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Updated: May 24, 2025
Pinocchio, feeling almost frightened, looked from side to side to try and discover where these words could come from, but he saw nobody. The donkeys galloped, the coach rattled, the boys inside slept, Candlewick snored like a dormouse, and the little man seated on the box sang between his teeth: "During the night all sleep, But I sleep never."
Unluckily it was so dark that it was not easy for the audience to know exactly what was going on, but they did perceive that the Babylonish king sat the whole time with his head on his arms and his arms on the table, like the Dormouse in the play of 'Alice in Wonderland. However, the actors were intensely pleased with themselves, and that was all that mattered.
He controlled himself, however, and, jerking round again to the fireplace, went on murmuring, "Yes, yes, yes," vaguely just like the dormouse at the Mad Tea-Party, who went to sleep, saying, "Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle," Cary could not help thinking to himself. But after all, it wasn't really funny, it was pathetic. Gosh, how doddering the poor old boy was!
"Are you really going to the stars?" gasped Tom, breathless at the very idea and forgetting all about Ebenezer. "Perhaps," returned the Andiron. "And may I go with you?" whispered Tom. "You may if you will do whatever we tell you, and admit that you are a Dormouse," said Righty. "All right, I'll obey," said Tom. "And what did you say your name was?" asked Lefty.
The dormouse came from halfway up the hazel, and the wood-mouse came from its roots. They, too, had been three days weather bound; but they were not hungry. Each had its winter store to draw upon.
"What on earth is an 'Alice in Wonderland booth'?" asked Gertrude Wells curiously. "I don't know what it is yet," grinned Elfreda. "The idea just came to me. I suppose," she continued reflectively, "we could have all the animals, like the March Hare, for instance, and the Dormouse. Then there's the Mock Turtle and the Jabberwock. No, that's been done to death.
Father, can you tell me if the dormouse is awake?" Sir John fixed a cold eye upon Nan. "I am unacquainted with the state of the dormouse's health," he said "disgusting little beasts," he added, turning for sympathy to Annie, whose bright dark eyes danced with fun as she watched him. "They're not disgusting; they're perfectly heavenly little darlings," came from Nan in an indignant voice.
It was the barn owl starting on her rounds. The dormouse cowered back until she passed white gleaming, swift and silent as a moth. There was no discordant note. Wood, meadow, and hedgerow were bathed in liquid blue. The very tree trunks stood out as indigo against the sky. Daisy and marigold, hyacinth and clover were attuned to the same soothing minor chord.
There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it; a Dormouse was sitting between them fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner. "No room!
Gradgrind, if she said anything on the subject, she would come a little way out of her wrappers, like a feminine dormouse, and say: 'Good gracious bless me, how my poor head is vexed and worried by that girl Jupe's so perseveringly asking, over and over again, about her tiresome letters!
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