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ALICE'S

AD,TENTURES IN WONDERLAND.


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ALICES

ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.

BY

LEWIS CARROLL

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'l'Hb! 'l'RIAL OF THE KNAVE OF HEARTS.


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ALICE'S

AD\TENTURES IN WONDERLAND.

BY

LEWIS CARROLL.

WJTH FORTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS

AFTER

JOHN TENNIEL.

NEW YORK:

McLOUGHLIN BROTHER&

A.


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ALL in the golden afternoonFull leisurely we glide;For both our oars, with little skill,By little arms are plied,

While little hands make vain pretenceOur wanderings to guide.

Ah, cruel Three! I n such an hour,Beneath such dreamy weather,

To beg a tale, of breath too weakTo stir the tiniest feather!

Yet what can one poor voice availAgainst three tongues together?

Imperious Prima flashes forthHer edict to "begin i t " -

In gentler tone Secunda hopes"There will be nonsense in it"While Tertia interrupts the tale

Not more than once a minute.


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Anon, to sudden silence won,In fancy they pursue

The dream-child moving through a landOf wonders wild and new,

In friendly chat with bird or beastAnd half believe it true.

And ever, as the story drainedThe wells of fancy dry,And faintly strove that weary oneTo put the subject by,

"The rest next t ime-" " I t tS next time!"The happy voices cry.

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:Thus slowly, one by one,

Its quaint events were hammered ou t -And now the tale is done,

And home we steer, a merry crew,Beneath the setting sun.

Alice! a childish story take,And with a gentle hand

Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twinedIn Memory's mystic band,Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers

Plucked in a far-off land.


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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGEI. DOWN THE RABBIT-HoLEI I. THE POOL OF TEARS IS

III. A CAucus-RACE AND A LONG TALEIV. THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL 41V. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR

VI. P IG AND PEPPERVII. A MAD TEA-PARTY 9SVIII. THE QUEEN'S CROQUET-GROUND. 112IX. THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY 13 0X. THE LOBSTER QUADR..ILLE 147XI. \VHO STOLE THE TARTS? 16 1

XII. ALICE'S EVIllENCE 174


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CHAPTER I.DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.

ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sIttIngby her sister on the bank, and of having nothingto do: once or twice she had peeped into the bookher sister was reading, but it had no pictures orconversations in it, "and what is the use of a


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2 DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations ?"

So she was considering in her own mind, (aswell as she could, for the hot day made her feelvery sleepy 8 an d stupid,) whether the pleasure ofmaking a daisy-chain would be worth the troubleof getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close byher.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that;nor did Alice think it so very much out of the wayto hear the Rabbit say to itself, ., Oh dear! Oh

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dear! I shall be too late!" (when she thought itover afterwards, it occurred to her that she oughtto have wondered at this, but at the time it allseemed quite natural); but when the Rabbitactually took a watch out 0/ z'ts waz'stcoat-Pocket,and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alicestarted to her feet, for it flashed across her mindthat she had never before seen a rabbit with eithera waistcoat-pocket or a watch to take out of it, and,


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DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. 3burning with curiosity, she ran across the fieldafter it, and was just in time to ~ e e it pop down alarge rabbit-hole under the hedge.

I n another moment down went Alice after it,never once considering how in the world she wasto get out again.

The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnelfor some way, and then dipped suddenly down. sosuddenly that Alice had not a moment to thinkabout stopping herself before she found herselffalling down what seemed to be a very deep well.

Either the well was very deep, or she fell veryslowly, for she had plenty of time as she wentdown to look about her, and to wonder what wasgoing to happen next. First, she tried to lookdown and make out what she was coming to, butit was too dark to see anything: then she lookedat the sides of the well, and noticed that they werefilled with cupboards and bookshelves: here andthere she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she


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4 DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.passed; it was labelled " ORANGE MARMALADE," but to her great disappointment itwas empty: she did not like to drop the jar forfear of killing somebody underneath, so managed toput it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

" Well!" thought Alice to herself, "after such afall as this, I shall think nothing of tumblingdown stairs! How brave they'll all think me athome! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it,even if I fell off the top of the house!" (Whichwas very likely true.)

