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- <h1>CHAPTER I</h1>
- <h2>Down the Rabbit-Hole</h2>
- <p>
- 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?'
- </p>
- <p>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. </p>
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- <b>White Rabbit checking watch</b>
- </p>
- <p>There was nothing so
- <i>very</i> remarkable in that; nor did
- Alice think it so
- <i>very</i> 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
- <i>took a watch out of its
- waistcoat</i>-
- <i>pocket</i>, 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.
- </p>
- <p>In another moment down went Alice after it, never once
- considering how in the world she was to get out again. </p>
- <p>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. </p>
- <p>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. </p>
- <p>`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.) </p>
- <p>Down, down, down. Would the fall
- <i>never</i> 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
- <i>very</i> 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.)
- </p>
- <p>Presently she began again. `I wonder if I shall fall right
- <i>through</i> 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
- <i>was</i> 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
- <i>curtseying</i> 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.'
- </p>
- <p>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. </p>
- <p>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. </p>
- <p>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. </p>
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- <b>Alice finding tiny door behind curtain</b>
- </p>
- <p>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! </p>
- <p>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. </p>
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- <b>Alice taking "Drink Me" bottle</b>
- </p>
- <p>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. </p>
- <p>It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little
- Alice was not going to do
- <i>that</i> 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
- <i>would</i> 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
- <i>very</i> 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.
- </p>
- <p>However, this bottle was
- <i>not</i> 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.
- </p>
- <p>`What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be shutting up
- like a telescope.'</p>
- <p> 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. </p>
- <p> 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. </p>
- <p> `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
- <i>one</i> respectable person!'
- </p>
- <p> 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!' </p>
- <p> 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. </p>
- <p> So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. </p>
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