Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Alice in Wonderland Chapters 4-6

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Starting point is 00:01:34 Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt. Hello and welcome to Sleep Cove, the place to come for a great night's sleep. Please listen to these recordings in a place where you can safely go to sleep. In tonight's recording, I'll be doing three more chapters of Alice in Wind. the land. This recording is brand new and has been remastered, and I really hope you enjoy me reading the whole audiobook. I've included links in the description to the first three chapters, and at some point I will edit the entire story together. So please get ready to enter this magical and the rabbit sends in a little bill.

Starting point is 00:02:42 It was the white rabbit, trotting slowly back again and looking anxiously about it as it went, as if it had lost something. And she heard it muttering to itself, The Duchess, the Duchess, she'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets of ferrets. Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?

Starting point is 00:03:15 I guessed in a moment, that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them. But they were nowhere to be seen. Everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely. Very soon, the rabbit noticed,

Starting point is 00:03:49 Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone. Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan, quick now. And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to without trying to explain the mistakes it had made. He took me for his housemaid, she said to herself as she ran. How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am. But I'd better take him his fan and gloves, that is.

Starting point is 00:04:34 If I can find them. As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate, with the name W. Rabbit engraved upon it. She went in without knocking and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary-Anne and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and the gloves. How queer it seems, Alice said to herself,

Starting point is 00:05:13 to be going after messages for a rabbit. I suppose Dina will be sending me your messages next, and she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen. Miss Alice, come here directly and get ready for your walk. Coming in a minute, nurse, but I've got to see that the mouse doesn't get out. Only I don't think, Alice went on, that they would let Dina stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that, By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window,

Starting point is 00:05:56 and on it, as she had hoped, a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves. She took up the fan and a pair of the gloves and was just going to leave the room on a little bottle that stood near the looking clothes. There was no label this time with the words, Drink me, but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. You know something interesting is sure to happen, she said to herself, whether I drink or eat anything, so I'll just see what this bottle does. I do hope it will make me grow large again,

Starting point is 00:06:48 for really being such a tiny little thing. It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected. Before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself, that's quite enough. I hope I shan't grow any more.

Starting point is 00:07:23 As it is, I can't get out of the door. I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much. It was too late to wish that. She went on growing and growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor and room for this. She tried the effect of lying down with one elbow against the door, and the other arm she went on growing, and as her last resource

Starting point is 00:08:03 she put one arm out of the window and one foot up the chimney and said to herself now I can do no more whatever happens what will become of me the little magic bottle had now had its full effect

Starting point is 00:08:25 as she grew no larger still it was a very uncle of her ever getting out of her room again. No wonder she felt unhoused. It was much pleasanter at home. When one wasn't always growing larger and smaller and being ordered about by mice and rabbits, I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit hole. It's rather curious, you know, this sort of life. I do wonder what can have happened to me. When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened.

Starting point is 00:09:20 And now here I am in the middle of one. To be a book written about me. When I grow up, I'll write one. But I'm grown up now, she added in a sorrowful tone. At least there is no room to grow up any more here. Shall I never get any older than I am now? That will be a comfort. one way never to be an old woman, but then, always to have lessons to learn.

Starting point is 00:10:01 Oh, I shouldn't like that. You foolish Alice, she answered herself. How can you learn lessons in here? Why, there's hardly any room for you, any lesson books. And so she went on, talking first one side and then the other. and making quite a conversation of it altogether. But after a few minutes, she heard a voice outside and stopped to listen. Mary Ann, Mary Ann, said the voice,

Starting point is 00:10:42 fetching my gloves this moment, pattering a feet on the stairs. I knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house. Quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times larger than the rabbit, to be afraid of it. Presently, the rabbit came up to the door and tried to open it as the door was pressed hard against it, proved a failure. ...to itself, then I'll go round and get in that window. That she won't to waiting till she fancied she heard the rabbit just unduly. just under the window.

Starting point is 00:11:49 She suddenly spread out her hand and made a snatch. She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame or something of the sort.

