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books together. Pigeon Publishing House presents Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
author Lewis Carroll. Chapter one, Down the Rabbit Hole. Alice

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was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her
sister on the bank and of having nothing to do.
Once or twice she had peeped into the book her
sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations.
In it, And what is the use of a book,
thought Alice, without pictures or conversation, So she was considering
in her own mind as well as she could, for

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the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid
whether the pleasure of making a daisy chain would be
worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies.
When suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close
by her air. Was nothing so very remarkable in that,
Nor did Alice think it so very much out of
the way to hear the rabbit say to itself, oh dear,

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oh dear, I shall be late. When she thought it
over her words, it occurred to her that she ought
to have wondered at this, but at the time it
all seemed quite natural. But when the rabbit actually took
a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and looked at it,
and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for
it flashed across her mind that she had never before

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seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat pocket or a
watch to take out of it. And, burning with curiosity,
she ran across the field of urrot, and fortunately was
just in time to see it pop down a large
rabbit hole under the hedge. In another moment, down went
alicea urrot, never once considering how in the world she
was to get out again. A rabbit hole went straight

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on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped
suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment
to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling
down a very deep well. Either the well was very
deep or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty
of time as she went down to look about her
and to wonder what was going to happen next. First,

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she tried to look down and make out what she
was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything.
Then she looked at the sides of the well and
noticed that they were filled with cupboards and bookshelves. Here
and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.
She took down a jar from one of the shelves
as she passed. It was labeled orange marmalade, but to
her great disappointment, it was empty. She did not like

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to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so
managed to put it into one of the cupboards as
she fell past it. Well, thought Alice to herself. Are
such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of
tumbling downstairs? How brave they'll all think me at home?
Why I wouldn't say anything about it? Even if I
fell off the top of the house, which was very

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likely true, Down down, down, would the fall never come
to an end? I wonder how many miles I've fallen
by this time, she said aloud, I must be getting
somewhere near the center of the earth. Let me see,
that would be four thousand miles down, I think for

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you see, Alice had learned several things of this sort
in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was
not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge,
as there was no one to listen to her, still
it was good practice to say it over, Yes, that's
about the right distance. But then I wonder what latitude
or longitude I've got to Alice had no idea what
latitude was or longitude either, but thought there were nice

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grand words to say. Presently, she began again, I wonder
if I shall fall right through the earth, how funny
it'll seem to come out among the people that walk
with their heads downward e antipathies. I think She was
rather glad there was no one listening this time, as
it didn't sound at all the right word. But I

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shall have to ask them what the name of the
country is, you know, please, ma'am? Is this New Zealand
or Australia? And she tried to curtsey as she spoke,
fancy curtsying, as you're falling through the air? Do you
think you could manage it? And what an ignorant little girl,
she'll think me for asking? No, it'll never do to ask.

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Perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere down down
down air. Was nothing else to do, so Alice soon
began talking again. Dinah missed me very much tonight. I
should think Dinah was the cat. I hope they'll remember
her saucer of milk at tea time. Dinah, my dear,

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I wish you were down here with me. Air. Are
no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might
catch a bat? And that's very like a mouse, you know.
But do cats eat bats? I wonder? And here Alice
began to get rather sleepy and went on saying to
herself in a dreamy sort of way, do cats eat bats?

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Do cats eat bats? And sometimes do bats eat cats? Four?
You see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't
much matter would which way she put it. She felt
that she was dozing off and had just begun to
dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah
and saying to her very earnestly, now, Dinah, tell me
the truth, did you ever eat a bat? When suddenly, thump, thump, down,

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she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves,
and the fall was over. Alice was not a bit hurt,
and she jumped up on to her feet. In a moment,
she looked up, but it was all dark. Overhead before
her was another long passage, and the white rabbit was
still in sight, hurrying down it. Air was not a
moment to be lost. Away went Alice like the wind,

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and was just in time to hear it say as
it turned a corner, Oh, my ears and whiskers, how
late it's getting. She was close behind it when she
turned the corner, but the rabbit was no longer to
be seen. She found herself in a long, low hall,
which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging
from the roof. Air were doors all round the hall,
but they were all locked, and when Alice hid had

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been all the way down one side and up the other,
trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering
how she was ever to get out again. Suddenly she
came upon a little three legged table, all made of
solid glass. There was nothing on it except a tiny
golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might
belong to one of the doors of the hall, But
alas either the locks were too large or the key

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was too small, but at any rate, it would not
open any of them. However, on the second time round,
she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before,
and behind it was a little door about five inches high.
She tried the little golden key in the lock, and
to where great delight it fitted. Alice opened the door
and found that it led into a small passage, not

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much larger than a rat hole. She knelt down and
looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.
How she longed to get out of that dark hall
and wander about among those beds of bright flowers, in
those cool fountains. But she could not even get her
head though doorway. And even if my head would go through,
thought poor Alice. It would be of very little use
without my shoulders. Oh how I wish I could shut

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up like a telescope. I think I could, if I
only know how to begin. For you see, so many
out of the way things had happened lately that Alice
had begun to think that very few things, indeed, were
really impossible. There seemed to be no use in waiting
by the little door, so she went back to the table,
half hoping she might find another key on it, or,

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at any rate, a book of rules for shutting people
up like telescopes. This time she found a little bottle
on it, which certainly was not here before, said Alice.
And round the neck of the bottle was a paper
label with the words drink me beautifully printed on it
in large letters. It was all very well to say
drink me, but the wise little Alice was not going

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to do that in a hurry. No, I'll look first,
she said, and see whether it's marked poison or not.
For she had read several nice little histories about chuln
who had got burnt and eaten up by wild beasts
and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember
the simple rules their friends had taught them, such as
that a red hot poker will burn you if you
hold it too long, and that if you cut your

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finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds. And
she had never forgotten that if you drink much from
a bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree
with you sooner or later. However, this bottle was not
marked poison, so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding
it very nice. It had, in fact a sort of

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mixed flavor of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast, turkey, toffee,
and hot buttered toast. She very soon finished it off.
What a curious feeling, said Alice. I must be shutting
up like a telescope. And so it was. Indeed, she
was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened

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up at the thought that she was now the right
size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however,
she waited for a few minutes to see if she
was going to shrink any further. She felt a little
nervous about this, for it might end, you know, said
Alice to herself. In my going out altogether like a candle,
I wonder what I should be like then, And she

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tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is
like her other candle is blown out, for she could
not remember ever having seen such a thing or Awhile,
finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into
the garden at once. But alas for poor Alice, when
she got to the door, she found she had forgotten
the little golden key, and when she went back to

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the table for it, she found she could not possibly
reach it. She could see it quite plainly through the glass,
and she tried her best to climb up one of
the legs of the table, but it was too slippery,
And when she had tired herself out with trying, the
poor little thing sat down and cried. Come. There's no
use in crying like that, said Alice to herself, rather sharply,

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I advise you to leave off this minute. She generally
gave herself very good advice, though she very seldom followed it,
and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring
tears into her eyes. And once she remembered trying to
box her own ears for having cheated herself in a
game of croquet she was playing against herself for this
curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

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But it's no use, now, thought poor Alice, to pretend
to be two people. Why, there's hardly enough of me
look to make one respectable person. Sooner I fell on
a little glass box that was lying under the table.
She opened it and found in it a very small cake,
on which the words eaten to me were beautifully marked
in currents. Well I'll eat it, said Alice. And if

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it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key.
And if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep
under the door. So either way I'll get into the garden,
and I don't care which happens. She ate a little
bit and said anxiously to herself which which way, holding
her hand on the top of her head to feel
which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised

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to find that she remained the same size. To be sure,
this generally happens when one eats cake. But Alice had
got so much into the way of expecting nothing but
out of the way things to happen that it seemed
quite dull and stupid for life to go on in
the common way. So she set to work, and very
soon finished off the cake. Chapter two, E Pool of tears.

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Curious or and curiouser, cried Alice. She was so much
surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to
speak good English. Now I'm opening out like the largest
telescope that ever was. Goodbye feet, for when she looked
down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out
of sight. They were getting so far off. Oh, my

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poor little feet. I wonder who will put on your
shoes and stockings for you? Now? DearS, I'm sure I
shan't be able. I shall be a great deal too
far off to trouble myself about you. You must manage
the best way you can. But I must be kind
to them, thought Alice. Or perhaps they won't walk the
way I want to go. Let me see. I'll give

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them a new pair of boots every Christmas. And she
went on planning to herself how she would manage it. Eu,
I must go by the carrier, she thought, And how
funny it'll seem sending presents to one's own feet, and
how odd the directions will look. Alice's right foot ees

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hearth rug NEARI fender with Alice's love, Oh, dear, what
nonsense I'm talking. Just then her head struck against the
roof of the hall. In fact, she was now more
than nine feet high, and she at once took up
the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
Poor Alice, it was as much as she could do,

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lying down on one side to look through into the
garden with one eye, but to get through was more
hopeless than ever. She sat down and began to cry again.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, said Alice. A
great girl like you, she might well say this, to
go on crying in this way, stop this moment, I
tell you. But she went on all the same, shedding

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gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all
round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down
the hall. A oh, a time, she heard a little
pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried
her eyes to see what was coming. It was the
white rabbit, returning, splendidly dressed with a pair of white
kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in

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the other. He came trotting along in a great hurry,
muttering to himself as he came. Oh, the Duchess the duchess. Oh,
won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting. Alice
felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help
of anyone. So when the rabbit came near her, she
began in a low, timid voice, if you please, sir.

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E rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and
the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard
as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves,
and as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning
herself all the time. She went on talking, dear, dear,
how queer everything is today? And yesterday things went on

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just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in
the night. Let me think, was I the same when
I got up this morning? I almost think I can
remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same,
the next question is who in the world am I? Ah,
that's the great puzzle. And she began thinking over all

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the children she knew that were of the same age
as herself, to see if she could have been changed
for any of them. I'm sure I'm not ada, she said,
for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine
doesn't go and ringlets at all. And I'm sure I
can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things,
and she, oh, she knows such a very little. Besides she,

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she and am I, And oh dear, how puzzling it
all is. I'll try if I know all the things
I used to know. Let me see, four times five
is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four
times seven is Oh dear, I shall never get to
twenty at that rate. However, the multiplication table doesn't signify.

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Let's try geography. London is the capital of Paris, and
Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome. No, that's
all wrong. I'm certain I must have been changed for Mabel.
I'll try and say, how doth the little And She
crossed her hands on her lap as if she were
saying lessons, and began to repeat it, But her voice

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sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come
the same as they used to do. How doth the
little crocodile improve his shining tail and pour the waters
of the nile on every golden scale? How cheerfully he
seems to grin, how neatly spread his claws and welcome
little fishes in with gently smiling jaws. I'm sure those

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are not the right words, said poor Alice, and her
eyes filled with tears again as she went on, I
must be Mabel o' all, and I shall have to
go and live in that poky little house and have
next to no toys to play with, and oh, ever,
so many lessons to learn. No, I've made up my
mind about it. If I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here.

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It'll be no use there putting their heads down and
saying come up again, dear. I shall only look up
and say who am I? Then tell me that first,
and then if I like being that person, I'll come up.
If not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else.
But oh, dear, cried Alice with a sudden burst of tears.

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I do wish they would put their heads down. I'm
so very tired of being all alone here. As she
said this, she looked down at her hands and was
surprised to see that she had put on one of
the rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking.
How can I have done that? She thought, I must
be growing small again. She got up and went to

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the table to measure herself by it, and found that
as nearly as she could guess, she was now about
two feet high and was going on shrinking rapidly. She
soon found out that the cause of this was the
fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just
in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. Ad was a
narrow escape, said Alice, a good deal frightened at the

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sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence.
And now for the garden, and she ran with all
speed back to the little door. But alas the little
door was shut again, and the little golden key was
lying on the glass table as before. And things are
worse than ever thought the poor child. For I never
was so small as this before, And I declare it's

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too bad that it is. As she said these words,
her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash, she was
up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea
was that she had somehow fallen into the sea. And
in that case I can go back by railway, she
said to herself. Alice had been to the seaside once

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in her life, and had come to the general conclusion
that wherever you go to on the English coast, you
find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some
children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a
row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station. However,
she soon made out that she was in the pool
of tears, which she had wept when she was nine
feet high. I wish I hadn't cried so much, said Alice,

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as she swam about trying to find her way out.
I shall be punished for it now, I suppose by
being drowned in my own tears at will be a
queer thing, to be sure. However, everything is queer today.
Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool
a little way off, and she swam nearer to make

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out what it was. At first she thought it must
be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how
small she was now, and she soon made out that
it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
Would it be of any use, now, thought Alice, to
speak to this mouse. Everything is so out of the
way down here that I should think very likely it

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can talk at any rate. There's no harm in trying,
So she began, Oh, mouse, do you know the way
out of this pool. I am very tired of swimming
about here. O mouse, Alice thought this must be the
right way of speaking to a mouse. She had never
done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen
in her brother's Latin grammar a mouse of a mouse

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to a mouse, A mouse, Oh mouse. A mouse looked
at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink
with one of its little but it said nothing. Perhaps
it doesn't understand English, thought Alice. I dare say it's
a French mouse. Come over with William the conqueror. For

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with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very
clear notion how long ago anything had happened. So she
began again, O westmu chat, which was the first sentence
in her French lesson book. E mouse gave a sudden
leap out of the water and seemed to quiver all
over with fright. Oh I beg your pardon, cried Alice, hastily,

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afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's feelings. I
quite forgot you didn't like cats. Not like cats, cried
the mouse in a shrill, passionate voice. Would you like
cats if you were me? Well? Perhaps not, said Alice
in a soothing tone. Don't be angry about it. And

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yet I wish I could show you our cat, Dinah.
I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you
could only see her. He is such a dear, quiet thing.
Alice went on, half to herself as she swam lazily
about in the pool. And she sits purring so nicely
by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face.
And she is such a nice so thing to nurse,
and she's such a capital one for catching mice. Oh,

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I beg your pardon, cried Alice again. For this time
the mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain
it must be really offended. We won't talk about her anymore,
if you'd rather not, we indeed, cried the mouse, who
was trembling down to the end of his tail. As
if I would talk on such a subject. Our family

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always hated cats, nasty, low, vulgar things. Don't let me
hear the name again. I won't, indeed, said Alice, in
a great hurry to change the subject of conversation. Are
you are you fond of dogs? E mouse did not answer,
so Alice went on eagerly. Air is such a nice

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little dog near our house. I should like to show
you a little bright eyed terrier, you know, with oh
such long curly brown hair, and it'll fetch things when
you throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for
its dinner, and all sorts of things. I can't remember
half of them. And it belongs to a farmer, you know.
And he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds.

