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Libretto adapted from Lewis Carroll’s
Through the Looking-Glass
by Marilyn Barnett and Gary Bachlund
Alice
Through the Looking-Glass
Illustration by John Tenniel
Gary Bachlund
ALICE Through the Looking-Glass
CAST In order of appearance
(seventeen singers)
Alice – lyric mezzo soprano or lyric soprano Lewis Carroll / White Knight – lyric tenor
Dean Liddell (spoken) /White King – baritone Gnat – soprano or mezzo soprano
Tiger-Lily/Mrs. Liddell (spoken) – soprano Red Queen – mezzo soprano
Tweedledee – tenor Tweedledum – tenor
White Queen – soprano Humpty Dumpty – tenor
Messenger – baritone Unicorn – baritone
Lion – bass baritone or baritone Red Knight – tenor
Frog – baritone Guard – baritone
Pudding – baritone
ORCHESTRA
Oboe I & II Horn I & II
Percussion – single player (suspended cymbal with soft and hard sticks, triangle,
tam-tam, tambourine, snare drum, bass drum, glockenspiel) Piano Harp
Strings (divisi) – 3,3,2,2,2,1 minimum
Libretto adapted from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
By Marilyn Barnett and Gary Bachlund
Alice Through the Looking-Glass
Music by Gary Bachlund
piano-vocal score CONTENTS
I. Can We Pretend? – Alice and Lewis Carroll 1 Lewis Carroll: “Child of the pure unclouded brow” 3 Alice: “Dinah, let’s pretend the glass is soft as gauze” 5 II. Jabberwocky – Alice 7 III. The Looking-Glass Garden – Alice: “Hmm… It seems very pretty” 13 Gnat: “Ah! I know you are a friend” 14
Tiger-Lily: “We can talk when there's anybody worth talking to” 21 IV. It’s Like a Chess Board – Red Queen: “Where do you come from?” 23 Red Queen: “Your directions” 29 V. Tweedledum and Tweedledee – Tweedledum, Tweedledee and Alice 33 Alice: “Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed to have a battle” 36 Tweedledum: “You’ve begun wrong.” 38 VI. The Walrus and the Carpenter – Tweedledum and Tweedledee 41 VII. Battle for a Rattle – Alice, Tweedledee and Tweedledum 50 VIII. The White Queen’s Visit – White Queen and Alice 59 White Queen: We-e-e-e-e-ell? Well! What is it you want to buy?” 66 IX. Humpty Dumpty – Humpty Dumpty: “It’s very provoking to be called an egg!” 70 Alice: “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall” 70 Humpty Dumpty: “Take a good look at me.” 73 X. “Jabberwocky” Explained – Alice and Humpty Dumpty 81 XI. Humpty Dumpty’s Song – Humpty Dumpty and Alice 86 XII. The Lion and the Unicorn – White King, Alice and Messenger 92 Unicorn – “What a fight we might have” with Lion and Alice 102 XIII. Ahoy! Ahoy! Check! – Red Knight, White Knight and Alice 105 XIV. A-Sitting on a Gate – White Knight 109 XV. The Eighth Square, At Last – White Knight, Alice, Red Queen and White Queen 115 White Queen, Red Queen: “Ridiculous! 118 XVI. Hush-a-by, LAdy – Red Queen, White Queen and Alice 127 XVII. Queen Alice – Frog, Alice, Guard and tutti 129 XVIII. A Looking-Glass Banquet –Alice, Red Queen, Pudding 135 XIX. The Fish Riddle – White Queen and Red Queen 139
XX. Oh! Such a Dream – Red Queen: “Meanwhile, we’ll drink to your health” with tutti 142 Alice: “I rise to return thanks” with tutti 144 Alice: “Oh! Such a dream.” With Mrs. Liddell, Lewis Carroll 146 Lewis Carroll: “A boat, beneath a sunny sky” 147 Coda: orchestra 149
Copyright © 2001, 2013 Gary Bachlund All international rights reserved. www.bachlund.org
Check! Check mate.
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Check mate.
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Check mate. Oh... Oh, it was the fault of that nas tyknight,
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I. Can We Pretend?
ALICE [ Delighted. ]
[ Alice and Lewis Carroll are playing chess at a card table near a large, full-lengthmirror with a small shelf at the bottom, Alice holds her kitten, Dinah, in her lap. ]
[ Surprised. ]
Texts by Lewis Carroll as adapted and amended by Marilyn Barnett and Gary Bachlund
Music by Gary BachlundAlice Through the Looking-Glass
LEWIS CARROLL [ Moving his piece almost ruefully. ]
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won if I'd had two queens. Can we pre tend...
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Yes,
if your pawn rea chesthe eighth square...
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I'll set you a pro blem. White pawn to play and win in.. ...in e leven moves.
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Ve ry well. Di nahcould be the RedQueen.
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If you sat up and fold edyour arms, you'd look ex act ly like her. Do try!
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Pre tend.
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Child of the pure un clouded brow
Let's pre tendwe're kings andqueens.
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and dream ingeyes of won der! Though time be fleet, and I and
thou are half a life a sun der, thy lo ving smile will sure ly hail the love gift of a
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If you're not good, I'll put you through in to
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fai ry tale.
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Look ing Glass House. Look ingGlassHouse. How would you like that?
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I'll tell you all my i de as.
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though the shadow of a sigh may trem blethrough the sto ry, for
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ALICE [ To Dinah. ]
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[ Alice holds Dinah up to her reflection in the mirror. ]
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hap py sum mer days gone by, and van ish'd sum mer glo ry...
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Cer tain ly, Dean.
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Look o ver the pro blemtill I re turn.
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Di nah, let's pre tendthe glass is
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[ The door opens; Dean Liddell enters. Lewis Carroll looks up, and Alice curtsies. ]
DEAN LIDDELL: (spoken) Dodgson, could I have a word with you?
