Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By Lewis Carrol

Originally written in 1865

Adapted to CEFR A2 level using Google Gemeni

10,888 words

Chapter I:

Alice was with her sister near a river. She was tired because she had nothing to do. Her sister was reading a book. Alice looked at the book, but there were no pictures and no stories in it. "What good is a book without pictures or stories?" she thought.

The day was hot, and she felt sleepy. She thought about making a necklace from daisies[1]. It was a nice idea, but she didn't want to get up to pick the flowers. At that moment, a White Rabbit ran past her. Its eyes were pink.

Alice was not surprised. But then, the Rabbit said, "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I'll be late!" Alice heard this and didn't think it was strange. But then she saw the Rabbit do something very strange. It took a small clock from its coat, looked at it, and then ran fast. Alice was surprised. She had never seen a rabbit with a coat and a clock! She felt curious and ran after it. She saw the Rabbit go into a big hole in the ground. Without thinking, Alice went down the hole after it.

The hole was like a long tunnel. It went down for a long time. Alice fell and fell. The hole was very deep, but she fell slowly. She had time to look around. The walls of the hole had many things on them: cupboards, shelves with books, and pictures. As she fell, she took a jar from a shelf. The jar said "ORANGE MARMALADE[2]." But it was empty. Alice didn't want to drop the jar and hurt someone below her, so she put it into a cupboard as she fell past it.

"After this," Alice thought, "I won't be afraid to fall down the stairs!" She was falling for a very long time. She said out loud, "I wonder how many miles[3] I've fallen. I must be near the center of the Earth." She remembered her lessons from school. She also thought about falling through the Earth to the other side. "I would come out among people who walk upside down," she thought. "I will have to ask them where I am. Maybe in Australia or New Zealand?" She even tried to pretend to bow as she fell.

She felt a little sleepy and thought about her cat, Dinah. "I hope they remember her milk tonight," she said. She wished her cat was with her. "Maybe my cat could catch a bat?" she thought. She was getting very sleepy and started to dream. She was talking to her cat and asked, "Did you ever eat a bat?"

Then, suddenly, THUMP! She landed on a pile of sticks and leaves. The fall was over. Alice was not hurt. She got up and looked around. She was in a long, dark place. The White Rabbit was still running in front of her. He said, "Oh, my ears and whiskers[4], it's getting so late!" He turned a corner, and Alice followed him.

When she turned the corner, the Rabbit was gone. She was in a big room with many locked doors. She walked all around the room and tried every door, but she couldn't open any of them. She felt sad. She wanted to get out.

She saw a small glass table. On the table was a small golden key. She tried the key on the doors, but it was too small. The locks were too big. Then she saw a small curtain she didn't see before. Behind the curtain was a small door, only a little more than a foot high. She tried the golden key. It fit!

Alice opened the door. It led to a small passage[5]. She looked through it and saw a beautiful garden with bright flowers and water. She wanted to go into the garden, but the passage was too small. Her head could not fit. "I wish I could get smaller," she thought.

She went back to the glass table. There was a little bottle on it. "It wasn't here before," she said. On the bottle was a paper label. It said, "DRINK ME." Alice was a clever girl. She saw that the bottle was not marked with a "poison" sign, so she tasted it. It tasted very nice, like a mix of cherry cake, pineapple, and other good things. She drank all of it.

"What a strange feeling!" she said. She was getting smaller, like a telescope. She was now only 10 inches[6] tall. She was happy because now she was the right size for the small door. She went to the door, but she realized she had forgotten the key on the table. She could not reach it. She tried to climb the table leg, but it was too slippery. She became tired and sat on the floor. She started to cry.

"Stop crying!" she told herself. "It's not useful." She often gave herself advice. Her eyes fell on a small box under the table. Inside was a very small cake. On the cake were the words, "EAT ME."

Alice thought, "If I eat it and get bigger, I can get the key. If I get smaller, I can go under the door. Either way, I can get into the garden." So she ate the cake. She waited, holding her hand over her head to feel if she was growing. Nothing happened. She stayed the same size. This was very boring for her. She was now used to strange things.

She ate the rest of the cake.

Chapter II:

“How strange!” Alice cried. She was so surprised that she forgot how to speak correctly. She was growing bigger, like a long telescope. “Good-bye, feet!” she said. When she looked down, her feet were very far away. She worried about her poor feet. “Who will put on your shoes and socks now? I can’t reach you!” she thought. She decided to be kind to them. “I will give them a new pair of boots every Christmas,” she said.

Just then, her head hit the ceiling of the hall. Now she was more than nine feet tall. She quickly grabbed the small golden key and went to the garden door. But she was too big. She had to lie on her side to look into the garden with one eye. She felt hopeless and began to cry again.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” Alice said to herself. “A big girl like you should not cry.” But she couldn't stop. She cried and cried until there was a big pool of water all around her.

After some time, she heard small steps. She quickly wiped her eyes. The White Rabbit was coming back. He was wearing a nice suit. He had white gloves and a big fan. He was running fast and said, “Oh, the Duchess! I will be late!” Alice felt brave and asked for help. “Excuse me, sir,” she said. The Rabbit got scared. He dropped his gloves and his fan and ran away quickly.

Alice picked up the fan and gloves. The hall was hot, so she fanned herself. “Everything is so strange today,” she thought. “Am I still the same person? I think I feel a little different.” She tried to remember things from her lessons. She tried her times tables[7]: “Four times five is twelve.” She knew this was wrong. She tried geography: “London is the capital of Paris.” This was also wrong. She was very confused. She even tried to sing a song, but the words came out wrong.

“I must be someone else,” she said. She was sad and began to cry again. She looked down at her hands and was surprised. She was wearing one of the Rabbit’s small gloves. “I must be getting small again,” she thought. She went back to the table. She was about two feet high and getting smaller very fast. She saw that the fan was making her smaller. She dropped it and stopped shrinking[8] just in time.

“That was close!” she said, happy to be her size. She wanted to go to the garden, but the little door was closed. The golden key was on the table again. And she was too small to reach it. “Now things are worse than before,” she said. She was so sad.

Her foot slipped, and she fell. Splash! She was in the pool of water she had cried. She thought she had fallen into the sea, but soon she knew it was the pool of her own tears. “I wish I hadn’t cried so much,” she said, swimming.

Then she heard something splashing in the water. It was a Mouse. Alice thought it might understand her. “Hello, Mouse, do you know how to get out of here?” she asked. The Mouse looked at her but didn't say anything. Alice thought it might not speak English. She tried to speak French. “Where is my cat?” she said. The Mouse jumped out of the water, very scared.

