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Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

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THE "STORYLAND" SERIES

ALICE'S ADVENTURES
IN
WONDERLAND

SAM'L GABRIEL SONS & COMPANY
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1916,
by SAM'L GABRIEL SONS & COMPANY
NEW YORK

Alice in the Room of the Duchess.

ALICE'S
ADVENTURES

IN
WONDERLAND

I—DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE

A lice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank,
and of having nothing to do. Once or twice she had peeped into the
book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it,
"and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or
conversations?"
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the day
made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a
daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the
daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that, nor
did Alice think it so very much out of the way to
hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I
shall be too late!" But when the Rabbit actually
took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket and
looked at it and then hurried on, Alice started to
her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had
never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take
out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it and was
just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole, under the hedge. In
another moment, down went Alice after it!
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way and then dipped
suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about
stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a
very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of
time, as she went down, to look about her. First, she tried to make out what
she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at
the sides of the well and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and
book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.
She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed. It was labeled

"ORANGE MARMALADE," but, to her great disappointment, it was
empty; she did not like to drop the jar, so managed to put it into one of the
cupboards as she fell past it.
Down, down, down! Would the fall never come to an end? There was
nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking to herself. "Dinah'll miss me
very much to-night, I should think!" (Dinah was the cat.) "I hope they'll
remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear, I wish you were
down here with me!" Alice felt that she was dozing off, when suddenly,
thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and
the fall was over.
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up in a moment. She looked up,
but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage and the
White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment
to be lost. Away went Alice like the wind and was just in time to hear it say,
as it turned a corner, "Oh, my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" She
was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no
longer to be seen.
She found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps
hanging from the roof. There were doors all 'round the hall, but they were
all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the
other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how
she was ever to get out again.
Suddenly she came upon a little table, all made of
solid glass. There was nothing on it but a tiny golden
key, and Alice's first idea was that this might belong
to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the
locks were too large, or the key was too small, but, at
any rate, it would not open any of them. However, on
the second time 'round, she came upon a low curtain
she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little
door about fifteen inches high. She tried the little
golden key in the lock, and to her great delight, it
fitted!

Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much
larger than a rat-hole; she knelt down and looked along the passage into the
loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall
and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool
fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway. "Oh,"
said Alice, "how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I
only knew how to begin."
Alice went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it,
or at any rate, a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes. This
time she found a little bottle on it ("which certainly was not here before,"
said Alice), and tied 'round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the
words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it in large letters.
"No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not,"
for she had never forgotten that, if you drink from a bottle marked "poison,"
it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. However, this
bottle was not marked "poison," so Alice ventured to taste it, and, finding it
very nice (it had a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple,
roast turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast), she very soon finished it off.

"What a curious feeling!" said Alice. "I must be shutting up like a
telescope!"
And so it was indeed! She was now only ten inches high, and her face
brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going
through the little door into that lovely garden.
After awhile, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going
into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! When she got to the door,
she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back
to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it
quite plainly through the glass and she tried her best to climb up one of the
legs of the table, but it was too slippery, and when she had tired herself out
with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.

"Come, there's no use in crying like that!" said Alice to herself rather
sharply. "I advise you to leave off this minute!" She generally gave herself
very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she
scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes.
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she
opened it and found in it a very small cake, on which the words "EAT ME"
were beautifully marked in currants. "Well, I'll eat it," said Alice, "and if it
makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller,
I can creep under the door: so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't
care which happens!"
She ate a little bit and said anxiously to herself, "Which way? Which way?"
holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way she was growing;
and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size. So she
set to work and very soon finished off the cake.

II—THE POOL OF TEARS
uriouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised that
"C for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now
I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-by, feet!
Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings
for you now, dears? I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about
you."
Just at this moment her head struck against the roof of the hall; in fact, she
was now rather more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little
golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look
through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless
than ever. She sat down and began to cry again.
She went on shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all 'round
her and reaching half down the hall.
After a time, she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance and she
hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White Rabbit
returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid-gloves in one hand
and a large fan in the other. He came trotting along in a great hurry,
muttering to himself, "Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be
savage if I've kept her waiting!"
When the Rabbit came near her, Alice began, in a low, timid voice, "If you
please, sir—" The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid-gloves
and the fan and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.
Alice took up the fan and gloves and she kept fanning herself all the time
she went on talking. "Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And
yesterday things went on just as usual. Was I the same when I got up this
morning? But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in the world
am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!"

