Alice Meets Mickey Mouse

In Scotland, AC read aloud Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and lately we’ve been reading Through the Looking Glass, as well as listening to Alice on StoryNory.com. This afternoon I played Sam “Mickey and the Beanstalk” which I found on this excellent website devoted to making old children’s records available as free audio downloads: Kiddie Records Weekly.

Sam then asked to dictate a story to me. Well, the second chapter really, of a book called How Can You Get Back, very much inspired by Alice’s Adventures. The resulting mash-up cracked me up (and at times it doesn’t seem too far off Lewis Carroll’s own zany narratives.)

How Can You Get Back

by Sam

Chapter Two

When the little girl and everything woke up again, the little girl kept going and walking and walking. Alice, who had grown enough to know her name by now, went to a pretty, pretty, pretty garden that she had been to before. There she met a white rabbit, who skittered along like a panna-squell. And it went so fast, as fast as a puppy, that Alice had to put one leg down and then the other leg down, and first she would stand on one side like a human, and then she would stand on the other side like a human. She did this as fast as she could: one, then down, then one, then down, over and over again she went.

Then she came upon another cottage. And she walked into it. And to her surprise she was next to a little table. And her arm was tied on a chain to a windowsill. She just threw off the chains and ran away still.

The managers ran after her. She went as fast as a white rabbit. They went as slowly as really tired gentlemen. They were so tired too that when you pass one of them, they would moan and say “Oh do you know if there’s a bed so near by here?” They had such a grumpy, greedy, tired voice. And they went curling like this all along the pavement in a diamond shape.

They stayed still so that anybody who passed them would step on them. So they went and did it inside their no-allowed cottage.

Soon they grew tired and longed for a bed.

“We’d better get back to Alice or she’ll be lonely.”

Alice was so small by now that she was about 1 inch high from a daughter 4 feet high and 9 inches high, which is a little taller than me.

The girl named Alice of course went fast asleep. She was woken up by a strange sound, like this: “Honking ponk, hinkety honk.” Out of the distance appeared a funny looking mouse. When it came it was saying, “Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?”

Alice woke up at this and she screamed to him and said, “What are you doing, Gentleman or Ma’am?”

The mouse came to her who was impressed. And he said, “My name is Mickey Mouse.”

She said, “Oh my, Mickey Mouse.”

He said, “Don’t to worry, don’t to blame. Wanna hear my merry, gay song?” said Mickey Mouse.

“Yes, please,” said Alice. “And then you can hear my merry, gay song.”

“All right,” said Mickey Mouse.

Mickey Mouse began, “Oh what a merry day! What a merry day! What a merry, merry, merry, merry day! Oh a picnic would be the best thing. We will both tell each other fabulous stories. ”

“There’s one last verse,” said Mickey. “What a merry, gay day, a merry, gay day. What a time it would be for a place.”

“OK, now I’ll tell my story,” said Mickey. “One time I knew a little bear named Molly. She was walking along one day.”

They both fell asleep.

Alice and Mickey woke up. “Ready to hear my story and my merry, gay song?” said Alice.

“Yes I am,” said Mickey. “I am ready pleased to hear it.”

“OK,” said Alice. “Oh how shall I escape? How shall I escape? This is boring, boring, boring. Oh how shall I escape? How shall I escape? How? Shhalll? I? Escape? From my sister. Oh how shall I escape? How shall I escape? Away from my sister.”

“There, I’m all done,” said Alice. “Now I’ll tell my really short story.”

“One day, this exactlier day, I chased a frog down a rabbit and frog hole.”

“Interesting,” said Mickey.

They both fell fast asleep.

End of chapter two.