“I am sorry!” Alice said. “I forgot you don't like cats.”

“Don't like cats!” the Mouse cried in a loud voice. “My family always hated them!”

Alice tried to change the subject. “Do you like dogs?” she asked. But the Mouse was offended again. It started to swim away from her. Alice called out, “Mouse, please come back! We won’t talk about cats or dogs.” The Mouse turned around and swam back. It said, “Let’s get to the shore. Then I will tell you my story. You will understand why I hate cats and dogs.”

Many other animals had fallen into the pool, too. There was a Duck, a Dodo[9], and other strange creatures. Alice swam to the shore, and all the animals followed her.

Chapter III:

The animals stood on the side of the river. They all looked very strange and very wet. Their feathers and fur were heavy with water. They were not happy.

The first question was, "How can we get dry?" They all talked together. Alice felt it was normal to talk to the animals, as if they were her friends. The Mouse, who seemed important, spoke loudly. "Sit down! I will make you dry." All the animals sat down in a big circle. Alice watched, hoping to get dry soon so she didn't get a cold.

The Mouse said, "Are you ready? I will tell you the driest story I know. Please be quiet." Then the Mouse began to talk about history. He spoke about William the Conqueror[10] and some English men. The story was very long and full of names.

A bird called the Lory shivered[11] and said, "Ugh!"

The Mouse looked at the Lory. "Did you speak?" he asked.

"No," said the Lory quickly.

The Mouse continued his history story. Another animal, the Duck, asked, "What did the man find?" The Mouse was annoyed. "He found 'it'," he said. The Duck didn't understand. "When I find a thing, it is usually a worm or a frog," the Duck said.

The Mouse did not answer. He just continued his long story. After some time, he asked Alice, "How are you getting on? Are you dry?"

"I am still as wet as ever," Alice said sadly. "Your story doesn't make me dry at all."

A Dodo bird stood up. He spoke with long words. "We need a more active plan," he said.

A little bird, an Eaglet[12], said, "Speak English! I don't know those long words. And I don't think you do either!" All the other animals laughed quietly.

The Dodo felt a little angry. He said, "I was going to say that the best way to get dry is a Caucus-race."

Alice asked, "What is a Caucus-race?" She didn't really care, but she felt she should ask.

The Dodo said, "The best way to explain it is to do it."

First, the Dodo made a running path in a circle. "The shape doesn't matter," he said. Then, all the animals stood along the path. There was no "One, two, three, go!" They started running when they wanted, and they stopped when they wanted. So, nobody knew when the race was over.

After about half an hour, they were all dry again. The Dodo suddenly called out, "The race is over!" All the animals gathered around him, breathing heavily. "But who won?" they all asked.

The Dodo thought for a long time. He put his finger on his head, like a thinker. Finally, he said, "Everyone has won, and everyone must have a prize."

"But who will give the prizes?" the animals asked.

"She will, of course," said the Dodo, pointing to Alice. All the animals crowded around her, shouting, "Prizes! Prizes!"

Alice didn't know what to do. She put her hand in her pocket. Luckily, her candy box was there. She gave one candy to every animal. They were all happy.

"But she needs a prize, too," said the Mouse.

"Of course," the Dodo said. "What else do you have in your pocket?" he asked Alice.

"Only a thimble[13]," Alice said.

"Give it to me," the Dodo said. The Dodo then gave the thimble back to Alice and said, "We give you this special thimble." All the animals cheered. Alice thought it was silly, but she didn't laugh. She took the thimble and bowed.

After eating the candy, the animals asked the Mouse to tell them another story. "You promised to tell me your story," Alice said to the Mouse. "And why you hate cats and dogs."

"My story is long and sad!" the Mouse said.

Alice looked at the Mouse's long tail. "It is a long tail, that is true," she said, "but why is it sad?" The Mouse was angry because Alice had heard "tale" as "tail." He felt insulted and walked away.

Alice called after him, "Please come back! I didn't mean to be rude!" The other animals asked him to come back, too, but the Mouse just shook his head and walked faster.

Alice spoke out loud, "I wish my cat Dinah was here. She would get him back!"

A bird called the Lory asked, "Who is Dinah?"

Alice was happy to talk about her cat. "She's my cat. She is so good at catching mice! And she eats birds too."

When she said this, the animals became very scared. The birds began to fly away. An old bird said, "I must go home, the night air is bad for my throat[14]." Another bird called to her children, "Come, my dears, it's time for bed!" All the animals found a reason to leave. Soon, Alice was alone.

"I wish I hadn't said anything about Dinah," she said. "No one seems to like her here." She began to cry again because she was all alone.

Chapter IV:

Alice ate the little cake. Suddenly, she started to grow very, very large. "How strange!" she thought. She was getting so big, so fast. Her head hit the ceiling of the room. She had to sit down on the floor. Then, she was too big to sit. She had to lie down with one arm against the door and one foot up the chimney. She was stuck in the house and felt very sad.

"It was better at home," she thought. "I was not always getting bigger or smaller. And mice and rabbits did not tell me what to do!" She wished she had not gone down the rabbit hole, but she also thought this new life was very curious. She wondered what would happen to her next. She thought about fairy tales and how she was now in one.

She was thinking when she heard a voice outside. "Mary Ann! Mary Ann!" it said. It was the White Rabbit. He was looking for his gloves and fan. Alice knew he was talking to her, but he thought she was his housemaid. She was a thousand times bigger than the Rabbit now, but she was still scared. She trembled[15] and the whole house shook.

The Rabbit came to the door and tried to open it. But Alice's elbow was against it, and the door would not open. "I will go in the window," the Rabbit said to himself.

"Oh no, you won't!" Alice thought. She waited until the Rabbit was under the window. Then she quickly put her hand out and grabbed the air. She did not catch him, but she heard a small shout and a crash of glass. She knew he had fallen.

Then she heard the Rabbit's angry voice. "Pat! Where are you?" Pat was another animal. He said he was there, "digging for apples." The Rabbit was very angry. "What is that in the window?" he asked. Pat said, "It's an arm, sir." The Rabbit said, "It's a huge arm! It fills the whole window!"

The Rabbit told Pat to move the arm. Alice was waiting. She put her hand out of the window again. She heard two more small shouts and more glass breaking. Alice thought, "They must have many windows to break!" She waited for them to do something else.

Then she heard many voices. They were planning to get her out. She heard them talk about a ladder and a chimney. "Bill will go down the chimney," the Rabbit's voice said. Alice thought, "Poor Bill! I wouldn't want to be Bill!"