Starting point is 00:12:15 Next came an angry voice. The rabbits, Where are you? He had never heard before. "'Sure there, I'm here. Digging for apples, your honour.' "'Dicking for apples, indeed,' said the rabbit angrily. "'Here, come and help me out sounds of more broken glass. "'Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'

Starting point is 00:12:47 "'Sure it's an arm, Your Honor.' "'He pronounced it, arm, arm you goose. "'Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills the whole window?' Sure it does, Your Honor, but it's an arm for all that. Well, it's got no business here at any rate. Go and take it away. There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then, such as, Sure, I don't like it, Your Honor, at all at all. Do as I tell you, you coward, she spread out her hand again.

Starting point is 00:13:29 this time there were two little shrieks of broken glass. What a number of cucumber frames there must be. I wonder what they'll do next. I'm sure I don't want to stay in here any longer. She waited for some time without hearing anything more. At last came a rumbling of little cartwheels and the sound of good many voices. She made out the words.

Starting point is 00:14:18 Where's the other, ladder? Why, I hadn't to bring, but one. Bill's got the other. Bill, fetch it here, lad. Here, put him at this corner. No, tie him together first. They don't reach half high enough yet. Oh, they'll do well enough.

Starting point is 00:14:39 Don't be particular. Here, Bill. catch hold of this rope. Will the roof bear? Mind that loose slate. Oh, it's coming down, heads below, a loud crash. No, who did that? It was Bill, I fancy.

Starting point is 00:14:57 Who's to go down the chimney? Nay, I shan't, you do it. That I won't then. Bill's to go down. Here, Bill, the master says you ought to go down the chimney. Oh, so Bill. has got to come down the chimney, has he? Said Alice to herself.

Starting point is 00:15:16 Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill. I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal. This fireplace is narrow to be sure, but I think I can kick a little. She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could and waited till she heard a little animal. She couldn't guess of what sort it was

Starting point is 00:15:42 scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her then saying to herself this is Bill to see what would happen next the first thing she heard was a general chorus of there goes Bill then the rabbit's voice along

Starting point is 00:16:07 catch him you by the hedge then silence in her voices Hold up his head Brandy now, don't choke him How was it old fellow What happened to you? Tell us all about it

Starting point is 00:16:25 Last came a little feeble squeaking voice That's Bill thought Alice Well I hardly know No more thank ye I'm better now But I'm a deal too flustered to tell

Starting point is 00:16:42 All I know is Something comes at me like a jack of the box and up eye goes like a skyrocket. So you did old fellow, said the others. We must burn the house down, said the rabbit's voice, loud as she could. If you do, I'll set Dider at you. There was a dead. I wonder what they would do next. If they had any sense, they'll take the roof off.

Starting point is 00:17:22 After a minute or two They began moving about again And others heard the rabbit say A powerful would do to begin with A barrelful of what But she had not longed to doubt For the next moment A shower of little pebbles

Starting point is 00:17:44 Came rattling in at the window And some of them hit her in the face I'll put a stop to this she said to herself and shouted out, you'd better not do that again, which produced another dead silence noticed with some surprise. It's sure to make some change in my size,

Starting point is 00:18:28 possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose. So she swallowed one of the cakes and was delighted to find out that she began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside. Ran off as hard as she could and soon found herself safe. The first thing I've got to do, said Alice to herself, is to grow to my right size again.

Starting point is 00:19:34 And the second thing is to find my way. into that lovely garden. I think that will be the best plan. It sounded an idea interestingly among the trees. A little sharp bark just over her head was looking down at her

Starting point is 00:20:17 with large round eyes and feebly stretching out one paw. Trying to touch her I'd be hungry, very likely, hardly knowing of stick and held it out to the puppy. Whereupon the puppy's feet at once, made believe to worry about it.

Starting point is 00:21:17 This dodged behind a great thistle to keep herself from being run over. She appeared on the other side. The puppy made another rush at the stick, head over heels, in its hurry to get hold of it. It was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet,

Starting point is 00:21:50 ran round the thistle again, began a series of short charges at the stick, so she set off at once, fired and out of breath. Till the puppy's bark sounded quite a dear little puppy it was, said Alice, as she leaned against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself as one of the leaves. I should have liked teaching it tricks very much if excised to do it. Nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again.

Starting point is 00:23:10 Let me see. I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other. But the question is, question certainly was what? But she did not see any answers. Chapter 5. Advice from a Caterpillar The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence. At last the caterpillar took the hooker out of its mouth

Starting point is 00:24:50 and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. Who are you? said the caterpillar's was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shiny. I, I, hardly know, sir, just at present. At least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then. What do you mean by that? said the caterpillar sternly. Explain yourself.

