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    10   Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister

    11 on the bank, and of having nothing to do:  once or twice she had

    12 peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no

    13 pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'

    14 thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'

    16   So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,

    17 for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether

    18 the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble

    19 of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White

    20 Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

    22   There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice

    23 think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to

    24 itself, `Oh dear!  Oh dear!  I shall be late!'  (when she thought

    25 it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have

    26 wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural);

    27 but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-

    28 POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to

    29 her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never

    30 before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to

    31 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the

    32 field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop

    33 down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

    35   In another moment down went Alice after it, never once

    36 considering how in the world she was to get out again.

    38   The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,

    39 and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a

    40 moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself

    41 falling down a very deep well.

    43   Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she

    44 had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to

    45 wonder what was going to happen next.  First, she tried to look

    46 down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to

    47 see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and

    48 noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves;

    49 here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.  She

    50 took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was

    51 labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it

    52 was empty:  she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing

    53 somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she

    54 fell past it.

    56   `Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I

    57 shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!  How brave they'll

    58 all think me at home!  Why, I wouldn't say anything about it,

    59 even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely

    60 true.)

    62   Down, down, down.  Would the fall NEVER come to an end!  `I

    63 wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud.

    64 `I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.  Let

    65 me see:  that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for,

    66 you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her

    67 lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good

    68 opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to

    69 listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,

    70 that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude

    71 or Longitude I've got to?'  (Alice had no idea what Latitude was,

    72 or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to

    73 say.)

    75   Presently she began again.  `I wonder if I shall fall right

    76 THROUGH the earth!  How funny it'll seem to come out among the

    77 people that walk with their heads downward!  The Antipathies, I

    78 think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this

    79 time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) `--but I shall

    80 have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.

    81 Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried

    82 to curtsey as she spoke--fancy CURTSEYING as you're falling

    83 through the air!  Do you think you could manage it?)  `And what

    84 an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking!  No, it'll

    85 never do to ask:  perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.'

    87   Down, down, down.  There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon

    88 began talking again.  `Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I

    89 should think!'  (Dinah was the cat.)  `I hope they'll remember

    90 her saucer of milk at tea-time.  Dinah my dear!  I wish you were

    91 down here with me!  There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but

    92 you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.

    93 But do cats eat bats, I wonder?'  And here Alice began to get

    94 rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of

    95 way, `Do cats eat bats?  Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, `Do

    96 bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either

    97 question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.  She felt

    98 that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she

    99 was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very

   100 earnestly, `Now, Dinah, tell me the truth:  did you ever eat a

   101 bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of

   102 sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.

   104   Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a

   105 moment:  she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her

   106 was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in

   107 sight, hurrying down it.  There was not a moment to be lost:

   108 away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it

   109 say, as it turned a corner, `Oh my ears and whiskers, how late

   110 it's getting!'  She was close behind it when she turned the

   111 corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen:  she found

   112 herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps

   113 hanging from the roof.

   115   There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked;

   116 and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the

   117 other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle,

   118 wondering how she was ever to get out again.

   120   Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of

   121 solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key,

   122 and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the

   123 doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or

   124 the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of

   125 them.  However, on the second time round, she came upon a low

   126 curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little

   127 door about fifteen inches high:  she tried the little golden key

   128 in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!

   130   Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small

   131 passage, not much larger than a rat-hole:  she knelt down and

   132 looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.

   133 How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about

   134 among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but

   135 she could not even get her head though the doorway; `and even if

   136 my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, `it would be of

   137 very little use without my shoulders.  Oh, how I wish

   138 I could shut up like a telescope!  I think I could, if I only

   139 know how to begin.'  For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things

   140 had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few

   141 things indeed were really impossible.

   143   There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she

   144 went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on

   145 it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like

   146 telescopes:  this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which

   147 certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck

   148 of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME'

   149 beautifully printed on it in large letters.

   151   It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little

   152 Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry.  `No, I'll look

   153 first,' she said, `and see whether it's marked "poison" or not';

   154 for she had read several nice little histories about children who

   155 had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant

   156 things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules

   157 their friends had taught them:  such as, that a red-hot poker

   158 will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your

   159 finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had

   160 never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked

   161 `poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or

   162 later.

   164   However, this bottle was NOT marked `poison,' so Alice ventured

   165 to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort

   166 of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast

   167 turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished

   168 it off.

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   176   `What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be shutting up

   177 like a telescope.'

   179   And so it was indeed:  she was now only ten inches high, and

   180 her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right

   181 size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.

   182 First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was

   183 going to shrink any further:  she felt a little nervous about

   184 this; `for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, `in my

   185 going out altogether, like a candle.  I wonder what I should be

   186 like then?'  And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is

   187 like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember

   188 ever having seen such a thing.

   190   After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided

   191 on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice!

   192 when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the

   193 little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it,

   194 she found she could not possibly reach it:  she could see it

   195 quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb

   196 up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery;

   197 and when she had tired herself out with trying,

   198 the poor little thing sat down and cried.

   200   `Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to

   201 herself, rather sharply; `I advise you to leave off this minute!'

   202 She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very

   203 seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so

   204 severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered

   205 trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game

   206 of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious

   207 child was very fond of pretending to be two people.  `But it's no

   208 use now,' thought poor Alice, `to pretend to be two people!  Why,

   209 there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable

   210 person!'

   212   Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under

   213 the table:  she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on

   214 which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.

   215 `Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow larger,

   216 I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep

   217 under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I

   218 don't care which happens!'

   220   She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which

   221 way?  Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to

   222 feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to

   223 find that she remained the same size:  to be sure, this generally

   224 happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the

   225 way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen,

   226 that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the

   227 common way.

   229   So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.

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   240                            CHAPTER II

   242                         The Pool of Tears

   245   `Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much

   246 surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good

   247 English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that

   248 ever was!  Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her

   249 feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so

   250 far off).  `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on

   251 your shoes and stockings for you now, dears?  I'm sure _I_ shan't

   252 be able!  I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself

   253 about you:  you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be

   254 kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won't walk the

   255 way I want to go!  Let me see:  I'll give them a new pair of

   256 boots every Christmas.'

   258   And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it.

   259 `They must go by the carrier,' she thought; `and how funny it'll

   260 seem, sending presents to one's own feet!  And how odd the

   261 directions will look!

   263             ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.

   264                 HEARTHRUG,

   265                     NEAR THE FENDER,

   266                         (WITH ALICE'S LOVE).

   268 Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'

   270   Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall:  in

   271 fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took

   272 up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.

