurriedly left the court, without even waiting to put 2428 02:39:07.959 --> 02:39:11.559 his shoes on, and just take his head off outside, 2429 02:39:11.639 --> 02:39:13.879 the queen added to one of the officers, but the 2430 02:39:13.920 --> 02:39:16.000 hatter was out of sight before the officer could get 2431 02:39:16.000 --> 02:39:19.559 to the door. Call the next witness, said the king. 2432 02:39:20.639 --> 02:39:23.719 The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the 2433 02:39:23.760 --> 02:39:26.000 pipper box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it 2434 02:39:26.159 --> 02:39:28.840 was even before she got into the court. By the way, 2435 02:39:28.840 --> 02:39:31.200 the people knew, the door began sneezing. All at once, 2436 02:39:32.399 --> 02:39:36.159 Give your evidence, said the king. Saunt, said the cook. 2437 02:39:37.440 --> 02:39:39.879 The King looked anxiously at the white rabbit, who said, 2438 02:39:39.959 --> 02:39:45.600 in a low voice, your Majesty must cross examine this witness. Well, 2439 02:39:45.600 --> 02:39:47.799 if I must, I must, the King said with a 2440 02:39:47.799 --> 02:39:51.120 melancholy air, And after folding his arms and frowning at 2441 02:39:51.120 --> 02:39:53.159 the cook till his eyes were nearly out of sight, 2442 02:39:53.280 --> 02:39:56.399 he said, in a deep voice, what those hearts made 2443 02:39:56.440 --> 02:40:01.399 of Papa? Mostly said the cook. Threakle, said a sleepy 2444 02:40:01.479 --> 02:40:05.680 voice behind her, Call that dormouse. The Queen shrieked out, 2445 02:40:05.879 --> 02:40:10.159 behead that dormouse. Turn that dormouse out of courts, suppress him, 2446 02:40:10.440 --> 02:40:15.000 pinch him off with his whiskers. For some minutes the 2447 02:40:15.040 --> 02:40:17.799 whole court was in confusion getting the dormouse turned out, 2448 02:40:18.159 --> 02:40:20.000 and by the time they had settled down again, the 2449 02:40:20.040 --> 02:40:23.920 cook had disappeared. Never Mind, said the King, with an 2450 02:40:23.920 --> 02:40:27.360 air of great relief. Call the next witness, and he added, 2451 02:40:27.399 --> 02:40:30.559 in an undertone, to the queen. Really, my dear, you 2452 02:40:30.639 --> 02:40:35.319 must cross examine the next witness. It quite mixed my foreheadache. 2453 02:40:35.360 --> 02:40:38.000 Alice watched the white rabbit as he fumbled over the list, 2454 02:40:38.120 --> 02:40:40.559 feeling very curious to see what the next witness would 2455 02:40:40.600 --> 02:40:43.719 be like, for they haven't gotten much evidence yet, she 2456 02:40:43.799 --> 02:40:47.239 said to herself, imagine her surprise when the white rabbit 2457 02:40:47.319 --> 02:40:49.239 read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, 2458 02:40:49.239 --> 02:40:54.399 the name Alice. End of chapter eleven. 2459 02:40:54.479 --> 02:40:59.920 Alice's evidence here, cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flood 2460 02:41:00.120 --> 02:41:02.399 of the moment how large she had grown in the 2461 02:41:02.479 --> 02:41:05.360 last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a 2462 02:41:05.440 --> 02:41:08.000 hurry that she tipped over the jury box with the 2463 02:41:08.079 --> 02:41:10.680 edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to 2464 02:41:10.760 --> 02:41:13.600 the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay 2465 02:41:13.719 --> 02:41:16.959 sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of 2466 02:41:17.000 --> 02:41:20.879 goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before. Oh, I 