Down, down, down. Would the fall never cometo an end? "I wonder how many miles I'vefallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must begetting somewhere near the centre of the earth.Let me see: that would be four thousand milesdown, I think-" (for, you see, Alice had learntseveral things of this sort in her lessons in the

': schoolroom, and though this was not a ve1Y good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, asl.! there was no one to listen to her, still it was good\::y IlflfA' ~ > ~ " . ' : : . j)'.... ).,1, 1:,,. ,tl JI!I ~ I : ~ ~ / i . l ' ~ , ~ , ~ ~ ~ ~ . ~ , / , J!)).' - 1 ' 1 " 1 ; ' ' ' ' ' ~ ' ' ) ' t ' ~ l l ~ \ ' :Ill.\j'J! d ' , ~ - . , - - ~ , = = - - ~ . " . l . ~ ' f . I' I j :"-, " ~ J , " " ' , ; ~ j ~ . . , ' . ~ i J ; t . " L ~ ~ " ' ! 1 " ' J " " " " " ~ ~ , ~ 1 - ; l 'J .c: ' i!}l?: - - - - - - - - ~ . ' : , , ~ C : : . : . .{ / -, '\\ . - - - - ' - , . . ~ I I , J ' ; ; O ' - ' - t , " ~ . . . ~ ~ ~ ~ ... J-'. :),'''l'','',....., .,- .. : = ' ~ "'.. _ ,'.' .. " '" , ," ~" , , ) j ' , , , , , . ' _ ~ _ ..... "" ... .. .. _, .' ( .... ' , , ~ " i. y4\.. .. ' - .... ..\1" !P.!I.,


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DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. 5practice to say it over) "-yes , that's about theright distance-but then I wonder what Latitudeor Longitude I've got to?" (Alice had not theslightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitudeeither, but she thought they were nice grandwords to say.)

Presently she began again. " I wonder if Ishall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll

,seem to come out among the people that walk withtheir heads downwards! The Antipathies, Ith ink-" (she was rather glad there was no onelistening this time, as it didn't sound at all theright word) " -bu t I shall have to ask them whatthe name of the country is, you know. Please,Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?" (and

.she tried to curtsy as she spoke-fancy curtsyz'ngas you're falling through the a i ~ ! Do you thinkyou could manage it?) "And what an ignorantlittle girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'llnever do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up

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6 DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.Down, down, down. There was nothing else to

do, so Alice soon began talking again. "Dinah'llmiss me very much to-night, I should think!"

( D i ~ a h was the cat.) "I hope they'll rememberher saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah. my dear!I wish you were down here with me! There areno mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catcha bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.But do cats eat bats, I wonder?" And hereAlice began to get rather sleepy, and went on .saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, "D o catseat bats? Do cats eat bats?" and sometimes,"Do bats eat cats?" for, you see, as she couldn'tanswer either question, it didn't much matterwhich way she put it. She felt that she was dozingoff, and had just begun to drealTI that she waswalking hand in hand with Dinah, and was saying to her very earnestly, "N ow, Dinah, tell methe truth: did you ever eat a bat?" when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon aheap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.


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DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. 7Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up

on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, butit was all dark overhead; before her was anotherlong passage, and the White Rabbit was still insight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind,and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned acorner, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it'sgetting!" She was close behind it when sheturned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longerto be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall,which was lit up by a row of lamps hangingfrom the roof.There were doors all round the hall, but theywere all locked, and when Alice had been all theway down one side and up the other, trying everydoor, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.

