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  • Narrator: Hello. Alice has had lots

  • of adventures in Wonderland.

  • Now, she has been called as

  • a witness in the trial of the Knave of Hearts.

  • The King of Hearts is the judge, but Alice

  • has grown so tall that her head reaches the

  • top of the courthouse and all the people

  • seem very far away.

  • Alice: How small you all are!

  • King: The witness must come

  • to the witness box!

  • Narrator: Alice jumped up and

  • knocked over the jury box.

  • It was full of animals and they all fell out.

  • Animals: I'm so sorry!

  • King: What do you know about this business?

  • Alice: Nothing at all!

  • Narrator: The King looked in his Book of Rules.

  • King: Rule forty-two. "All persons more

  • than a mile high must leave the court."

  • Alice: I'm not a mile high!

  • King: Indeed you are not!

  • You are nearly two miles high!

  • Alice: Well, I'm not going!

  • And you can't make me!

  • Narrator: Alice had grown a little bit more,

  • and the King, who was now the size of

  • Alice's shoe, could see she was

  • right about that part.

  • His face went very pale and he closed his

  • Book of Rules.

  • King: White Rabbit. Ask the jury: what is

  • their decision about this matter?

  • Did the Knave steal the Queen's tarts?

  • Narrator: But there was more evidence.

  • The White Rabbit gave a letter to the King,

  • who opened it and turned to the Knave of Hearts.

  • King: Knave of Hearts, did you write this?

  • Knave of Hearts: I didn't write it! Look at

  • the end of it: there is no name written there!

  • King: Then you are not an honest man!

  • An honest man always signs his work!

  • Read the letter!

  • Narrator: And the White Rabbit read

  • the letter.

  • No-one understood a single word of it.

  • King: That's the most important evidence

  • we've heard today!

  • Alice: I don't believe there's any

  • meaning in it!

  • King: If there's no meaning in it, then we

  • don't need to try to find any!

  • Jury, what is your decision?

  • Narrator: The Queen stamped her feet.

  • Queen: No, no, no! Punishment first,

  • decision afterwards!

  • Alice: That's nonsense!

  • The punishment comes last!

  • Queen: Be quiet!

  • Alice: I won't!

  • Queen: Off with her head!

  • Narrator: No-one moved.

  • Alice realised she had grown to her full size.

  • Alice: Who cares about you? All of you!

  • Narrator: Alice looked down at

  • the little people all around her.

  • She suddenly realised...

  • Alice: You're nothing but a pack of cards!

  • Narrator: As soon as she said this,

  • the animals, the birds, the King

  • and Queen and everyone

  • else turned into a pack of cards and they

  • all flew up into the air and came flying down

  • upon her.

  • The cards fluttered and flew all

  • around her head and shoulders and Alice gave

  • a scream as she tried to beat

  • them off with her hands...

  • Alice: Ohhhh!!

  • Narrator: And then another strange

  • thing happened to Alice...

  • She found herself back on the

  • riverbank where our story began.

  • She opened her eyes and saw

  • her sister smiling at her.

  • Alice's sister: Wake up, Alice dear!

  • What a long sleep you've had!

  • Narrator: Alice's sister gently

  • brushed away some dead leaves

  • that had fallen from the

  • tree and onto her face.

  • Alice: Oh... I've had such a curious dream.

  • There was a White Rabbit and ...

  • I got bigger and smaller...

  • and I met a caterpillar and a Hatter ...

  • and I played croquet and ... a

  • cat that smiled and ... so many things.

  • Narrator: Alice told her sister all about

  • the Wonderland in her dream and the adventures

  • she had had there. Perhaps one day

  • Alice will dream herself back

  • to Wonderland.

  • If she does,

  • I'll be sure to tell you. Goodbye.

Narrator: Hello. Alice has had lots

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