As she said this, she looked down at her hands
and was surprised to see that she had put on
one of the Rabbit's little white kid-gloves while
she was talking. "How can I have done that?"
she thought. "I must be growing small again."
She got up and went to the table to measure
herself by it and found that she was now about
two feet high and was going on shrinking
rapidly. She soon found out that the cause of
this was the fan she was holding and she
dropped it hastily, just in time to save herself
from shrinking away altogether.
"That was a narrow escape!" said Alice, a good deal frightened at the
sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence. "And now for
the garden!" And she ran with all speed back to the little door; but, alas! the
little door was shut again and the little golden key was lying on the glass
table as before. "Things are worse than ever," thought the poor child, "for I
never was so small as this before, never!"
As she said these words, her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash!
she was up to her chin in salt-water. Her first idea was that she had
somehow fallen into the sea. However, she soon made out that she was in
the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.
Just then she heard something
splashing about in the pool a
little way off, and she swam
nearer to see what it was: she
soon made out that it was only a
mouse that had slipped in like
herself.
"Would it be of any use, now,"
thought Alice, "to speak to this
mouse? Everything is so out-of-
the-way down here that I should think very likely it can talk; at any rate,
there's no harm in trying." So she began, "O Mouse, do you know the way

out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!" The
Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively and seemed to her to wink with one
of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
"Perhaps it doesn't understand English," thought Alice. "I dare say it's a
French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror." So she began
again: "Où est ma chatte?" which was the first sentence in her French
lesson-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water and seemed to
quiver all over with fright. "Oh, I beg your pardon!" cried Alice hastily,
afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's feelings. "I quite forgot you didn't
like cats."
"Not like cats!" cried the Mouse in a shrill, passionate voice. "Would you
like cats, if you were me?"
"Well, perhaps not," said Alice in a soothing tone; "don't be angry about it.
And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah. I think you'd take a fancy to
cats, if you could only see her. She is such a dear, quiet thing." The Mouse
was bristling all over and she felt certain it must be really offended. "We
won't talk about her any more, if you'd rather not."
"We, indeed!" cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of its
tail. "As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always hated cats—
nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name again!"

Alice at the Mad Tea Party.

"I won't indeed!" said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of
conversation. "Are you—are you fond—of—of dogs? There is such a nice
little dog near our house, I should like to show you! It kills all the rats and
—oh, dear!" cried Alice in a sorrowful tone. "I'm afraid I've offended it
again!" For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go,
and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.
So she called softly after it, "Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we
won't talk about cats, or dogs either, if you don't like them!" When the
Mouse heard this, it turned 'round and swam slowly back to her; its face
was quite pale, and it said, in a low, trembling voice, "Let us get to the
shore and then I'll tell you my history and you'll understand why it is I hate
cats and dogs."
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds
and animals that had fallen into it; there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory

and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way and the
whole party swam to the shore.

III—A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE

T hey were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the
birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to
them, and all dripping wet, cross and uncomfortable.

The first question, of course, was how to get dry again. They had a
consultation about this and after a few minutes, it seemed quite natural to
Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them
all her life.
At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of some authority among
them, called out, "Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you
dry enough!" They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in
the middle.
"Ahem!" said the Mouse with an important air. "Are you all ready? This is
the driest thing I know. Silence all 'round, if you please! 'William the
Conqueror, whose cause was favored by the pope, was soon submitted to by
the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to
usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the Earls of Mercia and
Northumbria'—"
"Ugh!" said the Lory, with a shiver.

