2 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Down the Rabbit-Hole
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9 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting
10 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu by her sister on
11 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu the bank, and of having nothing to do:
12 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister w
13 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu as reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use
14 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu of a book," thought Alice "without pictures or conversations?" So she was consid
15 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very
16 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth
17 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit
18 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu with pink eyes ran close by her.
19 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu There was nothing so _very_ rem
20 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu arkable in that; nor did Alice think it so _very_ much out of the way to hear th
21 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" (when she thought i
22 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu t over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, b
23 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ut at the time it all seemed quite natural);
24 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu but when the Rabbit actually _took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_
25 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu , and looked at it, and then hurri
26 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ed on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had ne
27 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ver before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out
28 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it,
29 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu and fortunately was just in time
30 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
31 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu In another moment down went Alice after it, never
32 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu once considering how in the world she was to get o
33 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ut again. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and
34 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think abou
35 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu t stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well. Eith
36 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu er the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time a
37 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu s she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. F
38 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu irst, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was
39 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed
40 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw ma
41 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as s
42 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu he passed; it was labelled
43 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu "ORANGE MARMALADE", but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not li
44 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ke to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put
45 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it. "Well!" thought Alice to hers
46 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu elf, "after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!
47 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, e
48 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ven if I fell off the top of the house!" (Which was very likely true.) Down, dow
49 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu n, down. Would the fall _never_ come to an end? "I wonder how many miles I've fa
50 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu llen by this time?" she said aloud.
51 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu "I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that woul
52 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu d be four thousand miles down, I think-" (for, you see, Alice had learnt
53 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this wa
54 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu s not a _very_ good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no o
55 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ne to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) "-yes, that's ab
56 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu out the right distance-but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?
57 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu " (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they we
58 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu re nice grand words to say.) Presently she began again. "I wonder if I shall fal
59 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu l right _through_ the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people t
60 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu hat walk with their heads downward!
61 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu The Antipathies, I think-" (she was rather glad there _was_ no one listening, th
62 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu is time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) "-but I shall have to ask the
63 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu m what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand
64 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu or Australia?" (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke-fancy _curtseying_ as you'
65 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu re falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) "And what an igno
66 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu rant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to ask: perhaps
67 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu I shall see it written up somewhere." Down, down, down. There was nothing else t
68 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu o do, so Alice soon began talking again. "Dinah'll miss me very much to-night,
69 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu I should think!" (Dinah was the cat.)
70 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu "I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish y
71 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ou were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you mig
72 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ht catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I
73 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu wonder?" And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to hersel
74 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu f, in a dreamy sort of way, "Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?" and
75 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu sometimes, "Do bats eat cats?" for, you see, as she couldn't answer either quest
76 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ion, it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing of
77 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu f, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah,
78 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu and saying to her very earnestly, "Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever e
79 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu at a bat?" when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and
80 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu dry leaves, and the fall was over.
81 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she look
82 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ed up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and th
83 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to b
84 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as i
85 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu t turned a corner, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" She was clo
86 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu se behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen
87 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu : she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hang
88 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ing from the roof. There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locke
89 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu d; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying ev
90 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ery door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get ou
92 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; the
93 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu re was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was tha
94 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu t it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks w
95 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ere too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any o
96 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu f them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had n
97 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ot noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: sh
98 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!
99 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much large
100 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu r than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the lovelies
101 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu t garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander a
102 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu bout among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could
103 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu not even get her head through the doorway; "and even if my head would go through
104 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ," thought poor Alice, "it would be of very little use without my shoulders.
