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Alice has just met Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum on her path through Wonderland. The two Tweedles teach Alice the proper way to shake hands and introduce herself to a stranger. Suddenly, they hear a loud noise. Alice is frightened that it may be a lion or tiger, but the Tweedles reassure her that it is only a sleeping White Knight, snoring. Alice wonders what the Knight is dreaming about, and the Tweedles insist that Alice is only a figment of the White Knight’s dream. Alice begins to cry,
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Start: (Two fat little school boys appear, standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other’s neck. One of them has “DUM” embroidered on his shirt, and the other “DEE.” ALICE wanders away from the Flower Garden and approaches them slowly and they remain still.)
TWEEDLEDUM: (Suddenly:) If you think we’re wax figures, you ought to pay, you know. Wax figures weren’t made to be looked at for nothing, nohow!
TWEEDLEDEE: Contrariwise if you think we’re alive, you ought to speak.
ALICE: I’m very sorry. It’s just that, I’ve never seen—
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End: ALICE: It’s so dark, there must be a thunderstorm coming on. Look what a thick black cloud that is! And how fast it comes! Why, I do believe it’s got wings!
TWEEDLEDUM: It’s the crow!
TWEEDLEDEE: It’s the crow!
(TWEEDLEDEE and TWEEDLEDUM run around in circles at first, banging into each other and everything else and shouting about the crow. Eventually they make their way off. Meanwhile ALICE has run away as well, mostly to get away from them.)
Pizzarello, Jason. Alice in Wonderland, Playscripts, 2007, pp. 24 - 29.
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