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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Chapter 1The fall and the locked door to the garden

  1. A bright river, daisy field and long green hedge on a hot May afternoon
  2. On a hot May afternoon, Alice's sister reads calmly under a leafy tree.
  3. Alice lies in the long grass by her reading sister, twirling a daisy
  4. On a hot, sleepy afternoon a White Rabbit in a red waistcoat dashes across the grass close to Alice.
  5. The White Rabbit stops short in the daisy grass and holds up a gold watch from his waistcoat-pocket.
  6. Alice races across the daisy field as the White Rabbit's tail vanishes under the hedge
  7. Alice's head and shoulders are already in the dark rabbit-hole under the hedge
  8. Alice tips headfirst over the edge of the rabbit-hole into a deep, dark well
  9. Alice drifts down a deep well lined with cupboards, book-shelves, maps and pictures
  10. Alice drifts slowly down the deep well and peers into the jar she took from a shelf.
  11. Falling, Alice slides the empty ORANGE MARMALADE jar onto a passing cupboard shelf
  12. Falling down the well, Alice folds her arms and lifts her chin as if posing
  13. Alice drifts down the shelved well, counting miles on her fingers
  14. Floating down the well, Alice curtseys to a lady who isn't there
  15. Still drifting down the deep well, Alice dozes off murmuring "Do cats eat bats?"
  16. Alice lands unhurt on a soft heap of sticks and dry leaves at the bottom of the deep well.
  17. Alice springs up from the heap of dry leaves at the bottom of the rabbit-hole.
  18. Alice rounds the corner at full speed and stops short.
  19. In the long, low hall, Alice pulls with all her strength at a locked door.
  20. Seen from high above, Alice walks slowly down the middle of the long, lamp-lit hall.
  21. Alice has tried every locked door in the long, dim hall.
  22. Alice tries the tiny golden key in a huge brass keyhole, but it turns loosely
  23. Kneeling in the hall, Alice pulls aside a red curtain and finds a tiny door
  24. A child's fingers turn the tiny golden key in the brass lock of a little door
  25. Alice kneels in the dim hall and looks down the tiny passage.
  26. Alice kneels by the tiny open door, gazing down the passage at the sunlit garden
  27. Back at the glass table, Alice finds a little bottle that was not there before
  28. Alice is back at the glass table.
  29. Alice turns the DRINK ME bottle round, checking every side for the word poison
  30. A child's hand turns the little "DRINK ME" bottle in the lamplight to check its last side.
  31. In an extreme close-up, Alice drinks from the little "DRINK ME" bottle.
  32. The little bottle lies drained on the glass table.
  33. Alice has just drunk from the bottle and feels herself shrinking.
  34. Alice has shrunk to ten inches tall and stands among the pillar-like legs of the glass table.
  35. Alice, now ten inches high, stands still by the glass table, hands on her head
  36. Ten inches tall now, Alice reaches the little door behind the red curtain and finds she has no key.
  37. Alice is only ten inches tall now.
  38. Alice, now tiny after crying, kneels under the tall glass table.
  39. Under the glass table, tiny Alice lifts a small cake marked EAT ME in currants
  40. Tiny Alice has just taken a bite of the EAT ME cake.
  41. Ten-inch Alice sits under the glass table, eating the last crumb of the EAT ME cake
  42. Alice has eaten the last of the EAT ME cake.
  43. The chapter ends on what is left behind.

Chapter 2Alice cries a pool and swims ashore with the Mouse

  1. Alice shoots up to the hall's ceiling, the glass table reaching only to her knees
  2. Alice has shot up to the ceiling of the long hall.
  3. From high under the roof, Alice looks down at her own small black shoes far below
  4. Telescope-tall Alice stands under the hall ceiling, counting parcels for her feet
  5. Over nine feet tall, Alice presses her head against the ceiling of the long hall
  6. Nine-foot Alice lies on the stone floor, one eye pressed to the tiny garden door
  7. Alice has grown over nine feet tall.
  8. Giant Alice sits hunched under the roof, shaking a stern finger at herself in tears
  9. Alice is now more than nine feet tall.
  10. Alice, grown giant and tear-stained, sits in her pool of tears in the long hall.
  11. Tear-soaked giant Alice leans down to the tiny White Rabbit and timidly speaks
  12. The White Rabbit's fine gloves and large fan lie on the wet stone at the edge of the pool of tears.
  13. Giant Alice sits in her pool of tears, waving the Rabbit's fan and wondering who she is
  14. Giant Alice stops fanning midway through saying London is the capital of Paris
  15. Alice sits in her tears, hands folded, reciting How doth the little crocodile
  16. Nine-foot Alice sits in her pool of tears in the lamplit hall, sobbing
  17. Alice stops mid-sentence, seeing one of the White Rabbit's white kid gloves on her hand
  18. Two-foot Alice checks her height against the glass table, the Rabbit's glove on her head
  19. Alice is now only two feet tall.
  20. Alice has just escaped shrinking away to nothing.
  21. Tiny Alice, a few inches tall, reaches the little door at last and finds it shut again.
  22. Alice has shrunk to only a few inches tall.
  23. Alice slips and falls into the pool of tears she cried when she was nine feet high.
  24. Alice is up to her chin in the pool of tears and paddles toward a distant strip of stone shore.
  25. Tiny Alice swims across her pool of tears toward a large dark splashing shape
  26. Alice has shrunk to a few inches tall.
  27. Alice tries her first French sentence on the Mouse, and it asks where her cat is.
  28. The soaked little Mouse rises from the pool of tears and squeaks a protest at Alice
  29. Alice floats on her back in the pool of tears and chatters dreamily about her cat Dinah.
  30. The Mouse's long wet tail quivers at the surface of the pool of tears.
  31. Frightened by Alice's talk of a terrier, the Mouse swims off across the pool of tears
  32. Alice calls softly, and the offended Mouse swims slowly back to her
  33. Alice leads the Mouse and dripping birds and animals across the pool to shore
  34. Everyone has swum ashore, and the pool of tears is empty.