105 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only
106 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu knew how to begin." For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lat
107 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ely, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impos
108 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu sible. There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went bac
109 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu k to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a b
110 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ook of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a littl
111 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e bottle on it, ("which certainly was not here before," said Alice,) and round t
112 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu he neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words "DRINK ME," beautifully
113 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu printed on it in large letters. It was all very well to say "Drink me," but
114 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu the wise little Alice was not going to do _that_ in a hurry. "No, I'll look firs
115 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu t," she said, "and see whether it's marked ‘_poison_' or not"; for she had rea
116 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu d several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up b
117 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu y wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they _would_ not
118 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a
119 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your fi
120 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu nger _very_ deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten
121 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu that, if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison," it is almost certain to d
122 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu isagree with you, sooner or later. However, this bottle was _not_ marked "poiso
123 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu n," so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact,
124 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffe
125 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. * * *
126 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu * * * * * * * * * * * * *
127 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu * * * * "What a curious feeling!" said Alice; "I must be shutti
128 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ng up like a telescope." And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches
129 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size
130 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she w
131 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu aited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt
132 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu a little nervous about this; "for it might end, you know," said Alice to herself
133 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu , "in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like the
134 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu n?" And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle i
135 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu s blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. After a
136 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden
137 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had f
138 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu orgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she
139 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through th
140 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but
141 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor li
142 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ttle thing sat down and cried. "Come, there's no use in crying like that!"
143 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu said Alice to herself, rather sharply; "I advise you to leave off this minute!"
144 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it
145 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes
146 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself
147 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child
148 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu was very fond of pretending to be two people. "But it's no use now," thought po
149 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu or Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left
150 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu to make _one_ respectable person!" Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that
151 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on
152 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu which the words "EAT ME" were beautifully marked in currants. "Well, I'll eat it
153 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ," said Alice, "and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it m
154 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu akes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I'll get into th
155 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e garden, and I don't care which happens!" She ate a little bit, and said anxiou
156 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu sly to herself, "Which way? Which way?", holding her hand on the top of her
157 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that
158 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cak
159 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-wa
160 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu y things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in th
161 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e common way. So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. *
162 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu * * * * * * * * * * * * *
163 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu * * * * * * CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears "Curiouser
164 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she
165 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu quite forgot how to speak good English); "now I'm opening out like the largest t
166 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu elescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!" (for when she looked down at her feet,
167 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off). "Oh, my po
168 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu or little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, d
169 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ears? I'm sure _I_ shan't be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to troubl
170 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;-but I must be kind to
171 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu them," thought Alice, "or perhaps they won't walk the way I want to go! Let me s
172 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ee: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas." And she went on plannin
173 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu g to herself how she would manage it. "They must go by the carrier," she thought
174 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ; "and how funny it'll seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd
175 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu the directions will look! _Alice's Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near the Fender
176 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ,_ (_with Alice's love_). Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!" Just then her he
177 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ad struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet
178 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garde
179 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu n door. Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to
180 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless
181 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu than ever: she sat down and began to cry again. "You ought to be ashamed of you
182 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu rself," said Alice, "a great girl like you," (she might well say this), "to go o
183 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu n crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!" But she went on all the sam
184 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about
185 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu four inches deep and reaching half down the hall. After a time she heard a litt
186 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu le pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see
187 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu what was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a p
188 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu air of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotti
189 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ng along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, "Oh! the Duchess, th
190 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!" Alice felt so desp
191 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu erate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near h
192 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu er, she began, in a low, timid voice, "If you please, sir-" The Rabbit started v
193 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu iolently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the d
194 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu arkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the h
195 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu all was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: "De
196 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ar, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as u
197 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu sual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same
198 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little diffe
199 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu rent. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah,
200 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu _that's_ the great puzzle!" And she began thinking over all the children she kne
201 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu w that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed fo
202 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu r any of them. "I'm sure I'm not Ada," she said, "for her hair goes in such lon
203 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu g ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I can't be Mabe
204 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu l, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little! Be
205 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu sides, _she's_ she, and _I'm_ I, and-oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try i