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He says it kills all the rats. And oh, dear,
cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, I'm afraid I've offended
it again. For the mouse was swimming away from her
as hard as it could go, and making quite a
commotion in the pool as it went. So she called,
so well, wire it, mouse, dear, do come back again,
and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if

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you don't like them. When the mouse heard this, it
turned round and swam slowly back to her. Its face
was quite pale with passion. Alice thought, and it said,
in a low trembling voice, let us get to the shore,
and then i'll tell you my history and you'll understand
why it is I hate cats and dogs. It was
high time to go for the pool was getting quite
crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it.

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There were a duck and a dodo, a lory and
an eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way,
and the whole party swam to the shore. Chapter three.
A caucus race and a long tail e y were
indeed a queer looking party that assembled on the bank.
The birds with dragle feathers, the animals with their fur

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clinging close to them, and all dripping, wet, cross and uncomfortable.
He first question, of course, was how to get dry again.
They had a consultation about this and are a few minutes.
It seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking
familiarly with them, as if she had known them all
her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with

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the lory, who had last turned sulky and would only say,
I am older than you and must know better. And
this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was,
And as the lorry positively refused to tell its age,
there was no more to be said. At Last, the mouse,
who seemed to be a person of authority among them,
called out, sit down. All of you and listen to me.

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I'll soon make you dry enough. E y all sat
down at once in a large ring, with the mouse
in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it,
for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold
if she did not get dry very soon, ahem, said
the mouse, with an important air. Are you all ready?

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Is is the driest thing I know. Silence all round,
if you please. William, the conqueror, whose cause was favored
by the Pope, was soon submitted to buy. The English,
who wanted leaders and had been of late much accustomed
to use her patient in conquest Edwin and Morcar, the
earls of Mercia and Northumbria. Ough said the lory with

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a shiver. I beg your pardon, said the mouse, frowning,
but very politely. Did you speak not, I said the
lory hastily. I thought you did, said the mouse. I
proceed Edwin and Morcar. The earls of Mercia and Northumbria

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declared for him, and even stigand the patriotic Archbishop of
Canterbury found it advisable. Found what said the duck? Found it?
The mouse replied, rather crossly, of course, you know what
it means. I know what it means well enough. When
I find a thing, said the duck, it's generally a

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frog or a worm. E question is what did the
archbishop find? E mouse did not notice this question, but
hurriedly went on. Found it advisable to go with Edgar
Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown. William's
conduct at first was moderate, but the insolence of his
normans how are you getting on now, my dear, it continued,

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turning to Ali as it spoke as what is ever?
Said Alice in a melancholy tone. It doesn't seem to
dry me at all in that case, said the Dodo, solemnly,
rising to its feet. I moved that the meeting adjourned
for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies. Speak English,

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said the eaglet. I don't know the meaning of half
those long words, and what's more, I don't believe you
do either, And the eglid bent down its head to
hide a smile. Some of the other birds tittered audibly.
What I was going to say, said the Dodo, in
an offended tone, was that the best thing to get
us dry would be a caucus race. What is a

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caucus race, said Alice, not that she wanted much to know.
But the Dodo had paused, as if it thought that
somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined
to say anything. Why, said the Dodo, The best way
to explain it is to do it. And as you
might like to try the thing yourself some winter day,
I will tell you how the Dodo managed it. First

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it marked out a race course in a sort of circle.
The exact shape doesn't matter, it said, And then all
the party were placed along the course. Here and there
air was no one, two, three, and away. But they
began running when they liked, and low off when they liked,
so that it was not easy to know when the
race was over. However, when they had been running half

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an hour or so and were quite dry again, the
Dodo suddenly called out erases over, and they all crowded
round it, panting and asking, but who has won? His question?
The Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought,
and it sat for a long time with one finger
pressed upon its forehead, the position in which you usually
see Shakespeare in the pictures of him, while the rest

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waited in silence. At last, the Dodo said everybody has one,
and all must have prizes. But who is to give
the prizes? Quite a chorus of voices asked why she
of course, said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger,
and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling
out in a confused way, prizes, prizes. Alice had no

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idea what to do, and in despair, she put her
hand in her pocket and pulled out a box of comfits,
luckily the salt water had not got into it, and
handed them round as prizes. Ere was exactly one apiece
all round. But she must have a prize herself, you know,
said the mouse. Of course, the Dodo replied, very gravely,

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What else have you got in your pocket? He went on,
turning to Alice, Only a thimble, said Alice. Sadly, hand
it over here, said the Dodo, and they all crowded
round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying,
we beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble. And when

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it had finished the short speech, they all cheered. Alice
thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked
so grave that she did not dare to laugh. And
as she could not think of anything to say, she
simply bowed and took the thimble, looking as solemn as
she could. The next thing was to eat the comforts.
This caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds

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complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small
ones choked and had to be patted on the back. However,
it was over at last, and they sat down again
in a ring and begged the mouse to tell them
something more. You promised to tell me your history, you know,
said Alice. And why it as you hate C and D,
she added in a whisper, half afraid that it would

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be offended again. Mine is a long and a sad tale,
said the mouse, turning to Alice and sighing. It is
a long tail, certainly, said Alice, looking down with wonder
at the mouse's tail. But why do you call it sad?
And she kept on puzzling about it while the mouse

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was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was
something like this. Fury said to a mouse had he
met in the house, let us both go to law.
I will prosecute you. Dot come, I'll take no denial.
We must have the trial, for really this morning. I
in g I've nothing to do, said the mouse to

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the cur Such a trial, dear sir, with no jury
or judge, would be wasted. Iron g our breath. I'll
be judge. I'll be jury, said c u n ning
old fury. I'll try the whole cause and condemn you
to death. You are not attending, said the mouse to

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Alice severely. What are you thinking of? I beg your pardon,
said Alice, very humbly. You had got to the fai
h bend I think I had not, cried the mouse,
sharply and very angrily. Annot, said Alice, always ready to
make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. Oh do

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let me help to undo it. I shall do nothing
of the sort, said the mouse, getting up and walking away.
You insult me by talking such nonsense. I didn't mean it,
pleaded poor Alice. But you're so easily offended, you know.
The mouse only growled in reply. Please come back and

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finish your story, Alice called herut, and the others all
join in chorus. Yes, please do. But the mouse only
shook its head impatiently and walked a little quicker. What
a pity it wouldn't stay sighed the lorry as soon
as it was quite out of sight, and an old
crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter, rah My, dear,

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let this be a lesson to you, never to lose
your temper hold your tongue, ma, said the young crab
a little snappishly. You're enough to try by the patience
of an oyster. I wish I had our Dinah here,
I know I do, said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.
She'd soon fetch it back. And who is Dinah? If

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I might venture to ask the question, said the lory,
Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk
about her pet. Dinah's our cat. And she's such a
capital one for catching mice, you can't think. And oh,
I wish you could see her earther birds. Why she'll
eat a little bird as soon as look at it.

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Is speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some
of the birds hurried off at once. One old magpie
began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, I really must
be getting home. The night air doesn't suit my throat.
And a canary called out in a trembling voice to
its children. Come away, my DearS, it's high time you

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were all in bed. On various pretexts, they all moved off,
and Alice was soon alone. I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah,
she said to herself in a melancholy tone. Nobody seems
to like her down here, and I'm sure she's the
best cat in the world. Oh my dear Dinah, I

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wonder if I shall ever see you anymore. And here
poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very
lonely and low spirited. In a little while, however, she
again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance,
and she looked up eagerly, half hoping that the mouse
had changed his mind and was coming back to finish
his story. Chapter four, E Rabbit sends in a little bill.

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It was the white rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and
looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had
lost something, And she heard it muttering to itselfie duchess,
e duchess, Oh my dear, pause, oh my fur, and
wis whiss she'll get me executed? As sure as ferrets
are ferrets? Where can I have dropped them? I wonder.

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Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for
the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and
she very good naturedly began hunting about for them, but
they were nowhere to be seen. Everything seemed to have
changed since her swim, and the pool and the great
hall with the glass table and the little door had
vanished completely. Very soon, the rabbit noticed Alice as she

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went hunting about, and called out to her in an
angry tone, Why Marrian, what are you doing out here?
Run home this moment and fetch me a pair of
gloves and a fan quick now. And Alice was so
much frightened that she ran off at once in the
direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake

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it had made. He took me for his housemaid, she
said to herself as she ran, How surprised he'll be
when he finds out who I am. But I'd better
take him his fan and gloves, that is, if I
can find them. As she said this, she came upon
a neat little house, on the door of which was
a bright brass plate with the name W Rabbit engraved

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upon it. She went in without knocking and hurried upstairs
in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary
and and be turned out of the house. Before she
had found the fan in gloves. How queer it seems,
Alice said to herself, to be going messages for a rabbit.
I suppose Dinah'd be sending me on messages next. And

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she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen.
Miss Alice, come here directly and get ready for your
walk coming in a minute, nurse. But I've got to
see that the mouse doesn't get out. Only I don't think.
Alice went on that they'd let Dinah stop in the
house if it began ordering people about like that. By

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this time she had found her way into a tidy
little room with a table in the window, and on it,
as she had hoped, a fan in two or three
pairs of tiny white kid gloves. She took up the
fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just
going to leave the room when I fell upon a
little bottle that stood near the looking glass air. Was
no label, this time with the words drink me, but

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nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips.
I know something interesting is sure to happen, she said
to herself, whenever I eat or drink anything. So I'll
just see what this bottle does. I do hope it'll
make me grow large again, for really, I'm quite tired
of being such a tiny little thing. It did so, indeed,

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and much sooner than she had expected. Before she had
drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against
the ceiling and had to stoop to save her neck
from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying
to herself, it's quite enough. I hope I shan't grow
any more. As it is, I can't get out at
the door. I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much.

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Alas it was too late to wish that. She went
on growing and growing, and very soon had to kneel
down on the floor. In another minute, there was not
even room for this, and she tried the effect of
lying down with one elbow against the door and the
other arm curled round her head. Still she went on growing,
and as a last resource, she put one arm out

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of the window and one foot up the chimney, and
said to herself, now I can do no more. Whatever happens,
what will become of me. Luckily for Alice, the little
magic bottle had now had its full effect, and she
grew no larger. Still, it was very uncomfortable, and as
there seemed to be no sort of chance of her
ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she

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felt unhappy. It was much pleasanter at home, thought poor Alice,
when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller and being
ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I
hadn't gone down that rabbit hole. And yet, and yet
it's rather curious, you know, oh, this sort of life.
I do wonder what can have happened to me? When

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I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind
of thing never happened. And now here I am in
the middle of one. There ought to be a book
written about me. That there ought, And when I grow up,
I'll write one. But I'm grown up now, she added
in a sorrowful tone. At least there's no room to
grow up anymore here. But then thought Alice, shall I

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never get any older than I am now? Ad'll be
a comfort one way, never to be an old woman,
but then always to have lessons to learn. Oh I
shouldn't like that. Oh, you foolish Alice, She answered herself,
how can you learn lessons in here? Why? There's hardly

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room for you, and no room at all for any
lesson books. And so she went on, taking first one
side and then the other, and making quite a conversation
of it all together. But are a few minutes she
she heard a voice outside and stopped to listen mary Ann.
Mary Ann said the voice, fetch me my gloves this moment,

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And came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
Alice knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her,
and she trembled till she shook the house quite forgetting
that she was now about a thousand times as large
as the rabbit and had no reason to be afraid
of it. Presently, the rabbit came up to the door
and tried to open it, But as the door opened

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inwards and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it, that
attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself,
and I'll go round and get in at the window.
At you won't, thought Alice, And waiting till she fancied,
she heard the rabbit just under the window. She suddenly
spread out her hand and made a snatch in the air.