   274   Poor Alice!  It was as much as she could do, lying down on one

   275 side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get

   276 through was more hopeless than ever:  she sat down and began to

   277 cry again.

   279   `You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, `a great

   280 girl like you,' (she might well say this), `to go on crying in

   281 this way!  Stop this moment, I tell you!'  But she went on all

   282 the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool

   283 all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the

   284 hall.

   286   After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the

   287 distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.

   288 It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a

   289 pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the

   290 other:  he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to

   291 himself as he came, `Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she

   292 be savage if I've kept her waiting!'  Alice felt so desperate

   293 that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit

   294 came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, `If you please,

   295 sir--'  The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid

   296 gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard

   297 as he could go.

   299   Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very

   300 hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking:

   301 `Dear, dear!  How queer everything is to-day!  And yesterday

   302 things went on just as usual.  I wonder if I've been changed in

   303 the night?  Let me think:  was I the same when I got up this

   304 morning?  I almost think I can remember feeling a little

   305 different.  But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in

   306 the world am I?  Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!'  And she began

   307 thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age

   308 as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of

   309 them.

   311   `I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, `for her hair goes in such

   312 long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm

   313 sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she,

   314 oh! she knows such a very little!  Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I,

   315 and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is!  I'll try if I know all the

   316 things I used to know.  Let me see:  four times five is twelve,

   317 and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear!

   318 I shall never get to twenty at that rate!  However, the

   319 Multiplication Table doesn't signify:  let's try Geography.

   320 London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,

   321 and Rome--no, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain!  I must have been

   322 changed for Mabel!  I'll try and say "How doth the little--"'

   323 and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons,

   324 and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and

   325 strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:--

   327             `How doth the little crocodile

   328               Improve his shining tail,

   329             And pour the waters of the Nile

   330               On every golden scale!

   332             `How cheerfully he seems to grin,

   333               How neatly spread his claws,

   334             And welcome little fishes in

   335               With gently smiling jaws!'

   337   `I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and

   338 her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, `I must be Mabel

   339 after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little

   340 house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so

   341 many lessons to learn!  No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm

   342 Mabel, I'll stay down here!  It'll be no use their putting their

   343 heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!"  I shall only look

   344 up and say "Who am I then?  Tell me that first, and then, if I

   345 like being that person, I'll come up:  if not, I'll stay down

   346 here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a

   347 sudden burst of tears, `I do wish they WOULD put their heads

   348 down!  I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'

   350   As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was

   351 surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little

   352 white kid gloves while she was talking.  `How CAN I have done

   353 that?' she thought.  `I must be growing small again.'  She got up

   354 and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that,

   355 as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high,

   356 and was going on shrinking rapidly:  she soon found out that the

   357 cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it

   358 hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

   360 `That WAS a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at

   361 the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in

   362 existence; `and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed

   363 back to the little door:  but, alas! the little door was shut

   364 again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as

   365 before, `and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor child,

   366 `for I never was so small as this before, never!  And I declare

   367 it's too bad, that it is!'

   369   As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another

   370 moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water.  Her first

   371 idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, `and in that

   372 case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself.  (Alice had

   373 been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general

   374 conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find

   375 a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in

   376 the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and

   377 behind them a railway station.)  However, she soon made out that

   378 she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine

   379 feet high.

   381   `I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about,

   382 trying to find her way out.  `I shall be punished for it now, I

   383 suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!  That WILL be a queer

   384 thing, to be sure!  However, everything is queer to-day.'

   386   Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a

   387 little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was:  at

   388 first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then

   389 she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that

   390 it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.

   392   `Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, `to speak to this

   393 mouse?  Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should

   394 think very likely it can talk:  at any rate, there's no harm in

   395 trying.'  So she began:  `O Mouse, do you know the way out of

   396 this pool?  I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!'

   397 (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse:

   398 she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having

   399 seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, `A mouse--of a mouse--to a

   400 mouse--a mouse--O mouse!'  The Mouse looked at her rather

   401 inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little

   402 eyes, but it said nothing.

   404   `Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; `I

   405 daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the

   406 Conqueror.'  (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had

   407 no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.)  So she

   408 began again:  `Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in

   409 her French lesson-book.  The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the

   410 water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.  `Oh, I beg

   411 your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the

   412 poor animal's feelings.  `I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'

   414   `Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate

   415 voice.  `Would YOU like cats if you were me?'

   417   `Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone:  `don't be

   418 angry about it.  And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah:

   419 I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her.

   420 She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself,

   421 as she swam lazily about in the pool, `and she sits purring so

   422 nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and

   423 she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such a capital

   424 one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice again,

   425 for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt

   426 certain it must be really offended.  `We won't talk about her any

   427 more if you'd rather not.'

   429   `We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end

   430 of his tail.  `As if I would talk on such a subject!  Our family

   431 always HATED cats:  nasty, low, vulgar things!  Don't let me hear

   432 the name again!'

   434   `I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the

   435 subject of conversation.  `Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?'

   436 The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly:  `There is

   437 such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!

   438 A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly

   439 brown hair!  And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and

   440 it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I

   441 can't remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, you

   442 know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds!

   443 He says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a

   444 sorrowful tone, `I'm afraid I've offended it again!'  For the

   445 Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and

   446 making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.

   448   So she called softly after it, `Mouse dear!  Do come back

   449 again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't

   450 like them!'  When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam

   451 slowly back to her:  its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice

   452 thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, `Let us get to

   453 the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll

   454 understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'

   456   It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded

   457 with the birds and animals that had fallen into it:  there were a

   458 Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious

   459 creatures.  Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the

   460 shore.

   464                            CHAPTER III

   466                   A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

   469   They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the

   470 bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their

   471 fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and

   472 uncomfortable.

   474   The first question of course was, how to get dry again:  they

   475 had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed

   476 quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with

   477 them, as if she had known them all her life.  Indeed, she had

   478 quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky,

   479 and would only say, `I am older than you, and must know better';

   480 and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was,

   481 and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no

   482 more to be said.

   484   At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among

   485 them, called out, `Sit down, all of you, and listen to me!  I'LL

   486 soon make you dry enough!'  They all sat down at once, in a large

   487 ring, with the Mouse in the middle.  Alice kept her eyes

   488 anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad

   489 cold if she did not get dry very soon.

   491   `Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, `are you all ready?

   492 This is the driest thing I know.  Silence all round, if you please!

   493 "William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was

   494 soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been

   495 of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.  Edwin and

   496 Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'

   498   `Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.

   500   `I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very

   501 politely:  `Did you speak?'

   503   `Not I!' said the Lory hastily.

