Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Level F

Dictation Sentences from Alice in Wonderland
Level F: Lists 48-58

List 48

Two began in a low voice, “Why the fact is, you see, miss, this here ought to have been a RED rose tree.”
“How do you like the Queen?” said the Cat in a low voice.
Here, to Alice’s great surprise, her voice died away.
He said in a deep voice, “What are tarts made of?”
“Off with her head!” the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.
“Not like cats!” cried the Mouse, in a shrill voice. “Would YOU like cats if you were me?”
“I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not.”
“She’s in prison,” the Queen said.
“Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting?” asked another.
Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up. If not, I’ll stay down here until I’m somebody else.
“I must be kind to them,” thought Alice, “or perhaps they won’t walk the way I want to go!”
“Well, perhaps you haven’t found it so yet,” said Alice, “but you will someday, you know.”
No, it’ll never do to ask. Perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.
Alice could think of nothing else to say.
There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again.
He took not the smallest notice of her or anything else.
Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do.
This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little before she made her next remark.
Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea.
Alice had no idea what to do.
A bright idea came into her head. “If I eat one of these cakes,” she thought, “it’s sure to make SOME change in my size, and as it can’t make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.”
“I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,” said Alice.
The Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get to the door.
Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone.
She took no notice of them even when they hit her.
Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door leading right into it.

List 49

“There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup!” Alice said to herself.
There was certainly too much of it in the air.
It is almost certain to trouble you, sooner or later.
That’s all wrong, I’m certain!
Four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen.
You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round.
She went on again, “Twenty-four hours, I think, or is it twelve?”
Rule forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
He says it’s so useful, it’s worth a hundred pounds!
She was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.
Let me see, that would be four thousand miles down, I think.

List 50

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.
And so these three little sisters, they were learning to draw, you know.
“Wake up, Alice dear!” said her sister.
Her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice.

List 51

She waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any more.
In another minute there was not even room for this.
After a few minutes, she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen.
After a minute or two, they began moving about again.
I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.
I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together.
For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next.
Altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.
She knew that it might happen any minute.
After watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and said to herself, “It’s the Cheshire Cat. Now I shall have somebody to talk to.”
So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes.
She had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn’t a bit afraid.
“Well,” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of falling down stairs!
At last came the sound of a good many voices all talking together.
The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it.
They were lying on their faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of the pack.

List 53

She had already heard her sentence three of the players for having missed their turns.
If you’ve seen them so often, of course you know what they’re like.
One doesn’t like changing so often, you know.
“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice, “but a grin without a cat!”
She was glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word.
Just then she noticed that the Queen was right behind her, listening.
Sit down, all of you, and listen to me!
After a few minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen.
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
“I’m a little girl,” said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day.
The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on.
Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?
They don’t reach half high enough yet.
Come, there’s half my plan done now!
“You’re a very poor speaker,” said the King.
When she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very lonely.

List 54

At last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.
By this time she had found her way into a little room with a table in the window.
There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house.
“I didn’t know it was your table,” said Alice.
Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table.
She tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table.
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table.
They would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them.
Alice had begun to think that very few things were really impossible.
It quite makes my head ache.

List 55

She began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them.
She began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs.
“And ever since that,” the Hatter went on, “he won’t do a thing I ask!”
Everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool.
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, and began talking to herself.

List 56

Alice had learned several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom.
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.
“I believe I can guess that,” she added aloud.
“That proves his guilt,” said the Queen.
“If you don’t sign it,” said the King, “that only makes the matter worse.”
If it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key, and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door.

List 57

Thank you, sir, for your interesting story.
Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch.
I know something interesting is sure to happen whenever I eat or drink anything.
It went straight on for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad—at least not so mad as it was in March.
The Queen smiled and passed on.

List 58

If they had any sense, they’d take the roof off.
Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.
“What else have you got in your pocket?” he went on, turning to Alice.
Here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.
He had been looking at Alice for some time, and this was his first speech.
I only took the regular course.
“What did they live on?” said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.
But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I?
The first question of course was, how to get dry again.
This question he could not answer without a great deal of thought.
I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great question is, what?
The great question certainly was, what?
I have answered three questions, and that is enough.
At any rate he might answer questions.
“Are you to get in at all?” said the Footman. “That’s the first question, you know.”
People began running about in all directions.
Her head would bend about easily in any direction.
“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter.”
His argument was that you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from.
The King’s argument was, that anything that had a head could be beheaded.