Starting point is 00:25:29 I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir, said Alice, because I'm not myself, you see. I don't see, said the caterpillar, very politely, for I can't understand it myself to begin with. And being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing. It isn't, said the caterpillar. Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet, said Alice. But when you have to turn into a chrysalis, you'll someday, you know, and then after that into a butterfly. I should think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you?

Starting point is 00:26:20 Not a bit, said the caterpillar. Well, perhaps your feelings may be different, said Alice. All I know is it would feel very queer to me. You? So the caterpillar contemptuously, who are you? Which brought them back again to the beginning. of the conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the caterpillar's making such of very short

Starting point is 00:26:49 remarks, and she drew herself up and said very gravely, I think you ought to tell me who you are first. Why? said the caterpillar. Here was another puzzling question, and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the caterpillar seemed to be in a very unpleasant state of mind, she turned away. Come back, the caterpillar called after her. I've something important to say. This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and said the caterpillar, is that all? said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she could. No, said the caterpillar, Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps, after all, he might tell her something worth hearing.

Starting point is 00:27:55 For some minutes, it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hooker out of his mouth again, and said, So you think you're changed, do you? I'm afraid I am, sir, said Alice. I can't remember things as I used, and I don't think I keep the same size for ten minutes together. Can't remember what things, said the caterpillar, The Little Busy Bee.

Starting point is 00:28:32 Well, I've tried to say, how doth the Little Busy Bee? But it all came quite different. Alice replied in a very melancholy voice. Repeat, you are old, said the catapus folded her hands. Air has become very white, and yet you incessantly stand on your head. Do you think, at your age, it is right? In my youth, Father William replied to his son, I feared it might injure the brain.

Starting point is 00:29:17 But now what I'm perfectly sure, I have none. Why, I do it again and again. You are old. One would hardly suppose that your eye was as steady as ever. Yet he balanced an eel on the end of your nose. What made you so awfully clever? Answer three questions and that is enough.

Starting point is 00:29:45 Said his father, don't give yourself airs. Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down. Not said right, said the caterpillar. Not quite right, I'm afraid, said Alice, timidly. Some of the words have got altered. It is wrong from beginning to end, said the caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.

Starting point is 00:30:17 There was the first to speak. What size do you want to be? It asked. It's particular as to size. Alice hastily replied, Only one doesn't like changing so often, you know, for the caterpillar. Alice said nothing. She had never been so much contradicted in her life before,

Starting point is 00:30:46 and she felt that she was losing her temper, said the caterpillar larger, sir. If you wouldn't mind, said Alice. Three inches is such a wretched height to be. It is a very good height indeed. said the caterpillar angrily rearing itself upright as it spoke. It was exactly three inches high. But I'm not used to it, pleaded for Alice in a piteous tone,

Starting point is 00:31:22 as she thought of herself. I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended. You'll get used to it in time, said the caterpillar, and it put the hooker into its mouth and began smoking again. This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again, out of its mouth, and yawned once or twice and shook itself, and crawled away in the grass, the marking as it went, one side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter. One side of what? The other side of what? Lord Alice stood herself. Of the mushroom, said the caterpillar, just as if she had Astridan Alice remained looking thoughtfully,

Starting point is 00:32:32 she stretched her arms round, round it as far as they would go, try the effect. The next moment, feel frightened by this sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be able to shrinking rapidly, so she set to work at once to eat to some, though closely, where she did it at last to swallow, a morsel, heads free at last, said Alice in a tone of tonight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found. All she could see, when she looked down, was an immense, wishing to rise like a storm out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her. What can all that green stuff be? Have my shoulders come to. How is it? I can't see you.

Starting point is 00:34:36 She was moving them as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant knee. As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head. She tried to get her head down to them, and just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag. and was going to dive in among which she found to be nothing, when a sharp hiss made her drawback in a hurry.

Starting point is 00:35:29 Pigeon, not a serpent, leave me alone. Serpent, I say, repeated the pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them. Tried the roots of trees, I've tried banks, I've tried hedges, And the pigeon went on, without attending to her, but those serpents, there's no pleasing them. Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the pigeon had finished.