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She did not get hold of anything, but she heard
a little shriek and a fall and a crash of
broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just
possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame or something
of the sort. Next came an angry voice the rabbits, Pat, Pat,
where are you? And then a voice she had never

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heard before. Sure, then, I'm here digging for apples, your honor,
digging for apples, indeed, said the rabbit, angrily. Here, come
and help me out of this. Sounds of more broken glass.
Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window. Sure

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it's an arm, your honor, he pronounced it aram an arm,
you goose? Whoever saw one that size? Why it fills
the whole window. Sure it does, your honor, But it's
an arm for all that. Well, it's got no business
there at any rate. Go and take it away. Air

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was a long silence of hear this, and Alice could
only hear whispers now and then, such as, sure I
don't like it, your honor at all at all. Do
as I tell you, you coward. And at last she
spread out her hand again and made another snatch in
the air. It's time. There were two little shrieks and
more sounds of broken glass. What a number of cucumber

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frames there must be, thought Alice. I wonder what they'll
do next. As for pulling me out of the window,
I only wish they could. I'm sure I don't want
to stay in here any longer. She waited for some
time without hearing anything more. At last came a rumbling
of little cartwheels and the sound of a good many voices,

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all talking together. She made out the words where's the
other ladder? Why I hadn't to bring but one? Bill's
got the other? Bill, fetch it here, lad here, put
em up at this corner. No tie m together first,
they don't reach half high enough yet, Oh they'll do
well enough, don't be particular. Here, Bill, catch hold of

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this rope? Will the roof bear? Mind that loose slate?
Oh it's coming down heads below A loud crash? Now
who did that? It was? Bill? I fancy who's to
go down the chimney? And hey, I shan't you do it?
And I won't. Then Bill's to go down here? Bill,

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the master says you're to go down the chimney. Oh,
so Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he
said Alice to herself, shy, they seem to put everything
upon Bill. I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a
good deal. This fireplace is narrow, to be sure, but
I think I can kick a little. She drew her

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foot as far down the chimney as she could and
waited till she heard a little animal she couldn't guess
of what sort of was scratching and scrambling about in
the chimney close above her. Then, saying to herself, as
if Bill, she gave one sharp kick and waited to
see what would happen next. The first thing she heard
was a general chorus of air, goes Bill, Then the

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rabbit's voice along, catch him you by the hedge, Then silence,
and then another confusion of voices. Hold up his head, Brandy,
Now don't choke him. How was it, old fellow? What
happened to you? Tell us all about it? Last came
a little feeble squeaking voice. AT's Bill thought Alice, Well,

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I hardly know no more. Thank'ee. I'm better now, but
I'm a deal too, flustered to tell you, all I
know is something comes at me like a jack in
the box, and up I goes like a skyrocket. So
you did, old fellow, said the others. We must burn
the house down, said the rabbit's voice, and Alice called
out as loud as she could. If you do, I'll

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set Dinah at you. Air was a dead silence instantly,
and Alice thought to herself, I wonder what they will
do next. If they had any sense, they'd take the
roof off ere a minute or two they began moving
about again, and Alice heard the rabbit say, A barrelful

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will do to begin with? A barrelful of what? Thought Alice.
But she had not long to doubt, for the next
moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at
the window, and some of them hit her in the face.
I'll put a stop to this, she said to herself,
and shout it out. You'd better not do that again,
which produced another dead silence. Alice noticed with some surprise

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that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as
they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came
into her head. If I eat one of these cakes.
She thought, it's sure to make some change in my size,
and as it can't possibly make me larger, it must
make me smaller, I suppose. So she swallowed one of
the cakes and was delighted to find that she began

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shrinking directly. As soon as she was small enough to
get through the door, she ran out of the house
and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds
waiting outside. E poor little lizard Bill was in the middle,
being held up by two guinea pigs who were giving
it something out of a bottle. E y all made
a rush at Alice the moment she appeared, but she

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ran off as hard as she could, and soon found
herself safe in a thick wood. The first thing I've
got to do, said Alice to herself, as she wandered
about in the wood, is to grow to my right
size again. And the second thing is to find my
way into that lovely garden. I think that will be
the best plan. It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt,

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and very neatly and simply arranged. The only difficulty was
that she had not the smallest idea how to set
about it. And while she was peering about anxiously among
the trees. A little sharp bark just over her head
made her look up in a great hurry. An enormous
puppy was looking down at her, with large and feebly
stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. Poor little thing,

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said Alice in a coaxing tone, And she tried hard
to whistle to it, but she was terribly frightened all
the time at the thought that it might be hungry,
in which case it would be very likely to beat
her up. In spite of all her coaxing. Hardly knowing
what she did, she picked up a little bit of
stick and held it out to the puppy, whereupon the
puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at

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once with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the
stick and made believe to worry it. Then Alice dodged
behind a great thistle to keep herself from being run over,
and the moment she appeared on the other side, the
puppy made another rush at the stick and tumbled head
over heels in its hurry to get hold of it.
Then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game

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of play with the cart horse, and expecting every moment
to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again.
Then the puppy began a series of short charges at
the stick, running a very little way forwards each time,
and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while,
till at last it sat down a good way off, panting,
with its tongue hanging out of its mouth and its

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great eyes half shut. It seemed to Alice a good
opportunity for making her escape, so she set off at
once and ran till she was quite tired and out
of breath, until the puppies bark sounded quite faint in
the distance. And yet what a dear little puppy, it was,
said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself,

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and fanned herself with one of the leaves. I should
have liked teaching it tricks very much, if I'd only
been the right size to do it. Oh, dear, I'd
nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again. Let
me see how is it to be managed? I suppose
I ought to eat or drink something or other. But
the great question is what? A great question, certainly was

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what Alice looked all round her, at the flowers and
the blades of grass, but she did not see anything
that looked like the right thing to eat or drink
under the circumstances. Air was a large mushroom growing near her,
about the same height as herself, And when she had
looked under it, and on both sides of it, and
behind it, it occurred to her that she might as

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well look and see what was on the top of it.
She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the
edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those
of a large caterpillar that was sitting on the top
with its arms folded, quietly, smoking a long hookah, and
taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
Chapter five, Advice from a Caterpillar. A caterpillar and Alice

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looked at each other for some time in silence. At last,
the caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and
addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. Who are you,
said the caterpillar is? Was not an encouraging opening for
a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I hardly know, sir,

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just at present at least I know who I was
when I got up this morning, but I think I
must have been changed several times since then. What do
you mean by that, said the caterpillar, sternly. Explain yourself.
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir, said Alice, because

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I'm not myself. You see, I don't see, said the caterpillar.
I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly, Alice replied,
very politely, for I can't understand it myself to begin with,
and being so many different sizes in a day is
very confusing, it isn't, said the caterpillar. Well perhaps you

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haven't found it so yet, said Alice. But when you
have to turn into a chrysalis, you will someday, you know.
And then I head that into a butterfly. I should
think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you? Not
a bit? Said the caterpillar. Well perhaps your feelings may
be different, said Alice. All I know is it would
feel very queer to me. You, said the caterpillar contemptuously.

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Who are you? Which brought them back again to the
beginning of the conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at
the caterpillars making such very short remarks, And she drew
herself up and said, very gravely, I think you ought
to tell me who you are first? Why, said the caterpillar.

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Here was another puzzling question, And as Alice could not
think of any good reason, and as the caterpillar seemed
to be in a very unpleasant state of mind, she
turned away. Come back, the caterpillar called her her. I've
something important to say. It sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned

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and came back again. Keep your temper, said the caterpillar.
Is that all, said Alice, swallowing down her anger as
well as she could. No, said the caterpillar. Alice thought
she might as well wait, as she had nothing else
to do, and perhaps a wall itt might tell her
something worth hearing. For some minutes had puffed away without speaking,

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but it lasted unfolded its arms, took the hookah out
of its mouth again, and said, so you think you're changed,
do you? I'm afraid I am, sir, said Alice. I
can't remember things as I used, and I don't keep
the same size for ten minutes together. Can't remember what things,
said the caterpillar. Well, I've tried to say, how duffy

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little busy be But it all came different, Alice replied,
in a very melancholy voice. Repeat, you are old, father William,
said the caterpillar. Alice folded her hands and began. You
are old, father William, the young man said, And your
hair has become very white, and yet you incessive stand

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on your head. Do you think at your age? It
is right? In my youth, Father William replied to his son.
I feared it might injure the brain, But now that
I'm perfectly sure I have none, why I do it
again and again? You are old, said the youth, as
I mentioned before, and have grown most uncommonly fat. Yet

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you turned a back somersault in at the door. Pray
what is the reason of that? In my youth, said
the sage, as he shook his gray locks, I kept
all my limbs very supple by the use of this ointment.
One shilling the box, allow me to sell you a couple.
You are old, said the youth, And your jaws are

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too weak for anything tougher than suet. Yet you finished
the goose with the bones and the beak. Pray, how
did you manage to do it? In my youth? Said
his father. I took to the law and argued each
case with my wife, and the muscular strength which it

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gave to my jaw has lasted the rest of my life.
You are old, said the youth. One would hardly suppose
at your eye was as steady as ever, Yet you
balanced an eel on the end of your nose. What
made you so awfully clever? I have answered three questions,
and that is enough, said his father. Don't give yourself airs.

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Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs? And is not
said right, said the caterpillar. Not quite right, I'm afraid,
said Alice timidly. Some of the words have got altered.
It is wrong from beginning to end, said the caterpillar decidedly,

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and there was silence for some minutes. E caterpillar was
the first to speak. What size do you want to be?
It asked, Oh, I'm not particular as to size, Alice
hastily replied, only one doesn't like changing, so owen you know?
I don't know, said the caterpillar. Alice said nothing. She

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had never been so much contradicted in her life before,
and she felt that she was losing her temper. Are
you content now, said the caterpillar. Well, I should like
to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind,
said Alice. Three inches is such a wretched height to be.
It is a very good height, indeed, said the caterpillar, angrily,

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rearing itself upright as it spoke. It was exactly three
inches high. But I'm not used to it, pleaded poor
Alice in a piteous tone. And she thought of herself,
I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended. You'll
get used to it in time, the caterpillar, and it
put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

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Is time, Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again.
In a minute or two, the caterpillar took the hookah
out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and
shook itself, and it got down off the mushroom and
crawled away in the grass, nearly remarking as it went.
One side will make you grow taller, and the other
side will make you grow shorter. One side of what

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the other side of what, thought Alice to herself of
the mushroom, said the caterpillar, just as if she had
asked it aloud, and in another moment it was out
of sight. Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for
a minute, trying to make out which were the two
sides of it, And as it was perfectly round, she
found this a very difficult question. However, at last she

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stretched her arms round it as far as they would
go and broke off a bit of the edge with
each hand. Now, which is which, she said to herself,
and nibbled a little of the right hand bit to
try the effect. The next moment she felt a violent
blow underneath her chin. It had struck her foot. She
was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change,

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but she felt that there was no time to be lost,
as she was shrinking rapidly, so she set to work
at once to eat some of the other bit. Her
chin was pressed so closely against her foot that there
was hardly room to open her mouth, but she did
it at last and managed to swallow a morsel of
the low handbit. Come my head's free at last, said Alice,

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in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in
another moment when she found that her shoulders were nowhere
to be found. All she could see when she looked
down was an immense length of neck, which seemed to
rise like a stalk, out of a sea of green
leaves that lay far below her. What can all that
green stuff be? Said Alice? And where have my should

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got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it
I can't see you? She was moving them about as
she spoke, but no results seemed to follow, except a
little shaking among the distant green leaves. As there seemed
to be no chance of getting her hands up to
her head, she tried to get her head down to them,
and was delighted to find that her neck would bend

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about easily in any direction like a serpent. She had
just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag,
and was going to dive in among the leaves, which
she found to be nothing but the tops of the
trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharpest
made her draw back in a hurry. A large pigeon
had flown into her face and was beating her violently
with its wings. Serpent, screamed the pigeon. I'm not a serpent,

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said Alice, indignantly. Let me alone, serpent, I say again,
repeated the pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and
added with a kind of sob. I've tried every way
and nothing seems to suit them. I haven't the least
idea what you're talking about, said Alice. I've tried the

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roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and i've tried hedges.
The pigeon went on without attending to her. But those
serpents air snow pleasing them. Alice was more and more puzzled,
but she thought there was no use in saying anything
more till the pigeon had finished. As if it wasn't
trouble enough hatching the eggs, said the pigeon. But I

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must be on the lookout for serpents night and day.
Why I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks.
I'm very sorry you've been annoyed, said Alice, who was
beginning to see its meaning. And just as I'd taken
the highest tree in the wood, continued the pigeon, raising
its voice to a shriek. And just as I was
thinking I should be free of them at last, they

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must needs come wriggling down from the sky. Uugh, serpent.
But I'm not a serpent, I tell you, said Alice.
I'm a I'm a well what are you, said the pigeon.
I can see you're trying to invent something. I I'm

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a little girl, said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered
the number of changes she had gone through that day.
A likely story, indeed, said the pigeon, in a tone
of the deepest contempt. I've seen a good many little
girls in my time, but never one with such a
neck as that. No, No, you're a serpent, and there's

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no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me
next that you never tasted an egg. I have tasted eggs, certainly,
said Alice, who was a very truthful child. But little
girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents, do. You know.
I don't believe it, said the pigeon. But if they do,

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why then they're a kind of serpent. That's all I
can say. Is was such a new idea to Alice
that she was quite silent for a minute or two,
which gave the pigeon the opportunity of adding, you're looking
for eggs. I know that well enough, and What does
it matter to me whether you're a little girl or
a serpent. It matters a good deal to me, said

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Alice hastily. But I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens,
and if I was, I shouldn't want yours. I don't
like them. Raw Well, be off, then, said the pigeon
in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into
its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well
as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among

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the branches, and every now and then she had to
stop and untwist it ah orrow while she remembered that
she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands,
and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at
one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller
and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself
down to her usual height. It was so long since

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she had been any near the right size that it
felt quite strange at first, but she got used to
it in a few minutes and began talking to herself
as usual. Come, there's half my plan done. Now. How
puzzling all these changes are. I'm never sure what I'm
going to be from one minute to another. However, I've

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got back to my right size. The next thing is
to get into that beautiful garden. How is that to
be done? I wonder? As she said this, she came
suddenly upon an open place with a little house in
it about four feet high. Whoever lives there, thought Alice.
It'll never do to come upon them this size. Why
I should frighten them out of their wits. So she

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began nibbling at the right hand bit again, and did
not venture to go near the house till she had
brought herself down to nine inches high Chapter six, Pagan
Pepper A little way out of the wood to listen.
For a minute or two. She stood looking at the
house and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a
footman in livery came running out of the wood. She

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considered him to be a footman because he was in livery. Otherwise,
judging by his face only, she would have called him
a fish, and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.
It was opened by another footman in livery, with a
round face and large eyes like a frog. And both footmen,
Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their heads.

