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Pepper, pig and Cheshire cat 6
while Alice was nearing the house, suddenly someone came running out of the woods. his face was like a fish. his knuckles knocked loudly on the door. the door swung open revealing somebody with a round face, and large eyes like a frog. loud noises and crashes came from the open door. both fish and frog had powdered hair that curled all over their heads. She felt very curious to know why fish came running. she silently crept a bit nearer to listen. Fish pulled a paper from under his arm. it opened nearly as large as himself. he handed it to frog. Fish said “For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.” Frog repeated, only changing the order of the words, “From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.” Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together. at this, Alice laughed so much that she worried they might hear so she needed to hide so she ran back into the woods.
later she looked and saw that frog was alone sitting on the dull block pavement near the door, staring stupidly up at the sky. Alice went to the door and knocked. frog objected, "you should not knock, because, two reasons. First, they’re making such a noise inside, that they cannot possibly hear you, secondly, I’m on the same side of the door as you are.” a very loud noise was inside: a continuous howling. Also great crashes repeated. Alice thought it sounded like a clay dish broke into many pieces.
She asked Frog, “Please, how can I get in?” He was still looking up and said to her, “I will sit here till..." At this moment, the door of the house opened, and a large plate flew out. it was flying straight and hit the edge of frog's nose. when the broad flying saucer hit a tree it broke. Frog continued in the same
tone, “...tomorrow or next day, maybe,” His tone was exactly as if nothing had happened. Alice looked at the door that had opened but saw, same as the low door that she had unlocked, was now closed again, ergo she repeated again, but this time in a louder tone, “How can I get in?”
“Will you get in?” frog asked her. she replied, "Your arguing is really dreadful,” remembering how he was like many creatures here who had argued. frog began whistling, so "she pushed opened the door" and went in.
She stood in a wide kitchen that was full of smoke. the short and ugly Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool and held a baby. the Cook was by the fire, stirring something in a huge pot. “There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup,” Alice told the duchess while sneezing. too much of it was in the air, too, but the cook did not sneeze. the Duchess also sneezed, but the baby was sneezing and waaing alternately without a pause. The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze were the pots! a large cat was sitting and grinning. Alice asked, a little timidly, “Please tell me, why your cat grins like that?” Alice felt very happy to start a conversation.
“It’s a Cheshire cat,” answered the Duchess, “and that’s why. Pig!” She said the last word harshly, to the baby, and not to Alice, who commented, “I didn’t know that cats could grin.” Duchess argued, “They all can, and most do.” Alice replied, very politely, “I don’t know any that grin,” while remembering her pet cat. Duchess argued, “You don’t know much, and that’s a fact.” Alice stopped the conversation at this insult. The cook took the soup off the fire, and began throwing everything she could reach at the Duchess and the baby. first came some items, then followed a shower of pots, and dishes. The Duchess ignored them even when they hit her. the baby was crying so much already, that
Alice could not tell whether it noticed the hits or not. Alice protested to the cook, "STOP hurting him!" because it must hurt, like when a baby starts crying before a circumcision and continues crying when they cut a piece off. Alice felt relieved that her family like most brits have abandoned that cruel tradition. Then Alice begged the cook, “Oh, please stop that!”, jumping repeatedly in an agony of terror for the injury of the delicate and helpless baby. an unusually large pot flew close by him, adding to Alice's fear that he would get injured. the Duchess growled, “If everybody stopped talking about other's actions, and focussed only of their own, the world would be better." Alice asked, "How?" Duchess explained, "It would spin faster than it does!" Alice argued, “Which would not be better, it would change the day and the night. the earth spins around on its axis..."
“About axes,” interrupted the Duchess, “chop off her head!” Alice felt anxious, and looked toward the cook, who had already acted violently, to see if she took a knife to obey the duchess or not. She was stirring soup, and seemed to ignore her command. Alice continued, "A day is 24 hours, or is it twelve?” she replied, “Oh, don’t bother me, I hate numbers.” she began shaking "her son". She sang but Alice could hardly hear the words over his crying. duchess added a strong shake at the end of every line: “I always SHOUT at my young boy.
I shake him when he sneezes.
He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.” then the cook and the baby joined: "Waa Waa Waa!” While the Duchess sang the second part of the poem, she was repeatedly tossing the baby up, every time it fell down.. “I always SHOUT at my young boy, I shake him when he sneezes.
For he can thoroughly enjoy, The pepper when he pleases!” They CHORUSsed, “Waa Waa Waa!” After the poem The duchess handed him to Alice, saying, “rock it while I get ready to play croquet with the Queen.” she hurried out of the room. The cook threw a frying-pan at her as she went out. it missed her but almost hit her. when Alice held him his arms and legs swung in all directions. he stopped crying but started snorting like a steam-engine.
pig and cheshire
intro: the baby changed into a pig so she freed it. the cheshire cat directed her to a house shaped like a rabbit so she adjusted her height.
she sat with the mad hatter and the march hare but they annoyed her so she left. she entered a door in a tree and returned to the hall with the low door. now with mushroom she took the key and entered the garden. she played a game with the queen.
she talked to amazing creatures: a lion-bird blend and a cow turtle blend. gryphon led her to the court where she saw the duchess and mad hatter again. the j of hearts again stole the tarts and gave one to alice. she ate it and it caused her to return to her sister.