2467 02:41:20.959 --> 02:41:23.920 beg your pardon, she exclaimed, in a tone of great dismay, 2468 02:41:24.360 --> 02:41:26.879 and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, 2469 02:41:27.399 --> 02:41:29.959 for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, 2470 02:41:30.520 --> 02:41:32.680 and she had a vague sort of idea that they 2471 02:41:32.719 --> 02:41:34.719 must be collected at once and put back into the 2472 02:41:34.799 --> 02:41:39.040 jury box, or they would die. The trial cannot proceed, 2473 02:41:39.520 --> 02:41:42.520 said the King in a very grave voice, until all 2474 02:41:42.559 --> 02:41:45.280 of the jurymen are back in their proper places, all, 2475 02:41:46.200 --> 02:41:50.399 he repeated, with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as 2476 02:41:50.440 --> 02:41:55.000 he said so. Alice looked at the jury box and 2477 02:41:55.040 --> 02:41:57.719 saw that in her haste she had put the lizard 2478 02:41:57.760 --> 02:42:00.799 in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving 2479 02:42:00.799 --> 02:42:03.920 its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable 2480 02:42:03.959 --> 02:42:07.200 to move. She soon got it out again and put 2481 02:42:07.239 --> 02:42:11.079 it right. Not that it signifies much, she said to herself, 2482 02:42:11.479 --> 02:42:13.200 I should think it be quite as much use in 2483 02:42:13.239 --> 02:42:16.760 the trial one way up as the other. As soon 2484 02:42:16.760 --> 02:42:19.239 as the jury had a little recovered from the shock 2485 02:42:19.280 --> 02:42:22.239 of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been 2486 02:42:22.280 --> 02:42:25.079 found and handed back to them, they set to work 2487 02:42:25.239 --> 02:42:28.120 very diligently to write out a history of the accident, 2488 02:42:28.879 --> 02:42:31.600 all except the lizard, who seemed too much overcome to 2489 02:42:31.600 --> 02:42:34.920 do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up 2490 02:42:34.959 --> 02:42:37.719 into the roof of the court. What do you know 2491 02:42:37.760 --> 02:42:43.159 about this business, the King said to Alice. Nothing said Alice, 2492 02:42:43.760 --> 02:42:49.959 nothing whatever, persisted the King, nothing whatever, said Alice, that's 2493 02:42:50.079 --> 02:42:53.120 very important, the king said, turning to the jury. They 2494 02:42:53.120 --> 02:42:55.399 were just beginning to write this down on their slates 2495 02:42:55.639 --> 02:42:59.920 when the White Rabbit interrupted, unimportant, Your majesty means, of course, 2496 02:43:00.479 --> 02:43:03.479 he said, in a very respectful tone, but frowning and 2497 02:43:03.520 --> 02:43:08.120 making faces at him as he spoke. Unimportant, of course, 2498 02:43:08.200 --> 02:43:11.360 I meant, the king hastily said, and went on to 2499 02:43:11.440 --> 02:43:16.559 himself in an undertone important, unimportant, unimportant, important, as if 2500 02:43:16.559 --> 02:43:20.879 he was trying which word sounded best. Some of the 2501 02:43:20.959 --> 02:43:25.879 jury wrote it down important and some unimportant. Alice could 2502 02:43:25.920 --> 02:43:27.840 see this, as she was near enough to look over 2503 02:43:27.879 --> 02:43:31.120 their slates. But it doesn't matter a bit, she thought 2504 02:43:31.120 --> 02:43:35.239 to herself. At this moment, the King, who had been 2505 02:43:35.280 --> 02:43:37.760 for some time busily writing in his note book, cackled 2506 02:43:37.760 --> 02:43:42.239 out silence and read out from his book rule forty two, 2507 02:43:42.399 --> 02:43:46.840 all persons more than a mile high to leave the court. 