"—'And even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it
advisable'—"
"Found what?" said the Duck.
"Found it," the Mouse replied rather crossly; "of course, you know what 'it'
means."
"I know what 'it' means well enough, when I find a thing," said the Duck;
"it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop
find?"
The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, "'—found it
advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the
crown.'—How are you getting on now, my dear?" it continued, turning to
Alice as it spoke.
"As wet as ever," said Alice in a melancholy tone; "it doesn't seem to dry
me at all."
"In that case," said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, "I move that the
meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies—"
"Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those
long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!"
"What I was going to say," said the Dodo in an offended tone, "is that the
best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race."
"What is a Caucus-race?" said Alice.

"Why," said the Dodo, "the best way to explain it is to do it." First it marked
out a race-course, in a sort of circle, and then all the party were placed
along the course, here and there. There was no "One, two, three and away!"
but they began running when they liked and left off when they liked, so that
it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had
been running half an hour or so and were quite dry again, the Dodo
suddenly called out, "The race is over!" and they all crowded 'round it,
panting and asking, "But who has won?"
This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought. At
last it said, "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes."
"But who is to give the prizes?" quite a chorus of voices asked.
"Why, she, of course," said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and
the whole party at once crowded 'round her, calling out, in a confused way,
"Prizes! Prizes!"
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand into her
pocket and pulled out a box of comfits (luckily the salt-water had not got
into it) and handed them 'round as prizes. There was exactly one a-piece, all
'round.
The next thing was to eat the comfits; this caused some noise and
confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and
the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back. However, it was
over at last and they sat down again in a ring and begged the Mouse to tell
them something more.

"You promised to tell me your history, you know," said Alice, "and why it is
you hate—C and D," she added in a whisper, half afraid that it would be
offended again.
"Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse, turning to Alice and
sighing.
"It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder at the
Mouse's tail, "but why do you call it sad?" And she kept on puzzling about
it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something
like this:—

"Fury said to
a mouse, That
he met in the
house, 'Let
us both go
to law: I
will prosecute
you.—
Come, I'll
take no denial:
We must have
the trial;
For really
this morning
I've
nothing
to do.'
Said the
mouse to
the cur,
'Such a
trial, dear
sir, With
no jury
or judge,

would
be wasting
our
breath.'
'I'll be
judge,
I'll be
jury,'
said
cunning
old
Fury;

'I'll

try

the

whole

cause,

and

condemn

you to

death.'"

"You are not attending!" said the Mouse to Alice, severely. "What are you
thinking of?"
"I beg your pardon," said Alice very humbly, "you had got to the fifth bend,
I think?"
"You insult me by talking such nonsense!" said the Mouse, getting up and
walking away.
"Please come back and finish your story!" Alice called after it. And the
others all joined in chorus, "Yes, please do!" But the Mouse only shook its
head impatiently and walked a little quicker.
"I wish I had Dinah, our cat, here!" said Alice. This caused a remarkable
sensation among the party. Some of the birds hurried off at once, and a
Canary called out in a trembling voice, to its children, "Come away, my

dears! It's high time you were all in bed!" On various pretexts they all
moved off and Alice was soon left alone.
"I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah! Nobody seems to like her down here and
I'm sure she's the best cat in the world!" Poor Alice began to cry again, for
she felt very lonely and low-spirited. In a little while, however, she again
heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance and she looked up
eagerly.

IV—THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL

I t was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again and looking anxiously
about as it went, as if it had lost something; Alice heard it muttering to
itself, "The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh, my dear paws! Oh, my fur and
whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I
have dropped them, I wonder?" Alice guessed in a moment that it was
looking for the fan and the pair of white kid-gloves and she very good-
naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen
—everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the
great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely.
Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, and called to her, in an angry tone,
"Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run home this moment and
fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!"
"He took me for his housemaid!" said Alice, as she ran off. "How surprised
he'll be when he finds out who I am!" As she said this, she came upon a neat
little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name
"W. RABBIT" engraved upon it. She went in without knocking and hurried
upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann and be turned
out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves.
By this time, Alice had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in
the window, and on it a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid-gloves;
she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves and was just going to leave the
room, when her eyes fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-
glass. She uncorked it and put it to her lips, saying to herself, "I do hope it'll
make me grow large again, for, really, I'm quite tired of being such a tiny
little thing!"
Before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against
the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She
hastily put down the bottle, remarking, "That's quite enough—I hope I
sha'n't grow any more."