206 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu f I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve,
207 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is-oh dear! I shall never g
208 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu et to twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn't signify: le
209 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu t's try Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of R
210 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ome, and Rome-no, _that's_ all wrong, I'm certain! I must have been changed for
211 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Mabel! I'll try and say ‘_How doth the little_-'" and she crossed her hands
212 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice
213 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to
214 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu do:- "How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the water
215 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu s of the Nile On every golden scale! "How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neat
216 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!" "I'
217 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu m sure those are not the right words," said poor Alice, and her eyes filled
218 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu with tears again as she went on, "I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have
219 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play
220 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it;
221 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their heads dow
222 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu n and saying ‘Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say ‘Who am I t
223 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu hen? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up:
224 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else'-but, oh dear!" cried Alice,
225 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu with a sudden burst of tears, "I do wish they _would_ put their heads down! I
226 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu am so _very_ tired of being all alone here!" As she said this she looked down
227 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's l
228 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ittle white kid gloves while she was talking. "How _can_ I have done that?" she
229 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu thought. "I must be growing small again." She got up and went to the table to me
230 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu asure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now a
231 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu bout two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that
232 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just
233 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. "That _was_ a narrow escape!" said
234 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find hersel
235 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu f still in existence; "and now for the garden!" and she ran with all speed back
236 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu to the little door: but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little go
237 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu lden key was lying on the glass table as before, "and things are worse than ever
238 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ," thought the poor child, "for I never was so small as this before, never! And
239 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu I declare it's too bad, that it is!" As she said these words her foot slipped, a
240 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu nd in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first id
241 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, "and in that case I can go
242 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu back by railway," she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in he
243 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu r life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the E
244 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu nglish coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children dig
245 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind th
246 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu em a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of te
247 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ars which she had wept when she was nine feet high. "I wish I hadn't cried so m
248 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu uch!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be pun
249 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That _will_ be a
250 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day." Just then she hea
251 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu rd something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer t
252 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu o make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus
253 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu , but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it w
254 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu as only a mouse that had slipped in like herself. "Would it be of any use, now,
255 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu " thought Alice, "to speak to this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down
256 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no harm
257 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu in trying." So she began: "O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am v
258 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ery tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!" (Alice thought this must be the righ
259 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu t way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she re
260 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu membered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, "A mouse-of a mouse-to a mo
261 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu use-a mouse-O mouse!") The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed
262 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing. "Perhaps it do
263 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu esn't understand English," thought Alice; "I daresay it's a French mouse, come o
264 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ver with William the Conqueror." (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice
265 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu had no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she began again
266 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu : "Où est ma chatte?" which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. T
267 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu he Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over
268 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu with fright. "Oh, I beg your pardon!" cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had h
269 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu urt the poor animal's feelings. "I quite forgot you didn't like cats." "Not
270 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu like cats!" cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. "Would _you_ like ca
271 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ts if you were me?" "Well, perhaps not," said Alice in a soothing tone: "don't b
272 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you'd t
273 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ake a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,"
274 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, "and she s
275 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu its purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face-and
276 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu she is such a nice soft thing to nurse-and she's such a capital one for
277 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu catching mice-oh, I beg your pardon!" cried Alice again, for this time the
278 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended. "
279 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu We won't talk about her any more if you'd rather not." "We indeed!" cried the Mo
280 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu use, who was trembling down to the end of his tail. "As if _I_ would talk on suc
281 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu h a subject! Our family always _hated_ cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't le
282 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu t me hear the name again!" "I won't indeed!" said Alice, in a great hurry to cha
283 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu nge the subject of conversation. "Are you-are you fond-of-of dogs?" The Mouse di
284 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu d not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: "There is such a nice little dog near ou
285 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu r house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with
286 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu oh, such long curly brown hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and
287 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things-I can't remember ha
288 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu lf of them-and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it's so useful, it'
289 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu s worth a hundred pounds! He says it kills all the rats and-oh dear!" cried Alic
290 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu e in a sorrowful tone, "I'm afraid I've offended it again!" For the Mouse was sw
291 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu imming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in
292 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu the pool as it went. So she called softly after it, "Mouse dear! Do come back a
293 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu gain, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't like them!"
294 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its
295 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low tremblin
296 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu g voice, "Let us get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and
297 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu you'll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs." It was high time to go, for t
298 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu he pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen int
299 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu o it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curi
300 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu ous creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore. CHAPTE
301 5dc21454 2023-07-14 jrmu R III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