She waited and heard a small animal climbing in the chimney[16] above her head. "This must be Bill," she said to herself. She gave a little kick with her foot, and she heard a noise. Then she heard the other animals say, "There goes Bill!" and, "Catch him!"

After a moment, she heard a small, quiet voice. It was Bill. "I don't know what happened," he said. "Something came at me like a toy on a spring[17]. And I went up into the sky like a rocket!"

The Rabbit's voice said, "We must burn the house down!"

Alice shouted as loud as she could, "If you do, I'll send my cat, Dinah, to you!"

There was a long silence. Alice thought, "What will they do now?" She heard the Rabbit say, "A cart of pebbles will be enough." She did not know what he meant, but then many small stones came in the window and hit her face. "I'll stop this," she said. "Don't do that again!" There was silence again.

Alice was surprised to see that the little stones on the floor were turning into cakes! An idea came to her head. "If I eat one of these cakes, I will get smaller," she thought. "It can't make me larger, so it must make me smaller."

She ate one cake. She began to shrink right away. She was very happy. When she was small enough, she ran out of the house. Outside, there were many small animals. Poor Bill the Lizard was in the middle. He looked very sick.

The animals saw Alice and tried to catch her. But she ran as fast as she could and went into a thick wood. She was safe.

"First, I must get to my right size again," she said to herself. "Second, I must find the beautiful garden." She did not know how to do these things, but it seemed like a good plan.

Suddenly, she heard a sound above her head. She looked up and saw a very big puppy looking at her. He had large, round eyes. He was trying to touch her with his paw. Alice was very scared. She picked up a small stick and held it out to the puppy. He was happy and jumped to play with the stick. Alice ran away from him. The puppy followed, playing with the stick.

Finally, the puppy was tired. He sat down and rested. This was Alice's chance to escape. She ran until she was very tired and the puppy's sound was far away.

"What a sweet puppy," she thought, resting by a flower. "I wish I could play with him, but I'm not the right size!" She remembered she needed to grow again. "I must eat or drink something," she thought. But what?

She looked around. She saw a big mushroom near her. It was as tall as she was. She looked under it and around it. Then she looked on top of it. A large blue Caterpillar was sitting there, smoking a long pipe. It did not notice her at all.

Chapter V:

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other. The Caterpillar took its pipe out of its mouth and spoke in a slow, sleepy voice.

"Who are you?" the Caterpillar asked.

Alice was shy. "I don't know, sir," she said. "I know who I was this morning, but I think I have changed many times since then."

The Caterpillar spoke with a strong voice. "What do you mean by that? Explain yourself!"

"I can't explain it," Alice said politely. "Because I am not myself. You see?"

"I don't see," said the Caterpillar.

Alice tried to explain. "It is confusing to be so many different sizes in one day."

"It is not," the Caterpillar said.

"Well, maybe not for you," Alice said. "But you will be a butterfly one day, won't you? That is a big change."

"Not a bit," said the Caterpillar.

Alice felt a little angry. She said, "I think you should tell me who you are first."

"Why?" said the Caterpillar.

Alice could not think of a good answer. The Caterpillar seemed unhappy, so she turned to leave.

"Come back!" the Caterpillar called. "I have something important to say!"

Alice came back. "Keep your temper[18]," the Caterpillar told her.

"Is that all?" Alice asked, holding back her anger.

"No," said the Caterpillar.

Alice decided to wait. The Caterpillar did not speak for a few minutes. It just smoked its pipe. Finally, it took the pipe out of its mouth. "So, you think you're changed?" it asked.

"I am, sir," said Alice. "I can't remember things. And I change size every few minutes!"

"What things can't you remember?" the Caterpillar asked.

"I tried to say a poem," Alice said. "But the words were all wrong."

The Caterpillar said, "Say, 'You are old, Father William.'"

Alice folded her hands and began to say the poem. The words came out all different. The poem was about a man who stood on his head and ate a goose.

"That is not right," said the Caterpillar.

"I know," said Alice sadly. "Some of the words have changed."

"It is all wrong," said the Caterpillar. There was silence for a while.

Then the Caterpillar asked, "What size do you want to be?"

"I don't care about the size," Alice said quickly. "But I don't like changing so much."

"I don't know," said the Caterpillar.

Alice was quiet. She had never been argued with so much. She was getting angry.

"Are you happy now?" the Caterpillar asked.

"I want to be a little bigger, sir," said Alice. "Three inches is a terrible height to be."

"It is a very good height!" the Caterpillar said angrily. It was exactly three inches high.

"But I'm not used to it!" Alice cried.

"You will get used to it," the Caterpillar said. It put its pipe back in its mouth and smoked.

After a minute, the Caterpillar yawned. It got off the mushroom and walked away. As it went, it said, "One side will make you taller, and the other side will make you shorter." And then it was gone.

Alice looked at the round mushroom. She did not know which side was which. She broke off a piece of the mushroom from both sides. She ate a little bit of the piece in her right hand. Suddenly, she felt her head hit her foot! She was shrinking very, very fast.

She ate a piece from the other side. "My head is free!" she cried. But she was not done changing. Now her neck was very, very long. She looked down and saw her neck sticking up like a flower from a sea of green leaves. She was so surprised.

"What is all that green stuff?" she thought. "And where are my shoulders and hands?" Her hands were so far away she could not see them. She tried to get her head down to them. Her neck bent like a snake. Just as she was about to go down into the leaves, a big bird called a Pigeon flew to her face.

"Serpent[19]!" the Pigeon screamed.

"I am not a serpent!" Alice said. "Leave me alone!"

"Serpent!" the Pigeon cried again. "I have tried to stop them from coming, but they are everywhere!"

Alice did not know what the Pigeon was talking about. The Pigeon continued, "I am tired of looking for serpents. I haven't slept in three weeks!"

Alice said she was sorry. The Pigeon screamed, "I thought I was safe in this tree. But now you come from the sky!"

"I am not a serpent," Alice said. "I am a… a… a little girl." She was not sure.

"A little girl!" the Pigeon said. "I have never seen a little girl with a neck like that! You are a serpent. You can't say you don't eat eggs!"

"I do eat eggs," Alice said. "But little girls eat eggs, too."

"Then little girls are a kind of serpent!" the Pigeon said.

Alice was silent. She then remembered the mushroom. She ate a little from one side and then the other. She grew tall and short until she was her normal size again.

She was happy to be the right size. Now, she just needed to get into the beautiful garden. She came to an open space with a little house. It was about four feet high. She knew she was too big to go in there. She ate from the right side of the mushroom until she was only nine inches tall. She was ready to go to the house.