Chapter 3The Caucus-race, the Mouse's tale and Dinah

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

Chapter 4Stuck in the Rabbit's House

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

Chapter 5The Caterpillar's Mushroom and the Pigeon

  1. On tiptoe at the mushroom, Alice looks at the blue Caterpillar in silence
  2. The blue Caterpillar lowers his hookah and breaks the long silence with a lazy question
  3. Alice answers the Caterpillar's "Who are you?" shyly and haltingly.
  4. Alice stands on tiptoe at the edge of the mushroom and looks up at the blue Caterpillar.
  5. By the mushroom, Alice spreads her hands and explains how confusing changing size is
  6. The Caterpillar sits on the mushroom with his arms folded.
  7. A close detail of the Caterpillar's small blue hand.
  8. Standing very straight, Alice gravely tells the Caterpillar to say who it is first
  9. With no answer for the Caterpillar, Alice turns and walks off into forest-tall grass
  10. Walking away from the rude Caterpillar, Alice stops mid-step when he calls her back
  11. Back at the mushroom, the blue Caterpillar calmly tells Alice to keep her temper
  12. Alice has been waiting a long time in the grass at the foot of the mushroom.
  13. Small among towering buttercups, Alice admits her busy bee verse has come out wrong
  14. Alice stands to attention in the grass, hands folded, ready to recite Father William
  15. Hands folded, Alice recites Father William in a singsong voice, eyes on the grass-tops
  16. At the foot of the mushroom, tiny Alice recites Father William to the drowsy Caterpillar
  17. The Caterpillar sits still on the mushroom, hookah held below his mouth, eyes narrowed
  18. On tiptoe, Alice shouts the last rude line of Father William up at the Caterpillar
  19. The Caterpillar gives his verdict on Alice's recitation.
  20. After a long silence, the Caterpillar speaks first and asks Alice what size she wants to be.
  21. Alice has been contradicted once too often.
  22. Alice politely asks to be "a little larger" and calls three inches a wretched height.
  23. The Caterpillar is offended by Alice's "wretched height" and rears up to his full three inches.
  24. Alice pleads, "But I'm not used to it!"
  25. The Caterpillar yawns, climbs off the mushroom and slips into the tall grass
  26. With the Caterpillar gone, three-inch Alice stands alone beside the great mushroom
  27. The Caterpillar has gone, and Alice is left alone with the perfectly round mushroom.
  28. Alice holds up two identical bits of mushroom, wondering which makes her grow or shrink
  29. Alice nibbles the right-hand bit of mushroom and shrinks so fast her chin hits her shoe
  30. Alice has shrunk so fast that her chin is pressed against her own shoe.
  31. The wood from high above: a calm sea of green tree-tops.
  32. Alice's small head, still smiling, rises high above the wood on a very long neck.
  33. High above the wood, Alice's head sits on an immensely long neck.
  34. Delighted, Alice curves her serpent-like neck into a graceful zigzag over the tree-tops
  35. High above the tree-tops, a large Pigeon crashes into Alice's face, screaming Serpent!
  36. High above the tree-tops, Alice stares, puzzled and still indignant, at the exhausted Pigeon.
  37. High above the tree-tops, the Pigeon stands on her nest and complains to the empty sky
  38. The worn-out Pigeon sits hunched over her pale eggs in the highest tree of the wood.
  39. High in the tallest tree, the Pigeon rises from her nest and shrieks at the long-necked Alice.
  40. Alice tells the Pigeon she's a little girl, then drops her eyes, recalling her changes
  41. Seen from behind the scornful Pigeon, Alice looks down at the bird, unsure of herself
  42. Two pale, fragile eggs in a twig nest, half-covered by the Pigeon's ruffled wing
  43. Alice turns her long neck toward the Pigeon's nest and insists she isn't after eggs
  44. The Pigeon sulks back down onto her eggs in the highest tree.
  45. Back among the tree trunks, Alice carefully nibbles mushroom to regain her usual height
  46. Alice is back at her own height and steps out of the wood into a sunny clearing.
  47. At the wood's edge, Alice nibbles the right-hand mushroom piece to make herself small
  48. The four-foot house fills the sunny clearing, with nine-inch Alice far off in the grass

