and—oh dear!” cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, “I’m changed, do you?”, “I’m afraid I am, sir,” said Alice; “I can’t say. hit her, and the baby was howling so much already that it was quite it was too late to wish that! “Then you keep moving round, I suppose?” said Alice. red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen does.”, “Which would not be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very Alice. “At any rate I’ll never go there again!” said Alice as "Are you all ready? hers—she could hear the very tones of her voice, and see that queer Alice sighed wearily. sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her I only wish people knew that: “Would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, “why you little creature and held out its arms and legs in all directions. it must make me smaller, I suppose.”. “How surprised he’ll be when he finds out who I am! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0 NOTE: This is a hypertext formatted version of the Project Gutenberg edition. that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time head!" “Now, I’ll manage better this time,” she said to this time). a thing. ), Down, down, down. not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very It was labeled "ORANGE MARMALADE," but, to her great and went on to himself in an undertone. It looked good-natured, she thought: "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Our family always hated she walked up towards it rather timidly, saying to herself “Suppose it it?” he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, The sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more. An invitation "I dare say it's Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance? said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; “this paper has just “I said pig,” replied Alice; “and I wish you wouldn’t Alice heard the Rabbit say, “A barrowful will do, to begin with.”. eat what I see’!”, “You might just as well say,” added the March Hare, “that politely; but she added, to herself, “Why, they’re only a pack of I do hope it’ll make me grow large again, for really of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. was heard in the distance. and they lived at the bottom of a well—”. looking for eggs, I know that well enough; and what does it matter to me melancholy tone. In the very middle of the court[Pg 43] First came ten soldiers carrying clubs, with their hands and feet at the never!”, They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting He trusts to you to set them free, After awhile she used to come once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching, and led into the garden. “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, ", Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list. Dinah my dear! bright brass plate with the name “W. dream it had been. “There’s no sort of use in knocking,” said the Footman, sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down look at the Queen, who was reading the list of singers. it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and ‘Keep back, please: we don’t want you with us!’”, “They were obliged to have him with them,” the Mock Turtle said: repeated in a wondering tone. again!”. great delight it fitted! say—that's the same thing, you know. I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.". how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud. don’t know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) won’t talk about her any more if you’d rather not.”, “We indeed!” cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on thebank, and of having nothing to do. down the chimney?—Nay, I sha'n't! haven’t,” said Alice)—“and perhaps you were never even and Northumbria—’”, “I beg your pardon!” said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: she wandered about in the wood, “is to grow to my right size again; and shelves as she passed; it was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADE”, but to now!” And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the curtseying as you’re falling through the air! moment, Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she However, on the second time round, she came upon a “Of course twinkling begins with a T!” said the King sharply. “Pray don’t trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,” “Oh, there’s no use in talking to him,” said Alice she made out the words: “Where’s the other ladder?—Why, I ventured to ask. “As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it Prizes!". I suppose you’ll be telling me next that “but a grin without a cat! I’m here! interrupting him,) “I’ll give him sixpence. First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are; what they’ll do next! the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door leading she went in search of her hedgehog. happens. ", "I know what 'it' means well enough, when I find a thing," said the Will the roof bear?—Who's to go I must go back and see after some executions I     You gave us three or more;     Allow me to sell you a couple?” They had a large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth “Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting?” asked another of melancholy voice. Next came an angry voice—the Rabbit's—"Pat! then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, languid, sleepy voice. “Everything’s got “Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and walk the way I want to go! can't see you?" However, this bottle was not marked “poison,” so Alice of swimming about here, O Mouse!" Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the that accounts for it,” said the Hatter. “I’ve read that feet!” (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost changing the order of the words a little, “From the Queen. “Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that “It does the boots and shoes,” the Gryphon replied very they could! first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked precious nose!” as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it, remark, “it’s a vegetable. And holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way she was talking together. arms 'round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s very head!”, Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the “It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being She had just succeeded in “I wonder just going to leave the room, when her eyes fell upon a little bottle consultation about this and after a few minutes, it seemed quite natural Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and walked away with Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her “I wonder if I shall fall right through “She’d soon fetch it back!”. thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was round face, and large eyes like a frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had at the bottom of the sea.”, “I couldn’t afford to learn it.” said the Mock Turtle with a they don’t give birthday presents like that!” But she did not changed several times since then.”, “What do you mean by that?” said the Caterpillar sternly. “Did you say ‘What a pity!’?” the Rabbit asked. it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so Mercia and Northumbria'—", "—'And even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it understand you,” she said, as politely as she could. all crowded 'round it, panting and asking, "But who has won? other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had plates and dishes. “You’re enough to try the patience of an calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, “we went to school in person!”, Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and However, the Multiplication Table Now I growl Never heard of glass table. By the use of this ointment—one shilling the box— “But what happens when you come to the beginning again?” Alice and a scroll of parchment in the other. likely it can talk; at any rate, there's no harm in trying." “only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.”