Alice in Wonderland: In Five ActsBarta Press, 144 High Street, 1897 - 62 pages A dramatization of Lewis Carroll's work, Alice's adventures in Wonderland. |
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afraid ALICE laughing ALICE looks BABY Beau-ootiful Soo-oop beautiful Soup beg your pardon begin better blows three blasts Carpenter CATERPILLAR Cheshire Cat Cook course dare say dear DODO door DORMOUSE DUCHESS earls of Mercia eggs END OF SCENE Enter ALICE Exit eyes FISH FOOTMAN FIVE OF CLUBS FROG FOOTMAN grin grow hands head heard HUMPTY DUMPTY Jabberwock join the dance JURY KING OF HEARTS KNAVE OF HEARTS looking at ALICE LORY Majesty MARCH HARE mean MOCK TURTLE MOUSE never nice Nohow nonsense Oysters perhaps PIGEON plenty of practise QUEEN OF HEARTS RABBIT blows three rattle round serpent SEVEN OF CLUBS shouts sighs sing sneezes song speak suppose tail talk tell there's things to-day treacle tree turn TWEEDLEDUM and TWEEDLEDEE twinkle unbirthday present walk Walrus What's WHITE KNIGHT WHITE QUEEN WHITE RABBIT blows wood
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Page 13 - Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgra.be. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
Page 13 - He took his vorpal sword in hand : Long time the manxome foe he sought — So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack ! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh!...
Page 12 - You are old, father William" the young man said, " And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head — Do you think, at your age, it is right ? " "In my youth," father William replied to his son, " I feared it might injure the brain; But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.
Page 35 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her. "Don't stand chattering to yourself like that," Humpty Dumpty said, looking at her for the first time; "but tell me your name and your business.
Page 18 - Of cabbages — and kings And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings. " "But, wait a bit, " the Oysters cried, "Before we have our chat; For some of us are out of breath, And all of us are fat! " "No hurry !"said the Carpenter. They thanked him much for that. "A loaf of bread...
Page 60 - They told me you had been to her. And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim. He sent them word I had not gone (We know it to be true): If she should push the matter on. What would become of you?
Page 27 - And now, if e'er by chance I put My fingers into glue, Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot Into a left-hand shoe, Or if I drop upon my toe A very heavy weight, I weep, for it reminds me so Of that old man I used to know — Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow, Whose hair was whiter than the snow, Whose face was very like a crow, With eyes, like cinders, all aglow, Who seemed distracted with his woe, Who rocked his body to and fro, And muttered mumblingly and low, As if his mouth were full of...
Page 12 - You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak — Pray, how did you manage to do it?
Page 50 - Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Page 16 - The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might; He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright — And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night. " The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done —