   505   `I thought you did,' said the Mouse.  `--I proceed.  "Edwin and

   506 Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him:

   507 and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found

   508 it advisable--"'

   510   `Found WHAT?' said the Duck.

   512   `Found IT,' the Mouse replied rather crossly:  `of course you

   513 know what "it" means.'

   515   `I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said

   516 the Duck:  `it's generally a frog or a worm.  The question is,

   517 what did the archbishop find?'

   519   The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on,

   520 `"--found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William

   521 and offer him the crown.  William's conduct at first was

   522 moderate.  But the insolence of his Normans--"  How are you

   523 getting on now, my dear?' it continued, turning to Alice as it

   524 spoke.

   526   `As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone:  `it doesn't

   527 seem to dry me at all.'

   529   `In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, `I

   530 move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more

   531 energetic remedies--'

   533   `Speak English!' said the Eaglet.  `I don't know the meaning of

   534 half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do

   535 either!'  And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile:

   536 some of the other birds tittered audibly.

   538   `What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone,

   539 `was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'

   541   `What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much

   542 to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY

   543 ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.

   545   `Why,' said the Dodo, `the best way to explain it is to do it.'

   546 (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter

   547 day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)

   549   First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (`the

   550 exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party

   551 were placed along the course, here and there.  There was no `One,

   552 two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked,

   553 and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know

   554 when the race was over.  However, when they had been running half

   555 an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called

   556 out `The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting,

   557 and asking, `But who has won?'

   559   This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of

   560 thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon

   561 its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare,

   562 in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.  At

   563 last the Dodo said, `EVERYBODY has won, and all must have

   564 prizes.'

   566   `But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices

   567 asked.

   569   `Why, SHE, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with

   570 one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her,

   571 calling out in a confused way, `Prizes! Prizes!'

   573   Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand

   574 in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt

   575 water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.

   576 There was exactly one a-piece all round.

   578   `But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the Mouse.

   580   `Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely.  `What else have

   581 you got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.

   583   `Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.

   585   `Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.

   587   Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo

   588 solemnly presented the thimble, saying `We beg your acceptance of

   589 this elegant thimble'; and, when it had finished this short

   590 speech, they all cheered.

   592   Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked

   593 so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not

   594 think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble,

   595 looking as solemn as she could.

   597   The next thing was to eat the comfits:  this caused some noise

   598 and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not

   599 taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on

   600 the back.  However, it was over at last, and they sat down again

   601 in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.

   603   `You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice,

   604 `and why it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half

   605 afraid that it would be offended again.

   607   `Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to

   608 Alice, and sighing.

   610   `It IS a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with

   611 wonder at the Mouse's tail; `but why do you call it sad?'  And

   612 she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so

   613 that her idea of the tale was something like this:--

   615                     `Fury said to a

   616                    mouse, That he

   617                  met in the

   618                house,

   619             "Let us

   620               both go to

   621                 law:  I will

   622                   prosecute

   623                     YOU.  --Come,

   624                        I'll take no

   625                         denial; We

   626                      must have a

   627                  trial:  For

   628               really this

   629            morning I've

   630           nothing

   631          to do."

   632            Said the

   633              mouse to the

   634                cur, "Such

   635                  a trial,

   636                    dear Sir,

   637                          With

   638                      no jury

   639                   or judge,

   640                 would be

   641               wasting

   642              our

   643               breath."

   644                "I'll be

   645                  judge, I'll

   646                    be jury,"

   647                          Said

   648                     cunning

   649                       old Fury:

   650                      "I'll

   651                       try the

   652                          whole

   653                           cause,

   654                              and

   655                         condemn

   656                        you

   657                       to

   658                        death."'

   660   Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister

   661 on the bank, and of having nothing to do:  once or twice she had

   662 peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no

   663 pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'

   664 thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'

   666   So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,

   667 for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether

   668 the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble

   669 of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White

   670 Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

   672   There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice

   673 think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to

   674 itself, `Oh dear!  Oh dear!  I shall be late!'  (when she thought

   675 it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have

   676 wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural);

   677 but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-

   678 POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to

   679 her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never

   680 before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to

   681 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the

   682 field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop

   683 down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

   685   In another moment down went Alice after it, never once

   686 considering how in the world she was to get out again.

   688   The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,

   689 and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a

   690 moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself

   691 falling down a very deep well.

   693   Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she

   694 had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to

   695 wonder what was going to happen next.  First, she tried to look

   696 down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to

   697 see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and

   698 noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves;

   699 here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.  She

   700 took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was

   701 labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it

   702 was empty:  she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing

   703 somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she

   704 fell past it.

   706   `Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I

   707 shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!  How brave they'll

   708 all think me at home!  Why, I wouldn't say anything about it,

   709 even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely

   710 true.)

   712   Down, down, down.  Would the fall NEVER come to an end!  `I

   713 wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud.

   714 `I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.  Let

   715 me see:  that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for,

   716 you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her

   717 lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good

   718 opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to

   719 listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,

   720 that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude

   721 or Longitude I've got to?'  (Alice had no idea what Latitude was,

   722 or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to

   723 say.)

   725   Presently she began again.  `I wonder if I shall fall right

   726 THROUGH the earth!  How funny it'll seem to come out among the

   727 people that walk with their heads downward!  The Antipathies, I

   728 think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this

   729 time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) `--but I shall

   730 have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.

   731 Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried

   732 to curtsey as she spoke--fancy CURTSEYING as you're falling

   733 through the air!  Do you think you could manage it?)  `And what

   734 an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking!  No, it'll

   735 never do to ask:  perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.'

   737   Down, down, down.  There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon

   738 began talking again.  `Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I

   739 should think!'  (Dinah was the cat.)  `I hope they'll remember

   740 her saucer of milk at tea-time.  Dinah my dear!  I wish you were

   741 down here with me!  There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but

   742 you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.

   743 But do cats eat bats, I wonder?'  And here Alice began to get

   744 rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of

   745 way, `Do cats eat bats?  Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, `Do

   746 bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either

   747 question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.  She felt

   748 that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she

   749 was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very

   750 earnestly, `Now, Dinah, tell me the truth:  did you ever eat a

   751 bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of

   752 sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.

   754   Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a

   755 moment:  she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her

   756 was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in

   757 sight, hurrying down it.  There was not a moment to be lost:

   758 away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it

   759 say, as it turned a corner, `Oh my ears and whiskers, how late

   760 it's getting!'  She was close behind it when she turned the

   761 corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen:  she found

   762 herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps

   763 hanging from the roof.

   765   There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked;

   766 and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the

   767 other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle,

   768 wondering how she was ever to get out again.

