Chapter 3
The Caucus-race, the Mouse's tale and Dinah
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1 Tiny, soaked Alice stands in the hall with a dripping company of birds and animals
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2 Dripping wet, Alice stands hands on hips, demanding to know the Lory's age
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3 The dripping party sits in a large ring on the stone flags around the Mouse
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4 The soaked Mouse begins his dry lesson about William the Conqueror in the ring
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5 The Mouse stops his "driest thing" lecture and frowns politely at the dripping, shivering Lory.
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6 The Duck stretches across the ring to ask the Mouse what the archbishop found
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7 Alice sits on the stone floor, soaked and hugging her knees.
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8 From above, the hall's stone floor is dotted with puddles around the ring of listeners
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9 The whole dripping assembly sits in a ring on the stone flags of the lamplit hall.
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10 The Eaglet ducks its head into its wet down to hide a cheeky grin after cutting the Dodo short.
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11 The Dodo is still offended by the Eaglet's joke and has just proposed a "Caucus-race."
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12 The dripping Dodo scratches the first curve of the Caucus-race on the stone floor
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13 From above, creatures run, stop and double back in the lopsided Caucus-race circle
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14 The Caucus-race is over, and everyone is quite dry again.
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15 The Dodo sits with one feathered wing-tip pressed to his forehead, like a portrait of Shakespeare.
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16 The Dodo points one wing at Alice and names her as the one to give the prizes.
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17 Alice finds a dry box of comfits in her pocket and, relieved, gives one to each creature as a prize.
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18 Alice's gloved hand tips the empty comfit box, and the last comfit falls into a canary's open beak.
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19 The Dodo gravely asks what else Alice has in her pocket, and she sadly answers "Only a thimble."
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20 Alice hands her last possession, a tiny silver thimble, to the Dodo
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21 The Dodo bows low and gives Alice back her own thimble as a prize.
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22 Alice bows and takes back her thimble from the Dodo, trying not to laugh
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23 The Duck gulps its comfit as the Eaglet pats a small choking bird on the back
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24 The Caucus-race is over and the damp party sits in a ring again on the lamplit flags.
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25 The Mouse sighs and begins his "long and sad tale".
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26 From above, the Mouse's long tail winds across the stone flags in shrinking bends
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27 The Mouse stops his tale and glares at Alice for staring at his tail
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28 Alice mishears the Mouse's angry reply as a knot and half-rises to search for it
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29 Offended by Alice's "knot," the Mouse gets up and stalks out of the ring towards the dark corner.
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30 The offended Mouse walks quickly away across the flags, shaking his head
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31 At the water's edge an old Crab lectures her daughter, who snaps back at her
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32 After the Mouse storms off, Alice sighs aloud for her cat Dinah.
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33 Alice glows with pride as she boasts about her cat Dinah.
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34 Alice's praise of Dinah startles the party.
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35 Alice's careless word about Dinah has scattered the whole party.
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36 Alice sits alone on the cold stone flags with the thimble in her lap
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37 Alone on the empty shore after crying for Dinah, Alice hears small footsteps far away.
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38 After Dinah is mentioned, everyone leaves the shore of the pool of tears.
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