2508 02:43:47.280 --> 02:43:51.200 Everybody looked at Alice. I'm not a mile high, said Alice. 2509 02:43:51.600 --> 02:43:54.760 You are, said the king, nearly two miles high, added 2510 02:43:54.760 --> 02:43:58.200 the Queen. Well, I shan't go at any rate, said Alice. Beside, 2511 02:43:58.559 --> 02:44:01.479 that's not a regular rule. You invented it just now. 2512 02:44:02.879 --> 02:44:05.159 It's the oldest rule in the book, said the King. 2513 02:44:06.040 --> 02:44:09.879 Then it ought to be number one, said Alice. The 2514 02:44:09.959 --> 02:44:13.920 King turned pale and shut his notebook. Hastily consider your verdict, 2515 02:44:14.200 --> 02:44:17.120 he said to the jury in a low trembling voice. 2516 02:44:17.639 --> 02:44:20.600 There's more evidence to come yet, please, your majesty, said 2517 02:44:20.639 --> 02:44:22.840 the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry. This 2518 02:44:23.000 --> 02:44:26.600 paper has just been picked up. What's in it, said 2519 02:44:26.600 --> 02:44:29.920 the Queen. I haven't opened it yet, said the White rabbit. 2520 02:44:30.159 --> 02:44:33.040 But it seems to be a letter written by the 2521 02:44:33.079 --> 02:44:37.479 prisoner to to somebody. It must have been, that, said 2522 02:44:37.520 --> 02:44:40.799 the King, unless it was written to nobody, which isn't usual. 2523 02:44:40.879 --> 02:44:44.680 You know who is it directed to, said one of 2524 02:44:44.680 --> 02:44:48.479 the jurymen. It isn't directed at all, said the white letter. 2525 02:44:48.520 --> 02:44:53.079 In fact, there's nothing written on the outside. He unfolded 2526 02:44:53.079 --> 02:44:55.719 the paper as he spoke, and added, it isn't a letter, 2527 02:44:55.760 --> 02:45:00.479 after all. It's a set of verses. Are they in 2528 02:45:00.600 --> 02:45:05.399 the prisoner's handwriting, asked another of the jurymen. No, they're not, 2529 02:45:06.079 --> 02:45:09.159 said the white rabbit. And that's the queerest thing about it. 2530 02:45:10.360 --> 02:45:14.159 The jury all looked puzzled. He must have imitated somebody 2531 02:45:14.200 --> 02:45:18.399 else's hand, said the King. The jury all brightened up again, Please, 2532 02:45:18.440 --> 02:45:20.760 your majesty, said the knave. I didn't write it, and 2533 02:45:20.840 --> 02:45:23.760 they can't prove I did. There's no name signed at 2534 02:45:23.760 --> 02:45:27.239 the end. If you didn't sign it, said the king. 2535 02:45:27.280 --> 02:45:30.559 That only makes the matter worse. You must have meant 2536 02:45:30.639 --> 02:45:32.959 some mischief, or else you'd have signed your name like 2537 02:45:33.000 --> 02:45:36.440 an honest man. There was a general clapping of hands 2538 02:45:36.440 --> 02:45:39.120 at this. It was the first really clever thing the 2539 02:45:39.200 --> 02:45:43.000 King had said that day. That proves his guilt, said 2540 02:45:43.000 --> 02:45:46.680 the Queen. It proves nothing of the sort, said Alice. 2541 02:45:46.879 --> 02:45:50.840 Why you don't even know what they're about? Read them, 2542 02:45:51.319 --> 02:45:55.000 said the king. The white rabbit put on his spectacles. 