Chapter 4
Stuck in the Rabbit's House
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1 The White Rabbit trots anxiously along a sunny path, searching for his gloves and fan
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2 Tiny Alice lifts a broad leaf among tall grass, looking for the Rabbit's fan and gloves
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3 Mistaking tiny Alice for Mary Ann, the White Rabbit points her home down the path
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4 Frightened, tiny Alice runs down the sunny path toward the White Rabbit's cottage
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5 Alice runs up to the White Rabbit's red-brick cottage and its bright brass plate
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6 Alice slips into the White Rabbit's house without knocking and hurries up the narrow stairs.
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7 Alice stops on the landing of the White Rabbit's narrow staircase and smiles at herself.
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8 Alice reaches on tiptoe for the fan on the table in the White Rabbit's tidy room
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9 In the White Rabbit's room, Alice lifts a pair of tiny white kid gloves from the table
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10 With the fan and gloves under her arm, Alice lifts an unlabelled bottle to her lips
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11 Alice has drunk half the little bottle when her head hits the Rabbit's ceiling
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12 Alice fills the Rabbit's little room, one arm out the window, one foot up the chimney
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13 Alice has grown until she fills the White Rabbit's tidy little room.
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14 Alice has stopped growing.
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15 Giant Alice, wedged under the low ceiling of the Rabbit's room, forgets her misery
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16 Alice has grown so big that she fills the White Rabbit's little room.
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17 Giant Alice lies wedged in the Rabbit's room, arm out the window, foot up the chimney
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18 Enormous Alice, wedged in the Rabbit's room, hears his feet pattering up the stairs
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19 The White Rabbit turns the brass knob, but Alice's huge elbow presses against the door
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20 Giant Alice fills the White Rabbit's tiny upstairs room.
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21 The White Rabbit lies sprawled in a smashed cucumber-frame and shouts for his servant.
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22 Stuck in the smashed cucumber-frame, the White Rabbit snaps at Pat, who pulls his paw
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23 In the garden, the White Rabbit and Pat argue about the huge arm hanging from the window
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24 Cut and shaken, the White Rabbit shoves Pat towards the cottage to take the arm away
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25 Pat, the timid guinea-pig, tiptoes over broken glass towards the giant hand hanging from the window.
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26 After the second snatch, a quiet falls over the White Rabbit's little garden.
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27 A cart has rattled up to the White Rabbit's cottage.
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28 Bill the Lizard sits alone on the ridge of the White Rabbit's roof beside the brick chimney.
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29 Bill the Lizard clings to the Rabbit's chimney pot and stares nervously into the dark
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30 Only the tip of Bill's green tail sticks out of the chimney pot on the Rabbit's roof
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31 Alice's kick sends Bill the Lizard flying out of the chimney like a sky-rocket.
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32 Bill the Lizard sits dazed and sooty under the hedge.
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33 The White Rabbit shouts to burn the house down, and the crowd around dazed Bill nods
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34 At Alice's threat to set Dinah on them, the whole crowd in the Rabbit's garden stops dead.
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35 The garden under the White Rabbit's window is quiet for a moment.
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36 A handful of little pebbles comes rattling in at the window and strikes the giant Alice in the face.
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37 Alice has grown so big that she fills the White Rabbit's room.
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38 On the Rabbit's floorboards, thrown pebbles turn into little golden cakes
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39 Alice is jammed under the ceiling of the Rabbit's house with a pebble mark on her cheek.
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40 Alice, now only three inches tall, slips out of the White Rabbit's front door into the sunny garden.
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41 Three-inch Alice runs from the Rabbit's garden as animals and birds rush after her
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42 Alice, now only three inches tall, walks through grass that towers over her like a forest.
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43 Among giant grass stalks, tiny Alice jerks her head up in fright at a sharp bark above
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44 Alice, now only three inches tall, stands beside a great purple thistle in the wood.
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45 Tiny Alice purses her lips to whistle and reaches a gloved hand to the puppy's paw
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46 Alice's tiny gloved hand holds a trembling twig out to the puppy's enormous wet nose
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47 The enormous puppy leaps off all four feet with a yelp of delight at the little stick
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48 The worn-out puppy sits a good way off, panting, tongue out and eyes half shut
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49 Tiny Alice runs through a sea of long grass toward the wood while the puppy rests behind
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50 Three-inch Alice leans on a tree-tall buttercup stalk, fanning herself with a leaf
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51 Alone in the wood, tiny Alice peers up under the cap of a large pale mushroom
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52 Tiny Alice peeps over the great mushroom on tiptoe as blue smoke curls from its cap
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53 Peeping over the mushroom on tiptoe, Alice is eye to eye with a large blue Caterpillar
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