Chapter VI:

Alice was looking at the small house. Suddenly, a man came from the forest. He looked like a fish and was wearing a special uniform. He knocked loudly on the door. Another man, who looked like a frog, opened the door. He was also in a uniform.

The Fish-man gave the Frog-man a big letter. “For the Duchess[20]. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet[21],” he said. The Frog-man repeated the same words. Alice laughed so much that she had to hide.

When she looked out again, the Fish-man was gone. The Frog-man was sitting on the ground, looking at the sky. Alice went to the door and knocked.

“It's no use knocking,” the man said. “I’m on the same side of the door as you. And they are making too much noise inside.”

Alice heard a terrible noise. It sounded like people were sneezing and howling. Then, crash! It sounded like a dish was breaking.

“How can I get in?” Alice asked.

The man ignored[22] her. He said, “I will sit here until tomorrow.” Just then, a plate flew out of the door and hit a tree behind him.

“Or maybe the next day,” the man said, as if nothing had happened.

Alice asked again, “How can I get in?”

“Are you supposed to get in?” he asked. “That is the first question.”

Alice was getting angry. She said to herself, “All these creatures argue! It is enough to make me crazy!” She opened the door and went inside.

She was in a kitchen full of smoke. A woman called the Duchess was holding a baby. A cook was stirring a pot of soup. Alice thought, “There is too much pepper in this soup!” Everyone was sneezing except the cook and a big cat. The cat was smiling from ear to ear.

“Why is your cat smiling like that?” Alice asked.

“It's a Cheshire[23] Cat,” the Duchess said. “That's why.”

Then she said, “Pig!” to the baby, and Alice was happy the Duchess was not talking to her. Alice said, “I didn’t know cats could smile.”

“They all can,” the Duchess said.

“I don’t know any that do,” Alice said.

“You don't know much,” the Duchess said. Alice did not like this. She tried to think of something else to talk about. The cook started throwing things at the Duchess and the baby: pots, plates, and dishes. The Duchess did not care. The baby was crying so much, Alice could not tell if it was hurt.

“Please, be careful!” Alice said.

The Duchess said, “If people took care of their own business, the world would turn faster.”

“That would be a problem,” Alice said. “The earth needs twenty-four hours to turn around.”

The Duchess said, “Cut off her head!” Alice looked at the cook, but the cook was still stirring the soup.

The Duchess then began to sing to the baby. She shook the baby after every line. The song was about being rough to a little boy.

Then the Duchess gave the baby to Alice. “You can hold it,” she said. “I have to go play croquet with the Queen.” She left the room. The cook threw a frying pan at her, but she missed.

Alice held the baby. It was a strange baby. It was snorting[24] like an engine and kicking its arms and legs. Alice took the baby outside. She was worried they would kill it in the house. The baby grunted. It had a nose like a pig. Alice said, “If you are going to be a pig, I will not hold you anymore.” The baby grunted again.

Alice was thinking, “What will I do with this baby when I get home?” Then the baby grunted loudly. Alice saw that the baby was a pig. She put it down. It ran into the forest. Alice thought it was a handsome pig.

Then she saw the Cheshire Cat in a tree. The Cat smiled at her. “Cheshire Puss,” Alice said. “Can you tell me which way I should go?”

“That depends on where you want to go,” the Cat said.

“I don't care where,” Alice said.

“Then it doesn't matter which way you go,” the Cat said.

“As long as I get somewhere,” Alice said.

“You will get somewhere if you walk long enough,” the Cat said.

Alice asked, “What kind of people live here?”

The Cat pointed with one paw. “Over there lives a Hatter[25].” It pointed with the other paw. “Over there lives a March Hare[26]. They are both crazy.”

“But I don't want to go to crazy people,” Alice said.

“We are all crazy here,” the Cat said. “I am crazy. You are crazy.”

“How do you know I am crazy?” Alice asked.

“You must be,” the Cat said. “Or you wouldn't have come here.”

The Cat asked Alice, “Do you play croquet with the Queen today?”

“I would like to,” Alice said. “But I have not been asked.”

“You will see me there,” the Cat said, and it disappeared.

Alice was not surprised. She was used to strange things. The Cat came back. “What happened to the baby?” it asked.

“It turned into a pig,” Alice said.

“I thought so,” the Cat said, and it disappeared again.

Alice walked in the direction of the March Hare. The Cat came back once more. “Did you say pig or fig[27]?” the Cat asked.

“Pig,” Alice said. “And I wish you would stop disappearing like that!”

“Okay,” the Cat said. This time, it disappeared slowly, starting with its tail. The last part of it to go was its smile. The smile stayed for a long time without the Cat.

“I have seen a cat without a smile,” Alice thought. “But a smile without a cat! This is the most curious thing I have ever seen.”

She soon saw the March Hare’s house. The chimneys were shaped like ears, and the roof was made of fur. She ate some of the mushroom to make herself two feet tall. Then she walked to the house, a little scared.

Chapter VII:

In front of the house, there was a big table under a tree. The March Hare and the Hatter were having tea. A small Dormouse[28] was sleeping between them. The March Hare and the Hatter were using it as a pillow. Alice thought, "That's not very nice for the Dormouse, but I guess it doesn't mind since it's asleep."

The table was big, but the three of them were sitting very close together. When they saw Alice, they yelled, "No room! No room!"

"There's plenty of room!" Alice said. She sat down in a big chair at the end of the table.

"Have some wine," the March Hare said.

Alice looked at the table. There was only tea. "I don't see any wine," she said.

"There isn't any," the March Hare said.

"That's not polite, then," Alice said, feeling angry.

"It wasn't polite for you to sit down without an invitation," the March Hare said.

"I didn't know it was your table," Alice said. "There are a lot of cups and plates."

The Hatter looked at her. "Your hair needs cutting," he said.

"You should not say things like that," Alice said. "It's rude."

The Hatter looked surprised. He said, "Why is a raven[29] like a writing-desk?"

Alice was happy. She thought, "Finally, a riddle[30]!" She said, "I think I can guess the answer."

"You should say what you mean," the March Hare said.

"I do!" Alice said quickly. "I mean what I say. It's the same thing."

"It is not the same thing!" the Hatter said. "You might as well say, 'I eat what I see' is the same as 'I see what I eat'!"

"Or," the March Hare added, "'I like what I get' is the same as 'I get what I like'!"

The Dormouse woke up a little. "Or," it said in its sleep, "'I breathe when I sleep' is the same as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"

"That is true for you!" the Hatter said. The conversation stopped, and they were all quiet.

