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The reason why the white queen was so puny is that Dinah was washing her during her dream. She wonders if Dinah turned into Humpty Dumpty. Alice tells them about all the poetry she heard and promise to recite some to them. She wonders who dreamed the dream, Alice or the red king. The kitty must know because she is the red queen and, therefore, married to him. It pretends not to hear the question.

Ch. 12 She calls the kitten your majesty and tells it that it went with her to the Looking Glass world. The kitten purrs but she wishes it would talk to her. She finds the red queen on the floor and asks the kitten to confess that’s what it was. To Alice, the kitten looks ashamed and refuses to look at the chess piece. She quotes obnoxious lines from the red queen to the kitten in a teasing way.

Ch. 10 and 11. As promised, Alice shakes the snot out of the queen and suddenly she transforms into a kitten with green eyes. Of course, they were green!

The queen shrinks to the size of a doll and Alice threatens to shake it. She is so much bigger that she is comfortable shaking the queen.

She resents how the queens squeeze her so. She begins to speak and they literally squeeze her. She grabs the table to pull herself down. The white queen warns her that something is going to happen. The tableware and candles grow as tall as rockets. The guests including the queen slips into the dishes. Alice has had enough and she pulls the tablecloth and things tumble to the ground.

It’s a poem about catching a fish, then buying it, then cooking it, and letting it lie in a dish. It ends with a riddle: which is easiet to undishcover the fish, or dishcover the riddle? The red queen announces that Alice must think about the riddle while everyone drinks. Unfortunately, the creatures resort to many odd strategies in order to drink. She suggests that Alice makes a speech. Alice stands to do her duty.

Alice is introduced to the mutton which bows to her and the waiter carries it away. The same thing happens to the pudding. Alice frets she will never eat. Alice order the pudding back and slices it. The pudding calls her rude. The red queen orders Alice to make a remark and Alice is tired of being put on the spot. The red queen asks the white queen to recite a poem about fish. The latter is delighted.

They are treacle and ink, cider mixed with sand, and wine mixed with wool. Alice is welcomed with 90 times 9 which scares her. She looks around, and there are 50 guests that include birds, animals, and flowers. There are three chairs at the head table. An empty seat for Queen Alice is between the two queens. She missed the fish and soup, and now it is time for the mutton joint but Alice does not know how to carve it.

The frog advises her that knocking on the door vexes it. The door opens and a shrill voice sings about Alice with her crown and scepter and the two queens. A chorus of 100 voices sings about odd stuff: put cats in coffee and mice and tea and greet her with 30 times 3. Alice ponders the math and the song says she invites all the looking glass creatures to the feast. The chorus sings about disgusting drinks.

The lullaby talks about taking a nap before the feast is ready and there being a ball after the feast. Then the red queen falls asleep while singing. Alice finds the heads of two queens on her lap. They snore and she tries to wake them up. Their snoring turns into a tune that Alice recognizes and, in true dreamlike state, the queens disappear. She sees “Quee Alice” written over her door.