Starting point is 00:36:29 As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs, said the pigeon, but I must be on the lookout for serpents day and night. Why, I haven't had a wink of sight. sleep for these three weeks. I'm very sorry you've been annoyed, said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.

Starting point is 00:36:51 And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood, continued the pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, and just as I was thinking, I should be free of them at last. They must needs come wriggling down from the sky.

Starting point is 00:37:07 Oh, serpent. Not a serpent, I tell you, said Alice, I'm a, I'm a, and the pigeon. I can see you're trying to invent something. I, I'm a little girl, said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day. A likely story indeed, said the pigeon, in a tone of I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one for such a neck as that. No, no, you're a serpent, and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me that you've never tasted an egg. I have tasted eggs, certainly, said Alice, who was a very truthful child,

Starting point is 00:38:05 but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know. I don't believe it, said the pigeon. But if they do, why then? they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say. This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the pigeon an opportunity of adding. You're looking for eggs.

Starting point is 00:38:33 I know that. Well enough, and what does it matter to me, whether you're a little girl or a serpent? It matters a good deal to me, said Alice hastily. but I'm not looking for eggs as it happens, and if I was, I shouldn't want to yours. I don't like them raw. Well, be off then, said the pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest, as she could.

Starting point is 00:39:10 Every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while, she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands. and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one, and sometimes dawned her, how she exceeded in bringing herself down to her usual height. It was so long since she had been anything near the right size that it felt quite strange at first, but she got used to it in a few minutes

Starting point is 00:39:57 and began talking to herself as usual. Come, there's half my plan done now. How puzzling all these changes are. I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another. However, I've got to my right size. The next thing is to get into that beautiful garden. How is that to be done? I wonder. As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place,

Starting point is 00:40:29 with a little house in it about four feet high. whoever lives here. Never do to come upon them this size Why I should frighten them out of their wicks? So she began nibbling at the right-hand bit again And did not venture to go near the house Till she had brought herself down to nine... Chapter 6, Pagan Papa

Starting point is 00:41:04 For a minute or two She stood looking at the house and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood. She considered him to be a footman because he was in livery, judging by his face only,

Starting point is 00:41:27 she would have called him a fish with his knuckles. It was once opened by another footman in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like a frog, felt very curious to know. know what it was all about, producing from under his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other, saying in a solemn tone, for the Duchess, an invitation from the Queen, deem solemn tone, only changing the order of the words a little.

Starting point is 00:42:48 the queen, an invitation for the Duchess to play. He had to run back into the wood, for fear of their hearing her. The fish footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground. Stupidly up, said the footman, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are. Secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you. And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise to get in. There might be some sense in your knocking. The footman went on if we had the door between us.

Starting point is 00:44:20 For instance, if you were inside, you might knock, and he was looking up into the sky at the time he was speaking. decidedly, and perhaps he can't help it, she thought to herself. His eyes are so very nearly at the top of his head. She repeated aloud, I shall sit here, the footman remarked till tomorrow. At this moment, straight at the footman's head, it just grazed his nose, pieces against one of the trees behind him. Continued in the same tone. Why to get in? asked Alice again, in a louder tone, you to get in at all.

Starting point is 00:45:37 It's really dreadful, she mattered to herself, the way all the creatures argue, is enough to drive one crazy. The footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating his remark with variations. I shall sit here, he said, on and off for days and days. But what am I to do? said Alice.

Starting point is 00:46:16 So the footman and began whistling. Oh, there's no use in talking to him, said Alice desperately. He's perfectly idiotic, and she opened the door. The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other. The Duchess was sitting on a three-leg stool in the middle, nursing a baby. The cook was leaning over the fire, staring a large cauldron, which seemed to be full of soup.

Starting point is 00:46:54 There's certainly too much pepper in that soup as she could have much of it in the air that did not sneeze, she was sitting on the half, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first. That grins like that. It's a Cheshire Cat, said the Duchess, and that's why, Pig, the last word, with sudden violence, which she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby and not to her. So she took courage and went on again. I don't know that Cheshire cats always grinned,

Starting point is 00:48:12 In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin. They all can, so the Duchess. Most of them do. I don't know of any that do, and is said very politely, feeling quite pleased to have got into a conversation. You don't know much, said the Duchess, and that's a fact.

