1 CHAPTER 1 THE GARDEN BEYOND THE DOOR

Alice was not hurt at all.She jumped up on to her feet in a moment and looked up. it was all dark overhead and before her was another long passage. The white rabbit was hurrying down it. Alice followed it swiftly like a wind and just in time to hear it say, 'Oh my, 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 of a row of lamps hanging from the roof.

There were doors all the hall, but they were all locked. Alice tried every door and then walked sadly down the hall, wondering how see was ever to get out again.

Suddenly, she came upon a little three - legged table mads of solid glass. There was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors in the hall. But either the locks were too large or the keys was too small; at any rate it would not open any of them. Then she noticed a low curtain ,behind which there was a little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it flitted!

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. She longed to get there but could not ever get her head through the door🚪way. ' Even if my head would go through, 'though poor Alice, 'it's would be of very little use without my Shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope 🔭 ! '

She went back to the table, half hoping to find another key on it. This time she found a little bottle on it. Around 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 ' .

However, this bottle was not marked ' poison', so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, she soon finished it off.

CHAPTER 2

GETTING SMALL ..

'What a curious felling ! said Alice. ' I must be shutting up like a telescope 🔭 .'

And so it indeed : she was now only ten inches high. Her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into the lovely😍 garden.

First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further; she felt a little nervous about this. It might end, you know, ' said Alice to herself, in my going out altogether, like a candle. ' After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided to go into the garden. But when 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 could not possibly reach it! she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried he best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it is too slippery. She tired herself out with trying, then sat down and cried.

Soon her eyes fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table. She opened it 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 happen!'

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 it was growing and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size. To be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had seen so many out - of - the - way things happening that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

🌟 VERY SOON SHE FINISHED OFF THE CAKE..

CHAPTER 3

THE POOL OF TEARS

She started growing Indeed. ' Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good - bye, feet, ! ' cried Alice. For when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off.

'Oh, my poor little feet! I wonder who will put on your shoes and stocking for you now? thought Alice.

Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall; she was now more than nine feet high. She at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.

Poor Alice! it was a much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through was more hopeless than ever. She sat down and began to cry again until there was a large pool all around her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall .

After sometime, 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, spending dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the order. He came trotting as along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duches, the Duchess ! won't she be savage if I keep her waiting,! 'As 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 scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and as the hall was very hot , she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking : ' Dear, dear,! How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I changed In the night? Let me think : was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'mnot the same, the next question is, who in the world am I? ah, that's all great puzzle,! And she began thinking of all the children she knew that were of the Same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed into any of them.

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 best little! besides, she's she, and I'm me and oh dear, how puzzling all of this is! I must be Mabel after all, I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons do learn!

No I've made up my mind about it; if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here! it'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying, " come up again, dear " I shall only look up and say, " who am I then? tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else " but, oh dear! cried Alice with a sudden burst of tears, I do wish they would put their heads down! I am so very tired of being all alone here!

As she said this she looked down at her hands ,and was surprised go see that she had put on one of the rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking. How could 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, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet tall, and was going on shrinking rapidly. She soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding: she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

An Enormous Puppy

The first thing I've got to do, said Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the woods is to grow to my right size again; and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think that will be the best plan.

It sounded an excellent plan; the only diffeculty was that she had not the smaller idea how to set about it. and while she was peering about anxiously amount the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry.

An enormous puppy 🐶 was looking down at her with large round eyes and feebly stretching out one paw 🐾 ,trying to touch her. ' Poor little thing! ' said Alice, in a coaxing tone. she tried hard to whistle to it, but she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.

Hardly knowing what she was doing she picked up small stick and held it out to the puppy. The puppy jumped of its feet and into the air at once with a yelp of delight, and rushed to the stick. Then Alice hid behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being rude over. The moment she appeared on the other side of the thistle the puppy made another rush at the stick and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it. Alice, expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran around the thistle again. The puppy began a series of short charges at the stick , running a very little way forward ➡ each time and a long way back; and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth , and it's great eyes 👀 half shut .

This seemed to Alice a good opportunity, so she set of at once and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.

And yet what a dear little puppy it was! said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself; fanned she herself with one of the leaves.

I should have liked teaching it tricks very much if I'd only been the right size to do it! oh dear! I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again! let me see - how is it to be managed? I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or the other, but the great question is, what? '

Alice looked all around her at the flowers and the blades and grass ,but she did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. There was a large mushroom 🍄 near her, about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under it, on both sides of it and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it.

As soon as she stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the edge of the mushroom her eyes met those of a large caterpillar 🐛. it 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.