Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Page 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired...
Page 2: There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alic...
Page 3: The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some wa...
Page 4: Well!' thought Alice to herself, 'after such a fall as thi...
Page 5: Presently she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right...
Page 6: But do cats eat bats, I wonder?' And here Alice began to g...
Page 7: There were doors all round the hall, but they were all loc...
Page 8: How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander ab...
Page 9: It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise littl...
Page 10: What a curious feeling!' said Alice; 'I must be shutting u...
Page 11: After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she dec...
Page 12: But it's no use now,' thought poor Alice, 'to pretend to b...
Page 13: So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. *...
Page 14: Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your sho...
Page 15: Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!' Just then her head st...
Page 16: After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the d...
Page 17: But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the ...
Page 18: hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began ...
Page 19: How CAN I have done that?' she thought. 'I must be growing...
Page 20: Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the se...
Page 21: I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam ab...
Page 22: Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; 'I ...
Page 23: And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you...
Page 24: Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?' The Mouse did not ans...
Page 25: It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite cro...
Page 26: Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who a...
Page 27: Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"' ...
Page 28: I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' ...
Page 29: I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, wh...
Page 30: First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ('...
Page 31: Why, SHE, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice wit...
Page 32: Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo ...
Page 33: Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to...
Page 34: Come, I'll take no denial; We must have a trial: For reall...
Page 35: I'll be judge, I'll be jury," Said cunning old Fury: "I'll...
Page 36: You are not attending!' said the Mouse to Alice severely. ...
Page 37: You insult me by talking such nonsense!' 'I didn't mean it...
Page 38: She'd soon fetch it back!' 'And who is Dinah, if I might v...
Page 39: Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I'm sure she's th...
Page 40: Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting ab...
Page 41: As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on th...
Page 42: There was no label this time with the words 'DRINK ME,' bu...
Page 43: Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she pu...
Page 44: But then,' thought Alice, 'shall I NEVER get any older tha...
Page 45: Fetch me my gloves this moment!' Then came a little patter...
Page 46: Here! Come and help me out of THIS!' (Sounds of more broke...
Page 47: This time there were TWO little shrieks, and more sounds o...
Page 48: Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be ...
Page 49: We must burn the house down!' said the Rabbit's voice; and...
Page 50: After a minute or two, they began moving about again, and ...
Page 51: The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being hel...
Page 52: Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she...
Page 53: This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her esc...
Page 54: There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the sam...
Page 55: Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encour...
Page 56: I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied ver...
Page 57: Who are YOU?' Which brought them back again to the beginni...
Page 58: Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as wel...
Page 59: Repeat, "YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,"' said the Caterpill...
Page 60: 'You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before, And...
Page 61: You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose Th...
Page 62: It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar d...
Page 63: Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wou...
Page 64: Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the...
Page 65: Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that the...
Page 66: What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice. 'And where ...
Page 67: Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon. 'I'm NOT a serpent!' said A...
Page 68: As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said th...
Page 69: I can see you're trying to invent something!' 'I--I'm a li...
Page 70: This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite sile...
Page 71: It was so long since she had been anything near the right ...
Page 72: Pig and Pepper For a minute or two she stood looking at th...
Page 73: Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled to...
Page 74: For instance, if you were INSIDE, you might knock, and I c...
Page 75: How am I to get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder tone. ...
Page 76: Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice desperat...
Page 77: Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, f...
Page 78: You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact...
Page 79: Which would NOT be an advantage,' said Alice, who felt ver...
Page 80: CHORUS. (In which the cook and the baby joined):-- 'Wow! w...
Page 81: Wow! wow! wow!' 'Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like...
Page 82: As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, ...
Page 83: But perhaps it was only sobbing,' she thought, and looked ...
Page 84: If it had grown up,' she said to herself, 'it would have m...
Page 85: I don't much care where--' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't ma...
Page 86: Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad her...
Page 87: Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm ang...
Page 88: I'd nearly forgotten to ask.' 'It turned into a pig,' Alic...
Page 89: All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite ...
Page 90: A Mad Tea-Party There was a table set out under a tree in ...
Page 91: Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging ton...
Page 92: He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curi...
Page 93: I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean w...
Page 94: The Hatter was the first to break the silence. 'What day o...
Page 95: Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosi...
Page 96: The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in i...
Page 97: Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something bett...
Page 98: For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning,...
Page 99: It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, 'in this way:...
Page 100: Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse,' said the Hatte...
Page 101: Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice. 'Exact...
Page 102: I wasn't asleep,' he said in a hoarse, feeble voice: 'I he...
Page 103: They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice gently rema...