Alas! It was too late to wish that! She went on growing and growing and
very soon she had to kneel down on the floor. Still she went on growing,
and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window and one foot up
the chimney, and said to herself, "Now I can do no more, whatever happens.
What will become of me?"
Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had
now had its full effect and she grew no
larger. After a few minutes she heard a voice
outside and stopped to listen.
"Mary Ann! Mary Ann!" said the voice.
"Fetch me my gloves this moment!" Then
came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look
for her and she trembled till she shook the
house, quite forgetting that she was now
about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit
and had no reason to be afraid of it.
Presently the Rabbit came up to the door and tried to open it; but as the
door opened inwards and Alice's elbow was pressed hard against it, that
attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself, "Then I'll go 'round and
get in at the window."
"That you won't!" thought Alice; and after waiting till she fancied she heard
the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her hand and
made a snatch in the air. She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a
little shriek and a fall and a crash of broken glass, from which she
concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame or
something of that sort.
Next came an angry voice—the Rabbit's—"Pat! Pat! Where are you?" And
then a voice she had never heard before, "Sure then, I'm here! Digging for
apples, yer honor!"
"Here! Come and help me out of this! Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the
window?"
"Sure, it's an arm, yer honor!"

"Well, it's got no business there, at any rate; go and take it away!"
There was a long silence after this and Alice could only hear whispers now
and then, and at last she spread out her hand again and made another snatch
in the air. This time there were two little shrieks and more sounds of broken
glass. "I wonder what they'll do next!" thought Alice. "As for pulling me
out of the window, I only wish they could!"
She waited for some time without hearing anything more. At last came a
rumbling of little cart-wheels and the sound of a good many voices all
talking together. She made out the words: "Where's the other ladder? Bill's
got the other—Bill! Here, Bill! Will the roof bear?—Who's to go down the
chimney?—Nay, I sha'n't! You do it! Here, Bill! The master says you've got
to go down the chimney!"
Alice drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could and waited till
she heard a little animal scratching and scrambling about in the chimney
close above her; then she gave one sharp kick and waited to see what would
happen next.
The first thing she heard was a general chorus of "There goes Bill!" then the
Rabbit's voice alone—"Catch him, you by the hedge!" Then silence and
then another confusion of voices—"Hold up his head—Brandy now—Don't
choke him—What happened to you?"
Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, "Well, I hardly know—No more,
thank ye. I'm better now—all I know is, something comes at me like a Jack-
in-the-box and up I goes like a sky-rocket!"
After a minute or two of silence, they began moving about again, and Alice
heard the Rabbit say, "A barrowful will do, to begin with."
"A barrowful of what?" thought Alice. But she had not long to doubt, for
the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window
and some of them hit her in the face. Alice noticed, with some surprise, that
the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor and a
bright idea came into her head. "If I eat one of these cakes," she thought,
"it's sure to make some change in my size."

So she swallowed one of the cakes and was delighted to find that she began
shrinking directly. As soon as she was small enough to get through the door,
she ran out of the house and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds
waiting outside. They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared,
but she ran off as hard as she could and soon found herself safe in a thick
wood.

"The Duchess tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's."

"The first thing I've got to do," said Alice to herself, as she wandered about
in the wood, "is to grow to my right size again; and the second thing is to
find my way into that lovely garden. I suppose I ought to eat or drink
something or other, but the great question is 'What?'"
Alice looked all around her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she
could not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under
the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the

same height as herself. She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over
the edge and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that
was sitting on the top, with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah
and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.

V—ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR

A t last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed
Alice in a languid, sleepy voice.
"Who are you?" said the Caterpillar.

