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Title: Alice in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

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THE "STORYLAND" SERIES

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ALICE'S ADVENTURES
IN
WONDERLAND

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SAM'L GABRIEL SONS & COMPANY

NEW YORK

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

"C uriouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised that 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

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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,

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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,

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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.

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"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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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
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"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.

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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."

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"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.

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"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.

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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!"

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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
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"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.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

"H ere!" cried Alice. She jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over 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.
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"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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