   770   Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of

   771 solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key,

   772 and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the

   773 doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or

   774 the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of

   775 them.  However, on the second time round, she came upon a low

   776 curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little

   777 door about fifteen inches high:  she tried the little golden key

   778 in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!

   780   Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small

   781 passage, not much larger than a rat-hole:  she knelt down and

   782 looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.

   783 How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about

   784 among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but

   785 she could not even get her head though the doorway; `and even if

   786 my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, `it would be of

   787 very little use without my shoulders.  Oh, how I wish

   788 I could shut up like a telescope!  I think I could, if I only

   789 know how to begin.'  For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things

   790 had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few

   791 things indeed were really impossible.

   793   There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she

   794 went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on

   795 it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like

   796 telescopes:  this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which

   797 certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck

   798 of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME'

   799 beautifully printed on it in large letters.

   801   It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little

   802 Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry.  `No, I'll look

   803 first,' she said, `and see whether it's marked "poison" or not';

   804 for she had read several nice little histories about children who

   805 had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant

   806 things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules

   807 their friends had taught them:  such as, that a red-hot poker

   808 will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your

   809 finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had

   810 never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked

   811 `poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or

   812 later.

   814   However, this bottle was NOT marked `poison,' so Alice ventured

   815 to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort

   816 of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast

   817 turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished

   818 it off.

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   822          *       *       *       *       *       *

   824      *       *       *       *       *       *       *

   826   `What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be shutting up

   827 like a telescope.'

   829   And so it was indeed:  she was now only ten inches high, and

   830 her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right

   831 size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.

   832 First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was

   833 going to shrink any further:  she felt a little nervous about

   834 this; `for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, `in my

   835 going out altogether, like a candle.  I wonder what I should be

   836 like then?'  And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is

   837 like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember

   838 ever having seen such a thing.

   840   After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided

   841 on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice!

   842 when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the

   843 little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it,

   844 she found she could not possibly reach it:  she could see it

   845 quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb

   846 up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery;

   847 and when she had tired herself out with trying,

   848 the poor little thing sat down and cried.

   850   `Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to

   851 herself, rather sharply; `I advise you to leave off this minute!'

   852 She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very

   853 seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so

   854 severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered

   855 trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game

   856 of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious

   857 child was very fond of pretending to be two people.  `But it's no

   858 use now,' thought poor Alice, `to pretend to be two people!  Why,

   859 there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable

   860 person!'

   862   Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under

   863 the table:  she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on

   864 which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.

   865 `Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow larger,

   866 I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep

   867 under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I

   868 don't care which happens!'

   870   She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which

   871 way?  Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to

   872 feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to

   873 find that she remained the same size:  to be sure, this generally

   874 happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the

   875 way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen,

   876 that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the

   877 common way.

   879   So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.

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   890                            CHAPTER II

   892                         The Pool of Tears

   895   `Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much

   896 surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good

   897 English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that

   898 ever was!  Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her

   899 feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so

   900 far off).  `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on

   901 your shoes and stockings for you now, dears?  I'm sure _I_ shan't

   902 be able!  I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself

   903 about you:  you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be

   904 kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won't walk the

   905 way I want to go!  Let me see:  I'll give them a new pair of

   906 boots every Christmas.'

   908   And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it.

   909 `They must go by the carrier,' she thought; `and how funny it'll

   910 seem, sending presents to one's own feet!  And how odd the

   911 directions will look!

   913             ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.

   914                 HEARTHRUG,

   915                     NEAR THE FENDER,

   916                         (WITH ALICE'S LOVE).

   918 Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'

   920   Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall:  in

   921 fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took

   922 up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.

   924   Poor Alice!  It was as much as she could do, lying down on one

   925 side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get

   926 through was more hopeless than ever:  she sat down and began to

   927 cry again.

   929   `You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, `a great

   930 girl like you,' (she might well say this), `to go on crying in

   931 this way!  Stop this moment, I tell you!'  But she went on all

   932 the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool

   933 all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the

   934 hall.

   936   After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the

   937 distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.

   938 It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a

   939 pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the

   940 other:  he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to

   941 himself as he came, `Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she

   942 be savage if I've kept her waiting!'  Alice felt so desperate

   943 that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit

   944 came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, `If you please,

   945 sir--'  The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid

   946 gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard

   947 as he could go.

   949   Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very

   950 hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking:

   951 `Dear, dear!  How queer everything is to-day!  And yesterday

   952 things went on just as usual.  I wonder if I've been changed in

   953 the night?  Let me think:  was I the same when I got up this

   954 morning?  I almost think I can remember feeling a little

   955 different.  But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in

   956 the world am I?  Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!'  And she began

   957 thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age

   958 as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of

   959 them.

   961   `I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, `for her hair goes in such

   962 long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm

   963 sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she,

   964 oh! she knows such a very little!  Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I,

   965 and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is!  I'll try if I know all the

   966 things I used to know.  Let me see:  four times five is twelve,

   967 and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear!

   968 I shall never get to twenty at that rate!  However, the

   969 Multiplication Table doesn't signify:  let's try Geography.

   970 London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,

   971 and Rome--no, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain!  I must have been

   972 changed for Mabel!  I'll try and say "How doth the little--"'

   973 and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons,

   974 and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and

   975 strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:--

   977             `How doth the little crocodile

   978               Improve his shining tail,

   979             And pour the waters of the Nile

   980               On every golden scale!

   982             `How cheerfully he seems to grin,

   983               How neatly spread his claws,

   984             And welcome little fishes in

   985               With gently smiling jaws!'

   987   `I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and

   988 her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, `I must be Mabel

   989 after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little

   990 house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so

   991 many lessons to learn!  No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm

   992 Mabel, I'll stay down here!  It'll be no use their putting their

   993 heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!"  I shall only look

   994 up and say "Who am I then?  Tell me that first, and then, if I

   995 like being that person, I'll come up:  if not, I'll stay down

   996 here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a

   997 sudden burst of tears, `I do wish they WOULD put their heads

   998 down!  I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'

  1000   As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was

  1001 surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little

  1002 white kid gloves while she was talking.  `How CAN I have done

  1003 that?' she thought.  `I must be growing small again.'  She got up

  1004 and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that,

  1005 as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high,

  1006 and was going on shrinking rapidly:  she soon found out that the

  1007 cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it

  1008 hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

  1010 `That WAS a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at

  1011 the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in

  1012 existence; `and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed

  1013 back to the little door:  but, alas! the little door was shut

  1014 again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as

  1015 before, `and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor child,

  1016 `for I never was so small as this before, never!  And I declare

  1017 it's too bad, that it is!'