[ To Alice. ][ Carroll exits with the Dean. ]
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soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it's turn ing in to a sort of mist
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now! Ea sye nough... What fun it will be when they see me through the glass, and
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can't get at me!
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[ Alice rises from her place and goes to the mirror, and then through it at measure 64. ]
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Ev' ry thing seems to be back wards.Back wards. A book? It's all in a lan guageI don't know.
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If I hold it up to the glass, thewords will all go the right way again!
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The right way a gain...
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[ The "Jabberwocky" book is on Lewis Carroll's chair, in the mirror. Alice goes to the book. ]
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II. Jabberwocky
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[ Alice reads aloud from the reflection in the mirror. ]
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sli thy toves did gyre and gim ble in the
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wabe: All mim sy were the bo rogoves and the mome rathsout
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grabe. Be ware the Jab ber wock, my son! The
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jaws that bite! The claws that catch! Be waretheJub jub bird, and shun the
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[ As she reads, an enactment of the story plays out behind her, in phantasmagorical pantomime which she does not observe. ]
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fru mi nous Ban der snatch. He
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took his vor palsword in hand: Long time the max omefoe he sought - So
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rest ed he by the Tum tum tree, and stood a while in thought,
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And as in uf fishthought he stood,
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the Jab berwock, with eyes of flame, came
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whif fling down the tul geywood and bur bled as it came!
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One! Two! One! Two! And through and through and through and through the
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vor pal blade went snick er snack! He left it dead and with its head he went
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back. Ga lumphing back.
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hast thou slain the Jab ber wock? Come to my arms, my beam ish boy! O
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frab jous day! Cal looh! Cal lay! He chort led,chort led, chort led, in his joy.
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'Twas bril lig and the
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sli thy toves did gyre and gim ble in the
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wabe: All mim sy were the bo rogoves and the mome rathsout
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grabe.
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[ At the end of the "Jabberwocky" pantomime, chess characters move unobserved behind Alice, coming into view and disappearing again. ]
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Hmm...
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It seems ve rypret ty, but it's ra therhardto un derstand. Some howit seems to fill my head
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with i de as-- On ly I don't know ex act ly what they are! Let's have a look
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at the gar den. Oh! Oh! Oh!
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[ Alice closes the "Jabberwocky" book, and places it back down on the chair. Behind her a garden has appeared. ]
III. The Looking-Glasss Garden
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[ Noticing the garden, but not the chess pieces. Alice is propelled ahead by the white Queen into the garden, who then vanishes. ]
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Ah!
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I know you are a friend, a dear friend, an old friend. And you won't
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hurt me, though I am an in sect.
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An in sect? What kind of an in sect?
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[ An out-sized Gnat appears, and is startled by Alic'e presence. Alice is startled as well. ]
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What, then you don't like all in sects?
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What kind?
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Of course, they an swerto their names.
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What's the use of their ha ving
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ne verknew them to do it. Ne ver.
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names if they won't an swerto them?
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No useto them, but it's use fulto the peo plethat name them.
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I can't say. Fur ther on, in the
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If not, why do things have names at all?
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wood down there, they've got no names - no names. How
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No names.
e ver, go on with your list of in sects. Here you'll see a Rock ing Horse
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Well, there's the horse fly.
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fly. Sap and saw dust.
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What does it live on? Sap and saw dust.
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[ The Gnat points out the entry of the Rocking-horse-fly which moves about them in choreographed movement. ]
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And then there's the
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Here you'll find a Snap dragon fly made of plum pud ding, its wings of
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Dra gonfly.
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[ The Gnat points out the Snap-dragon-fly, which joins the Rocking-horse-fly in a pas de deux. ]
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box. Fa la la la la la la la la.
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And there's the
You may ob servethe Bread andbut ter fly, its wings, thin sli ces of bread and
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But terfly.
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but ter, its bo dy, crust, and its head, a lump of su gar.
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What does it live
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[ The Bread-and-butter-fly joins the other insects. ]
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Weak tea and cream.
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on? Sup posing it could n't
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find a ny?
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It al wayshap pens.
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But that must hap penve ry of ten.
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GNAT[ The Rocking-horse-fly exits. The other two dance on. ]
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[ The Bread-and-butter-fly dances weakly and exits with difficulty in its movement. The Gnat sighs and quietly disappears into the garden leaving Alice alone. ]
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The
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wood where thingshave no name... O Ti ger Li ly! I wish you could talk!
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We can talk when there's a nybo dy worth talk ing to.
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Wh...?
As well as you can, and a great deal loud er too.
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Can all the flo werstalk?
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It is n't man ners for us to be ginyou know.
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I've been in ma ny gar densbe fore, but none of the flo werscould talk.
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Put your hand down, and feel the ground.
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It's ve ry hard. Ve ry hard.
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[ Other flowers stir into movement also, relieved that Alice has begun the conversation. ]
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are al waysa sleep.
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I ne verthought of that. Are there a nymore peo plein the
There's one o therflo wer that can move a boutlike you, but
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gar den be sides me?
she's more bush y, red der. Thekind that has nine spikes. She's com ing.
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[ Tiger-Lily points in the Red Queen's direction. ]
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IV. It's Like a Chess Board
[ The Red Queen enters energetically. ]
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Where do you come from?
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Where are you go ing? Curt seywhile you're think ingwhat to say. It saves time.
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O penyour mouth a lit tle wi der when you speak. And al wayssay,"Your Ma jesty. Your Ma jesty.
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Your Ma jes ty." That's
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I on ly want edto see the gar den,your Ma jes ty...
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RED QUEEN [ To Alice. ]
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right. That's right.
