March 27, 2026

S3 E7 The Wonder Continues with Chapter 4 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Show Notes
Transcript

Send us Fan Mail

The adventure continues this week. Drift off to more oddities this week as Alice tries to figure out this strange place she is in.

Check out the new website! www.ComfortingVoice.com

Support the show

WEBVTT

00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:18.800
Hello, Podcast Land! Welcome to the Comforting Voice Podcast.

00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.000
I'm your host, Shasta Ray, and I'm joined in the studio by Emmy the Minimicaw.

00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:31.920
She's sitting here on my desk, and she's already had a snack and gone through her screaming and chewed on the cable for just a minute.

00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:34.159
All that stuff, we got it all out of the way.

00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:40.880
The giant dog is out in the hallway at his spot, guarding the door fiercely while he sleeps.

00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:42.479
So we're already.

00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:43.359
How are you?

00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:45.039
Have you had a good week?

00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:48.880
You guys have been very quiet out there.

00:00:49.039 --> 00:01:02.079
And what I find ironic is that I created this audio space as a place to escape politics, the news, true crime, scary stories, all of that triggering stuff.

00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:07.040
And when all of that hype is through the roof, oh my gosh, it's just crazy out there.

00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:08.319
You guys go quiet.

00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:12.239
I think you just get shell-shocked from it all and you forget to come hang out with me.

00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:20.480
So don't forget, if you're getting a little bit overloaded with all that toxic stuff out there, it's always gonna be there.

00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.239
It's always gonna be in your face.

00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:39.280
Take a break, hang out with me, hang out with Juan for a little bit, and uh we're gonna recharge your batteries, give you a little bit of rest, get you an escape from all that junk out there, and then you'll be recharged and ready to take on a whole new layer of it when you're ready.

00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:40.799
So that's why we're here.

00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:44.319
Now, of course, Fridays, Lon's not here.

00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:49.359
I just do the stories, but we do have something in store for you on Tuesday.

00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:51.760
It's gonna be another special episode.

00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:59.439
So I guess before we really get rolling, let's just remind everyone check out the new website.

00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:12.319
I still have changes, it's gonna be ongoing, but it is a good solid foundation, it's off to a good start, and that website is comfortingvoice.com.

00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:16.719
All of my links are there so you have some stuff to go surf around and check out.

00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:26.000
And if you've been looking for some relaxation tools, something to give your mind a break, give you something tactile, check out my coloring books.

00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:38.719
They are made for relaxation, they're made for de-stressing, they're large print, bold and easy style, and they're meant for you to just color in space and get to the next one.

00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:46.719
Sometimes it's not about the fine details, it's about going through the motions and getting that satisfaction of filling in space.

00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:50.560
There's something really weirdly satisfying about it.

00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:56.159
So, of course, I called my series the Simply Satisfying Series.

00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:58.960
I've got Simply Satisfying Patterns.

00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.039
There's four volumes on that one.

00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:12.080
I've got simply satisfying spaces, and that is the best way that you can escape and go to all kinds of safe spaces and just sit there and color them.

00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:13.280
Imagine you're there.

00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.039
That's why I designed it.

00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.159
It's a wonderful, wonderful coloring book.

00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:25.599
I've got some Christmas themed ones, and coming soon, simply satisfying things.

00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:33.680
So we've got more coming on the patterns, more coming on the spaces, more things, and more Christmas themes.

00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:35.520
Lots to love there.

00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:36.719
So go check it out.

00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:38.879
All my links are there, and more.

00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:43.439
And that website is comfortingvoice.com.

00:03:44.240 --> 00:04:02.479
Okay, before we get reading tonight, let's get you comfortable if you haven't been getting into you know that favorite spot, that favorite position where you like to relax, get your pillow all mushed up into the right position that you like, get your covers where you need it.

00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:04.319
Don't forget to stretch.

00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:12.879
Reach into your arms, into your legs, and down into your fingers and toes, wiggle those fingers and toes and release that stretch.

00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:17.120
Roll your shoulders once or twice, very slow, controlled.

00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:19.120
Don't get crazy with it.

00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:27.040
And one thing that's really good to do is just bring your shoulders all the way up like you're trying to put them up to your ears and then release that.