  1019   As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another

  1020 moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water.  Her first

  1021 idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, `and in that

  1022 case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself.  (Alice had

  1023 been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general

  1024 conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find

  1025 a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in

  1026 the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and

  1027 behind them a railway station.)  However, she soon made out that

  1028 she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine

  1029 feet high.

  1031   `I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about,

  1032 trying to find her way out.  `I shall be punished for it now, I

  1033 suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!  That WILL be a queer

  1034 thing, to be sure!  However, everything is queer to-day.'

  1036   Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a

  1037 little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was:  at

  1038 first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then

  1039 she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that

  1040 it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.

  1042   `Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, `to speak to this

  1043 mouse?  Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should

  1044 think very likely it can talk:  at any rate, there's no harm in

  1045 trying.'  So she began:  `O Mouse, do you know the way out of

  1046 this pool?  I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!'

  1047 (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse:

  1048 she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having

  1049 seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, `A mouse--of a mouse--to a

  1050 mouse--a mouse--O mouse!'  The Mouse looked at her rather

  1051 inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little

  1052 eyes, but it said nothing.

  1054   `Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; `I

  1055 daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the

  1056 Conqueror.'  (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had

  1057 no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.)  So she

  1058 began again:  `Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in

  1059 her French lesson-book.  The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the

  1060 water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.  `Oh, I beg

  1061 your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the

  1062 poor animal's feelings.  `I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'

  1064   `Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate

  1065 voice.  `Would YOU like cats if you were me?'

  1067   `Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone:  `don't be

  1068 angry about it.  And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah:

  1069 I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her.

  1070 She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself,

  1071 as she swam lazily about in the pool, `and she sits purring so

  1072 nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and

  1073 she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such a capital

  1074 one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice again,

  1075 for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt

  1076 certain it must be really offended.  `We won't talk about her any

  1077 more if you'd rather not.'

  1079   `We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end

  1080 of his tail.  `As if I would talk on such a subject!  Our family

  1081 always HATED cats:  nasty, low, vulgar things!  Don't let me hear

  1082 the name again!'

  1084   `I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the

  1085 subject of conversation.  `Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?'

  1086 The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly:  `There is

  1087 such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!

  1088 A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly

  1089 brown hair!  And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and

  1090 it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I

  1091 can't remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, you

  1092 know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds!

  1093 He says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a

  1094 sorrowful tone, `I'm afraid I've offended it again!'  For the

  1095 Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and

  1096 making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.

  1098   So she called softly after it, `Mouse dear!  Do come back

  1099 again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't

  1100 like them!'  When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam

  1101 slowly back to her:  its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice

  1102 thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, `Let us get to

  1103 the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll

  1104 understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'

  1106   It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded

  1107 with the birds and animals that had fallen into it:  there were a

  1108 Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious

  1109 creatures.  Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the

  1110 shore.

  1114                            CHAPTER III

  1116                   A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

  1119   They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the

  1120 bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their

  1121 fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and

  1122 uncomfortable.

  1124   The first question of course was, how to get dry again:  they

  1125 had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed

  1126 quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with

  1127 them, as if she had known them all her life.  Indeed, she had

  1128 quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky,

  1129 and would only say, `I am older than you, and must know better';

  1130 and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was,

  1131 and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no

  1132 more to be said.

  1134   At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among

  1135 them, called out, `Sit down, all of you, and listen to me!  I'LL

  1136 soon make you dry enough!'  They all sat down at once, in a large

  1137 ring, with the Mouse in the middle.  Alice kept her eyes

  1138 anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad

  1139 cold if she did not get dry very soon.

  1141   `Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, `are you all ready?

  1142 This is the driest thing I know.  Silence all round, if you please!

  1143 "William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was

  1144 soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been

  1145 of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.  Edwin and

  1146 Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'

  1148   `Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.

  1150   `I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very

  1151 politely:  `Did you speak?'

  1153   `Not I!' said the Lory hastily.

  1155   `I thought you did,' said the Mouse.  `--I proceed.  "Edwin and

  1156 Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him:

  1157 and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found

  1158 it advisable--"'

  1160   `Found WHAT?' said the Duck.

  1162   `Found IT,' the Mouse replied rather crossly:  `of course you

  1163 know what "it" means.'

  1165   `I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said

  1166 the Duck:  `it's generally a frog or a worm.  The question is,

  1167 what did the archbishop find?'

  1169   The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on,

  1170 `"--found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William

  1171 and offer him the crown.  William's conduct at first was

  1172 moderate.  But the insolence of his Normans--"  How are you

  1173 getting on now, my dear?' it continued, turning to Alice as it

  1174 spoke.

  1176   `As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone:  `it doesn't

  1177 seem to dry me at all.'

  1179   `In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, `I

  1180 move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more

  1181 energetic remedies--'

  1183   `Speak English!' said the Eaglet.  `I don't know the meaning of

  1184 half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do

  1185 either!'  And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile:

  1186 some of the other birds tittered audibly.

  1188   `What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone,

  1189 `was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'

  1191   `What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much

  1192 to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY

  1193 ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.

  1195   `Why,' said the Dodo, `the best way to explain it is to do it.'

  1196 (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter

  1197 day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)

  1199   First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (`the

  1200 exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party

  1201 were placed along the course, here and there.  There was no `One,

  1202 two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked,

  1203 and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know

  1204 when the race was over.  However, when they had been running half

  1205 an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called

  1206 out `The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting,

  1207 and asking, `But who has won?'

  1209   This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of

  1210 thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon

  1211 its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare,

  1212 in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.  At

  1213 last the Dodo said, `EVERYBODY has won, and all must have

  1214 prizes.'

  1216   `But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices

  1217 asked.

  1219   `Why, SHE, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with

  1220 one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her,

  1221 calling out in a confused way, `Prizes! Prizes!'

  1223   Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand

  1224 in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt

  1225 water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.

  1226 There was exactly one a-piece all round.

  1228   `But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the Mouse.

  1230   `Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely.  `What else have

  1231 you got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.

  1233   `Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.

  1235   `Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.

  1237   Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo

  1238 solemnly presented the thimble, saying `We beg your acceptance of

  1239 this elegant thimble'; and, when it had finished this short

  1240 speech, they all cheered.

  1242   Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked

  1243 so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not

  1244 think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble,

  1245 looking as solemn as she could.

  1247   The next thing was to eat the comfits:  this caused some noise

  1248 and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not

  1249 taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on

  1250 the back.  However, it was over at last, and they sat down again

  1251 in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.