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She felt very curious to know what it was all about,
and crept. E fish footman began by producing from under
his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself,
and this he handed over to the other, saying, in
a solemn tone, for the Duchess an invitation from the
Queen to play croquet. E frog footman repeated in the

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same solemn tone, only changing the order of the words
a little. From the Queen, an invitation for the duchess
to play croquet, And they both bowed low, and their
curls got entangled together. Alice laughed so much at this
that she had to run back into the wood for
fear of their hearing her. And when she next peeped out,

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the fish footman was gone, and the other was sitting
on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into
the sky. Alice went timidly up to the door and knocked.
Air's no sort of use in knocking, said the footman,
and that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the
same side of the door as you are. Secondly, because

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they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly
hear you. And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise
going on within, a constant howling and sneezing, and every
now and then a great crash, as if a dish
or kettle had been broken to pieces. Please, then, said Alice,
how am I to get in? Air? Might be some

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sense in your knocking? The footman went on, without attending
to her. If we had the door between us, for instance,
if you were inside, you might knock and I could
let you out. You know, he was looking up into
the sky all the time he was speaking, and Miss
Alice thought decidedly uncivil. But perhaps he can't help it,
She said to herself. His eyes are so very nearly

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at the top of his head. But at any rate
he might answer questions stuff. How am I to get in?
She repeated aloud, I shall sit here, The footman remarked,
till tomorrow. At this moment, the door of the house opened,
and a large plate came skimming out straight at the
footman's head. It just grazed his nose and broke to

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pieces against one of the trees behind him. Or next
day maybe The footman continued in the same tone, exactly
as if nothing had happened. How am I to get in,
asked Alice again, in a louder tone. Are you to
get in at all? Said the footman. That's the first question,

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you know, It was no doubt. Only Alice did not
like to be told. It's really dreadful. She muttered to
herself the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to
drive one crazy. E footman seemed to think this a
good opportunity for repeating his remark with variations. I shall

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sit here, he said, on and off, four days and days.
But what am I to do, said Alice. Anything you like,
said the footman, and began whistling. Oh there's no use
in talking to him, said Alice desperately. He's perfectly idiotic,
And she opened the door and went in. E door

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led right into a large kitchen which was full of
smoke from one end to the other. The Duchess was
sitting on a three legged stool in the middle, nursing
a baby. The cook was leaning over the fire, stirring
a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup.
Here's certainly too much pepper in that soup, Alice said
to herself, as well as she could, for sneezing air

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was certainly too much of it in the air. Even
the Duchess sneezed occasionally, and as for the baby, it
was sneezing and howling alternately, without a moment's pause. The
only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze were
the cook and a large cat, which was sitting on
the hearth and grinning from ear to ear. Please, would
you tell me, said Alice, a little timidly, for she

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was not quite sure whether it was good manners for
her to speak. First, Why your cat grins like that?
It's a Cheshire cat, said the Duchess, and that's why pig.
She said the last word with such sudden violence that
Alice quite jumped, But she saw in another moment that
it was addressed to the baby and not to her,

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so she took courage and went on again. I didn't
know that Cheshire cats always grinned. In fact, I didn't
know that cats could grin e y l can, said
the Duchess, And most of them do. I don't know
of any that do, Alice said, very politely, feeling quite
pleased to have got into a conversation. You don't know much,

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said the Duchess, and that's a fact. Alice did not
at all like the tone of this remark, and thought
it would be as well to introduce some other subject
of conversation. While she was trying to fix on one,
the cook took the cauldron of soup off the fire
and at once set to work throwing everything within her
reach at the Duchess and the baby. The fire irons

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came first, then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes.
E Duchess took no notice of them even when they
hit her, and the baby was howling so much already
that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows
hurt it or not. Oh please, mind what you're doing,
cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.

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Oh there goes his precious nose, as an unusually large
saucepan flew close by it and very nearly carried it off.
If everybody minded their own business, the Dutch said in
a horse growl, the world would go round a deal
faster than it does, which would not be an advantage,
said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity

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of showing off a little of her knowledge. Just think
of what work it would make with the day and night.
You see, the earth takes twenty four hours to turn
round on its axis. Talking of axes, said the duchess,
chop off her head. Alice glanced rather anxiously at the
cook to see if she meant to take the hint,

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but the cook was busily stirring the soup and seemed
not to be listening, so she went on again, twenty
four hours, I think, or is it twelve? I? Oh,
don't bother me, said the Duchess. I never could abide figures,
And with that she began nursing her child again, singing
a sort of lullabite to it as she did so,

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and giving it a violent shake at the end of
every line. Speak roughly to your little boy, and be
beat him when he sneezes. He only does it to
annoy because he knows it teases coras, in which the
cook and the baby joined wow, Wow Wow. While the

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duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept
tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor
little thing held so that Alice could hardly hear the words,
I speak severely to my boy. I beat him when
he sneezes, for he can thoroughly enjoy eat pepper when
he pleases. Coras wow, wow, wow. Here you may nurse

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it a bit if you like, the duchess said to Alice,
flinging the baby at her as she spoke, I must
go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,
and she hurried out of the room. He cooked through
a frying pan at her herth as she went out,
but it just missed her. Alice caught the baby with
some difficulty, as it was a queer shaped little creature

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and held out its arms and legs in all directions,
just like a starfish, thought Alice. A poor little thing
was snorting like a steam engine when she caught it,
and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again,
so that all together for the first minute or two,
it was as much as she could do to hold it.
As soon as she had made out the proper way

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of nursing it, which was to twist it up into
a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of
its right ear and loof foot so as to prevent
its undoing itself, she carried it out into the open air.
If I don't take this child away with me, thought Alice.
They're sure to kill it in a day or two.
Wouldn't it be murdered to leave it behind? She said

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the last words out loud, and the little thing grunted
in reply. It had luof sneezing by this time. Don't grunt,
said Alice. That's not at all a proper way of
expressing yourself. E baby grunted again, and Alice looked very
anxiously into its face to see what was the matter
with it. Air could be no doubt that it had

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a very turn up nose, much more like a snout
than a real nose. Also, its eyes were getting extremely
small for a baby. Altogether, Alice did not like the
look of the thing at all. But perhaps it was
only sobbing, she thought, and looked into its eyes again
to see if there were any tears. No, there were
no tears. If you're going to turn into a pig,

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my dear, said Alice, seriously, I'll have nothing more to
do with you, mind now. E poor little thing sobbed
again or grunted, it was impossible to say which, and
they went on for some while in silence. Alice was
just beginning to think to herself, now, what am I
to do with this creature when I get at home?

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When it grunted again so violently that she looked down
into its face in some alarm is time, there could
be no mistake about it. It was neither more nor
less than a pig, and she felt that it would
be quite absurd for her to carry it further. So
she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved
to see it trot away quietly into the wood. If

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it had grown up, she said to herself, it would
have made a dreadfully ugly child. But it makes rather
a handsome pig, I think, And she began thinking over
her other children she knew, who might do very well
as pigs, and was just saying to herself, if one
only knew the right way to change them. When she
was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire cat sitting
on a bough of a tree a few yards off,

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e cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked
good natured, she thought. Still, it had very long claws
and a great many teeth, so she felt that it
ought to be treated with respect. Cheshire puss. She began
rather timidly as she did not at all know whether
it would like the name. However, it only grinned a
little wider. Come. It's pleased so far, thought Alice, and

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she went on, would you tell me please which way
I ought to go from here? It depends a good
deal on where you want to get to, said the cat.
I don't much care where, said Alice. And it doesn't
matter which way you go, said the cat, so long
as I get somewhere, Alice added, as an explanation, Oh,

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you're sure to do that, said the cat, if you
only walk long enough. Alice felt that this could not
be denied, so she tried another question. What sort of
people live about here? In a direction, the cat said,
waving its right paw round lives a hatter, and in
a direction, waving the other paw, lives a march hare.

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Visit either you like? They're both mad. But I don't
want to go among mad people. Alice remarked, Oh you
can't help that, said the cat. We're all mad here.
I'm mad, you're mad. How do you know I'm mad?
Said Alice. You must be, said the cat, or you

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wouldn't have come here. Alice didn't think that proved it
at all. However, she went on, and how do you
know that you're mad to begin with? Said the cat.
A dog's not mad, you grant that, I suppose so,
said Alice. Well, then the cat went on. You see

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a dog growls when it's angry and wigs its tail
when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and
wig my tail when I'm angry. Herefore i'm mad. I
call it purring, not growling, said Alice. Call it what
you like, said the cat. Do you play croquet with
the Queen today? I should like it very much, said Alice.

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But I haven't been invited yet. You'll see me there,
said the cat, and vanished. Alice was not much surprised
at this, she was getting so used to queer things happening.
While she was looking at the place where it had been,
it suddenly appeared again by the bye. What became of
the baby, said the cat. I'd nearly forgotten to ask.

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It turned into a pig, Alice quietly said, just as
if it had come back in a natural way. I
thought it would, said the cat, and vanished again. Alice
waited a little half expecting to see it again, but
it did not appear and in a minute or two
she walked on in the direction in which the march
Hare was said to live. I've seen hatters before, she

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said to herself, the march Hare will be much the
most interesting. And perhaps, as this is May, it won't
be raving mad, at least not so mad as it
was in March. As she said this, she looked up
and there was the cat again, sitting on a branch
of a tree. Did you say, pig or fig? Said
the cat. I said, pig, replied Alice. And I wish

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you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly you make
one quite giddy. All right, said the cat, and this
time had vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of
the tail and ending with the grin, which remained some
time up ear. The rest of it had gone. Well,
I've only seen a cat without a grin, thought Alice.

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But a grin without a cat, it's the most curious
thing I ever saw in my life. She had not
gone much farther before she came in sight of the
house of the march Hare. She thought it must be
the right house, because the chimneys were shaped like ears,
and the roof was thatched with fur. It was so
large a house that she did not like to go

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nearer till she had nibbled some more of the low
hand bit of mushroom and raised herself to about two
feet high. Even then she walked up towards it rather timidly,
saying to herself, suppose it should be raving mad or all?
I almost wish I'd gone to see the hatter instead.
Chapter seven, A mad tea party. Air was a table

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set out under a tree in front of the house,
and the march Hare and the Hatter were having tea
at it. A dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep,
and the other two were using it as a cushion,
resting their elbows on it and talking over its head.
Very uncomfortable for the dormouse, thought Alice. Only as it's asleep,
I suppose it doesn't mind e. Table was a large one,

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but the three were all crowded together at one corner
of it. No room, no room, they cried out when
they saw Alice coming. There's plenty of room, said Alice indignantly,
and she sat down in a large armchair at one
end of the table. Have some wine, the march hare said,
in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the table,

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but there was nothing on it but tea. I don't
see any wine, she remarked. Air isn't any, said the
march Hare. And it wasn't very civil of you to
offer it, said Alice angrily. It wasn't very civil of
you to sit down without being invited, said the march Hare.

