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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland PDF
in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole
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'What a curious feeling!' said Alice; 'I must be
shutting up like a telescope.'
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CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears
'I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, 'for her hair
goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go
in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I can't be Mabel,
for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she
knows such a very little! Besides, SHE'S she,
and I'm I, and—oh dear, how puzzling it all is!
I'll try if I know all the things I used to know.
Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four
times six is thirteen, and four times seven is—
oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
However, the Multiplication Table doesn't sig-
nify: let's try Geography. London is the capital
of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and
Rome—no, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain! I
must have been changed for Mabel! I'll try and
say "How doth the little—"' and she crossed her
hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons,
and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded
hoarse and strange, and the words did not
come the same as they used to do:—
'How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
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'Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a
tone of delight, which changed into alarm in
another moment, when she found that her
shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she
could see, when she looked down, was an im-
mense length of neck, which seemed to rise like
a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far
below her.
CHORUS.
CHORUS.
'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad.
You grant that?'
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.
'Do you mean that you think you can find out
the answer to it?' said the March Hare.
The King laid his hand upon her arm, and tim-
idly said 'Consider, my dear: she is only a
child!'
'I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said
the Gryphon. 'Do you know why it's called a
whiting?'
All this time the Queen had never left off star-
ing at the Hatter, and, just as the Dormouse
crossed the court, she said to one of the officers
of the court, 'Bring me the list of the singers in
the last concert!' on which the wretched Hatter
trembled so, that he shook both his shoes off.
'If that's all you know about it, you may stand
down,' continued the King.
Alice's Evidence
'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry
of the moment how large she had grown in the
last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a
hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with
the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen
on to the heads of the crowd below, and there
they lay sprawling about, reminding her very
much of a globe of goldfish she had acciden-
tally upset the week before.
'important—unimportant—unimportant—
important—' as if he were trying which word
sounded best.
'If you didn't sign it,' said the King, 'that only
makes the matter worse. You MUST have
meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed
your name like an honest man.'
But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning
her head on her hand, watching the setting sun,
and thinking of little Alice and all her wonder-
ful Adventures, till she too began dreaming
after a fashion, and this was her dream:—