Alice replied, rather shyly, "I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I
know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have
changed several times since then."
"What do you mean by that?" said the Caterpillar, sternly. "Explain
yourself!"
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself,
you see—being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing." She
drew herself up and said very gravely, "I think you ought to tell me who you
are, first."
"Why?" said the Caterpillar.
As Alice could not think of any good reason and the Caterpillar seemed to
be in a very unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.

"Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to
say!" Alice turned and came back again.
"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.
"Is that all?" said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she could.
"No," said the Caterpillar.
It unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, "So
you think you're changed, do you?"
"I'm afraid, I am, sir," said Alice. "I can't remember things as I used—and I
don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!"
"What size do you want to be?" asked the Caterpillar.
"Oh, I'm not particular as to size," Alice hastily replied, "only one doesn't
like changing so often, you know. I should like to be a little larger, sir, if
you wouldn't mind," said Alice. "Three inches is such a wretched height to
be."
"It is a very good height indeed!" said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself
upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).
In a minute or two, the Caterpillar got down off the mushroom and crawled
away into the grass, merely remarking, as it went, "One side will make you
grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter."
"One side of what? The other side of what?" thought Alice to herself.
"Of the mushroom," said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud;
and in another moment, it was out of sight.
Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying
to make out which were the two sides of it. At last she stretched her arms
'round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each
hand.
"And now which is which?" she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the
right-hand bit to try the effect. The next moment she felt a violent blow
underneath her chin—it had struck her foot!

She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, as she was
shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.
Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot that there was hardly room
to open her mouth; but she did it at last and managed to swallow a morsel
of the left-hand bit....
"Come, my head's free at last!" said Alice; but all she could see, when she
looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a
stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
"Where have my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can't
see you?" She was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily
in any direction, like a serpent. She had just succeeded in curving it down
into a graceful zigzag and was going to dive in among the leaves, when a
sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry—a large pigeon had flown into
her face and was beating her violently with its wings.
"Serpent!" cried the Pigeon.
"I'm not a serpent!" said Alice indignantly. "Let me
alone!"
"I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks,
and I've tried hedges," the Pigeon went on, "but
those serpents! There's no pleasing them!"
Alice was more and more puzzled.
"As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs," said the Pigeon, "but I
must be on the look-out for serpents, night and day! And just as I'd taken
the highest tree in the wood," continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a
shriek, "and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must
needs come wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!"
"But I'm not a serpent, I tell you!" said Alice. "I'm a—I'm a—I'm a little
girl," she added rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of
changes she had gone through that day.
"You're looking for eggs, I know that well enough," said the Pigeon; "and
what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?"

"It matters a good deal to me," said Alice hastily; "but I'm not looking for
eggs, as it happens, and if I was, I shouldn't want yours—I don't like them
raw."
"Well, be off, then!" said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again
into its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for
her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and
then she had to stop and untwist it. After awhile she remembered that she
still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very
carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes
taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself
down to her usual height.
It was so long since she had been anything near the right size that it felt
quite strange at first. "The next thing is to get into that beautiful garden—
how is that to be done, I wonder?" As she said this, she came suddenly upon
an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high. "Whoever lives
there," thought Alice, "it'll never do to come upon them this size; why, I
should frighten them out of their wits!" She did not venture to go near the
house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.

VI—PIG AND PEPPER

F or a minute or two she stood looking at the house, when suddenly a
footman in livery came running out of the wood (judging by his face
only, she would have called him a fish)—and rapped loudly at the door with
his knuckles. It was opened by another footman in livery, with a round face
and large eyes like a frog.

