ALICE: Why, why you're a cat! CHESHIRE CAT: A Cheshire Cat. All mimsy were the borogoves... ALICE: Oh, wait! Don't go, please! CHESHIRE CAT: Very well. Third chorus... ALICE: Oh no no no... thank you, but- but I just wanted to ask you which way I ought to go. CHESHIRE CAT: Well, that depends on where you want to get to. ALICE: Oh, it really doesn't matter, as long as I... CHESHIRE CAT: Then it really doesn't matter which way you go! Ah-hmm... and the momeraths outgrabe... Oh, by the way, if you'd really like to know, he went that way. ALICE: Who did? CHESHIRE CAT: The white rabbit. ALICE: He did? CHESHIRE CAT: He did what? ALICE: Went that way? CHESHIRE CAT: Who did? ALICE: The white rabbit! CHESHIRE CAT: What rabbit? ALICE: But didn't you just say... I mean... oh dear! CHESHIRE CAT: Can you stand on your head? ALICE: Oh! CHESHIRE CAT: However, if I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. ALICE: The Mad Hatter? Uh... no, no, I don't- I don't... CHESHIRE CAT: Or, there's the March Hare. In that direction. ALICE: Oh, thank you. I think I shall visit him. CHESHIRE CAT: Of course, he's mad too. ALICE: But I don't want to go among mad people! CHESHIRE CAT: Oh, you can't help that. Almost everyone is mad here. Ha... ha ha ha ha ha! You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself.... hahaha... and the momeraths outgrabe... ALICE: Goodness. If the people here are like that, I must try not to upset them. How very curious! MARCH HARE: ...to us. If there are no objections, let it be unanimous! MAD HATTER: A very merry unbirthday... MARCH HARE: A very merry unbirthday... Mad Hatter AND MARCH HARE: A very merry unbirthday to us! ... MARCH HARE: A very merry unbirthday to me. MAD HATTER: To who? MARCH HARE: To me. MAD HATTER: Oh you! MARCH HARE: A very merry unbirthday to you. MAD HATTER: Who, me? MARCH HARE: Yes, you. MAD HATTER: Oh me! MARCH HARE: Let's all congratulate us with another cup of tea, a very merry unbirthday to you! MARCH HARE AND MAD HATTER: No room, no room, no room, no room, no room, no room, no room! ALICE: But I thought there was plenty of room! MARCH HARE: Ah, but it's very rude to sit down without being invited! MAD HATTER: I say it's rude. Its very very rude, indeed! Hah! DORMOUSE: Very very very rude, indeed... ALICE: Oh, I'm very sorry, but I did enjoy your singing and I wondered if you could tell me... MARCH HARE: You enjoyed our singing? MAD HATTER: Oh, what a delightful child! Hah! I'm so excited, we never get compliments! You must have a cup of tea! MARCH HARE: Ah, yes indeed! The tea, you must have a cup of tea! ALICE: That would be very nice. I'm sorry I interrupted your birthdayparty... uh, thank you. MARCH HARE: Birthday? Hahaha! My dear child, this is not a birthdayparty! MAD HATTER: Of course not! Hehehe! This is an unbirthdayparty! ALICE: Unbirthday? Why, I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand. MARCH HARE: Its very simple. Now, thirty days have sept- no, when... an unbirthday, if you have a birthday then you... haha... she doesn't know what an unbirthday is! MAD HATTER: How silly! Ha ha ha ha! Ah-hum... I shall elucidate! Now statistics prove, prove that you've one birthday. MARCH HARE: Imagine, just one birthday every year. Mad Hatter: Ahhh, but there are 364 unbirthdays! MARCH HARE: Precisely why we're gathered here to cheer! ALICE: Why, then today is my unbirthday too! MARCH HARE: It is? MAD HATTER: What a small world this is. MARCH HARE: In that case... a very merry unbirthday. ALICE: To me? MAD HATTER: To you! MARCH HARE: A very merry unbirthday. ALICE: For me? MAD HATTER: For you! Now blow the candle out, my dear and make your wish come true! Hihihi! MARCH HARE AND MAD HATTER: A very merry unbirthday to you! DORMOUSE: Twinkle, twinkle, little bat, how I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in the sky! ALICE: Oh, that was lovely! Mad Hatter: And uh, and now my dear, hehe, uh... you were saying that you would like to sea.. uh...? You were seaking some information some kind... hehe! ALICE: Oh, yes. You see, I'm looking for a... MAD HATTER: Clean cup, clean cup! Move down! ALICE: But I haven't used my cup! MARCH HARE: Clean cup, clean cup, move down, move down, clean cup, clean cup, move down! MAD HATTER: Would you like a little more tea? ALICE: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more... MARCH HARE: Ahh, you mean you can't very well take less! Mad Hatter: Yes! You can always take more than nothing! ALICE: But I only meant that... MAD HATTER: And now, my dear, something seems to be troubling you. Uh, won't you tell us all about it? MARCH HARE: Start at the beginning. MAD HATTER: Yes, yes! And when you come to the end, hehehe, stop! See? ALICE: Well, it all started while I was sitting on the riverbank with Dinah. MARCH HARE: Very interesting. Who's Dinah? ALICE: Why, Dinah is my cat. You see... DORMOUSE: Cat? MARCH HARE: Hurry! Give the jam! Quickly! Give the jam! On his nose! Put it on his nose! MAD HATTER: On his nose, on his nose! DORMOUSE: Where's the cat... MAD HATTER: Oh. Oh, my goodness! Those are the things that upset me! MARCH HARE: See all the trouble you've started? ALICE: But really, I didn't think... MARCH HARE: Ah, but that's the point! If you don't think, you shouldn't talk! MAD HATTER: Clean cup! Clean cup! Move down, move down, move down! ALICE: But I still haven't used.... MAD HATTER: Move down, move down, move down, move down... And now my dear, as you were saying? ALICE: Oh, yes. I was sitting on the riverbank with uh... with you know who... MAD HATTER: I do, hehehe? ALICE: I mean my C A T... MAD HATTER: Tea? MARCH HARE: Just half a cup if you don't mind. MAD HATTER: Come, come my dear. hehehe! Don't you care for tea? ALICE: Why, yes, I'm very fond of tea, but... MARCH HARE: If you don't care for tea, you could at least make polite conversation! ALICE: Well, I've been trying to ask you...
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