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Narrator: Hello! After all her adventures,
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Alice has finally found the beautiful garden
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she's been looking for all this time.
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It's full of beautiful white roses. Alice wandered
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through the flowers until she saw a gardener.
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He was doing something very strange ...
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Gardener: Oh no!
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Alice: Why are you painting the roses red?
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Gardener: The Queen wants red roses
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and I put white roses in by mistake.
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If the Queen finds them, she'll cut my
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head off!
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Oh no! Here comes the Queen!
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Narrator: The gardener threw himself
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to the ground and lay
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with his face down. A line of soldiers and
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courtiers came marching into the rose
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garden. They didn't look like people at all.
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They looked exactly like playing cards:
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their bodies were square and flat with
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their heads at the top and their hands
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and feet in the four corners.
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First came was a group of ten soldiers,
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who were decorated with black clubs,
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then came ten of the Queens servants,
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who were covered in red diamonds.
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Then came all the princes and princesses,
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wearing red hearts. The Knave of Hearts
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was carrying a crown on a cushion,
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and last of all came the King and
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Queen of Hearts.
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When they got to Alice,
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everybody stopped.
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The Queen looked at Alice.
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Queen: Who is this?
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Alice: I'm Alice, Your Majesty.
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Queen: Can you play croquet?
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Alice: Yes!
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Queen: Come on then!
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Everyone get to your places!
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Animals: I'm over here...
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... and you are there. Are you there?
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I am over here...
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Narrator: Everyone began running
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in different directions until
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they got into place and the game began.
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It was a very curious game: everything
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seemed to be alive!
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The balls were hedgehogs
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and the croquet mallets were flamingos.
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All the playing card-soldiers bent over so
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they looked like arches.
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The players had to catch the flamingos first,
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which wasn't easy because
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they kept flying away.
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When the flamingos were caught,
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each player held their flamingo
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tightly under one arm, with the long neck
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and head hanging down to the ground.
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Then the hedgehogs curled up into spiky
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balls ... and the players used
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the flamingo's heads to hit
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the hedgehogs so that they rolled through
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the playing-card soldier arches.
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Animals: Oh jolly jolly good shot!
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It must be my turn now...
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Very nicely played...
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Very nicely played, it's your turn again,
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Very good! Very good!
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Alice: What a curious game!
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I suppose I should play.
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Narrator: It was a very curious game!
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There didn't seem to be any rules.
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Everyone played at the same time
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and the hedgehogs kept running away.
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Alice took a flamingo and tried to hit a
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hedgehog with it. But the flamingo moved
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its head and she missed. Soon the players
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began arguing and fighting
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for the hedgehogs and the Queen went
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around stamping her feet
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and shouting at everyone.
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Queen: Off with your head!
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Animals: I think you'll find that this is cheating!
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(All speak at the same time.)
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Alice: How will I get out of here?
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Narrator: As Alice was looking around
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for a way to escape,
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suddenly the Cheshire-Cat appeared in the air.
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He wasn't sitting on anything, he was just floating.
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Cheshire-Cat: Are you enjoying the croquet?
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Alice: No. I don't think they play fairly
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at all. Everyone is arguing and there aren't
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any rules.
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Cheshire-Cat: How do you like the Queen?
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Alice: Not at all! I suppose I should try
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to play or she might cut off my head!
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Narrator: Alice went to find her hedgehog.
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She found it having a fight with another one.
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While she was trying to pull the two
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animals apart, her flamingo flew away.
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Alice: Oh dear! I'm not doing very well at
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this game. What will the Queen think?
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Narrator: Alice was right to worry.
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Most of the other players had made
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the Queen angry
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for one reason or another and the soldiers
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took them away one by one. Soon there were
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only the King, the Queen and Alice left in
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the game.
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The Queen turned to Alice.
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Queen: You! Come here!
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Who were you talking to?
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Alice: If you please, your Majesty...
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Voice: The trial is starting!
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The trial is starting!
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Queen: The trial! Oh good! I love trials!
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Come along!
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Narrator: Alice had no choice but to follow
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the Queen. We'll leave her there for now.
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Next time. I'll tell you all about
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the Knave of Hearts, the stolen
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jam tarts and what happened when Alice
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met the Hatter, the cook and
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The White Rabbit again.
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Goodbye.
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