  1253   `You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice,

  1254 `and why it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half

  1255 afraid that it would be offended again.

  1257   `Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to

  1258 Alice, and sighing.

  1260   `It IS a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with

  1261 wonder at the Mouse's tail; `but why do you call it sad?'  And

  1262 she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so

  1263 that her idea of the tale was something like this:--

  1265                     `Fury said to a

  1266                    mouse, That he

  1267                  met in the

  1268                house,

  1269             "Let us

  1270               both go to

  1271                 law:  I will

  1272                   prosecute

  1273                     YOU.  --Come,

  1274                        I'll take no

  1275                         denial; We

  1276                      must have a

  1277                  trial:  For

  1278               really this

  1279            morning I've

  1280           nothing

  1281          to do."

  1282            Said the

  1283              mouse to the

  1284                cur, "Such

  1285                  a trial,

  1286                    dear Sir,

  1287                          With

  1288                      no jury

  1289                   or judge,

  1290                 would be

  1291               wasting

  1292              our

  1293               breath."

  1294                "I'll be

  1295                  judge, I'll

  1296                    be jury,"

  1297                          Said

  1298                     cunning

  1299                       old Fury:

  1300                      "I'll

  1301                       try the

  1302                          whole

  1303                           cause,

  1304                              and

  1305                         condemn

  1306                        you

  1307                       to

  1308                        death."'

  1310   Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister

  1311 on the bank, and of having nothing to do:  once or twice she had

  1312 peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no

  1313 pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'

  1314 thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'

  1316   So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,

  1317 for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether

  1318 the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble

  1319 of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White

  1320 Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

  1322   There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice

  1323 think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to

  1324 itself, `Oh dear!  Oh dear!  I shall be late!'  (when she thought

  1325 it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have

  1326 wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural);

  1327 but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-

  1328 POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to

  1329 her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never

  1330 before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to

  1331 take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the

  1332 field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop

  1333 down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

  1335   In another moment down went Alice after it, never once

  1336 considering how in the world she was to get out again.

  1338   The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,

  1339 and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a

  1340 moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself

  1341 falling down a very deep well.

  1343   Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she

  1344 had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to

  1345 wonder what was going to happen next.  First, she tried to look

  1346 down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to

  1347 see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and

  1348 noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves;

  1349 here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.  She

  1350 took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was

  1351 labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it

  1352 was empty:  she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing

  1353 somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she

  1354 fell past it.

  1356   `Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I

  1357 shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!  How brave they'll

  1358 all think me at home!  Why, I wouldn't say anything about it,

  1359 even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely

  1360 true.)

  1362   Down, down, down.  Would the fall NEVER come to an end!  `I

  1363 wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud.

  1364 `I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.  Let

  1365 me see:  that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for,

  1366 you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her

  1367 lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good

  1368 opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to

  1369 listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,

  1370 that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude

  1371 or Longitude I've got to?'  (Alice had no idea what Latitude was,

  1372 or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to

  1373 say.)

  1375   Presently she began again.  `I wonder if I shall fall right

  1376 THROUGH the earth!  How funny it'll seem to come out among the

  1377 people that walk with their heads downward!  The Antipathies, I

  1378 think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this

  1379 time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) `--but I shall

  1380 have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.

  1381 Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried

  1382 to curtsey as she spoke--fancy CURTSEYING as you're falling

  1383 through the air!  Do you think you could manage it?)  `And what

  1384 an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking!  No, it'll

  1385 never do to ask:  perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.'

  1387   Down, down, down.  There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon

  1388 began talking again.  `Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I

  1389 should think!'  (Dinah was the cat.)  `I hope they'll remember

  1390 her saucer of milk at tea-time.  Dinah my dear!  I wish you were

  1391 down here with me!  There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but

  1392 you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.

  1393 But do cats eat bats, I wonder?'  And here Alice began to get

  1394 rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of

  1395 way, `Do cats eat bats?  Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, `Do

  1396 bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either

  1397 question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.  She felt

  1398 that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she

  1399 was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very

  1400 earnestly, `Now, Dinah, tell me the truth:  did you ever eat a

  1401 bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of

  1402 sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.

  1404   Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a

  1405 moment:  she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her

  1406 was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in

  1407 sight, hurrying down it.  There was not a moment to be lost:

  1408 away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it

  1409 say, as it turned a corner, `Oh my ears and whiskers, how late

  1410 it's getting!'  She was close behind it when she turned the

  1411 corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen:  she found

  1412 herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps

  1413 hanging from the roof.

  1415   There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked;

  1416 and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the

  1417 other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle,

  1418 wondering how she was ever to get out again.

  1420   Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of

  1421 solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key,

  1422 and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the

  1423 doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or

  1424 the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of

  1425 them.  However, on the second time round, she came upon a low

  1426 curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little

  1427 door about fifteen inches high:  she tried the little golden key

  1428 in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!

  1430   Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small

  1431 passage, not much larger than a rat-hole:  she knelt down and

  1432 looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.

  1433 How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about

  1434 among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but

  1435 she could not even get her head though the doorway; `and even if

  1436 my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, `it would be of

  1437 very little use without my shoulders.  Oh, how I wish

  1438 I could shut up like a telescope!  I think I could, if I only

  1439 know how to begin.'  For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things

  1440 had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few

  1441 things indeed were really impossible.

  1443   There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she

  1444 went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on

  1445 it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like

  1446 telescopes:  this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which

  1447 certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck

  1448 of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME'

  1449 beautifully printed on it in large letters.

  1451   It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little

  1452 Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry.  `No, I'll look

  1453 first,' she said, `and see whether it's marked "poison" or not';

  1454 for she had read several nice little histories about children who

  1455 had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant

  1456 things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules

  1457 their friends had taught them:  such as, that a red-hot poker

  1458 will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your

  1459 finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had

  1460 never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked

  1461 `poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or

  1462 later.

  1464   However, this bottle was NOT marked `poison,' so Alice ventured

  1465 to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort

  1466 of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast

  1467 turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished

  1468 it off.

  1470      *       *       *       *       *       *       *

  1472          *       *       *       *       *       *

  1474      *       *       *       *       *       *       *

  1476   `What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be shutting up

  1477 like a telescope.'

  1479   And so it was indeed:  she was now only ten inches high, and

  1480 her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right

  1481 size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.

  1482 First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was

  1483 going to shrink any further:  she felt a little nervous about

  1484 this; `for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, `in my

  1485 going out altogether, like a candle.  I wonder what I should be

  1486 like then?'  And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is

  1487 like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember

  1488 ever having seen such a thing.

