THE CRITIC CLUB REHEARSE "ALICE IN WONDERLAND."

Otago Witness, Issue 2631, 17 September 1902, Page 69

THE CRITIC CLUB REHEARSE "ALICE IN WONDERLAND."

Dear Dot,— Dick began in a tone of authority "Now, what did I read last '" Tom and Bulto.is answered .

"Would you please tell me which way I ought to go from here'" "Depends where you want to get to." "I don't much care "Then it doesn't matter which way you go." ' so long as I get somewhere." "You'll do that if you walk long enough." Then Buttons grinned widely to carry out his character, declaring the while, "We're all mad here, I'm mad and you'ro mad, else you wouldn't be here."

Then all went to tea with the March Hare, and behaved very well till the Hatter began to sing, "Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!" Then they forgot their company manners m their eagerness to sing it too. Dick beat time, to prove the Hatter in the wrong. Mary said, ''He was right; time won't stand beating, he always beats me, anyway. ' Yet she was annoyed when Tom said he guessed as much, for when practising he noticed an expression of awful misery on her face. As they left the tea. party with pohte smiles of amusement at the efforts of the Hatter and March Hare to put the Dormouse into the teapot, Sally said, "It was a mad party, sure euough, but that Dormouse was a punny chap. Did you hear him say th-c girls were in the well— well in? And they were learning to draw — treacle out of the well?"

"Yes, but that was not bad where they corrected Alice for saying 'she meant what she said' was the same a 9 'she said what she meant.' What did they say? I forget." "They Baid, 'You might Ra well say, "I see what I eat" is the same as "I eat what I see," or "I like what I get" is the same as "I get what I like," or "I breathe when. I sleep" is

But'ons said, "1 think the same of then as Queensland Jim said of us- — i" 'There's a sadness in their sadness wher they're sad, | There's a gladness in their gladness wher | they're glad, I But their sadness when they're sad and then ; gladness when they're glad Isn't in it with their madness when they're ruad.' " — Yours tiulv | m ~ . TAFFY. Rough R.ideh. — It seoms amusing to a Xew Zoalander to think that a few blades of gTeen grass should be so prized as to be exalted to the position oi a table decoration, dear, but even K"ew Zeal;inder3 can quite understand the seriousness of the position. How delightful the villows axid blossoming wattle must appear to jcu, with everything burnt up around you. Mount Ida.— lt would not be fair for me to tell you without permission, dear. Mira Gitaxa..— - Yes, dear, the two autos may go in the one envelope. Yes, I remember her.