Page 104: Nobody asked YOUR opinion,' said Alice. 'Who's making pers...
Page 105: No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; 'I won't interr...
Page 106: The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the...
Page 107: They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went on, yawning...
Page 108: This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she...
Page 109: That's very curious!' she thought. 'But everything's curio...
Page 110: The Queen's Croquet-Ground A large rose-tree stood near th...
Page 111: That's none of YOUR business, Two!' said Seven. 'Yes, it I...
Page 112: So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, t...
Page 113: Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's cro...
Page 114: I needn't be afraid of them!' 'And who are THESE?' said th...
Page 115: The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said 'Con...
Page 116: Off with their heads!' and the procession moved on, three ...
Page 117: Can you play croquet?' The soldiers were silent, and looke...
Page 118: What for?' said Alice. 'Did you say "What a pity!"?' the R...
Page 119: Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-gr...
Page 120: The players all played at once without waiting for turns, ...
Page 121: How are you getting on?' said the Cat, as soon as there wa...
Page 122: Not at all,' said Alice: 'she's so extremely--' Just then ...
Page 123: I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'howev...
Page 124: Off with his head!' she said, without even looking round. ...
Page 125: By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it bac...
Page 126: The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off ...
Page 127: The Cat's head began fading away the moment he was gone, a...
Page 128: When I'M a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a very h...
Page 129: Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a mo...
Page 130: How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice though...
Page 131: And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock togeth...
Page 132: I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very ...
Page 133: I'm glad they don't give birthday presents like that!' But...
Page 134: Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen, stamping...
Page 135: Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to ...
Page 136: Come, THAT'S a good thing!' she said to herself, for she h...
Page 137: What fun!' said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice...
Page 138: This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants for to...
Page 139: Alice was very nearly getting up and saying, 'Thank you, s...
Page 140: At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, 'Drive on, ol...
Page 141: Yes,' said Alice, 'we learned French and music.' 'And wash...
Page 142: Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock ...
Page 143: What was THAT like?' said Alice. 'Well, I can't show it yo...
Page 144: So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his tu...
Page 145: Then the eleventh day must have been a holiday?' 'Of cours...
Page 146: Same as if he had a bone in his throat,' said the Gryphon:...
Page 147: you advance twice--' 'Each with a lobster as a partner!' c...
Page 148: Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the Mock Turtle, cape...
Page 149: We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall sing?' '...
Page 150: Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join...
Page 151: I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock Turtle, 'bu...
Page 152: But they HAVE their tails in their mouths; and the reason ...
Page 153: the Gryphon replied very solemnly. Alice was thoroughly pu...
Page 154: If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were ...
Page 155: I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this mornin...
Page 156: It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the Gryphon....
Page 157: As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his ...
Page 158: Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her ...
Page 159: Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it wou...
Page 160: Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the...
Page 161: 'Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot turee...
Page 162: Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand...
Page 163: Who Stole the Tarts? The King and Queen of Hearts were sea...
Page 164: The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his cr...
Page 165: Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, bu...
Page 166: Herald, read the accusation!' said the King. On this the W...
Page 167: There's a great deal to come before that!' 'Call the first...
Page 168: Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse. 'Write that down,' the Kin...
Page 169: Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be nervous,...
Page 170: said the Dormouse, who was sitting next to her. 'I can har...
Page 171: Give your evidence,' the King repeated angrily, 'or I'll h...
Page 172: You did!' said the Hatter. 'I deny it!' said the March Har...
Page 173: You MUST remember,' remarked the King, 'or I'll have you e...
Page 174: If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,' cont...
Page 175: and just take his head off outside,' the Queen added to on...
Page 176: Well, if I must, I must,' the King said, with a melancholy...
Page 177: Never mind!' said the King, with an air of great relief. '...
Page 178: Oh, I BEG your pardon!' she exclaimed in a tone of great d...
Page 179: Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, ...
Page 180: Nothing,' said Alice. 'Nothing WHATEVER?' persisted the Ki...
Page 181: Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and some 'unim...
Page 182: It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King. 'Then it...
Page 183: It must have been that,' said the King, 'unless it was wri...
Page 184: Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't write it, ...
Page 185: The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I beg...
Page 186: If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, H...
Page 187: That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard ye...
Page 188: And yet I don't know,' he went on, spreading out the verse...
Page 189: Nothing can be clearer than THAT. Then again--"BEFORE SHE ...
Page 190: Sentence first--verdict afterwards.' 'Stuff and nonsense!'...
Page 191: Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long s...
Page 192: The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hur...
Page 193: So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself...
Page 194: would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and ho...