The Hatter looked at his watch. "What day of the month is it?" he asked Alice.

"The fourth," she said.

"Two days wrong!" the Hatter said with a sigh. He looked at the March Hare. "I told you butter was bad for the watch."

"It was the best butter," the March Hare said sadly.

"Yes, but crumbs got in," the Hatter grumbled[31].

The March Hare put the watch in his tea. Alice looked at it. "What a strange watch," she said. "It tells the day, but not the time."

"Why should it?" the Hatter said. "Does your watch tell you the year?"

"Of course not," Alice said. "The year stays the same for a long time."

"My watch is the same," the Hatter said.

Alice was confused. She said, "I don't understand."

"The Dormouse is asleep again," the Hatter said. He poured hot tea on its nose.

The Dormouse woke up and said, "I know, I know. I was just going to say that."

"Did you guess the riddle?" the Hatter asked Alice.

"No, I give up," Alice said. "What is the answer?"

"I have no idea," said the Hatter.

"Me neither," said the March Hare.

Alice sighed. "You are wasting time with riddles that have no answers."

"You don't know Time like I do," the Hatter said. "You talk about it like it's a thing, but it's a person."

Alice didn't understand. The Hatter said that he and Time had a fight. It was because the Queen of Hearts didn't like his singing. Now, it was always six o'clock, which is tea time.

"Is that why there are so many tea things?" Alice asked.

"Yes," the Hatter said. "It is always tea time, and we don't have time to clean the cups. So we just move to the next cup."

"What happens when you come back to the beginning?" Alice asked.

"Let's talk about something else," the March Hare said, yawning. "You tell us a story."

"I don't know any," Alice said.

"Then the Dormouse will!" they both said. They pinched the Dormouse to wake it up.

"I wasn't sleeping," the Dormouse said in a quiet voice. "I heard everything."

"Tell us a story!" Alice said.

"Once upon a time, there were three little sisters," the Dormouse began. "They lived at the bottom of a well."

"What did they eat?" Alice asked.

"They ate treacle[32]," the Dormouse said.

"They would be sick," Alice said.

"They were," the Dormouse said.

"Why did they live at the bottom of a well?" Alice asked.

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice.

"I haven't had any yet," she said.

"You mean you can't take less," the Hatter said. "It's easy to take more than nothing."

"Nobody asked you," Alice said.

"Now you are being rude," the Hatter said. Alice was quiet. She asked the Dormouse again, "Why did they live at the bottom of a well?"

"It was a treacle-well," the Dormouse said.

"There is no such thing!" Alice said. But the Hatter and the March Hare told her to be quiet.

The Dormouse said the sisters drew things that began with the letter 'M'. "Like mouse-traps, and the moon, and muchness," the Dormouse said.

"What is a drawing of a 'muchness'?" the Hatter asked.

"I don't know," Alice said.

"Then you should not talk," the Hatter said.

This was too rude for Alice. She got up and left. The others did not seem to notice. The last thing she saw was them trying to put the Dormouse in the teapot.

"I will never go there again," Alice said. "It was the silliest tea party ever."

As she walked, she saw a door in a tree. She thought, "Everything is strange today. I will go in."

She was in the long hall again. She had the key and a piece of mushroom in her pocket. She ate some of the mushroom to become a foot tall. She opened the small door and finally went into the beautiful garden.

Chapter VIII:

Alice was in the garden. She saw a large rose tree. The roses were white, and three gardeners[33] were painting them red. This was a very strange thing.

Alice went closer to watch. She heard one gardener, called Five, say to another, "Don't get paint on me!"

The other gardener, called Seven, said, "You always blame others, Five!"

Five said, "The Queen wanted to cut off your head yesterday!"

"Why?" asked Two, the first gardener.

"It's not your business!" said Seven.

"Yes, it is!" said Five. "It was because you brought the cook wrong vegetables."

Seven was angry, but then he saw Alice. All three gardeners bowed to her.

"Why are you painting the roses?" Alice asked them.

Two said in a quiet voice, "This tree should have red roses, but we put a white one here by mistake. If the Queen finds out, she will cut off our heads."

Just then, Five called out, "The Queen! The Queen!" The three gardeners quickly lay down on their faces. Alice looked to see the Queen.

First came ten soldiers with clubs[34]. Then came ten people of the court. Then came the royal children. They were decorated with hearts. Then came the guests, including the White Rabbit. He did not see Alice. Then came a man called the Knave of Hearts. Last of all, the King and Queen of Hearts came.

Alice did not lie down. She thought, "What is the point of a parade if nobody can see it?"

The Queen stopped and looked at Alice. "Who is this?" she asked.

"My name is Alice," Alice said politely. She was not afraid because she knew they were just cards.

"And who are these?" the Queen asked, pointing to the gardeners on the ground.

"How should I know?" Alice said. "It's not my business."

The Queen became very angry. She screamed, "Off with her head!"

"Nonsense!" Alice said, very loudly. The Queen was quiet.

The King said to the Queen, "My dear, she is only a child."

The Queen told the Knave, "Turn them over!" He did, and the gardeners stood up.

"Get up!" the Queen screamed. She looked at the roses. "What have you been doing?"

"We were trying to—" Two began.

"I see!" the Queen said. "Off with their heads!" Three soldiers stayed to take the gardeners away. Alice put the gardeners in a large flower pot. The soldiers looked for them for a minute and then left.

"Are their heads off?" the Queen shouted.

"Their heads are gone, your Majesty[35]," the soldiers shouted back.

"Good!" the Queen shouted. "Can you play croquet?" The soldiers looked at Alice.

"Yes!" Alice shouted.

"Come on, then!" the Queen roared.

The croquet game was very strange. The ground was not flat. The balls were living hedgehogs[36], and the sticks were living flamingoes. The soldiers had to bend over to make the arches.

Alice had trouble with her flamingo. When she tried to hit the hedgehog with its head, the flamingo would turn and look at her. The hedgehog would roll up and run away. Alice thought the game was very difficult.

The players did not take turns. They all played at once and fought with each other. The Queen got very angry and shouted, "Off with his head!" or "Off with her head!" every minute.

Alice was worried. She thought, "They love to cut off heads here. I wonder if anyone is still alive!"

She looked for a way to escape. Then she saw something strange in the air. It was a grin[37]! It was the Cheshire Cat. "Now I have someone to talk to," she thought.

"How are you doing?" the Cat asked, after a mouth appeared.

Alice waited until the eyes appeared. Then she started telling the Cat about the game. "They don't play fair," she said. "They argue so much you can't hear. And the balls and arches[38] move!"