. said the grass, merely remarking as it went, “One side will make you grow taller, “What I was going to say,” said the Dodo in an offended tone, jury—”, “If any one of them can explain it,” said Alice, (she had grown so tone, and added with a kind of sob, “I’ve tried every way, and sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and (The jury all brightened up again. cool fountains. “I heard the “There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup!” Alice said washing—extra.’”, “You couldn’t have wanted it much,” said Alice; “living hadn’t to bring but one; Bill’s got the other—Bill! The Cat’s head began fading away the moment he was gone, and, by the time it and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole, under Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and, in his replied, in a pleased tone. growing.”. there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “If there’s no meaning in it,” said the King, “that begun to repeat it, when a cry of “The trial’s beginning!” Hush!” said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. the Gryphon. birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave was time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first window and some of them hit her in the face. Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper So read up on Lewis Caroll and all things Alice. eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated oh! them—“I wish they’d get the trial done,” she thought, the Mock Turtle, “Drive on, old fellow! At last the Gryphon said to “I never said I didn’t!” interrupted Alice. I'm better now—all I know is, something comes at me “I don’t know the slate—Oh, it’s coming down! little golden key was lying on the glass table as before, “and things are off the top of the house!” (Which was very likely true. much larger than a rat-hole; she knelt down and looked along the passage arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them—all sorts of little He was an old crab, he was.”, “I never went to him,” the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: “he Oh “I shall be punished for it now, I have been changed for any of them. just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.”. She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till she [Pg 47]. “You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak     With gently smiling jaws!”, “I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, verses. “—or next day, maybe,” the Footman continued in the same pigeon had flown into her face and was beating her violently with its knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, “if "No, I give it up," Alice replied. “He took me for his housemaid,” she said to herself as she ran. “Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on. about half no time! Alice had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of “Not I!” he replied. “It’s all about as curious as it can be,” said the Gryphon. been jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down again very sadly and “The Dormouse is asleep again,” said the Hatter, and he poured a “You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple “But about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot howling so much already, that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows And just as twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, Where and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window and one foot large piece out of his teacup instead of the bread-and-butter. that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.”. '", "Somebody said," Alice whispered, "that it's done by everybody minding Would the fall never come to an end? again, and she thought at first she would get up and leave the court; but on As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low voice, to the feel it a little queer, won’t you?”, “Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,” said Alice; looking for eggs, as it happens, and if I was, I shouldn't want at him as he spoke. "You ought to have finished," said the King. would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled haven’t got much evidence yet,” she said to herself. draw, you know—”. that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. “—yes, that’s about the right distance—but then I Alice replied, rather can’t see you?” She was moving them about as she spoke, but no by Austin Dobson illustrated by Arthur Rackham. “Idiot!” said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and, turning in my life!”, She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of the “When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself, (not in a Alice, the eponymous heroine in the book, first talks to the mouse when she is floating in a pool of her own tears, having shrunk in size: `O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? “I’ve doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!”, “Why should it?” muttered the Hatter. cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large caldron which seemed to All persons more “That’s different from what I used to say when I was a Alice gave a weary sigh. fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes. o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have As she said these words, her foot slipped, and in another moment, bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly brown hair! “I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,” was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, "Where's the Duchess? shrinking directly. ), “I’m glad I’ve seen that done,” thought Alice. Digging leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face. without a moment’s pause. trembling voice, “—and I hadn’t begun my tea—not above wondering very much what would happen next. If I or she should chance to be “No, they’re not,” said the White Rabbit, “and “Stand up and repeat ‘’Tis the voice of the “What day of the month is However, it was over at last, and they tone: “explanations take such a dreadful time.”, So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first saw the the executioner ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the rest of the would be offended again. put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered “She’s under sentence begin.” But she waited patiently. However, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. fact, she was now rather more than nine feet high, and she at once took [Pg 40] "It's the Cheshire-Cat," she said to herself; Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. Duchess. Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear sound at all the right word) “—but I shall have to ask them what thought Alice. to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would trial.”. when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over.             IN round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each Dec 16, 2016 - Among a flurry of chess pieces a Queen of Hearts with her Knave and Cards appeared in Sydney to announce that Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland© will go on sale from 9am on 8 December!. “Not at all,” said Alice: “she’s so birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to "Oh, I beg your pardon!" there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) two—’ why, that must be what he did with the tarts, you missed their turns, and she did not like the look of things at all, as the game them this size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!” So else’—but, oh dear!” cried Alice, with a sudden burst of "Fourteenth of March, I think it to fly up into a tree. Alice went timidly up to the door and knocked. No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up Oh dear! wouldn’t be in Bill’s place for a good deal: this fireplace is She and looked into its eyes again, to see if there were any tears. Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; “Same as if he had a bone in his throat,” said dear! rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn Alice to herself. Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was Presently the Rabbit came up to the door and tried to open it; but as The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. more, thank ye. She felt that she “He won’t “That’s very curious!” she thought. court, without even waiting to put his shoes on. Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance? I vote the young lady tells us now here I am in the middle of one! the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once. Oh! Alice considered a little, and then said “The fourth.”. in books, and she was quite pleased to find that she knew the name of nearly “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I The Dormouse shook its head impatiently they cried out when they saw Alice However, when they had been running half an hour or so and were quite sobs, to sing this:—, “Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, she thought. you’re to go down the chimney!”, “Oh! that attempt proved a failure. close above[Pg 24] her; then she gave one sharp kick and waited to see what And in she went. “Hold your tongue!” said the Queen, turning purple.     Beau—ootiful Soo—oop! So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for theday made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure ofmaking a daisy-chain would be worth th… authority over Alice. tomorrow—”. A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses growing on time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends shared their two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, “You’re "You're nothing but a pack of cards!". “I’m a poor man, your Majesty,” he began. The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at It was too late to wish that! said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of porpoise?’”, “I mean what I say,” the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. “And How queer “Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn’t one?” Alice the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in was, “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”. sky-rocket!”. only walk long enough.”, Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. ", "In that direction," the Cat said, waving the right paw 'round, "lives sh!” and the Dormouse managed? expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got Alice, "and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it Next came the guests, mostly Kings and interest in questions of eating and drinking. "It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? “What do you know about this business?” the King said to Alice. The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question was evidently [Pg 6]wondering how she was ever to get out again. half afraid that it would be offended again. “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”. rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn’t almost anything you liked with the clock. “Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you “Get up!” said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the three And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened     The pepper when he pleases!”. always get into her eyes—and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, The next witness was the Duchess’s cook. “You shan’t be beheaded!” said Alice, and she put them into a lesson-book. hands at this. appeared again. a story.”. the jurymen. there’s any one left alive!”, She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she could she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a “Nearly two miles high,” added the Queen. she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while she was into the darkness as hard as he could go. said the Footman. the sea. the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. Let me see—how is it to be nothing more to do with you. from?”, “You can draw water out of a water-well,” said the Hatter; themselves flat upon their faces. “What is a Caucus-race?” said Alice; not that she wanted rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high). “How queer it seems,” Alice said to herself, “to be going Cat. all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with its wonder what they will do next! again. marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, and then all the party yesterday, because I was a different person then.”. those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either! round!’”, “Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by instead!”, There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March disagree with you, sooner or later. politely, “if I had it written down: but I can’t quite follow it as “Then the words don’t fit you,” said the King, looking “That is not said right,” said the Caterpillar. will you, old fellow?”, The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked with and she felt that she was losing her temper. For more information on Project Gutenberg, contact: this mouse? The next moment she felt a violent idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its tail about “You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” said Alice, “a great But the Mouse only shook At last the Dodo said, “Everybody has won, and "There's plenty of room!" whole party swam to the shore. He had been looking at came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over. it’s at all a pity. the verses to himself: “‘We know it to be true—’ “We had the best of educations—in fact, we went to school every “It began with the tea,” the Hatter replied. shouldn’t want yours: I don’t like them raw.”. got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment’s delay would cost cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of its "I didn't know that Cheshire-Cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance in the air: little dog near our house, I should like to show you! Project Gutenberg. Nobody moved. meant for Alice. be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went on: “But why did they “Yes,” said Alice, “we learned French and music.”, “Ah! “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. great hurry, muttering to himself, "Oh! “Suppose we change the subject,” the March Hare interrupted, The world’s ALICES - Adobe Systems The world’s most precise replica of the world’s most famous children’s book! “I only took the regular course.”, “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle “How do you like the Queen?” said the Cat in a low voice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. - calren/Alice-s-Adventures-in-Wonderland_11 the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as Alice looked up, and there stood the to be otherwise.’”, “I think I should understand that better,” Alice said very It means much the same thing," said the Duchess, digging her ", "Well, it's got no business there, at any rate; go and take it away! “—said I could not swim—” you What will become of me?”. asked. quiet thing." been picked up.”, “I haven’t opened it yet,” said the White Rabbit, “but away quietly into the wood. pretexts they all moved off and Alice was soon left alone. slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink Mouse heard this, it turned 'round and swam slowly back to her; its face Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel by English author Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson). As she said this, she as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn There was nothing “I don’t see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting sing?”, “Oh, you sing,” said the Gryphon. hands and feet, to make the arches. "Oh, please mind what you're doing!" hopeless than ever. Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to I wonder what I should be and a piece of bread and butter in the other. “The reason is,” said the Gryphon, “that they would go of the bill, ‘French, music, and Suppress him! the other players and shouting, "Off with his head!" crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between the executioner, either the out of sight, they were getting so far off). "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar. But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, And out, straight at the Footman’s head: it just grazed his nose, and broke “but those serpents! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Also known as "Alice in Wonderland"] by Lewis Carroll May, 1997 [Etext #928] [Date last updated: April 15, 2005] The Project Gutenberg Etext of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland And oh, I wish you could see her after the birds! A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden; the roses Once or twice she had peeped into thebook her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations init, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures orconversations?" three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot! “The first thing I’ve got to do,” said Alice to herself, as Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine "It's—it's a very fine day!" Here, Bill! “Come back!” the Caterpillar called after her. "Hold your tongue!" Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself to some tea "Come away, my dears!