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■7 Who stole the tarts? |
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The King and Queen of Hearts were sitting on their thrones |
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When Alice and the Gryphon arrived. |
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There was a great crowd of birds and animals, |
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and all the pack of cards. |
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Soldiers stood all around the Knave of Hearts, |
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and near the King was the White Rabbit,with a trumpet in one hand. |
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In the middle of the room there was a table,with a large plate of tarts on it. |
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'They look good,'thought Alice,who was feeling a little hungry. |
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Then the White Rabbit called out loudly,'Silence! |
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The trial of the Knave of Hearts will now begin!' |
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He took out a long piece of paper,and read: |
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The Queen of Hearts,she made some tarts,All on a summer day. |
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The Knave of Hearts,he stole those tarts,And took them all away. |
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'Very good,'said the King.'Call the first witness.' |
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Alice looked at the jury,who were now writing everything down. |
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It was a very strange jury. |
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Some of the jurymen were animals,and the others were birds. |
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Then the White Rabbit blew his trumpet three times, |
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and called out,'First witness!' |
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The first witness was the Hatter. |
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He came in with a teacup in one hand |
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and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other hand. |
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'I'm very sorry,Your Majesty,'he said. |
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'I was in the middle of tea when the trial began.' |
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'Take off your hat,'the King said. |
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'It isn't mine,'said the Hatter. |
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'Stolen!Write that down,'the King said to the jury. |
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'I keep hats to sell,'explained the Hatter.'I don't have a hat myself.I'm a Hatter.' |
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'Give your evidence,'said the King,or we'll cut your head off.' |
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The Hatter's face turned white.'I'm a poor man,Your Majesty,' |
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he began,in a shaking voice. |
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Just then Alice had a strange feeling. |
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After a minute or two she understood what it was. |
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'Don't push like that,'said the Dormouse,who was sitting next to her. |
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'I'm nearly falling off my seat.' |
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'I'm very sorry,'Alice said politely.'I'm getting bigger and taller,you see.' |
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'Well,you can't do that here,'said the Dormouse crossly, |
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And he got up and moved to another seat. |
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The Hatter was still giving evidence,but nobody could understand a word of it. |
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The King looked at the Queen,and the Queen looked at the executioner. |
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The unhappy Hatter saw this,and dropped his bread-and-butter. |
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'I'm a poor man,Your Majesty,'he said again. |
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'You're a very poor,speaker,'said the King.He turned to the White Rabbit. |
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'Call the next witness,'he said. |
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The next witness was the Duchess's cook, |
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who spoke very angrily and said that she would not give any evidence. |
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The King looked worried and told the White Rabbit to call another witness. |
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Alice watched while the White Rabbit looked at the names on his piece of paper. |
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Then,to her great surprise,he called out loudly,'Alice!' |
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'Here!'cried Alice,jumping to her feet. |
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'What do you know about these tarts?'said the King. |
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'Nothing,'said Alice. |
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The Queen was looking hard at Alice.Now she said, |
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'All people a mile high must leave the room.' |
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'I'm not a mile high,'said Alice. |
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'And I won't leave the room.I want to hear the evidence.' |
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'There is no more evidence,'said the King very quickly,'and now the jury will—' |
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'Your Majesty!'said the White Rabbit,jumping up in a great hurry. |
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'We've just found this letter.There's no name on it,but I think the Knave wrote it.' |
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'No,I didn't!'said the Knave loudly. |
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'Read it to us,'said the King. |
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'Where shall I begin,Your Majesty?'asked the Rabbit. |
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'Begin at the beginning,'said the King, |
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'and go on until you get to the end,then stop.' |
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Everybody listened very carefully while the White Rabbit read these words. |
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They tell me you have been to her, |
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And talked of me to him. |
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She thought I was a gardener, |
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But said I could not swim. |
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He tells them that I have not gone, |
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(We know that this is true). |
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If she decides to hurry on, |
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What will they do to you? |
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I gave her one,they gave him two, |
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You gave us three or more. |
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They all returned from him to you, |
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But they were mine before. |
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'That's a very important piece of evidence,'said the King.He looked very pleased. |
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'Now the jury must—' |
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'If anybody in the jury can explain that letter,'said Alice |
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(she was not afraid of anything now, |
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because she was much bigger than everybody in the room), |
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'I'll give him sixpence.It's all nonsense!It doesn't mean anything.' |
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The jury busily wrote this down.'She thinks it's all nonsense.' |
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'All nonsense,eh?'said the King.He read some of the words again. |
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'But said I could not swim.You can't swim,can you?'he said to the Knave. |
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The Knave's face was sad.'Do I look like a swimmer?'he said. |
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(And he didn't—because he was made of paper.) |
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The King smiled.'I understand everything now,'he said. |
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'There are the tarts,and here is the Knave of Hearts. |
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And now the jury must decide who the thief is.' |
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'No,no!'said the Queen.'Off with his head!The jury can say what it thinks later.' |
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'What nonsense!'said Alice loudly.'The jury must decide first.You can't—' |
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'Be quiet!'said the Queen,her face turning red. |
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'I won't!'said Alice. |
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'Off with her head!'screamed the Queen.Nobody moved. |
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'It doesn't matter what you say,'said Alice.'You're only a pack of cards!' |
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Then the pack of cards flew up into the sky and began to fall on Alice's face. |
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She gave a little scream…and woke up. |
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She was lying next to her sister under the trees, |
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and some leaves were falling on her face. |
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'Wake up,Alice dear,'said her sister. |
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'You've been asleep a long time.' |
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'Oh,I've had a very curious dream!'said Alice, |
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and she told her sister all about the strange adventures in her wonderful dream. |