2543 02:45:55.680 --> 02:45:59.479 Where shall I begin, Please, your majesty, he asked, Begin 2544 02:46:00.120 --> 02:46:03.680 the beginning, the King said, gravely, and go on till 2545 02:46:03.680 --> 02:46:07.159 you come to the end. Then stop. These were the 2546 02:46:07.239 --> 02:46:11.600 verses the white Rabbit read. They told me you had 2547 02:46:11.639 --> 02:46:14.799 been to her and mentioned me to him. She gave 2548 02:46:14.840 --> 02:46:17.360 me a good character, but said I could not swim. 2549 02:46:18.680 --> 02:46:20.879 He sent them word I had not gone. We know 2550 02:46:21.000 --> 02:46:23.600 it to be true. If she would push the matter on, 2551 02:46:24.040 --> 02:46:27.920 what would become of you? I gave her one, They 2552 02:46:27.959 --> 02:46:31.479 gave him two, You gave us three or more. They 2553 02:46:31.520 --> 02:46:35.000 all returned from him to you, though they were mine before. 2554 02:46:36.680 --> 02:46:37.680 If I or she. 2555 02:46:37.879 --> 02:46:41.440 Should chance to be involved in this affair, he trusts 2556 02:46:41.520 --> 02:46:45.040 to you to set them three exactly as we were. 2557 02:46:47.040 --> 02:46:49.799 My notion was that you had been before. She had 2558 02:46:49.799 --> 02:46:54.360 this fit, an obstacle that came between him and ourselves, 2559 02:46:54.760 --> 02:46:59.280 and it don't let him know she liked them best, 2560 02:46:59.319 --> 02:47:02.799 for this must be a secret kept from all the rest, 2561 02:47:03.159 --> 02:47:08.360 between yourself and me. That's the most important piece of 2562 02:47:08.360 --> 02:47:10.959 evidence we've heard yet, said the King, rubbing his hands. 2563 02:47:11.120 --> 02:47:13.799 And now let the jury, if any one of them 2564 02:47:13.879 --> 02:47:17.239 can explain it, said Alice. She had grown so large 2565 02:47:17.239 --> 02:47:19.239 in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit 2566 02:47:19.280 --> 02:47:22.760 afraid of interrupting him. I'll give him sixpence. I don't 2567 02:47:22.760 --> 02:47:26.520 believe there's an atom of meaning in it. The jury 2568 02:47:26.559 --> 02:47:29.360 all wrote this down on their slates. She doesn't believe 2569 02:47:29.360 --> 02:47:31.799 there's an atom of meaning in it. But none of 2570 02:47:31.840 --> 02:47:35.440 them attempted to explain the paper. If there's no meaning 2571 02:47:35.440 --> 02:47:38.360 in it, said the King. That saves a world of trouble, 2572 02:47:38.399 --> 02:47:41.440 you know, as we needn't try to find any And 2573 02:47:41.520 --> 02:47:44.200 yet I don't know. He went on spreading out the 2574 02:47:44.280 --> 02:47:46.719 verses on his knee, and looking at them all with 2575 02:47:46.799 --> 02:47:49.799 one eye. I seem to see some meaning in them, 2576 02:47:49.840 --> 02:47:54.280 after all, said I could not swim. You can't swim, 2577 02:47:54.319 --> 02:47:57.719 can you, he added, turning to the knave. The knave 2578 02:47:57.760 --> 02:48:00.479 shook his head sadly. Do I look like it, he said, 2579 02:48:00.719 --> 02:48:03.879 which he certainly did not, being made entirely of cardboard. 2580 02:48:05.079 --> 02:48:07.719 All right, so far, said the king, and he went 2581 02:48:07.760 --> 02:48:10.719 on muttering over the verses to himself. We know it 2582 02:48:10.840 --> 02:48:14.159 to be true. That's the jury. Of course, I gave 2583 02:48:14.200 --> 02:48:18.000 her one, They gave him two. Why that must be 2584 02:48:18.120 --> 02:48:21.479 what he did with the tarts, you know. But it 2585 02:48:21.520 --> 02:48:24.040 goes on. They all returned from him to you, said Alice. 