Chapter 6The Duchess's Kitchen and the Grinning Cat

  1. Alice, only nine inches tall, stands in the tall grass at the edge of the wood.
  2. Fish- and frog-faced footmen in powdered curls face each other solemnly at the door
  3. The Fish-Footman solemnly hands the Frog-Footman a letter almost as big as himself.
  4. The two footmen bow low over the Queen's invitation, and their powdered curls tangle
  5. Alice has just hidden in the wood to stop herself laughing out loud.
  6. Alice knocks timidly at the Duchess's little door.
  7. From tiny Alice's view below, the Frog-Footman keeps talking with eyes fixed on the sky
  8. A plate from the Duchess's door grazes the Frog-Footman's nose as he stares at the sky
  9. The plate has just smashed against the tree behind him.
  10. Alice stands in front of the tall shut door of the tiny house with her arms folded tight.
  11. The Frog-Footman leans back against the Duchess's little stone house and whistles at the sky.
  12. Alice has given up on the Footman.
  13. Alice steps over the threshold into the Duchess's kitchen, which is full of pepper smoke.
  14. In the Duchess's smoky kitchen, Alice doubles over sneezing in a cloud of grey pepper
  15. The Cheshire Cat is the one calm creature in the Duchess's peppery kitchen.
  16. Tiny Alice timidly asks the huge, sour Duchess why her cat grins, in a kitchen thick with pepper.
  17. The Duchess bellows Pig! at the howling baby, and tiny Alice jumps clean off the floor
  18. In the smoky kitchen, the Duchess sourly brushes off Alice's surprise, eyes on the baby
  19. Alice, nine inches tall, stands at the foot of the Duchess's stool in the smoky kitchen.
  20. Pots, plates and fire-irons fly at the Duchess, who ignores them as the baby howls
  21. In the Duchess's peppery kitchen, a huge saucepan flies within an inch of the howling baby's nose.
  22. Nine-inch Alice, among broken china, lectures the sour Duchess on the earth's axis
  23. The Duchess leans down and jabs a finger at tiny Alice: Chop off her head!
  24. After the Duchess's order to chop off her head, tiny Alice glances anxiously at the cook
  25. On her stool, the Duchess sings a rough lullaby, shaking the howling baby at every line
  26. The Duchess bellows the second verse and flings the howling baby high into the air
  27. The Duchess flings the howling baby at Alice and strides off to her croquet.
  28. Tiny Alice staggers holding the snorting baby, its arms and legs out like a star-fish
  29. Alice carries the knotted baby out of the smoky kitchen into the sunny May wood
  30. In the leafy shade of the wood, Alice bends over the baby she carried out of the Duchess's kitchen.
  31. Alice finds no tears in the baby's small dry eyes above its turned-up snout
  32. In the May wood, Alice looks down at the baby in her arms, now a small pink pig
  33. Alice sets the little creature down in the May wood and watches the pig trot off
  34. Alice is only nine inches tall and stands in the long May grass of the wood.
  35. Up close on the low bough, the Cheshire Cat grins at Alice.
  36. Tiny Alice in the tall grass politely asks the grinning Cheshire Cat which way to go
  37. Tiny Alice stands where paths meet and looks up at the Cheshire Cat on his low bough
  38. Alice explains that she only wants to get somewhere, and the Cat's easy reply leaves her puzzled.
  39. The Cheshire Cat sits on a low bough with both front paws spread like the arms of a signpost.
  40. Grinning on his bough, the Cheshire Cat tells Alice there's no escaping madness
  41. Alice stands in the long grass with her hands on her hips and protests that she is not mad.
  42. Seen past the Cheshire Cat's striped shoulder, the Cat begins its proof of madness
  43. A close-up of the Cheshire Cat's striped tail, which swings off the bough in one slow, lazy curl.
  44. Alice shrugs and tells the Cheshire Cat she hasn't been invited to the Queen's croquet
  45. The Cheshire Cat has just said "You'll see me there" and vanished.
  46. Nine-inch Alice watches the Cheshire Cat reappear whole on his low bough
  47. In the long grass, Alice tells the grinning Cheshire Cat the baby turned into a pig
  48. The Cat has vanished again and left an empty bough.
  49. On her way to the March Hare's house, Alice finds the Cheshire Cat on a branch ahead
  50. Alice presses a hand to her forehead and tells the Cheshire Cat, "I said pig."
  51. The Cheshire Cat sits on a low bough and slowly vanishes, tail first.
  52. Alice stands still in the long grass and gazes up in hushed wonder at the Cheshire Cat's grin.
  53. Alice looks up at the March Hare's huge house with hare-ear chimneys and a fur roof
  54. Two-foot-tall Alice walks timidly towards the March Hare's huge house

