Ch. 5: Pig and Poppies
Alice enjoyed visiting toy-shops and sweet-shops, and she was always happy when Mouse or her mother lent her some money to look round them. Alice had just bought some very nice mushroom-shaped sweets from a confectioners in the high street and was eating them from the little paper bag when she saw what looked like a disembodied grin in front of her.
As she looked more closely, she could see the grin belonged to a very dark skinned girl who was sitting in front of a very dark building on a little rug. She was wearing no clothes whatsoever except for some exotic pendulous ear-rings and she was surrounded by a group of curious onlookers.
Alice herself was very curious so, she joined the group. The girl was in fact a street performer and she was displaying some very active masturbation to an appreciative audience who threw coins into a little hat the girl had in front of her. She was standing up with a wide grin on her face, making the occasional little sound of ecstasy while sliding an ivory dildo in and out of her vagina and massaging her clitoris with her fingers. She nearly doubled up on her knees with apparent delirium as she pressed away at her groin.
Eventually, she released her fingers from her clitoris and rubbed her breasts very suggestively. She had very round breasts with stiff little nipples that she stimulated to keep as rigid as possible. She slid the dildo faster and faster while gasping very loudly. "Uuhh! Uuhh!" she cried. And then a more full-throated "Aaahh! Aaahh!" This went on for long enough to attract quite a large audience. Her performance ended with a few "Ooohh! Ooohh!"s and "Aaaargghh! Aaaargghh!!"s as she pulled out the clearly damp dildo from her vagina and smeared over her breasts, nipples and face the clear liquid she'd generated between her legs. Several of the audience applauded at this stage and more money was thrown into the hat.
Gradually the audience dispersed leaving Alice alone, eating her mushroom-shaped sweets, with the black girl who lay slumped in apparent post-coital bliss.
"Please would you tell me," said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners to say anything, "if you're alright?"
The black girl opened her eyes and looked up at Alice. Her grin reappeared and shone across her face like a beacon of good humour. "Of course," she said in a slightly foreign accent. "Why ever should I not be?"
"You were making ever such funny noises," Alice commented.
The black girl laughed. "That is my job. I sit here. Or I stand here. And I please myself. And if I please myself very much, I make good money. And if I please myself with little noises, I get more money. Look!" She showed Alice her cap which was full of coins. "That is nice money. Now I can eat and sleep happy."
"So you do it only for money?"
"Of course, my dearest," laughed the black girl. "Why else would I want to do this with so many people looking?" She smiled so wide Alice thought the corners of her mouth might reach her ears. "My name is Kedi. I come from abroad."
"I'm Alice. I don't come from around here either."
"No, Alice," smiled Kedi. "But you have the look of someone who lives here."
"Have you always done this?"
"No, of course I have not. I came to this country to work as a maid in a rich person's house. But it is some months now since I was working there, and this is how I make my money now. But it is better than prostitution, and that is better than not eating enough and I am content."
"Why don't you wear any clothes?" wondered Alice.
"In my country nobody wears clothes."
"But you can buy clothes if you wanted?" Alice asked looking at the money in the hat which wouldn't buy very many clothes at all.
"No," answered Kedi sadly. "The rich person I worked for did not pay me when I left, and if I wanted I could not buy clothes."
"That's awful!" Alice exclaimed. "Why weren't you paid?"
"I am sure I will be paid, but because I am black I am not permitted into the house and I can not ask. The doorman will not allow me to go in."
"Perhaps I can ask for you," Alice suggested. "I may be able to enter."
"You are right," grinned Kedi. "And you are kind. I will show you the rich person's house."
Kedi picked up her blanket and ivory dildo which seemed to be all that she owned. Alice and she walked through the streets away from the shops and they talked. Kedi told her that there were many black people living in Wonderground who had come from abroad to find work, but it was thought they were only able to do very menial work and people made fun of them. "In my own country people do not make fun of me, but in this town I hear many jokes and people say many odd things."
"What is your country like?"
"It is very poor and nobody has very much to eat or wear. But we are happy. I have come to this country to make more money for my family. I have come with my brother who is younger than you. I worked for the rich person, Mrs Duchess, for many months and I worked very hard. One day I was told that I was not wanted any longer. I was told to leave but my brother stayed. I have not seen him since that day."
"That's terrible! Why not?"
"Because I am black I am not permitted to enter the house of Mrs Duchess. But my brother, Pig, he works there and I do not know if he is happy."
As they walked, the houses became steadily more opulent and they passed many beautiful gardens. They were the loveliest gardens you ever saw. How Alice longed to wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains.