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@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +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 conversations?' + +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 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. + +'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 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.' |