2586 02:48:25.000 --> 02:48:28.559 Why there they are, said the King, triumphantly, pointing to 2587 02:48:28.559 --> 02:48:31.479 the tarts on the table. Nothing can be clearer than that. 2588 02:48:32.120 --> 02:48:36.879 Then again, before she had this fit, you never had fits, 2589 02:48:36.959 --> 02:48:39.959 my dear, I think, he said to the queen. Never, 2590 02:48:40.120 --> 02:48:43.399 said the queen, furiously, throwing an inkstand at the lizard 2591 02:48:43.399 --> 02:48:47.319 as she spoke. The unfortunate little bill had left off 2592 02:48:47.360 --> 02:48:49.840 writing on his slate with one finger, as he found 2593 02:48:49.879 --> 02:48:52.559 it made no mark, But he now hastily began again 2594 02:48:52.680 --> 02:48:55.559 using the ink that was trickling down his face as 2595 02:48:55.600 --> 02:48:59.280 long as it lasted. Then the words don't fit you, 2596 02:48:59.680 --> 02:49:03.479 said King, looking round the court with a smile. There 2597 02:49:03.520 --> 02:49:07.760 was a dead silence. It's upon, the King added in 2598 02:49:07.760 --> 02:49:11.680 an offended tone, and everybody laughed. Let the jury consider 2599 02:49:11.719 --> 02:49:14.399 their verdict, the King said, for about the twentieth time 2600 02:49:14.440 --> 02:49:19.680 that day. No, No, said the queen. Sentence first, verdict afterwards, 2601 02:49:20.520 --> 02:49:24.120 stuff and nonsense, said Alice loudly. The idea of having 2602 02:49:24.159 --> 02:49:29.600 the sentence first, hold your tongue, said the queen, turning purple. 2603 02:49:30.520 --> 02:49:35.319 I won't, said Alice. Off with her head, the queen 2604 02:49:35.360 --> 02:49:39.559 shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved. Who 2605 02:49:39.680 --> 02:49:42.079 cares for you, said Alice. She had grown to her 2606 02:49:42.079 --> 02:49:44.559 full size by this time. You're nothing but a pack 2607 02:49:44.600 --> 02:49:48.360 of cards. At this the whole pack rose up into 2608 02:49:48.360 --> 02:49:51.319 the air and came flying down upon her. She gave 2609 02:49:51.360 --> 02:49:53.959 a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, 2610 02:49:54.159 --> 02:49:56.559 and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying 2611 02:49:56.600 --> 02:49:58.920 on the bank with her head in the lap of 2612 02:49:58.920 --> 02:50:02.239 her sister, who gently brushing away some dead leaves that 2613 02:50:02.280 --> 02:50:06.920 had fluttered down from the tree upon her face. Wake up, Alice, dear, 2614 02:50:07.239 --> 02:50:11.879 said her sister. Why what a long sleep you've had. Oh, 2615 02:50:11.920 --> 02:50:15.360 I've had such a curious dream, said Alice, And she 2616 02:50:15.479 --> 02:50:18.600 told her sister as well as she could remember them, 2617 02:50:18.840 --> 02:50:21.559 all these strange adventures of hers that you've just been 2618 02:50:21.600 --> 02:50:25.280 reading about. And when she had finished, her sister kissed 2619 02:50:25.280 --> 02:50:28.680 her and said, it was a curious dream, dear, certainly, 2620 02:50:29.239 --> 02:50:33.360 But now run into your tea. It's getting late. So 2621 02:50:33.520 --> 02:50:36.520 Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, 2622 02:50:36.680 --> 02:50:39.639 as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been. 2623 02:50:41.120 --> 02:50:44.399 But her sister sat still just as she left her, 2624 02:50:45.399 --> 02:50:48.879 leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun 2625 02:50:49.440 --> 02:50:53.000 and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful adventures, 2626 02:50:53.799 --> 02:50:57.680 till she too began dreaming, after a fashion, and this 2627 02:50:57.840 --> 02:51:02.319 was her dream. First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, 2628 02:51:02.680 --> 02:51:05.639 and once again the tiny hands were clasped upon her knee, 2629 02:51:05.799 --> 02:51:08.399 and the bright, eager eyes were