Chapter 7The endless tea-party and the way into the garden

  1. Seen from high above the wood, the March Hare's fur-roofed house sits small in a golden clearing.
  2. Alice steps onto the lawn and sees the tea-party for the first time.
  3. Alice drops indignantly into the big arm-chair at one end of the long tea-table.
  4. The March Hare leans over the crowded tea-table and offers Alice wine.
  5. Alice sits upright in the big arm-chair and answers the March Hare's rudeness
  6. The Hatter leans on the sleeping Dormouse with his teacup halfway to his lips.
  7. Alice sits stiffly in the big arm-chair after scolding the Hatter.
  8. Alice brightens at once when the Hatter asks his riddle.
  9. The March Hare pounces on Alice's words, and the Hatter joins in over the sleeping Dormouse's head.
  10. The Dormouse sleeps while his two neighbours rest their elbows on him like a cushion
  11. The talk at the mad tea-party has stopped.
  12. The Hatter shakes his watch, holds it to his ear and asks Alice the day of the month
  13. The Hatter holds his buttered watch to his ear and sighs, "Two days wrong!"
  14. The Hatter holds out his open watch, its works gummed with butter and crumbs
  15. The March Hare gloomily lifts the Hatter's watch out of his teacup, dripping tea
  16. Alice leans in over the March Hare's shoulder to look at the dripping watch
  17. The Hatter points his teaspoon at Alice and declares his watch perfectly reasonable
  18. Alice sits very straight in the big arm-chair and tries to keep her manners.
  19. The Hatter tips a teapot over the sleeping Dormouse, tea falling toward its nose
  20. The Dormouse has been woken by hot tea poured on his nose.
  21. Alice gives up on the riddle and asks for the answer.
  22. Alice sinks back into the huge arm-chair and sighs, tired of riddles with no answers
  23. At the tea-table under the tree, the Hatter throws back his head in lofty contempt
  24. The Hatter leans over the tea-table and tells Alice a secret: Time won't stand beating.
  25. The March Hare leans on his paw, wishing it were half-past one, dinner-time
  26. At the endless tea-table, Alice leans towards the Hatter with a real, thoughtful question.
  27. The Hatter shakes his head mournfully and points his teaspoon at the March Hare
  28. For one dreamy moment the Hatter is back on the Queen's stage.
  29. Under the great tree the Hatter sings his nonsense song down the long tea-table.
  30. The sleeping Dormouse starts singing and drowns out the Hatter's sad story
  31. At the tea-party, the Hatter acts out the Queen of Hearts screaming 'Off with his head!'
  32. The Hatter tells how it has always been six o'clock since his quarrel with Time
  33. At the endless tea-party, Alice suddenly realises why the long table holds so many tea-things.
  34. A row of used cups and crumby plates leads along the tablecloth to the first clean cup
  35. Alice leans across the table and asks what happens when they come round to the beginning
  36. The March Hare gives a huge, lazy yawn and says the young lady should tell a story
  37. Pinched from both sides at once, the Dormouse slowly half-opens his heavy eyes.
  38. The March Hare and the Hatter lean over the sleepy Dormouse from both sides and demand a story.
  39. Pinched awake, the drowsy Dormouse rushes into his story of three sisters in a well
  40. Alice gently objects that children living on treacle would be ill
  41. Alice gazes into her empty teacup as if into a well, picturing the three sisters
  42. The March Hare pushes the teapot towards Alice's empty cup.
  43. The Hatter jabs his teaspoon at Alice, grinning as he turns her own rebuke on her
  44. Alice helps herself to tea and bread-and-butter, then turns to ask the Dormouse again
  45. Alice has just shouted "There's no such thing!"
  46. The Dormouse sits upright, nose in the air, and sleepily answers 'Treacle'
  47. The Hatter suddenly breaks into the Dormouse's story on a whim.
  48. At the Hatter's whim the tea-party moves one place along the table.
  49. Alice moves one place on and finds her plate flooded with milk the March Hare spilled
  50. Alice asks the Dormouse a polite question, and the Hatter sneers an answer for it
  51. The half-asleep Dormouse sits on the tablecloth and says "—well in" with a perfectly straight face.
  52. Muddled by the "well in" pun, Alice gives up and lets the Dormouse talk on.
  53. Alice has no answer to the March Hare's "Why not?".
  54. The Hatter pinches the Dormouse, who wakes with a shriek and gabbles about M-words
  55. Staring into his clean cup, the Hatter rudely cuts Alice off without looking at her
  56. Alice has had enough of the Hatter's rudeness.
  57. Alice walks away from the mad tea-party and looks back once more over her shoulder.
  58. Alice walks off from the mad tea-party and marches crossly through the long grass of the green wood.
  59. Having walked away from the rude tea-party, Alice finds a small wooden door in a tree trunk.
  60. Alice is back in the dim, amber-lit hall, standing beside the little glass table
  61. Seen through the glass tabletop, a child's hand picks up the tiny golden key
  62. Alice is back in the long hall, and this time she starts in the right order.
  63. Foot-high Alice takes one last nibble of the mushroom beside the open little door
  64. Alice, now only a foot high, steps through the open little door into the narrow passage.
  65. Alice steps through the little door into the bright garden of flower-beds and fountains

