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The March Hare and the Hatter were having a tea party, with a Dormouse sleeping between them. The table was huge, but they told Alice there was no room for her. She sat in the arm chair at the end of the table anyway and noticed that there was nothing but tea on the table. She tells them it isn't civil to not have wine, and they tell her it wasn't civil of her to sit down uninvited. They begin asking her riddles, and saying all kinds of nonsensical things. They ask if she knows the answer to the riddle yet, and that they don't know what it is either. They decide the Dormouse should tell them a story and pinch its sides to wake it up. It was awake the whole time. It tells them a story about two sisters that live at the bottom of a well. In the midst of the story, the others decide they want a clean teacup, so they all slide over one seat. Only the Hatter ends up with a clean cup. The Hare and the Hatter offend Alice, so she gets up to leave, and the Dormouse falls back to sleep. Alice finds a door back to the hall, and gets the key to the tiny door, using just enough mushroom to be the right height to get into the garden.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Web Source.
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