The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter,
and this he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn tone, "For the
Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet." The Frog-Footman
repeated, in the same solemn tone, "From the Queen. An invitation for the
Duchess to play croquet." Then they both bowed low and their curls got
entangled together.
When Alice next peeped out, the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was
sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky. Alice
went timidly up to the door and knocked.
"There's no sort of use in knocking," said the Footman, "and that for two
reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are;
secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly

hear you." And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise going on
within—a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great
crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.
"How am I to get in?" asked Alice.
"Are you to get in at all?" said the Footman. "That's the first question, you
know."
Alice opened the door and went in. The door led right into a large kitchen,
which was full of smoke from one end to the other; the Duchess was sitting
on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning
over the fire, stirring a large caldron which seemed to be full of soup.
"There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!" Alice said to herself, as
well as she could for sneezing. Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and
as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's
pause. The only two creatures in the kitchen that did not sneeze were the
cook and a large cat, which was grinning from ear to ear.
"Please would you tell me," said Alice, a little timidly, "why your cat grins
like that?"
"It's a Cheshire-Cat," said the Duchess, "and that's why."
"I didn't know that Cheshire-Cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know that
cats could grin," said Alice.
"You don't know much," said the Duchess, "and that's a fact."
Just then the cook took the caldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to
work throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby—
the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans, plates and
dishes. The Duchess took no notice of them, even when they hit her, and the
baby was howling so much already that it was quite impossible to say
whether the blows hurt it or not.
"Oh, please mind what you're doing!" cried Alice, jumping up and down in
an agony of terror.

"Here! You may nurse it a bit, if you like!" the Duchess said to Alice,
flinging the baby at her as she spoke. "I must go and get ready to play
croquet with the Queen," and she hurried out of the room.
Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped little
creature and held out its arms and legs in all directions. "If I don't take this
child away with me," thought Alice, "they're sure to kill it in a day or two.
Wouldn't it be murder to leave it behind?" She said the last words out loud
and the little thing grunted in reply.
"If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear," said Alice, "I'll have nothing
more to do with you. Mind now!"
Alice was just beginning to think to herself, "Now, what am I to do with this
creature, when I get it home?" when it grunted again so violently that Alice
looked down into its face in some alarm. This time there could be no
mistake about it—it was neither more nor less than a pig; so she set the little
creature down and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the
wood.
Alice was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire-Cat sitting on a bough of a
tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw her. "Cheshire-
Puss," began Alice, rather timidly, "would you please tell me which way I
ought to go from here?"
"In that direction," the Cat said, waving the right paw 'round, "lives a
Hatter; and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare.
Visit either you like; they're both mad."
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat; "we're all mad here. Do you play
croquet with the Queen to-day?"
"I should like it very much," said Alice, "but I haven't been invited yet."
"You'll see me there," said the Cat, and vanished.
Alice had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of
the March Hare; it was so large a house that she did not like to go near till
she had nibbled some more of the left-hand bit of mushroom.

VII—A MAD TEA-PARTY

T here was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March
Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it; a Dormouse was sitting
between them, fast asleep.
The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one
corner of it. "No room! No room!" they cried out when they saw Alice
coming. "There's plenty of room!" said Alice indignantly, and she sat down
in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this, but all he said was
"Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"I'm glad they've begun asking riddles—I believe I can guess that," she
added aloud.
"Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the
March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the
same thing, you know."
"You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, which seemed to be
talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep
when I breathe!'"
"It is the same thing with you," said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea
upon its nose. The Dormouse shook its head impatiently and said, without
opening its eyes, "Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark
myself."
"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.

"No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the
answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.
"Nor I," said the March Hare.
Alice gave a weary sigh. "I think you might
do something better with the time," she said,
"than wasting it in asking riddles that have
no answers."
"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take
more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter; "it's very easy to take more
than nothing."
At this, Alice got up and walked off. The Dormouse fell asleep instantly and
neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked
back once or twice; the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the
Dormouse into the tea-pot.

The Trial of the Knave of Hearts.

"At any rate, I'll never go there again!" said Alice, as she picked her way
through the wood. "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!"
Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door leading
right into it. "That's very curious!" she thought. "I think I may as well go in
at once." And in she went.
Once more she found herself in the long hall and close to the little glass
table. Taking the little golden key, she unlocked the door that led into the
garden. Then she set to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a
piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high; then she walked
down the little passage; and then—she found herself at last in the beautiful
garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.