Chapter 8Croquet with the Queen of Hearts

  1. At last the whole sunlit garden that Alice longed for lies spread out below, neat and fresh.
  2. Alice has just walked into the Queen's garden and stops, curious, beside a big white rose-tree.
  3. Card-gardeners Five and Seven quarrel over a half-painted rose, jabbing dripping brushes
  4. A white rose half covered in wet red paint, the brush stopped mid-stroke
  5. Seven has just flung down his brush in the middle of the quarrel when he sees Alice watching.
  6. Two quietly tells Alice the gardeners planted a white rose-tree instead of a red one
  7. At the cry "The Queen!
  8. The court of cards winds through the garden, the King and Queen of Hearts coming last
  9. The gardeners lie face-down on the grass, but Alice stays standing by the rose-tree
  10. The Queen of Hearts turns from the bowing Knave and stares at Alice
  11. Alice tells the Queen her name and realizes the court is only a pack of cards
  12. The Queen of Hearts points at the three face-down gardeners and demands who they are
  13. The Queen of Hearts, crimson with fury, screams a death sentence at Alice
  14. Alice shouts 'Nonsense!' and the Queen of Hearts stops mid-sentence
  15. The Queen of Hearts turns from the King and points at the gardeners.
  16. The three card-gardeners scramble up and bow every way at once, bumping into each other
  17. A close-up of the Queen of Hearts' hand holding one rose from the bush.
  18. As the Queen shouts 'Off with their heads!', the gardeners run to Alice for protection
  19. Alice lowers Two into a big flower-pot where Five and Seven already peep over the rim
  20. Soldiers report the sentence carried out while the gardeners hide in the flower-pot
  21. Alice shouts her daring "Yes!" across the Queen's garden beside the half-painted rose-tree.
  22. At the Queen's roar, Alice steps onto the garden path and joins the court of cards
  23. Alice walks in the Queen of Hearts' procession of playing cards along a sunny garden path.
  24. In the procession, the White Rabbit whispers to Alice that the Duchess faces execution
  25. On the path to the croquet-ground, the anxious White Rabbit leans in to listen
  26. Alice laughs out loud at the thought of the Duchess boxing the Queen's ears.
  27. Alice looks down from a grassy ridge over the Queen's ridged and furrowed croquet-ground.
  28. Alice laughs as her croquet flamingo twists its neck round and stares up at her
  29. Close to the grass, a croquet-ball hedgehog uncurls and crawls calmly over a ridge.
  30. The croquet game has fallen into chaos: everyone plays at once and fights over the hedgehogs.
  31. Alice stands at the edge of the croquet-ground with her flamingo under her arm
  32. As the croquet game turns into a quarrel, a strange grin appears in the air
  33. Alice sets down her flamingo and starts telling the Cheshire Cat about the game
  34. Alice pours out her grievances about the chaotic croquet game to the Cheshire Cat's floating head.
  35. Alice sees the Queen behind her and switches to 'likely to win' mid-sentence
  36. Taking Alice's words as a compliment, the Queen of Hearts sweeps past with a smug smile
  37. The timid King of Hearts holds out his hand for the Cheshire Cat's floating head to kiss
  38. The King of Hearts crouches behind Alice and scolds the Cheshire Cat's grinning head
  39. The Cheshire Cat's floating head stares calmly at the King hiding behind Alice
  40. The King turns and asks his wife to have the grinning Cheshire Cat removed.
  41. The King of Hearts trots off across the ridged lawn to fetch the executioner.
  42. Alice's hedgehog is fighting another hedgehog in a furrow of the ridged croquet-ground.
  43. Alice has caught her runaway flamingo, but both hedgehogs have gone.
  44. Alice comes back to find a large, silent ring of cards round the Cheshire Cat's floating head.
  45. The executioner's axe lies on the croquet lawn under the Cheshire Cat's grinning head
  46. The King of Hearts wags a finger at Alice: anything with a head can be beheaded
  47. The Queen of Hearts threatens to execute everybody while card people stand silent
  48. With a flamingo peering at her, Alice tells the quarrellers to ask the Duchess
  49. The executioner races out of the silent ring of cards to fetch the Duchess.
  50. The Cheshire Cat's head is fading away above the croquet-ground.
  51. The King of Hearts and the executioner search the empty sky for the Cheshire Cat's head
  52. The Cheshire Cat's head has faded completely, and the croquet-ground is quiet in the sun.

