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CHAPTER I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Ā Ā Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by
her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice
she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book,'
thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?"
Ā Ā So she was considering in her own mind (as well as
she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid),
whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the
trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a
White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
Ā Ā There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor
did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit
say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" (when she
thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to
have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite
natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS
WAISTCOAT- POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice
started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a
watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across
the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop
down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
Ā Ā In another moment down went Alice after it, never
once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
Ā Ā The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for
some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had
not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found
herself falling down a very deep well.
Ā Ā Either the well was very deep, or she fell very
slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about
her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried
to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too
dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and
noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here
and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a
jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled "ORANGE
MARMALADE", but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did
not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed
to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
Ā Ā "Well!' thought Alice to herself, "after such a fall
as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave
they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn"t say anything about
it, even if I fell off the top of the house!" (Which was very
likely true.)
Ā Ā Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an
end! "I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said
aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.
Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think - '
(for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her
lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good
opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to
listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) " - yes,
that"s about the right distance - but then I wonder what Latitude
or Longitude I"ve got to?" (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or
Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to
say.)
Ā Ā Presently she began again. "I wonder if I shall fall
right THROUGH the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the
people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I
think - ' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this
time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) " - but I shall
have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please,
Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried to curtsey
as she spoke - fancy CURTSEYING as you're falling through the air!
Do you think you could manage it?) "And what an ignorant little
girl she"ll think me for asking! No, it"ll never do to ask: perhaps
I shall see it written up somewhere."
Ā Ā Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so
Alice soon began talking again. "Dinah'll miss me very much
to-night, I should think!' (Dinah was the cat.) "I hope they'll
remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you
were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid,
but you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.
But do cats eat bats, I wonder?' And here Alice began to get rather
sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, "Do
cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, "Do bats eat
cats?" for, you see, as she couldn"t answer either question, it
didn"t much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was
dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand
in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, `Now, Dinah,
tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?" when suddenly, thump!
thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the
fall was over.
Ā Ā Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to
her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead;
before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still
in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away
went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as
it turned a corner, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's
getting!" She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but
the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long,
low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the
roof.
Ā Ā There were doors all round the hall, but they were
all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and
up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle,
wondering how she was ever to get out again.
Ā Ā Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table,
all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny
golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to
one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too
large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open
any of them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low
curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door
about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the
lock, and to her great delight it fitted!
Ā Ā Alice opened the door and found that it led into a
small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and
looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.
How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among
those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she
could not even get her head though the doorway; "and even if my
head would go through,' thought poor Alice, `it would be of very
little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up
like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin."
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately,
that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were
really impossible.
Ā Ā There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little
door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find
another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting
people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on
it, ("which certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round
the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME"
beautifully printed on it in large letters.
Ā Ā It was all very well to say "Drink me,' but the wise
little Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry. "No, I'll look
first,' she said, "and see whether it"s marked "poison" or not";
for she had read several nice little histories about children who
had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant
things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules their
friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn
you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger VERY
deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten
that, if you drink much from a bottle marked `poison," it is almost
certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
Ā Ā However, this bottle was NOT marked "poison," so
Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in
fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple,
roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon
finished it off.
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Ā Ā "What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be
shutting up like a telescope."
Ā Ā And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches
high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now
the right size for going through the little door into that lovely
garden. First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she
was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about
this; "for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, `in my
going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like
then?" And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like
after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever
having seen such a thing.
Ā Ā After a while, finding that nothing more happened,
she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor
Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the
little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she
found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite
plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one
of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had
tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and
cried.
Ā Ā "Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said
Alice to herself, rather sharply; "I advise you to leave off this
minute!' She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she
very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so
severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered
trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of
croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was
very fond of pretending to be two people. "But it's no use now,"
thought poor Alice, `to pretend to be two people! Why, there"s
hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!"
Ā Ā Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was
lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small
cake, on which the words "EAT ME' were beautifully marked in
currants. "Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, "and if it makes me grow
larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can
creep under the door; so either way I"ll get into the garden, and I
don"t care which happens!"
Ā Ā She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself,
"Which way? Which way?", holding her hand on the top of her head to
feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find
that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens
when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of
expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it
seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common
way.
Ā Ā So she set to work, and very soon finished off the
cake.
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CHAPTER II
The Pool of Tears
"Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); "now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off). "Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure I shan't be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can; - but I must be kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won"t walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I"ll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas."
And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. "They must go by the carrier,' she thought; "and how funny it"ll seem, sending presents to one"s own feet! And how odd the directions will look!
ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ. HEARTHRUG,
NEAR THE FENDER,
(WITH ALICE'S LOVE).
Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, "a great girl like you," (she might well say this), `to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!" But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.
After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, "Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, `If you please, sir - " The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.
Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: "Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!" And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them.
"I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she ...
Table of contents
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
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