Suddenly she can1e upon a little three-leggedtable, all luade of solid glass; there was nothingon it but a tiny golden key, and Alice's first


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8 DOWN 11iE RABBIT-HOLE.idea ,vas that this might belong to one of thedoors of the hall; but alas! either the locks weretoo large, or the key was too small, but at any rateit would not open any of them. However, on thesecond time round, she came upon a low curtain she

had not noticedbefore, and behind it was alittle door aboutfifteen inc h e shigh: she triedthe little goldenkey in the lock,and to her greatdelight it fitted!

Alice openedthe door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she kneltdown and looked along the passage in to the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed toget out of that dark hall, and wander about


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DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. 9among those beds of bright flowers and those coolfountains, but she could not even get her headthrough the doorway; "and even if my headwould go through," thought poor Alice, "it wouldbe of very little use without my shoulders. Oh,how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! Ithink I could, if I only knew how to begin. " For,you see, so Inany out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think thatvery few things indeed were really impossible.

There seemed to be no u s ~ in waiting by thelittle door, so she went back to the table, halfhoping that she might find another key on it, or at

~ _ " ' I any rate a book of rules for shutting people up liketelescopes: this time she found a little bottle onit, ("which certainly was not here before," saidAlice,) and tied round the neck of the bottle wasa paper label with the words "DRI N K M E"beautifully printed on it in large letters.I t was all very well to say" Drink me," but thewise little Alice was not going to do that in a


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DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.hurry: "no, I'll look first," she said. "and seewhether it's marked 'poson ' or not:" for she had

read several nice little stories about childre.n who had gotburnt, and eaten upby wild beasts, andother unpleasantthings, all becausethey would not ren1ember the simplerules their friendshad taught thenl,such as, that a redhot poker will burnyou if you hold it

too long; and that if you cut your finger verydeeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she hadnever forgotten that, if you drink much from abottle nlarked "poison," it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.


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DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.However, this bottle was not nlarked "poison,"

so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it verynice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavor ofcherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy,and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finishedit off.

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* * * * * * * *" What a curious feeling!" said Alice, "I lTIUst

be shutting up like a telescope."And so it was indeed: she was now only ten

inches high, and her face brightened up at thethought that she was now the right size for goingthrough the litde door into that lovely garden.First, however, she waited for a few minutes tosee if she was going to shrink any further: she felta little nervous about this, "for it might end, youknow," said Alice to herself, "in my going outaltogether, like a candle. I wonder what I shouldbe like then?" And she tried to fancy what the

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.2 DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.flame of a candle looks like after the candle isblown out, for she could not remember ever havingseen such a thing.

After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden atonce, but, alas for poor Alice! when she got tothe door, she found she had forgotten the littlegolden key, and when she went back to the tablefor it she found she could not possibly reach it:she could see it quite plainly through the glass,and she tried her best to climb up one of the legsof the table, but it was too slippery, and when shehad tired herself out with trying, the poor littlething sat down and cried.

" Come, there's no use in crying like that!" saidAlice to herself, rather sharply, " I advise you toleave off this minute!" She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldomfollowed it,) and sometimes she scolded herself soseverely as to bring tears into her eyes, and onceshe remembered trying to box her own ears for


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DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.having cheated herself in a game of croquet shewas playing against herself, for this curious childwas very fond of pretending to be two people."But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "topretend to be two people! Why, there's hardlyenough of me left to make one respectable person!"

Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that waslying under the table: she opened it, and foundin it a very small cake, on which the words" EA l ' M E " were beautifully marked in currents."Well, I'l l eat it," said Alice, "and if it makesme grow larger, I can reach the key; and if itmakes Ine grow smaller, I can creep under thedoor; so either way I'll get into the garden, and1 don't care which happens!"

She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself "Which way? Which way?" holding herhand on the top of her head to feel which way itwas growing, and she was quite surprised to findthat she remained the same size: to be sure, thisis what generally happens when one eats cake, but


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DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE.Alice had got so much into the way of expectingnothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, thatit seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on inthe common way.

So she set to work, and very soon finished offthe cake.

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