Chapter 9The Duchess's Morals and the Mock Turtle's School

  1. The Duchess tucks her arm into Alice's and they walk along the croquet-ground
  2. Alice walks arm in arm with the Duchess along the sunny edge of the croquet-ground.
  3. The Duchess presses close against Alice's side, insisting everything has a moral
  4. Alice walks arm in arm with the Duchess along the edge of the croquet-ground.
  5. Arm in arm with Alice, the Duchess digs her sharp chin into Alice's shoulder
  6. On the sunny croquet lawn, the Duchess clings to Alice's arm and eyes the flamingo warily.
  7. As the Duchess reaches for Alice's waist, the flamingo opens its beak at her hand
  8. On a sunny walk at the edge of the croquet-ground, Alice points out that mustard isn't a bird.
  9. Alice suddenly works out the answer to her mustard question and cries out "it's a vegetable!"
  10. At the croquet-ground's edge, the Duchess presses her sharp chin into Alice's shoulder
  11. Alice is arm in arm with the beaming Duchess on the edge of the croquet-ground.
  12. The Duchess, arm in arm with Alice, makes her a grand present of all her morals.
  13. Close-up of Alice as her patience runs out.
  14. Walking arm in arm with Alice in the shade, the Duchess breaks off mid-word
  15. The Duchess breaks off in the middle of the word "moral" and Alice looks up.
  16. The Duchess breaks off mid-word, and her arm hooked through Alice's starts to shake
  17. The Queen of Hearts stamps at the Duchess: either you or your head must be off
  18. The Duchess has fled in an instant.
  19. The Queen of Hearts strides back onto the croquet-ground, a frightened Alice behind her
  20. Seen from above, the croquet-ground is bare.
  21. Panting, the Queen of Hearts asks Alice whether she has seen the Mock Turtle
  22. The Queen of Hearts marches across the empty croquet-lawn, beckoning over her shoulder
  23. As the Queen leads Alice away, the timid King whispers a pardon to the prisoners
  24. The Queen of Hearts points at the sleeping Gryphon in the sun and orders it awake
  25. The Queen of Hearts marches off, leaving Alice alone with a sleeping Gryphon
  26. The Gryphon has just woken up.
  27. Alice trails sulkily behind the swaggering Gryphon along a sunlit path to the sea
  28. Walking the shore with the Gryphon, Alice sees the Mock Turtle sad on a rock ledge
  29. The Gryphon presents Alice to the weeping Mock Turtle on his rock ledge by the grey sea.
  30. Small waves wash the shingle as everyone waits for the Mock Turtle's story
  31. On the rock ledge, the Mock Turtle bows his head and sighs: Once I was a real Turtle
  32. The Mock Turtle glares past the Gryphon at Alice and points a flapper at her
  33. The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle stare at Alice in reproachful silence
  34. On the grey rock ledge by the sea, the Gryphon holds up a talon to silence Alice.
  35. Alice sits up straight and tells the Mock Turtle she has been to a day-school too
  36. The Mock Turtle hears that Alice's school did not teach washing and relaxes into smug relief.
  37. Alice leans forward as the Mock Turtle sighs that he only took the regular course
  38. The Mock Turtle proudly recites Reeling and Writhing, Uglification and Derision
  39. The Gryphon throws up his paws, outraged that Alice has never heard of Uglification
  40. Stung at being called a simpleton by the Gryphon, Alice lets "uglifying" drop.
  41. On the rock ledge by the sea, the Mock Turtle solemnly counts off his school subjects
  42. The Mock Turtle counts his subjects on two flappers, a tear shining on one rim
  43. The Gryphon puffs out his chest and says he hadn't time to learn Fainting in Coils
  44. The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle bury their faces in grief for their old master
  45. The Gryphon raises a talon like a schoolmaster to explain why lessons lessen
  46. In close-up, Alice narrows her blue eyes, working out the Mock Turtle's school hours
  47. The Gryphon swings out a wing to stop Alice's eager questions about lessons
  48. Seen from above, the girl, the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle sit on a small rock ledge