"Do you like the Queen?" the Cat asked quietly.

"Not at all," Alice said. Just then, she saw the Queen behind her. She quickly added, "—likely to win, that it's not worth finishing the game." The Queen smiled and went on.

The King came up to Alice. "Who are you talking to?" he asked, looking at the Cat's head.

"It's my friend, a Cheshire Cat," Alice said. "Let me introduce you."

"I don't like it," the King said. "But it can kiss my hand."

"I'd rather not," the Cat said.

"Don't be rude!" the King said. He called the Queen over. "My dear, I want you to remove this cat."

The Queen had only one way to solve a problem. "Off with his head!" she said.

The King went to get the executioner[39]. Alice went to find her hedgehog. It was fighting with another hedgehog. Alice saw her flamingo trying to fly up a tree. When she came back with the flamingo, the hedgehogs were gone.

Alice went back to the Cat's head. A crowd was there. The King, Queen, and executioner were all arguing. They wanted Alice to decide if they could cut off a head without a body.

Alice said, "It belongs to the Duchess. You should ask her."

"She is in prison," the Queen said. "Go get her."

When the executioner left, the Cat's head started to disappear. By the time he came back with the Duchess, the head was completely gone. The King and the executioner ran around looking for it. The others went back to the game.

Chapter IX:

“I am so happy to see you again!” the Duchess said to Alice. She put her arm around Alice's. Alice was happy to see the Duchess was nice now. She thought that maybe the pepper in the kitchen had made her angry before.

“When I am a Duchess,” Alice thought to herself, “I will not have any pepper in my kitchen. Maybe pepper makes people angry, and sugar makes people nice.”

The Duchess saw that Alice was thinking. “You are thinking too much,” she said. “Everything has a moral[40], if you can find it.” She moved closer to Alice. Alice did not like this. The Duchess was not pretty, and her chin was very sharp on Alice’s shoulder. But Alice did not want to be rude.

“The game is going better now,” Alice said, to talk about something.

“Yes,” the Duchess said. “And the moral is: ‘Love makes the world go round!’”

“Someone told me the world goes around if people mind their own business,” Alice whispered.

“It is the same thing,” the Duchess said. “And the moral is: ‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’”

“I don’t understand,” Alice said.

“I know,” the Duchess said. She then said she was afraid to put her arm around Alice because of the flamingo. “Flamingoes and mustard both bite,” she said. “And the moral is: ‘Birds of a feather flock together.’”

“But mustard is not a bird,” Alice said.

“You are right,” the Duchess said. “There is a big mustard mine near here. And the moral of that is: ‘The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.’”

Alice was confused. She said, “I think mustard is a vegetable.”

“I agree,” the Duchess said. “And the moral of that is: ‘Be what you would seem to be.’”

Alice felt dizzy[41] from all the words. She was about to say something when the Duchess’s voice stopped. The Queen was standing in front of them. She was very angry.

“Go now!” the Queen shouted to the Duchess. “You or your head must go!”

The Duchess left at once.

“Let’s go on with the game,” the Queen said to Alice. Alice was too scared to say anything. She followed the Queen back to the game.

The other players were resting. When they saw the Queen, they quickly started to play again. The Queen said that any delay[42] would cost them their lives.

The Queen never stopped yelling, “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” The soldiers took the players away, so there were no more arches left. Soon, only the King, the Queen, and Alice were left.

The Queen was tired. She said to Alice, “Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?”

“No,” said Alice. “I don’t even know what a Mock Turtle is.”

“It’s what they make Mock Turtle Soup from,” the Queen said. “Come, and he will tell you his story.”

As they walked, Alice heard the King say to the others, “You are all forgiven.” Alice was happy to hear this, because the Queen had wanted to kill so many people.

They came to a strange creature sleeping in the sun. It was a Gryphon[43]. “Wake up, lazy thing!” the Queen said. “Take this girl to the Mock Turtle so he can tell her his history. I must go back to see about the executions.”

The Queen walked away. Alice did not like the Gryphon, but she thought it was safer to stay with him than with the angry Queen.

The Gryphon laughed. “What is funny?” Alice asked.

“Her!” the Gryphon said. “She doesn’t really kill people. It is just for fun. Come on!”

Alice walked after the Gryphon. Soon, they saw the Mock Turtle. He was sitting alone and looked very sad. He was crying. Alice felt sorry for him.

“What is wrong with him?” Alice asked the Gryphon.

“Nothing,” the Gryphon said. “He is not really sad. It is just for fun. Come on!”

They went to the Mock Turtle. He looked at them with his big, sad eyes, but he did not speak.

“This young lady wants to hear your history,” the Gryphon said.

“I will tell it to her,” the Mock Turtle said in a sad voice. “Sit down, both of you. Don’t speak until I am finished.”

They sat down and were quiet. Alice thought, “How can he finish if he does not start?”

At last, with a deep sigh, the Mock Turtle said, “Once, I was a real Turtle.” Then he was quiet again.

Alice was almost ready to leave. But then the Mock Turtle began to speak again. “When we were little, we went to school in the sea. Our teacher was an old Turtle.”

“We called him Tortoise[44] because he taught us,” the Mock Turtle said.

Alice was quiet and listened. The Mock Turtle said they went to school every day. Alice told him that she went to a day-school too, but she did not learn to wash herself.

“Then your school was not good,” the Mock Turtle said. “In our school, washing was an extra class.”

Alice did not want to learn about washing, so she asked, “What was the regular class?”

“Reeling and Writhing,” the Mock Turtle said. “And Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”[45]

“I have never heard of ‘Uglification,’” Alice said.

“What! You don't know what it is?” the Gryphon said. “You know what it is to ‘beautify’ something, to make it pretty. So ‘uglify’ is to make it ugly.”

Alice did not ask more questions. She asked, “What else did you learn?”

“Mystery and Seaography,” the Mock Turtle said. “Then Drawling—the teacher was a conger-eel[46]. He taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.”

The Gryphon said he did not have time for that class. He said his teacher taught “Laughing and Grief.” Both of them sighed.

“How many hours a day did you have class?” Alice asked quickly.

“Ten hours the first day,” the Mock Turtle said. “Nine the next day, and so on.”

“That is a strange plan!” Alice said.

“That is why they are called lessons,” the Gryphon said. “Because they lessen each day.”

Alice thought about this. “So the eleventh day was a holiday?” she asked.

“Of course,” the Mock Turtle said.

“What about the twelfth day?” Alice asked.

“That is enough about lessons,” the Gryphon said. “Now, tell her about the games.”