looking up into hers, 2630 02:51:09.040 --> 02:51:11.360 and she could hear the very tones of her voice, 2631 02:51:11.719 --> 02:51:14.239 and see that queer little toss of her head to 2632 02:51:14.319 --> 02:51:16.799 keep back the wandering hair that would always get into 2633 02:51:16.840 --> 02:51:21.079 her eyes. And still as she listened, or seemed to listen, 2634 02:51:21.920 --> 02:51:25.760 the whole place around her became alive, the strange creatures 2635 02:51:25.799 --> 02:51:29.440 of her little sister's dream. The long grass rustled at 2636 02:51:29.440 --> 02:51:33.479 her feet as the white rabbit, hurried by the frightened mouse, 2637 02:51:33.520 --> 02:51:36.760 splashed his way through the neighboring pool. She could hear 2638 02:51:36.799 --> 02:51:38.920 the rattle of the teacups as the march hare and 2639 02:51:38.959 --> 02:51:41.959 his friends shared their never ending meal, and the shrill 2640 02:51:42.040 --> 02:51:46.120 voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution. 2641 02:51:47.239 --> 02:51:49.959 Once more. The pig baby was sneezing on the Duchess's 2642 02:51:50.040 --> 02:51:53.639 knee while plates and dishes crashed around it. Once more, 2643 02:51:53.719 --> 02:51:56.840 the shriek of the griffin, the squealing of the lizard's 2644 02:51:56.879 --> 02:52:00.360 slate pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea pigs 2645 02:52:00.399 --> 02:52:03.440 filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of 2646 02:52:03.479 --> 02:52:07.799 the miserable mock turtle. So she sat on with closed 2647 02:52:07.799 --> 02:52:11.840 eyes and half believed herself in wonderland, though she knew 2648 02:52:11.879 --> 02:52:14.479 she had but to open them again, and all would 2649 02:52:14.559 --> 02:52:18.280 change to dull reality. The grass would be only rustling 2650 02:52:18.280 --> 02:52:20.799 in the wind, and the pool ripplings of the waving 2651 02:52:20.879 --> 02:52:24.360 of the reeds. The rattling teacups would change to tinkling 2652 02:52:24.399 --> 02:52:27.479 sheep bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice 2653 02:52:27.520 --> 02:52:30.280 of the shepherd boy, and the sneeze of the baby, 2654 02:52:30.840 --> 02:52:33.719 the shriek of the griffin, and all the other queer 2655 02:52:33.719 --> 02:52:37.479 noises would change, she knew to the confused clamor of 2656 02:52:37.520 --> 02:52:40.760 the busy farm yard, while the lowing of the cattle 2657 02:52:40.760 --> 02:52:42.639 in the distance would take the place of the mock 2658 02:52:42.680 --> 02:52:48.840 turtle's heavy sobs. Lastly, she pictured to herself how this 2659 02:52:48.959 --> 02:52:51.959 same little sister of hers would, in the after time 2660 02:52:52.559 --> 02:52:55.799 be herself a grown woman, and how she would keep 2661 02:52:56.079 --> 02:52:58.840 through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart 2662 02:52:58.879 --> 02:53:01.799 of her childhood. And how she would gather about her 2663 02:53:01.840 --> 02:53:05.120 other little children and make their eyes bright and eager 2664 02:53:05.159 --> 02:53:08.680 with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream 2665 02:53:08.719 --> 02:53:12.440 of Wonderland of long ago, And how she would feel 2666 02:53:12.760 --> 02:53:16.520 with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in 2667 02:53:16.639 --> 02:53:21.840 all their simple joys, remembering her own child life and 2668 02:53:21.879 --> 02:53:27.000 the happy summer days. This is the end of Alice's 2669 02:53:27.040 --> 02:53:28.319 adventures in Wonderland.