Starting point is 00:48:35 I did not like at all the tone of this remark and thought it would be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation. While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldrum of soup of the fire, everything within a reach, and the Duchess and the Duchess took no notice of them, even when they hit her.

Starting point is 00:49:13 And the baby was howling so much already that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt or not. Oh, please mind what you're doing, cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror. Oh, there goes my precious nose. As an unusually large sauceman flew close by it, carried it off. If everyone minded that oath, said the Duchess in a home,

Starting point is 00:49:50 which would not be very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge. Just think of what work it would make with the day and night. You see, the earth takes 24 hours to turn around on its axis. Talking of axis, so the Duchess, to see if she meant to take the hint, but the cook was busily staring suit and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again.

Starting point is 00:50:31 24 hours, I think, or is it 12? I... Oh, don't bother me, said the Duchess. I could never abide figures. And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line. Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes. He only does it to annoy because he know it teases, in which the cook and the baby joined. While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song,

Starting point is 00:51:14 she kept tossing the baby finally up and down, and the poor little thing held so that Alice could hardly hear the words. I speak severely to my boy, I beat him when he sneezes, for he can thoroughly enjoy the pepper when he pleases. Wow, wow, wow, the chorus sang. Here, you may nurse it a bit if you like, the Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her, As she spoke, I must go and get ready to play croquet with the queen, and she hurried out of the room.

Starting point is 00:51:52 The cook threw a frying pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped little creature, and held out its arms and nags in all directions. Just like a starfish, poor little thing was snorting like a steam engine when she caught it. and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it. As soon as she made out the proper way of nursing it, which was to twist it up into a sort of knot,

Starting point is 00:52:40 and then keep tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent itself undoing, She carried it out into the open air. If I don't take this child away with me, thought Alice, they'll sure to kill it in a day or two. Wouldn't it be murdered and leave it behind? She said the last words out loud, and the little thing grunted in reply.

Starting point is 00:53:08 It had left off sneezing by this time. Don't grunt is not at all a proper way of expressing yourself, grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face to see what was the matter with it. There could be no doubt that it had a very turn-up nose, much more like a snout and a real nose. Also, its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby. Altogether, Alice did not like the look of the thing at all. But perhaps it was only sobbing, she thought, and looked into its eyes again, to see if there were any tears. If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear, said Alice seriously, I'll have nothing more to do with you.

Starting point is 00:54:11 Mind now. Poor little thing sobbed again, or grunted. It was impossible to say which for some while in silence to herself. What am I to do with this creature when I get home? When it grunted again, so violently, as she looked down into its face in some alarm. This time there could be no mistake about it. It was neither more nor less than a pig.

Starting point is 00:54:49 She felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further, so she set the little creature down and felt quite relieved. to see it trot away quietly into the wood. If it had grown up, she said to herself, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child, but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think, as she began thinking over other children she knew who might do very well as pigs,

Starting point is 00:55:24 and was just saying to herself, if one only knew the right way to change them when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off printed with respect Cheshire Puss

Starting point is 00:56:00 she began rather Would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here so she tried another question What sort of people live about here? In that direction. The cat said, waving its right pole round, lives the hatter. Visit eat.

Starting point is 00:57:18 I suppose so, said Alice. Broke with the Queen today. I haven't been invited yet. She was getting so used to queer things happening. While she was looking at the place where it had began, it suddenly appeared again. What, because of the baby? said the cat. I'd nearly forgotten to watch.

Starting point is 00:59:07 It turned into a pig. Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back in a natural way. I thought it would. I'm not expecting to see it again, but it did not appear. And after a minute or two, seen Hatters before, she said to herself, will be much the most interesting, and perhaps, as this may, it won't be raving mad, not so mad, as she said this. She looked up, and there was the cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree.

Starting point is 01:00:05 Did you say pig or fig? said the cat. I said pig, replied Alice. I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly. You make me quite giddy. It had gone without a grin, thought Alice. but a grin without a cat is the most curious thing I've ever seen in my life

Starting point is 01:00:47 because the chimneys were shaped like a large house till she had nibbled some more of their left hand being to herself suppose it should be raving mad after all to see the hatter

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Alice in Wonderland Chapters 4-6

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