  1490   After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided

  1491 on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice!

  1492 when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the

  1493 little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it,

  1494 she found she could not possibly reach it:  she could see it

  1495 quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb

  1496 up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery;

  1497 and when she had tired herself out with trying,

  1498 the poor little thing sat down and cried.

  1500   `Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to

  1501 herself, rather sharply; `I advise you to leave off this minute!'

  1502 She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very

  1503 seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so

  1504 severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered

  1505 trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game

  1506 of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious

  1507 child was very fond of pretending to be two people.  `But it's no

  1508 use now,' thought poor Alice, `to pretend to be two people!  Why,

  1509 there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable

  1510 person!'

  1512   Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under

  1513 the table:  she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on

  1514 which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.

  1515 `Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow larger,

  1516 I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep

  1517 under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I

  1518 don't care which happens!'

  1520   She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which

  1521 way?  Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to

  1522 feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to

  1523 find that she remained the same size:  to be sure, this generally

  1524 happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the

  1525 way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen,

  1526 that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the

  1527 common way.

  1529   So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.

  1531      *       *       *       *       *       *       *

  1533          *       *       *       *       *       *

  1535      *       *       *       *       *       *       *

  1540                            CHAPTER II

  1542                         The Pool of Tears

  1545   `Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much

  1546 surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good

  1547 English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that

  1548 ever was!  Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her

  1549 feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so

  1550 far off).  `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on

  1551 your shoes and stockings for you now, dears?  I'm sure _I_ shan't

  1552 be able!  I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself

  1553 about you:  you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be

  1554 kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won't walk the

  1555 way I want to go!  Let me see:  I'll give them a new pair of

  1556 boots every Christmas.'

  1558   And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it.

  1559 `They must go by the carrier,' she thought; `and how funny it'll

  1560 seem, sending presents to one's own feet!  And how odd the

  1561 directions will look!

  1563             ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.

  1564                 HEARTHRUG,

  1565                     NEAR THE FENDER,

  1566                         (WITH ALICE'S LOVE).

  1568 Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'

  1570   Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall:  in

  1571 fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took

  1572 up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.

  1574   Poor Alice!  It was as much as she could do, lying down on one

  1575 side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get

  1576 through was more hopeless than ever:  she sat down and began to

  1577 cry again.

  1579   `You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, `a great

  1580 girl like you,' (she might well say this), `to go on crying in

  1581 this way!  Stop this moment, I tell you!'  But she went on all

  1582 the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool

  1583 all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the

  1584 hall.

  1586   After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the

  1587 distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.

  1588 It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a

  1589 pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the

  1590 other:  he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to

  1591 himself as he came, `Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she

  1592 be savage if I've kept her waiting!'  Alice felt so desperate

  1593 that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit

  1594 came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, `If you please,

  1595 sir--'  The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid

  1596 gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard

  1597 as he could go.

  1599   Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very

  1600 hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking:

  1601 `Dear, dear!  How queer everything is to-day!  And yesterday

  1602 things went on just as usual.  I wonder if I've been changed in

  1603 the night?  Let me think:  was I the same when I got up this

  1604 morning?  I almost think I can remember feeling a little

  1605 different.  But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in

  1606 the world am I?  Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!'  And she began

  1607 thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age

  1608 as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of

  1609 them.

  1611   `I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, `for her hair goes in such

  1612 long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm

  1613 sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she,

  1614 oh! she knows such a very little!  Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I,

  1615 and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is!  I'll try if I know all the

  1616 things I used to know.  Let me see:  four times five is twelve,

  1617 and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear!

  1618 I shall never get to twenty at that rate!  However, the

  1619 Multiplication Table doesn't signify:  let's try Geography.

  1620 London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,

  1621 and Rome--no, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain!  I must have been

  1622 changed for Mabel!  I'll try and say "How doth the little--"'

  1623 and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons,

  1624 and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and

  1625 strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:--

  1627             `How doth the little crocodile

  1628               Improve his shining tail,

  1629             And pour the waters of the Nile

  1630               On every golden scale!

  1632             `How cheerfully he seems to grin,

  1633               How neatly spread his claws,

  1634             And welcome little fishes in

  1635               With gently smiling jaws!'

  1637   `I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and

  1638 her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, `I must be Mabel

  1639 after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little

  1640 house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so

  1641 many lessons to learn!  No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm

  1642 Mabel, I'll stay down here!  It'll be no use their putting their

  1643 heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!"  I shall only look

  1644 up and say "Who am I then?  Tell me that first, and then, if I

  1645 like being that person, I'll come up:  if not, I'll stay down

  1646 here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a

  1647 sudden burst of tears, `I do wish they WOULD put their heads

  1648 down!  I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'

  1650   As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was

  1651 surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little

  1652 white kid gloves while she was talking.  `How CAN I have done

  1653 that?' she thought.  `I must be growing small again.'  She got up

  1654 and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that,

  1655 as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high,

  1656 and was going on shrinking rapidly:  she soon found out that the

  1657 cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it

  1658 hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

  1660 `That WAS a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at

  1661 the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in

  1662 existence; `and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed

  1663 back to the little door:  but, alas! the little door was shut

  1664 again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as

  1665 before, `and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor child,

  1666 `for I never was so small as this before, never!  And I declare

  1667 it's too bad, that it is!'

  1669   As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another

  1670 moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water.  Her first

  1671 idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, `and in that

  1672 case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself.  (Alice had

  1673 been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general

  1674 conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find

  1675 a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in

  1676 the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and

  1677 behind them a railway station.)  However, she soon made out that

  1678 she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine

  1679 feet high.

  1681   `I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about,

  1682 trying to find her way out.  `I shall be punished for it now, I

  1683 suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!  That WILL be a queer

  1684 thing, to be sure!  However, everything is queer to-day.'

  1686   Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a

  1687 little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was:  at

  1688 first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then

  1689 she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that

  1690 it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.

  1692   `Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, `to speak to this

  1693 mouse?  Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should

  1694 think very likely it can talk:  at any rate, there's no harm in

  1695 trying.'  So she began:  `O Mouse, do you know the way out of

  1696 this pool?  I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!'

  1697 (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse:

  1698 she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having

  1699 seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, `A mouse--of a mouse--to a

  1700 mouse--a mouse--O mouse!'  The Mouse looked at her rather

  1701 inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little

  1702 eyes, but it said nothing.