Alice watched the grinning cat, so she recited a cat poem "While i was combing my blond hair,
I saw a cat who was not there,
again it was not there today..." alice paused for the conclusion, raising her right hand and showing the number of fingers: "I wish 4 [for] it 2 [to] go away." it replied, "I will go away now but you will see me again!" Alice watched the cat raise its tail up high. surprizingly the tail changed as its end vanished and the tail was becoming shorter and shorter... then the cats back shortened and its back legs vanished, as it started floating! its front feet were still curled under its chest like sitting but amazingly on air until those also vanished! soon its kneck also vanished and its triangle ears until all that remained was a floating grin. it floated toward a glass window which its invisible paw pushed open. it left, leaving the window open, in case alice would DOUBT maybe nothing had really happened.
she held him properly by tightly pressing right arm with left foot, ending their swinging and waving. she carried it out from the short home. It stopped sneezing. she noticed frog was not there despite his plan to sit by the door all day. Had he ever been by the door?
She worried that the duchess would be mad that she took baby away, but decided to rescue it from the danger of flying saucers and pots. She reasoned: leaving it in danger would be worse. it grunted its last grunt and stopped. Alice looked closely at its face, for the first time. she saw its nose was much more like a snout than a baby nose. She was watching its eyes which were getting extremely small even for a tiny baby. Alice decided it looked ugly. She reconsidered, maybe this was only caused by sobbing, Now were no more tears. she carried it and walked awhile silently Alice looked at its face and felt alarmed that she was holding a pig. Exactly a pig, no more nor less. she set the duchess's baby son pig down on the dirt. it quietly trotted away, causing her to feel relief. It WAS ugly for a child, but for pigs, it was a handsome one. Alice recalled some boys and began thinking they might be handsome if they were pigs.
She noticed something and felt a bit startled.
Cheshire
Alice saw Cheshire Cat sitting on a tree branch and grinning. It had very long claws and sharp teeth, so she timidly began, “Cheshire, how can i get taller?"
“That depends on how big you want." Alice asked herself, "Maybe my natural height?" She answered Alice, "i might scare the duchess [her house was four feet tall], so only a LITTLE bigger." it argued, "you can't be little AND bigger!" Alice felt too shocked to answer that she had meant a bit bigger. finally she asked, "tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” it grinned a little wider saying, “That depends on where you want to get to,” when she said, “I don’t care where,” it replied, “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” . Somebody said, “that way,” it was the Cheshire Cat, continuing and pointing its right paw to her right side [credit disney], “lives a Hatter." Then it pointed the other paw the other way and concluded, ”and that way lives a March Hare. they’re both mad.”
"I don’t want to go to crazy people,” Alice responded. it argued, "if so, then do not visit both, instead visit one, either one you choose." She explained, "I don’t want to go to anyone crazy." it clarified, "Oh, you can’t avoid that, everyone here is mad. I’m mad. You’re mad we’re all mad.” Alice asked, “why do you say I’m mad?” it proved, "You are also here therefore you must be, Everyone here is mad.” Alice didn’t think that proved it at all. She had come here following a rabbit. While she was thinking it continued, "I know i am mad because some dogs are mad dogs therefore OTHER dogs are not mad." She nodded agreeing to the logic. it continued, "I am not a dog therefore i must be mad." Alice agreed, “I suppose so.”
"However, how can i be certain i am NOT a dog?" She did not doubt that, but could not think of any difference between cats and dogs. it continued, "I growl when I’m pleased, but a dog only wags its tail when it is pleased but does not growl, so I must be mad.” alice argued, “I call it purring, not growling." next alice agreed, "your ears are like triangles so you are not a dog." Alice argued again, "The March hare is NOT mad because now is May." It argued, "since it is here it must be mad," and vanished. Alice had seen that before so she was not surprised. she was getting used to strange things happening. it suddenly appeared again, and asked, “what about the baby?”
“It turned into a pig,” Alice answered in a tone as if the cat appearing was natural and a son changing to a pig was too. it said, “I thought he would change into a fig, and i was right,” and vanished again. She corrected it, “I said pig,” She heard its voice, "a pig, that is obvious." she complained, "I wish you wouldn’t suddenly vanish." It instantly reappeared and this time it vanished quite slowly, "beginning with the end" of its tail, and ending with the grin, which remained a few moments after the rest vanished. she told it, "I’ve often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! that is new."
she walked toward the March Hare, since she had seen hatters before. She reasoned even if it is mad, it won’t be as mad now as it was in March. She came to the house of the March Hare. its chimneys were shaped like long rabbit ears. its fur roof was thatched with fur. It was a big house so she nibbled some of the left-hand bit of mushroom until she grew up to two feet high. she walked towards it and saw a long table on the grass.
SEVEN Mad Tea Party
On green grass, in front of the house,
a table was under a tree.
the dormouse and the mad Hatter
and the March Hare, were sipping tea.
NOTE: continued in chapter seven tea.
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