Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0
Contents
| CHAPTER I. | Down the Rabbit-Hole |
| CHAPTER II. | The Pool of Tears |
| CHAPTER III. | A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale |
| CHAPTER IV. | The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill |
| CHAPTER V. | Advice from a Caterpillar |
| CHAPTER VI. | Pig and Pepper |
| CHAPTER VII. | A Mad Tea-Party |
| CHAPTER VIII. | The Queen’s Croquet-Ground |
| CHAPTER IX. | The Mock Turtle’s Story |
| CHAPTER X. | The Lobster Quadrille |
| CHAPTER XI. | Who Stole the Tarts? |
| CHAPTER XII. | Alice’s Evidence |
CHAPTER I.
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, andof having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sisterwas reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what isthe use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures orconversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot daymade her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making adaisy-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 sovery much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Ohdear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, itoccurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it allseemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of itswaistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started toher feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen arabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, andburning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately wasjust in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in theworld she was to get out again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dippedsuddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stoppingherself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty oftime as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happennext. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but itwas too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, andnoticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and thereshe sa