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I didn't know it was your table, said Alice. It's
laid for a great many more than three. Your hair
wants cutting, said the hatter. He had been looking at
Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was
his first speech. You should learn not to make personal remarks,
Alice said, with some severity. It's very rude. He had

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her opened his eyes very wide on hearing this, But
all he said was why is a raven like a
writing desk? Come? We shall have some fun now, thought Alice.
I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. I believe I can
guess that. She added aloud. Do you mean that you
think you can find out the answer to it? Said

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the march Hare. Exactly so, said Alice, And you should
say what you mean. The march Hare went on, I do, Alice,
hastily replied, at least at least I mean what I say.
That's the same thing, you know, not the same thing
a bit, said the hatter. You might just as well

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say that I see what I eat is the same
thing as I eat what I see. You might just
as well say, added the march hare. That I like
what I get is the same thing as I get
what I like. You might just as well say, added
the dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep,
that I breathe when I sleep is the same thing
as I sleep. When I breathe, it is the same

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thing with you, said the hatter, and hear The conversation dropped,
and the party sat silent for a minute while Alice
thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing desks,
which wasn't much. E Hatter was the first to break
the silence. What day of the month is it? He said,
turning to Alice. He had taken his watch out of
his pocket and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it

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every now and then and holding it to his ear.
Alice considered a little, and then set he forth. Two
days wrong, sighed the hatter. I told you, butter wouldn't
suit the works, he added, looking angrily at the march Hare.
It was the best butter. The march Hare meekly replied, yes,

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but some crumbs must have got in as well. The
hatter grumbled, you shouldn't have put it in with the
bread knife. E march Hare took the watch and looked
at it gloomily. Then he dipped it into his cup
of tea and looked at it again. But he could
think of nothing better to say than his first remark,
It was the best butter, you know. Alice had been
looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. What a funny watch,

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she remarked. It tells the day of the month and
doesn't tell what a clock it is. Why should it?
Muttered the does your watch tell you what year it is?
Of course not, Alice replied very readily. But that's because
it stays the same year for such a long time together,

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which is just the case with mine, said the hatter.
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. E Hatter's remark seemed to have
no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was
certainly English. I don't quite understand you, she said, as
politely as she could. E dormouse is asleep again, said
the hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon

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its nose. E dormouse shook its head impatiently and said,
without opening its eyes. Of course, of course, just what
I was going to remark myself. Have you guessed the
riddle yet, the hatter said, turning to Alice again, No,
I give it up. Alice replied, what's the answer. I

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haven't the slightest idea, said the hatter, Nor I said
the march hare. Alice sighed wearily. I think you might
do something better with the time, she said, than wasted
in asking riddles that have no answers. If you knew
time as well as I do, said the hatter, you
wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him. I don't know

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what you mean, said Alice. Of course you don't, the
hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. I dare say you
never even spoke to time. Perhaps not, Alice cautiously replied,
But I know I have to beat time when I
learn music. Ah, that accounts for it, said the hatter.

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He won't stand beating now. If you only kept on
good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked
with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock
in the morning, just time to begin lessons. You'd only
have to whisper a hint to time, and rom goes
the clock twinkling half past one. Time for dinner. I

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only wish it was the march Hare, said to itself
in a whisper. Ad would be grand, certainly, said Alice thoughtfully.
But then I shouldn't be hungry for it, you know,
not at first, perhaps, said the hatter. But you could
keep it to half past one as long as you liked.
Is that the way you manage, Alice asked. He Hatter

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shook his head mournfully. Not I, he replied. We quarreled
last March, just before he went mad, you know, pointing
with his teaspoon at the march Hare. It was at
the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and
I had to sing Twinkle Twinkle, little bat. How I
wonder what you're at, you know the song? Perhaps I've

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heard something like it, said Alice. It goes on, you know,
the hatter continued. In this way, up above the world,
you fly like a tea tray in the sky. Twinkle twinkle.
Here the dormouse shook itself and began singing in its sleep,
Twinkle Twinkle, Twinkle twinkle, and went on so long that

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they had to pinch it to make it stop. Well,
I'd hardly finish the first verse, said the hatter, when
the queen jumped up and bawled out. He's murdering the
time off with his head. How dreadfully savage, exclaimed Alice.
And ever since that, the hatter went on in a
mournful tone, he won't do a thing I ask. It's

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always six o'clock now. A bright idea came into Alice's head.
Is that the reason so many tea things are put
out here? She asked? Yes, that's it, said the hatter,
with a sigh. It's always tea time, and we've no
time to wash the things between whiles, and you keep

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moving round, I suppose, said Alice. Exactly so, said the hatter,
as the things get used up. But what happens when
you come to the beginning again? Alice ventured to ask,
suppose we changed the subject? The march hare interrupted, yawning,
I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady

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tells us a story. I'm afraid I don't know one,
said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal, and the dormouse
shall They both cried, Wake up, dormouse, and they pinched
it on both sides at once. E dormouse slowly opened
his eyes. I wasn't asleep, he said, in a hoarse,

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feeble voice. I heard every word you fellows were saying.
Tell us a story, said the march hare. Yes, please do,
pleaded Alice. And quick about it, added the hatter, or
you'll be asleep again before it's done. Once upon a
time there were three little sisters. The dormouse began in

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a great hurry, and their names were Elsie, Lacy, and Tilly,
and they lived at the bottom of a well. What
did they live on? Said Alice, who always took a
great interest in questions of eating and drinking. EWI lived
on treacle, said the dormouse, over thinking a minute. Were
two ey couldn't have done that, you know, Alice gently remarked.

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They'd have been ill. So they were, said the dormouse,
very ill. Alice tried to fancy to herself what such
an extraordinary ways of living would be like, but it
puzzled her too much, so she went on. But why
did they live at the bottom of a well? Take
some more tea, the march hare said to Alice, very earnestly,

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I've had nothing yet, Alice replied in an offended tone,
So I can't take more? You mean you can't take less,
said the hatter. It's very easy to take more than nothing.
Nobody asked your opinion, said Alice. Who's making personal remarks now,
the hatter asked, triumphantly. Alice did not quite know what

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to say to this, so she helped herself to some
tea and bread and butter, and then turned to the
dormouse and repeated her question, why did they live at
the bottom of a well? E dormouse again took a
minute or two to think about it, and then said
it was a treacle well airs, no such thing. Alice

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was beginning very angrily, but the hatter and the march
hare went s H s H, and the dormouse sulkily remarked,
if you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story
for yourself. No, please go on, Alice said, very humbly.
I won't interrupt again. I dare say there may be

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one one indeed, said the dormouse, indignantly. However, he consented
to go on. And so these three little sisters they
were learning to draw. You know what did they draw,
said Alice, quite forgetting her promise. Treacle, said the dormouse,

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without considering it all this time. I want a clean cup,
interrupted the hatter. Let's all move one place. On. He
moved on as he spoke, and the dormouse followed him.
The march hare moved into the dormouse's place, and Alice
rather unwillingly took the place of the march hare. He
had He was the only one who got any advantage

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from the change, and Alice was a good deal worse
off than before, as the march hare had just upset
the milk jug into his plate. Alice did not wish
to offend the dormouse again, so she began very cautiously.
But I don't understand where did they draw the treacle from.
You can draw water out of a water well, well,

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said the hatter, So I should think you could draw
treacle out of a treacle WELLA stupid But they were
I in the well, Alice said to the dormouse, not
choosing to notice this last remark. Of course they were,
said the dormouse well in his answers, so confused poor
Alice that she let the dormouse go on for some

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time without interrupting it. E y were learning to draw.
The dormouse went on yawning and rubbing its eyes, for
it was getting very sleepy, And they drew all manner
of things, everything that begins with an M. Why with
an M? Said Alice? Why not, said the march hare.
Alice was silent. E dormouse had closed its eyes by

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this time and was going off into a doze, But
on being pinched by the hatter, it woke up again
with a little shriek and went on that begins with
an M, such as mouse traps and the moon, and
memory and muchness. You know, you say things are much
of a muchness? Did you ever see such a thing?
Is a drawing of a muchness? Really? Now you ask me,
said Alice, very much confused. I don't think, and you

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shouldn't talk, said the hatter. His piece of rudeness was
more than Alice could bear. She got up in great
disgust and walked off. The dormouse fell asleep instantly, and
neither of the others took the least notice of her going,
though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that
they would call err. The last time she saw them,
they were trying to put the dormouse into the teapot.

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At any rate, I'll never go out again, said Alice,
as she picked her way through the wood. It's the
stupidest tea party I ever was at in all my life.
Just as she said this, she noticed that one of
the trees had a door leading right into it. AT's
very curious, she thought, But everything's curious today. I think

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I may as well go in at once, and in
she went once more. She found herself in the long
hall and close to the little glass table. Now I'll
manage better this time, she said to herself, and began
by taking the little golden key and unlocking the door
that led into the garden. And she went to work

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nibbling at the mushroom. She had kept a piece of
it in her pocket till she was about a foot high.
Then she walked down the little passage, and then she
found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the
bright flower beds and the cool fountains. Chapter eight e
Queen's Croquet Ground. A large rose tree stood near the

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entrance of the garden. The roses growing on it were white,
but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red.
Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went
nearer to watch them, And just as she came up
to them, she heard one of them say, look out, now, Five,
don't go splashing paint over me like that. I couldn't

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help it, said five, in his sulky tone. Seven jogged
my elbow, on which seven looked up and said, that's right.
Five always lay the blame on others. You'd better not talk,
said five. I heard the queen say only yesterday you
deserve to be beheaded? What? Four said the one who

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had spoken first. That's none of your business. Two said seven, Yes,
it is his business, said five, and I'll tell him
it was for bringing the cooked tulip roots instead of onions.
Seven flung down his brush and had just begun well
of all the unjust things, when as I chanced to
fall upon Alice as she stood watching them, and he

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checked himself. Suddenly the others looked round also, and all
of them bob low, Would you tell me, said Alice
a little timidly. Why you are painting those roses. Five
and seven said nothing, but looked at two. Two began
in a low voice, Why the fact is, you see, miss,
this here ought to have been a red rose tree,

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and we put a white one in by mistake. And
if the Queen was to find it out, we should
all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, miss,
we're doing our best afore she comes to wet this moment, Five,
who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called out, Equeen,
E Queen, and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat

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upon their faces. Air was a sound of many footsteps,
and Alice looked round, eager to see the queen. First
came ten soldiers carrying clubs. These were all shaped like
the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and
feet at the corners. Next the ten courtiers. These were
ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two

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as the soldiers did. Ere these came the royal children.
There were ten of them, and the little deers came
jumping merrily along hand in hand in couples. They were
all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly king
and queens, and among them Alice recognized the white rabbit.
It was talking in a hurried, nervous manner, smiling at

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everything that was said, and went by without noticing her,
and followed the Nave of Hearts, carrying the king's crown
on a crimson velvet cushion. And last of all this
grand procession came a King and Queen of Hearts. Alice
was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down
on her face like the three gardeners, but she could
not remember ever having heard of such a rule at processions,

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And besides, what would be the use of a procession?
Thought she if people had all to lie down upon
their faces so that they couldn't see it. So she
stood still where she was and waited. When the procession
came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and looked at her,
and the Queen said severely, who was this? She said
it to the Nave of Hearts, who only bowed and

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smiled in reply. Idiot, said the queen, tossing her head impatiently,
and turning to Alice, she went on, what's your name? Child?
My name is Alice, so please your majesty, said Alice
very politely. But she added to herself, why they're only
a pack of cards, are all? I needn't be afraid

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of them? And hohoor essay, said the Queen, pointing to
the three gardeners who were lying round the roase tree.
For you see, as they were lying on their faces
and the pattern on their backs was the same as
the rest of the pack, she could not tell whether
they were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of
her own children. How should I know, said Alice, surprised

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at her own courage. It's no business of mine. E
Queen turned crimson with fury, and are glaring at her
for a moment like a wild beast screamed off with
her head off. Nonsense, said Alice, very loudly and decidedly,
and the Queen was silent. E King laid his hand

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upon her arm and timidly said, consider, my dear, she
is only a child. E Queen turned angrily away from
him and said, to the knave, turn them over. Nave
did so very carefully with one foot. Get up, said
the Queen in a shrill, loud voice, and the three
gardeners instantly jumped up and began bowing to the King,

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the Queen, the royal children and everybody else. Leave off that,
screamed the Queen. You make me giddy, and then turning
to the rose tree, she went on, what have you
been doing here? May it please your majesty? Said too,
in a very humble tone, going down on one knee

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as he spoke. We were trying, I see, said the Queen,
who had meanwhile been examining the roses. Off with their
heads and the procession moved on. Three of the soldiers
remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners who ran to
Alice for protection. You shan't be beheaded, said Alice, and

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she put them into a large flower pot that stood
near e. Three soldiers wandered about for a minute or
two looking for them, and then quietly marched off. Or
the others are their heads off? Shouted the Queen. E
I our heads are gone, if it please your majesty.
The soldiers shouted in reply. That's right, shouted the Queen.