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...and I thought I'd try to find my way to the top of the hill. I de
clare! It's like a chess board! How I wish I could play. I would n't mind be ing a
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You can be the WhiteQueen's Pawn;you're in the
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Pawn, al thoughI should like to be a Queen best!
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[ Alice makes her way up a small hill, where a chessboard patterned vista beyond the garden can be seen. ]
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RED QUEEN [ Giving instructions. ]
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Queen.
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Fast er!Fast er!
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Near ly there?We passed it ten min utesa go.
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Are we near ly there?
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[ The Red Queen takes Alice by the hand, and they begin to run in a circle under a tree. ]
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You may rest a lit tle now.
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Why, I do be lievewe've been un derthis tree the whole time.
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Of course. Of
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[ They stop suddenly. ] RED QUEEN
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course. Well, in my coun try, you'd gen' rally get to
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some whereelse if you ran ve ryfast as we've been do ing.
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Here it takes all the run ning you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to
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get some whereelse, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
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I know what you'd like! Have a bis cuit?
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I am so hot and thirst y.
While you're re freshing your self,I'll give you your di rec tions.
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Your di rec tions. A Pawn moves two squares in its first move.
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You'll find your self in the Fourth Square in no time. That be longsto Twee dle dum
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and Twee dledee. The Fifth is most ly wa ter.
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Thirst quenched, or would you like a nother bis cuit? The
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No, thank you.
Sixth be longs to Hump ty Dump ty. The Se venthis for est, but one of the Knights
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will show you the way. In the Eighth square, in the Eighth, we shall all be
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Queensto ge ther! But you make no re mark?
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I... I did n't know I had to
You should have said, "It's ex tremely nice of you to tell me all of this." How e ver,we'll sup
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make one.
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Speak French when you can't think of the Eng lishfor a thing.
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Turn your toes out as you walk. And re mem ber who you are!
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Good bye. Good bye.
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Dee dumdee dumdum dee dum dee
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you ought to pay, you know. Pay!
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V. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
[ Tweedledum and Tweedledee step out from behind a tree. ]
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Wax works were n'tmade to be looked at for no thing. No how!
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No how!
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No how! Con trari wise, if you think we're a live, you ought to speak.
I'm sor ry.
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Speak. Speak.
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Dee dum dee dumdum dee dum dee
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Dee dum dee dumdum dee dum dee
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dee dee dumdum dee dum. I know what you're
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dee dee dumdum dee dum.
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think ing a bout,but it is n't so, no how.
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That's lo gic.
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if it were so, it would be; but as it is n't, it ain't. That's lo gic.
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I was think ing...
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Lo gic. Well?
Lo gic. Well?
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Think ing... Twee dle dum and Twee dle dee a greed to
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have a bat tle; for Twee dle dum said Twee dle dee had spoiled his
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brand new rat tle. Just then flew down a mon strouscrow as black as a tar
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bar rel; which fright enedboth the he roes so they quite for got their quar
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rels. Twee dle dum and
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Twee dle dee a greed to have a bat tle; Dee
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You've be gunwrong! The first things in a vi sit is
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to say "How d' yedo?" And shake hands.
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"How d' ye do?"
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[ They begin to go round in a dance. ]
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Shake hands.
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How d' ye do? How d' yedo? How d' ye... ...do?
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How d' ye do? How d' ye do? How d' ye... ...do?
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Four times round is e noughfor one dance.
How d' ye do?
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red.
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No how! And thank you ve rymuch for ask ing.
How d' ye do? No how!
Yes.
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So much o bliged! You like po e try?
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Pret ty well. Some po e try. Which road leads out of the wood?
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"The Wal rusand the Car penter" is the long est.
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What shall I re peat for her? "The
If it's ve ry long, would you please tell me first which
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Wal rusand the Car penter" Yes!
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"The Wal rusand the Car pen ter." The sun was shin ing
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VI. The Walrus and the Carpenter
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on the sea, shin ingwith all its might: He did his ve ry best to make the bil lowssmooth and
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bright And this was odd be causeit was the mid dle of the night.
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Wal rusand the Car penter were walk ingclose at hand: They wept like a ny thing to see such
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quan ti ties of sand: "If this were on ly cleared a way,"they said, "it would be
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grand." Se ven!
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So grand! "If se venmaids with se ven mops swept it for half a
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year, do you sup pose," the Wal rus said, "that they could get it
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clear?" "I doubt it," said the Car penter, and shed a bit ter tear.
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Oy sters,come and walk with us," the Wal rusdid be seech. "A plea sant walk, a
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plea sant talk, a long the bri ny beach; We can not do with more than four to
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give a hand to each."
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On the beach! The Wal rusand the Car penter walked on a mile or
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"The time has come
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all the lit tle Oy sters stood and wait ed in a row. ...the
TWEEDLEDEE
TWEEDLEDUM
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to talk of ma ny things: "And seal ing -wax, and
625
Wal rus said! "Of shoes and ships - of cab bages..."
kings. ...and whe ther pigs have
631
And why the sea is boil ing hot...
"But wait a bit," the Oy sterscried, "be forewe have our chat: for
635
....wings. Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!
TWEEDLEDUM
TWEEDLEDEE
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some of us are out of breath..." "No hur ry,"said the Car penter.
640
"...and all of us are fat." They
"A loaf of bread... ...is what we chief ly
molto rit. Andante646
thanked him much for that. The Wal russaid...
need. Pep perand vi negar be sides are ve rygood in deed. Now,
651
In deed!
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TWEEDLEDEE
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass46
if you're rea dy, Oy stersdear, we can be gin to feed. And feed.
accel. Vivo656
Dear, we can be gin to feed. And feed.
f
molto rit. 661
"It seems a shame... ...to play them such a
Allegretto667
The Wal rus said:
mp
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TWEEDLEDEE
TWEEDLEDUM
TWEEDLEDEE
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trick." And made them trot so quick!"