Chapter X:

The Mock Turtle sighed and looked at Alice. He tried to speak, but he was crying. The Gryphon said, "He has a bone in his throat," and shook him. The Mock Turtle finally spoke again, with tears on his face.

“You may have never seen a lobster,” he said. “So you don’t know what a Lobster Quadrille is.”

“No, I don’t,” Alice said. “What kind of dance is it?”

“First, you stand in two lines by the sea,” the Mock Turtle said. “With seals, turtles, salmon, and so on. Then, when you move all the jellyfish away, you move forward twice.”

“With a lobster[47] as a partner!” the Gryphon shouted.

“You move forward, change partners,” the Mock Turtle said. “Then you throw the lobsters as far out to sea as you can. You swim after them, turn a somersault[48], and change lobsters again. Then you go back to the land. That is the first part of the dance.”

The two animals, who had been jumping around, sat down. They looked very quiet.

“It must be a very nice dance,” said Alice.

“Would you like to see a little of it?” the Mock Turtle said.

“Yes, very much,” Alice said.

“Let’s try the first part,” the Mock Turtle said to the Gryphon. “We can do it without lobsters. You sing.”

“Oh, you sing,” the Gryphon said. “I forgot the words.”

So they began to dance. They moved around Alice. The Mock Turtle sang slowly and sadly:

“Will you walk a little faster?” said a fish to a snail.

“A porpoise[49] is behind us, and he’s stepping on my tail.

They are waiting—will you come and join the dance?

Will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?”

“Thank you,” Alice said. “I really like that strange song about the fish.”

“The fish,” the Mock Turtle said. “You have seen them, of course?”

“Yes,” Alice said. “I have seen them at dinn—” She stopped.

“You are wrong about the crumbs[50],” the Mock Turtle said. “But they have their tails in their mouths. The reason is,” he said, yawning, “that they wanted to go to the dance with the lobsters. So they were thrown into the sea. They fell a long way and their tails got stuck. That’s all.”

“Thank you,” Alice said. “I did not know so much about a fish before.”

“I can tell you more,” the Gryphon said. “Do you know why it is called a ‘whiting’?”

“No,” Alice said. “Why?”

“It polishes shoes,” the Gryphon said.

Alice was very confused. “Polishes shoes?” she repeated.

“Shoes under the sea are polished with a whiting. Now you know.”

“What are they made of?” Alice asked.

“Soles and eels, of course,” the Gryphon said. “Any small shrimp would know that.”

“Let’s hear your adventures,” the Gryphon said.

“I can tell you my adventures from this morning,” Alice said. “But I cannot tell you about yesterday because I was a different person then.”

“No, no! The adventures first,” the Gryphon said. “Explanations take too long.”

So Alice began to tell her story. She was a little nervous, but she got more confident. They were quiet until she told them about saying the poem to the Caterpillar, and how the words were all wrong.

“That is very curious,” the Mock Turtle said. “It all came out different!”

“Stand up and repeat ‘'Tis the voice of the sluggard[51]’,” the Gryphon said.

Alice stood up and began to say the poem, but the words were all wrong.

“’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,

“You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.”

Alice sat down and put her face in her hands. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again.

“I want an explanation,” the Mock Turtle said.

“She can’t explain it,” the Gryphon said. “Go on to the next part.”

Alice was scared to not obey. She went on, but her voice was shaking.

“I passed by his garden, and saw, with one eye,

How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie…”

“What is the point of saying this,” the Mock Turtle interrupted, “if you don’t explain it? It is the most confusing thing I have ever heard!”

“Yes, you should stop,” the Gryphon said. Alice was very happy to stop.

“Do you want to try another part of the Lobster Quadrille?” the Gryphon asked. “Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing a song?”

“Oh, a song, please,” Alice said. The Gryphon said, “Sing her ‘Turtle Soup,’ old fellow.”

The Mock Turtle sighed and began to sing in a sad voice:

“Beautiful Soup, so green,

Waiting in a hot pot!”

“Again!” the Gryphon cried. The Mock Turtle was about to start again, when they heard a cry in the distance: “The trial[52] is beginning!”

“Come on!” the Gryphon cried. He took Alice’s hand and ran, without waiting for the end of the song.

“What trial?” Alice said as she ran. The Gryphon only said, “Come on!” They ran faster, and in the wind, Alice could still hear the words: “Beautiful, beautiful Soup!”

Chapter XI:

Alice walked into the room. The King and Queen of Hearts were sitting on their chairs. Many animals and cards were there.

The Knave stood in front of them. He had chains on. Two soldiers stood with him. The White Rabbit was next to the King. He held a horn and a paper.

In the middle of the room, there was a table with many tarts. They looked so good. Alice wanted to eat one. “I hope the trial is over soon,” she thought. But the trial did not start. So, she looked around.

Alice had never been to a court. But she knew the names of the things there. “That’s the judge,” she said to herself. “He has a big hairpiece.” The King was the judge.

“And those 12 animals are the jurors[53],” Alice thought. They were all busy writing on small blackboards.

“What are they doing?” Alice asked a large bird next to her.

“They are writing their names,” the bird whispered. “They don’t want to forget them.”

“That’s silly!” Alice said loudly.

The White Rabbit shouted, “Be quiet in the court!” The King put on his glasses. He looked around to see who talked. Alice saw that all the jurors were writing “silly things” on their boards. One juror did not know how to spell “silly.” He asked his friend.

The King said, “Read the paper!” The White Rabbit blew his horn three times. He read from the paper:

“The Queen of Hearts made some tarts,

On a hot summer day.

The Knave of Hearts stole them all,

And took them far away!”

“Call the first witness[54]!” the King said. The White Rabbit blew his horn and called out, “First witness!”

The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup and bread.

“Take off your hat!” the King said.

“It is not mine,” the Hatter said.

“Tell us what you know!” the King said. “Don’t be nervous, or I will cut off your head!” This made the Hatter very nervous. He bit his teacup.

At that moment, Alice started to get bigger again. She was growing! The Dormouse, who was next to her, said, “You are too big! I cannot breathe!”

“I cannot help it,” Alice said. “I am growing.”

“You have no right to grow here!” the Dormouse said.

“Don’t be silly,” said Alice. “You are growing, too.” The Dormouse got up and moved to the other side of the room.

The King repeated, “Tell us what you know, or I will cut off your head!”

The Hatter was very scared. “I am a poor man,” he said. He did not say anything useful.

The King said, “If that is all you know, you can go.”

The Hatter said, “I cannot go lower, I am on the floor.”

