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  91. <h1>CHAPTER I</h1>
  92. <h2>Down the Rabbit-Hole</h2>
  93. <p>
  94. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
  95. on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had
  96. peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures
  97. or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought
  98. Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
  99. </p>
  100. <p>So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,
  101. for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the
  102. pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of
  103. getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit
  104. with pink eyes ran close by her. </p>
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  106. <img src="/Users/jackd/dev/reports/springboot.pdfgenerator/core/src/test/resources/alice2.gif" width="200" height="300"/>
  107. <br/>
  108. <b>White Rabbit checking watch</b>
  109. </p>
  110. <p>There was nothing so
  111. <i>very</i> remarkable in that; nor did
  112. Alice think it so
  113. <i>very</i> much out of the way to hear the
  114. Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when
  115. she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought
  116. to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite
  117. natural); but when the Rabbit actually
  118. <i>took a watch out of its
  119. waistcoat</i>-
  120. <i>pocket</i>, and looked at it, and then hurried on,
  121. Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she
  122. had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a
  123. watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across
  124. the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop
  125. down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
  126. </p>
  127. <p>In another moment down went Alice after it, never once
  128. considering how in the world she was to get out again. </p>
  129. <p>The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,
  130. and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a
  131. moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself
  132. falling down a very deep well. </p>
  133. <p>Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she
  134. had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder
  135. what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and
  136. make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see
  137. anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed
  138. that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and
  139. there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar
  140. from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled `ORANGE
  141. MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did
  142. not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed
  143. to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it. </p>
  144. <p>`Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I
  145. shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all
  146. think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I
  147. fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely true.) </p>
  148. <p>Down, down, down. Would the fall
  149. <i>never</i> come to an end!
  150. `I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud.
  151. `I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me
  152. see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for, you
  153. see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in
  154. the schoolroom, and though this was not a
  155. <i>very</i> good
  156. opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to
  157. listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,
  158. that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or
  159. Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or
  160. Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)
  161. </p>
  162. <p>Presently she began again. `I wonder if I shall fall right
  163. <i>through</i> the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among
  164. the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I
  165. think--' (she was rather glad there
  166. <i>was</i> no one listening,
  167. this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) `--but I shall
  168. have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please,
  169. Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried to curtsey
  170. as she spoke--fancy
  171. <i>curtseying</i> as you're falling through the
  172. air! Do you think you could manage it?) `And what an ignorant
  173. little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to ask:
  174. perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.'
  175. </p>
  176. <p>Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon
  177. began talking again. `Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I should
  178. think!' (Dinah was the cat.) `I hope they'll remember her saucer of
  179. milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me!
  180. There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch a
  181. bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats,
  182. I wonder?' And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on
  183. saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, `Do cats eat bats? Do
  184. cats eat bats?' and sometimes, `Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as
  185. she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which
  186. way she put it. She felt that she was dozing off, and had just
  187. begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and
  188. saying to her very earnestly, `Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did
  189. you ever eat a bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came
  190. upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over. </p>
  191. <p>Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a
  192. moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was
  193. another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight,
  194. hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went
  195. Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it
  196. turned a corner, `Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!'
  197. She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit
  198. was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall,
  199. which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof. </p>
  200. <p>There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked;
  201. and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other,
  202. trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how
  203. she was ever to get out again. </p>
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  205. <img src="alice3.gif" width="200" height="300"/>
  206. <br/>
  207. <b>Alice finding tiny door behind curtain</b>
  208. </p>
  209. <p>Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of
  210. solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and
  211. Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors
  212. of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key
  213. was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them.
  214. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she
  215. had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about
  216. fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock,
  217. and to her great delight it fitted! </p>
  218. <p>Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small
  219. passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked
  220. along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she
  221. longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those
  222. beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not
  223. even get her head though the doorway; `and even if my head would go
  224. through,' thought poor Alice, `it would be of very little use
  225. without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a
  226. telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For, you
  227. see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice
  228. had begun to think that very few things indeed were really
  229. impossible. </p>
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  233. <b>Alice taking "Drink Me" bottle</b>
  234. </p>
  235. <p>There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she
  236. went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on
  237. it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like
  238. telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which
  239. certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of
  240. the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME' beautifully
  241. printed on it in large letters. </p>
  242. <p>It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little
  243. Alice was not going to do
  244. <i>that</i> in a hurry. `No, I'll look
  245. first,' she said, `and see whether it's marked "poison" or not';
  246. for she had read several nice little histories about children who
  247. had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant
  248. things, all because they
  249. <i>would</i> not remember the simple rules
  250. their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will
  251. burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger
  252. <i>very</i> deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had
  253. never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked
  254. `poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or
  255. later.
  256. </p>
  257. <p>However, this bottle was
  258. <i>not</i> marked `poison,' so Alice
  259. ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a
  260. sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast
  261. turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it
  262. off.
  263. </p>
  264. <p>`What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be shutting up
  265. like a telescope.'</p>
  266. <p> And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her
  267. face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size
  268. for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First,
  269. however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to
  270. shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this; `for it
  271. might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, `in my going out
  272. altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?'
  273. And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the
  274. candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen
  275. such a thing. </p>
  276. <p> After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided
  277. on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when
  278. she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden
  279. key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she
  280. could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through
  281. the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of
  282. the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself
  283. out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried. </p>
  284. <p> `Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to
  285. herself, rather sharply; `I advise you to leave off this minute!'
  286. She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very
  287. seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely
  288. as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to
  289. box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet
  290. she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very
  291. fond of pretending to be two people. `But it's no use now,' thought
  292. poor Alice, `to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly
  293. enough of me left to make
  294. <i>one</i> respectable person!'
  295. </p>
  296. <p> Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under
  297. the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on
  298. which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.
  299. `Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow larger, I
  300. can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep
  301. under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't
  302. care which happens!' </p>
  303. <p> She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which
  304. way? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to feel
  305. which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that
  306. she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when
  307. one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting
  308. nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite
  309. dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. </p>
  310. <p> So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. </p>
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