00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:31.040
That's another really good stretch to release tons of tension.

00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:32.959
We carry that in our shoulders.

00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:37.120
After you've figured that out the way you want to do it, that's right for you.

00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.759
Give yourself a good deep breath of air.

00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:49.439
Inhale to about the count of four, hold it to about the count of four, and release that exhale just a little bit slower, about the count of six.

00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:54.959
Do that two or three times, intermix that with a stretch, see what works for you.

00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:56.399
We are all different.

00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:03.120
I can give you great suggestions, but sometimes you might want to tweak it for your own personal needs.

00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:07.759
And you should be off to a great weekend on a Friday night.

00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:09.839
And that's where it all starts, isn't it?

00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:11.199
Your beauty rest.

00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:12.959
So get cozy.

00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:21.120
And as I said, this coming Tuesday for the Mish Mash episode, we are having another special milestone.

00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:22.319
You don't want to miss it.

00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:30.720
It's gonna be a relaxing, fun, enjoyable episode, as always, and I've got a mini macaw chewing on my hand right now.

00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.839
Emmy, why don't you move over to the side just a little?

00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:34.959
Can I pick you up?

00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:36.399
Can I pick you up?

00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.399
I guess she didn't like being picked up.

00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:42.319
Okay, sit down right there.

00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:43.279
Right there.

00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:47.120
We've got the Kindle all fired up and ready to go.

00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:51.920
We are reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:57.839
We are on chapter four titled The Rabbit Sends In a Little Bill.

00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:16.879
It was the white rabbit trotting slowly back again and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something, and she heard it muttering to itself The Duchess, the Duchess, oh my dear paws, oh my fur and whiskers, she'll get me executed as sure as ferrets are ferrets.

00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.759
Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?

00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:30.480
Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and pair of white kid gloves, and she very good naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen.

00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:39.519
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.

00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:45.920
Very soon the rabbit noticed Alice as she went hunting about and called out to her in an angry tone.

00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:49.519
Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here?

00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:53.040
Run home this instant and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan.

00:06:53.199 --> 00:07:02.639
Quick now and Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it had pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.

00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.560
He took me for his housemaid, she said as she ran.

00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:10.000
How surprised he'll be when she finds out who I am.

00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:14.480
But I'd better take him his fan and gloves, that is if I can find 'em.

00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:24.240
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.

00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:35.439
She went in without knocking and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Marianne, and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves.

00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:40.639
How strange it seems, Alice said to herself, to be going messages for a rabbit.

00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.319
I suppose Dina will be sending me on messages next.

00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.439
And she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen.

00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:51.040
Miss Alice, come here directly and get ready for your walk.

00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:55.279
Coming in a minute, nurse, but I've got to see that the mouse doesn't get out.

00:07:55.519 --> 00:08:02.959
Only I don't think, Alice went on, that they'd let Dina stop in the house if she began ordering people about like that.

00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:13.439
By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it, as she had hoped, a fan and two or three pair of tiny white kid gloves.

00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:22.639
She took up the fan and a pair of the gloves and was just going to leave the room when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking glass.

00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:29.600
There was no label this time with the words drink me, but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips.

00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:38.399
I know something interesting is sure to happen, she said to herself, whenever I eat or drink anything, so I'll just see what this little bottle does.

00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:44.320
I do hope it'll make me grow large again, for I'm really quite tired of being such a tiny little thing.

00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:48.879
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected.

00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:56.799
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.

00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.799
She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself, That's quite enough.

00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:02.639
I hope I shan't grow any more.

00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:04.720
As it is, I can't get out the door.

00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.679
Oh I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much.

00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.399
Alas, it was too late to wish that.

00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:15.679
She went on growing and growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor.

00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:25.039
In another minute there was not even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying down with one elbow against the door and the other arm curled around her head.

00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:38.080
Still she went on growing, and as a last resource, she put one arm out the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself Now I can do no more, whatever happens.

00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:40.000
What will become of me?

00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:41.759
Luckily for Alice?

00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.240
The little magic bottle had now had its full effect and she grew no larger.

00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:54.799
It was still very uncomfortable, and as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.

00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:58.080
It was much pleasanter at home, thought poor Alice.