“Then you can sit down,” the King said.

“I want to finish my tea,” said the Hatter.

“You may go,” said the King. The Hatter ran out of the room.

The King called, “Call the next witness!”

The next person was the cook. She had a pepper box in her hand. Alice knew it was her because everyone started sneezing.

“Tell us what you know!” the King said.

“I won’t,” said the cook.

The King looked at the White Rabbit. “You must ask her questions,” the Rabbit whispered.

The King looked at the cook. He asked, “What are tarts made of?”

“Pepper, mostly,” said the cook.

“Honey,” said a sleepy voice. It was the Dormouse.

The Queen shouted, “Cut off his head! Get him out of the court!”

The court was a mess. By the time it was quiet again, the cook was gone.

“Never mind,” the King said. “Call the next witness!”

The White Rabbit looked at his paper. He called out in a loud voice, “Alice!”

Chapter XII:

“Here!” cried Alice. She was so big now that she forgot how big she was. She stood up. Her skirt hit the jury box[55]. All the jurors fell on the people below.

“Oh, I am sorry!” she said. She started to pick them up. She put them back in the box. One juror, a lizard, was upside down. She quickly put it the right way up.

The King said, “The trial cannot continue until all the jurors are in their places.”

The King then asked Alice, “What do you know about this?”

Alice said, “Nothing.”

“Nothing at all?” the King asked.

“Nothing at all,” Alice said.

“That’s very important,” the King said to the jury. The White Rabbit quickly said, “Your Majesty means ‘not important,’ of course.”

The King said, “Yes, yes. Not important.” Some jurors wrote “important,” and some wrote “not important.”

The King then looked in his book. He said loudly, “Rule number 42. All people more than one mile tall must leave the court.” Everyone looked at Alice.

“I am not a mile tall,” said Alice.

“You are,” said the King.

“Almost two miles tall,” said the Queen.

“I will not go,” said Alice. “You just made that rule up.”

“It is the oldest rule in the book,” the King said.

“Then it should be rule number one,” said Alice.

The King looked scared. He said to the jury, “Please decide what to do now.”

“Not yet!” said the White Rabbit. “This paper was just found.” The Queen asked what was on the paper. The White Rabbit said it was a letter. But then he saw it was a poem. He read the poem.

“I do not think the poem has any meaning,” Alice said.

The King said, “If there is no meaning, then we don’t have to find any. But wait.” He looked at the poem again. “You cannot swim, can you?” he asked the Knave. The Knave shook his head.

The King said, “The poem talks about swimming! This proves he is guilty!”

“It proves nothing,” said Alice. “You don’t even know what the poem is about!”

“Read it again,” the King said. The White Rabbit read the poem again. The King pointed to the tarts on the table. “The poem says ‘they all returned from him to you.’ This means the tarts came back! It is very clear!”

The Queen was angry. She threw an ink bottle at the lizard juror.

The King said, “The jury must decide now!”

“No!” said the Queen. “We will have the sentence[56] first, and then the decision!”

“That is nonsense!” Alice said loudly.

“Quiet!” the Queen yelled.

“I will not be quiet!” said Alice.

“Cut off her head!” the Queen shouted. Nobody moved.

“I am not afraid of you!” said Alice. She was her full size now. “You are just a deck[57] of cards!”

Suddenly, the cards flew up in the air. They came flying at her. Alice screamed.

Then, she was not in the court anymore. She was lying on a hill. Her head was in her sister’s lap. Her sister was taking leaves from her face.

“Wake up, Alice,” her sister said. “You have been asleep for a long time!”

“I had a strange dream,” said Alice. She told her sister about the dream. Her sister listened. When Alice was finished, her sister kissed her. “That was a very strange dream. Now go inside for tea.”

Alice went home, thinking about her wonderful dream. Her sister sat on the hill. She thought about Alice and her dream. She saw the sunset. She dreamed, too. She dreamed of Alice when she was older. She dreamed that Alice would tell stories to other children, about her dream of Wonderland.

The End.

[1] Daisy: a type of flower

[2] Marmalade: a sweet spread like jam that people put on bread

[3] Mile: 1.6 kilometers

[4] The long bristles on the face of a rabbit

[5] Passage: a way for someone to go through

[6] Inch: 2.54 centimeters

[7] Times table: what students use to remember multiplication

[8] Shrinking: getting smaller

[9] Dodo: A bird similar to an ostrich which is now extinct

[10] William the Conqueror: a king of England

[11] Shiver: to shake because of cold or fear

[12] Eaglet: a little Eagle

[13] A piece of metal to protect your thumb when sewing

[14] Throat: inside a person’s neck

[15] Tremble: shake because of fear

[16] Chimney: where smoke leaves a fireplace

[17] Spring: a metal spiral that bounces

[18] Temper: being angry or calm

[19] Serpent: snake

[20] Duchess: a royal woman married to a duke

[21] Croquet: a game played with mallets and balls

[22] Ignore: not pay attention to

[23] Chesire: a place in the north west of England

[24] Snort: a loud sound like a pig made with a nose

[25] Hatter: someone who makes hats

[26] Hare: an animal that looks like a tall rabbit

[27] Fig: a fruit

[28] A small mouse-like animal

[29] Raven: a black bird that lives in the northern hemisphere

[30] Riddle: a word puzzle

[31] Grumble: to say something in an unhappy way

[32] Treacle: a thick syrup made of sugar

[33] Gardener: someone who takes care of a garden

[34] Club: a stick used to hit someone

[35] Majesty: a title used for royalty

[36] Hedgehog: a small animal with spikes

[37] Grin: smile

[38] The metal part a croquet ball needs to be hit under

[39] Executioner: person whose job it is to kill people that have comitted crimes

[40] Moral: a message of a story OR people’s good way of behaving

[41] Dizzy: as if everything is spinning

[42] Delay: waiting

[43] Gryphon: a mythical animal that looks like a mix of a lion and an eagle

[44] Tortoise: a tall animal similar to a turtle

[45] These words sound like read, writing, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

[46] An animal that looks like a mix of a fish and a snake

[47] Lobster: A sea creature with claws and a shell

[48] Somersault: rolling forwards

[49] Porpoise: an animal similar to a dolphin

[50] Crumbs: leftover pieces of food

[51] Sluggard: a lazy person

[52] A process where someone is declared guilty or not guilty

[53] Juror: people who decide the outcome of a trial

[54] Witness: someone who has seen something

[55] Jury box: place where the jurors sit

[56] Sentence: punishment decided by a court

[57] Deck of cards: 52 cards that come in a small box