Chapter 10Lobster Quadrille, and off to the trial

  1. The Gryphon thumps the sobbing Mock Turtle on the back while Alice politely waits
  2. On the rock ledge, Alice stops herself mid-word and covers her lips with her fingertips
  3. The Gryphon's talon points across a stretch of wet shingle dotted with glassy jelly-fish.
  4. The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle talk over each other describing the Lobster Quadrille
  5. The Gryphon can't wait for the Mock Turtle to finish describing the Lobster Quadrille.
  6. In the Lobster Quadrille, the Mock Turtle somersaults on the sand as the Gryphon bounces
  7. The wild Lobster Quadrille stops all at once.
  8. Alice, between the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle, shyly calls it a very pretty dance
  9. With a lordly wave of his claw, the Gryphon hands the song to the Mock Turtle.
  10. From above, the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle circle Alice on the sand, beating time
  11. In the Lobster Quadrille, the Gryphon's heavy claw lands on Alice's polished shoe
  12. Eyes half closed and tearful, the Mock Turtle sings the whiting's song
  13. The Mock Turtle's song pauses on the empty shore.
  14. The Mock Turtle sings sadly as he and the Gryphon circle a polite, puzzled Alice
  15. The Lobster Quadrille is over.
  16. On the rock ledge, Alice nearly admits she has eaten whiting at dinner
  17. The drowsy Mock Turtle yawns, shuts his eyes and waves the explanation to the Gryphon
  18. The Gryphon raises a talon like a pointer and lets his whiting pun sink in
  19. Alice looks down at her polished black shoes on the rock ledge, puzzled by the Gryphon's question.
  20. The Gryphon turns his beak away and explains that sea-shoes are made of soles and eels
  21. Hand still raised, Alice hears the Mock Turtle: no wise fish goes without a porpoise
  22. The tearful Mock Turtle makes his porpoise pun, and Alice politely corrects him
  23. Stung by the correction, the Mock Turtle turns half away in offended dignity
  24. Alice timidly tells the Gryphon and Mock Turtle she was a different person yesterday
  25. Alice sits on the rock ledge by the sea and tells her adventures.
  26. The Mock Turtle turns to the Gryphon as if the Gryphon were Alice's schoolmaster.
  27. Ordered to recite, Alice stands on the sand before the rock ledge like a schoolgirl
  28. Alice earnestly recites her lesson, but the poem comes out as nonsense about a Lobster
  29. Alice sits hunched on a low grey rock ledge by a wide, calm sea, with her face hidden in her hands.
  30. The Mock Turtle presses a flapper to his nose, asking how one turns out toes with it
  31. On the sand by the rock ledge, Alice's polished black shoes stand in first position
  32. Chin up, Alice begins the next verse on the rock ledge, sure it will come out wrong
  33. The Mock Turtle throws up his flappers and the Gryphon raises a claw to stop the recital
  34. On the seashore ledge, Alice eagerly asks the Mock Turtle for a song.
  35. The Mock Turtle's tearful eye fills the frame as he sobs Beautiful Soup to Alice
  36. The Mock Turtle throws back his head and bellows the last mournful note of "Beautiful Soup."
  37. A distant cry cuts the "Beautiful Soup" song short.
  38. The Gryphon grabs Alice's hand and rushes her off to the trial mid-song
  39. Alice, pulled along by the hand, pants out her question as they race away from the shore.
  40. Alice and the Gryphon run hand in hand across the wide open ground toward the trial.
  41. Alone on the rock ledge, the Mock Turtle keeps singing Beautiful Soup to the grey sea

Chapter 11The trial opens and Alice is called

  1. From high in the roof beams, the packed court of justice waits for the trial
  2. Alice has just come into the crowded court of the King and Queen of Hearts.
  3. From above, a gold dish of glossy jam tarts sits on white linen in the court
  4. Alice looks up at the King of Hearts, bolt upright so his crown stays on his wig
  5. Alice sees the jury-box: twelve animals and birds scratching busily at their slates
  6. On the spectators' bench, the Gryphon leans close to Alice's ear.
  7. The White Rabbit's shrill cry of silence freezes Alice half-risen mid-outburst
  8. In the jury-box, a bird-juror's claw hovers over a scribbled slate as a paw taps it
  9. Alice has crept behind the jury-box and leans down over the back bench.
  10. Bill the Lizard, pencil lost, drags one claw across his slate, which stays blank
  11. The White Rabbit blows three blasts on his trumpet to open the trial
  12. The White Rabbit, as herald, reads the charge from his parchment
  13. The King of Hearts turns to ask the jury for a verdict before any evidence has been heard.
  14. The White Rabbit blows three trumpet blasts to call the first witness
  15. The Hatter walks up the aisle with teacup and bread-and-butter, apologising to the King
  16. In the witness-box the Hatter looks sideways at the March Hare for the date his tea began.
  17. The Hatter, March Hare and Dormouse give three different dates for the same tea
  18. A juror's paws turn three muddled dates into shillings and pence on a slate
  19. The King of Hearts leans off his throne and points at the Hatter's hat.
  20. The Queen of Hearts puts on her spectacles and stares coldly at the Hatter
  21. The frightened Hatter bites a large crescent out of his teacup, staring at the Queen
  22. Halfway through the Hatter's evidence, Alice starts growing again.
  23. Growing Alice squashes the indignant Dormouse against the arm of the bench
  24. Alice tells the Dormouse not to talk nonsense: he is growing too
  25. The offended Dormouse walks away from Alice across the crimson aisle
  26. Staring at the Hatter, the Queen sends an officer for the list of singers
  27. With the King threatening to execute him, the Hatter stammers about the "twinkling of the tea".
  28. The King of Hearts snaps at the trembling Hatter that twinkling begins with a T
  29. The Hatter jabs a finger at the March Hare, who throws up both paws in denial
  30. The shoeless Hatter looks anxiously across the court for the Dormouse
  31. A small bird on the jury raises its claw and asks, "But what did the Dormouse say?"
  32. The King threatens the Hatter with execution, and the Hatter freezes at the witness-box.
  33. The Hatter drops his teacup and bread-and-butter and kneels in his socks at the witness-box.
  34. Court officers push a cheering guinea-pig head first into a canvas bag
  35. Alice sits on the front bench and nods to herself.
  36. The Hatter kneels on the stone floor of the court and pleads that he cannot "stand down" any lower.
  37. Two tied canvas bags of suppressed guinea-pigs sit side by side on the bench
  38. The Hatter kneels in his socks among his spilled tea things and asks to finish his tea.
  39. The Queen's order to "take his head off outside" comes too late.
  40. The Duchess's cook stands in the courtroom doorway holding her pepper-box.
  41. The Duchess's cook, clutching her pepper-box, answers the King with one flat word
  42. The White Rabbit whispers to the stumped King that he must cross-examine the cook
  43. The King of Hearts reluctantly plays the stern judge.
  44. The cook says pepper, mostly, as a half-asleep Dormouse behind her mumbles treacle
  45. The Queen of Hearts half-rises from the throne and shrieks at the sleepy Dormouse
  46. As the Queen shrieks, card-officers hurry the sleeping Dormouse out of court
  47. With the Dormouse thrown out and the cook gone, the court goes quiet.
  48. Large Alice watches over the tarts as the White Rabbit fumbles with the witness list
  49. On tiptoe, the White Rabbit holds the list high and shrieks Alice's name
  50. The instant the White Rabbit shrills "Alice!", the watcher becomes the next witness.