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Can you play croquet? The soldiers were silent and looked
at Alice as the question was evidently meant for her. Yes,
shouted Alice. Come on, then roared the queen, and Alice
joined the procession, wondering very much what would happen next.
It' sits a very fine day, said a timid voice

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at her side. She was walking by the white rabbit,
who was peeping anxiously into her face. Very said Alice,
where's the duchess? Hush, hush, said the rabbit in a low,
hurried tone. He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke,
and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close

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to her ear and whispered, she's under sentence of execution.
What for, said Alice? Did you say? What a pity?
The rabbit asked, No, I didn't, said Alice. I don't
think it's at all a pity. I said, what for?
She boxed the Queen's ears. The rabbit began. Alice gave

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a little scream of laughter. Oh hush, the rabbit whispered,
in a frightened tone. E queen will hear you? You
see she came rather late, and the Queen said, get
to your places, shouted the queen in a voice of thunder,

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and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up
against each other. However, they got settled down in a
minute or two, and the game began. Alice thought she
had never seen such a curious croquet ground in her life.
It was all ridges and furrows, The balls were live hedgehogs,
the mallets live flamingos, and the soldiers had to double
themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet

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to make the arches. A chief difficulty Alice found at
first was in managing her flamingo. She succeeded in getting
its body tucked away comfortably enough under her arm, with
its legs hanging down. But generally, just as she had
got its neck nicely straightened out and was going to
give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would
twist itself round and look up in her face with

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such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting
out laughing. And when she had got its head down
and was going to begin again, it was very provoking
to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself and was
in the act of crawling away. Besides all this, there
was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever
she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and as the

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doubled up soldiers were always getting up and walking off
to walks of the ground. Alice soon came to the
conclusion that it was a very difficult game. Indeed, the
players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarreling
all the while and fighting for the hedgehogs. And in
a very short time the Queen was in a furious
passion and went stamping about and shouting off with his

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head or off with her head about once in a minute.
Alice began to feel very uneasy. To be sure, she
had not as yet had any dispute with the queen,
but she knew that it might happen any minute, and
then thought she what would become of me? Ey Rea
dreadfully fond of beheading people here, the great wonder is
that there's anyone lou alive. She was looking about for

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some way of escape and wondering whether she could get
away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance
in the air. It puzzled her very much at first,
but over watching it a minute or two, she made
it out to be a grin, and she said to herself,
it's the Cheshire cat. Now I shall have somebody to
talk to. How are you getting on? Said the cat,
as soon as there was mouth enough for it to

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speak with. Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded.
It's no use speaking to it, she thought, till its
ears have come, or at least one of them. In
another minute, the whole head appeared, and then Alice put
down her flamingo and began an account of the game,
feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her.

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A cat seemed to think that there was enough of
it now in sight, and no more of it appeared.
I don't think they play it all fairly, Alice began,
in rather a complaining tone. And they all quarrel so
dreadfully one can't hear one's self speaking. They don't seem
to have any rules in particular, at least if there are,
nobody attends to them. And you've no idea how confusing
it is all the things being alive. For instance, there's

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the arch I've got to go through next, walking about
it the other end of the ground, And I should
have croquaded the queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran
away when it saw mine coming. How do you like
the queen, said the cat in a low voice, not
at all, said Alice. She's so extremely just then she
noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening, so

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she went on likely to win, that it's hardly worth
while finishing the game. E Queen smiled and passed on.
Who are you talking to? Said the King, going up
to Alice and looking at the cat's head with great curiosity.
It's a friend of mine, a Cheshire cat, said Alice.
Allow me to introduce it. I don't like the look

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of it at all, said the king. However, it may
kiss my hand if it likes I'd rather not. The
cat remarked. Don't be impertinent, said the king, and don't
look at me like that. He got behind Alice as
he spoke. A cat may look at a king, said Alice.

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I've read that in some book, but I don't remember where. Well,
it must be removed, said the king, very decidedly, and
he called the Queen, who was passing at the moment,
my dear, I wish you would have this cat removed.
E Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties,
great or small. Off with his head, she said, without

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even looking round, I'll fetch the executioner myself. Said the
king eagerly, and he hurried off. Alice thought she might
as well go back and see how the game was
going on, as she heard the queen's voice in the distance,
screaming with passion. She had already heard her sentence three
of the players to be executed for having missed their turns,

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and she did not like the look of things at all,
as the game was in such confusion that she never
knew whether it was her turn or not, so she
went in search of her hedgehog. E hedgehog was engaged
in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice
an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other.
The only the difficulty was that her flamingo was gone

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across to the other side of the garden, where Alice
could see it trying in a helpless sort of way
to fly up into a tree. By the time she
had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight
was over and both the hedgehogs were out of sight.
But it doesn't matter much, thought Alice, as all the
arches are gone from this side of the ground, so
she tucked it away under her arm that it might

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not escape again, and went back for a little more
conversation with her friend. When she got back to the
Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a large
crowd collected round it. There was a dispute going on
between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were
all talking at once, while all the rest were quite
silent and looked very uncomfortable. A moment Alice appeared. She

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was appealed to buy all three to settle the question,
and they repeated their arguments to her, though as they
all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed
to make out exactly what they said. The executioner's argument
was that you couldn't cut off ahead unless there was
a body to cut it off from, that he had
never had to do such a thing before, and he

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wasn't going to begin at his time of life. E
King's argument was that anything that had a head could
be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense. E
Queen's argument was that if something wasn't done about it
in less than no time, she'd have everybody executed all round.
It was this last remark that had made the whole

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party look so grave and anxious, Alice could think of
nothing else to say. But it belongs to the duchess.
You'd better ask her about it. She's in prison, the
queen said to the executioner, fetch her here, and the
executioner went off like an arrow. E Kat's head began

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fading away the moment he was gone, and by the
time he had come back with the Duchess, it had
entirely disappeared. So the King and the executioner ran wildly
up and down looking for it, while the rest of
the party went back to the game, Chapter nine e
mock Turtle's story. You can't think how glad I am

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to see you again, you dear old thing, said the
Duchess as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's and
they walked off together. Alice was very glad to find
her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself
that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made
her so savage when they met in a kitchen. When
I'm a duchess, she said to herself, not in a

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very hopeful tone, though I won't have any pepper in
my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe
it's always pepper that makes people hot tempered. She went on,
very much pleased at having found out a new kind
of rule, and vinegar that makes them sour, and camomile
that makes them bitter, and in barley sugar and such
things that make children sweet tempered. I only wish people

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knew that, then they wouldn't be so stingy about it.
You know. She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time.
It was a little startled when she heard her voice
close to her ear. You're thinking about something, my dear,
and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell
you just now what the moral of that is, but
I shall remember it in a bit. Perhaps it hasn't one.

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Alice ventured to remark. Tut tut, child said the Duchess,
everything's got a moral, if only you can find it,
and she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as
she spoke. Alice did not much like keeping so close
to her, first because the Duchess was very ugly, and

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secondly because she was exactly the right hike to rest
her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably
sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude,
so she bore it as well as she could. E
game's going on rather better now, she said, By way
of keeping up the conversation, A little tis, so, said

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the Duchess. And the moral of that is, oh tis love.
Tis love that makes the world go round, somebody, said,
Alice whispered, that it's done by everybody minding their own business.
Ah well, it means much the same thing, said the Duchess,
digging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added.

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And the moral of that is dash, take care of
the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.
How fond she is of finding morals and things, Alice
thought to herself, I dare say. You're wondering why I
don't put my arm round your waist, the Duchess said,
are a pause. The reason is that I'm doubtful about

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the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment
he might bite? Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all
anxious to have the experiment tried. Very true, said the Duchess.
Flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that
is birds of a feather flocked together only mustard isn't

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a bird, Alice remarked, Right as usual, said the Duchess.
What a clear way you have of putting things. It's
a mineral, I ink, said Alice. Of course it is,
said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything
that Alice said. There's a large mustard mine near here,

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and the moral of that is e more there is
of mine, the less there is of yours. Oh, I know,
exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last remark.
It's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it is.
I quite agree with you, said the Duchess. And the
moral of that is be what you would seem to be, or,

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if you'd like it, put more simply, never imagine yourself
not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others,
That what you were or might have been was not
otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to
them to be otherwise. I think I should understand that better,
Alice said, very politely. If I have it written down,
but I can't quite follow it as you say. It

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adds nothing to what I could say if I chose,
the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone, pray, don't trouble
yourself to say it any longer than that, said Alice. Oh,
don't talk about trouble, said the Duchess. I make you
a present of everything I've said as yet a cheap
sort of present, thought Alice. I'm glad they don't give

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birthday presents like that, but she did not venture to
say it out loud. Inking again, the Duchess asked, with
another dig of her sharp little chin. I've a right
to think, said Alice, sharply, for she was beginning to
feel a little worried. Just about as much right, said
the Duchess, as pigs have to fly and the m

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but here. To Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died
away even in the middle of her favorite word, moral,
and the arm that was linked into her began to tremble.
Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen in front
of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.
A fine day, your majesty, the Duchess began in a low,

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weak voice. Now I give you fair warning, shouted the Queen,
stamping on the ground as she spoke. Either you or
your head must be off and that in about half
no time, take your choice. E Duchess took her choice
and was gone in a moment. Let's go on with
the game, the Queen said to Alice, and Alice was

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too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed
her back to the croquet ground. The other guests had
taken advantage of the queen's absence and were resting in
the shade. However, the moment they saw her, they hurried
back to the game, the queen merely remarking that a
moment's delay would cost them their lives. All the time
they were playing, the Queen never low off, quarreling with

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the other players and shouting off with his head or
off with her head. Osse whom she sentenced, were taken
into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to
leave off being arches to do this, so that by
the end of half an hour or so there were
no arches low and all the players except the King,
the Queen, and Alice were in custody and under sentence

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of execution. And the Queen low off, quite out of breath,
and said to Alice, have you seen the mock turtle? Yet? No,
said Alice, I don't even know what a mock turtle is.
It's the thing mock turtle soup is made from, said
the Queen. I never saw one or heard of one,

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said Alice. Come on, then, said the Queen, and he
shall tell you his history. As they walked off together,
Alice heard the king say in a low voice to
the company, generally you are all pardoned. Come. That's a
good thing, she said to herself, for she had felt
quite unhappy at the number of executions the queen had ordered.

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E Y very soon came upon a griffin lying fast
asleep in the sun. If you don't know what a
griffin is, look at the picture. Up, lazy thing, said
the Queen, and take this young lady to see the
mock turtle and to hear his history. I must go
back and see her some executions I have ordered. And
she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the griffin. Alice

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did not quite like the look of the creature, but
on the whole she thought it would be quite as
safe to stay with it as to go over that
savage queen. So she waited. E griffin sat up and
rubbed its eyes. Then it watched the queen till she
was out of sight. Then it chuckled. What fun, said
the griffin, half to itself, half to Alice. What is

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the fun? Said Alice? Why, she said the griffin. It's
all her fancy that they never executes nobody, you know.
Come on, everybody says, come on here, fought Alice, as
she went slowly over it. I never was so ordered
about in all my life, never euy had not gone

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far before they saw the mock turtle in the distance,
sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock.
And as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing
as if his heart would break. She pitied him deeply.
What is his sorrow? She asked the Gryffin, And the
griffin answered, very nearly in the same words as before.
It's all his fancy that he hasn't got no sorrow,

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you know. Come on. So they went up to the
mock turtle, who looked at them with large eyes full
of tears, but said, nothing is here, young lady, said
the gryffin. She wants for to know your history, she do,
I'll tell it her, said the mock turtle. In a
deep hollow tone, sit down, both of you, and don't

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speak a word till I've finished. So they sat down
and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to herself,
I don't see how he can even finish if he
doesn't begin, but she waited patiently. Once said the mock
turtle at last, with a deep sigh, I was a
real turtle. Say. Words were followed by a very long silence,

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broken only by an occasional exclamation of h j C
k rrh from the griffin and the constant heavy sobbing
of the mock turtle. Alice was very nearly getting up
and saying thank you, sir for your interesting story, but
she could not help thinking there must be more to come,
so she sat still and said nothing. When we were little,

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the mock turtle went on at last, more calmly, though
still sobbing a little now. And then we went to
school in the sea. A master was an old turtle.
We used to call him tortoise. Why did you call
him tortoise if he wasn't one, Alice asked. We called
him tortoise because he taught us, said the mock turtle angrily.

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Really you are very dull, you ought to be ashamed
of yourself for asking such a simple question, added the gryffin,
And then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice,
who felt ready to sink into the earth. At last,
the gryffin said to the mock turtle, drive on, old fellow,
don't be all day about it. And he went on

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in these words, Yes, we went to school in the sea,
though you mayn't believe it. I never said I didn't,
interrupted Alice. You did, said the mock turtle. Hold your tongue,
added the gryffin, Before Alice could speak again. E mock
turtle went on, we had the best of educations. In fact,

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we went to school every day. I've been to a
day school too, said Alice. You needn't be so proud
as all that with extras, asked the mock turtle, a
little anxiously. Yes, said Alice. We learned French and music
and washing, said the mock turtle. Certainly not, said Alice indignantly. Ah,

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then yours wasn't a really good school, said the mock turtle,
in a tone of great relief. Now at ours they had,
at the end of the bill, French, music and washing. Extra.
You couldn't have wanted it much, said Alice, living at
the bottom of the sea. I couldn't afford to learn it,
said the mock turtle with a sigh. I only took

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the regular course. What was that, inquired Alice, reeling and writhing.
Of course, to begin with, the mock turtle replied, and
then the different branches of arithmetic, ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
I never heard of uglification, Alice ventured to say, what

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is it? E griffin lee had up both its paws
in surprise. What never heard of uglifying? It exclaimed? You
know what to beautify is? I suppose yes, said Alice, doubtfully.
It means to make anything prettier. Well, then the griffin

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went on, if you don't know what to uglify is,
you are a simpleton. Alice did not feel encouraged to
ask any more questions about it, so she turned to
the mock turtle and said, what else had you to learn? Well?
There was mystery, the mock turtle replied, counting off the
subjects on his flappers. Mystery ancient and modern with seography,

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then drawling. The drawling Master was an old congerial that
used to come once a week. He taught us drawling, stretching,
and fainting in coils. What was it like, said Alice. Well,
I can't show it you myself. The mock turtle said,
I'm too stiff. And the griffin never learned it hadn't time,

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said the griffin. I went to the classics master, though
he was annoy old crab he was, I never went
to him, the mock turtle said, with a sigh. He
taught laughing in grief, they used to say, so he did,
so he did, said the griffin, sighing in his turn.
And both creatures hid their faces in their paws. And

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how many hours a day did you do lessons? Said Alice,
in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the
first day, said the mock turtle, Nine the next, and
so on. What a curious plan, exclaimed Alice. That's the
reason they're called lessons, the griffin remarked, because they lessened
from day to day. Is was quite a new idea

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to Alice, and she thought it over a little before
she made her next remark. And the eleventh day must
have been a holiday, of course, it was, said the
mock turtle. And how did you manage on the twelve ah.
Alice went on eagerly. That's enough about life lessons, the

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Griffin interrupted, in a very decided tone. Tell her something
about the games now. Chapter ten. E lobster quadrille. E
mock turtle sighed deeply and drew the back of one
flapper across his eyes. He looked at Alice and tried
to speak, but for a minute or two, sobs choked

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his voice. Same as if he had a bone in
his throat, said the griffin, and it set to work
shaking him and punching him in the back. At last,
the mock turtle recovered his voice, and with tears running
down his cheeks, he went on again. You may not
have lived much under the sea. I haven't, said Alice.
And perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster.

