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Alice’s Adventures in

Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

CHAPTER I: Down the Rabbit-Hole

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?’

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.

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

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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.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never

once considering how in the world she was to get out

again.

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.

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.

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’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.)

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.)

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

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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.’

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,

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