VIII—THE QUEEN'S CROQUET GROUND

A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden; the roses growing
on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting
them red. Suddenly their eyes chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood
watching them. "Would you tell me, please," said Alice, a little timidly,
"why you are painting those roses?"
Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Two began, in a low voice,
"Why, the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-
tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and, if the Queen was to find it
out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss,
we're doing our best, afore she comes, to—" At this moment, Five, who had
been anxiously looking across the garden, called out, "The Queen! The
Queen!" and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat upon their
faces. There was a sound of many footsteps and Alice looked 'round, eager
to see the Queen.
First came ten soldiers carrying clubs, with their hands and feet at the
corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with
diamonds. After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, all
ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens,
and among them Alice recognized the White Rabbit. Then followed the
Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion;
and last of all this grand procession came THE KING AND THE QUEEN
OF HEARTS.
When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and looked at
her, and the Queen said severely, "Who is this?" She said it to the Knave of
Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply.
"My name is Alice, so please Your Majesty," said Alice very politely; but
she added to herself, "Why, they're only a pack of cards, after all!"
"Can you play croquet?" shouted the Queen. The question was evidently
meant for Alice.

"Yes!" said Alice loudly.
"Come on, then!" roared the Queen.
"It's—it's a very fine day!" said a timid voice to Alice. She was walking by
the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face.
"Very," said Alice. "Where's the Duchess?"
"Hush! Hush!" said the Rabbit. "She's under sentence of execution."
"What for?" said Alice.
"She boxed the Queen's ears—" the Rabbit began.
"Get to your places!" shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people
began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other.
However, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began.
Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life;
it was all ridges and furrows. The croquet balls were live hedgehogs, and
the mallets live flamingos and the soldiers had to double themselves up and
stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.
The players all played at once, without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the
while and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time, the Queen
was in a furious passion and went stamping about and shouting, "Off with
his head!" or "Off with her head!" about once in a minute.
"They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here," thought Alice; "the
great wonder is that there's anyone left alive!"
She was looking about for some way of escape, when she noticed a curious
appearance in the air. "It's the Cheshire-Cat," she said to herself; "now I
shall have somebody to talk to."
"How are you getting on?" said the Cat.
"I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice said, in a rather complaining
tone; "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak—and
they don't seem to have any rules in particular."

"How do you like the Queen?" said the Cat in a low voice.
"Not at all," said Alice.
Alice thought she might as well go back and see
how the game was going on. So she went off in
search of her hedgehog. The hedgehog was
engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which
seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for
croqueting one of them with the other; the only
difficulty was that her flamingo was gone across to
the other side of the garden, where Alice could see
it trying, in a helpless sort of way, to fly up into a
tree. She caught the flamingo and tucked it away
under her arm, that it might not escape again.
Just then Alice ran across the Duchess (who was now out of prison). She
tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's and they walked off together.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper. She was a little
startled, however, when she heard the voice of the Duchess close to her ear.
"You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to
talk."
"The game's going on rather better now," Alice said, by way of keeping up
the conversation a little.
"'Tis so," said the Duchess; "and the moral of that is—'Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love
that makes the world go 'round!'"
"Somebody said," Alice whispered, "that it's done by everybody minding
his own business!"
"Ah, well! It means much the same thing," said the Duchess, digging her
sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder, as she added "and the moral of that is
—'Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.'"
To Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's arm that was linked into hers began
to tremble. Alice looked up and there stood the Queen in front of them, with
her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm!

"Now, I give you fair warning," shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground
as she spoke, "either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no
time. Take your choice!" The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a
moment.
"Let's go on with the game," the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was too
much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back to the croquet-
ground.
All the time they were playing, the Queen never left off quarreling with the
other players and shouting, "Off with his head!" or "Off with her head!" By
the end of half an hour or so, all the players, except the King, the Queen and
Alice, were in custody of the soldiers and under sentence of execution.
Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and walked away with Alice.
Alice heard the King say in a low voice to the company generally, "You are
all pardoned."
Suddenly the cry "The Trial's beginning!" was heard in the distance, and
Alice ran along with the others.

IX—WHO STOLE THE TARTS?