00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:09.919
When one isn'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, and yet it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life.

00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:12.720
I do wonder what can have happened to me.

00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:19.279
When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that sort of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one.

00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:25.039
There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought, and when I grow up I'll write one.

00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.360
But I'm grown up now.

00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:29.840
She added in a sorrowful tone.

00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:33.039
At least there's no room to grow up any more here.

00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:38.159
But then, thought Alice, shall I never get any older than I am now?

00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:44.559
That'll be a comfort one way, never to be an old woman, but then always to have lessons to learn?

00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:46.559
Oh, I shouldn't like that.

00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:52.159
Oh, you foolish Alice, she answered herself, how can you learn lessons in here?

00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:56.159
Why there's hardly room for you and no room at all for any lesson books?

00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:03.039
And so she went on, first taking one side and then the other, making quite a conversation of it altogether.

00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.360
But after a few minutes she heard a voice outside and stopped to listen.

00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:12.799
Mary Anne, Mary Anne, said the voice, fetch me my gloves this moment.

00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.840
Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.

00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:28.159
Alice knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now a thousand times as large as the rabbit and had no reason to be afraid of it.

00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:39.519
Presently the rabbit came up to the door and tried to open it, but as the door opened inwards and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it, that attempt proved a failure.

00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:44.159
Alice heard it say to itself Then I'll go around and get in at the window.

00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:55.039
That you won't, thought Alice, and after waiting till she fancied that she heard the rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her hand and made a snatch in the air.

00:11:55.279 --> 00:12:08.960
She did not get a hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame or something of the sort.

00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:14.320
Next came an angry voice, the rabbits Pat, Pat, where are you?

00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:16.799
And then a voice she had never heard before.

00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:20.000
Sure then I'm here digging for apples, Your Honor.

00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:23.519
Digging for apples indeed, said the rabbit angrily.

00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:25.600
Here, come and help me out of this.

00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.320
There was sounds of more broken glass.

00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.360
Now tell me, Pat, what's in that window?

00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:34.080
Sure it's an arm, Your Honor.

00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.000
He pronounced it arm.

00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.799
An arm, you goose.

00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:40.480
Whoever saw one that size?

00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:42.480
Why it fills the whole window?

00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:44.240
Sure it does, Your Honor.

00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:46.399
But it's an arm for all that.

00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:48.960
Well it's got no business here at any rate.

00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:50.159
Go and take it away.

00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:57.840
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.

00:12:58.159 --> 00:12:58.960
At all, at all.

00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:01.039
Do as I tell you, you coward.

00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:05.519
And at last she spread out her hand again and made another snatch in the air.

00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.519
This time there were two little shrieks and more sounds of broken glass.

00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:13.120
What a number of cucumber frames there must be, thought Alice.

00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:14.960
I wonder what they'll do next.

00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.799
As for pulling me out of the window, I only wish they could.

00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.840
I'm sure I don't want to stay in here any longer.

00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.600
She waited for some time without hearing anything more.

00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:32.960
At last came a rumbling of little cart wheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together.

00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:36.240
She made out the words Where's the other ladder?

00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.399
Why, I hadn't to bring just one.

00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:39.519
Bill's got the other.

00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:41.279
Bill, fetch it here, lad.

00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:43.279
Here, put 'em up at this corner.

00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:45.039
No, tie 'em together first.

00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.200
They won't reach half high enough yet.

00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:48.639
Oh, they'll do well enough.

00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:49.840
Don't be particular.

00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.000
Here, Bill, catch hold of this rope.

00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:53.279
Will the roof bare?

00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:55.360
Mind that little slate.

00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:57.679
Oh, it's coming down, heads below.

00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:59.440
Then there was a loud crash.

00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:00.639
Now who did that?

00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:02.559
It was Bill, I fancy.

00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:04.639
Who's got to go down the chimney?

00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:06.639
I I'm not gonna do it, you do it.

00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:07.679
That I won't.

00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:08.879
Bill's got to go down.

00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.919
Here, Bill the master says you've got to go down the chimney.

00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:15.200
Oh, so Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?

00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:16.639
said Alice to herself.

00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.279
Shy they seem to put everything on Bill.

