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ALICE’S ADVENTURES
IN WONDERLAND
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ALICE’S ADVENTURES
IN WONDERLAND
BY
LEWISCARROLL
WITH FORTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS
BY JOHN TENNIEL
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First published in 1865
by Macmillan & Co., London All in the golden afternoon
Released 1866 by D. Appleton & Co., New York
Full leisurely we glide;
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Imperious Prima flashes forth
Her edict ‘to begin it’—
In gentler tone Secunda hopes
‘There will be nonsense in it!’—
Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
While Tertia interrupts the tale
Thus slowly, one by one,
Not more than once a minute.
Its quaint events were hammered out—
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Anon, to sudden silence won, Beneath the setting sun.
In fancy they pursue
The dream-child moving through a land
Of wonders wild and new,
Alice! a childish story take,
In friendly chat with bird or beast—
And with a gentle hand
And half believe it true.
Lay it where Childhood’s dreams are twined
In Memory’s mystic band,
Like pilgrim’s withered wreath of flowers
And ever, as the story drained Plucked in a far-off land.
The wells of fancy dry,
And faintly strove that weary one
To put the subject by,
“The rest next time—” “It is next time!”
The happy voices cry.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. THE POOL OF TEARS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
III. A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE . . . . . . . . 29
IV. THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL . . . . . . 41
V. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR. . . . . . . . . . . . 59
VI. PIG AND PEPPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
VII. A MAD TEA-PARTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
VIII. THE QUEEN’S CROQUET-GROUND . . . . . . . . . . 112
IX. THE MOCK TURTLE’S STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
X. THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
XI. WHO STOLE THE TARTS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
XII. ALICE’S EVIDENCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
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CHAPTER I.
DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.
A
LICE 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
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2 DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. 3
the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without burning with curiosity, she ran across the field
pictures or conversations?” after it, and was just in time to see it pop
So she was considering in her own mind, down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
(as well as she could, for the hot day made In another moment down went Alice after
her feel very sleepy and stupid,) whether the it, never once considering how in the world
pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be she was to get out again.
worth the trouble of getting up and picking The rabbit-hole went straight on like a
the daisies, when suddenly a white rabbit with tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly
pink eyes ran close by her. down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment
There was nothing so very remarkable in to think about stopping herself before she found
that; nor did Alice think it so very much out herself falling down what seemed to be a very
of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, deep well.
“Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” Either the well was very deep, or she fell
(when she thought it over afterwards, it oc- very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she
curred to her that she ought to have wondered went down to look about her, and to wonder
at this, but at the time it all seemed quite what was going to happen next. First, she tried
natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a to look down and make out what she was
watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at coming to, but it was too dark to see anything:
it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her then she looked at the sides of the well, and
feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had noticed that they were filled with cupboards
never before seen a rabbit with either a waist- and bookshelves: here and there she saw maps
coat-pocket or a watch to take out of it, and, and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down
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4 DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. 5
a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it her, still it was good practice to say it over)
was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADE,” but “—yes, that’s about the right distance—but
to her great disappointment it was empty: she did then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude
not like to drop the jar for fear of killing some- I’ve got to?” (Alice had not the slightest
body underneath, so managed to put it into idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but
one of the cupboards as she fell past it. she thought they were nice grand words to say.)
“Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after Presently she began again. “I wonder if
such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of I shall fall right through the earth! How funny
tumbling down stairs! How brave they’ll all it’ll seem to come out among the people that
think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say any- walk with their heads downwards! The Anti-
thing about it, even if I fell off the top of pathies, I think—” (she was rather glad there
the house!” (Which was very likely true.) was no one listening, this time, as it didn’t
Down, down, down. Would the fall never sound at all the right word) “—but I shall
come to an end? “I wonder how many miles have to ask them what the name of the country
I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud. “I is, you know. Please, Ma’am, is this New
must be getting somewhere near the centre of Zealand or Australia?” (and she tried to curtsey
the earth. Let me see: that would be four as she spoke—fancy curtseying as you’re falling
thousand miles down, I think—” (for, you see, through the air! Do you think you could
Alice had learnt several things of this sort in manage it?) “And what an ignorant little girl
her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do
was not a very good opportunity for showing off to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up
her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to somewhere.”
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Down, down, down. There was nothing else to Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up
do, so Alice soon began talking again. “Dinah ’ll on to her feet in a moment: she looked up,
miss me very much to-night, I should think!” but it was all dark overhead; before her was
(Dinah was the cat.) “I hope they’ll remember another long passage, and the White Rabbit was
her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear! still in sight, hurrying down it. There was
I wish you were down here with me! There not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like
are no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as
might catch a bat, and that’s very like a mouse, it turned a corner, “Oh my ears and whiskers,
you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?” how late it’s getting!” She was close behind
And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit
went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort was no longer to be seen: she found herself in
of way, “Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?” a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of
and sometimes, “Do bats eat cats?” for, you lamps hanging from the roof.
see, as she couldn’t answer either question, it There were doors all round the hall, but they
didn’t much matter which way she put it. She were all locked, and when Alice had been all
felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun the way down one side and up the other, trying
to dream that she was walking hand in hand every door, she walked sadly down the middle,
with Dinah, and was saying to her very wondering how she was ever to get out again.
earnestly, “Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged
you ever eat a bat?” when suddenly, thump! table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing
thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks on it but a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first
and dry leaves, and the fall was over. idea was that this might belong to one of the
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