Chapter 12The trial collapses and Alice wakes

  1. Alice has grown enormous and forgotten it.
  2. Alice forgets how big she has grown and jumps up, and her skirt tips the jury-box over.
  3. Giant Alice gently sets the ruffled little jurors back on their benches one by one
  4. The trial stops dead.
  5. In her haste, the giant Alice has put Bill the Lizard back into the jury-box head downwards.
  6. Two slates lie side by side on the jury-box ledge after the upset.
  7. Giant Alice towers over the court and tells the small King she knows nothing whatever
  8. Bowing low, the White Rabbit frowns a warning at the King over Alice's evidence
  9. The King of Hearts murmurs important–unimportant, trying which word sounds best
  10. Two jurors write opposite verdicts on their slates: important and unimportant
  11. The King reads Rule Forty-two: all persons more than a mile high must leave the court
  12. After the King reads Rule Forty-two, the whole court turns silently to giant Alice
  13. Over giant Alice's shoulder, the tiny King and Queen of Hearts look up at her
  14. Huge Alice tells the King that the oldest rule ought to be Number One
  15. Alice has just told him his "oldest rule" ought to be Number One, and the King of Hearts turns pale.
  16. The White Rabbit hops forward with a folded paper just as the King calls for a verdict
  17. In the White Rabbit's paws, the blank paper found as evidence unfolds halfway.
  18. The animal jurors look up, relieved, as the King says the Knave imitated another hand
  19. The chained Knave of Hearts protests that no name is signed under the verses
  20. The whole court applauds the King's absurd "clever" reasoning.
  21. Grown huge, Alice leans over the packed benches and flings out an open hand toward the throne.
  22. At the foot of the throne, the White Rabbit, now in his spectacles, holds up the sheet of verses.
  23. In spectacles, the White Rabbit solemnly reads the nonsense verses aloud
  24. The White Rabbit reads the mysterious verses at the foot of the dais.
  25. From above: the dish of jam tarts sits untouched as the court argues over the verses
  26. The White Rabbit lowers the sheet after the last line of the nonsense verses.
  27. Alice cuts off the King and offers sixpence to any juror who can explain the verses
  28. A furry juror crams Alice's scornful remark onto a slate word for word
  29. The King of Hearts hunches over the sheet of verses spread on his knee.
  30. Asked if he can swim, the chained Knave turns edge-on: he is only thin cardboard
  31. Alice leans over the court and quotes the next line of the verses to the muttering King
  32. The King of Hearts points in triumph at the dish of tarts on the table
  33. The Queen of Hearts shouts "Never!" and hurls an inkstand across the court at the Lizard.
  34. Splashed by the Queen's inkstand, Bill writes on his slate with the dripping ink
  35. The King's pun falls flat, and at his offended "It's a pun!" the whole court laughs on command.
  36. The Queen cuts the King off: sentence first, verdict afterwards
  37. The purple-faced Queen of Hearts shakes her fist up at giant Alice: hold your tongue
  38. The Queen of Hearts shrieks "Off with her head!" down the long crimson aisle of the court.
  39. Back at full size, Alice scornfully calls the court nothing but a pack of cards
  40. The whole pack of cards rises and whirls down on Alice like a gust of autumn leaves.
  41. Alice wakes on the sunlit bank with her head in her sister's lap.
  42. On the shady bank, Alice's sister kisses her forehead before sending her in to tea
  43. Alice runs across the sunny daisy field toward home, still full of her wonderful dream.
  44. Alice has run in to tea, and her elder sister sits alone on the bank with her head on her hand.
  45. In her sunset half-dream, the sister sees little Alice's hands clasped on her knee
  46. At sunset Alice's sister sits alone on the bank with her eyes closed.
  47. Alone at sunset, Alice's sister keeps her eyes closed to hold on to Wonderland
  48. Golden evening countryside: grass, reeds, a shepherd boy, a farm-yard and cattle
  49. Alone on the bank at sunset, Alice's sister rests her cheek in her hand.
  50. The dream is over and the day is ending.