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Alice began to say I once tasted, but checked herself
hastily and said, no, never. So you can have no
idea what a delightful thing a lobster quadrille is. No, indeed,
said Alice, what sort of a dance is it? Why?
Said the griffin, You first form into a line along
the seashore. Two lines, cried the mock turtle, seals turtles, salmon,

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and so on. Then when you've cleared all the jellyfish
out of the way, it generally takes some time, interrupted
the griffin. You advance twice, each with a lobster as
a partner, cried the griffin. Of course, the mock turtle said,
advance twice, set to partners, change lobsters, and retire in

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same order, continued the griffin. And you know, the mock
turtle went, on, you throw the e lobsters, shouted the griffin,
with a bound into the air, as far out to
sea as you can swim up eartham screamed the griffin.
Turn a somersault in the sea, cried the mock turtle,

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cappering wildly about change lobsters again, yelled the Gryffin at
the top of its voice. Back to land again. And
that's all, the first figure, said the mock turtle, suddenly
dropping his voice, and the two creatures, who had been
jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down again,
very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice. It must

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be a very pretty dance, said Alice, timidly. Would you
like to see a little of it? Said the mock
turtle very much indeed, said Alice. Come let's try the
first figure, said the mock turtle to the gryffin. We
can do without lobsters, you know which shall sing? Oh

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you sing? Said the gryffin. I've forgotten the words. So
they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now
and then, treading on her toes when they passed too close,
and waving their forepaws to mark the time, while the
mock turtle sang this very slowly and sadly. Will you
walk a little faster, said a whiting to a snail.

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Airs of porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on
my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles
all advance. E wy are waiting on the shingle. Will
you come and join the dance? Will you? Won't you?
Will you? Won't you? Will you join the dance? Will
you won't you? Will you? Won't you? Won't you join

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the dance? You can really have no notion how delightful
it will be when they take us up and throw
us with the lobsters out to sea. But the snail replied,
too far, too far, and gave a look. Askance said.
He thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join

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the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not,
would not join the dance. Would not could not, would not,
could not could not join the dance. What matters it?
How far we go? His scaly friend replied, Air is
another shore, you know, upon the other side, be further

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off from England. The nearer is to France. End turn not, pale,
beloved snail, But come and join the dance? Will you
won't you will you? Won't? You? Will you join the dance?
Will you? Won't you? Will you? Won't? You? Won't you
join the dance? Thank you? It's a very interesting dance
to watch, said Alice, feeling very glad that it was

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over at last. And I do so like that curious
song about the whiting. Oh as to the whiting, said
the mock turtle. The u v E seen them? Of course, yes,
said Alice. I've owns seen them at Din. She checked
herself hastily. I don't know where Din may be, said
the mock turtle. But if you've seen them so o en,

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of course you know what they're like. I believe so,
Alice replied, thoughtfully, e y have their tails in their mouths,
and they're all over crumbs. You're wrong about the crumbs,
said the mock turtle. Crumbs would all wash off in
the sea. But they have their tails in their mouths,
and the reason is here. The mock turtle yawned and

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shut his eyes. Tell her about the reason and all
that he said to the gryffin. The reason is, said
the Gryffin, that they would go with the lobsters to
the dance, so they got thrown out to sea, so
they had to fall a long way, so they got
their tails fast in their mouths so they couldn't get

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them out again. That's all, thank you, said Alice. It's
very interesting. I never knew so much about a whiting before.
I can tell you more than that, if you like,
said the griffin. Do you know why it's called a whiting?
I never thought about it, said Alice. Why it does

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he boots and shoes? The gryffin replied, very solemnly. Alice
was thoroughly puzzled. Does the boots and shoes? She repeated,
in a wondering tone. Why what are your shoes done with?
Said the Gryffin. I mean, what makes them so shiny?
Alice looked down at them and considered a little before

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she gave her answer. E y read done with blacking.
I believe boots and shoes under the sea. The gryffin
went on, in a deep voice. Are done with a
whiting now you know? And what are they made of?
Alice asked, in a tone of great curiosity, souls and eels?

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Of course, the gryffin replied, rather impatiently. Any shrimp could
have told you that. If I'd been the whiting, said Alice,
whose thoughts were still running on the song, I'd have
said to the porpoise, keep back, please, we don't want
you with us. E y were obliged to have him
with them. The mock turtle said, no, wise, fish would

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go anywhere without a porpoise, wouldn't it, really, said Alice
in a tone of great surprise. Of course not, said
the mock turtle. Why if a fish came to me
and told me he was going a journey? I should
say with what porpoise? Don't you mean purpose, said Alice?

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I mean what I say, the mock turtle replied in
an offended tone, and the gryffin added come, let's hear
some of your adventures. I could tell you my adventures
beginning from this morning, said Alice a little timidly. But
it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was
a different person. Then explain all that, said the mock turtle.

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No no e adventures first, said the griffin in an
impatient tone. Explanations take such a dreadful time. So Alice
began telling them her adventures from the time when she
first saw the white rabbit. She was a little nervous
about it, just at first. The two creatures got so
close to her, one on each side, and opened their

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eyes and mouths so very wide, But she gained courage
as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly quiet till
she got to the part about her repeating you are
old father William to the caterpillar, and the words all
coming different. And then the mock turtle drew a long
breath and said, it's very curious. It's all about as
curious as it can be, said the gryffin. It all

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came different, the mock turtle repeated, thoughtfully, I should like
to hear her try and repeat something. Now tell her
to begin. He looked at the griffin, as if he
thought it had some kind of authority over Alice, stand
up and repeat tis voice of the sluggard, said the
gryffin how the creatures order one about and make one

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repeat lessons, thought Alice, I might as well be at
school at once. However, she got up and began to
repeat it, but her head was so full of the
lobster quadrille that she hardly knew what she was saying,
and the words came very queer. Indeed, tis the voice
of the lobster. I heard him declare you have baked

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me too, Brown, I must sugar my hair as a
duck with its eyelids. So he with his nose, trims
his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
Later editions continued as follows. When the sands are all dry,
he is gay as a lark and will talk in
contemptuous tones of the shark. But when the tide rises

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and sharks are around, his voice has a timid and
tremulous sound. AT's different from what I used to say
when I was a child, said the griffin. Well I
never heard it before, said the mock turtle. But it
sounds uncommon nonsense, Alice said nothing. She had sat down
with her face in her heard hands, wondering if anything

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would ever happen in a natural way again. I should
like to have it explained, said the mock turtle. She
can't explain it, said the griffin hastily. Go on with
the next verse. But about his toes, the mock turtle persisted,
How could he turn them out with his nose? You know,

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it's the first position in dancing, Alice said, but was
dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing and longed to change
the subject. Go on with the next verse, the griffin repeated, impatiently.
It begins, I passed by his garden. Alice did not
dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all

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come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice.
I passed by his garden, and marked with one eye
how the owl and the panther were sharing a pie.
Later editions continued as follows. The panther took pie crust
and gravy and meat, while the owl had the dish
as its share of the treat. When the pie was

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all finished, the owl, as a boon, was kindly permitted
to pocket the spoon, while the panther received knife and
fork with a growl and concluded the banquet, What is
the use of repeating all that stuff? The mock turtle interrupted,
If you don't explain it as you go on, it's

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by far the most confusing thing I ever heard. Yes,
I think you'd better leave off, said the griffin, and
Alice was only too glad to do so. Shall we
try another figure of the lobster quadrille? The griffin went on,
Or would you like the mock turtle to sing you
a song? Oh, a song? Please? If the mock turtle

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would be so kind, Alice replied so eagerly that the
griffin said, in a rather offended tone, HM, no accounting
for tastes, sing her turtle soup, will you, old fellow?
Imock turtle sighed deeply and began, in a voice sometimes
choked with sobs, to sing this beautiful soup, so rich

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and green, waiting in a hot terreen who for such
dainties would not stoop Soup of the evening, beautiful soup
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup, bo ootiful soup, bo
oootiful soup Soup of the ee evening beautiful, beautiful soup,

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beautiful soup. Who cares for fish, game or any other dish?
Who would not give all else for two p anyworth
only a beautiful soup. Pennyworth, only a beautiful soup. Bow
oootiful soup, bo oootiful soup. Soup of the ee evening,

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beautiful beautiful soup. Chorus again cried the Gryffin, and the
mock turtle had just begun to repeat it when a
cry of e trial's beginning was heard in the distance.
Come on, cried the Gryffin, and taking Alice by the hand,
it hurried off without waiting for the end of the song.

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What trial is it? Alice panted as she ran, but
the Gryffin only answered, come on, and ran the faster,
while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze
that followed them the melancholy words Soup of the e
e evening, beautiful beautiful Soup. Chapter eleven, Who Stole the Tarts?

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A king and Queen of Hearts were seated on their
throne when they arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them,
all sorts of little birds and beasts, as well as
the whole pack of carts. The knave was standing before
them in chains, with a soldier on each side to
guard him. And near the king was the white Rabbit,
with a trumpet in one hand and a scroll of
parchment in the other. In the very middle of the

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court was at table with a large dish of tarts
upon it. They looked so good that it made Alice
quite hungry to look at them. I wish they'd get
the trial done, she thought, and hand round the refreshments.
But there seemed to be no chance of this, so
she began looking at everything about her to pass away
the time. Alice had never been in a court of

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justice before, but she had read about them in books,
and she was quite pleased to find that she knew
the name of nearly everything. There. That's the judge, she
said to herself, because of his great wig. E judge,
by the way, was the king. And as he wore
his crown over the wig, look at the frontispiece if
you want to see how he did it. He did

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not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming.
And that's the jurybox, thought Alice. And those twelve creatures
she was obliged to say creatures, you see, because some
of them were animals and some were birds. I suppose
they are the jurors. She said this life best word
two or three times over to herself, being rather proud

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of it, for she thought, and rightly too, that very
few little girls of her age knew the meaning of
it at all. However, jurymen would have done just as well.
E twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates.
What are they doing, Alice whispered to the griffin, E

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y can't have anything to put down yet before the
trials begun. E y ree putting down their names. The
griffin whispered in reply, for fear they should forget them
before the end of the trial. Stupid things, Alice began
in a loud, indignant voice. But she stopped hastily, for
the white rabbit cried out silence in the court, and

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the king put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round
to make out who was talking. Alice could see, as
well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that
all the jurors were writing down stupid things on their slates,
and she could even make out that one of them
didn't know how to spell stupid, and that he had
to ask his neighbor to tell him a nice muddle.

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Their slates'll be in before the trial's over thought. Alice,
one of the jurors, had a pencil that squeaked is.
Of course Alice could not stand, and she went round
the court and got behind him, and very soon found
an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so
quickly that the poor little juror, it was Bill the Lizard,

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could not make out at all what had become of it,
so a hunting all about for it. He was obliged
to write with one finger for the rest of the day,
and this was of very little use as a lenomark
on the slate. Harold read the accusation, said the king.
On this the white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet,
and then unrolled the parchment scroll and read as follows,

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E quit of hearts. She made some tarts all on
a summer day, E nave of hearts. He stole those
tarts and took them quite away. Consider your verdict, the
king said to the jury. Not yet, not yet, the
rabbit hastily interrupted, Ere's a great deal to come before

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that call. The first witness, said the King, and the
white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet and called
out first witness. The first witness was the hatter. He
came in with a tea cup in one hand and
a piece of bread and butter in the other. I
beg pardon your majesty, he began for bringing these in.

