abridged "wonderland" 2, 3, by carol edited by n. tal
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ali had more danger and bizarre surprises too
CHAPTER 2 Tears
after Alice ate the tiny cake which had frosting both colored and flavored orange, she grew tall. She said to her feet, "Good bye, feet' [should not skip:] when she looked down at her feet, they seemed very far away. [justifiably skipped thinking] then her head reached the 9 foot roof of the low hall. she took the golden key and hurried to open the low door. she was lying on her side looking into the garden with one of her eyes. she was further away from fitting than before. her eyes filled with tears and Alice began to cry again. she cried gallons of tears that made a large puddle.
she heard feet running and dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White Rabbit holding a fan and hurrying. when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a soft voice, `If you please, sir...' but before she could continue, the Rabbit dropped the fan, and ran away. Alice picked up the fan. the hall was hot, so she started fanning herself. She asked herself, "now that i changed tall, Who am I? i am not any other girl because SHE is her not me." she saw that she was shrinking small again.
She went to the table to compare herself. now she was shorter and continuing to shrink. she thought that the fan was causing this. she was in salt water up to her chin. she feared she would shrink until nothing and was in DANGER of reaching her end, so she dropped the fan.
she swam to the low door and found it was locked again, the golden key was lying on the glass table as before, Alice thought "now I am further from reaching the key than ever. I never was so small as this before, never!" she was in the tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high. [dont skip:] she swam to find the shore. she heard splashing nearby. she swam nearer to it and saw a mouse. she hoped it could talk same as the rabbit.
she began: `O Mouse, do you know the way out?" it said nothing so she began speaking again. the first sentence in her French lesson-book was: `Ou est ma chatte?' which means cat. understandably, the Mouse leaped up out of the water. it trembled with fright.
`Oh, I beg your pardon!' said Alice, "I quite forgot you don't like cats.'
`Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, `Would YOU like cats if you were me?'
`No,' said Alice in a soothing tone: `still, I wish I could show you our cat Dinah. if you could see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,' [dont skip:] "she swam lazily about in the salt water sea. the Mouse was trembling down to the end of his tail, so she pledged `We won't talk about her anymore.'
`We?' cried the Mouse, "as if I would talk about those killers. Our family HATED cats: nasty, immoral things!"
Alice, hurried to change the subject to dogs: "near our home lives a nice little bright-eyed terrier, with oh, such long curly brown hair!" she exclaimed. then alice continued, "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. it is very useful: it kills rats and, oh dear!' cried Alice in a sorrowful tone. the Mouse was hastily swimming away from her so she called softly after it, `Mouse dear! Do come back. i won't talk about cats... or dogs either. When the Mouse heard this, it turned back and swam to her. it said in a low trembling voice, `We ought to go to the shore. there I'll tell you why I hate c's and d's.'
she felt crowded by the many animals and birds that were near her. she noticed a rare Dodo. "my name is Lory" somebody said. Also a Duck and an Eaglet were with her. the mouse swam and led Alice and the whole party to the shore.
CHAPTER 3; A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
They all were wet: the birds' feathers dripped and the animals' fur stuck close to them.
"we must dry ourselves very soon," said Alice, "or else we will become ill."
"how will we get dry again?" someone asked. [dont skip the argument with the Lory]
Lory argued with Alice, "You are wrong, I am older than you, and must know better'. Alice realized it had not said any good reason nor source so decided not to continue the argument.
the Mouse called out, `Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make you dry.' They all sat down at once, in a large ring around the Mouse in the middle. "This is the driest thing I know." he talked about something boring.
when it said, "Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable..." the Duck asked, `Found WHAT?'
`Found IT,' the Mouse repeated, "you know what "it" means.'
`usualy "found it" means "find a thing,' said the Duck, "a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?'
The Mouse ignored this question, but hurriedly continued about something boring. finaly it asked Alice, "How are you now, my dear?'
`As wet as before," answered Alice.
The Dodo said "i know a house near here. we can dry ourselves. after we are cumf-tirbil we can hear the mouse tale". they walked by the water. everything had changed so the water flowed like a river. by it sprouted reeds and flowers. dodo led the slow march. he wanted to go faster and became impatient. the duck led the others slowly but dodo went faster with alice, the parrot named lori and the eaglet. soon they came to a small house. inside, they switched out of the wet clothes and used towels to dry as much as they could. then they sat by a blazing fire-place to dry their hair, covered in blankets to get warm, the others arrived and dried themselves by the flames. finally all were dry again. Dodo announced "we have competed with the water and EVERYBODY has won, and all must have a prize.'
`Who will give the prizes?' voices asked.
`Alice,' said the Dodo. She put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of sweets. the salt water had not got into the box. she gave them as prizes one to each.
"she must get a prize herself,' said the Mouse.
`Of course,' the Dodo replied. `Alice, what else have you got in your pocket?' `a thimble,' said Alice.
`Hand it to me,' said the Dodo. the Dodo gave her the thimble. they all cheered.
the large birds ate and complained that they could not taste theirs. the small ones choked so others patted on their backs to expel it.
they sat down again in a ring.
`You promised to tell me your story,' said Alice to the Mouse.
`Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse.
`It IS a long tail," said Alice, looking at the Mouse's tail; `but why do you call it sad?' the Mouse told its own tale shaped like a thin bent tail: "it said to me:
"I will judge YOU,
I'll take no denial
We must have a trial.
this morning I've nothing to do."
I asked, "With no judge nor jury?"
"I'll be judge, I'll be jury,
I'll decree your death."'
"you're wasting your breath."
the mouse interrupted its tale and said, `You are NOT listening."
`A knot!' said Alice, let me untie it' the Mouse walked away. Alice said `you're so easily offended, you know. I wish for our cat Dinah to come here." the birds hurried away. +[don't skip too much conversation!:] one old Magpie said `I must go home." a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, `Come my dears! It's time you were all in bed!' all moved away.
Alice was left alone. she regretted mentioning the cat to birds. Alice began to cry again, for she felt very lonely. she again heard footsteps so she looked toward the sound.
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