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Hi! I have been doing some more with Alice in Wonderland. As in last post, I don’t have to give an introduction, so I’ll start right away.

I have done a bit more with the script. Remember that? Here’s what I did, including what was already there before:

1. “That’s the judge, because of his great wig.” AT
“And that’s the jury-box, and those 12 creatures, I suppose are the jurors.” AT

2. KS “Herald, read the accusation!” KS “Consider your verdict!” RS “Not yet, not yet! There’s a great deal to come before that!” KS “Call the first witness.” RS “First witness!”

3. HS “I beg pardon, your Majesty, for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished my tea when I was sent for.” KS “You ought to have finished. When did you begin?” HS “Fourteenth of March, I think it was.” MHS “Fifteenth.” DS “Sixteenth.” KS “Take off your hat.” HS “It isn’t mine.” KS “Stolen!” HS “I keep them to sell. I’ve none of my own, I’m a hatter.”

4. GP1S “Yay!” (GP1 Suppressed) AT “I’m glad I’ve seen that done, I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempt at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court, and I never understood what it meant.” KS “If that’s all you know about it you may stand down.” HS “I can’t go no lower: I’m on the floor as it is.” KS “Then you may sit down.” GP2S “Yay!” (GP2 Suppressed) AT “Come, that finishes the guinea-pigs! Now we shall get on better.”

5. KS “Call the next witness!” (Cook comes to stand) KS “Give your evidence!” CS “Shan’t.” RS “Your majesty must cross-examine this witness.” KS “Well, if I must, I must. What are tarts made of?” CS “Pepper, mostly.” DS “Treacle.” QS “Collar that Dormouse! Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers! (Cook disappears in confusion and Dormouse leaves.)

6. RS “Alice!” (Alice comes up to stand and knocks over jury box.) KS “The trial cannot proceed until all the jury men are back in their proper places. All.” (Alice puts all back in, Bill upside-down.) KS “What do you know about this business?” AS “Nothing” KS “That’s very important.” RS “Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course.” KS “Unimportant, of course I meant.”

7. KS “Silence! Rule 42: All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.” AS “I’m not a mile high!” KS “You are.” QS “Nearly two miles high.” AS “Well, I shan’t go, at any rate: besides, that’s not a regular rule; you invented it just now.” KS “It’s the oldest rule in the book.” AS “Then it ought to be No. 1.” KS “Consider your verdict!” RS “There’s more evidence to come yet, please your majesty. This paper has just been picked up.” KS “Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting? RS “No.” KNS “Please, your Majesty, I didn’t write it: and they can’t prove I did. There’s no name signed at the end.” KS “If you didn’t sign it, you must have meant some mischief, or you would have signed it like an honest man.” QS “That proves his guilt.”

8. KS “You never had fits, my dear, I think? QS “Never!” (Queen throws inkbottle at Bill.) KS “Then the words don’t fit you, my dear. (Everyone quiet) KS “It’s a pun! Let the jury consider their verdict! QS “No, no, sentence first! Verdict afterwards!” AS “Stuff and nonsense! The idea of having a sentence first!” QS “Hold your tongue!” AS “I won’t!” QS “Off with her head!” AS “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” (Pack attack and Alice wakes up)

I have also been making pictures. Here they are:

All right, the king and queen have very tall crowns, and the queen has very long hair.  Anyway, next picture:

That’s the Knave of hearts in chains at the trial.

This post has to come to an end, or it will go on forever.  I guess that’s something the March Hare (who is a very matter-of-fact rabbit–by the way, don’t ask why he’s called that) would say.  But it’s true.  This is getting too long.  Bye!