671
"Af ter we brought them out so far..." The Car penter said
"The but ter's spread too thick!"
675
no thingbut "The but ter's spread too thick!"
mf
The Wal russaid: With
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"I weep for them, I deep lysym pa thize."
mp pp
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sobs and tears he sort edout... Hold ing his pock ethand
684
...those of the lar gest size,
ker chief be fore his stream ingeyes. "O Oy sters!" "You've
689
Said the Car penter:
mf
had a plea sant run! Shall we be trot ting home a gain?"
694
But, an swer came there
TWEEDLEDEE
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And this was scarce lyodd, be causethey'd ea ten ev' ry one! And
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none - ...be causethey'd ea ten ev' ry one! And
f
this was scarce lyodd be causethey'd ea ten ev' ry
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this was scarce lyodd be causethey'd ea ten ev' ry
one! Shucks!
Presto710
one! Shucks!
f
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VII. Battle for a Rattle
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass50
A ny li ons or ti gers a roundhere?
Lento Allegretto716
It's on ly the
p f pp p mf pp
ppff
Is n't he a love ly sight?
molto rit. A tempo721
Red King snor ing. And what doyou think he's dream inga bout? A bout
If he left off dream ing, dream ing, dream ing, dream ing,
725
you! dream ing, dream ing, dream ing, dream ing,
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ALICE
TWEEDLEDEE 3
Bass Drum
TWEEDLEDUM
3 3
TWEEDLEDUM
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dream ing! Where do you think you'd be? No where!
729
dream ing! If he left off dream ing... No where! No where!
f mp
If...
Meno mosso733
You're on ly a sort of a thing in his dream.
f p
If I'm on ly a sort of a thing in his dream,what are you?
736
Dit to! Dit to!
Dit to! Dit to!
pp f
3
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ALICE
3 3
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TWEEDLEDUM
TWEEDLEDEE
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass52
I am real!
740
You know ve ry well you're not real!
Not real!
pp
You self ish things! It's on ly a rat tle. Quite old and
Andante744
Do you see that?
bro ken.
molto rit. 748
It's spoiled! It's spoilt, of course.
f mp
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ALICE
TWEEDLEDUM
TWEEDLEDEE
TWEEDLEDUM
3
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 53
Spoilt! My nice new rat tle. You'll a gree, of course, to have a bat tle!
Adagio751
mf
Of course, you'll a greeto have a bat tle! Of course, you'll a greeto have a
755
A bat tle? Twee dle dum and Twee dle dee a greed...
759
bat tle.
She
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TWEEDLEDUM
3
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ALICE
TWEEDLEDEE
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass54
Twee dle dum and Twee dle dee a greed...
Andante763
must help us to dress up.
Dress up!
molto rit. Presto766
Dress up! Dum dee dum, dee dledee dum dee dum dee dledee
Dum dee dum, dee dledee dum dee dum dee dledee
ff p mp
dum dee deedum, dee dum dum. Dee dlede dum dee dum, Dee dlede
771
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ALICE
TWEEDLEDUM3 3
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3 3
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 55
dum dee dum, dee dum, dee dum, dee dumdum. Do I look pale?
molto rit. Lento777
dum dee dum, dee dum, dee dum, dee dumdum.
mp
I'm ve ry brave, gen er al ly. On ly to
Presto Lento Presto783
Dum dee dum, dee dledee
mfmf mp
day I have a head ache. Dee dledee dum dee dum dee
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dum dee dum dee dledee dum dee deedum, And I have a
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dum dum. Dee dlede dum dee dum, dee dum, dee dum, dee
794
tooth ache. I'm far worse than you. Far worse Far worse
dum, dee dum, Let's fight un til six, and then have din ner.
molto rit. Moderato800
than you. Din ner!
f mf
And all a bout a rat tle.
Allegro805
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ALICE
3
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 57
It's get tingdark as it can.
molto rit. Lento rit.
818
And dark er.
p pp
It's the crow! It's the crow! Crow!
Presto823
It's the crow! It's the crow! Crow!
f mp
molto rit. 831
f
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TWEEDLEDUM
TWEEDLEDEE
3 3
attacca
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass58
fff
Presto
840
mp ff mp
ff mp
846
mp
852
Bread andbut ter breadand but ter breadand but ter.
molto rit. Lento molto rit. Andante859
I'm
mp
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VIII. The White Queen's Visit
[ In the change of scene, the White Queen runs on, caught up in a wind storm. ]
SNARE DRUM
WHITE QUEEN
ALICE
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 59
Bread andbut ter breadand but ter breadand but ter breadandbut ter.
864
ve ry glad I hap penedto be in theway.
Well, yes. Yes. If you
870
Am I ad dressing the White Queen?
p
call that ad dressing, I've been ad dressing my self for the last two hours. I don't know what's the
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[ The White Queen fumbles with her shawl. ]
3
[ Alice curtsies. ]
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[ The White Queen fingers her shawl even more. ]
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mat terwith it. I've pinned it here and I've pinned it there. And pinned it here and
883
pinned it there.
887
May I put your shawlstraight for you? You pin it all on one
Oh! Oh! O o o o oh!My fin ger'sbleed ing! Oh!
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side. Come, you look ra therbet ternow.
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ALICE [ Gently assisting the White Queen. ]
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WHITE QUEEN [ Regards her bandaged finger. ]
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Oh! Oh! Not yet. but I will when I fas tenmy
902
Have you pricked your fin ger?
shawl a gain! I will when I fas tenmyshawl a gain. Liv ing back wards
908
I'm con fused.
al waysmakes one a lit tlegid dy at first-- a lit tle... Liv ing back wards!
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Liv ing back wards!