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But I hadn't quite finished my tea when I was
sent four. You ought to have finished, said the king.
When did you begin? He had her looked at the
march Hare, who had followed him into the court arm
in arm with the dormouse. Fourteenth of March. I think
it was, he said, fieenth, said the march Hare. Sixteenth

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added the dormouse. Write that down, the King said to
the jury, And the jury eagerly wrote down all three
dates on their slates, and then added them up and
reduced the answer to shillings and pans. Take off your hat,
the king said to the hatter. It isn't mine, said
the hatter. Stolen, the king exclaimed, turning to the jury,

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who instantly made a memorandum of the fact. I keep
them to sell. The hatter added, as an explanation, I've
none of my own I'm a hatter here. The queen
put on her spectacles and began staring at the hatter,
who turned pale and fidgeted. Give your evidence, said the king,

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and don't be nervous, or I'll have you executed on
the spot. It did not seem to encourage the witness
at all. He kept sure. I n g from one
foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and
in his confusion, he bit a large piece out of
his tea cup instead of the bread and butter. Just
at this moment, Alice felt a very curious sensation, which

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puzzled her a good deal until she made out what
it was. She was beginning to grow larger again, and
she thought at first she would get up and leave
the court, but on second thoughts, she decided to remain
where she was as long as there was room for her.
I wish you wouldn't squeeze, so said the dormouse, who
was sitting next to her. I can hardly breathe. I

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can't help it, said Alice, very meekly. I'm growing. You've
no right to grow, here, said the dormouse. Don't talk nonsense,
said Alice more boldly. You know you're growing too, Yes,
but I grow at a reasonable pace, said the dormouse,
not in that ridiculous fashion, and he got up, very

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sulkily and crossed over to the other side of the court.
All this time the Queen had never low off staring
at the hatter, and just as the dormouse crossed the court,
she said to one of the officers of the court,
bring me the list of the singer in the last concert,
on which the wretched hatter trembled so that he shook
both his shoes off. Give your evidence, the king repeated, angrily,

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or I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or not.
I'm a poor man, your majesty, the hatter began, in
a trembling voice. And I hadn't begun my tea, not
above a week or so, And what with the bread
and butter getting so thin? In the twinkling of the tea,
E twinkling of the what said the king? It began
with the tea, The hatter replied, Of course, twinkling begins

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with a tea, said the King, sharply, do you take
me for a dunce? Go on, I'm a poor man.
The hatter went on and most things twinkled, aver that
only the march hare said, I didn't. The march hare interrupted,
in a great hurry. You did, said the hatter. I

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deny it, said the march hare. He denies it, said
the king. Leave out that part well, at any rate,
the dormouse said. The hatter went on looking anxiously round
to see if he would deny it too. But the
dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep or or that, continued
the hatter. I cut some more bread and butter. But

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what did the dormouse say, one of the jury asked,
And I can't remember, said the hatter. You must remember,
remarked the king, or I'll have you executed. The miserable
hatter dropped his tea cup and bread and butter and
went down on one knee. I'm a poor man, your majesty,

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he began. You're a very poor speaker, said the king.
Hear One of the guinea pigs cheered, and was immediately
suppressed by the officers of the court. As that is
rather a hard word, I will just explain to you
how it was done. Eui had a large canvas bag
which tied up at the mouth with strings. Into this

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they slip the guinea pig head first, and then sat
upon it. I'm glad I've seen that done, fought Alice.
I've so owen read in the newspapers. At the end
of trials, ere was some attempts at applause, which was
immediately suppressed by the officers of the court. And I
never understood what it meant till now. If that's all

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you know about it, you may stand down, continued the king.
I can't go no lower, said the hatter. I'm on
the floor as it is, and you may sit tea down,
the king replied. Here the other guinea pig cheered and
was suppressed. Come that finished, the guinea pigs, thought, Alice,

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Now we shall get on better. I'd rather finish my tea,
said the hatter, with an anxious look at the Queen,
who was reading the list of singers. You may go,
said the king, and the hatter hurriedly liw the court,
without even waiting to put his shoes on, and just
take his hat off outside, the queen added to one

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of the officers, but the hatter was out of sight
before the officer could get to the door. Call the
next witness, said the king. E next witness was the
Duchess's cook. She carried the pepper box in her hand,
and Alice guessed who it was even before she got
into the court. By the way, the people near the

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door began sneezing all at once. Give your evidence, said
the king. Shan't, said the cook. E King looked anxiously
at the white rabbit, who said, in a low voice,
your Majesty must cross examine its witness. Well, if I must,
I must, the King said, with a melancholy air, and

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our folding his arms and frowning at the cook till
his eyes were nearly out of sight. He said, in
a deep voice, what are tarts made of pepper? Mostly,
said the cook. Treacle, said a sleepy voice behind her.
Call her that dormouse. The Queen shrieked out behead the dormouse.

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Turn that dormouse out of court, suppress him, pinch him
off with his whiskers. For some minutes, the whole court
was in confusion getting the dormouse turned out, and by
the time they had settled down again, the cook had disappeared.
Never mind, said the King, with an air of great relief.

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Call the next witness, and he added in an undertone
to the queen. Really, my dear, you must cross examine
the next witness. It quite makes my forehead ache. Alice
watched the white rabbit as he fumbled over the list,
feeling very curious to see what the next witness would
be like, for they haven't got much evidence yet, she

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said to herself, imagine her surprise when the white rabbit
read out, at the top of his shrill little voice,
the name Alice twelve. Alice's evidence here, cried Alice, quite
forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she
had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped

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up in such a hurry that she tipped over the
jury box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all
the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below,
and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much
of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the
week before. Oh, I beg your pardon, she exclaimed, in
a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up

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again as quickly as she could, for the accident of
the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had
a vague sort of idea that they must be collected
at once and put back into the jury box, or
they would die. E trial cannot proceed, said the King
in a very grave voice, until all the jurymen are
back in their proper places, all, he repeated with great emphasis,

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looking hard at Alice as he said do. Alice looked
at the jury box and saw that in her haste
she had put the lizard and head downwards, and the
poor little thing was waving its tail about in a
melancholy way, being quite unable to move. She soon got
it out again and put it right. Not that it
signifies much, she said to herself. I should think it

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would be quite as much use in the trial one
way up as the other. As soon as the jury
had a little recovered from the shock of being upset,
and their slates and pencils had been found and handed
back to them, they set to work very diligently to
write out a history of the accident, all except the lizard,
who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit
with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of

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the court. What do you know about this business, the
King said to Alice. Nothing said Alice, nothing whatever, persisted
the King, nothing whatever, said Alice, it's very important, the
King said, turning to the jury. E y were just

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beginning to write this down on their slates when the
white rabbit interrupted. Unimportant, your majesty means, of course, he said,
in a very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces
at him as he spoke. Unimportant, of course, I meant,
the king hastily said, and went on to himself in
an undertone. Important, unimportant, unimportant, important, as if he were

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trying which words sounded best. Some of the jury wrote
it down important and some unimportant. Alice could see this,
as she was near enough to look over their slates.
But it doesn't matter a bit, she thought to herself.
At this moment, the King, who had been for some
time busily writing in his notebook, cackled out silence and

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read out from his book rule forty two, all persons
more and a mile high to leave e court. Everybody
looked at Alice. I'm not a mile high, said Alice.
You are, said the king. Nearly two miles high, added
the Queen. Well, I shan't go at any rate, said Alice. Besides,

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that's not a regular rule. You invented it just now.
It's the oldest rule in the book, said the King,
and it ought to be number one, said Alice. E
King turned pale and shut his note book. Hastily consider
your verdict, he said to the jury in a low
trembling voice. Here's more evidence to come yet, please, your majesty,

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said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry.
This paper has just been picked up. What's in it,
said the Queen. I haven't opened it yet, said the
white rabbit. But it seems to be a letter written
by the prisoner to to somebody. It must have been, that,
said the King, unless it was written to nobody, which

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isn't usual. You know who is it directed to, said
one of the jurymen. It isn't directed at all, said
the white Rabbit. In fact, there's nothing on the outside.
He unfolded the paper as he spoke, and added, it
isn't a letter a wall, it's a set of verses.

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Are they in the prisoner's handwriting, asked another of the jurymen. No,
they're not, said the white rabbit. And that's the queerest
thing about it. E jury all looked puzzled. He must
have imitated somebody else's hand, said the King. E jury
all brightened up again. Please, your majesty, said the knave.

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I didn't write it, and they can't prove I did.
There's no name signed at the end. If you didn't
sign it, said the king. That only makes the matter worse.
You must have meant some mischief, or else you'd have
signed your name like an honest man. Air was a
general clapping of hands at this. It was the first
really clever thing the king had said that day. It

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proves his guilt, said the Queen. It proved nothing of
the sort, said Alice. Why you don't even know what
they're about? Read them, said the king. E white rabbit
put on his spectacles. Where shall I begin, Please, your majesty,
he asked, Begin at the beginning, the King said, gravely,

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and go on till you come to the end. Then stop.
Say were the verses the white Rabbit read? E Y
told me you had been to her and mentioned me
to him. She gave me a good character, but said
I could not swim. He sent them word I had
not gone. We know it to be true. If she

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should push the matter on, what would become of you?
I gave her one, They gave him two. You gave
us three? Or more e y all returned from him
to you boof they were mine before. If I or
she should chance to be involved in this affair, he

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trusts to you to set them free exactly as we were.
My notion was that you had been before. She had
this fit an obstacle that came between him and ourselves
in it. Don't let him know she liked them best,
for this must ever be a secret kept from all

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the rest, between yourself and me. That's the most important
piece of evidence we've heard yet, said the King, rubbing
his hands. So now let the jury, if any one
of them can explain it, said Alice. She had grown
so large in the last few minutes that she wasn't
a bit afraid of interrupting him. I'll give him sixpence underscore,

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I underscored. Don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
E jury all wrote down on their slates. Sh doesn't
believe there's an atom of meaning in it. But none
of them attempted to explain the paper. If there's no
meaning in it, said the King. That saves a world
of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find
any And yet I don't know he went on spreading

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out the verses on his knee and looking at them
with one eye. I seem to see some meaning in them,
or all said. I could not swim. You can't swim,
can you? He added, turning to the knave. Enave shook
his head sadly. Do I look like it, he said,
which he certainly did not, being made entirely of cardboard.

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All right, so far, said the king, and he went
on muttering over the verses to himself. We know it
to be true. That's the jury. Of course. I gave
her one ey, gave him two y. That must be
what he did with the tarts, you know, But it
goes on e y all returned from him to you,
said Alice. Why there they are, said the king, triumphantly,

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pointing to the tarts on the table. Nothing can be
clearer than that. And again before she had is fit.
You never had fits, my dear, I think, he said
to the queen. Never, said the queen, furiously, throwing an
inkstand at the lizard as she spoke. E unfortunate little

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Bill had luoff writing on his slate with one finger,
as he found it made no mark. But he now
hastily began again using the ink that was trickling down
his face as long as it lasted. And the words
don't fit you, said the King, looking round the court
with a smile. Air was a dead silence. It's a pun,

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the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed.
Let the jury consider their verdict, the King said, for
about the twentieth time that day. No, no, said the queen.
Sentence first, verdict to her words, stuff and nonsense, said Alice, loudly.
E idea of having the sentence first. Hold your tongue,

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said the queen, turning purple. I won't, said Alice. Off
with her head, the Queen shouted at the top of
her voice. Nobody moved. Who cares for you, said Alice.
She had grown to her full size by this time.
You're nothing but a pack of cards. At this the

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whole pack rose up into the air and came flying
down upon her. She gave a little scream, half of frightened,
half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and
found herself lying on the bank with her head in
the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away
some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees
upon her face. Wake up, Alice, dear, said her sister.

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Why what a long sleep you've had. Oh, I've had
such a curious dream, said Alice, and she told her
sister as well as she could remember them, all these
strange adventures of hers that you have just been reading about.
And when she had finished, her sister kissed her and said,
it was a curious dream, dear sir, certainly, But now
run into your tea. It's getting late. So Alice got

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up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as while
she might, what a wonderful dream it had been. But
her sister sat still just as she lure, leaning her
head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking
of little Alice in all her wonderful adventures, till she
too began dreaming of her a fashion, and this was
her dream. First she dreamed of little Alice herself. And

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once again the tiny hands were clasped upon her knee,
and the bright, eager eyes were looking up into her.
She could hear the very tones of her voice, and
see the queer little toss of her head to keep
back the wandering hair that would always get into her eyes.
And still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the
whole place around her became alive the strange creatures of
her little sister's dream. The long grass rustled at her

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feet as the white rabbit, hurried by the frightened mouse,
splashed his way through the neighboring pool. She could hear
the rattle of the teacups as the march hare and
his friends shared their never ending meal, and the shrill
voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to
execution once more. The pig baby was sneezing on the
Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around at once more.
The shriek of the griffin, the squeaking of the lizard's

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slate pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea pigs
filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of
the miserable mock turtle. So she sat on with closed
eyes and half believed herself in wonderland, though she knew
she had but to open them again, and all would
change to dull reality. The grass would be only rustling
in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving

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of the reeds. The rattling teacups would change to tinkling
sheep bells and the queen's shrill cries, to the voice
of the shepherd boy, and the sneeze of the baby,
the shriek of the griffin, and all thy other queer
noises would change, she knew to the confused clamor of
the busy farm yard, while the lowing of the cattle
in the distance would take the place of the mock
turtle's heavy sobs. Lastly, she pictured to herself how the

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same little sister of hers would, in the airtha be
herself a grown woman, and how she would keep through
all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of
her childhood. And how she would gather about her other
little children and maky I our eyes bright and eager,
with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream
of Wonderland of long ago, And how she would feel
with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in

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all their simple joys, remembering her own child life and
the happy summer days. The End Pigeon Publishing House presented
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll. Thank you for

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