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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 thebank, 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-chainwould 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 thendipped 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 wastoo 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 herknowledge, 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...