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ALICE
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[ The White Queen nods kindly. ]
ALICE
3 3
ALICE
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass62
Liv ing back wards! Back wardsliv ing! But there's one great ad vantage: One's mem' ry
919
works both ways. You see? There goes the shawl
Presto924
Ah!
mp
a gain!
931
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[ The brooch pinning the White Queen's shawl becomes undone, and she grabs wildly at it. And too late; the Queen as pricked her finger. ]
ALICE [ Gasps a warning. ]
[ The White Queen leaps after the shawl, crossing a little brook. Alice follows. ]
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 63
Much bet ter,thank you!
Andante937
I hope your fin geris bet ter!
f mf subito pp
Much be ee e e e ter! Much be e e e e e ter! be e e e e e ter! Thank you!
molto rit. 944
p
Adagio
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Scent edrush es! And what beau ties!
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[ The White Queen begins changing into a ewe. ]
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[ Bleating... ]
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[ At the side of the little brook, Alice sees rushes. ]
ALICE
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass64
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The pret tiestal waysseem just out of reach.
molto rit. A tempo957
p
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They've...They've fad ed al read y.
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ALICE
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 65
We e e e e e ell? Well! What is it you want to buy?
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You can
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I don't quite know yet. I should like to look a roundme first.
look in front of you, and on both sides, but you can't look all around you- un
975
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less you got eyes at the back of yourhead. Now, what do you wantto buy? What do you want to
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WHITE QUEEN [ The brookside has become a small shop, and the Queen a sheep shopkeeper. ]
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WHITE QUEEN
ALICE3 3
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass66
bu uy? We ee e e e ell? Don't be e e e e e eg! What do you want to
980
I beg your par don.
mp
buy? An e e e e e egg?
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I should like to buy an egg. I should like to buy an egg.
Five pencefar thing for one- two
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An egg. Or an e ee e e e e e egg. An egg!
3
ALICE
WHITE QUEEN
ALICE
WHITE QUEEN3
ALICE
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 67
pence for two. On ly you must eat them both if you buy two.
989
Then I'll have one, please.
You must get it for your self. I ne verput things
992
Please.
mf f
in to peo ple'shands. Ne ee e e e ver! Ne e e e e e ver! Ne ver!
molto rit. 995
mp mf
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ALICE
WHITE QUEEN
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Things do flow a bouthere so!
Allegro molto rit. Adagio Allegro998
subito mp mf
Cu rious, and cu rious
molto rit. 1003
p
er. How ex act ly like an egg he is. Ex act ly.
Adagio molto rit. 1005
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[ The shp shifts about, and shelves move. The White Queen exits. Atop a wall sits Humpty Dumpty.]
ALICE
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ALICE
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segue
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It's ve rypro vok ing to be called an egg!
Presto1008
f
Some peo plehave no moresense than a ba by.
Allegro Presto1014
f p mpmf
Hump ty Dump ty sat on a wall: Hump tyDump ty had a great
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fall. All the king's hors esand all the king's men could n'tput Hump ty Dump ty
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ALICE
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in his place a gain.
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Don't stand a roundchat ter ing to your self. Don't! Tell me your name and your bus' ness.
Andante1043
mf f mf
A lice. Must a name mean some thing?
1046
It's a stu pidname e nough. What does it mean? Of
pp f pp
course it must. My name means the shape I am. With a name like yours,
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ALICE
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 71
Don't you think you'd be sa ferdown on the ground?
1051
you might be a ny shape.
Of course I don't think so! If e verI did fall... If e ver I did fall... the King has
1053
f mp
To send all his hor sesand all of his men!
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pro mised... pro mised...
ALICE 3
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HUMPTY DUMPTY
3
ALICE 3 3
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3
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass72
It's in a book.
rit. Adagio1058
You've been lis tening at doors a gain! Ah, well, in a
f mp pp
book, that's what you call a His to ry of En gland.
1061
f mp
Take a good look at me, I'm the one that's spo kento a King. Take a look. Take a look.
Andante1064
Take a good look. And to show you I'm not proud, you may shake hands with
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 73
me. With me. Yes,
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all his hor sesand all his men. Yes. They'd pick me up a gain, in a
1075
What a beau tiful belt... Cra vat,I should have said.
1078
min ute,they would!
No, belt, I mean. I beg your par don.
Adagio1081
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[ Almost falling off the wall in trying to shake hands. ]
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1083
A most pro voking thing when a per sondoes n't know a cra vat from a belt.
It's a cra vat. A pre sent from the
Andante1085
mpmp mf
White King and Queen. They gave it me for an un birthdaypre sent. An un birth daypre sent.
1087
I beg your par don.
1090
I'm not of fend ed. I mean, what is an un birthday pre sent?
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ALICE
3 3
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 75
A pre sent gi ven when it is n'tyour birth day, is n't your birth day,is n't your birth day.
1093
mp
Three hun dredand six ty five.
1096
Of course. Of course. How ma nydays are there in a year?
One.
1099
And how ma nybirth dayshave you? Take one from three hun dredand six tyfive,
p
Three hun dredand six ty four.
1102
What re mains? I'd ra ther
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ALICE 3 3
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass76
see it done on pa per.
1105
mp
You're hold ingit up side down.
1108
That seems to be done right... I thought it looked a lit tlequeer.
pp
Seems to be done right. That shows there are three hun dredand six ty...
1111
mp
...four days when you might get un birthday pre sents, and on ly one for birth daypre sents.
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[ Alice, smiling, takes out her memorandum book and writes it out for hm. ]
ALICE
HUMPTY DUMPTY 3
3 3
3
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 77
I don't know what you mean by "glo ry."
1117
There'sglo ry for you. I meant "there's a
pp
But "glo ry"does n'tmean that.
1120
nice knock downar gu ment for you." When I
mp mf
use a word, it means what I choose it to mean. Nei thermore or
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass78
The ques tionis whe theryoucan make words mean so ma nydiff' rent things,
1124
less. The
p mf
ques tionis, which is to be the mas ter- that's all. That's all.
