alice under part four

under Chapter 3 THREE

continuity: Alice chased a rabbit underground. she fell far and followed it into a hall. she drank orange fluid that shrunk her. she tried to go in a low door but it was locked. she ate a yellow cake that grew her and took the key. at this size she was further from going in the low door than her natural size. tears poured from her eyes despite her desire not to feel sad. the huge tears made a pool four inches deep on the floor until it sloped upwards.

the white rabbit returned and saw her huge human body so it dropped an aroma cloth. she smelled the cloth and the perfume scent shrunk her so she fell in the pool. a mouse showed her the way out of the salty sea of her own tears. the rabbit showed her the way to his home where she swelled and got stuck in the house. the rabbit took rocks that it threw through a window at alice to force her to leave his house. they changed into colored cakes. she ate an orange cake and like the orange juice shrunk. she took some cakes in her pocket and fled.

STORY: alice planned to grow to her own natural size, and to find that lovely garden. however she did not know how to do those plans. she wandered among the trees round her until she heard a short bark, above her head. this made her anxiously look up in a great hurry. An enormous purple puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes. [note above and down, in original but later ran towards her, impossible if near. despite silliness could not happen so i will fix]. She wondered if it was hungry, in which case it would probably swallow her +so she told it "do not eat me."

"i want to play," it replied. Al argued that she would not risk getting trampled by playing with it, so it went to its left and she went to her left. she decided to name it but deciding WHICH name, was difficult. maybe jill jeffirson? perhaps  vicki vasquez? or cassandra callizo? what if was not a girl? humans dont have a bias to blur animal gender... fish are classified male or female, so which was the puppy? however female fish are identified should be used for human animals despite bias. Al tried hard to whistle to it. it started running toward her so she felt terribly alarmed that it might trample her under its feet like a horse. +She pulled a cake that the rabbit had thrown at her in rabbit's house, from her pocket and threw the orange one toward the dog. it ate it... but the puppy jumped back out of the small cake which it then ate. as expected it shrunk low same as the effect of orange fluid.

al knew it was neither hungry nor a danger to trample her. she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out toward the puppy, that jumped up all four feet in the air at once. it yelped and rushed at the stick. Alice threw it so it ran toward the stick. when it reached it, and lowered its mouth down to grab it, it tumbled heels over head in its hurry. the puppy held the stick and began a series of running toward her a very little bit each time but a longer distance away. it was barking hoarsely all the while.

lastly it sat down far away and was panting, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut. At this distance she felt safe so al threw a yellow cake at it which ate it, and grew to its original size. Alice used this good opportunity to escape from the giant purple puppy. she ran til the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance. she felt tired and gasped breath. She felt hot due to running and found a straw hat on her head, so she fanned herself with her new hat.

PART 4B

she leant against a buttercup to rest herself and thought that she wanted to teach it tricks, adding aloud, "if I'd been the right size to do it!" Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, searching for something to eat that would change her to her real height. she turned to look behind her and saw a new mushroom near her. it was a bit taller than her. she looked under it on both sides and behind the stem. she lastly looked on its top by standing up on tiptoe.

Al looked over the edge of the mushroom. she immediately saw a large blue caterpillar. it was sitting quietly smoking a long hookah. Alice tried an encouraging start for a conversation, "hi my name is Alice what is your name?" they looked at each other silently for almost a full minute until the cyan caterpillar calmly took the hookah out of its mouth. it asked her, "Who R U? [credit disney]" Alice replied rather shyly, "I do not know, sir." it asked her, "not even that?"

"at least I know who I was this morning, but I changed several times since then." it asked, "What do you mean? explain yourself." Alice answered, "I can't explain myself, sir, because I'm not myself. you see." it abruptly replied, "I don't see." Alice very politely explained, "I was many different sizes in one day, that is very confusing." it abruptly argued, "It isn't." Al argued, "later, when you will change from a caterpillar into other forms until a butterfly, you will know how strange i feel. won't you?"

"Not a bit," it again abruptly argued. She tried to explain, "i feel strange and that change would also feel strange to me."  the caterpillar contemptuously challenged, "You! who are you?" This repeated its first question, beginning again. Alice felt a little irritated due to the difficult dialogue and its very short remarks. she straightened herself up and said very gravely "you ought to tell me who you are, first." it asked, "Why?" 

when she could not think of any reason to answer this puzzling question, she turned round and walked away. caterpillar called, "Come back! I've something important to tell you." Al thought that something important was worth hearing so she turned and came back again. it instructed, "Keep your temper." Alice angrily asked "Is that all?" She had difficulty overcoming her anger but hid it as well as she could.  it answered, "No," and waited silently. Al still wanted to go to the garden but waited for whatever important thing it would say.

Alice continued waiting, despite wanting to find the garden as she planned, hoping it would tell her something worth hearing. they were silent a few minutes while she waited and it puffed out smoke. finally it took out the hookah from its mouth, and asked "so you think you're changed, do you?" Al answered, "Yes, sir, I can't remember the things I used to know, so i must be somebody different." it suggested that she try to repeat "You are old, father William". Alice timidly began: "You are old, father William," his young son said,

"you have swelled most uncommonly fat

"Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door

"Pray what is the reason of that?"

"In my youth," his pa said, as he shook his gray locks,

"I kept all my limbs very supple,

By the use of this ointment, five shillings per box

Allow me to sell you a couple."

"You are old," said the man, "as I mentioned before,

"And your hair is exceedingly white

And yet you repeatedly stand 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 my brain

But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,

I can do it again and again."

"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak

"For anything tougher than su-et

"Yet you eat all the goose, with the bones and the beak

"Pray, how did you manage to do it?"

"In my youth," said his father, "I argued the law,

"i practiced each case with my wife,

"so the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,

"Has lasted the rest of my life."

"You are old," said his son, "one would hardly suppose

"That your eye was as steady as ever

"Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose

"What made you amazingly clever?"

"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"

Said his father, "don't be such a pain

"Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?

go NOW and clean up our great Dane." When she concluded, it commented, "That was not the rhyme." Alice sadly nodded and agreed, "some of the words came out strange." it argued, "It was wrong from beginning to end." they were silent. it was the first to speak, "What size do you want to be?" al answered "my natural size." she thought to herself, "i don't like changing so often."

"so you do not want to change again?" it asked hastily as if she had spoken it aloud. She explained, "a small change is good. I wish i was a little larger, sir." it criticized harshly, "little or larger?" Alice added, "three inches is such a horrible height." it angrily argued loudly and decidedly, "a very GOOD height." it raised itself straight up while it spoke. She saw it was exactly the same height as herself. "It is strange for me" pitifully pleaded poor Alice. it put the hookah into its mouth, and smoked one puff. she thought to herself "I wish the animals here wouldn't be so EASILY offended like the caterpillar now and the mouse.

it took the hookah out of its mouth, and crawled down off the mushroom into the grass. it declared, "the top will make you grow taller. the stalk will make you shorter." alice asked it, "The top of what? the stalk of what?" so it explained, "Of the mushroom." in another moment it was out of her sight.

part five

to be continued