alice under ground, easier reading part 3 note: same as peter pan had a great story mixed into rough reading which a skilled author edited, i will do the same for this wonderful but problematic story.
CONTINUITY: Alice SHRUNK short again. this time she was "3 inches" tall, last shrink was to ten inches and then growing to ten feet tall. she heard footsteps so she looked that way and saw the white rabbit. [end chapter 3 wonder but same chapter continued in under].
STORY: the white rabbit was walking slowly while looking anxiously all around. Al understood that it was searching for something that it dropped. it worriedly exclaimed, "oh my dear paws! oh my fur and whiskers! She'll decree death on me, as sure as ants are ants! Where did I drop it?" what is the meaning of it? al knew it refers to a thing, but which? She comprehended it meant the aroma cloth. She started helpfully hunting but it had vanished, same as everything else.
She looked up toward the table but saw there was no glass table nor pool anymore. the rabbit noticed little Alice. in a quick angry tone, it said "Mary Ann! why are you here? Go home this moment, and bring my gloves and an aroma cloth as quick as you can run".
"yes sir," Alice replied rapidly and ran obediently "in the direction which the rabbit had pointed". She came to the front of a small house. on its door hung a bright brass plate with the name W. Rabbit. She went in, and RUSHED upstairs, for fear she should meet the real Mary Ann who would expel her before she took gloves. she entered a tiny tidy room, with gloves on a table by the window.
BUT, before she could grab the aroma cloth, +the effect of the aroma ended and; she swelled big until she was stuck in the tiny room with her head pressing against the ceiling. she stooped so her face bent down near the floor. she put one arm out of the window. she tucked her +toes into and up the chimney.
al felt trapped. She comforted herself that she had grown fully, therefore she would not grow older to be a wrinkly old lady. Presently she heard a voice outside so she started listening. "Mary Ann! Mary Ann!" called the voice, "fetch me my gloves, now!" She heard a quiet tapping of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it must be the rabbit coming. she trembled till the house shook . she was now "about a thousand times as large" as the rabbit. very soon, the rabbit came to the door. it +pulled it open. Alice's elbow prevented his entrance.
Alice correctly guessed that it will go to a window. she heard the rabbit under the window. she suddenly spread out her fingers, and snatched. she did not grab it but she scared it and heard a little shriek followed by the crash of breaking glass. she concluded that it had fallen into a glass cucumber-frame.
next she heard the rabbit angrily say, "Pat, Pat! come here." a voice that she had never heard before, replied respectfully, "I'm digging for apples, so i am here anyway, yir honour!" After that she heard rabbit's angry voice, "come and help me out of this!"
very soon, rabbit resumed, "tell me, Pat, what is that coming out of the window?" Pat replied [after the author miss an opportunity for dialog when the animals were wet, which he wrote about but without conversation, and then having too much dialog about stuff he himself called boring, now he finally has a bit of dialog about the events occurring, but i must make it easier to read], "it's an "arrum", yir honour!" that was how he pronounced arm. Rabbit responded, "An arm? an arm is not that size. it fills the whole window."
"it does, yer honour, but it IS an arm."
"go and take it away!" the rabbit ordered.
After a long silence, Alice heard, "do as I tell you, you coward!" so she again snatched toward their voices. This time she heard two short shrieks. She wondered what would happen next? After she waited to hear hints of what they were doing, she heard rumbling of little cart-wheels. many voices started talking together, but she could only hear parts: "where's the other ladder?" and "I had only one, Bil's got the other" and "put 'em up at this corner" and "no, tie 'em together first".
Rabbit ordered, "Bil, grab that rope" Al understood that the ladders, even tied together, were lower than the roof so they had thrown a rope for bil to climb. She heard them arguing who would go down the chimney. the rabbit ordered, "Bill, go down" she heard a small animal scratching and scrambling in the chimney. [censored something to hide] +the ash caused it to sneeze. she heard the sneeze and a chorus: "up goes Bill!"
soon rabbit asked, "what happened to you? tell us all about it." a little feeble squeaking voice, ("that must be Bill's voice" thought Alice,) said I sneezed so hard that i flew up like a rocket!" [yay finally something special, carol said like a rocket] the other voices chorused, "so you did, old fellow!" she wondered what they would try next? somebody said, "you can't use your house with that monster inside so we must burn your house down." rabbit exclaimed, "oh dear dear! oh my fur and whiskers! +i love my home. instead we will make it leave. throw these rocks." which they threw through the window.
one hit alice's face which hurt. the others were soft when they hit her face. they had changed into yellow cup cakes and orange cupcakes. she extended her long tong at an orange cake and pulled the "crumb" up on her huge tong. she swallowed and waited counting to ten. 1,2,3,4,5. she felt great delight that she was getting smaller. she could shift her stiff and painful position. between two and three minutes more, her height was, once more, three inches high.
She ran out of the house as quick as she could. she saw the group of small animals: guinea-pigs, white mice, squirrels, and a little lizard colored green. [in illustration the lizard was standing and leaned on a guinea pig. a pal was giving a glass of something from a bottle, probably brandy] They all rushed to chase her until she entered a dense forest. [end chapter 2 in under. but this chapter 4 continued in wonder].
to be continued in chapter 3.
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