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They've a tem per, some of them. Par ti cu lar ly verbs; they're the
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proud est. Ad jec tives, you can do a nything with, but not with verbs.
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 79
How e ver, I can ma nagethe whole lot of them. Im pene tra bi li ty!
rit. 1132
subito pp
You seem ve rycle ver at ex plaining words, sir.
1134
That's what I say! That's what I say!
Would you tell me the mean ingof the poem called "Jab berwock y?"
1136
let's hear it!
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ALICE
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HUMPTY DUMPTY
6
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass80
'Twas bril lig and the
Andante1140
mp pp
sli thy toves did gyre and gim ble in the
1143
wabe: All mim sy were the bo rogoves and the mome rathsout
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grabe.
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That's e noughto be gin with. There are plen tyof hard words in there.
pp
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ALICE
HUMPTY DUMPTY
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 81
Bril lig...
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"Bril lig" means "four o' clockin the af ter noon." "Sli thy" means
Sli thy.
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"lithe" and"sli my." It's like a port manteau-there are two mean ingspacked in toone word.
Bad gers?
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"Toves?" "Toves?" "Toves" are some thinglike bad gers, some thinglike
li zards,some thinglike cork screws. They make their nestsun dersun dials; they
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass82
Cheese? Cheese? Cheese?
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live on cheese. Cheese.Cheese. To "gyre" is to go roundlike a gy ro scope. To
"gim ble" is to make holes like a gim let. "Mim sey"is"flim sy" and mi ser a
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ble, and a "bo ro gove" is a thin and shab bylook ing bird, some thinglike a
1164
and "mome rath?"
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live mop. A "rath" is a sort of green pig, but "mome" I'm not
mf
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 83
And what does "out grabe" mean?
rit. 1169
cer tain a bout. To "out grabe?" "out
grib ing" is some thing be tween bel low ing, bel low ing and whist l' ing,bel low ing and
Lento1171
mf
whist ling, bel low ing and whist ling. With a kind of sneeze in the
1173
mid dle. In the mid dle. "Out grib ing" is some thing be tween bel low ing,
1175
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass84
whist l' ing and a sneeze. "Out grib ing..." Who'se been re peating all that hard stuff to you?
poco accel. 1177
ff pp
I read it in a book. But I had some po etry re- peat edto me much eas ierthan that.
1180
poco accel. molto rit. 1182
I can re peat po e try as well as o ther folk, if it comes to
It need n'tcome to that.
poco accel. 1184
that. It comes to that.
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ALICE
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 85
For your en tertain ment... In
Adagio molto rit. A tempo molto rit. 1187
mp
win ter,when the fields are white, I sing this song for your de light-In spring,when woods are get tinggreen, I'll
A tempo1190
try to tell you whatI mean. For your en tertain ment... In sum merwhen the days are long, per
molto rit. A tempo1193
haps you'll un derstandthis song; In au tumn,when the leaves are brown, take pen and ink and write it down.
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XI. Humpty Dumpty's Song
HUMPTY DUMPTY
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass86
I will if I can re mem ber it.
molto rit. 1199
For your en tertain ment... You need n'tgo on mak ingre markslike
that; they're not sen sible and they put me out! I sent a mes sageto the fish: I
A tempo1202
mf
told them"This is what I wish." The lit tle fish esin the sea, they sent an an swerback to me,
1204
I'm a
molto rit. A tempo1207
For your en tertain ment... The lit tle fish es;an swerwas "We can notdo it,Sir, be cause..."
subito pp
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ALICE
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass 87
fraid I don't quite un derstand.
molto rit. A tempo1210
Itgets ea sier fur ther on. I sent to them a gainto say "It
mf
will be bet ter to o bey." The fish esan sweredwith a grin, For your en tertain ment... Why,
molto rit. 1213
what a tem peryou are in!" "My! Whata tem peryou are in!" I told them once, I told them twice: They
A tempo1216
would not lis ten to ad vice. They would not lis tento ad vice. Not once, not twice!
1219
HUMPTY DUMPTY 3
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass88
I took a ket tlelarge and new,
molto rit. A tempo1222
mp
fit for the deed I had to do. My heart went hop, my heart went thump: I
1225
mf
filled the ket tleat the pump. Thump! Then some onecame to me and said "The
1228
lit tle fish esare in bed." I said to hm, I said it plain, "Then you must wake them up a agin.""Then
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you must wake them up a agin."I said it ve ry loud and clear: I went and shout edinhis ear. But
1234
he was ve ry stiff and proud: He said,"You need n'tshout so
1237
mf subito p
loud." And he was ve ryproud and stiff: he said,"I'd go and wake them if-" I
1240
mf
took a cork screwfrom a shelf: I went to wake them up my self. (For your en tertain ment...) And
1243
Alice - Through the Looking-Glass90
when I'd found the door was locked, I pulled and pushed and kicked and knocked. And
1246
when I found the door was shut, I tried to turn the han dle,but- I tried to turn the han dle,but-
molto rit. 1248
Is that all?
Adagio1251
That's all. Good bye.
mp
Well, good bye,then.
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ALICE
[ Humpty Dumpty falls backwards, off the wall. ]ALICE segue
( The word turns into a scream.)
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Con motoq.= 92
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I've sent them all! Four thou sandtwo hun dredand se ven! I could n't send all the hor ses;
Andante
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XII. The Lion and the Unicorn
SNARE DRUM
[ A loud nouse is heard from the forest, and soldiers come running through, falling over themselves. As the stage clears, the White King enters, writing in his memorandum book. ]
simile
WHITE KING33
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Alice - Through the Looking-Glass92
Two are want edin the game. Just look a longthe road, my dear, and tell me if you can
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I see no body on the road.