00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.559
I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal.

00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:27.039
This fireplace is narrow to be sure, but I think I can kick a little.

00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:41.039
She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could and waited till she heard a little animal, and she couldn't guess what sort it was, scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her, then saying to herself This is Bill.

00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:44.879
Then she gave one sharp kick and waited to see what would happen next.

00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:56.559
The first thing she heard was a general chorus of there goes Bill and then the rabbit's voice catch him, you by the hedge, and then silence, and then another confusion of voices.

00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:57.759
Hold up his head.

00:14:58.000 --> 00:14:59.519
Brandy now, don't choke him.

00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:00.879
How was it, old fellow?

00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:01.759
What happened to you?

00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:03.200
Tell us all about it.

00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:05.919
Last came a feeble squeaking voice.

00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:08.399
That's Bill, thought Alice.

00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:11.440
Well I hardly know, no more than thank ye.

00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:15.840
I'm better now, but I'm a deal too flustered to tell you.

00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:21.840
All I know is that something comes at me like a jack in the box and up I goes like a skyrocket.

00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.320
So you did, old fellow, said the others.

00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.919
We must burn the house down, said the rabbit's voice.

00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.559
And Alice called out as loud as she could.

00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.360
If you do, I'll set Dinah on you.

00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:40.159
There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself I wonder what they will do next.

00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:43.039
If they had any sense they'd take the roof off.

00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:50.639
After a minute or two they all began moving about again, and Alice heard the rabbit say A burrowful will do to begin with.

00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:52.399
A burrowful of what?

00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:53.679
thought Alice.

00:15:54.000 --> 00:16:02.000
But she had not long to doubt, for the next moment a little shower of pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face.

00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:10.399
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.

00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:18.399
Alice noticed with a little surprise that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came to her head.

00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:25.600
If I eat one of those cakes, she thought, it's sure to make some change in my size as I can't possibly get bigger.

00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:27.919
It must make me smaller, I suppose.

00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:34.159
So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly.

00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:42.399
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.

00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:49.919
The poor little lizard Bill was in the middle, being held up by two guinea pigs, who were trying to give it something out of a bottle.

00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:58.320
They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared, but she ran off as hard as she could and soon found herself in a thick wood.

00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:09.359
The first thing I've got to do, said Alice to herself as she wandered about in the wood, is to grow my right size again, and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden.

00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:11.599
I think that will be the best plan.

00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:16.960
It sounded like an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly simply arranged.

00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:30.000
The only difficulty was that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it, and while she was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry.

00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:37.440
An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes and feebly stretched out one paw, trying to touch her.

00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:52.240
Ah, poor little thing, said Alice in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it, but she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.

00:17:52.400 --> 00:18:07.039
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of a stick and held it out to the puppy, whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once with a yelp of delight and rushed at the stick and made believe to worry it.

00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:20.000
Then Alice dodged behind a great thistle to keep herself from being run over, and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get a hold of it.

00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:31.279
Then Alice, thinking it was very much like having a game of play with a cart horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran around the thistle again.

00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:48.000
Then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very little way forwards each time, and then a long way back and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off panting with its tongue hanging out of its mouth and its great eyes half shut.

00:18:48.240 --> 00:19:00.079
This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape, so she set off at once and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and until the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.

00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:09.039
And yet what a dear little puppy it was, said Alice as she leaned against a buttercup to rest herself and fanned herself with one of the leaves.

00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:14.480
I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, and if only I'd been the right size to do it.

00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.000
Oh dear, I'd nearly forgotten I've got to grow up again.

00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.880
Let's see, how is this to be managed?

00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:27.119
I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or another, but the great question is what?

00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.400
The great question certainly was what?

00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:40.240
Alice looked all around her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances.

00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:53.039
There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself, and when she looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on top of it.

00:19:53.279 --> 00:20:14.319
She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar that was sitting on top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and not taking the smallest notice of her or anything else.

00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:20.000
And that concludes chapter four of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:29.759
We will pick up next week with chapter 5, and don't forget to tune in Tuesday for our regular ramble chat mishmash.

00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:37.759
It will be another milestone celebration episode, and until then, sleep tight, good night, and bye bye.