  1704   `Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; `I

  1705 daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the

  1706 Conqueror.'  (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had

  1707 no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.)  So she

  1708 began again:  `Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in

  1709 her French lesson-book.  The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the

  1710 water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.  `Oh, I beg

  1711 your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the

  1712 poor animal's feelings.  `I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'

  1714   `Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate

  1715 voice.  `Would YOU like cats if you were me?'

  1717   `Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone:  `don't be

  1718 angry about it.  And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah:

  1719 I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her.

  1720 She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself,

  1721 as she swam lazily about in the pool, `and she sits purring so

  1722 nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and

  1723 she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such a capital

  1724 one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice again,

  1725 for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt

  1726 certain it must be really offended.  `We won't talk about her any

  1727 more if you'd rather not.'

  1729   `We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end

  1730 of his tail.  `As if I would talk on such a subject!  Our family

  1731 always HATED cats:  nasty, low, vulgar things!  Don't let me hear

  1732 the name again!'

  1734   `I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the

  1735 subject of conversation.  `Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?'

  1736 The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly:  `There is

  1737 such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!

  1738 A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly

  1739 brown hair!  And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and

  1740 it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I

  1741 can't remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, you

  1742 know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds!

  1743 He says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a

  1744 sorrowful tone, `I'm afraid I've offended it again!'  For the

  1745 Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and

  1746 making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.

  1748   So she called softly after it, `Mouse dear!  Do come back

  1749 again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't

  1750 like them!'  When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam

  1751 slowly back to her:  its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice

  1752 thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, `Let us get to

  1753 the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll

  1754 understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'

  1756   It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded

  1757 with the birds and animals that had fallen into it:  there were a

  1758 Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious

  1759 creatures.  Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the

  1760 shore.

  1764                            CHAPTER III

  1766                   A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

  1769   They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the

  1770 bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their

  1771 fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and

  1772 uncomfortable.

  1774   The first question of course was, how to get dry again:  they

  1775 had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed

  1776 quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with

  1777 them, as if she had known them all her life.  Indeed, she had

  1778 quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky,

  1779 and would only say, `I am older than you, and must know better';

  1780 and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was,

  1781 and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no

  1782 more to be said.

  1784   At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among

  1785 them, called out, `Sit down, all of you, and listen to me!  I'LL

  1786 soon make you dry enough!'  They all sat down at once, in a large

  1787 ring, with the Mouse in the middle.  Alice kept her eyes

  1788 anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad

  1789 cold if she did not get dry very soon.

  1791   `Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, `are you all ready?

  1792 This is the driest thing I know.  Silence all round, if you please!

  1793 "William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was

  1794 soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been

  1795 of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.  Edwin and

  1796 Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'

  1798   `Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.

  1800   `I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very

  1801 politely:  `Did you speak?'

  1803   `Not I!' said the Lory hastily.

  1805   `I thought you did,' said the Mouse.  `--I proceed.  "Edwin and

  1806 Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him:

  1807 and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found

  1808 it advisable--"'

  1810   `Found WHAT?' said the Duck.

  1812   `Found IT,' the Mouse replied rather crossly:  `of course you

  1813 know what "it" means.'

  1815   `I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said

  1816 the Duck:  `it's generally a frog or a worm.  The question is,

  1817 what did the archbishop find?'

  1819   The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on,

  1820 `"--found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William

  1821 and offer him the crown.  William's conduct at first was

  1822 moderate.  But the insolence of his Normans--"  How are you

  1823 getting on now, my dear?' it continued, turning to Alice as it

  1824 spoke.

  1826   `As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone:  `it doesn't

  1827 seem to dry me at all.'

  1829   `In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, `I

  1830 move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more

  1831 energetic remedies--'

  1833   `Speak English!' said the Eaglet.  `I don't know the meaning of

  1834 half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do

  1835 either!'  And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile:

  1836 some of the other birds tittered audibly.

  1838   `What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone,

  1839 `was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'

  1841   `What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much

  1842 to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY

  1843 ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.

  1845   `Why,' said the Dodo, `the best way to explain it is to do it.'

  1846 (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter

  1847 day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)

  1849   First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (`the

  1850 exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party

  1851 were placed along the course, here and there.  There was no `One,

  1852 two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked,

  1853 and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know

  1854 when the race was over.  However, when they had been running half

  1855 an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called

  1856 out `The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting,

  1857 and asking, `But who has won?'

  1859   This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of

  1860 thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon

  1861 its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare,

  1862 in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.  At

  1863 last the Dodo said, `EVERYBODY has won, and all must have

  1864 prizes.'

  1866   `But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices

  1867 asked.

  1869   `Why, SHE, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with

  1870 one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her,

  1871 calling out in a confused way, `Prizes! Prizes!'

  1873   Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand

  1874 in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt

  1875 water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.

  1876 There was exactly one a-piece all round.

  1878   `But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the Mouse.

  1880   `Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely.  `What else have

  1881 you got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.

  1883   `Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.

  1885   `Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.

  1887   Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo

  1888 solemnly presented the thimble, saying `We beg your acceptance of

  1889 this elegant thimble'; and, when it had finished this short

  1890 speech, they all cheered.

  1892   Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked

  1893 so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not

  1894 think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble,

  1895 looking as solemn as she could.

  1897   The next thing was to eat the comfits:  this caused some noise

  1898 and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not

  1899 taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on

  1900 the back.  However, it was over at last, and they sat down again

  1901 in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.

  1903   `You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice,

  1904 `and why it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half

  1905 afraid that it would be offended again.

  1907   `Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to

  1908 Alice, and sighing.

  1910   `It IS a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with

  1911 wonder at the Mouse's tail; `but why do you call it sad?'  And

  1912 she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so

  1913 that her idea of the tale was something like this:--

  1915                     `Fury said to a

  1916                    mouse, That he

  1917                  met in the

  1918                house,

  1919             "Let us

  1920               both go to

  1921                 law:  I will

  1922                   prosecute

  1923                     YOU.  --Come,

  1924                        I'll take no

  1925                         denial; We

  1926                      must have a

  1927                  trial:  For

  1928               really this

  1929            morning I've

  1930           nothing

  1931          to do."

  1932            Said the

  1933              mouse to the

  1934                cur, "Such

  1935                  a trial,

  1936                    dear Sir,

  1937                          With

  1938                      no jury

  1939                   or judge,

  1940                 would be

  1941               wasting

  1942              our

  1943               breath."

  1944                "I'll be

  1945                  judge, I'll

  1946                    be jury,"

  1947                          Said

  1948                     cunning

  1949                       old Fury:

  1950                      "I'll

  1951                       try the

  1952                          whole

  1953                           cause,

  1954                              and

  1955                         condemn

  1956                        you

  1957                       to

  1958                        death."'

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