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see ei therof them. Such eyes! To be a bleto see
f
I beg your par don.
1278
No bo dy! And at that dis tance too! It is n't re spec ta ble to
beg.
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[ A Rabbit Messenger arrives. ]
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I feel faint-- give me a ham sand wich!
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I did n't say there was no thingbet ter. I said there was no thing like it.
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Who?
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Fight ing for the
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U ni corn were fight ing for the crown: The Li on beat the u ni
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The Li on and the U ni corn! The Li on and the U ni corn!
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It's my crown all the while!
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Does the one that wins get the crown?
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Ten min utesal lowed for re fresh ments.
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How fast those Queens can run!
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What is this?
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It's a child.
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It's a bar gain, if you like.
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Then
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hand roundthe plum cake,Mon ster!
crown, now! I'm not so sure of that.
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Why, I beat you all a roundthe town, you chick en! What a time that
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Now cut it up.
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She kept nonefor her self a ny way. Do you like plum cake, Mon ster?
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A hoy! A hoy! Check! You're my pri son er!
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A hoy! A hoy! Check!
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She's my pri soner, you know! Well,
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RED KNIGHT
[ The Red Knight enters, followed by the White Knight. ]
WHITE KNIGHT (Lewis Carroll)
[ As the Red Knight approaches, the White Knight backs away cautiously. ]
WHITE KNIGHT
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I al ways do. I al waysdo.
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serve the rules of bat tle,of course. A hoy! A hoy! Check!
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[ At the end of the battle the Red Knight exits, after ceremoniously shaking hands with the White Knight. ]
ALICE
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want to be a nyone'spri son er. I want to be a Queen.
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So you will.
I'll see you safe to the end of the wood.
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A lice... You are sad, let me
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Is it ve ry long?
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[ The White Knight stops Alice, and turns to face her. ]
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dee dumdeedum deedum dum dee dum...
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I'll tell thee ev' ry thing I can: there's lit tle to re late.
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I saw an a ged a gedman a sit ting on a gate.
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[ Alice sits at his feet as the White Knight sings his song. ]
XIV. A-Sitting on a Gate
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trick led through my brain like wa ter through a sieve. "I
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look for but ter flies,"he said,"that sleep a mongthe wheat: I make them in tomut ton
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pies, and sell them in the street. I sell them un to men," he said,"who sail on
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storm y seas; and that's the way I get my bread-- a tri fle, if you please.
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But I was think ing of a plan to dye one's whis ker's green, and al ways
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bright, and work them in towaist coat but tons in the si lent night.
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And these I do not sell for gold or coin of sil very shine. but for a
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cop per half pen ny, and that will pur chasenine. I some times
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knolls for wheels of Han somcabs. And that's the way" (he gave a wink) "by which I get
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my wealth-- my wealth-- And ve ry glad ly
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will I drink Your Hon our's no ble health." And now, if e'er by
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chance I put my fin gersin to glue, or mad lysqueeze a right handfoot in to a left hand shoe.
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I weep, for it reminds me so of that old man I used to know-- that old man
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whose look was mild,whose speech was slow, whose hair was whiter than the snow,
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whose face was ve rylike a crow, with eyes like cin ders,all a glow,
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mum bling ly and low, that sum mer ev' ning long a go... That old man... I
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saw an a ged,a gedman a sitting on a gate. ...a sit ting on...
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XV. The Eighth Square, At Last!
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go, and then you'll be a Queen. But you'll stay to see me off first?
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Wait and wave your hand ker chief, wave your hand kerchief when I get to the
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turn in the road, I think it 'll en courage me, you see.
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Of course,I'll wait.
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The eighth square at last!
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Ri
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The pro perex am in a tion. Can you do ad
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She
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nine from eight.
Nine from eight? I can't.
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I can do ad dition, if you give me time- but I
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Can you do sums?
can't do Substrac tion un der a ny cir cum stan ces.
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Of course, you know your A B C?Can you
How is bread made?
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an sweruse fulques tions? How is bread made?
You take some flour...
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Where do you get the flower? In a gar denor in the hed ges?
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It is n't picked at all. It's
How ma nyac resof ground?
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Fan her head! She'll be fe verish af ter so much
ground.
think ing. Do you know lan guages? What's the French for fid dlede dee?
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If you
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Queens
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tell me what lan guage 'fid dle de dee'is, I'll tell you the French for it.
Ne ver! Ne ver! What's the cause of
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light ning? Which re mindsme, we had such a thun derstorm last Tues day.
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I mean... I mean... I mean one of the last set of Tues days,you know.
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part of the roof came off, and e ver so much thun dergot in-- and it
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till I was so fright ened, I could n't re member my name.
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I mean one of the last set of Tues days,you know.
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Your Ma jesty must ex cuseher. She
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maz ing how good temperedshe is! Pat her on her head, and see how pleasedshe'll be!
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[ The White Queen has become confused and weary. She sits Alice down next to her and readies herself for a nap leaning against Alice. ]
XVI. Hush-a-by, Lady
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tired, poor thing! Sing her a sooth ing lul la by.
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I don't know a nysooth ing
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lul la bies.
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A li ce's lap! Till the feast's rea dy,we've time for a nap, when the feast's o ver, we'll
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[ The White Queen puts her head in Alice's lap and sleeps. ]
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go to a ball-- Red Queen, and White Queen, and A lice,and all! And now you know the
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words. Just sing it throughto me. I'm get tingsleep y too.
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Do wake up, you hea vy things.
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[ The Red Queen puts her head in Alice's lap and sleeps. The White Queen and Red Queen snore more distinctly than before. ]
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No ad mit tancetill the week af ternext! What is it now?
