Meanwhile, at Leo J. Ryan Park, Alice was up in a tree, making a daisy crown, while her older sister, Mathilda was reading some history.

"Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria declared for him, and even Stigand…"

Noticing her sister wasn't paying attention, Mathilda called out to her. "Alice!"

"Hmm? Oh, I'm listening." replied Alice as she put the finishing touches on her daisy crown and placed on top of her cat, Dinah.

"And even Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury, agreed to meet with William and offer him the crown." Mathilda went on. "William's conduct at first was mo…."

Before she could continue, though, the daisy crown fell on here, which Dinah had swatted off of her head.

"Alice! Will you kindly pay attention to your history lesson?" said Mathilda, growing very annoyed.

"I'm sorry," replied Alice. "But how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?"

"My dear child, there are a great many good books in this world without pictures." said Mathilda

"In this world perhaps." said Alice. "But in my world, the books would be nothing but pictures."

"Your world?" Mathilda let out of scoff. "Huh, what a bunch of nonsense. Now, where was I? Ah, yes."

"Nonsense?" Alice recalled, hardly listening to her sister. "That's it, Dinah! If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

Dinah only meowed.

"In my world, you wouldn't say 'meow.'" said Alice. "You'd say 'Yes, Miss Alice.'"

"Meow!"

"Oh, but you would!" said Alice as she picked up her little kitty and walked over to a field of daisies. "You'd be just like people, Dinah, and all the other animals too. Why, in my world…

Cats and rabbits
Would reside in fancy little houses
And be dressed in shoes and hats and trousers
In a world of my own

All the flowers
Would have very extra special powers
They would sit and talk to me for hours
When I'm lonely in a world of my own

There'd be new birds
Lots of nice and friendly howdy-do birds
Everyone would have a dozen bluebirds
Within that world of my own

I could listen to a babbling brook
And hear a song that I could understand
I keep wishing it could be that way
Because my world would be a wonderland

As she finished singing, Alice heard some munching coming her way. She turned to see the Eds crossing the street, sucking on some tasty jawbreakers.

"How can something so rotten taste so good?" asked Double D.

"When someone else coughs up for it, that's how." replied Eddy, who was just about to suck on his own jawbreaker when Alice walked up behind him.

"Excuse me."

Eddy jumped back upon hearing her voice, but as he did so, he lost his grip on his jawbreaker, which fell into the water.

"Oh, great! Now look what you made me do."

"Oh, I'm sorry, but-"

"Sorry, nothin'." interrupted Eddy. "You owe me a new jawbreaker."

"Eddy, that's no way to speak to a lady." said Double D.

"Well, it's nice to see that one of you has some manners." said Alice, who curtsyed to the Eds. "My name is Alice and this is my cat, Dinah."

"Hey, Ed." said Eddy. "Get a load of the new girl on the block."

"Where?" asked Ed, looking the other way.

Annoyed, Eddy slapped him on the back of his head and pointed to Alice.

"Oh! Hello, Alice. My name's Ed."

"And I'm Eddy."

Alice turned to Double D. "And you must be...Ed too."

"Oh, just call me Double D."

"Well, it's a pleasure meeting you." said Alice as she curtseyed again. "And I'm sorry you lost your candy...uh, Eddy."

"Ah, don't sweat it, doll face." said Eddy. "I still have a $1.75 left if you want a jawbreaker."

"Well, that's very kind of you, but..."

Before Alice could continue, another voice rang out.

"Hey, dorks!"

It was Kevin, and with him were the cul-de-sac kids whom Eddy has scammed.

"What's the big idea giving us fake kaleidoscopes?" demaned Sarah.

"What are ya talking about?" asked Eddy. "These Ed-i-Scopes are a hundred percent realistic."

"Oh, yeah? Then how do you explain this?" asked Kevin as he opened his Ed-i-Scope box, revealing glass shards.

"I tried to tell him, but he wouldn't listen." explained Double D before Eddy covered his mouth.

"What a sense of humor you have, sockhead." he said.

"I wasn't trying to be humorous, Eddy." said Double D as he removed Eddy's hand from his mouth.

"That's enough!" said Kevin as he rolled his sleeves. "This time, you're really gonna get it."

"Wait till I get my hands on you, Ed." sneered Sarah.

Eddy turned to Alice. "You know, a little voice inside of me is saying, 'I oughta slug ya."

"What?" said Alice.

"But I can barely hear that voice," Eddy went on. "Because an even louder voice is screaming 'RUN FOR IT!'"

"It was nice meeting you, Alice. " said Double D as he ran off with Eddy and Ed while the cul-de-sac kids gave chase.

"Rolf will make you pay for this!" Rolf called out to the Eds.

"Save some for me and Plank!" Jonny called out to Rolf.

Alice knew she had to help the Eds before they get pulverized.

"Come on, Dinah." she said to her cat. "We'll head them off at Sea Cloud Park."