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ALICE 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
Alice 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 ing to,
but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at
the sides of