continuing from: https://thinkforyourselfn8.blogspot.com/2022/04/wonderland-10-by-carol-abridged-edited.html
continuity: "they" alice and gryphon went to a trial.
CHAPTER 11: Who Stole the Tarts? The King and Queen of Hearts were sitting on their throne.
alice +and Gryphon, arrived. she saw a big crowd... many sorts of little beasts and birds. also all of the cards, including other royals. alice felt relieved they had not been killed by the cruel queen of hearts who seemed heartless. the accused Knave was standing, with a j on his shoulder. he was chaind. a diamond soldier with a diamond shaped spear tip stood on each side to prevent him from escaping. the White Rabbit was standing and holding a trumpet.
a table had a large dish with tarts. she began looking around. she had read about courts in books, the judge wore a great wig, and a crown over it. the jury box held twelve things: some were animals, and the rest were birds. she felt proud that she knew a word that very few young girls of her age knew. The twelve were writing on slates. Alice whispered to the Gryphon, “What are they writing? They can’t have anything yet, before the trial’s begun.” g answered, “They’re writing their names, so... um each will remember its name.” the White Rabbit announced, “Silence in the court.” the King put on his spectacles and glared at g. a rat wrote the date but misspelled the month. a frog needed to ask a bird which month. it called the frog "stupid" so it wrote "first of stoopid," with a backward s like a stretched 2. a jury lizard, [the same one as at the rabbit's home] wrote using a pencil that squeaked. This annoyd Alice who went behind it and very soon took its pencil. She did it so quickly that this little Lizard, [she remembered they had called him Bill] wondered what had happened to it. l' searched around its place for it. then l' started writing using a finger, which left no mark on the slate. King ordered, “read the accusation.” the White Rabbit, named Harold the Herald, blew three sounds from its trumpet. next it unrolled the scroll, which was longer than a rabbit standing up, and read what follows:
“The Queen of Hearts, baked seven tarts,
on a summer day:
The Knave of Hearts, stole all those tarts,
taking them away”
“Tell your decision,” said the King to the jury. Rabbit rushed to add, “Not yet, not yet! much is before that.” the King commanded, “Call the first witness.” the White Rabbit blew three trumpet tones, again, before calling, “First witness, the Hatter." He came near holding a teacup in left hand and buttered bread in the other. “your Majesty,” he began, “these are due to not finishing my tea when I was called.” King complained, “You should have been finished. Which oclock did you begin?” the mad hatter answered, “Fourteenth of March.”
alice +and Gryphon, arrived. she saw a big crowd... many sorts of little beasts and birds. also all of the cards, including other royals. alice felt relieved they had not been killed by the cruel queen of hearts who seemed heartless. the accused Knave was standing, with a j on his shoulder. he was chaind. a diamond soldier with a diamond shaped spear tip stood on each side to prevent him from escaping. the White Rabbit was standing and holding a trumpet.
a table had a large dish with tarts. she began looking around. she had read about courts in books, the judge wore a great wig, and a crown over it. the jury box held twelve things: some were animals, and the rest were birds. she felt proud that she knew a word that very few young girls of her age knew. The twelve were writing on slates. Alice whispered to the Gryphon, “What are they writing? They can’t have anything yet, before the trial’s begun.” g answered, “They’re writing their names, so... um each will remember its name.” the White Rabbit announced, “Silence in the court.” the King put on his spectacles and glared at g. a rat wrote the date but misspelled the month. a frog needed to ask a bird which month. it called the frog "stupid" so it wrote "first of stoopid," with a backward s like a stretched 2. a jury lizard, [the same one as at the rabbit's home] wrote using a pencil that squeaked. This annoyd Alice who went behind it and very soon took its pencil. She did it so quickly that this little Lizard, [she remembered they had called him Bill] wondered what had happened to it. l' searched around its place for it. then l' started writing using a finger, which left no mark on the slate. King ordered, “read the accusation.” the White Rabbit, named Harold the Herald, blew three sounds from its trumpet. next it unrolled the scroll, which was longer than a rabbit standing up, and read what follows:
“The Queen of Hearts, baked seven tarts,
on a summer day:
The Knave of Hearts, stole all those tarts,
taking them away”
“Tell your decision,” said the King to the jury. Rabbit rushed to add, “Not yet, not yet! much is before that.” the King commanded, “Call the first witness.” the White Rabbit blew three trumpet tones, again, before calling, “First witness, the Hatter." He came near holding a teacup in left hand and buttered bread in the other. “your Majesty,” he began, “these are due to not finishing my tea when I was called.” King complained, “You should have been finished. Which oclock did you begin?” the mad hatter answered, “Fourteenth of March.”
“15th,” said the March Hare who stood arm-in-arm with the Dormouse who added, "16th.” the jury wrote all three dates on their slates, and then added them! and wrote different totals!
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there concluding chapter 11.
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