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[ Alice finds a doorway, over which is written, "QUEEN ALICE." A Frog in livery comes to his place on a stool beside the foor, and sits. ]
XVII. Queen Alice
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I've a scep terin my hand, I've a crown on my head. Where's the
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ser vant whose bus' nessit is to an swerthe door?
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To an swer the door? What's it been
Ask ing? No thing! I'vebeen knock ingat it.
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it? I should n'tdo that. You let it a lone,and it 'll let you a lone.
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scep terin my hand, I've a crown on my head. Let theLook ingGlasscrea tures,what ever they be, come and
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And me! Me! Me!
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dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen..."
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[ The door is thrown open, and all the Looking-Glass creatures are assembled for a party. ]
ALICE
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Then fill up the glass esas quick as you can and sprin klethe ta blewith but tonsand
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bran: put cats in the cof feeand mice in the tea-- and wel comeQueen A licewith thir ty times
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bran: put cats in the cof feeand mice in the tea-- and wel comeQueen A licewith thir ty times
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three!
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ho nor to see me, a fa vourto hear: 'Tis a pri vilege high to have din nerand tea a
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long with the Red Queen, the White Queen...
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sand with the ci der,and wool with the wine-- and wel comeQueen A licewith thir ty times
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three! Thir ty times three, and nine tytimes nine! Thir ty times
three, and nine ty times... nine!
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three, and nine ty times... nine!
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I'm glad they've come with out wait ing to be asked. I should ne verhave known
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You've missed the soup and the fish!
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who were the right peo pleto in vite.
Put on the joint!
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XVIII. A Looking-Glass Banquet
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You look a lit tle shy: Let me
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in tro duceyou to that leg of mut ton. A lice--Mut ton:
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Mut ton--A lice. Cer tain ly not! It is n't e ti quetteto
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May I give you a slice?
cut a nyoneyou've been in troduced to! Re move the joint!
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[ The Leg of Mutton is removed, and the Pudding is served. ]
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I won't be in troduced to the Pud ding, or we shall get no din nerat all!
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May I give you a slice?
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What im perti nence! I won derhow you would like it if I were to cut a slice out of you, you
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Make a re mark. It's ri di cu lous to leave
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crea ture!
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all the con versation to the Pud ding. Re movethe Pud ding!
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Do you know, I've had such a quan tity of po e try re peated to me.
Adagio
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It would be such a treat! May I?
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XIX The Fish Riddle
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First, the fish must be caught. That is ea sy:a ba by, I think, could have
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bought it. Now cook me the fish! That is ea sy.andwill not take more than a
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in it. Bring it here! Let me sup! It is ea sy to set such a dish on the
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ta ble. Take the dish co ver up! That is so hard! So hard that I fear I'm un
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a ble! For it holds like glue- holds the lid to the dish, while it liesin the
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mid dle: Which is ea si est to do? Un dish co ver the fish, or dish cover the
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rid dle?
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Mean while, we'll drink to your health-- Queen A li ce's
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health! Then fill up the glass es as quick as you can, and
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Queen A li ce's health! Then fill up the glass es as quick as you can, and
Queen A li ce's health! Then fill up the glass es as quick as you can, and
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sprin kle the ta ble with but tons and bran: put cats in the cof feeand mice in the tea and
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sprin kle the ta ble with but tons and bran: put cats in the cof feeand mice in the tea and
drink to Queen A licewith thir ty times three! Thir ty timesthree and nine ty times nine!
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drink to Queen A licewith thir ty times three! Thir ty timesthree and nine tytimes nine!
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[ The Looking-Glass creatures do exactly as the lyric indicates, filling glasses, sprinkling the table with buttons and bran, putting cats in the coffee and mice in the tea.... As Alice will say, "Just like pigs in a trough." ]
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Thir ty times three and nine ty times thir ty and thir ty and thir ty and
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Thir ty times three and nine tytimes thir ty and thir ty and thir ty and
You ought to re turnthanks in a
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Just like pigs in a trough!
nine ty times....
nine ty times....
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neat lit tle speech.
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I rise to re turn thanks. Thanks.
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[ Alice slowly rises from her seat at the banquet. ]
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She real lydid rise! Rise!
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She real lydid rise! Rise!
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mo ment to lose! Some thing's go ing to hap pen!
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mo ment to lose! Some thing's go ing to hap pen!
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Oh! sucha dream.
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[ Throwing things about, the Looking-Glass creatures scream and shout, and run for any available exit. The Looking-Glass world disappears, until only Alice remains onstage, alone in a circle of light. The Looking-Glass world is gone, but the crown remains unnoticed downstage is it own circle of light. ]
[ Lewis Carroll re-enters the room with Mrs. Liddell. ]
ALICE [ Eagerly addressing Lewis Carroll. ]MRS. LIDDELL: Time for bed, Alice. Say good-bye to Mr. Dodgson.
recit. - Each next measure only after the spoken lines for each character.
ALICE [ to Carroll ] Good-night. [ Going to her mother ] I knew you meant good-night.
MRS. LIDDELL: Of course. [ dryly and pointedly ] Good...night, Mr. Dodgson.
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LEWIS CARROLL:Good-night, Mrs. Liddell.
LEWIS CARROLL: Good-night, Alice.
[ Lewis Carroll watches them both leave. ]
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A boat, be neath a sun nysky, lin ger ing on ward
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dream i ly in an ev' ning of Ju ly. Chil dren three that
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LEWIS CARROLL [ In a reflective mood. ]
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tale to hear. Long has paled that sun ny sky.
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E choes fade and mem' ries die: au tumn frosts have slain Ju ly.
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Dream ing, dream ing, e verdrift ing down the stream-- lin gering
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in the gold en gleam -- Drift ing...
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Life, what is it but a dream?
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3 [ He exits quickly. ]
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[ Alice enters. ]
[ She rushes to look for and take up her crown, and exits on the last measure. ]
[ Blackout. ]
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