T he King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they
arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them—all sorts of little
birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave was
standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard him;
and near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand and a
scroll of parchment in the other. In the very middle of the court was a table,
with a large dish of tarts upon it. "I wish they'd get the trial done," Alice
thought, "and hand 'round the refreshments!"
The judge, by the way, was the King and he wore his
crown over his great wig. "That's the jury-box," thought
Alice; "and those twelve creatures (some were animals
and some were birds) I suppose they are the jurors."
Just then the White Rabbit cried out "Silence in the
court!"
"Herald, read the accusation!" said the King.
On this, the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, then unrolled
the parchment-scroll and read as follows:

"The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
All on a summer day;
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts
And took them quite away!"

"Call the first witness," said the King; and the White Rabbit blew three
blasts on the trumpet and called out, "First witness!"
The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in one hand and
a piece of bread and butter in the other.
"You ought to have finished," said the King. "When did you begin?"

The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into the court,
arm in arm with the Dormouse. "Fourteenth of March, I think it was," he
said.
"Give your evidence," said the King, "and don't be nervous, or I'll have you
executed on the spot."
This did not seem to encourage the witness at all; he kept shifting from one
foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and, in his confusion, he bit
a large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread and butter.
Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation—she was beginning
to grow larger again.
The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread and butter and went
down on one knee. "I'm a poor man, Your Majesty," he began.
"You're a very poor speaker," said the King.
"You may go," said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court.
"Call the next witness!" said the King.
The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the pepper-box in her
hand and the people near the door began sneezing all at once.
"Give your evidence," said the King.
"Sha'n't," said the cook.
The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said, in a low voice,
"Your Majesty must cross-examine this witness."
"Well, if I must, I must," the King said. "What are tarts made of?"
"Pepper, mostly," said the cook.
For some minutes the whole court was in confusion and by the time they
had settled down again, the cook had disappeared.
"Never mind!" said the King, "call the next witness."

Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list. Imagine her
surprise when he read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name
"Alice!"

X—ALICE'S EVIDENCE
ere!" cried Alice. She jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over
"H the jury-box, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd
below.
"Oh, I beg your pardon!" she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay.
"The trial cannot proceed," said the King, "until all the jurymen are back in
their proper places—all," he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at
Alice.
"What do you know about this business?" the King said to Alice.
"Nothing whatever," said Alice.
The King then read from his book: "Rule forty-two. All persons more than a
mile high to leave the court."
"I'm not a mile high," said Alice.
"Nearly two miles high," said the Queen.
"Well, I sha'n't go, at any rate," said Alice.
The King turned pale and shut his note-book
hastily. "Consider your verdict," he said to the jury,
in a low, trembling voice.
"There's more evidence to come yet, please Your
Majesty," said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a
great hurry. "This paper has just been picked up. It
seems to be a letter written by the prisoner to—to
somebody." He unfolded the paper as he spoke and
added, "It isn't a letter, after all; it's a set of verses."
"Please, Your Majesty," said the Knave, "I didn't write it and they can't
prove that I did; there's no name signed at the end."

"You must have meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed your name
like an honest man," said the King. There was a general clapping of hands
at this.
"Read them," he added, turning to the White Rabbit.
There was dead silence in the court whilst the White Rabbit read out the
verses.
"That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet," said the
King.
"I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it," ventured Alice.
"If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble,
you know, as we needn't try to find any. Let the jury consider their verdict."
"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first—verdict afterwards."
"Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice loudly. "The idea of having the sentence
first!"
"Hold your tongue!" said the Queen, turning purple.
"I won't!" said Alice.
"Off with her head!" the Queen shouted at the top of her
voice. Nobody moved.
"Who cares for you?" said Alice (she had grown to her
full size by this time). "You're nothing but a pack of
cards!"
At this, the whole pack rose up in the air and came flying
down upon her; she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and
tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in
the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that
had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.
"Wake up, Alice dear!" said her sister. "Why, what a long sleep you've had!"

"Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" said Alice. And she told her sister, as
well as she could remember them, all these strange adventures of hers that
you have just been reading about. Alice got up and ran off, thinking while
she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.

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