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Down The Rabbit - Hole: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself falling very slowly through a strange world. As she falls, she sees shelves filled with books and maps along the walls of the hole. She grabs an empty jar labeled "ORANGE MARMALADE" to avoid it hitting someone below. Alice continues falling for what seems like miles, wondering how far down to the earth's center she has fallen and what latitude and longitude she is at, though unsure of what those terms mean.

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Down The Rabbit - Hole: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself falling very slowly through a strange world. As she falls, she sees shelves filled with books and maps along the walls of the hole. She grabs an empty jar labeled "ORANGE MARMALADE" to avoid it hitting someone below. Alice continues falling for what seems like miles, wondering how far down to the earth's center she has fallen and what latitude and longitude she is at, though unsure of what those terms mean.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

CHAPTER I
Down the Rabbit – Hole

The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped
suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping
herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as
she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.
First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too
dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they
were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and
pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she
passed; it was labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great
disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing
somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

`Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of
tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say
anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely
true.)

Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end! `I wonder how many
miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. `I must be getting somewhere near
the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I
think--' (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in
the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing
off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to
say it over) `--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude
or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude
either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)

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